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March 24th, 2004, 05:53 PM
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USB Mass Storage Device on Win 98SE 'Unable To Write'
Folks
I have the following spec PC:
Dell Dimension XPS T750r
128MB RAM
~134GB of diskspace
PhoenixBIOS 4.0 Release 6.0 (BIOS Version A11)
Windows 98SE (4.10.2222 A)
I have just purchased an external USB hard drive which currently holds a 160GB WD disk (2MB Cache, 7200rpm, 8.9ms average seek time).
I have used the external USB harddrive on another pc (Dell 2.3GHz, Windows 2000) and it works like a dream.
However, on the PC spec'ed above I get Blue Screens with the following:
"Unable To Write To Disk In Drive L:"
"Data Or Files May Be Lost"
When copying a batch of smaller files onto the drive this may take a while to occur, but copying a large file (160MB for my test file) it happens with a minute.
Strangely, copying similarly large files off the external drive seems to work okay (but is slow).
I noticed in the BIOS that the 'Legacy USB Support' attribute is set to 'Enabled'. I can see no other reference to USB.
In the Device Manager:
- the 'USB Root Hub' properties shows usbhub.sys as being Microsoft version 4.10.2222.
- the 'Hi-Speed USB-IDE Bridge Controller' shows PL2507S.PDR as 'Prolific Technology Inc' version 1.0.1.7
Are there known problems with USB on Windows 98SE?
What are my options? If I have to purchase a PCI USB card to get true USB2.0 then I would get a Firewire PCI card (which the external drive also supports).
Many thanks
gss
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