Firewire was pretty amazing new stuff for Windows 2000.
Best of luck.
Bob
I have a 3.5" external enclosure that I want to use for an external hard drive, and a 5.25" enclosure that I want to use for an external DVD writer. Each seems to work fine when connected separately, but if I connect both at the same time, the directory structure on the external hard drive gets corrupted and the drive becomes completely inaccessible. This happens within about 15-20 minutes of connecting both devices.
I originally tried this with a 200GB hard drive that was NTFS formatted. My enclosure should be able to handle hard drives up to 300GB, but I thought maybe the hard drive size was a problem, so I also tried with a 14GB FAT32 hard drive. The symptoms were identical: At first, some directories become unreadable, and eventually, the entire drive becomes unreadable. The data is permanently lost: connecting the drive internally after it has been corrupted did not help, and Norton disk doctor wasn't even able to detect that the drive had been formatted.
I'm running windows 2000. The enclosures I'm using are USB2.0 and firewire combo enclosures, I'm hooking them up via fire wire.
The 5.25" enclosure is a SANMAX CD-509-Combo containing an AOpen DUW1608 DVD writer.
The 3.5" enclosure is a "BYTECC 3.5" USB 2.0/ 1394 Combo Aluminum External Enclosure, Model ME-740U2F".

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