I'm pretty sure that those USB ports are 1.1 on the 1600SC, so that may be your first question, will your drive work on usb 1.1 ports? Second, are you running Sp4 on your w2k? If not, that could be part of the problem as well. Do you have any bangs in Device Mangler as well, especially for the usb ports? Can you attach other USB 2.0 devices and the system sees them properly?
Lastsly, new dell servers wont have a problem with your external drive, if it does, I would blame the drive at that point. We use external drives here all the time with our systems, but we dont have a 1600SC anymore.
One note of advice, please be sure you can properly restore your ghost backups (to another set of hard drives) dont blow away your current configuration!!
We're running SP4 on this W2K server. We are upgrading to a server with Windows 2008. All the USB ports under Device Manager are OK (no bangs). When I attach other USB flash drives, they work fine. It looks like the problem is with the chipset drivers (which Dell does not provide for this machine).
There's only one program that 3 users use from the server (for financing), we have 17 other computers that don't really use any server resources. Can you provide some insights for when I replace this server with the Win 2008 server?
Could I simply not make it a server and just share the drive where the financial software is for those 3 users?....if so, How would I go about doing that?
reybeast1
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May 19th, 2010 07:00
I'm pretty sure that those USB ports are 1.1 on the 1600SC, so that may be your first question, will your drive work on usb 1.1 ports? Second, are you running Sp4 on your w2k? If not, that could be part of the problem as well. Do you have any bangs in Device Mangler as well, especially for the usb ports? Can you attach other USB 2.0 devices and the system sees them properly?
Lastsly, new dell servers wont have a problem with your external drive, if it does, I would blame the drive at that point. We use external drives here all the time with our systems, but we dont have a 1600SC anymore.
One note of advice, please be sure you can properly restore your ghost backups (to another set of hard drives) dont blow away your current configuration!!
elderk
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May 19th, 2010 12:00
We're running SP4 on this W2K server. We are upgrading to a server with Windows 2008. All the USB ports under Device Manager are OK (no bangs). When I attach other USB flash drives, they work fine. It looks like the problem is with the chipset drivers (which Dell does not provide for this machine).
There's only one program that 3 users use from the server (for financing), we have 17 other computers that don't really use any server resources. Can you provide some insights for when I replace this server with the Win 2008 server?
Could I simply not make it a server and just share the drive where the financial software is for those 3 users?....if so, How would I go about doing that?
Thanks in advance for all your help!
Elder