[Discussion] USB installation

[Thomas Clayton]

Mark,

You have to have the DRIVERS to get anything to work. EVEN the lowly parallel port requires a '32-bit' driver to work with Warp / eCS. (The 16-bit "real-mode" ones in the BIOS do NOT suffice for our OS/2.) So we _HAVE_TO_ load (via CONFIG.SYS) something to MAKE the USB host communicate with our OS and, then, something to 'operate' the specific devices ON the U. S. Buss. Once THIS is done, THEN attaching should 'painless'.

Maybe, this is NOT what you were referring to. In which case, sorry for wasting the bandwidth! :-)


Sincerely,

Thomas Clayton


--- On Tue, 6/22/10, Mark Brueggemann <brueggemail-list at yahoo.com> wrote:

> From: Mark Brueggemann <brueggemail-list at yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: [Discussion] USB installation
> To: "POSSI Discussion List" <discussion at lists.possi.org>
> Date: Tuesday, June 22, 2010, 7:30 AM
> 
> --- On Mon, 6/21/10, Phil Parker <phil at math.wichita.edu>
> wrote:
> 
> > No, why?
> 
> Every other data appliance I use USB drives for - Doze,
> Linux, test
> equipment, my DVD player, even my TV set - you just plug in
> the drive
> and it's there.  I've never used USB on my eCS box and
> now that I see 
> that procedure, I won't even try.  It shouldn't be
> that hard.  USB
> drives aren't new.  Finding it somewhat incredible
> that there isn't
> some sort of native support for that in eCS by now. 
> Or maybe I'm
> missing something?
> 
> 
> Mark Brueggemann
> Albuquerque, NM