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Imaging a GX280 with USB key
Hello,
Several people in my IT department are trying to work on a way to boot a GX280 with a Cyclone USB key into Powerquest Drive image and have been unsuccessful.
We are ordering all of our PC's without floppy drives these days, since we were having such success with GX270's and GX260's in using the same USB keys to image PC's. It appears to be a problem with the GX280 USB ports, as it is the only model that this will not work on, even with the latest A03 BIOS installed. The machines will boot, connect to the network, then load Drive Image then hang, whether the software is loaded on the key or run over the network.
With each PC, we plug in a USB keyboard and a USB Cyclone key with DOS/network drivers to reach our server to install the image.
If anyone has any ideas, please let me know!
Hi Big_Jay and boblyn
I can only say that i have the same problem with my 3xGX280.. when i try to boot the Norton Ghost 2003 CD my external USB harddrive isnt registered, either USB1.1 or USB2.
I tried downloading Ultimate Boot CD where FreeDOS is on it.. its detécts the USB Controller but not the the USB hardrives.. so no luck there either. (freedos uses the Panasonic USB ASPI v2.20 driver which should support EHCI (USB2). but not the USB2 controller the GX280 system :(
if i find some workaround ill post it in the thread
PsyCrow
Message Edited by PsyCrow on 03-09-2005 05:25 AM
- I found out that with Ghost 8 Corp Edition that booting from the Ghost floppy drives without selecting any USB options in the floppy maker will boot Ghost so that it can see my USB drive.The USB drive is partitioned with a 250 gig FAT32 partition, and the Ghost drivers are only USB1.1 judging by the speed. Sometimes Ghost sees it as C: and sometimes as a logical drive with no letters "[]".Better than nothing I suppose. I'm still cheesed that Dell used a non-standard USB chipset, but thems the breaks I guess.Best of luck!
CrazyUkrainian
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Posted March 9th, 2005 12:00
The USBASPI.SYS PanasonicSupports UHCI/OHCI (USB 1.x) and EHCI (USB 2.0) and is compatible with many USB implementations from major chipset manufacturers like INTEL, VIA, NVIDIA, SiS, NEC and TI for integrated, onboard, PCI bus or CardBus USB 2.0 host controllerscheck it out:If u have IOMEGA external HD..this one works like a charmhttp://www.stefan2000.com/darkehorse/PC/DOS/Drivers/USB/iomega_usb_firewire_dos_driver_boot_disk.ZIPCrazyUkrainian
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Posted March 9th, 2005 12:00
thats why I put some extra links :smileyhappy:Duse 4.4 and 4.9 from http://www.stefan2000.com/darkehorse/PC/DOS/Drivers/USB does not work too !
Also ... I got problem with my cdtool made with cdshell. Workstation is booting but it's freezing when trying to emulate (diskemu) my bootdisk images.
CrazyUkrainian
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Posted March 30th, 2005 10:00
have u tried the latest NIC driver?
try ghost and see if u have the same problem.
I have had simillar problems with USB devices. I too have been tryin to use USB Keys to make images, but have had little luck. My problem with the GX280 involves using a USB2 DVD/RW. I have images on DVD and the GX280 will not recognize the USB Device. I was on the phone with Dell Gold Tech Support for 45mins today with no luck. They had no specific answer. I have used this device on my GX270 and it worked fine. SO it must be, as it has been said before, something different in the USB controller from the 260/270 and the 280.
Just a thought
Justin
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Posted February 10th, 2005 18:00
Message Edited by Big_Jay on 02-10-2005 02:22 PM