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jflynnde

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USB support for Plextor DVD Burner
Dec 27^th, 2005 at 7:56pm

Purchased a Plextor PX-716UF DVD burner so I could make bakeup images of my hard drive, but so far I've had no luck. I've tried using this so called universal USB driver (usbaspi.sys) on my bootable floppy but nothing I try will make the drive recognizable. [As an aside: I'm running a Dell Dimension 4550 with version 5.1 XP (SP1)]
Any suggestions?

Thanks in advance.

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Re: USB support for Plextor DVD Burner
Reply #1 - Dec 27^th, 2005 at 8:34pm

bmtfo

Using Ghost 2003 and booting to DOS?

Have you tried the *Standard Ghost Boot Disk* with USB 2.0 support--(assuming your system's USB controller is USB 2.0 as well as the optical writer)? Does the optical drive show up in the Ghost interface as a *destination* drive?

Yes, there are USB drivers for DOS...

Are you loading the DOS driver in *Config.sy* that mounts a USB optical drive?:

[config.sys]

(other lines)
devicehigh=USBCD.SYS /d:USBCD001

And loading the DOS driver in *Autoexec.bat* that assigns a driver letter to a mounted optical drive?:

[autoexec.bat]

(other lines)
LH MSCDEX /d:USBCD001

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Re: USB support for Plextor DVD Burner
Reply #2 - Dec 28^th, 2005 at 7:18pm

NightOwl,
I've tried making a *Standard Ghost Boot Disk* with the USB 2.0 support, but when I boot with it, Ghost only sees the floppy drive A and my built in CD; but not the attached USB Plextor DVD burner. I'm assuming that's what you meant by the first portion of your reply.

"Yes, there are USB drivers for DOS. . ."

I've also tried editing both autoexec.bat and config.sys by hand, setup as you described, and using the USBASPI.SYS driver; but I get nothing. During boot-up with that disk, I get the following displayed on the monitor:

Starting. . .
ASPI for UHCI/OHCI USB mass-storage Version 1.07
Copyright (C) 2001 NOVAC Co., LTD.
=======================================
=== Connect the target device to USB port. ===
=== Press [ENTER] to continue ===
=======================================

USBASPI : Target USB device not found.

DI1000 ASPI DISK Driver Ver 2.00
Copyright (C) 2001 NOVAC C0.,Ltd.

ASPI Manager not installed

USB CD-ROM Device Driver Version 1.00
(C) Copyright Panasonic Communications Co., Ltd. 2000-2003
ASPI Manager not installed.
CD-ROM Device Driver is not installed.

Iomega Guest Driver Version 8.5

Finding a drive letter for your Iomega drive. . .

No drive letters were added.
Microsoft (R) Mouse Driver Version 8.20
Copyright (C) Microsoft Corp. 1983-1992.
Copyright (C) IBM Corp. 1992-1993.
Mouse driver installed
Device Driver not found: 'USBCD001'.
No valid CDROM device drivers selected
A:\

Not much to go on, but that's the extent of my boot-up, using the edited disk.

Thanks.

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Re: USB support for Plextor DVD Burner
Reply #3 - Dec 28^th, 2005 at 7:57pm

bmtfo

Sure looks like the USB drive is not being detected--there are some more recent versions of the Panasonic DOS USB driver:

v2.06

, size=37,903, dated 11/26/2002

v2.15

, size=39,093, dated 10/26/2003

v2.20

, size=39,179, dated 11/07/2004

After clicking on the downloaded *.exe* file which extracts the enclosed files, you will find the *Usbaspi.sys* file in the *F2h* subdirectory.

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Re: USB support for Plextor DVD Burner
Reply #4 - Dec 29^th, 2005 at 4:26pm

NightOwl,
Success; the *usbaspi.sys* file from V2.20 did the trick. It's funny, the file I was using was newer then those - 8/24/05. I'm not sure where it came from (some guy from work gave it to me and we tried it there on several machine PC's and it worked OK). Anyway, thanks for your assistance; it was deeply appreciated.

bmtfo

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