External USB Enclosure : Any DOS driver?

[Drakkon]

I'd like to use my generic USB enclosure in a dos prompt...as currently configured comp has no room for a cd rom drive
So is there any way to do this and give this drive a letter in DOS? Any flavor of dos will work so long as it can be booted from a floppy...and of course the aspi drivers (as i assume i would have to use) are able to fit there as well...

 

[Zepper]

Info from recent posts on AT:
Here is an article with links to drivers that supposedly offer USB support under DOS: USB for DOS .
. Another pertinent article (thanks to: TechIMO ): Battle of the DOS USB drivers .
.bh.
:moon:

FYI: The AT forums do have a SEARCH feature - then there's always Google. He helps those who help themselves.

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There are additional discussions here:

http://www.computing.net/dos/wwwboard/forum/13447.html

http://www.computing.net/dos/wwwboard/forum/13288.html

Using the information in the first Computing.Net discussion thread I created a Windows 98 boot disk (for FAT32 support) with the following in the CONFIG.SYS file:

DEVICE = USBASPI.SYS /W
DEVICE = DI1000DD.SYS
LASTDRIVE=Z

Much to my amazement I was able to access my generic USB flash/pen drive, right off the bat, the first time from the version of DOS included in Windows 98.

.bh.
:sun:

 

[Drakkon]

did use search/google/etc...tried those articles...didn't work.... Hopeing someone had come up with a new method since these seem to be getting ever popular

 

[Zepper]

There are two drivers you have to load, one from the Panasonic web site and one from the M Hairu site.
. Either one alone won't do it and they have to be loaded in the correct order: 1- ASPI layer (MHairu should work with all), 2- device driver (Pana et al). You may need to use some of the settings from the articles.
. What's the IDE->USB chipset in your enclosure and what device are you trying to use in there?
.bh.
p.s. there are several internet vendors that sell Norton SystemWorks Pro 2003 very cheaply in the OEM version (9software, directdeals, computersworth etc.) that includes Ghost.
.bh.

 

[Drakkon]

HAd the panasonic driver
Had the hairu driver
loaded up panasonic and it wasn't detecting i even had any USB controller....
tried some switches....still not detecting....reset bios...checked bios...still no detection...
plugged in a mouse to usb and it powered up so i know there was something going on wiht that at least...
finally after a couple hours and a combo of probobly more switches than i actually need did i get the thing working just for USB though
So I guess it was right...the panasonic USB drivers are the way to go if you want USB in dos...they may take some tweaking but they work

 

[konfushus]

I second the use of the panasonic USB driver. Very easy and very compatible with my IDE --> USB2 enclosure with a Maxtor 7200 RPM 120GB IDE drive.

I actually purchased a copy of Ghost 2003 hoping that the USB DOS drivers would work. However, they don't work with this particular USB enclosure or something. Now, the USB enclosure has a USB2 controller, and my USB is only 1.1 on the motherboard. I believe that the USB DOS driver included with Ghost is not written to accomodate that. But I could be wrong.

The other part of the driver is a copy of guest from Iomega which assigns a DOS drive letter so that it would be accessible by drive letter. This also fails miserably.

My advice, use the panasonic drivers. Finding the driving using google is trivial. I haven't tried anything but FAT32, which works well. I wasn't sure that the drivers would recognize a NTFS partition.

-j-