I have an X's drive (pro) and i love it! But...

[robvonk]

I recently bought an X's drive pro vp300. I really like it. I used to take my laptop with me during travel but thats not handy.

I have something strange with it though. I'm using windows 2000 and i can transfer images and files bck and forth. So far so good. When i want to disconnect the drive, i use the stop device option from the trasktray. It gives a message that i can remove the device safely and it did disconnect but then it happens: before i can pull the USB cable, it automaticly recognises the drive again.. And if i pull the USB cable, it complains that i didn't stop the device.

A friend of mine has an X's drive II and has the same problem. He's also using windows 2000.

The strange part is that it sometimes works correct and most of the times it doesn't.

Anyone has the same problems? Did you manage to fix it? what can be wrong?

Rob

[Nolz]

i'd lean toward blaming windows, as opposed to the device....

i remember having all sorts of problems with 2000 with my old olympus camera...and my other devices *sigh* although reasonably stable i found switching to windows ME...or even XP now if ur machine can handle it....was a better move.

something to think about if things dont get better :D

[defordphoto]

I run XP Pro and I never use the disconnect icon. I just plug or unplug. Works great. What's happening is that you're telling Windows you're disconnecting so it disconnects, but then before you can disconnect, it finds it again. Just unplug it and walk away.

[Scottes]

I use Win2K and I sometimes stop the device and then unplug the CF card hours later. I never have had an issue.

I'd check for the latest USB and X drivers.

[CyberDyneSystems]

The stop device dialog is,. or at least SHOULD be Bull $&*(

USB is supposed to be "plug and play",. not "tell Windows to do a bunch of stuff and then plug" (or unplug)

The fact is,. that as long as you get the harassing dialog from Windows,. then Windows is in fact fully aware of all it needs to be aware of for no issue to crop up after device removal.. (IE: Windows now knows the device is removed. So there is no issue.)

The solution is that instead of one of Bill Gates' tyical "Windows is unhappy with you because you, the user, are a clueless slouch and didn't do things exactly the way WE wanted it to be done" pop-up messages, the message should simply say.

" Windows has detected the removal of a device and made the necessary adjustment to drive drive paths to compensate."

[Scottes]

What if you were in the middle of saving an image back to the CF card? You end up with a lost cluster or otherwise munged FAT. Not good for the CF card's files.

The stop button isn't there for Windows, it's there for the user. Windows checks to make sure you don't have files open, or that you're not in the middle of de-fragmenting the drive or something. If everything's OK, then you're told that it's OK to pull the device.

Granted many users don't need to be told this, as it is really malarkey. USB is plug-and-play. But if you do something stupid, then you pay the price. Alas in today's world that means that someone sues Microsoft because they weren't told not to do this. (Remember the McDonald's coffee lady?) Thus, the Stop Device button, and instructions everywhere telling to to Stop the Device. So don't bitch at MS, bitch at lawyers, and the stupid people that hire them because they did something stupid.

PS: I really can't stand MS in any way, shape, or form. But lawyers are far, far worse, exceeded only by stupid people.