USB mass storage device not getting drive letter
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From: daytripper on 6 Mar 2005 13:44 On Sun, 06 Mar 2005 02:27:47 -0500, Yousuf Khan <bbbl67(a)ezrs.com> wrote: >Alan Walpool wrote: >> Try using diskpart from the commandline to assign a drive. Hope this >> works it has worked for me when I needed to make a drive showup. Could >> be something else. > >Didn't work. > >I heard somewhere that the USB mass storage driver doesn't seem to work >in a system with more than one hard drive (which is the case for all of >my desktops)? > > Yousuf Khan I have 6 sca drives across two hbas, four optical drives, and 3 emulated CDs, a SM/CF combo usb mass storage device plus a "thumb drive", all running under XP Pro. No issues. I think you're still missing a driver. Maybe the chipset drivers didn't install correctly? /daytripper
From: Yousuf Khan on 6 Mar 2005 12:45 Robert Myers wrote: > On 5 Mar 2005 19:55:05 -0800, "YKhan" <yjkhan(a)gmail.com> wrote: > How do the device driver details compare on the two machines? They're almost identical, except for the no drive letter thingy. Actually I don't have access to that machine where it's working right now, that's in Montreal. I use (or was planning to use) this USB hard disk to transfer files back and forth between my two setups in Ottawa and Montreal (whereas previously I used to bring the whole laptop with me when coming back to Ottawa). Yousuf Khan
From: Bob Niland on 6 Mar 2005 16:53 > none <none(a)nowhere.com> wrote: > Do you already have a drive Z:? Does XP support environment variable LASTDRIVE ? If so, is there any chance it's set to something other than Z ? My guess is that this isn't a productive line of inquiry, as my various Win2K docs are entirely silent on the topic, so chances are it's not an XP feature. -- Regards, Bob Niland mailto:name(a)ispname.tld http://www.access-one.com/rjn email4rjn AT yahoo DOT com NOT speaking for any employer, client or Internet Service Provider.
From: Leo on 6 Mar 2005 17:23 My USB drive works fine on a system with two other hard drives. Get TweakUI and be sure to set last drive to Z. -- LEO The supply of government exceeds the demand. "Yousuf Khan" <bbbl67(a)ezrs.com> wrote in message news:0L6dnYG5ELTYrLbfRVn-qQ(a)rogers.com... > Alan Walpool wrote: >> Try using diskpart from the commandline to assign a drive. >> Hope this >> works it has worked for me when I needed to make a drive >> showup. Could >> be something else. > > Didn't work. > > I heard somewhere that the USB mass storage driver doesn't seem > to work in a system with more than one hard drive (which is the > case for all of my desktops)? > > Yousuf Khan
From: Yousuf Khan on 6 Mar 2005 18:51
Bob Niland wrote: > Does XP support environment variable LASTDRIVE ? > If so, is there any chance it's set to something > other than Z ? No, I haven't seen the lastdrive used since the DOS days, and even then in the last days of DOS, they were already defaulting to Lastdrive of Z. I have plenty of drive letters available, just none of them are used by this drive. Yousuf Khan |