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August 2nd, 2006 17:00
Optiplex GX520 Slow Image Using USB Hard Drive
Hello,
I am blowing an image to our Optiplex GX520 using Ghost Enterprise 7.5 and the source is a portable USB hard drive. As the image process is started, its moving at 1000MB/min transfer and quickly decreases to 350-375MB/min. I tried this on multiple GX520 and yields the same results.
I thought maybe its the USB hard drive that is slow so I took this USB hard drive and re-image a GX280, GX270, Latitude D510 but I get at least 750MB/min transfers. This test concludes that its not the USB hard drive and I am pointing at the GX520. Possibly a USB problem on the GX520? Any advise/suggestions is greatly appreciated.
-davong
I am blowing an image to our Optiplex GX520 using Ghost Enterprise 7.5 and the source is a portable USB hard drive. As the image process is started, its moving at 1000MB/min transfer and quickly decreases to 350-375MB/min. I tried this on multiple GX520 and yields the same results.
I thought maybe its the USB hard drive that is slow so I took this USB hard drive and re-image a GX280, GX270, Latitude D510 but I get at least 750MB/min transfers. This test concludes that its not the USB hard drive and I am pointing at the GX520. Possibly a USB problem on the GX520? Any advise/suggestions is greatly appreciated.
-davong
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davong
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August 4th, 2006 16:00
Hello,
You can use any Ghost boot diskette. It doesn't matter if it has network support or not and because your source is from a USB (local), all you really want is to get into Ghost. When you make the Ghost diskette, use the "-fni" parameter. Here is the autoexec.bat file. Goodluck.
-davong
@echo off
MOUSE.COM
CD GHOST
echo Loading...
GHOST.EXE -fni
ITDepartment
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August 4th, 2006 16:00
Hello there,
I don't have an answer for you, but wondering if you would be willing to share your boot information. We just received our first GX520s and we like to build one then make images to our external USB drive. We are having trouble with the boot floppy we normally use, hanging after it recognizes the drive.
Hoping you might share some of your knowledge since it sound liek you have gotten past that point and are actually creating images. I'll then let you know my speed results if I can get it to run.
THANKS!
brian
ITDepartment
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August 4th, 2006 17:00