kollo

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You need Ghost 2003 build .793 to use SATA and -FNI, here's how.

SATA HDD's and Ghost!

Re: Bootable cd without floppy

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Kollo,

I have a Dell 9150 desktop with a Lacie PCI Express card (Silicon Image Sil3132 chipset). BIOS Base 7405. Drivers 1.0.22.0

Ghost 2003 sees the eSATA HD and I can write images to the HD.

No switches were used.

Windows drivers.

http://www.siimage.com/support/supportsearchresults.aspx?pid=32&cid=3&ctid=2&osi...;

TheShadow:
Thank you for the information. Do you know what type of controller was on your PCI SATA controller card? Silicon Image, JMicron or something else?

I actually went by the local electronics store today and picked up a JMicron JMB360 based ExpressCard SATA card. I got a money-back-guarantee if it wouldn't work so I thought let's give it a try. It didn't work. A disk connected to this card wasn't visible to Ghost 2003 at all.

I have a JMicron based controller in my desktop computer and it works with Ghost but that controller is also visible in BIOS and that is a different thing than using an ExpressCard card. It could also be that the ExpressCard card only had one SATA port and no Option Rom visible at boot time.

I will return the card and probably get a Sil3132 based card instead. Or I will use the built-in E-SATA controller in my laptop and hope the SATA AHCI DVD drive problems get solved.

Kollo

I have now tried three different ExpressCard E-SATA cards and none of them worked with Ghost 2003. So either the cards are not compatible with Ghost 2003 or my laptop (Dell Latitude E6400) doesn't support ExpressCard E-SATA cards in BIOS/DOS mode.

Actually I think it is the laptop that is the problem. The last card I tried is an ExpressCard RAID card that should display an Option ROM page at boot time but nothing is displayed. I think this could be because the computer is not initializing ExpressCard devices at boot time. As soon as Windows starts loading the LED on the card is lit and I guess the card is not initialized until then.

Before giving up on this I just want to ask if there is any chance of finding an ExpressCard E-SATA DOS driver that will initialize the card for use in Ghost?

Otherwise I will use the Panasonic USB 2.0 driver. Thankfully this driver works with the USB controller in my computer and it also has decent speed. The USB 2.0 driver supplied with Ghost 2003 doesn't work.

For reference, these are the ExpressCard E-SATA cards I have tried that didn't work in DOS on Dell Latitude E6400:

Sunix ECSA14. Chipset: JMicron JMB360 in non-RAID mode.
Sunix ECSA24. Chipset: Sil3132 in non-RAID mode.
AVLAB 1005-0030-000AX. Chipset: Sil3132 in RAID mode.

/Kollo

Well, I haven't tried to put a PCI card in my laptop. That would be difficult to fit in.

The E-SATA cards I have tried are of ExpressCard type. See http://www.expresscard.org/ for more information. ExpressCard is like a PCMCIA card connected to the PCI-Express bus of the laptop while an old PCMCIA/Card Bus card is connected to the PCI bus.

A few laptop models have docking stations where you can fit an PCI or PCI-Express Card but that is another story.

Kollo

Ok, but I have written that I will try out an ExpressCard E-SATA card in almost every post in this thread. I hope I haven't wasted too much of your valuable time. I think the information in this thread can be of great use for people that want to know what kind of SATA cards will work with Ghost 2003.

That I left out the word ExpressCard in the first post was intentional, since I wanted to know if people had got any type of plug-in SATA card working with Ghost. I figured that very few people had tried ExpressCard and would answer. So first I wanted to know if there was any chance at all getting a SATA plug-in card to work. If that wouldn't work there would probably be no chance of getting an ExpressCard SATA card to work either.

Once again I am sorry if I wasn't specific enough in my question.

Kollo