Hello,
     On creating the Ghost 2003 boot floppy, we have the option: SCSI CD/DVD Include Adaptec ASPI drivers. I would like to know what "exactly" this means. I always tick this option as I thought that it puts on CD/DVD drivers and that these become necessary if I have to create an image to a CD/DVD directly in Ghost and the same for the cloning process from CDs/DVDs.


However, when booting my laptop with the above option selected I get some error messages but eventually Ghost blue screen gets loaded. The error messages concerned the ASPI drivers (and others I guess) are as follows in the order:

Host adapter at port address 340 failed diagnostics
Host adapter at port address 140 failed diagnostics

Unable to find any AIC-78XX/AIC-75XX

ASPI2DOS.SYS Installation failed


ASPI8DOS.SYS Installation failed


ASPI4DOS.SYS Installation failed



However, despite those above errors, I never failed to write an image directly to a DVD in Ghost and cloning back after making the (first) DVD bootable within Ghost itself. So if these above "ASPI" fail to load, then I assume that they are not needed for CD/DVDs as I always thought.



With Ghost 2002, I used to get lots of errors (on a different machine that I had earlier) before Ghost 2002 loads but I wasn't paying attention as a friend who introduced me to Ghost identified these errors (which I don't recall) as "non-real". So I was tuned to accept error messages before Ghost loads up as being "normal".


Coming to the point, my question is when does checking the option "SCSI CD/DVD Include ASPI drivers" when creating a Ghost boot floppy beacomes necessary?



PS: Talking about making a DVD bootable within Ghost just make me think of another somewhat silly question. Ghost asks you if you wish to make a DVD bootable and what I do is to just use my "Ghost boot floppy" itself and the files therein are copied to the DVD to make it bootable. Maybe a system disk created with Windows would work fine. I just would like to know if what I'm doing is good/recommended practice.


Thanks for your comments....

Thanks for the prompt answer. So I'll unchecked this option and make a new Ghost boot floppy. I tried once and there was no error messages when Ghost boots up. I'll just try to write an image to a DVD in the future and see if everything works fine.

Maybe you missed my last paragraph (and it's not a related question to ASPI), but is creating a bootable DVD with the files from the Ghost boot floppy good practice? I do it this way because I know if I can boot to Ghost (2003) using the files on the Ghost floppy, then I shall be able to do the same if the same files are on the CD or a DVD containing a ghost image.

Thanks...