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Posted by M.I.5¾ on March 19, 2008, 4:49 am
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> USB and Firewire, YES. BUT NOT PC CARDS (or USB Ports implemented via a
> PC Card)
>
I report what Acronis claim. I can report that Trueimage works perfectly on
my old laptop talking to a SATA disc drive via a Cardbus SATA interface
card. This is the Trueimage 11 bootable disc I'm talking about. I don't
know whether previous versions would work this way. Based on this, I don't
see why it wouldn't work with firewire or USB ports on Cardbus cards (and
possibly PCI-E interfaced Express Cards), but as I said, I don't have
examples to try. I do know that correspondence that I have had with Acronis
over previous compatibility problems suggests that they aspire to make it as
universally compatible as possible. On that occasion, the very next sub
release solved a compatibility problem with a mouse over bluetooth problem.
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> M.I.5¾ wrote:
>>> Re: "The latest bootable restore disks that Trueimage produces seem to
>>> work with all manner of USB and firewire interfaces. It should
>>> certainly work with a Cardbus USB2 interface."
>>>
>>> In general, WRONG.
>>>
>>> The problems isn't so much USB as Cardbus; if the USB ports were on the
>>> motherboard, it MIGHT work. But it is very unlikely that your software
>>> (TrueImage) will have a driver for the PC Card, and without that, the
>>> USB ports won't even be seen.
>>>
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>> It allegedly works with USB and firewire ports that are not on the
>> motherboard. It certainly works with USB and Firewire ports that are on
>> PCI or PCI-E cards (and thus it must have drivers for those). Knowing
>> how quickly Acronis respond to such issues, I would be very surprised
>> indeed if support for cardbus were missing.
>>
>>
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