I carefully followed the instructions to build a radified ghost 2003 boot cd.   It works but as many people have discovered when you try to save an image to an external usb device it takes forever.   21 hours for 60gigs.  I assume it was only using usb 1.
I hopes of solving that issue I temporarily installed a floppy drive and started ghosts boot wizard.  I made sure to select usb 2 support.  When it was done I have a bootable floppy...not exactly what I wanted.    I then used roxio easy cd creator to make a bootable cd from a floppy.   So it made the image from the floppy that ghost created.

The good part is that instead of taking 21 hours it only took 1.5 hours to ghost the drive this time.  But....I had all sorts of aspi errors on booting the disk...it said no drives recognized and I had to select abort.....yet it dumped me into dos ghost and it appeared to work...except no mouse support.  Any suggestions how I can get the best of both disks?  I tried copying some of the usb lines from the ghost created config.sys to the radified one but I ended up with a non bootable disk.

Sorry I thought your nightowl ghost cd was called a ratified cd.  In any case your instructions are excellent.  I hope you do complete the other projects.   Adding usb support to the disk seems pretty simple.....just add a few lines in the config.sys.   Awesome.

Well I followed your directions and I can see my external usb drive (ntfs) but I am stuck in usb 1 speed.....just like the first disk I made using your step by step instructions.

Here is my config.sys

Device=usbaspi.sys /e /v 
Device=di1000dd.sys
device=oakcdrom.sys /d:nightowl
lastdrive=z 

Here is my autoexec.bat

path=a:\;x:\
mouse.com
mscdex.exe /d:nightowl /l:x /m:16 /v
ghost.exe

I made sure I injected the two usb files
usbaspi.sys /e /v 
di1000dd.sys

I did select the 2.6 meg floppy option.

Any idea why I am stuck in usb 1?   What about using the panasonic drivers mentioned in the usb support thread?

NightOwl thanks for taking the time to figure this out.   I appreciate it.

I tried booting cd on my laptop and it loads with no error messages.   All of the devices load properly.   A quick test in ghost confirmed usb 2 speeds.    Odd that it worked as this is an hp notebook that won't boot from my bootable usb key.   The key appears in the bios under the hdd section.  It also has my laptop hard drive listed.   The notebook hdd appears first on the list and there is no way to change the order so I disabled the drive.....rebooted and it attempted to boot from the key but kicked out an error message that I couldn't read. 

On my desktop which was the original computer I was trying to get working with the ghost boot cd.....the bios looks similar but allows me to change the order of the usb key and the internal hard drive.  This computer boots from t he usb key.   I then plugged in my hsb hard drive and moved it to the top of the hdd list in the bios boot priority screen.  I fugured that would force loading the usb controller....   When I did a f8 step by step confirmation upon booting the ghost boot cd it rejects usbaspi.sys.....says  error: ehci memory mapped io can not be assigned.    Also   error: pci uhci/ohci/ehci host controller not found.    When it ries to load device Di1000dd.sys   it says aspi manager not installed.    
This time in testing the ghost boot cd I get a minor improvement in usb speed from 60meg per minute to 95 megs.    The only difference between the two is that in second one I gave the usb drive first boot priority after the cd rom drive.

The fact that the disk works for the notebook is great.  I had hopes of using this disk in several computers so I would still like to resolve this issue.   I assume the desktop usb controller doesn't like these usb drivers. 

Thoughts?   Should I give up and try your suggestion of using the image from the ghost boot wizard with your suggested modifications. 

Finally one last question.   I notice my ghost image were broken into 2 gig files.  Why?  The 60gig image was going on the usb drive that is formated in ntfs.   Isn't 2 gigs an indication of fat16?
    

newz54

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nbree is our frequent contributor who happens to be part of the software engineering team that develops the DOS version of Classical Ghost--he offers interesting insight into the design and creation of the Ghost software.

2 GB has been the classic DOS file size limitation that Ghost was originally designed to adhere to.  Recent DOS Ghost from the corporate versions (Ghost Solution Suite--i.e. GSS), does have the ability to be larger than 2 GB.

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Well, that confirms my *guess*, your BIOS has built-in USB support.  This can lead to software/hardware conflicts if you then try to load an additional DOS USB HDD driver because now you have two different software programs competing for the same hardware--be it system RAM to load and run the driver, or the USB HDD's circuitry itself!

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Changing the boot order in the BIOS probably will not help with DOS driver software/hardware conflicts.

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Probably not so much that the USB controller doesn't like the USB DOS drivers, but the conflict of having two drivers loaded at the same time.

There have been a few other posters to this form with similar issues--you might be able to disable the BIOS built-in USB support for the time while you are using Ghost in DOS--and then re-enabling it when done--but it has been reported by some that the BIOS disables the whole USB controller, not just the DOS software support.  So, then you can not access the USB controller through the DOS USB HDD drivers that you are loading with the Ghost boot CD.  You will have to look around in the BIOS to see what options are available to you.