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Originally posted by andrewas:
I'm not up on the exact specifics, but what I do remember of the USB specifcations seems pretty much locked to one computer on the bus. Your USB drive would expect to be given only one Device ID, wouldn't be able to deal with simultaneous requests from more than one machine, and from what I remember the root hub on your motherboard is locked to device ID 0, so if there was another root hub on the same network it would conflict.
In theory it would be possible to build a drive with multiple USB interfaces, but it would be expensive and highly specialised, I dont think anyone has built one of those. The idea dosent scale very well either, so I doubt it will happen.
You might be able to build/buy a USB data switch that would let you switch the drive between computers (maybe even remotely if you work at it) but I've never seen one.
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Thanks bud! I just found some documentation on how USB works. You're right, only one PC at a time. That messes up the whole efficiency idea for me. At least until I know why Ghost is giving me problems. I'll be attmepting it again soon with some old PC's that need to be wiped for donation. I'll be using a laptop and a hub to create a peer to peer network. The old machines don't have either USB ports, or CD-ROM's. So if I can't get the network booting to work, it will be a long time wiping the machines one by one! Hopefully, the new gigabit cards are causing the issue and it will work on the older machines.
I'm still interested in any ideas about Ghost. Anybody?