Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2004 21:21:56 +0100 From: Philip Nienhuis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [LIB] Recover files with long file names in DOS
Matt Hanson wrote: > > Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2004 19:01:00 +0000 > From: "Matt Hanson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [LIB] Recover files with long file names in DOS > > Hi Philip > > >From: Philip Nienhuis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > >But in the very next sentence Xin also points to the Inquirer web page > >where a more in-depth description is presented. > > Yeah... that was the URL you pointed to. I did download MHAIRU.ZIP with the MHAIRU.ZIP? never heard of it, I'll have to visit that site again.... > drivers USBASPI.SYS and DI1000DD.SYS, put them on a boot FD, and and made a > config.sys on it like Xin's leaving the CD-ROM driver's REMed: > > dos=high,umb > device=himem.sys > BUFFERS=20 > FILES=60 > DEVICEhigh=USBASPI.SYS /P=FF60 > devicehigh=DI1000DD.SYS > > I plugged my Dazzle ZIO CF adapter with the Microdrive into the EPR USB > port, but when I booted the L100 from it, I got these error messages: > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > ASPI for UHCI/OHCI mass-storage Version 1.07 > Copyright ..... > USBASPI : Target USB device not found > > DI1000 ASPI DISK Driver Ver 2.00 > Copyright.... > > ASPI Manager not installed > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Then I tried changing the switch /P=FF60 to /v /w /e ... but got the same > errors (No USB device drivers needed, just the ASPI layer? weird...) So, bad luck it seems. Apparently it doesn't work. BTW, I suspect those drivers are meant more for CD-ROM / CDRW devices. ASPI is not something I would relate with an IDE device like a CF card or a MicroDrive. Did you try the Panasonic drivers? kxlcb35an.exe, kxlrw31an.exe or kxlrw40an.exe? (Admittedly some command of Japanese wouldn't hurt once these are unpacked :-) But Xin has his hints.) > >And Xin also mentions an > >Addonics DOS USB driver (search for DOSboot.exe or so on Addonics, their > >link to DOS_USB_Boot-4.4 is a 404). > > I couldn't find any references to USB_DOS_Driver_v4.4.zip or DOSboot.exe > using the Addonics search engine. So I did an advanced Google search on > their site, and came up with the download USBBoot.zip that contains a FD > image file and rawrite.exe. Even Google didn't come up with any results > for: USB_DOS_Driver_v4.4.zip Have't tried the image file yet. You can also d/ld WinImage, use it to extract the relevant drivers and CONFIG.SYS & AUTOEXEC.BAT to a formatted boot floppy (i.e., floppy including system files). > But this quote from the Addonics website points to a BIOS limitation that I > think I read references in the Lib list archives: > > http://www.addonics.com/support/faqs/usb_troubleshooting_resources.asp > > "If your BIOS does not support USB booting, please contact your system > or motherboard manufacturers for a possible BIOS upgrade." > > The L100's minumal BIOS just may not support USB in DOS through the EPR. What that means is just that you can't boot from the Lib's USB port(s). Many other computers have this same limitation. Therefore Addonics made a boot floppy allowing one to boot DOS from floppy, initialize the USB ports from that DOS and be able to use the USB ports. That has nothing to do with booting from USB; it revolves around booting from floppy and being able to use the USB ports. >From what I understood from several texts on the Addonics site this DOS boot floppy with USB support was made to be able to install Windows (or any other OS) from an external USB mass storage device (e.g., Addonics CD-ROM player). Addonics is just a bit more customer-friendly than most other USB device manufacturers, in that they also think of customers with older hardware. So once again, just try this thing too if you want. If it fails, nothing is lost except some of your time. If I had an EPR I could help you better, but I haven't. You are on your own here I'm afraid. I just d/led those DOS USB drivers to try them on my desktop PC when I got time in the (hopefully not too far) future. But then again, I wonder what it is that you want. You asked for DOS USB support and I gave you a few hints. But I understood your actual problem as follows: You have a, or some, fubarred hard disk partitions made originally under EZ-drive in the Libretto. Now you want to salvage as many files as possible. Because the partition scheme was made in the Lib, it is most obvious to use the HD in the Lib, so you want to boot the Lib somehow so that you can access the data, and then transfer those data to another PC or external device. Using some external USB device is one good way to get it together. Problem however is the long file names, that will work only if Windows itself is running on the Libretto. So, the DOS USB option by itself may not be the best way to get where you want. I guess you need to find a way to boot Windows on your Libretto. As from your other posts I inferred that you already saved the data from the other two partitions, maybe you should just reinstall a bare Windows on C: without it touching the partitioning scheme (under EZ-drive). With a little luck and playing around with the tools suggested by many other people who posted replies you might be able to access the fubarred partition again. Does this help? Philip ************************************************************** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://www.silverace.com/libretto/ - Archives -------TO UNSUBSCRIBE------- Reply to any of the list messages. The reply mail should be addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Then replace any text on the message's subject line: cmd:unsubscribe --------TO UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST------ Do above but with this on subject line: cmd:unsubscribe digest **************************************************************
