Hi,

On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 4:33 PM, John R. Sowden
<jsow...@americansentry.net> wrote:
>
> Regarding use of the usb driver, I have been using it for a couple of
> years, mainly to transport data from my office dos network to a linux
> computer.

Have you tried mTCP's FTPSRV?

> The OS is MS-DOS 7.1 (from windows98 so I can read fat32) and 4dos 7.0.

Most OSes support FAT32 these days (including FreeDOS, natch). Only
really old ones (MS-DOS 6.22, DR-DOS 7.03) don't. Not sure about
PC-DOS, allegedly the newer updates in IBM's Server Scripting Toolkit
support it, but I wasn't clear on what their licensing was, so I never
bothered finding out. Similarly, EDR-DOS, I never bothered to try
(sorry, Udo).

> You only issue is the usb device that is plugged in when you
> boot up is what is available.  (cannot swap a different device unless
> they improved that).  I have only used usb sticks so far.

At least my Lenovo desktop and Dell laptop both support it in the same
way, even booting from it, thanks to BIOS support. So I can easily
create a bootable USB (via RUFUS), and it'll work transparently.

IIRC, this Lenovo machine doesn't support UHCI (for Bret's drivers),
only EHCI, so I'm out of luck on that.

Not sure about my (recently half-resurrected) Dell P4 (circa 2002).
Dunno what kind of USB it has. But I know that it won't boot USB
without help, e.g. PLoP Boot Manager. After so many years, the CD-ROM
and hard disk both gave out, so currently my brother boots it to (old)
PuppyLinux via USB via PLoP floppy.

I actually today noticed that the P4 has RealTek 8139, so I was
vaguely curious if packet driver would work. It does. However, there's
a small caveat in that (for whatever obscure reason, PLoP limitation?)
my RUFUS-created (and modified by me) USB is "write-protected" once
booted. But since I wasn't doing anything major (and most work was
done on RAM disk), it didn't majorly matter. I just modified it while
mounted under a different computer. So it works there too, with small
limitations.

But no, there's no great way to swap USB drives (except if Bret's
stuff supports your machine). Nevertheless, it's better than nothing.

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