Lexar Professional Firewire 800 Problems

[Ph0t0g]

I purchased a set of 4 of the CF readers and added a fire wire 800 card to my Windows 7 Box. And I can't get them to work :(

Lexar support sucks, they say try them on someone else's computer and that's all they can suggest.

They light up when you put a card in but they don't show up in my computer.

Anyone have any ideas?

Thanks

[KdLaneJr]

what do you see in device manager when one of the readers is connected? Does the card you installed show up properly?

[SCone]

card driver

[picman]

I'm on my second one. The first didn't work out of the box. The second worked at first, but now seems to be flaky. Don't know if they are worth it, I don't perceive much difference in downloads between USB 2 readers. They seem to take a long time for the card to be available to the computer. With the USB 2 reader, put the card in and it's available almost immediately. Also saw someplace that ganging those things together doesn't work.

Somebody makes a reader that takes something like 6 cards at a time - might be a better choice. There are not many choices in Firewire readers.

[Rson]

Windows 7 and Firewire have a ongoing feud, Firewire is a trademark of apple so technically it isn't firewire on a PC, it is Ieee 1394. There are many posts about Win7 and Firewire[ahem, ieee 1394] not working with win 7.

try this:
1394 Bus Driver in Windows 7



1- Click the Start Button, type devmgmt.msc in the “Start Search” box and press Enter.
2- Expand the "IEEE 1394 Bus Host Controllers" node in the device tree on the right hand pane

3- Right click the host controller node select "Update driver software ..."

4- Select "Browse my computer for driver software"

5- Select "let me pick from a list of device driver on my computer ..." and Check the box before “Show compatible hardware”.

6. Choose the second option---1394 OHCI Compliant Host Controller (Legacy), and click next to update the driver.

[Rson]

I would look into Esata until USB gets its act together.

shopaddonics - eSATAp CFast Memory Adapter

You can get a ESATA pci add in card if you don't have a port.

[Ph0t0g]

Thanks for all the info, I mainly got them since they will daisy chain and I could download 4 cards at once, but at this point they are more trouble than help :)

Sounds like its time to go back to the usb and post these in the for sale forum for some mac user :)

Thanks Everyone

[srwatters]

Originally Posted by Ph0t0g

Thanks for all the info, I mainly got them since they will daisy chain and I could download 4 cards at once, but at this point they are more trouble than help :)

Sounds like its time to go back to the usb and post these in the for sale forum for some mac user :)

Thanks Everyone

While it's a neat concept to have 4 readers, realize that they ALL share the single firewire 800 bus. That means your maximum throughput per card will be 1/4 of the total bandwidth of the Firewire 800 interface. Unless you hook them up to individual IEEE 1394b ports, they share the same bus. If you're looking for convenience and firing off all the copies at once, that's one thing, but don't believe each reader get's the entire bandwidth because that's not the case at all.

[picman]

fyi I was using them on a Mac

[BG Photo]

Maybe system not 'seeing' your PCI Ieee 1394 adapter card? Try installing drivers for that (either from included CD or manufacturers website). I'm running Windows 7, with Trendnet PCI FireWire adapter card (don't rembember model) and 1 Lexar FireWire 800 card reader. Only issure I had was installing drivers for the reader (I think a CD was included), it wasn't Plug and Play. After that it worked fine. I only have a single reader though, not daisy chained. Did you try using 1 to see if it works. If not, it's probably an issue with the PCI adapter card drivers. If it does, it may be with how you have the readers daisy chained.