Ralph, how are you at writing your own drivers? So far as I have seen there are no DOS drivers for USB or FireWire, I don't think DOS is in the USB spec to begin with. If you had a scsi drive then you could do it. I have not seen anything for FireWire either. Your only route with this is a very expensive solution ($1000.00 USD) called usb4dos http://www.catc.com/products/usb4dos.html. It will only support USB 1.1. <IOW> you won't be able to do it from any form of DOS, pure or other wise.
Peter Kaulback In the hour of 12:08 PM 4/7/2002 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] spoke this: >To one and all, > >Was wondering if anyone has found any drivers that you can load into >config.sys that let you then access USB devices in a pure dos >environment??? The same with regard to firewire devices??? > >I am putting together my new system, BUT have a physical device problem >- have 2 hard drives to connect to my primary IDE control and cd-burner >and DVD to connect to secondary IDE control. Have a 250 Meg zip drive >but it is a USB drive. Since I sometimes boot up into a pure Dos >environment (though getting to be much less these days than in the >past), was wondering if anyone has found a way of accessing USB and/or >firewire devices in a pure Dos environment. > >Since am going to dual-boot the new system with Win98SE and Win2K pro, >the issue may be totally moot, but still have occationally needed to >boot to pure Dos in the past and needed to access my Zip drive to get >files, but it was a IDE device that was being used. With the new USB Zip >drive, have not found a way of doing it. > >Any answers on how to do, if possible??? > >Ralph ============= PCWorks Mailing List ================= Don't see your post? Check our posting guidelines & make sure you've followed proper posting procedures, http://pcworkers.com/rules.htm Contact list owner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Unsubscribing and other changes: http://pcworkers.com =====================================================
