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DOS USB Floppy Drive
Name: Craig Bailey Date: April 20, 2000 at 20:17:51 Pacific
Comment:
Does anyone know of a manufacture that makes a USB Floppy that will operate in DOS? I am designing a system that does not have a legacy floppy port and will need to boot DOS for service and repair operations. Normally it will boot Windows 2000 from a hard disk drive.
Name: Kev Date: April 21, 2000 at 07:20:45 Pacific
Reply:
Read other remarks further down. DOS does not support USB, Nor will it, as far as we can tell. All this talk about the floppy disk being dead is a load of rubbish. Users need access to machines as well. So a floppyless system will not get my vote.
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