First post, by feipoa
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I have this Adaptec AHA-2842A VLB SCSI card in a 486. I ran out of HDD's during the build, so I used an Ultra320 , 146 GB drive and made two 4 GB partitions. Well, now I want my 146 U320 HDD back for a new build. I have a noisy 73 GB u320 drive I'd like to clone the data onto. When I hook both HDD's up to the AHA-2842A and load Norton Ghost 2003 from a bootable diskette, it doesn't seem to have the proper SCSI drivers. The VLB 2842A uses ASPI7.DOS or something like that, which wasn't very common and was probably omitted from something so new as Ghost 2003, although Ghost does have the drivers for the AHA-1540, which was very common.
I pulled the two drives out and put them into a Tualatin Ultra320 system I have, ran Ghost a bootable diskette, cloned, then put the cloned HDD back into the 486, but it won't boot Win95. Missing operating system. This probably has something to do with how the SCSI host adapter in the Tualatin system uses a different translation scheme compared to the AHA-2842A. So how do I clone these drives? Seems to me that the best (only?) way to do this properly is the clone the HDD's from within the 486 containing the AHA-2842A.
Anyone know what software will do this? Is there a version of Clonezilla which still contains old VLB drives for the AHA-2842A?
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