Hi Michael,
> > - C: was accessible thanks
> > to the BIOS driver anyway :-p.
> Yes.
> > If so, why did it become inaccessible when
> > you loaded the DOS USB driver??
> I don`t think it would happen with a normal harddisk.
Well you loaded a driver which created a new int13 gateway
to the SAM
Eric Auer wrote:
> Hi again :-)
Hi!
>> An USB flash drive was made bootable for FreeDOS with the tool 'HP Drive
>> Key'. Booting from that device works well if the BIOS supports USB booting.
>> After loading the USB driver under FreeDOS device C:\ could be no longer
>> read. FreeDOS asked for a c
Hi again :-)
> An USB flash drive was made bootable for FreeDOS with the tool 'HP Drive
> Key'. Booting from that device works well if the BIOS supports USB booting.
> After loading the USB driver under FreeDOS device C:\ could be no longer
> read. FreeDOS asked for a command.com location.
So yo
Eric Auer wrote:
> He also writes that when you load a DOS USB device driver then
> it will interfere with BIOS USB drivers and you lose access to
> those. That is quite possible, but what are the experiences on
> this list? Did any of you lose access to your USB keyboard/mouse
> when you started a
Hi!
> In case anyone is interested, we have an article on the FreeDOS site
> about USB from a BIOS engineer. It's a good read (and short) and
> explains why USB hard drives are hard to support properly everywhere,
> while USB floppy and keyboard/mouse is easy:
>
> http://www.freedos.org/freedos/n
In case anyone is interested, we have an article on the FreeDOS site
about USB from a BIOS engineer. It's a good read (and short) and
explains why USB hard drives are hard to support properly everywhere,
while USB floppy and keyboard/mouse is easy:
http://www.freedos.org/freedos/news/technote/173.
I don't know if it was mentioned yet, but Symantec/Norton Ghost can
create DOS boot disks which contain USB and Firewire drivers to allow
a PC hard drive to be imaged onto an external USB hard drive via DOS.
Though, I never had much luck with them. I think these drivers only
support the earlier US
Hi Mark,
>I have a program called SpinRite used for checking hard drives. On
> the Gibson Research page they state that if I can see drives under DOS
> then there's a good chance that SpinRite can test the drives.
What sort of checking do you want to do?
> 1) A prebuilt FreeDOS ISO image th
On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 12:45 PM, Michael Reichenbach
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>
> Hi!
>
Hi to you too!
> I don`t know the application SpinRite. But like most harddisk recovery
> and deep harddisk scan applications it may talk directly to the IDE
> controller (raw read with own file system
Thanks very much! I'm certainly interested in any drivers that folks
here have used successfully.
Cheers,
Mark
On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 12:51 PM, Michael Reichenbach
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> Small remark, if you still like to fiddle with USB for DOS I advise this
> driver disk. Worked very w
Small remark, if you still like to fiddle with USB for DOS I advise this
driver disk. Worked very well for me and I was able to extract the
driver I need myself.
http://johnson.tmfc.net/dos/index.html
Also the DR-DOS wiki has very good informations.
http://www.unet.univie.ac.at/~a0503736/php/d
Mark Knecht wrote:
> Hi,
>Completely new to the list. First post. Be gentle. ;-)
>
>I have a program called SpinRite used for checking hard drives. On
> the Gibson Research page they state that if I can see drives under DOS
> then there's a good chance that SpinRite can test the drives. I'
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> Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] USB hard drive support (non-booting) under
> FreeDOS?
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> SpinRite use freedos to run. When you boot SpinRite it boots into freedos.
> That's the operating system he uses.
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> Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] USB hard drive support (non-booting) under
> FreeDOS?
>
> SpinRite use freedos to run. When you boot SpinRite it boots into freedos.
> That's the operating system he uses.
>
> Ron Spruell Sr.
>
> -Original Message--
Just drop out of Spinrite and you are in FreeDos.
Ron Spruell Sr.
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SpinRite use freedos to run. When you boot SpinRite it boots into freedos.
That's the operating system he uses.
Ron Spruell Sr.
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