Hi Dick:
Regular COM ports and LPT ports will work just fine (the
built-in ones). The ByteRunner PCI cards with their
DOS drivers will work fine. USB adapters for COM and
LPT ports won't AFAIK (As Far As I Know). Anyone
found these with working DOS drivers anywhere?
You are just running DOS, and DOS doesn't know about
the USB stick...as you pointed out, it just thinks it's running
from C:.
73,
Mark, KD4D
>
>
> In a message dated 11/12/2004 9:45:45 PM Central Standard Time,
> k4xu@bendcable.com writes:
>
> I took the thumb drive over to WA7AJ's house and stuck it into the USB port
> on his XP laptop. We hooked up a null modem cable from it to my W98 laptop
> and had an instant TR network. This was something we COULD NOT do at FD with
> his computer. I don't have an XP machine at home so I can't check out LPT
> keying or talking to my radio on COM1, but I think it's there. Worth a try.
>
> This 128MB USB drive came from Costco about a year ago for $39, prices have
> dropped since. You could use other kinds of solid memory but they have to
> appear as boot drive choices in your BIOS !!!
>
> YMMV. I am no computer guru but this was pretty simple.
>
>
>
>
>
> Dick,
>
> Great work! By having a bootable memory stick, you basically have a virtual
> DOS computer that you can transport in your pocket and use on any XP
> machine. The advent of USB external hard drives has necessitated a bios
> that
> will
> boot from USB, it even is available on some later Win98 machjines, I believe.
>
> All the major players, including Best Buy, Circuit City and CompUSA all have
> the 128mb sticks for $19.95 after rebate this week. Notably, CompUSA has
> the 256mb for $29.95 after rebate.
>
> I'm assuming you are writing the Log.dat, reset.bin and bandmap files
> directly to the stick. Do you back up to a floppy, or can that go to the c
> drive?
> BTW, I successfully tested two sticks running as seperate drives on a
> multiport USB adapter, so you could back up files from one to the other.
>
> If possible, could you write this up in detail and even share your files?
> It would seem that you could zip these files, and they could be downloaded
> directly to a stick off the internet. I think this is a breakthrough that
> could
> keep the old DOS programs alive (and even enhanced due to the speed of the
> stick drives) for many years to come.
>
> Again, thanks for the good work!
>
> Paul, K5AF
>
> Paul Schaffenberger
> 210-493-6265
> 210-213-5914(M)
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