Unibrain Fireboard800 on Windows XP Pro x64

From: Davi Bock 
Subject: Re: fireboard800 windows xp64
Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2007 11:24:30 -0500
To: "Panos Tiropanis" 

Hi Panos,

I have a 1TB Fantom Gforce drive.

It's too bad, your site explicitly says XP64 is supported, which is
why I purchased the Fireboard800 product.  If you have a known issue
with x64 support, you should say so on your site!  Essentially this
is false advertising.

In the meantime the native Windows drivers seem to be working okay. 
Maybe I'll try the Unibrain drivers on a later release.

Thanks,

- Davi

from http://www.unibrain.com/Products/DriverAPI/ubcore.html:
"ubCore=99, is the first and only driver suite that fully supports the=

1394b standard. It is highly recommended by Texas Instruments as the
ideal software companion for their 1394b chipset.

ubCore=99 is a set of low-level drivers with a top-down layered
structure that provides the physical interface to various 1394
devices and includes the following advantageous features:

     * Full 1394b support at 800Mbps
     * Full 1394b CAT5 (100Mbps) and POF (200Mbps) support
     * Complete 1394a and 1394b SBP2 disk support
     * Complete 1394a and 1394b Networking support via the FireNet
drivers
     * Complete support of 1394a and 1394b IIDC compliant cameras
     * Comprehensive set of tools and applications
     * Full Plug&Play support for Windows 2000/XP/2003 Server/Vista
and XP 64 bit
     * User friendly installation wizard
     * Windows Power management support
     * Support for Windows XP and 2003 Server 64 bit (AMD64 and Intel=

EM64t CPUs)"


On Mar 7, 2007, at 10:49 AM, Panos Tiropanis wrote:

> Dear Davi,
>
> Unfortunately there is a problem with our sbp2 driver under XP 64. Our
> developer's team will study this issue and will do its best to have it
> fixed on the next release. I would like you to tell me what the
> model of
> your hard drive is.
>
> We apologize for inconvenience.
>
> With kind regards,
>
> Panagiotis Tiropanis
> Support Engineer, unibrain
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Davi Bock [mailto:dbock@davibock.net]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2007 1:44 AM
> To: support@unibrain.com
> Subject: fireboard800 windows xp64
>
> Hi,
> I'm having some problems with installing the "ubCore64_011907.exe"
> drivers for a recently purchased Fireboard800.  I'm running Windows
> XP Pro 64.  After installation, when I connect an external hard drive
> using 1394b, I see in the Device Manager that a new "SBP2 Compliant
> IEEE 1394 device" is present.  However, the hard drive does not show
> up in Windows explorer; I have no way to access its contents.
>
> Note that prior to installing the UbCore drivers, the hard drive does
> show up.  Data transfer is at ~40Mbits/sec.
>
> Thanks
>
> - Davi Bock
>