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Title: Installing two external 1TB drives
Post by: grandcanuck on November 06, 2008, 07:19:28 AM
   

I purchased two external buffalo 1TB drives (not network attached but USB 2.0 or Firewire). I can attach either of two drives and my system sees them fine. But when I attach both of them, the system hands, no drive gets recognized and I usually have to power off my system to bring things back.

 

The plan was to use one drive as storage and the second as a manual replica for backup and offsite storage purposes but if I can't attach both at the same time.

 

Is it a problem with the machines USB or Firewire bus structure? I have both USB and Firewire and I tried both with no luck.

 

Any ideas? 

Title: Re: Installing two external 1TB drives
Post by: Paul on November 11, 2008, 01:07:06 PM
What model buffalo product do you have, also what is the operating system you are using?
Title: Re: Installing two external 1TB drives
Post by: grandcanuck on November 12, 2008, 06:36:55 AM
   

It's a 1TB DriveStation Combo TurboUSB (USB 2.0/FireWire, 7,200 RPM - MPN: HDHS10TIU2F):

http://www.buffalotech.com/products/external-drives/drivestation/drivestation-combo-turbousb/

 

It's attached to a Windows XP SP2 (I don't think I have SP3 on there yet but I have to verify).

 

I finally managed to get them both attached using USB. I was really focusing on FireWire before. Would FireWire be faster? (I installed the TurboUSB tool so I am using that at the moment).

 

A friend of mine recommened I use a Firewire card instead of the two Firewire ports available on the system. I was gonna try that next unless someone knows the reason this didn't work.

 

Thanks.

 

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