Hi there,
On Wed, 26 Mar 2025, Ben Collver via Freedos-user wrote:
On Wed, 26 Mar 2025 molngab wrote:
How can I access a USB external floppy drive from freedos? I can issue
the: command and it seems to work, but it doesn't take me to the
external floppy.
I used an external USB floppy drive with FreeDOS on an HP NC6120 after
enabling the Legacy USB BIOS option.
...
The USB drivers from Bret Johnson
https://bretjohnson.us/
have allowed me to mount USB storage devices (such as micro-SD cards
in a USB adapter) and read/write them as I would expect in a machine
which has no legacy USB support. I don't know if these drivers would
work with a USB floppy drive but it might be worth a try. Next time I
fire up a DOS machine (which will probably be later this week) I'll
give it a try here and report on the results.
The drivers are more than 15 years old, no development has been done
on them since then as far as I know, but there's good documentation in
the archive available for download which includes a lot of useful info
about the USB protocols - not to mention some intersting foibles.
--
73,
Ged.
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