OK, thanks. I'll keep trying. I've got some spare disk space on one of my machines so it seems that maybe I should first get USB working on that and then worry about doing it from a CD.
Note that the Linux tools are fairly reasonable for making bootable CDs if you want to try them out. I'm just starting to work with them myself. - Mark On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 12:21 PM, Ron Spruell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I wish you luck. I was trying to make a boot DVD or CD and run freedos from > that. I think after all I heard and or was told that couldn't happen. I > wanted to do that because like just like you I found that FreeDos was what > Steve Gibson used in SpinRite. I did get my system to partially boot from > the CD but not enough to make FreeDos usable and run booted from the CD. > > > Ron Spruell Sr. > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark Knecht > > > Sent: Thursday, May 08, 2008 7:32 PM > To: freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] USB hard drive support (non-booting) under > FreeDOS? > > Ron, > Thanks. I understand that. However the FreeDOS on that CD doesn't > have support for USB hard drives. From what I can tell I need to add a > USBASPI driver. From what little I remember about DOS I have to add > that in config.sys, and that means editing something and burning a new > CD that has the ASPI driver on it. > > Am I mistaken? Does FreeDOS allow me to insert a driver while the > system is live, like I can do in Linux? > > If not then what I think I need to do is set up my own FreeDOS disk > that has the driver on it. > > Thanks, > Mark > > On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 5:03 PM, Ron Spruell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Just drop out of Spinrite and you are in FreeDos. > > > > Ron Spruell Sr. > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ron > Spruell > > Sent: Thursday, May 08, 2008 7:01 PM > > To: freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net > > Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] USB hard drive support (non-booting) under > > FreeDOS? > > > > SpinRite use freedos to run. When you boot SpinRite it boots into freedos. > > That's the operating system he uses. > > > > Ron Spruell Sr. > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark > Knecht > > Sent: Thursday, May 08, 2008 2:05 PM > > To: freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net > > Subject: [Freedos-user] USB hard drive support (non-booting) under > FreeDOS? > > > > Hi, > > Completely new to the list. First post. Be gentle. ;-) > > > > I have a program called SpinRite used for checking hard drives. On > > the Gibson Research page they state that if I can see drives under DOS > > then there's a good chance that SpinRite can test the drives. I'd like > > to try that under FreeDOS. (Note that they use FreeDOS on their > > bootable distribution.) The input I got from their tech support folks > > was that it's hit and miss WRT the USB controllers in the specific > > machine but I've got a number of machines that I could try so > > hopefully I've got a chance. > > > > I'm looking for any reasonable solution that might allow me to do > > this. My ideas are: > > > > 1) A prebuilt FreeDOS ISO image that has some USB drivers in > > config.sys supporting OHCI, EHCI or UHCI USB controllers, as well as > > supporting a CD-ROM. With this I could try running SpinRite from a > > second CD after booting FreeDOS. I've done this with FreeDOS already > > and it works but the FreeDOS ISO image I downloaded doesn't seem to > > support USB. > > > > 2) Failing that (or in addition to) I'd like to build my own FreeDOS > > bootable CD where I set up the drivers I want to load. I've found a > > couple of USB DOS drivers that I could try if I placed them in > > config.sys. > > > > If there some other way to try this I'll take any inputs. I'd even > > be fine with running FreeDOS in a Linux terminal if it can access the > > drives via the Linux kernel. > > > > Thanks in advance, > > Mark > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > This SF.net email is sponsored by the 2008 JavaOne(SM) Conference > > Don't miss this year's exciting event. There's still time to save $100. > > Use priority code J8TL2D2. > > > http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;198757673;13503038;p?http://java.sun.com/javao > > ne > > _______________________________________________ > > Freedos-user mailing list > > Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > This SF.net email is sponsored by the 2008 JavaOne(SM) Conference > > Don't miss this year's exciting event. 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