OK, I shamed myself into it.............Now, I feel like a parent that's just done his kids homework for him.

I decided to verify my hypothesis, from my last post.
I broke out my two external hard drives....
# one a 40 gig laptop drive in an unpowered "AirLink 101" external enclosure and....
# two, a 40 gig IDE Desktop drive in a Powered "AirLink 101" External Enclosure.

I've used both drives for backups in the past so I was sure that they both worked OK.

I first tried the laptop drive in a PCI-USB card port and Ghost 2003 never even saw it.  I then plugged it into a motherboard USB port and Ghost saw it and wrote to it with NO problems and NO special drivers or switches being used.  (I never use them)

Then, I did a similar test using the desktop drive in a Powered External Enclosure and got the same results.  It DID NOT work from the PCI-USB port and worked just fine from the motherboard USB port.

I did notice a huge speed difference between the two drives.
The laptop drive was accepting data at about 25MB/min and the desktop drive started off at 80MB/min and dropped some as the backup proceeded.

I hope this will help someone who's been trying to get Ghost to backup to a USB External HD, using a PCI-USB add-on card. (Forgetaboutit!!! )
Those cards have to be Driven by Windows and are virtually dead to DOS.

There, homework done!  I hope I get a good grade.
An Apple for the teacher?

Cheers Mates and Happy Computing!
The Old Shadow