Hi,

I've been following several of the postings on how to get USBASPI to work with externally-connected hard-disks, and so far I've only had partial success.

The object of the exercise is to get Norton Ghost working using USB 2.0 for high-performance. I've got it working when I specify the /o switch (for OHCI), but this only provides around 60Mb/min data rate. Since my computer is supposed to have USB 2.0 support I'd like to use EHCI instead...

Unfortunatley when I reboot using the following CONFIG.SYS

DEVICE=USBASPI.SYS /v /e
DEVICE=DI1000DD.SYS

...the system just hangs at the following:

ASPI Manager for USB mass-storage Version 2.06
(C)Copyright Panasonic Communications Co,. Ltd. 2000-2003

Controller : 02-14-2 VID=1033h PID=00E0h (0E11h-004Ah) EHCI
: MEM=80300000h-803000FFh(256Bytes)
USB Device : HOST [02-14-2 VID=1033h PID=00E0h (0E11h-004Ah)
EHCI
... Scanning USB Devices ...

It never gets any further - I've tried just about every comination possible, including the /nocbc, /norst, /noprt and /slow switches, as well as using MSDOS (rather than PCDOC), and HIMEM (with and without EMM386).

So far no joy - the computer is a Compaq Evo N800v laptop with USB Legacy Support disabled in the BIOS.

Any suggestions would be very welcome...

Many thanks,
Duncan Sommerville.

Try enabling Legacy support in BIOS.

The latest version of Ghost is "suppossed" to include USB 2.x compatibility on the boot diskette set which is created.

Try a different USBASPI:
www.mwpms.uklinux.net/usbfire.txt
or the Dat USB/FireWire boot disk!!

OK, I tried enabling USB Legacy Support, but that doesn't work at all - it simply hangs on boot-up (doesn't even reach CONFIG.SYS etc). I can only reboot after disconnecting the device.

So far I've tried the following drivers:

Panasonic (2.06)
MediaLogic (2.01)
DUSE from Cypress (1.44)

DUSE just hangs like the Panasonic one, but the MediaLogic one looks quite promising and doesn't hang - instead I get the following:

ASPI Manager for USB mass-storage Version 2.01
Copyright (C) 2000-2002 Medialogic Corp. All rights reserved.

02-14-0 VID=1033h PID=0035h (0E11h-004Ah) OHCI
MEM=80200000h-802000FFFh(4KBytes)
02-14-1 VID=1033h PID=0035h (0E11h-004Ah) OHCI
MEM=80280000h-802800FFFh(4KBytes)
02-14-2 VID=1033h PID=00E0h (0E11h-004Ah) EHCI
MEM=80300000h-803000FFh(256Bytes)

HOST [02-14-0 VID=1033h PID=0035h (0E11h-004Ah)
EHCI]
^-- nothing
HOST [02-14-1 VID=1033h PID=0035h (0E11h-004Ah)
EHCI]
|-- VID=05E3h PID=0702h FS
^-- nothing
HOST [02-14-2 VID=1033h PID=00E0h (0E11h-004Ah)
EHCI]
^-- nothing

Where can I look-up the various VID and PID values?

Any more ideas, comments or suggestions?

Many thanks,
Duncan Sommerville.

I got kind of a problem. I'm able start Ghost, but my machine always hangs before Ghost completes. The following is what my config.sys looks like:

DEVICE=A:\HIMEM.SYS /TESTMEM:OFF
DOS=HIGH,UMB
FILES=60
BUFFERS=30
STACK=9,256
lastdrive=Z
DEVICE=A:\USBASPI.SYS /v /w /o
DEVICE=A:\DI1000DD.SYS

I'm using Ghost 7.5 to clone a hard drive from an external USB2 hard drive. I seemed to be getting around 700 MB/min transfer rate, but it always bomb out seconds after cloning started. Once it was transferring at about 450MB/min and it bombed out around 98% of the cloning process. Have you seen this before and do you have any ideas? I'm using Panasonic's USBASPI.SYS.

USBASPI 2.01 is actually problematic. I'm able to see my 128MB USB Flash Disk under pure MS-DOS 7.10 after using USBASPI 2.06 + DI1000DD, but not USBASPI 1.01/2.01 + DI1000DD.