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roblin · 02-06-2004

Few questions first:

1) I hope you did not mess with the IDE jumper on the Pioneer DVR-107D - it must be in the "master" mode which I believe is the factory default.

2) Did you get a Firewire PCMCIA card or a COMBO Firewire/USB2 PCMCIA Card from SII? If you have the COMBO Firewire/USB2 PCMCIA card from SII it is kind of flaky - it won't work unless you plug in the AC adapter and the last one I got did not work well. Try Adaptec.

3) Majority of firewire PCMCIA cards are plug-n-play and no driver is needed. After the PCMCIA card is installed check the "device manager" to make sure the card is properly installed (i.e. no yellow exclaimation mark on it).

4) Assume everything is installed correctly, the drive should show up under "My Computer" with a assigned drive letter.

5) Worst case scenerio - bring the drive/enclosure to another computer (desktop or notebook) that has firewire ports built-in such as Fujitsu, SONY etc. Finally, if all fails, exchange the DVR-107 with another one.

02-06-2004	#8 (permalink)
roblin New on Forum Join Date: Feb 2004 Posts: 8	Re: DVR-107D won't burn in external enclosure Few questions first: 1) I hope you did not mess with the IDE jumper on the Pioneer DVR-107D - it must be in the "master" mode which I believe is the factory default. 2) Did you get a Firewire PCMCIA card or a COMBO Firewire/USB2 PCMCIA Card from SII? If you have the COMBO Firewire/USB2 PCMCIA card from SII it is kind of flaky - it won't work unless you plug in the AC adapter and the last one I got did not work well. Try Adaptec. 3) Majority of firewire PCMCIA cards are plug-n-play and no driver is needed. After the PCMCIA card is installed check the "device manager" to make sure the card is properly installed (i.e. no yellow exclaimation mark on it). 4) Assume everything is installed correctly, the drive should show up under "My Computer" with a assigned drive letter. 5) Worst case scenerio - bring the drive/enclosure to another computer (desktop or notebook) that has firewire ports built-in such as Fujitsu, SONY etc. Finally, if all fails, exchange the DVR-107 with another one.