Subject: DOS USB Free DOS
From: "rotaryeng@earthlink.net" <rotaryeng@earthlink.net>
Date: 11/1/2015, 2:08 PM
To: A10-me-earthlink



Hey Paul,

I started a discussion going on the FreeDOS user mail list concerning
usability of USB ports with FreeDOS.  I've attached the email chain for
your perusal.

I'm not sure exactly what use you envisioned with USB ports on DOS so
maybe you could give FreeDOS a try with your intended USB application to
see if it works.

FreeDOS is free as in speach and as in beer so the cost of experimenting
should be low.

  Mark LaPierre

That is good news Mark. Does QB run on it. If so I will give it a try.

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Subject: USB
From: Mark LaPierre <marklapier@aol.com>
Date: 10/31/2015, 6:05 PM
To: freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net

Does FreeDOS support USB ports?


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Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] USB
From: "Thomas Mueller" <mueller6723@twc.com>
Date: 11/1/2015, 12:58 AM
To: freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net

from Marc LaPierre:


Does FreeDOS support USB ports?


Sort of.  I believe USB support is from the BIOS or UEFI.

I believe USB keyboards are OK, not sure about USB mice.

My experience with USB sticks in FreeDOS is that they are treated as fixed disks: must be present at boot, and FreeDOS won't recognize a change of USB sticks.

Others on this list might be able to give a better answer.


Tom


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Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] USB
From: Mateusz Viste <mateusz@viste.fr>
Date: 11/1/2015, 1:01 AM
To: freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net

On 01/11/2015 02:05, Mark LaPierre wrote:

Does FreeDOS support USB ports?


FreeDOS, as any other DOS I know, doesn't. But there are drivers out 
there that can talk to xHCI controllers and map mass storage USB media 
to DOS drives.

Bret kindly provides such drivers under an open-source license:

http://bretjohnson.us/

There is also this proprietary blob from Panasonic:

http://www.pcxt-micro.com/dos-usb.html

I haven't tested any of the above, sorry.


Mateusz


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Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] USB
From: Rugxulo <rugxulo@gmail.com>
Date: 11/1/2015, 10:32 AM
To: "Discussion and general questions about FreeDOS." <freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net>

Hi,

On Sun, Nov 1, 2015 at 2:01 AM, Mateusz Viste <mateusz@viste.fr> wrote:


On 01/11/2015 02:05, Mark LaPierre wrote:


Does FreeDOS support USB ports?


Bret kindly provides such drivers under an open-source license:

http://bretjohnson.us/


IIRC, that is UHCI only, so unlikely to work on all machines. Still,
far better than nothing.

As mentioned, sometimes the BIOS can pretend a USB drive is a hard
disk, if plugged in at boot time.

A separate issue is actually booting from a USB jump drive, e.g. RUFUS
and/or PLoP Boot Manager:

a). http://rufus.akeo.ie/
b). https://www.plop.at/en/bootmanagers.html

Though I'm not sure exactly what the OP wanted to accomplish.

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