On Mon, 6 Feb 2006 22:27:21 -0500, Paul A. Pennington wrote:
> Anthony;
>
>> One serious problem I have with both is that they can not restore from
>> certain of my USB drives even though the computer's BIOS sees them
>> fine and even offers them as optional boot devices.
>
> I ran into that problem as well with my external USB2 hard drive
> connected through a PC (AKA PCMCIA) card USB2 port.
>
> I solved it by buying the "big" docking station for my A31. These have
> one PCI card slot available, and I mounted one with 4 USB2 ports. Works
> fine now. I got the dock (Model 2631) for $25.99 including shipping on
> eBay. The USB2 PCI card was about $20 locally.
Thanks for the information. My problem is with some X40s and using the
USB on the X4 docking station does not help. Also using powered USB hubs
do not help. I now travel with a second drive adapter, so if I need to
recover I can always pull the 2.5" drive out of the USB adapter and mount
it as a second IDE drive and have DI restore that way.
I don't understand the source of the problem but is has something to do
with certain USB interfaces. If I perform a backup to certain external
drives, it will not verify correctly. But if I then move the DI image
file which just failed to verify over onto one of the more compatible
drives the same image file verifies okay and can also be restored.
The problems seem to come with any 1.8" or 2.5" USB enclosures using full
size Type A USB sockets, such as enclosures made by Sabrent. I recall no
problems with any enclosure using mini-USB sockets.
Any suggestions welcomed.
Tony
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