"Parallel" Cables

[Patrick]

Anyone know if a "RS232 (Parallel) Cable, with 25pins male
sockets on both ends" is compatible with Ghost 2002 (using
the LPT transfer mode). I need to use Ghost to savage
data on a Windows 2000 partition on a borken hard disk.

i.e. Is that the same as a "standard LPT cable" as quoted
from
<http://service1.symantec.com/SUPPORT/ghost.nsf/docid/20001
21911064025?
Open&src=&docid=1999051310014225&nsf=ghost.nsf&view=docid&d
type=&prod=&ver=&osv=&osv_lvl=>

I need to use that because CDRW drive doesn't seem to be
working, and I don't have a home network or a spare
desktop either (i only have a spare laptop)!

 

[David H. Lipman]

An RS232 cable is NOT a parallel cable, don't confuse them !
RS-232 is a Serial cable standard and there are several variations of the
pinouts of this standard.

Symantec SPECIFICALLY states Parallel Technologies universal DirectParallel
cable, http://www.lpt.com.
Since I got this straight out of the Ghost Enterprise v7.0 manual - RTFB !

Generaly speaking don't even waste you time using Ghost with Parallel !

Use a NIC in each PC and a hub or better yet, an Ethernet switch. If you are
using direct PC to PC, then use a RJ45 cross-over cable.

You can also use USB which is faster than parallel.
Buslink USB to USB cable, model UFT06
USB LinQ Network
EzLink USB Instant network, model 2710

Dave

 

[David H. Lipman]

Ghost does NOT support Serial cables !

Dave

 

[Guest]

Perhaps Ghost doesn't DIRECTLY support Serial cables - but you can make a
connection to another machine via a Serial cable (using software other than
Ghost) and then Ghost (or many other programs) can use that connection to
transfer data (to an image file, anyway - perhaps not disk-to-disk). It is
probably too slow to actually want to do this unless you have absolutely no
other way, though. Similarly, Ghost does not "directly" support ZIP drives -
but if you load the correct driver in DOS, it can write image files to one
(again, speed and size limitations come into play). Generally, if you can
copy a file to somewhere in DOS, then Ghost should be able to write files to
that place, too.

|Ghost does NOT support Serial cables !
|
|Dave
|
||> You can connect between COM ports via an RS232 null-modem (TX and RX
| crossed)
|> cable, but it will be faster is you use a parallel cable between the LPT
|> (printer) ports.

 

[David H. Lipman]

While your analogy is correct for a ZIP drive which is "media", it is incorrect
for an "interface"such as serial.

None of the versions of Ghost work in a RS-232 fashion (yeah I know USB is a
serial interface but..) and what you describe requires a high level interface
that is available under Windows when this needs to be performed via a Ghost Boot
Disk on both platforms. That's at a DOS level. The DOS 'MODE' command just
doesn't do this.

The OP did state Ghost, not Laplink, etc.

If you go to;
ftp://ftp.symantec.com/public/english_us_canada/products/ghost/manuals/

you'll find the various versions of Ghost respective manuals posted in PDF
format.

Dave