Windows XP firewire external CD problem
Hello--
I've read a few threads here about somewhat similar problems but each of us seem condemned to stew in our own little hell.
After long resistance I finally upgraded from 98SE to XP Home on my Dell Latitude CPxJ. I use an SIIG 1394 CardBus Pro PCMIA card to burn CDs on a older Plextor CD burner, originally an ATAPI device which someone put in an Oxford Technologies case with Firewire connections (I didn't actually know it was anything but a standard model, bought it second hand, tech support at Plextor figured this out.)
Anyway according to SIIG I should be able to use the drivers built into XP and don't need anything special. However when I connect the drive through the PCMIA card, Hardware Wizard gets halfway through its "automatic" process but then gives up, complaining that the software I am trying to install is incompatible with "this platform" (by which I suppose it means XP). The name of one file comes up in the dialogues: sbp2port.sys. My searches on this tell me that it is a file that helps different versions of Windows to network together, which seems oddly beside the point.
Any help anyone can offer would be greatly appreciated. My worst fears about upgrading have come true...this is mess #10 and I have a couple others still in the works.
--Jim
Windox XP patch for "enumeration"
Hello again--
I've found a Windows Update Patch for XP on microsoft.com "This update addresses the "Inconsistent Gap Count Can Cause 1394 Devices to Not Enumerate" issue in Windows XP,"
I have no idea what Enumeration is or whether it has anything to do with my problem, but I am getting desperate. Ideas?
Thanks,
--Jim