On 11/15/2020 6:27 AM, Marv wrote:
I was under the impression an external USB floppy wouldn't work under
FreeDOS 1.3, but I just noticed my installation of FreeDOS 1.3 on a
circa 2011 Gateway laptop with an external USB Chuanganzhuo floppy
does work.
I'm not sure what driver FreeDOS is using on the Gateway, but if I
plug the floppy into my HP Windows 10 laptop, it says it's a TEAC USB
UF1000x USB device using a default Windows sfloppy.sys driver. It was
plug-n-play. I didn't install any drivers on either laptop.
I didn't buy this floppy drive for FreeDOS. My main FreeDOS machine
has a builtin floppy drive. I bought it to read some old floppies on
my HP Windows 10 laptop.
I am using USB floppy drives to exchange data between my Windows PC(s)
and my FreeDOS box(es). They work just fine on all of my DOS machine as
long as it floppy drive is connected when the machine is turned on. The
BIOS of all machines in this case (2x Dell, 1x Compaq) just presents it
as a standard 3.5" floppy drive. Hot swap of course doesn't work, but
that hasn't really bothered me at all so far...
Ralf
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