Ron, Thanks. I understand that. However the FreeDOS on that CD doesn't have support for USB hard drives. From what I can tell I need to add a USBASPI driver. From what little I remember about DOS I have to add that in config.sys, and that means editing something and burning a new CD that has the ASPI driver on it.
Am I mistaken? Does FreeDOS allow me to insert a driver while the system is live, like I can do in Linux? If not then what I think I need to do is set up my own FreeDOS disk that has the driver on it. Thanks, Mark On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 5:03 PM, Ron Spruell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Just drop out of Spinrite and you are in FreeDos. > > Ron Spruell Sr. > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ron Spruell > Sent: Thursday, May 08, 2008 7:01 PM > To: freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net > 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----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark Knecht > Sent: Thursday, May 08, 2008 2:05 PM > To: freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: [Freedos-user] USB hard drive support (non-booting) under FreeDOS? > > 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'd like > to try that under FreeDOS. (Note that they use FreeDOS on their > bootable distribution.) The input I got from their tech support folks > was that it's hit and miss WRT the USB controllers in the specific > machine but I've got a number of machines that I could try so > hopefully I've got a chance. > > I'm looking for any reasonable solution that might allow me to do > this. My ideas are: > > 1) A prebuilt FreeDOS ISO image that has some USB drivers in > config.sys supporting OHCI, EHCI or UHCI USB controllers, as well as > supporting a CD-ROM. With this I could try running SpinRite from a > second CD after booting FreeDOS. I've done this with FreeDOS already > and it works but the FreeDOS ISO image I downloaded doesn't seem to > support USB. > > 2) Failing that (or in addition to) I'd like to build my own FreeDOS > bootable CD where I set up the drivers I want to load. I've found a > couple of USB DOS drivers that I could try if I placed them in > config.sys. > > If there some other way to try this I'll take any inputs. I'd even > be fine with running FreeDOS in a Linux terminal if it can access the > drives via the Linux kernel. > > Thanks in advance, > Mark > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by the 2008 JavaOne(SM) Conference > Don't miss this year's exciting event. There's still time to save $100. > Use priority code J8TL2D2. > http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;198757673;13503038;p?http://java.sun.com/javao > ne > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-user mailing list > Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by the 2008 JavaOne(SM) Conference > Don't miss this year's exciting event. There's still time to save $100. > Use priority code J8TL2D2. > http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;198757673;13503038;p?http://java.sun.com/javao > ne > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-user mailing list > Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by the 2008 JavaOne(SM) Conference > Don't miss this year's exciting event. There's still time to save $100. > Use priority code J8TL2D2. > http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;198757673;13503038;p?http://java.sun.com/javaone > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-user mailing list > Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by the 2008 JavaOne(SM) Conference Don't miss this year's exciting event. There's still time to save $100. Use priority code J8TL2D2. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;198757673;13503038;p?http://java.sun.com/javaone _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
