thanks, some things to look at I do believe he has a lot of USB stuff fp At 04:37 PM 5/5/2007, Bill Cohane Poked the stick with: >At 19:03 05/05/07, FORC5 wrote: >>Have a customer that works for Honeywell, he is a programer and has some kind >>of a USB device he uses I assume to compile. >> >>he gets a message *insufficient band width * never seen this in regard to a >>usb device b4. MB is a new Asus with a 5600 x2 cpu >> >>any clues helpful > >Hi Fred > >I get this message, "insufficient band width" (or resources), every time I try >to access one of my 500 GB USB2 hard drive *over* my home network. > >My network is 10/100 Mbit with two Netgear 10/100 switches. Two of my four >computers have WD 7200RPM 500GB "My book" external drives attached via USB2. >(Three desktop computers each have SIIG USB2/Ethernet combo PCI cards.) >Running Win2k Pro on the desktops and WinXP Pro on the laptop. Basically, I >can't access either external drive from any computer other than the one that >it (they) is (are) directly attached to. Everything is properly shared, proper >permissions, etc. I have no problem accessing any internal drive (on any of >the four computers) on any of the other computers via Ethernet. > >I don't know if the problem is with the size of the external drives (500 GB) >or if it's an operating system problem (limitations imposed by Microsoft >because I'm not using a Server version of Windows?) or a technical Ethernet >problem, or whether the problem is with the Silicon Graphics USB2 or Ethernet >chipsets. > >The problem is not with the number of drives in any computer (or over the >network). If I pull the plug on an internal >drive, I still can't access either of the external drives over the Ethernet. >The three desktops each have dual 1400 GHz P3 processors, the laptop is a 2.4 >GHz P4. > >I'm sending this to you privately because I still can't post direct to the >Hardware Group. If you reply to the message maybe >you could "CC:" to the HWG. > >Regards, >Bill > >
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