Why does my firewire drive show up as a net connection?

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I have a caldrives 30 gig HDD which connects through a firewire connection
and a ST Labs 3 firewire connection PC card.

There is a perfectly good firewire controller in the device manager in XP
pro but when I try to connect the drive through the PC card, whatever I do,
the card/drive shows up as an exclamation marked I1394 net connection in
Networking rather than as a drive. Even trying to rescan in Disc Management
doesnt see the drive although it DOES see some type of SCSI item whatever
that is (and it doesn't tell me what it is so I can't see if it is
identifying something wrongly as a SCSI drive rather than a Firewire drive).
But actually I suspect this is irrelevant as the card itself shows up as the
wrongly installed net connection when I plug it in even without the drive or
any power being plugged into it. (there arent any drivers I know of for the
firewire card in XP, they are SUPPOSED to be native)

Caldrives have no idea why this unit won't work on any OS I have on PCs
(98SE or 2000 either)

(when I put it on a Mac it works instantly)

 

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FireWire always shows up as a network connection. This is just the way
XP deals with it. Though I do not use any firewire devices, I do have a
firewire port and it shows up in there as a network connection that is
not being used.

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Nathan McNulty

Maria Ripanykhazova wrote:
> I have a caldrives 30 gig HDD which connects through a firewire connection
> and a ST Labs 3 firewire connection PC card.
>
> There is a perfectly good firewire controller in the device manager in XP
> pro but when I try to connect the drive through the PC card, whatever I do,
> the card/drive shows up as an exclamation marked I1394 net connection in
> Networking rather than as a drive. Even trying to rescan in Disc Management
> doesnt see the drive although it DOES see some type of SCSI item whatever
> that is (and it doesn't tell me what it is so I can't see if it is
> identifying something wrongly as a SCSI drive rather than a Firewire drive).
> But actually I suspect this is irrelevant as the card itself shows up as the
> wrongly installed net connection when I plug it in even without the drive or
> any power being plugged into it. (there arent any drivers I know of for the
> firewire card in XP, they are SUPPOSED to be native)
>
> Caldrives have no idea why this unit won't work on any OS I have on PCs
> (98SE or 2000 either)
>
> (when I put it on a Mac it works instantly)
>
>