Re: [Freedos-user] Zip 750 Atapi and freedos...
Hi, On Mon, Mar 16, 2020 at 4:29 PM wrote: > > As freedos is not designed to support USB, USB floppy will not work. I have a USB floppy drive. I'm pretty sure it's handled okay by the BIOS. But I haven't used it in recent years much. P.S. I believe Haiku (OS), allegedly, also had support for USB floppy drive implemented because one of their developers needed it. So you could maybe try booting that, temporarily?? ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] Zip 750 Atapi and freedos...
Hi Michael, > I propose an optional USB driver in Freedos. I propose that you first test the already existing free USB drivers for DOS ;-) Not with floppy or CD but with harddisks and USB flash sticks. http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/distributions/1.2/repos/pkg-html/usbdos.html The classic USB driver by Bret Johnson :-) http://www.georgpotthast.de/usb/ This driver is not free but a limited demo, so it is basically shareware: 65 Euro for full features for one user, site licenses are available, as are a forum and already some USB 3 support. Cheers, Eric ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] Zip 750 Atapi and freedos...
On 3/16/2020 2:28 PM, mich...@robinson-west.com wrote: Doesn't work in Windows XP without Iomegaware... how about freedos? As freedos is not designed to support USB, USB floppy will not work. Short of getting the source code to the AMI Bios on my EVOC SBC, I'm not going to make a real floppy controller work... What are the implications of creating a TSR to implement USB 1.1 on compatability? Will the old guest program work with the Atapi Zip drive? If you have a board that does not have a standard ATAPI controller (which seems to be the case with your SBC), it doesn't matter what kind of ATAPI device you are trying to connect. Therefor, I doubt that the IOMega guest driver will work with a non-standard controller... Pretty clear on old hardware that it is getting hard to get media for disk drives. Most 1.44m floppies are new old stock. If you can't use a modern pc, because it's too different, you cannot use the flash drives that have replaced floppies. I propose an optional USB driver in Freedos. Start with 1.1, move to 2.0, add 3.0, and then add 3.1. With full usb support, any old computer that has USB will work with flash drives obviating the need for floppies on real hardware. Floppies have gone away for the most part. Zip 750 was too little too late. Another thing, I don't know how reliable old zip drives are including the last ones made. I don't know how long there will be support for zip drives, even the end of life higher capacity units. There are some basic USB drivers for DOS, but USB is a bit more complicated than a lot of other hardware, and given the overall "market" of DOS in these days, I doubt that there will be much effort put into this... Ralf -- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
[Freedos-user] Zip 750 Atapi and freedos...
Doesn't work in Windows XP without Iomegaware... how about freedos? As freedos is not designed to support USB, USB floppy will not work. Short of getting the source code to the AMI Bios on my EVOC SBC, I'm not going to make a real floppy controller work... What are the implications of creating a TSR to implement USB 1.1 on compatability? Will the old guest program work with the Atapi Zip drive? Pretty clear on old hardware that it is getting hard to get media for disk drives. Most 1.44m floppies are new old stock. If you can't use a modern pc, because it's too different, you cannot use the flash drives that have replaced floppies. I propose an optional USB driver in Freedos. Start with 1.1, move to 2.0, add 3.0, and then add 3.1. With full usb support, any old computer that has USB will work with flash drives obviating the need for floppies on real hardware. Floppies have gone away for the most part. Zip 750 was too little too late. Another thing, I don't know how reliable old zip drives are including the last ones made. I don't know how long there will be support for zip drives, even the end of life higher capacity units. ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
