Hi Bret,
I am not a speed junkie, and the drive will only be connected when I am
doing an xcopy style backup.
I am in dos 7.1, with my own hard drives as fat 32. I know already
though that the external drive is not formatted for dos.
Let me run this trick over the weekend and see what I discove
> I wish to use an external usb hard drive for backup purposes.
OK, but with my current drivers it will probably be very slow. You may want to
try some other drivers if you care about speed (at least for now).
> While the driver loads, and seems? to find the device, I cannot
> well understand t