SD Card + ReadyBoost + Winamp = WPD File system driver crash

Wednesday, March 05, 2008 10:55 PMJochenM

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Hi,

I, like many other people in this forum, also have lots of problems with the WPD FileSystem Volume Driver. I have not found my exact problem in any forums however.

My system specs are in my signature. In addition to that I have 1GB of Intel's Turbo Memory for ReadyDrive and a 4GB SDHC card in the integrated card reader for ReadyBoost. Both work (or at least don't say that they don't work).

After starting Windows, I often get serious application freezes that Windows cannot cope with and eventually has to be shut down by pressing the power button for a couple of seconds because the normal shutdown procedure would take an infinite amount of time.
The typical scenario when this happens is after starting WIndows and opening several applications like Firefox, Outlook, ICQ.. and then Winamp. Winamp is the somehow the culprit of the problem. It starts and during loading the GUI it turns white and doesn't respond anymore. Any attempts to kill it ( task manager, process explorer, command line) are just ignored and useless. The half-open Winamp window will just sit there and hang.. blocking the view of other applications.

The event viewer will show 2 critical errors originating from the WPD service:
1) Event ID 10110: UMDFHostProblem
2) Event ID 10111: UmdfDeviceOffline

FriendlyName : Microsoft WPD-Dateisystem-Volumetreiber
Location: (unknown)
InstanceId: WPDBUSENUMROOT\UMB\2&37C186B&1&STORAGE#VOLUME#1&19F7E59C&0&_??_SD#VID_03&OID_5344&PID_SD04G&REV_8.0#5&F9ADA1D&0&0#

After a little digging in the device manager, it turns out that the associated device is in fact the ReadyBoost SD card. It has the hardware ids

SD\VID_03&OID_5344&PID_SD04G&REV_8.0 and
SD\VID_03&OID_5344&PID_SD04G

Now.. why does this thing crash when I open Winamp?

Is this just another case of Vista SP1 messing up with card readers?
Btw.: when will the card reader issue be fixed? I have an external HDD with card reader that I both cannot use due to these SP1 bugs. Winamp worked just fine before SP1. I'm using the latest version 5.52.

The "unkillable task" problem has gotten pretty common with SP1. I have that also sometimes when installing applications just when the installer is supposed to starty copying. I think since SP1 I had to force the windows shutdown over 60% of the time because it would just sit there doing whatever forever during "shutting down...". It seems to be very critical when to do what with USB especially..

Sorry for the long post. I'm annoyed yet hopeful that there will be fixes soon...

Jo

=== Edited by JochenM @ 14 Mar 2008 2:04 PM UTC===
I've found out that this specific crash doesn't occur anymore if I disable ReadyBoost for that SD Card. I did not get any other WPD crashs as well..

Although turning off Readyboost cannot be a solution. Afterall people pay money for myths like that. So it should at least pretend to work properly
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Tuesday, December 01, 2009 6:41 PMZ.P.Karol

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I see the same thing with my Lenovo T61p laptop. It does not have a ReadyDrive, but I do use a 4GB high-speed SD card for ReadyBoost (the OS is Vista SP2 32bit). The problem I am seeing is that after the WPD driver crash my USB devices no longer work.

So far I found one workaround: remove, then insert back the SD card. This seems to fix the USB problem, although I see some error messages in the Windows log, complaining about transaction log flush failures from NTFS, so probably this is not a great solution. Still, better than no USB.
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