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I recently picked up an almost new PIII 500, 192MB TP 240x. It came with WinXP Pro installed using NTSF.

I have an Adaptec SlimSCSI APA 1460A PC Card and a Seagate
DDS3 SCSI tape drive that works great for doing Ghost 2003 backups from my T20 with a floppy boot disk but I can't get it to work with the TP 240x.

The DOS drivers load but Ghost doesn't recognize the tape drive on the 240x.

The tape drive works well with both laptops in Windows (Win98SE on the
T20 and XP on the 240x).

Here's my Config.sys and Autoexec.bat files:

DEVICE=A:\HIMEM.SYS
DEVICE=A:\EMM386.EXE NOEMS X=D000-DFFF
DOS=HIGH,UMB
FILES=40
BUFFERS=5,0
DEVICE=A:\IBMDSS14.SYS
DEVICE=A:\IBMDOSCS.SYS
DEVICE=A:\ASPI2DOS.SYS
LASTDRIVE=Z

@ECHO OFF
PROMPT $p$g
SET PATH=A:\; A:\GHOST
CD\GHOST
GHOST.EXE

I've tried a number of different drivers and switches but haven't been able to get the drive to work in DOS on the 240x.

Any suggestions?

TIA, Chas.

Chas,

It appears that you haven't loaded the CardSoft drivers?!

http://www-306.ibm.com/pc/support/site. ... IGR-496LSQ

Regards,

James

Thanks,

The 240x needs the CardSoft drivers whereas the T20 doesn't ?

I thought that I had installed the CardSoft PCMCIA drivers on the 240x Win98 FAT32 system.

After re-reading the IBM CardSoft installation instructions 2 or 3 more times I figured out how to install them. IBM did a pi** poor job on the instructions plus the installation program was designed for a pure DOS environment!!!

The setup hosed Win98! I was getting Windows Protection Errors when I tried to boot up in Windows. It's a good thing that I still remember some DOS commands! BTW, I install Dosshell and Mouse on every system I build, saves lots of key strokes!

The CardSoft setup changed my Win98 Config.sys so that the system wouldn't boot into anything on the HDD.

Any way, I copied the CardSoft Config.sys to my boot floppy and restored my old Config.sys file on the HDD. The Boot Disk worked OK except that I had to change some parameters in Config.sys and add HIMEM.SYS and ASPI2DOS.SYS to the commands to get the Tape Drive recognized.

Here's the Config.sys from the Boot Floppy:

SET TEMP=C:\TEMP
SET TMP=C:\TEMP
DEVICE=HIMEM.SYS /TESTMEM:OFF
DEVICE=EMM386.EXE NOEMS X=D000-DFFF
REM CardSoft(TM) 5.32 PCMCIA DRIVERS
DEVICE=C:\CARDSOFT\CARDXTND.SYS
DEVICE=C:\CARDSOFT\SSCBTI.SYS /numada:1 /ada1skts:1
DEVICE=C:\CARDSOFT\CS.SYS
DEVICEHIGH=C:\CARDSOFT\CSALLOC.EXE
DEVICEHIGH=C:\CARDSOFT\ATADRV.EXE
DEVICEHIGH=C:\CARDSOFT\MTSRAM.EXE
DEVICEHIGH=C:\CARDSOFT\MTDDRV.EXE
DEVICE=C:\CARDSOFT\CARDID.SYS
INSTALL=C:\CARDSOFT\CS_APM.EXE
DEVICE=A:\ASPI2DOS.SYS

Do I need to load all of these drivers?

I copied the CARDSOFT folder from the Win98 FAT32 HDD to the WinXP NTSF HDD on the second 240x.

It boots up with the Floppy but I get an error message when INSTALL=C:\CARDSOFT\CS_APM.EXE comes up. CS-APM.EXE doesn't load and Ghost doesn't recognize the Tape Drive.

It's probably because of the NTSF drive. I guess a solution would be to create a small FAT 16 partition on the drive and run CardSoft from there.

I have Partition Magic 6.0 and I don't know whether it supports WinXP or not. This is getting to be too much work just to Ghost a drive so that I have a backup of XP! I'm probably going to dump it for Win2k anyway - too much eye candy or as they say in Texas - All hat and no cattle!

Chas.