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.html -jh On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 6:47 PM, Dale Mahalko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 USB 1.0 spec and my drive backups which only take > about 10 minutes on a 100 megabit LAN instead drag out to an hour or > so with this USB driver. > > Also the drivers have finicky support. They work on some machines but > not others, and it's hit 'n miss determining compatibility. > > -Dale > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
