Hi Bernd,
Eric means that actually booting from an USB device enables the USB emulation fully (keyboard+mouse + the medium you booted from).
If you don't boot from USB, normally only keyboard+mouse is emulated properly.
OK but this isn't how it works on Dell servers and Optiplex desktops. On these systems you can boot from what ever device you like, and you'll be able to access any FAT formatted USB memory stick plugged into any USB socket - drive letters will be assigned...
It would be interesting to know behavior of other modern BIOS's such as HP and IBM.
It can easily be tested; simply enable emulation in the BIOS, plug in your memory stick, boot a system with a FreeDOS floppy or CD and see how many drives you've got.
Obviously on any BIOS older than a couple of years it won't work, but if you are saying there are modern systems out there and it does not work then we need to know because that's bad.
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