Eric,

I finally got the card to be recognized. Late one night, as I hit the
internet to double check to see if I missed any information, I stumbled on
to a site where someone had the same problems. They indicated that you
cannot get WinXP to recognize the Fireport after the OS is installed, but
you can hit F6 during the installation and load the drivers from a floppy
prior to during the installation. WinXP complains about the drivers being
old and not certified, but if you ignore the warning, the SCSI card and
devices are recognized. I remember moving up from Win98 to WinME I was happy
that the OS recognized the SCSI card without having to load the drivers from
a disk. The drivers are available for Win2000 so I don't know why microsoft
omitted them from WinXP.

BTW, have you every tried to install the driver to a clean WinXP install?

Thanks,

Jim
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Sent: Sunday, December 15, 2002 10:50 PM
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Subject: Re: [PCBUILD] WinXP and fireport40 scsi adapter


Jim,
        I have a FirePort40Dual card running under XP, in fact I have run it
since the beta of XP.  I have never had any problems with it, XP shows it
listed in the hardware manager as an LSI Logic 53C875/53C876 Device, and
since I have the dual card, it shows two of them.  Maybe you can manually
tell XP to use those drivers through the device manager.

-Eric Ennis

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