USB Loop back question

[pturcotte]

I was wondering is there any way I can pre-install USB loop backs onto a cloned hard drive? My issue is that we have a master hard drive that we clone our products from and I installed one loop back on to the master but when I started running my test procedure windows wanted to install the other loop backs like it had never seen a loop back before. Is there any way I can make it so that when a loop back is plugged in that windows would not need to install the drivers each time? This makes automating testing very hard. Thanks for your help.

Pierre

[Ian (PassMark)]

The USB 2.0 Loopback plugs each have unique serial numbers and this is used by BurnInTest to help with some types of error recovery. As such, you can't pre-install the device drivers.

In W2000 and Vista, the process should be fairly quick as the drivers are signed. In XP and 2003, it is a bit more manual.

Regards,
Ian