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Meanwhile, if the prospect of inexpensive and fast SCSI system solutions is attractive to you, I have some further suggestions for an optimal disk configuration based on purchasing used drives and controllers taken out of commercial service.ДЇor example, if you're setting up Windows XP Pro, the 'sweet spot' is U160 type, 10K and 15K RPM drives with a 2940, or even better, a used 29160 controller. Hopefully, I'll investigate your solution in the next several days. Some system BIOS's have 'shortcut' buttons to select the boot device that may allow you to boot to a CD before the card can detect the drives. Just make sure the SCSI card initializes during the boot before the recovery disk. I'm not sure but I think it was the AIC78U2.INF file that did it.

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I loaded those drivers and the SCSI drive appeared and I was able to access the CD I had in there without any problems. I booted the system from another drive with my Ghost 15 recovery disk and it did not recognize the SCSI. I found my can of compressed air and blew out my SCSI Plextor drive.

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I actually have a couple more 2930 or 2940 cards sitting on my shelf here because before the days of flash drives I used to have SCSI Zip and Jazz drives in my systems for backups and transfering data beween work and home. Picking up a used one is an interesting idea.

I never got a chance to have a real good one before because they were so expensive at the time. Thanks for the information on SCSI drives. Unfortunately, as a newbie, I'm not aware of any FAQ resources that may have already addressed these issues with SCSI and Norton Ghost. It's not just a question of old 2939/2940 Adaptec controllers.

So a solution to this problem with Norton Ghost may be useful to many people. The problems are the slow and complicated procedure, the media cost and availabilty, and the lack of non-volatile options such as a permanently burned DVD. I have used SCSI attached 4mm DAT tape back up until this time. In fact, one can configure systems with mediocre microprocessors and SCSI drives that, for many application environments, outperform those with high performance or multiple core CPU's and large main memories that use ATA disk drives. They only address channel contention which is NOT an issue on PC's.

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What's interesting about the SCSI single channel disk controllers and these high rotational rate SCSI disk drives is that they address the main but hidden issues of PC performance, disk access time and head contentention. Furthermore, the single channel SCSI controllers (e.g., 2910) can be inexpensively obtained also. Why? Because as commercial grade servers are upgraded, their high rotational rate (15K RPM) SCSI drives are being resold at bargain prices on Ebay and elsewhere. Furthermore they are well supported as the performance (non-RAID) system disk controllers in the Windows and Linux environments.ДЄs a result, opportunities to build inexpensive, high performance systems are becoming more available to end users. The Adaptec 2930/2940 are old disk controllers but they and their successors (2910) have been industry standards for high performance for many years. Reflecting on your last post, Iet me submit a bigger motivation to decisively solve this problem for ourselves and others.