Thanks a lot for responding to this. I agree with you it is better to put the drive in another system. Can you recommend an SCSI card that is likely to work? A cheap one I mean.
Thanks a lot! Bob On 06/18/2009 09:37 PM, Gary Verhulp wrote: > can you put the drive in another system? > > get a cheap SCSI card and throw it in a new system. > > Maybe that will help? > > ext Robert L Cochran wrote: > >> I'm still trying to clone a Seagate ST34573W (Barracuda 9LP family) SCSI >> hard drive, and finding it tough to do. It is no fault of G4U. The drive >> is installed on an Asus P2B motherboard with a Pentium II processor, and >> it has an SCSI CD drive. The CD drive tray is broken; it won't eject or >> retract, and I must use a paper-clip-in-the-hole to get it to eject. I >> am uncertain if the drive can spin a CD and read it. The floppy drive >> might work, I'm not sure. The SCSI controller is a DPT PM2144UW which is >> apparently this thing: >> >> http://www.adaptec.com/en-US/support/_eol/dpt_raid/PM2144UW/ >> >> ...and I don't know how to configure that controller so that the CD >> drive, broken as it is, will be the first device to boot from. I've >> forgotten all my SCSI -- not that I knew much to start with. >> >> The final problem is, the BIOS setup menus are all password protected. >> No one knows what the BIOS password is. I'm afraid to follow the Asus >> instructions for clearing the password away. Doing so will clear not >> merely the BIOS password but all the CMOS settings, too. And I might >> need those settings left intact; I don't know what they are. >> >> To get the drive cloned, it looks like my best bet will be to boot from >> g4u floppy images. This assumes that the floppy drive will work. My >> question is, do the floppy images of G4U provide the same functionality >> as booting from the iso version? >> >> Thanks! >> >> Bob Cochran >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> Crystal Reports - New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial >> Check out the new simplified licensing option that enables unlimited >> royalty-free distribution of the report engine for externally facing >> server and web deployment. >> http://p.sf.net/sfu/businessobjects >> _______________________________________________ >> g4u-help mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/g4u-help >> >> Scanned by Check Point Total Security Gateway. >> >> > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Crystal Reports - New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial Check out the new simplified licensing option that enables unlimited royalty-free distribution of the report engine for externally facing server and web deployment. http://p.sf.net/sfu/businessobjects _______________________________________________ g4u-help mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/g4u-help
