[Using Insyde BIOS on a NS Dorado platform] Has anyone had any success with a USB Disk on Key/Pen in DOS? I've seen some accounts on getting USB HDDs to work, but nothing about Disk on P/Ks. I've tried the DUSE drivers, and the closest i got was to have the driver detect me inserting and removing the DoK (pop up box), but it says something along the lines of "USB Mass storage device detected.... device could not be loaded". I've tried a 64Mb M-Systems DoK, and a Linksys (64mb). Both with approximately the same results. If anyone have any pointers i'd be more than happy to listen.

Have you been able to get the pens to work on Win98/ME/2K/XP? If so, is your USB Key/Pen pen formatted as FAT16/32? If answer to both is yes, I would try the Panasonic USBASPI.SYS driver - check out these links: http://www.computing.net/dos/wwwboard/forum/13288.html http://www.mwpms.uklinux.net/usbfire.txt If it still fails, do advise what type of USB you have onboard (Check out details in ControlPanel->System) HTH madmaxUSB

If this is your BIOS then it states in spec it has capibility to boot from USB Drive. http://www.insydesw.com/solutions/pc/mobilepro.htm If that is the case the check the BIOS to see if recognised drive/bootable device. if it is can bootup LT with a W98OEM boot disk from www.boot disk.com and type SYS C: at A:\ prompt. Therei s a similar device here which states DOS bootable http://www.optronix.co.uk/flashdrive.htm Please can you post back with any results.....

thanks for the info Madmax I tried the USBASPI drivers from panasonic, but it didn't work right... maybe? I used the /o /w /v switches and when it started up, it recognized the drive just like in the examples, then it went to the dos prompt as if everything was ok(?) but it seems it didn't map the usb drive to a letter? only my c drive was still mapped. I tried to add the di1000dd.sys drivers too. they list the drive like so: ------- L0= HD M-Systems Diskonkey L1= ??? Divide Overflow ------- then the boot hangs and i have to hard reboot. I'm still looking into this, any ideas? thanks a bunch

Well the panasonic USBASPI driver is OK as suspected, it seems that you need to find a Mass Storage Devcie Driver as the Novac one recognises device: LO is USB port 1 L1 is USB port 2 But gives memory error, have you used a minimal DOS disk ie Format A: /S and made you own config.sys file?? The only other mass storage device is the NJ32DISK.SYS version 1.06 {Medialogic Corp} available from http://www.datoptic.com/fwu2350.html download dat.exe file but will need to extract files in Windows 9x NT4 or later as it is a self-extracting boot diskette... Good Luck!

horray! thanks x86! that nj32disk.sys did the trick! my M-systems diskonkey if fully operational under DOS. The only thing i had to do was to format it in Windows 98 before i used it. I had it formatted in Win2k (format /fs:fat32 not ntfs) and it didnt work, but under win98 it did. thanks so much guys!!!!!

Could you please give a little more detail? Like list the contend of your autoexec.bat and config.sys. Thanks...