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Hello,
I recently bought a 1tb Western Digital MyBook Home Edition external HDD, which supports connecting via USB, Firewire and eSATA.
I've connected it to my computer via USB, and it worked flawlessly.
However, when I try connecting it via Firewire, I generally get the connected hardware sound, then nothing happens for a while, and then it might eventually turn up in my computer as "Local Disk: H" or something, but when I try opening it, I get an I/O error. When I open up device manager, it's under disk drives as: "WD My Book IEEE 1394 SBP2 Device", with a yellow exclamation mark next to it. In properties it says something like "This device is unable to start" or something similar, and the location is "LUN 0".
I'd really appreciate it if you could help me get it working with Firewire, as the only reason I bought it was for the Firewire connection.
I plugged it into my old G3 iMac and it connected within a few seconds. So obviously the problem is with Windows, any suggestions?
As I'm using WinXP SP3, someone suggested to me to swap some drivers, namely sbp2port.sys. So I pasted the SP2 version of it into system32\drivers and system32\dllcache and rebooted, tried again and nothing was different. So I then also tried swapping the SP2 disk.sys and partmgr.sys into the same folders, and disk.sys swapped, but partmgr.sys just kept on reverting itself back to the SP3 version. So I rebooted and once again nothing was different.
Would really appreciate your help. Thanks.
I recently bought a 1tb Western Digital MyBook Home Edition external HDD, which supports connecting via USB, Firewire and eSATA.
I've connected it to my computer via USB, and it worked flawlessly.
However, when I try connecting it via Firewire, I generally get the connected hardware sound, then nothing happens for a while, and then it might eventually turn up in my computer as "Local Disk: H" or something, but when I try opening it, I get an I/O error. When I open up device manager, it's under disk drives as: "WD My Book IEEE 1394 SBP2 Device", with a yellow exclamation mark next to it. In properties it says something like "This device is unable to start" or something similar, and the location is "LUN 0".
I'd really appreciate it if you could help me get it working with Firewire, as the only reason I bought it was for the Firewire connection.
I plugged it into my old G3 iMac and it connected within a few seconds. So obviously the problem is with Windows, any suggestions?
As I'm using WinXP SP3, someone suggested to me to swap some drivers, namely sbp2port.sys. So I pasted the SP2 version of it into system32\drivers and system32\dllcache and rebooted, tried again and nothing was different. So I then also tried swapping the SP2 disk.sys and partmgr.sys into the same folders, and disk.sys swapped, but partmgr.sys just kept on reverting itself back to the SP3 version. So I rebooted and once again nothing was different.
Would really appreciate your help. Thanks.
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