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buslink usb harddrive (modified 0 times) Ragnar Profile Gang, Just got a Buslink usb hard drive. After downloading the drivers my I-opener recognized it immediately as D:>. I had no problem using the d: drive until I tried to transfer files to or from c: and d:. It locks up after starting to copy the files in about 10 to 15 seconds. Has anyone had the same experience and if so did you find a solution? 03-12-2001 16:08:04

RE:buslink usb harddrive (modified 0 times) Kudzu Profile Not with a USB hard drive, but many here have had that exact problem with other USB peripherals. Have you installed the Via drivers, specifically the USB filter drivers? 03-12-2001 16:36:28

RE:buslink usb harddrive (modified 0 times) ckbone Profile After you have installed the mentioned VIA drivers...both of them.....go here: http://www.nonags.com/nonags/ Under the power tools category, download the program CacheMaster. After installing it, configure it to the "multi-media" setting. This program has helped my USB performance a whole lot. I can now burn a whole cd using a HB USB recorder. This is on a Winchip2 with 64meg ram. I had the same problems before I installed this program. 03-12-2001 17:21:31

RE:buslink usb harddrive (modified 0 times) Ragnar Profile Which version of the via drivers works best with win98se? I've down loaded 4.25 but have not loaded it yet. There are three higher versions but list as designed for ME. I must be getting a little conservative lately. Thanks. 03-15-2001 21:13:14

RE:buslink usb harddrive (modified 0 times) ckbone Profile I'm using 4.25a....this works well on 98se, ME, and Win2000....I've tried it on all three. FWIW: There are some later beta versions around, but I'm too chicken to try a beta version of these drivers. A failed install of these can completely hose your OS. 03-16-2001 05:09:18

RE:buslink usb harddrive (modified 0 times) Ragnar Profile Gang, Ok, I loaded the VIA drivers and tried again, no luck. Down loaded Cacheman. It would not install, could not find a certain dll file. Went to control panel then system. Looked at the IRQ settings. There are three files sharing 15,Trident Cyberblade i7, VIA 3038 pci to usb iniversal host controller, and IRQ holder for pci steering. There is no file assigned to 14. Would assigning VIA 3038 pci to usb iniversal host controller to 14 solve this problem. Does the solution involve going into cmos to change setting? As soon as I find enough courage I will try is method, but right now this is the only computer that I can connect with the internet right now. Think I will sleep on it first. 03-17-2001 19:14:23

RE:buslink usb harddrive (modified 0 times) ckbone Profile I wasted a lot of time trying to separate the video IRQ and the USB IRQ. Right now I don't assign an IRQ to the video (a Bios setting). It never seemed to make a difference. FWIW...Cacheman and Cachemaster are different programs. I've tried both. Cachemaster off the Nonags website is the better, by far, of the two. The different settings make noticeable changes to the way the OS runs. I settled on the multimedia setting after spending quite a bit of time at it. Unless your OS is running 100%, you won't get a very good USB performance. I spent a lot of time/frustration before my USB stuff all worked well. Upgrading to 64mb ram helped....but that Cachemaster prog did the trick for me. 03-17-2001 19:42:50

RE:buslink usb harddrive (modified 0 times) Ragnar Profile ckbone, I meant to say Cachemaster, not Cacheman. I just downloaded Cachemaster from nonags, again and tried to install it. It came back with the same message, "Could not find msvbm60.dll", and aborted the install. Is it available from another site? By the way, I am using a V4 with 128 mb of memory. How much success do you attribute to not assigning a video IRQ and how much to the Cachemaster program? 03-17-2001 20:21:13

RE:buslink usb harddrive (modified 0 times) ckbone Profile I'm fairly certain nothing I ever did with IRQs made any difference in USB or any other performance. There's a recent thread on this subject.....After a lot of trouble, I stopped worrying about it. The problem here is how do you tell if your system changes have helped or hurt? I just run different appz, try out different programs, and get a seat-of-the-pants feel for what's happening. I do know this.....You have to make certain Windows is running at it's best. Remove all un-necessary TSRs....get rid of un-used stuff to free up hard drive space....de-frag the drive frequently.....get a good memory program to keep memory free (I use memturbo2.0).....get the latest VIA drivers installed.....64meg of memory is a must...keep the OS up-to-date. In short, do all the standard maintenance...only do it all the time. The VIA chipset has documented USB problems...which have not been completely fixed yet. My wireless USB LAN is not working 100%. Sometimes my USB speakers are not recognized at boot-up. Over-all the I-Opener is a work in progress. Tuning the OS will have as much effect on the whole computer as any hardware tweaks you can do. I don't know why you cannot get Cachmaster working. If you notice, on the Nonags website, there are usually two different places you can download from. I usually use the Nonags own site....it's usually faster. That program really works well. It's worth the effort to get it. 03-18-2001 07:56:15

