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Date:	Sun, 11 Dec 2005 23:11:11 PST8
From:	"Steven Levine" <steve53@earthlink.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Removable drives in BIOS

In <439CB259.5020405@charter.net>, on 12/11/05
at 03:11 PM, Ray Davison said:

>I have had DOS see a USB drive. But I have not played with it enough to
>know if it something I could always depend on.

It's going to depend on the BIOS. It's really the much same thing as a
BIOS providing legacy support for USB mice and keyboards.

>I think that is spelled "Win only MB". Whatever effort - if any - to
>support other OSs will always be in catch up mode.

The feature set is driven by Microsoft, but they are hardly Windowns only.
Linux will run just fine on the these MBs. The specs are all available.

Steven

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