Window 7 Firewire support, FW drive doesn't show up
Just acquired a Toshiba Satellite Laptop with Win7 64bit for our location recording rig, and it will not see fire wire hard drives. It sees our M-audio1814 fine, but all firewire drives show up as "Local Disc", and are unreadable, though if I connect them via USB, they show up like normal all files intact.
We have the SIIG FW expresscard adapter with the TI Chipset, which sees the interface, just not anything else. I have re-installed Win7 3 times, looked for drivers, gone on forums, switched to the legacy drivers, and back, though you'd think that the "Texas Instruments...OHCI Driver" would be the optimum choice, but evidently not.
We need the external drive for our audio files on location, I just don't understand why the drive will show up USB, but not firewire, and not to mention ANY firewire drive really bogs the otherwise smoking fast system that it is.
There has got to be some way to remedy this problem.
System Specs below
Toshiba Satellite L305-S5941
Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit
Sonar 8.3.1 Producer
2.53 ghz Core 2 Duo
3gb ram
200 gb system drive
M-audio 1814
SIIG Firewire Expresscard Adapter
Seagate FW/USB external drive
System Specs are:
Intel Core 2 Quad Q9550 2.83 GHz 1333Mhz/12MB L2
4 GB DDR 2 RAM
Win XP 32bit SP3
10K SATA II Record Drives, Multiple Edit drives (SATA 2)
UAD-1 PCIe
MOTU PCI424 with 2x 2408MK3 and 1x 2408 MK1, MOTU Microlite, Lucid Gen6x WC
Yamaha 02R96 Ver1 w/ 3 16 Ch ADAT Exp Cards