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USB DI1000DD.SYS Div 0 Error
Name: westwood Date: August 20, 2004 at 08:35:23 Pacific OS: MSDOS 6.22 CPU/Ram: P4
Comment:
Trying to get a flash drive up and running under DOS. When config.sys loads: devicehigh=USBASPI.SYS /v /w The flash drive seems to be enumerated. However, when: devicehigh=DI1000DD.SYS loads, I get a div by zero error message. Any suggestions? I have tried numerous switches, and also ensured that the flash drive was formatted as "FAT", not "FAT32".
Name: 4004 Date: August 21, 2004 at 01:33:15 Pacific
Reply:
Have you tried just using the DEVICE= lines as the first two entries in CONFIG.SYS ?
You are using the version 2.15 Panasonic USB ASPI driver I presume ?
http://www.mwpms.uklinux.net/usbfire.txt
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Response Number 2
Name: Jones Date: August 27, 2004 at 00:28:41 Pacific
Reply:
try DEVICEHIGH=DI1000DD.SYS /H1 /H0
good luck ps are you using dos7?
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Response Number 3
Name: Deckard Date: September 15, 2004 at 03:18:19 Pacific
Reply:
Hard disks have so called Master Boot Record in the first physical sector. This record contains information about partitioning of physical disk and logical disk sizes.
Some USB Drives can be formatted not only as HDD, but as floppy or ZIP drive. DI1000DD.SYS presumes HDD logical structure on device, so this driver reads somewhere 0(instead of expected non-zero value) and divide by 0.
You have to check format utility for your USB Drive and try to format USB Drive in HDD mode. But FORMAT command or simple format disk from Windows cannot help here, because the trouble is in Master Boot Record (or something like this), not in Boot Sector.
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