Weird Computer issue

[AndrewClaycomb]

My computer is acting really weird when I turn off my Firepod. It hasn't always done this though.


I've had the Firepod for a little more than a week now (I think), and I keep it on a second power strip with my powered monitors. The reasoning is I can turn them all on/off with the flip of a single switch, which is nice when I'm not using the audio stuff.

Today I got my firewire external hard drive which turns on and off with my computer. The Firepod is slaving off the hard drive. (I only have 1 Texas Instruments Firewire port.) Everything works great when the Firepod is on but if I turn it off ,my computer will slowly start locking up. Applications stop responding until I just turn off my computer manually. Task Manager won't work when this happens either.

Then when I turn the computer back on (with the Firepod off) Windows won't load.

If the Firepod is on, Windows will load and run completely fine.

WTF?

EDIT: To add to the weirdness, if I don't have either the hard drive or the Firepod on, it works fine. My temporary fix is to keep the hard drive on the same power strip as the Firepod. That way they both will only turn on at the same time. I only use this new drive for recording anyway, but it would be nice to use it all the time for all my storage.

[PAETEK]

I would recommend instead slaving the firepod to the hard drive, slave the hard drive to the firepod, and see if this helps. I don't know if you were trying to avoid this, but if not, then give it a try and see what happens.

-jpleasant@presonus.com

[AndrewClaycomb]

I'll give it a try, I was avoiding that because if the firepod is off, then my hard drive won't turn on. But with the way it is now, I can't have one without the other anyway.

[AndrewClaycomb]

Everything works correctly so far with the hard drive slaving off the Firepod. I still can't turn on the hard drive without turning on the Firepod though.

[brandondrury]

I understand the desire to want to save $0.14 of electricity this year (I'm a stickler for efficiency) but I would have to wonder how many hours of headache I would be willing to go through to solve this one.

I'd let it go. It works. Leave everything on. It'll improve the reliability of your non-tube gear anyway.

Brandon

[AndrewClaycomb]

Yeah, that's pretty much where I am now. I figure if I want to have network storage I might as well just get another hard drive that will plug directly into my router.

Oh well... This hard drive is working beautifully otherwise. The other day I was doing a tracking session and I had over 20 channels playing back while recording 3 more all without a glitch. Not bad for a nearly 5 year old laptop either.