External USB device freezes Finder

[joshukr]

I recently purchased a Philips Voice Tracer 880 digital voice recorder. It interfaces with Mac OS X or Windows via USB. I have a MacBook Pro running Leopard 10.5.7. Any time I plug in the VT 880, the drive mounts just fine. Then, if I try to open any folders, Finder freezes.

I cannot eject the drive (it either says it's in use or just doesn't respond), but once I simply pull the plug I regain control of Finder. Of course I get the "Device Removal" warning, but other than that, things go back to normal.

I also have an iMac running Tiger (10.4.11). When I plug the VT 880 into the iMac, it mounts fine, I can open all the folders and copy off files.

I have corresponded with Philips, and the only thing they could offer was formatting the VT 880 and installing the latest firmware. I've done this more than once, but no improvement.

Could this be an issue with Leopard or is it more likely that my VT 880 is defective? Any advice would appreciated.

 

[Eto]

Hello all
same for me with the Voicetracer 860 and mac OS X 10.5.7. Today I use my old iMac Blue G3 in 10.4 to copy MP3 files from A,B,C,D folder to mac.
I try to exclude Voicetracer from Spotlight process, to erase hidden files on voicetracer and there was no more chance to unfreeze finder.
Last, I try to drag and drop one MP3 file from Voicetracer to mac with the console application in order to track some information. While the voicetracer is plugged in my mac, finder is frozen and the only writing lines each 30 seconds are :
03/07/09 00:25:49 kernel USBF: 1506.757 AppleUSBOHCI[0x3487800]::Found a transaction past the completion deadline on bus 0x2b, timing out! (Addr: 4, EP: 1)

When I unplugg the voicetracer the list of the system messages is :
03/07/09 00:30:37 kernel USBF: 1794.768 AppleUSBOHCI[0x3487800]::Found a transaction past the completion deadline on bus 0x2b, timing out! (Addr: 4, EP: 1)
03/07/09 00:30:54 kernel IOType Read] [PBlkNum 3496] [LBlkNum 88] [FSLogMsgID 1110749878] [FSLogMsgOrder First]
03/07/09 00:30:54 kernel [DevNode /dev/disk1] [MountPt /Volumes/PHILIPS DVT] [Path /Volumes/PHILIPS DVT/.Spotlight-V100/Store-V1/Stores/462B9FF0-68AF-488F-8341-22AE43D14EF0/0.indexPositions] [FSLogMsgID 1190020466] [FSLogMsgOrder Last]
03/07/09 00:30:54 kernel disk1: media is not present.
03/07/09 00:30:54 kernel disk1: media is not present.
03/07/09 00:30:54 kernel disk1: media is not present.
03/07/09 00:30:54 kernel disk1: media is not present.
03/07/09 00:30:54 kernel disk1: media is not present.
03/07/09 00:30:54 kernel disk1: media is not present.
03/07/09 00:30:54 kernel disk1: media is not present.
03/07/09 00:30:55 kernel disk1: media is not present.
03/07/09 00:30:55 kernel disk1: media is not present.
03/07/09 00:30:55 kernel disk1: media is not present.
03/07/09 00:30:55 kernel disk1: media is not present.
03/07/09 00:30:55 mds[41] (/Volumes/PHILIPS DVT/.Spotlight-V100/Store-V1/Stores/462B9FF0-68AF-488F-8341-22AE43D14EF0)(Error) IndexCI in store_stream_flush:store_stream_flush sync err:-1
03/07/09 00:30:55 mds[41] (/Volumes/PHILIPS DVT/.Spotlight-V100/Store-V1/Stores/462B9FF0-68AF-488F-8341-22AE43D14EF0)(Error) IndexCI in store_stream_flush:store_stream_flush sync err:-1
03/07/09 00:30:55 mds[41] (/Volumes/PHILIPS DVT/.Spotlight-V100/Store-V1/Stores/462B9FF0-68AF-488F-8341-22AE43D14EF0)(Error) IndexSDB in db_flush_datastore:/Volumes/PHILIPS DVT/.Spotlight-V100/Store-V1/Stores/462B9FF0-68AF-488F-8341-22AE43D14EF0/store.db : db_sync_datastore: !WARNING! prior write-errors invalidate sync.

03/07/09 00:30:55 kernel disk1: media is not present.
03/07/09 00:30:55 kernel disk1: media is not present.
03/07/09 00:30:55 kernel disk1: media is not present.
03/07/09 00:30:55 kernel disk1: media is not present.
03/07/09 00:30:55 kernel disk1: media is not present.
03/07/09 00:30:55 kernel disk1: media is not present.
03/07/09 00:30:55 kernel disk1: media is not present.
03/07/09 00:30:55 kernel disk1: media is not present.
03/07/09 00:30:56 kernel disk1: media is not present.
03/07/09 00:30:56 kernel disk1: media is not present.
03/07/09 00:30:56 kernel disk1: media is not present.
03/07/09 00:30:56 kernel disk1: media is not present.
03/07/09 00:30:56 kernel msdosfs_fat_uninit_vol: error 6 from msdosfs_fat_cache_flush

Any ideas ?

(sorry for my basic english ...)

Best regards