🚀 go-pugleaf

Hi,

Anybody can help me with the problems I have with my creative labs
firewire CDRW (24/10/40)? It is connected to my satellite 2805-s302
(running XP Prof). I have connected an external HD and a CDRW
drive(creative labs) to my laptop using a firewire card (with 2
ports). Both devices run well initially, but then I had problems with
the CDRW drive. The laptop just does not detect the drive (not even
when I use the hardware detection wizard after disconnet/reconnect the
drice). It screw up the firewire connection too, I have to unplug and
plug the firewire card to make the HD (which is connected with the
same card) work again.

I'm not too sure what started it, but once it's after I run an mp3
player(the mp3 files are in the external drive) and another one is
when I tried to sync my PDA. I had to  reinstall my XP after
everything else failed to fix the problem (plug/unplug/system restore
etc). The second one, I was "lucky" that the CDRW can be detected
again, after I removed/reinstalled my activesync.

I also notice there are 7 devices in IRQ11 (including USB, cardbus and
firewire controller), eventhough there are other free IRQ. Could this
be what cause the
problems? Do I have to set the address manually (which I don't know
how)?

thanks