RE:buslink usb harddrive (modified 0 times) Wild_Pencil Profile | Email Your missing DLL just means that you never had a Visual Basic 6 application before; and Cachemaster made a bad assumption in choosing not to deliver a "redundant" DLL file. You can download the missing DLL from NoNags in the Tips - Help - Information - 32bit area, wayy down the index under Microsoft Visual Basic Run-Time Files. Hope this helps! -WP 03-18-2001 13:53:28

RE:buslink usb harddrive (modified 0 times) Ragnar Profile ckbone,Wild_Pencil, I down loaded and installed the .dll file. CacheMaster installed on the first try. Set the multi-media setting. Setup the usb hard drive, D: is readable. I tried to move files again. This time it crashed after maybe 25~30 seconds. It's frustrating, but I'm not ready to give up yet. 03-18-2001 22:01:50

RE:buslink usb harddrive (modified 0 times) ckbone Profile Too bad...I'm assuming here this drive works ok in another machine? This would eliminate a hardware problem and a driver problem(presumably). In device manager go the VIA controller, advanced properties, see if "disable USB error detection" is un-checked. It should be. Also in device manager, under the drive settings, see if DMA is enabled...whatever it is set at, try the other way. One more thing...VIA has a final version of the 4-in-one driver out (4.29). I haven't found it yet....I do think you can work this problem out...keep trying. 03-19-2001 04:35:16

RE:buslink usb harddrive (modified 0 times) Ragnar Profile None of the computers that I have access to right now do not have usb ports. I have tried it on a friends computer but it did not even recognize the drive. My two i-openers recognize it, though. They just both crash after a short enterval of working. On another note, I just downloaded the 4.29 VIA drivers from Viadrivers.com. Have not tried the buslink drive yet, but there seems to be a perceptable improvement in the video display, not that is was bad in the first place. 03-19-2001 13:19:14

RE:buslink usb harddrive (modified 0 times) Ragnar Profile ckbone, Is memturbo2.0 a store-bought program or can one find and download it from a web site? Thanks. 03-24-2001 14:39:41

RE:buslink usb harddrive (modified 0 times) ckbone Profile Ragnar....wish I could help you on that one, but I don't remember where I got Memturbo2.0 I know it's a shareware prog....I found it somewhere (free). There are many similar programs...I like it the best. You can set it to automatically recover adjustable amounts of ram when the level drops to a certain level. I have 64 megs on my V2....Memturbo is set on this machine to recover 20 megs when the level drops to 6 megs. This program puts a digital reading on the task bar along with a changing color bar indicating critical amount changes. There are plenty of web-sites which specialize in freeware and shareware. If you've a mind to, you can find small programs like this off Warez sites and other pirate sites. Since cd burners first came out, I've collected a massive quantity of small utility programs.....Memturbo2.0 is one of my favorites. 03-24-2001 17:56:01

RE:buslink usb harddrive (modified 0 times) Ragnar Profile Ckbone, I just did a search using hotbot and found the site. It is http://www.memturbo.com. Duh... I tried again to use the buslink usb hard drive again, after loading this program. No luck, again. Made it almost a minute this time, though. When it locked up, memturbo showed I still had 25 mb free. By the way, when I downed loaded the VIA drivers I also found a program called anticrash5.0. It made recovering from this crash a breeze. I turned the power off, then on, scandisk ran, then win98se came up with no problem or weirdness, unlike the last few times I tried the usb hard drive. 03-24-2001 18:22:59

RE:buslink usb harddrive (modified 0 times) ckbone Profile Before you spend any more time on the I-Opener, I suggest somehow making certain this device and it's driver work ok on another machine. Have you tried the mfg. website for a newer driver? If they have tech support relay them your problem. That thing should work on your I-Opener. I have been successfully burning cds on a HP USB cd/cdrw. That process uses more resources than a simple file transfer to a USB hard drive. So I know you could do it if your system configuration was ok, the drive had no hardware problem, and it's driver was known to work on your OS. Keep at it. FWIW....those anti-crash programs really use up system resources...I never found them to be of much good. The ones I tried rarely prevented crashes...and they sometimes caused crashes. You have that Cachemaster program....Try looking at it's system resource meters while you are doing a file transfer to the USB drive. Maybe you can see your problem there. 03-25-2001 06:13:48

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