"Parallel" Cables

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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)!
 
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
 
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.
 
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
 
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