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Well, I see no reason why this wouldn't work for
any size USB drive. It treats USB drives like SCSI,
so I don't think the 512M/8G boundaries found with
various IDE & BIOS combinations apply.

Actually, I also tried the Iomega USB drivers (yes,
there are alternative drivers for DOS;-), but they
didn't work for me (perhaps these only work with
Iomega drives).

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
> 
> 
>