Hi William,
Here is what I did:
The computer I have came with two USB ports on the back of the machine.
I had one port connected to my Cannon printer and one port to the USB
1.1 hub. On the USB 1.1 hub was my Umax 3400 scanner and a couple of
hook ups for digital cameras. What I did was move the Umax 3400 scanner
from the USB 1.1 hub to a port on the PCI card. It liked it there and
works much better than it did before. Then, I moved the USB 1.1 hub to
a port on the PCI card and it seems to be working fine. Next, I plugged
the USB drive into the USB port on the back of my computer that was
opened by moving the USB 1.1 hub to a port on the PCI card. It, too,
seems to be working fine now.
Here is currently what is shown in DEVICE MANAGER:
Storage device
USB Disk
Universal Serial Bus controllers
USB 2.0 PCI to USB Enhanced Host Controller
USB 2.0 Root Hub Device
Universal Serial Bus controllers
Canon BJC-2100
General purpose USB Hub
Intel(r) 82801AA USB Universal Host Controller
NEC USB Open Host Controller (E13+)
NEC USB Open Host Controller (E13+)
USB Mass Storage Device
USB Root Hub
USB Root Hub
USB Root Hub
It looks to me like the "USB Mass Storage Device" shown above should not
be there, but all seems to be working so I don't plan to touch it. BTW,
the external HD was showing up just fine before I plugged in the hub on
the PCI card. It still is working fine.
Thanks to all for the help.
Loy
William Pike wrote:
>The usb 1.1 hub should not show up as a mass storage device. It's a hub. The
>mass storage device is the external hard drive. My advice would be to first
>back up your hardware configuration and then to use device manager to remove
>references to the mass storage device and the powered hub. (Probably shows
>up as a generic USB hub) don't remove references to the root hub. Look in
>device manager under universal serial device controllers. Then reboot with
>the pci card installed but with nothing plugged into it, and with the usb
>1.1 external hub disconnected. Then after checking to make sure that the pci
>card is showing up in device manager, connect your external hard drive to
>the pci card (do not shut down before doing this, you should do this hot).
>The computer should recognize that a new device has been added to the usb
>configuration and the drive should be available in windows explorer.
>
>William Pike
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>[mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of Loy Pressley
>Sent: Monday, March 08, 2004 7:31 AM
>Subject: Re: [PCBUILD] USB 2.0 PCI Expansion Card Problem
>
>Well, according to the specs on the card it is 100% backwards compatible
>with USB 1.1 and that's what I'm using with the USB hub that I'm running
>now. The PCI card does show up in Device Manager. According to the
>documentation that came with the card the minimum requirements for the
>card are:
>
> - Pentium or K6 class processor (266Mhz or higher)
> - Windows 98 Second Edition or later
> - 64MB of RAM
> - Available PCI slot
>
>I have 512MB of RAM, my system is 800MHz, I'm running WinME, and I had
>an available PCI slot. As best I can tell, my system well exceeds the
>minimum requirements for using the card.
>
>Loy
>
>joseph marty wrote:
>
>
>
>>YOur computer configuration sounds like it is too old to support USB 2.0.
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>>>First, the particulars of my system: Dell L800r desktop computer, 800
>>>MHz Pentium processor, 40 gig HD with 22 gigs free, WinME operating
>>>
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>system.
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>>>My problem: I have, for years, used a 4 port powered USB 1.0 hub. I
>>>have a USB scanner and an external 40 gig HD operating through the hub.
>>>Today, I installed an Iogear USB 2.0 PCI card, in hopes that I could
>>>transfer everything to the 4 external USB 2.0 ports on the card and get
>>>rid of the old hub. So far, I haven't been able to get the computer to
>>>recognize the external 40 gig HD when it is plugged into the USB 2.0 PCI
>>>card. It does not show up at all when connected to PCI card. I tried
>>>to see it by going to DOS and using FDisk but FDisk does not find the
>>>drive either. I shut down the system and plugged the external hard
>>>drive back into the 4 port hub and turned the system back on. It showed
>>>up just like it had never been moved.
>>>
>>>I went into Device Manager and it shows both USB controllers: the new
>>>PCI USB controller is shown as "USB 2.0 PCI to USB Enhanced Host
>>>Controller" while the USB hub shows the "USB Mass Storage Device."
>>>
>>>My problem is how can I change the equipment that I currently have
>>>operating through the USB to operate off the much faster USB 2.0 PCI card.
>>>
>>>Do I have to manually remove the devices one the USB hub in Device
>>>Manager before windows will recognize the same devices on the new USB
>>>PCI card?
>>>
>>>Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>>>
>>>BTW, I checked for a possible interrupt conflict and did not find any
>>>problems
>>>
>>>
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