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USB 2.0 in DOS using USBASPI

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Name: Duncan Sommerville
Date: October 30, 2003 at 09:39:52 Pacific
OS: Windows XP Pro
CPU/Ram: P(IV) 256Mb
Comment:

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.



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Response Number 1
Name: x86
Date: October 30, 2003 at 10:55:39 Pacific
Reply:

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!!


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Response Number 2
Name: Duncan Sommerville
Date: October 30, 2003 at 12:14:06 Pacific
Reply:

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.


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Response Number 3
Name: carnage_thanos
Date: October 30, 2003 at 13:07:38 Pacific
Reply:

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.


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Response Number 4
Name: Wengier
Date: October 31, 2003 at 18:37:30 Pacific
Reply:

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.


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