PCMCIA dos Driver??
Willard
2.0 external HDD's??
RobertVA
> Is there a generic dos driver for PCMCIA cards to support 1394 and USB
> 2.0 external HDD's??
Devices that weren't pretty common while Windows wasn't tend to require
drivers WRITTEN FOR DOS from the manufacturer of that particular device.
After a FEW years nearly all IBM PC compatible computers including
Windows peripheral manufacturers no longer considered spending money to
support DOS on new equipment cost effective. Many DOS compatible devices
were discontinued because of low sales and replaced with new models for
which the manufacturers only developed drivers for GUI operating
systems. You should inquire about a source of DOS compatible equipment
or include specific make and model information about the equipment you
are wanting to use under DOS.
Have you tested the software you are wanting to run to determine if it's
compatible with a Windows 9x virtual machine or Windows XP command
prompt? Some peripherals might be compatible with Windows' abilities to
capture virtual machine or command prompt output targeted to the LPT1:
"device". Output captured by Windows' LPT1" support may require
something to issue a "form feed" character to get the last page to print
(especially singe page printouts). USB storage devices (thumb drives,
external hard drives and camera chips in adapters) are usually available
to command prompt applications (file name length restrictions may apply).
To get the manufacturing price to a competitive level many ink jet
printers don't feature circuitry sophisticated enough to function with a
text stream similar to those produced by most DOS applications. Most of
that work is accomplished by the computer's CPU running the printer's
DOS drivers.
You might find a larger population of qualified respondents in a group
where DOS is the primary topic. Read the group descriptions here like
hard drive folders/directories. A few decades ago someone thought naming
a programming language "Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction
Code" created an opportunity for a clever acronym ("BASIC"). The "dos"
after the last period in this group's description distinguishes this
group from the group supporting BASICs running under other operating
systems (like CP/M, 8 bit Apple DOS, Tandy or Unix/Linux). There are
also groups here for Microsoft's "Visual..." development environments
(but not under microsoft.public.basic). Check with your ISP for
instructions to configure your news client (many people use Outlook
Express) for Usenet group. Many groups are also echoed in a web based
environment on Google Groups see:
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.ibm.pc.hardware/topics?lnk
RobertVA
> Is there a generic dos driver for PCMCIA cards to support 1394 and USB
> 2.0 external HDD's??
Whoops! a few typos:
"Output captured by Windows' LPT1" support may require something to
issue a "form feed" character to get the last page to print (especially
singe page printouts)." should be
"Output captured by Windows' LPT1" support may require something to
issue a "form feed" character to get the last page to print (especially
single page printouts)."
"Most of that work is accomplished by the computer's CPU running the
printer's DOS drivers." should be
"Most of that work is accomplished by the computer's CPU running the
printer's Windows drivers."
Willard
My computer has a 1394 port that quit working and the USB port only
copies files at 150MB/min....
I am trying to use Ghost 2003 to clone my C:\ drive to an external
PCMCIA HDD..
Ghost recognizes the drive, but when it goes into it's PCDOS for
cloning, it won't run..
I was hoping to use a Ghost MSDOS boot floppy, if I had a PCMCIA driver
to put in the config.sys..