[Freedos-user] USB hard drive support (non-booting) under FreeDOS?

2008-05-08 Thread Mark Knecht
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

Re: [Freedos-user] USB hard drive support (non-booting) under FreeDOS?

2008-05-08 Thread Ron Spruell
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:

Re: [Freedos-user] USB hard drive support (non-booting) under FreeDOS?

2008-05-08 Thread Mark Knecht
Ron, Thanks. I understand that. However the FreeDOS on that CD doesn't have support for USB hard drives. From what I can tell I need to add a USBASPI driver. From what little I remember about DOS I have to add that in config.sys, and that means editing something and burning a new CD that has