Mail Archives: opendos/2007/07/10/21:31:18
If you have the software that came along with a zip disk, all of the
drivers are on that disk. For dos users, the iomega/english subdirectory
will be useful.
On Thu, 7 Jun 2007, da Silva, Joe wrote:
> Hi folks.
>
> Just an update ...
>
> Since I posted about this, I have learnt that USB flash
> drives may be formatted in two ways :
>
> 1) Like a floppy disk ("removable" media), with just a
> boot sector at LBA=0.
> 2) Like a hard drive, with a partition table at LBA=0
> and a separate boot sector at LBA>0.
>
> I have also learnt that the only driver combination that
> would work for me (Panasonic's usbaspi 2.20 + DatOptic's
> nj32disk 1.06), only seems to recognize #1.
>
> All other driver combinations (including the popular
> usbaspi + di1000dd) failed, typically "hanging" my PC.
>
> However, recently I managed to find some more of the
> Adaptec ASPI drivers, in an archive called 'dosdrvr.exe'
> (just search the web, I can't find it at Adaptec's site).
> Now I have a second driver combination that works for me :
>
> Panasonic's usbaspi 2.20 + Adaptec's aspidisk 4.01b
>
> This driver combination recognizes both #1 and #2 formats!
> BTW, it uses about 5k additional RAM, but you'd expect it
> to use a bit more, since it does more ...
>
> I hope that's of some interest here. :-)
>
> I should also mention a totally different driver set,
> dosusb + usbdisk, is partially successful for me, although
> it still needs further development/debugging. However the
> dosusb driver package intends to provide more general USB
> support in DOS, not just "disk" drives. For more details,
> see http://www.georgpotthast.de/usb/
>
> Joe.
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: shadow AT shadowgard DOT com [mailto:shadow AT shadowgard DOT com]
>> Sent: Monday, 27 June 2005 7:36 PM
>> To: opendos AT delorie DOT com
>> Subject: Re: Fun with USB
>>
>>
>> On 27 Jun 2005 at 18:07, da Silva, Joe wrote:
>>
>>> Well folks, over the weekend, I decided to experiment with
>>> a bunch of USB and related drivers, on a Pentium II machine
>>> with an Intel 440LX chipset, and one of those little USB
>>> Flash drives. In pure DOS.
>>>
>>> You may be interested to know that the experiment was a
>>> success! I found two drivers that in combination, worked
>>> with my hardware and provided me with what appeared a
>>> normal hard drive. I could even run 'chkdsk' and 'scandisk'
>>> on the USB Flash drive, and use long file names by using
>>> Henrik Haftmann's 'doslfn' TSR. Most satisfactory. :-)
>>>
>>> For details on various drivers and URL's, please see :
>>> http://www.computing.net/dos/wwwboard/forum/13447.html
>>>
>>> This is all that I needed to add in my 'config.sys' to get
>>> this "USB mass storage" stuff working in DOS :
>>>
>>> REM - Panasonic's universal USB-controller driver (formerly Novac)
>>> device=C:\ASPI_USB.DRV\PANASONC\USBASPI.SYS /v /w
>>> REM - Workbit's ASPI mass storage driver for USB drives
>> (formerly Novac)
>>> device=c:\ASPI_USB.DRV\datoptic\NJ32DISK.SYS
>>>
>>> I tested this successfully on MS-DOS 7.10 (from W95B/C)
>>> and DR-DOS 7.03. I also tried the same with DR DOS 6.0,
>>> but without success.
>>
>> Any idea if this will work on larger USB drives? Like my Iomega 80
>> gig and 250 gig drives? :-)
>>
>> BTW, I haven't gotten around to it yet, but there are IDE to CF card
>> adapters available. I plan on seeing if I can set up a CF card as a
>> "read only" drive for some of my "dedicated" MS-DOS boxes. All the
>> temp files and stuff can go on a RAM disk.
>>
>> --
>> Leonard Erickson (aka shadow)
>> shadow at shadowgard dot com
>>
>>
>>
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