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From: "da Silva, Joe" <Joe DOT daSilva AT emailmetering DOT com>
To: "'opendos AT delorie DOT com'" <opendos AT delorie DOT com>
Subject: RE: [OT?] USB CD-ROM driver for DOS
Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2001 16:28:32 +1000
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I did a search and located a Windoze 98 "patch" program at
"http://ftp.pbnec.nl/support/itemnr/NECFIUP05180200.html",
which had this. It is simply a kind of self-extracting archive that
extracts USB_CD.SYS (and CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT)
to A: drive. It doesn't complain when run (ie. self-extracted) from
Windoze 95.

The USB_CD.SYS file produced has a 00/08/25 date code.
Looking inside this file, it seems to have been written by
Teac, so a visit to "http://www.teac.com/DSPD/support.html"
revealed a few more such Windoze 98 programs, for Teac
USB floppy drives and USB CD-RW drives. Strangely, I didn't
see the same Windoze 98 "patch" program as above, although
this may have been repackaged by NEC (perhaps some USB
models are not clearly identified as such on the driver web page).
Another possible driver (clearly intended for DOS) is at :
"ftp://ftp.tsc.teac.co.jp/pub/DOSV/DOS/110_dos.exe".

Curiosity satisfied, I will leave it to others to try these drivers,
since I don't actually have any USB peripherals!  <g>

Joe.

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Florian Xaver [SMTP:florianx AT drdos DOT org]
> Sent:	Sunday, October 21, 2001 7:55 PM
> To:	FreeDOS; OpenDOS; Arachne
> Subject:	[OT?] USB CD-ROM driver for DOS
> 
> Hi!
> Maybe this will interesst you:
> 
> There's a driver for accessing USB CD-ROM
> drives from DOS.  It's called USB_CD.SYS.
> 
> A quick search with google should bring you the URL.
> 
> bye,
> -- 
> Florian Xaver
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