 USB
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As a general rule, USB is NOT supported in DOS. There
are companies and individuals who are producing USB stacks for DOS, but
nothing practical yet for the everyday DOS user. I hope to include all of
the software and information available on this page since this topic does
tend to pop up a lot on discussion boards.
| USB
support forums for DOS. |
New!
Come here if you are
having problems getting your device to work.
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I have not used any of this software personally (except
for the USB CD ROM boot disk and duse.exe), so I
can not vouch for their functionality. Use
at your own risk!
Iomega
USB / Firewire Boot Diskette - New!
This boot diskette supposedly supports Firewire and USB Iomega ASPI devices.
I have not tested this diskette so use at your own risk.
''Motto Hairu' USB Driver - This is a set of
USB Drivers which includes USBASPI.SYS driver below. A lot of people have
had success with these drivers. Here is a translation of the readme.txt
file.
USB
CD ROM Driver - USBASPI.SYS; Another USB CD ROM Driver. A visitor
told me about this and said he was able to use Ghost and this driver to
backup his hard drive to a CD-RW. Add a device reference to this driver
(device=usbaspi.sys) in your config.sys and then run MSCDEX or SHSUCDX
in autoexec.bat to bind the driver.
USB DOS CD ROM Boot
Disk -New!
(Recently updated this disk to include DUSE 4.4!) A Windows 98 Bootdisk
I made using the DUSE.EXE driver below. I created this diskette for those
folks having troubles getting DUSE to work with their USB CDROM drives.
Download and double click this program to create the diskette (you will
need to have a blank disk handy).
USB CD Rom Setup
- Modification for Windows 98 boot disks. Modifies a standard Windows
98 boot disk to use the usb_cd.sys driver below.
USB CD Rom Driver
- usb_cd.sys; driver included in the above package. Add device=usb_cd.sys
to config.sys
USB Mouse Driver #1
- USB Mouse driver fror OHCI devices.
USB Mouse Driver #2
- USB Mouse driver for UHCI devices
USB4Pas.zip -
A USB library/routine for sniffing USB packets under Pascal / DOS. Source
Cypress USB
Mass Storage Driver -New!
Version 4.4 of DUSE.EXE now supports USB 2.0!; WOW! What a great find.
This 'universal' device driver will work with USB Zip Drives, Hard Drives,
CD-ROM drives, floppy drives and something called MO drives. I was actually
able to read the contents of my USB CD-RW disk with this driver. Read
the instructions included with the package.
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USB4DOS
- A USB stack for DOS developers. Not for the common, everyday DOS user.
Quite pricey at $1000.00 US.
USB
in DOS -New!
A website with sample assembly code that shows how to scan the USB interface
for attached devices. If anyone is interested in possibly writing their
own USB driver, you might want to start here.
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