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
>>
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