USB2 drivers for DOS?

[littleberry]

Does anyone anywhere know of anybody who successfully uses USB2 with DOS? For example, you can hook up an ordinary h/d with a USB2-IDE adapter, and then plug that into your USB2 slot and your h/d looks just like it was connected as a second (D drive (to your secondary IDE channel). You can do this in win98se, winme, win2000, and winxp. BUT, you cannot do it with DOS (not that I know about). So, if you want to use the fdisk and format programs from your win98se startup disk, you HAVE to have it connected to one of your IDE channels when you boot up from the floppy. It would be NICE if you could get DOS to have access to it via the USB2 connector and the USB2-IDE adapater. Am I dreaming? Yes? No? littleberry

 

[the_Prisoner]

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the Prisoner

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[littleberry]

Thanks Prisoner! It works (DUSE.EXE). This option makes the use of removable H/D trays obsolete, as you can access USB2 h/d's now in all OS's DOS, win98se, winme, win2k, and winXP. You can HOT SWAP in all but DOS, which you couldn't do with removable trays in DOS anyway. I use the GWC USB2_IDE adaptor from newegg(about $35-$40). DOS LIVES! littleberry

 

[mikegarty]

Does anyone anywhere know of anybody who successfully uses USB2 with DOS? For example, you can hook up an ordinary h/d with a USB2-IDE adapter, and then plug that into your USB2 slot and your h/d looks just like it was connected as a second (D drive (to your secondary IDE channel). You can do this in win98se, winme, win2000, and winxp. BUT, you cannot do it with DOS (not that I know about). So, if you want to use the fdisk and format programs from your win98se startup disk, you HAVE to have it connected to one of your IDE channels when you boot up from the floppy. It would be NICE if you could get DOS to have access to it via the USB2 connector and the USB2-IDE adapater. Am I dreaming? Yes? No? littleberry

Try this link:<A HREF="http/www.computing.net/dos/wwwboard/forum/13447.html" target="_new">http/www.computing.net/dos/wwwboard/forum/13447.html</A>

the Prisoner

I'm not a number, I'm a free man!