Usb Dos

[Al_The_Man]

Of the methods out there for configuring USB port to work from DOS, Has anyone found a particular method and/or USB Memory stick combination that works well? If so what brand of Mem. stick?
Al.

[Bubba]

Al,
I have been using a series of drivers that are built into the autoexec/config files on bootup and successfully used "Super Talent" and "Sans" thumb drives with it on my dos based cnc. It also will allow "setting" the drive letter for consistency sake.

My config.sys file looks like this:
rem device=USBASPI.SYS
rem device=Di1000dd.SYS
rem device=aspiehci.sys /int /all
lastdrive=z
rem device=aspiohci.sys /int /all
device=aspiuhci.sys /int /all

You will note that I have rem'd out all but one device and this one works for me so far and have put only that one device on the drive.

the Autoexec looks like this:
rem @echo off
guest.exe letter=E
mouse.com
path=c:\;c:\dos
cd\t
Turbocnc

I chose that device driver as during testing, it is the one that worked with my thumbdrive. The intent in not loading the others at the time was thought to eliminate possible interreaction if they were loaded in memory. Wanted to keep it as clean as possible.

EDIT: if you would like to use this system, let me know and I will send you the files:})

[Al_The_Man]

With help from Art (Bubba), I eventually managed to get a thumb drive working in DOS7.1.
The only thing it did not like was in the existing Config.sys file.
DEVICE=C:\EMM386.EXE NOEMMS
Al.