From: "da Silva, Joe" 

Well folks, over the weekend, I decided to experiment with
a bunch of USB and related drivers, on a Pentium II machine
with an Intel 440LX chipset, and one of those little USB
Flash drives. In pure DOS.

You may be interested to know that the experiment was a
success! I found two drivers that in combination, worked
with my hardware and provided me with what appeared a
normal hard drive. I could even run 'chkdsk' and 'scandisk'
on the USB Flash drive, and use long file names by using
Henrik Haftmann's 'doslfn' TSR. Most satisfactory.  :-)

For details on various drivers and URL's, please see :
http://www.computing.net/dos/wwwboard/forum/13447.html

This is all that I needed to add in my 'config.sys' to get
this "USB mass storage" stuff working in DOS :

REM - Panasonic's universal USB-controller driver (formerly Novac)
device=C:\ASPI_USB.DRV\PANASONC\USBASPI.SYS /v /w
REM - Workbit's ASPI mass storage driver for USB drives (formerly Novac)
device=c:\ASPI_USB.DRV\datoptic\NJ32DISK.SYS

I tested this successfully on MS-DOS 7.10 (from W95B/C)
and DR-DOS 7.03. I also tried the same with DR DOS 6.0,
but without success.

BTW, I also tried loading the W95B/C GUI on top of the MS-DOS
7.10 platform, but this failed. So, whereas DOS can now access
USB drives, the so-called "Windows 95 with USB support" O/S is
still unable to support such USB peripherals.  

Joe.



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