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USB CDROM drives for dos

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I have an HP USB External CD writer. I wish to use that in Dos Mode as a simple CDrom drive so i can access installation files. Is it possible? Please Help

Name: Mark
Date: August 17, 2002 at 02:03:05 Pacific

Reply:

Sorry, but DOS does not support USB.

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Name: fool
Date: August 17, 2002 at 21:25:26 Pacific

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sorry mark, but i beg to differ. I have seen usb drivers for dos somewhere on this board, and they do work, although are generic. you can use a cd-rom driver that allows you to specify i/o, and irq to mount a cd-drive on the usb bus (in theory) although dos does not, in it's native mode, support usb - it can be done!

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Check out the UBS DOS drivers on my site: http://www.boomspeed.com/darkehorse/PC/DOS/Drivers/USB/index.shtml I recommend the Cypress Driver, it seems to work the best. -Michael

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