Re: [Freedos-user] USB Floppy

2020-11-15 Thread Ralf Quint
On 11/15/2020 6:27 AM, Marv wrote: I was under the impression an external USB floppy wouldn't work under FreeDOS 1.3, but I just noticed my installation of FreeDOS 1.3 on a circa 2011 Gateway laptop with an external USB Chuanganzhuo floppy does work. I'm not sure what driver FreeDOS is using

Re: [Freedos-user] DOS/16M (was: FreeDOS 1.2 installed on iMac (2011) - success but there are issues)

2020-11-15 Thread Hollowone PL
Yep, that is correct. Due to it, I had to recompile my own OpenWatcom build using a different extender for runtime to continue using it (which is fine). I also continue investigating the root cause of that limitation. Just spoke to rEFInd developer to assess his opinion. Seems that he shares one of

Re: [Freedos-user] USB Floppy

2020-11-15 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Marv, > I'm not sure what driver FreeDOS is using on the Gateway, but if I plug the > floppy into my HP Windows 10 laptop, it says it's a TEAC USB UF1000x USB FreeDOS does not use any USB driver by default, as far as I know. So you probably have USB storage device support in your BIOS and F

[Freedos-user] USB Floppy

2020-11-15 Thread Marv
I was under the impression an external USB floppy wouldn't work under FreeDOS 1.3, but I just noticed my installation of FreeDOS 1.3 on a circa 2011 Gateway laptop with an external USB Chuanganzhuo floppy does work. I'm not sure what driver FreeDOS is using on the Gateway, but if I plug the floppy