1. http://www.os2warp.be/index2.php?name=usbreview 

should tell you everything you need to know. There is also in the works,
at Beta 6, a reporter and maintainer of the USB-related portion of
config.sys. 

2. You may not know when you have succeeded, though, because if you
format the usb thumb drives fat32 for compatibility with wintendos, the
performance may be lacking or absent. YMMV

3.  IMO, we users should never need to edit (and screw up) config.sys.
Especially primitive when we are talking about the features of USB.


said Harry, stirred by:
     Davey Brain 's message of:
     Thursday 13 Apr 06 at 11:24 AM,
     On: [OS2HW] Where is the "FM" for OS/2 USB so I can
"RTFM" USB &
get it to actually work?
     [echoed below, at least in part]

                      -oOo-
Hi all,
I am totally frustrated on USB with OS/2! (Crossposting on OS/2 groups 
due to total frustration.)

I have very little USB (crap) on my system but I bought a USB 128 Mb
MP3  Player for $10 and then recently a friend gave me 2 brand new USB
128 Mb  thumb drives to play with. I have tried EVERYTHING to get them
working  in OS/2. The eCS 1.1 (OS/2 Warp 4.5 kernel 14.103.O or P or
something)  USB manager sees them, there are drive letters (K floppy
not needed and  O removable 120 Mb obvious) and then "not a valid drive
number" or "not  formatted correctly" errors when I try to
access them.
I have tried LVM,  it sees the partitions (??) but not separate drives.
I try to set them  up in LVM and it only gives me hard drives as
options, not partitions.  So I have tried them as FAT32 (with drivers
installed in OS/2) and  reformatted in WinXP (which of course works
fine) as straight FAT. eCS  can't see any of them.

So I go out to find info and, as with OS/2 networking, there is no
"fine  manual" to RTFM, there is no FAQ, there is NO INFO on USB in
Google. So  where does one go to find out how to get USB FUNCTIONAL
with such a  simple thing as a 128 Mb thumb drive?

This is my config.sys USB section (I have tried various combinations of
 the IBM and CW drivers REMed & unREMed with no success with a 4+
minute  reboot each time):

rem **USB**
rem Chris' Stuff
BASEDEV=CWUSBUHC.SYS /V
BASEDEV=CWUSBD.SYS /V
BASEDEV=CWUSBMSD.ADD /V /FLOPPIES:0 /REMOVABLES:1 /FIXED_DISKS:0 
/FORCE_TO_REMOVABLE
rem IBM drivers
BASEDEV=USBUHCD.SYS /V
BASEDEV=USBD.SYS /V
BASEDEV=USBHID.SYS /V
BASEDEV=USBMSD.ADD /FLOPPIES:1 /REMOVABLES:1  /REMOVABLE_AS_FLOPPY REM
BASEDEV=USBCDROM.ADD
REM DEVICE=M:\OS2\BOOT\USBKBD.SYS
REM DEVICE=M:\OS2\BOOT\USBMOUSE.SYS
REM DEVICE=M:\OS2\BOOT\USBCOM.SYS
DEVICE=M:\OS2\BOOT\USBPRT.SYS
DEVICE=M:\OS2\BOOT\USBRESMG.SYS

I only need USB for 3 things: My 128 thumb drives, my 128 MP3 player
and  my USB scanner; none of them work with the installed drivers. WHAT
do I  need and does ANYONE have instructions online to help people?? (I
tried  google first of course). BTW, 3 versions of Windows, 5 versions
of Linux  and BeOS can see & use these items. What the heck is wrong
here in OS/2?


HPT
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