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"Jim" wrote in message
... I am not a gamer. I don't know. This is a bit like a dosgame though. The USB 2.0 needs a floppy that is dos and it is UHCI driver with some other component software for Active@ Disk-Image.net program. Beware . . . 1. What your USB devices need is drivers i.e. OS files. These files may be stored on a floppy and that floppy may conveniently formatted for DOS but no USB device. "needs a floppy that is dos." 2. Device drivers are hardware-specific. You may have difficulty making a particular program run from a particular device, but no USB drivers are specific for any particular program. -- Don Phillipson Carlsbad Springs (Ottawa, Canada) |
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These are good points, and it is exactly where I am stuck.
The drivers and some app.exe have made the USB device program specific for that disk image program. I copied over to a EBD [Emergency Boot Diskette] the driver aspiUHCI.sys and let the program have access to the driver, but still not working. I also thought that MS win98se upgrade cd would have this type of driver, but it does not. This is circa 2002 USB 2.0 hi-speed drivers 15-480 MB/sec ... "Don Phillipson" wrote in message ... "Jim" wrote in message ... I am not a gamer. I don't know. This is a bit like a dosgame though. The USB 2.0 needs a floppy that is dos and it is UHCI driver with some other component software for Active@ Disk-Image.net program. Beware . . . 1. What your USB devices need is drivers i.e. OS files. These files may be stored on a floppy and that floppy may conveniently formatted for DOS but no USB device. "needs a floppy that is dos." 2. Device drivers are hardware-specific. You may have difficulty making a particular program run from a particular device, but no USB drivers are specific for any particular program. -- Don Phillipson Carlsbad Springs (Ottawa, Canada) |
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In order to use a USB device from a DOS boot you need to have drivers for
the USB as well as drivers for the device. Getting those drivers setup up for an EBD requires that the drivers are on the floppy and that they are correctly referenced from CONFIG.SYS and (possibly) AUTOEXEC.BAT. If the EBD you are using creates a RAM disk (because the startup files are too large to fit on a floppy) then configuring the whole disk correctly is quite difficult, and I would avoid it if possible. I don't entirely understand your problem, but I do not believe it will be useful to set up with an EBD disk with drivers for that device. It seems more likely that you will get it to work under Windows using a simplified Windows setup and installing the device drivers as provided by the application supplier. A clean boot startup might be helpful for diagnostic purposes, but you will need to know how your USB drivers and the drivers for that USB device are installed and set up within Windows in order to know what is OK to disable and what's not. It is unlikely that completely disabling CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT will prevent USB and the device working, but if the device is specially configured to work with that software only then anything is possible. (It's quite possible that the device is provided with a custom driver that works for that software only - this is common where hardware manufacturers believe they can improve performance by creating a custom interface, or possibly for security reasons. In that case the supplier should have detailed instructions for installing and using the driver in all circumstances - Windows, DOS boot, etc. There may be other drivers that allow general access to the device, but if I understand the problem correctly that's not important for now.) Note that Windows 98 (original or upgrade) couldn't possibly have the correct drivers for a device created in 2002 unless that device was carefully designed to conform to a standard that was in use in 1998. Even if that was the case, it's likely that W98 would not recognise the device type and would not be able to find matching default drivers, even if they existed. Much sharing of an IRQ isn't a problem provided that all devices are working. You should uninstall devices that you don't need for the present task or which aren't working properly. If you can't uninstall them for some reason, at least diable them. -- Jeff Richards MS MVP (Windows - Shell/User) "Jim" wrote in message ... These are good points, and it is exactly where I am stuck. The drivers and some app.exe have made the USB device program specific for that disk image program. I copied over to a EBD [Emergency Boot Diskette] the driver aspiUHCI.sys and let the program have access to the driver, but still not working. I also thought that MS win98se upgrade cd would have this type of driver, but it does not. This is circa 2002 USB 2.0 hi-speed drivers 15-480 MB/sec ... "Don Phillipson" wrote in message ... "Jim" wrote in message ... I am not a gamer. I don't know. This is a bit like a dosgame though. The USB 2.0 needs a floppy that is dos and it is UHCI driver with some other component software for Active@ Disk-Image.net program. Beware . . . 1. What your USB devices need is drivers i.e. OS files. These files may be stored on a floppy and that floppy may conveniently formatted for DOS but no USB device. "needs a floppy that is dos." 2. Device drivers are hardware-specific. You may have difficulty making a particular program run from a particular device, but no USB drivers are specific for any particular program. |
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I will give that windows simplified setup approach a try. ( I believe that
this is a custom software write [floppy] and although the EBD says it only needs the driver and configuration to autoexec they do need the correct reference and syntax to work.) "Jeff Richards" wrote in message ... In order to use a USB device from a DOS boot you need to have drivers for the USB as well as drivers for the device. Getting those drivers setup up for an EBD requires that the drivers are on the floppy and that they are correctly referenced from CONFIG.SYS and (possibly) AUTOEXEC.BAT. If the EBD you are using creates a RAM disk (because the startup files are too large to fit on a floppy) then configuring the whole disk correctly is quite difficult, and I would avoid it if possible. I don't entirely understand your problem, but I do not believe it will be useful to set up with an EBD disk with drivers for that device. It seems more likely that you will get it to work under Windows using a simplified Windows setup and installing the device drivers as provided by the application supplier. A clean boot startup might be helpful for diagnostic purposes, but you will need to know how your USB drivers and the drivers for that USB device are installed and set up within Windows in order to know what is OK to disable and what's not. It is unlikely that completely disabling CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT will prevent USB and the device working, but if the device is specially configured to work with that software only then anything is possible. (It's quite possible that the device is provided with a custom driver that works for that software only - this is common where hardware manufacturers believe they can improve performance by creating a custom interface, or possibly for security reasons. In that case the supplier should have detailed instructions for installing and using the driver in all circumstances - Windows, DOS boot, etc. There may be other drivers that allow general access to the device, but if I understand the problem correctly that's not important for now.) Note that Windows 98 (original or upgrade) couldn't possibly have the correct drivers for a device created in 2002 unless that device was carefully designed to conform to a standard that was in use in 1998. Even if that was the case, it's likely that W98 would not recognise the device type and would not be able to find matching default drivers, even if they existed. Much sharing of an IRQ isn't a problem provided that all devices are working. You should uninstall devices that you don't need for the present task or which aren't working properly. If you can't uninstall them for some reason, at least diable them. -- Jeff Richards MS MVP (Windows - Shell/User) "Jim" wrote in message ... These are good points, and it is exactly where I am stuck. The drivers and some app.exe have made the USB device program specific for that disk image program. I copied over to a EBD [Emergency Boot Diskette] the driver aspiUHCI.sys and let the program have access to the driver, but still not working. I also thought that MS win98se upgrade cd would have this type of driver, but it does not. This is circa 2002 USB 2.0 hi-speed drivers 15-480 MB/sec ... "Don Phillipson" wrote in message ... "Jim" wrote in message ... I am not a gamer. I don't know. This is a bit like a dosgame though. The USB 2.0 needs a floppy that is dos and it is UHCI driver with some other component software for Active@ Disk-Image.net program. Beware . . . 1. What your USB devices need is drivers i.e. OS files. These files may be stored on a floppy and that floppy may conveniently formatted for DOS but no USB device. "needs a floppy that is dos." 2. Device drivers are hardware-specific. You may have difficulty making a particular program run from a particular device, but no USB drivers are specific for any particular program. |
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