XP SP2 1394 problem with PCMCIA cards

We have a FireWire problem with our new IBM laptops thay are preinstalled with
XP SP2. The problem is that the connection to the scanners we produce gets
reset during data transfer. Afterwards the connection is lost.
We have observed the same problem with an external harddisk.
All device are able to install and function in a limited extend, but after a
short period of operation they fail during data transfer.

We have observed the following:
When using SP2 with an Adaptec AWF-1430 card the above problem occurs.
When installing the SP1 drivers with that card everything works fine.
Furthermore, if we use the Adaptec 1430A card with SP2 everything works fine.
However, the 1430A card is discontinued and replaced by the 1430 card. All
other cards we have tried also fail to run on SP2, whereas the SP1 drivers
seem to
work just fine.

Adaptec support has directed us to MS support claiming that you are
responsible for developing the drivers for their 1394 PCMCIA cards.

Maxim
Sun Dec 12 12:07:01 CST 2004

Surely Adaptec is responsible. Otherwise, people will get rid of Adaptec
and use TI's TSB12LV2x chipset, which is fine.

--
Maxim Shatskih, Windows DDK MVP
StorageCraft Corporation
maxim@storagecraft.com
http://www.storagecraft.com

"ChrJensen" <ChrJensen@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:97D65554-92BD-4524-9A53-4270D8C925E2@microsoft.com...
> We have a FireWire problem with our new IBM laptops thay are preinstalled
with
> XP SP2. The problem is that the connection to the scanners we produce gets
> reset during data transfer. Afterwards the connection is lost.
> We have observed the same problem with an external harddisk.
> All device are able to install and function in a limited extend, but after a
> short period of operation they fail during data transfer.
>
> We have observed the following:
> When using SP2 with an Adaptec AWF-1430 card the above problem occurs.
> When installing the SP1 drivers with that card everything works fine.
> Furthermore, if we use the Adaptec 1430A card with SP2 everything works
fine.
> However, the 1430A card is discontinued and replaced by the 1430 card. All
> other cards we have tried also fail to run on SP2, whereas the SP1 drivers
> seem to
> work just fine.
>
> Adaptec support has directed us to MS support claiming that you are
> responsible for developing the drivers for their 1394 PCMCIA cards.
>