Post by El_Pescador on May 15th, 2005 at 12:02am
Well, I have turned up another USB 2.0 device controller that requires NightOwl's Universal Panasonic USB Driver to be able to function in Norton Ghost 2003. The PPA Metal Gear Box Model 2179780SAU2 combo USB 2.0/SATA external HDD enclosure kit has 'USB\Vid_067b&Pid_2507...' as Hardware Id in Device Manager. Be advised that only IDE/ATA HDDs will work in this unique device - SATA HDDs will not fit.
In the USB 2.0 mode, Ghost 2003 was totally dysfunctional in PC-DOS using the Norton/Iomega USB drivers. With the Panasonic drivers, the Western Digital IDE drive was functional only in the FAT32 file system format - and just barely so with the Intel onboard USB host controllers (see table below).
Switching to SATA mode was a totally different story for the combo enclosure kit. As evident in the table, the IDE-to-SATA conversion was just a couple of minutes slower than a native SATA NCQ HDD mounted in a conventional SATA enclosure for comparison purposes when both were tested in sequence while connected to the same SATA port on the systemboard.
Regrettably, it turned out later that Norton Ghost 2003 operations are subtly corrupted when running in the SATA mode, but not in the USB 2.0 mode.
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In the USB 2.0 mode, Ghost 2003 was totally dysfunctional in PC-DOS using the Norton/Iomega USB drivers. With the Panasonic drivers, the Western Digital IDE drive was functional only in the FAT32 file system format - and just barely so with the Intel onboard USB host controllers (see table below).
Switching to SATA mode was a totally different story for the combo enclosure kit. As evident in the table, the IDE-to-SATA conversion was just a couple of minutes slower than a native SATA NCQ HDD mounted in a conventional SATA enclosure for comparison purposes when both were tested in sequence while connected to the same SATA port on the systemboard.
Regrettably, it turned out later that Norton Ghost 2003 operations are subtly corrupted when running in the SATA mode, but not in the USB 2.0 mode.
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