SpinRite use freedos to run. When you boot SpinRite it boots into freedos. That's the operating system he uses.
Ron Spruell Sr. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark Knecht Sent: Thursday, May 08, 2008 2:05 PM To: freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [Freedos-user] USB hard drive support (non-booting) under FreeDOS? Hi, Completely new to the list. First post. Be gentle. ;-) I have a program called SpinRite used for checking hard drives. On the Gibson Research page they state that if I can see drives under DOS then there's a good chance that SpinRite can test the drives. I'd like to try that under FreeDOS. (Note that they use FreeDOS on their bootable distribution.) The input I got from their tech support folks was that it's hit and miss WRT the USB controllers in the specific machine but I've got a number of machines that I could try so hopefully I've got a chance. I'm looking for any reasonable solution that might allow me to do this. My ideas are: 1) A prebuilt FreeDOS ISO image that has some USB drivers in config.sys supporting OHCI, EHCI or UHCI USB controllers, as well as supporting a CD-ROM. With this I could try running SpinRite from a second CD after booting FreeDOS. I've done this with FreeDOS already and it works but the FreeDOS ISO image I downloaded doesn't seem to support USB. 2) Failing that (or in addition to) I'd like to build my own FreeDOS bootable CD where I set up the drivers I want to load. I've found a couple of USB DOS drivers that I could try if I placed them in config.sys. If there some other way to try this I'll take any inputs. I'd even be fine with running FreeDOS in a Linux terminal if it can access the drives via the Linux kernel. Thanks in advance, Mark ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by the 2008 JavaOne(SM) Conference Don't miss this year's exciting event. There's still time to save $100. Use priority code J8TL2D2. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;198757673;13503038;p?http://java.sun.com/javao ne _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by the 2008 JavaOne(SM) Conference Don't miss this year's exciting event. There's still time to save $100. Use priority code J8TL2D2. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;198757673;13503038;p?http://java.sun.com/javaone _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
