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Fri Jun 27 2003, 12:19
Yes, there are USB drivers for DOS...Miracledriver from Panasonic Japan does the unthinkableBy Fernando Cassia
HAVING AN EXTERNAL USB cdwriter or hard disk works wonders as long asyour operating system is in good shape. But if someday the system stopsbooting, you are lost. Booting from good old MSDOS or Windows boot diskettes even fitted with the needed third party NTFSDOS or EXTFS drivers gives youaccess to your fixed hard disk only, but none of the USB peripherals can beaccessed from the DOS command line.
Before you start scratching your head, let me repeat that this is not related toyour favorite linux distro's or Windows XP/W2K/98/ME's USB support, this has todo with people like me, booting some flavor of DOS to copy files around or usingDOSbased partition backup software.
Imagine that you want to use Paragon Drive Backup, Powerquest's Drive Image,or Norton Ghost, to backup your hard disk partitions to that nice 120gb externalUSB 2.0 hard disk you just bought. You can't do it. Or if your wife/husband hasmanaged to mess up her/his system so badly that it can't boot anymore, yetshe/he wants you to have a copy of those nice digital pictures stored on acompactflash card plugged into the compactflash reader?. No way, Jose. Notfrom DOS, used to be the phrase.
Well, now you CAN.
The minor miracle here is using a driver file called "USBASPI.SYS" ("Panasonicv2.06 ASPI Manager for USB mass storage"). Given the right parameterincantations, this 16bit Panasonicdeveloped DOS driver will let your systemboot goodold DOS any flavour, maybe even Caldera's OpenDOS and recognizeall USB devices connected to the respective controllers. So this USB deviceidentification is also useful for debugging/troubleshooting purposes.
However, it should be noted that this driver will only map mass storage deviceslike external hard disks, cd roms, cdrw, dvdrom, zip, jaz, ls120, and flashmemory to ASPI devices. Then you need an elusive "ASPI mass storage driver"to map HDs and flash disks it to a drive letter in DOS. This one goes by thename "di1000dd.sys", commonly referred to as the "Motto Hairu USB Driver".Don't ask why, it's called that, I don't know.
Before you continue reading and decide to go out and do "bad things" let memention that legalese on the Panasonic site most probably prevents you fromdownloading and using this driver on nonPanasonic devices, yet according toreports that are floating around on the Interweb, people have been able to usethese "universal drivers" on a wide range of systems with different USBconnectivity, UHCI, OHCI, and USB 2.0's EHCI with the NEC chipset.
The Panasonic DOS drivers seem to work on most USB chipset implementations,including Intel and NEC, as well as NVidia, VIA, and SIS. It seems Panasonicengineers didn't want to have to write a driver every time for every differentchipset, so they wrote this "universal" driver to work with all possible USBcontrollers.
Now the hairy details for DOS oldtimers like myself who actually enjoy editingconfig.sys [Cough. Ed.]:
The driver switches you can use are: device=(path)USBASPI.SYS [/e] [/o] [/u][/w] [/v] [/l[=n]] [/f] /r] [/slow] [/nocbc] [/norst] [/noprt]
The driver scans all three USB controller specs by default, but you can limitwhich controllers are enabled using these switches:
/e EHCI spec (USB 2.0) /o OHCI spec (newer USB 1.x) /u UHCI spec (older USB 1.x)
And so far I learned what these switches mean:
/w Wait, displays text message for attaching or swapping USB devices /v Verbose, shows status messages recommended /l[=n] LUN, specifies highest LUN # to be attached to device ID (default=0) Example config.sys and autoexec.bat files on a DOS boot diskette with USBsupport for an usb cd(rom/rw) and hard disk look like this:
[config.sys]
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DOS=HIGH,UMB lastdrive=Z device=HIMEM.SYS rem The following line loads Panasonic's universal USB controller driver devicehigh=USBASPI.SYS /v /w /e rem the following is an aspi mass storage driver for usb connected HDs andcompactflash memory cards devicehigh=DI1000DD.SYS rem The following one loads CDROM driver devicehigh=USBCD.SYS /d:USBCD001
[autoexec.bat] @echo off REM the following line adds a drive letter to the usb cd(rom/r/rw) mounted LH MSCDEX /d:USBCD001
The Panasonic driver also seems to recognise some TI cardbus controllers,making it possible to use USB peripherals attached to USB (even 2.0!) Cardbuscards. Your mileage might vary. Knowledge of the Japanese language might berequired to read and understand the Panasonic licence agreement or the ceaseanddesist letters. Explore at your own risk.
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L'INQs Panasonic v2.06 ASPI Manager for USB mass storage USBASPI.SYS (Look for the "F2H" subdirectory after extraction of the downloaded archive) FTP site: Motto Hairu Mass Storage ASPI drivers
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