Hi
I run events that need a local site available on a number of laptops for customers to use on site. I have a server running the site, and varying amount of laptops for viewing, mostly around 10. XAMPP is fully stable and never causes issues other than the following. It is to view images that are displaying within the site, and the server PC spends its entire day transferring media from storage cards, into the relevant places to be made available for viewing.
A few months ago, I thought my card reader had finally given in, when every time I plugged it in, I received a HTTPD: No Disk error. XAMPP would freeze and laptops would immediately stop, meaning all customers were unable to continue. Removing the USB card reader meant that clicking cancel on the error prompt would make it go away, and XAMPP would immediately work again. Very weird problem. By chance, I replaced both the PC and the card reader and so just totally ignored and forgot about the problem, and put it down to a freak thing, and blamed the old card reader.
It has now happened again, with a new card reader, a new PC, and a fresh copy of XAMPP. Every time I plug in this card reader, the whole thing just stops, displaying the HTTPD: No Disk error. I have a decent understanding of everything involved here, in terms of how XAMPP runs, Apache, SQL and the site I have created and run, but cannot find ANYTHING relevant for how to solve this. Searching brings up a ton of results relevant to Portable versions of XAMPP on a USB but just nothing for XAMPP/Drive Mapping/USB issues.
Why would XAMPP suddenly "fall out" with one particular USB device and halt every time it is connected to the host PC, and how do I solve this? It worked flawlessly for months, including Day 1 of an event, and when we switched everything on Day 2, this weird error appeared.
Any ideas at all? Thanks in advance!