Thank you very much Eric for the quick response. I will keep posted on my experience with these USB flash drives.
Thanks, Anand On Fri, May 29, 2020 at 6:39 PM Eric Auer <e.a...@jpberlin.de> wrote: > > Hi Anand, > > > I'm new to FreeDOS. Could you please help if the FreeDOS supports > > hardware/software encrypted USB flash drives? Something like below. > > > > https://apricorn.com/aegis-secure-key-3 > > The description sounds as if all security software is running > on the stick itself: Once you unlock it, using the keyboard > built into the stick, it will probably behave as a normal USB > stick. So when you then format it as FAT32 or FAT16, if there > are no conflicting requirements by the stick, you should simply > be able to use it with generic DOS USB drivers. In some cases, > unlocking the key before you boot the PC might be enough: The > BIOS could then detect it as normal USB storage and activate > legacy "disk" view which can be used by DOS. In other cases, > use existing generic USB drivers for DOS, see our website for > links :-) > > The device sounds really nice. Note that you could configure > it to stay unlocked during probing, so you do not have to do > that several times if booting and driver load probes things. > > It does not seem to have any requirements about WHAT you put > on it, so it is explicitly recommended for embedded devices > which need any type of data storage medium :-) > > > https://www.securedrive.com/product/secureusb-kp-encrypted-flash-drive > > This also says it uses a built-in keyboard to handle all security > activities without interaction with your operating system. So it > will probably look like a normal USB stick while unlocked and as > such, you can use it in DOS as described above. It explicitly says > "Works on and with any OS" and I see no statements telling you that > you have to format it as NTFS, EXFAT, FAT, Linux filesystems or any > specific format. So why not format it as FAT32 and use it in DOS. > > Please keep us posted about your experiences with those sticks. > > Be aware that most DOS USB drivers are at most USB 2.0, so you will > get limited speed. Some might even get stuck once in a while, but > I guess more fancy drivers work better. Georg Potthast has a free > demo (only works a short time after each load) of his shareware > style, up to date drivers, for example. Built-in drivers of your > BIOS (which make USB storage look like normal disks, often with > troubles when you plug or unplug them while DOS is running) also > tend to be rather slow, because they are only designed to help a > bit with bootable installers on USB media, not for extensive use. > > Regards, Eric > > > > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-user mailing list > Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user >
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