That only supports UHCI-type controllers. So USB is not well supported
under DOS (due to heavy complexity).
Boo Hiss. Figures.
Although some (modern?) BIOSes can treat a jump drive as hard disk (but
you can't hotswap / add+remove them, you have to reboot). Your PIII
might not be new enough for that support, dunno.
I'm pretty sure not… It's not a big deal though (especially since that
PC is not my sole PC) if USB isn't supported in FD, as long as the
optical drive works, which it does, thankfully. Sure, a working USB port
would be nice, but since it doesn't seem to be an option, no biggie.
(Stating the obvious: you may wish to try Linux [old ZipSlack? TinyCore?
antiX?] or FreeBSD or similar for better USB access.
I already have another PC with Linux Mint installed on a much more
modern BIOS (about 2 years old). USB on it works well (of course, its
USB 2.0).
My PIII PC is simply a leftover PC that I resurrected from the closet &
no longer used to put FD 1.1 on it as a way to be able to use the tons
of Floppy software on it that I had on HD 3.5s.(I ran a BBS for about 10
years (until 1996) and amassed quite a collection of floppies.I even
have some very old 360KB 5.25" floppies). Those were mostly from my
pre-HD era.:)
Dual booting shouldn't be too hard.)
Not really, but that's something I usually don't consider.Nothing
against it, it's just not for me unless, of course, it's a have-to case.
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