Re: [Freedos-user] USB floppy saga...

2020-03-15 Thread michael
>> I bet Freedos could be in place of MS-DOS if you only use HIMEMX. Q-Soft for the Tyco QSP-2 installs to MS-DOS 5.22 and is a real time system on the DOS side. It installs via actual floppy disk. If you are running the GUI computer (Windows 9x) on say QEMU and emulating the floppy... but

Re: [Freedos-user] USB floppy saga...

2020-03-15 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Michael, > I'm working with an EVOC brand SBC on a PICMG 1.0 backplane. That sounds exotic, but still your BIOS has a menu item where you can enable an on-board hardware floppy controller. Do you imply that there is no header on the board to plug a classic floppy to that classic controller?

Re: [Freedos-user] USB floppy saga...

2020-03-15 Thread tom ehlert
> I'm working with an EVOC brand SBC on a PICMG 1.0 backplane. > I have not been able to get floppy disk support in Freedos 1.3, period. as far as I understand it, you have been working with MSDOS 6.x for the last 25 years. I recommend another 20 years. the alternative would have been to

[Freedos-user] USB floppy saga...

2020-03-15 Thread michael
I'm working with an EVOC brand SBC on a PICMG 1.0 backplane. I have not been able to get floppy disk support in Freedos 1.3, period. I know USB 1.1 isn't part of the DOS specification that freedos is targeting, but a USB floppy driver is needed since that is what this particular SBC offers.