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Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2005 02:36:18 -0700
Subject: Re: Fun with USB
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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.

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Leonard Erickson (aka shadow)
shadow at shadowgard dot com