Off-topic-ish, but I hope drivers for the GreaseWeazle appear one day, Not sure I'd know where to start, but having a USB floppy that could read any floppy and work as a plain DOS floppy would be great.
On Wed, 26 Mar 2025 at 17:06, G.W. Haywood via Freedos-user < freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: > 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. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-user mailing list > Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user >
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