Hi Mark, > Do any of the FreeDOS iso images contain enough USB
All ISOs are several years old as far as I remember. The newest drivers are from Bret Johnson, 1/2010: http://bretjohnson.us/ You can use a floppy distro such as the Rugxulo one: http://sites.google.com/site/rugxulo/ You can either put it on a real floppy or if you have Linux or Mac mount the image or if you have Windows use a suitable Windows "virtual floppy" style tool to modify the contents, for example to update USB drivers. Any decent CD/DVD burning software should allow you to use a floppy or floppy image as the "boot image" of a data CD/DVD. It does not matter which files you put as data. Actually DOS will not even see the files unless you include CD/DVD drivers in the floppy. On the other hand, the floppy contents themselves cannot be seen as part of the data, they do not show up in your Windows / Mac / Linux file manager afterwards. In any case, the ability to boot DOS from a "virtual" floppy (the boot image) of, for example, a CD-RW or DVD-RW, gives you an easy way to experiment with all drivers that you can find :-). > support that they might find an IPod hooked to a modern PC... I might be wrong, but iPod and certain cameras are in some way special. Otherwise it would be easy: Almost all other MP3 and MP4 players and many cameras or even cardreaders simply look like USB sticks for drivers, which means that you can access them from DOS. But in the case of an iPod - I must say that I doubt that it can be accessed properly from DOS. Probably a DRM lock? > computer via motherboard/chipset-based USB controllers? DOS drivers such as the one from Bret Johnson or such as www.dosusb.net/ from Georg Potthast often focus on USB 1.1 (and 1.0) so they do not support the highspeed transfer of USB 2.0 but will still work on the newest mainboards. Of course USB 1.x is pretty slow, so if your BIOS itself already supports USB 2.0, performance would actually be best without loading any DOS drivers at all. The BIOS often supports only PS/2 (mouse and keyboard) and storage (USB sticks, harddisk, floppy, maybe cardreaders, CD, DVD). If you want to use more USB hardware than that, you still have to load a DOS driver. You cannot share one chip between BIOS and a DOS driver, so all USB sockets which are run by the same mainboard component have to share a driver, BIOS or DOS one. > If so which one? If not what sort of USB host controller > is required to find an IPod with FreeDOS. The controller should not be a problem, they all do follow the same USB standard. However, speed in DOS will be limited and due to Apple or DRM annoyance it is quite possible that DOS will not get iPod access. Eric ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
