On Dec 6, 2008, at 6:21 PM, joplinfan wrote:

>
> When hooked up via firewire to the laptop, the Toshiba's main hard
> drive can't open applications until the firewire drive is
> disconnected. It's almost like the main hard drive gets confused when
> the firewire drive is connected.
>
> I have the firewire drive set as master because that's what the
> enclosure instructions said to do, but I'm thinking this might be
> causing problems with my XP machine? Like I said, all of my Mac
> machines work perfectly with it.

Nope, this shouldn't affect your system; the master/slave setting only  
applies to the TDE-Firewire interface, and cannot affect anything  
farther up the chain than that. It's just Windows being Windows, as  
usual.


--
Bruce Johnson

"No matter where you go, there you are", B. Banzai


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