2-board/4-drive Firewire enclosure doesn't like concurrent..

I bought a 2-board/4-port 1394b enclosure for 3 hard drives and a DVD burner.
I found that the DVD burner and hard drive on the same controller wouldn't
work at the samt time.

Testing more, I discovered that when I tried copying between two drives (Say, A
and cool.gif on one of the controllers in the enclosure ... from A->B and B->A
concurrently.

I got a pile of the below sorts of errors (this is on WinXP Pro):

sbp2port: The device, , did not respond within the timeout period.

An error was detected on device \Device\Harddisk3\D during a paging operation.
(on both drives)

The pairs of drives (both DVD/hard drive, and just the two hard drives) are
set to master and slave, so I am wondering why this could be happening.
It is driving me nuts!

- Tim

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NOW I am getting the following sorts of error from Windows:

The file system structure on the disk is corrupt and unusable. Please run the chkdsk utility on the volume S:.

Looks like this setup doesn't work well.

Are you even *supposed* to be able to to concurrent access to two drives running
on the same 1394b bridgeboard?

- Tim

In article <d61ddi$a19$1@bolt.sonic.net>,
Spammay Blockay <SPAMBLOCKER.RemoveThis@BLOCKEDTOAVOIDSPAM.com> wrote:
 >I bought a 2-board/4-port 1394b enclosure for 3 hard drives and a DVD burner.
 >I found that the DVD burner and hard drive on the same controller wouldn't
 >work at the samt time.
 >
 >Testing more, I discovered that when I tried copying between two drives (Say, A
 >and cool.gif on one of the controllers in the enclosure ... from A->B and B->A
 >concurrently.
 >
 >I got a pile of the below sorts of errors (this is on WinXP Pro):
 >
 > sbp2port: The device, , did not respond within the timeout period.
 >
 > An error was detected on device \Device\Harddisk3\D during a paging operation.
 > (on both drives)
 >
 >The pairs of drives (both DVD/hard drive, and just the two hard drives) are
 >set to master and slave, so I am wondering why this could be happening.
 >It is driving me nuts!
 >
 >- Tim
 >
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 >


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