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Hi Jude, et al.

Yes, I have a ZIP drive (parallel port version;-) and
I also have the IOMEGA software, including USB drivers.

Unfortunately they don't work on my system.  :-(

However, the Panasonic/Adaptec combination has thus far
proven very reliable.  :-)

BTW, I've also found that the Mylex/BusLogic BTFDISK.EXE
utility works with the Panasonic driver. This is required
in some cases, for those Flash drives that are formatted
like hard drives. (This is just as well, since the Adaptec
AFDISK.EXE utility just gives me an error R6003, which is
apparently Monosoft's equivalent to the infamous Borland
RTE200, so perhaps I need to downgrade to a 486 for this;-).

Joe.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jude DaShiell [mailto:jdashiel AT shellworld DOT net]
> Sent: Wednesday, 11 July 2007 10:51 AM
> To: opendos AT delorie DOT com
> Subject: RE: Fun with USB (update)
> 
> 
> 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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