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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-----Original Message-----
From: PCBUILD - Personal Computer Hardware discussion List
[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
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.
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>>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."
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>>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.
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>>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?
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>>Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>>
>>BTW, I checked for a possible interrupt conflict and did not find any
>>problems

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