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Date:	Sun, 16 Jan 2005 09:24:13 PST8
From:	Jerry Rash <rashj@pacbell.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: USB Hard Drive

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>Original Message:
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>From: sshapiro@ucsd.edu (Sandy Shapiro)
>Subject: SCOUG-Help: USB Hard Drive
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>I have an external USB hard drive I would like to access from OS/2, but
>even though I have installed what I think are the correct drivers, OS/2
>does not see the drive. Windows sees the drive as "USB Mass Storage
>Device."
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>I suspect I need additional drivers and would appreciate any suggestions.
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>I can't tell you for sure, because I don't really understand this, and
>there are various pieces that make up the USB stack. IIRC, the basic eCS
>1.1 install was not up to snuff regarding the USB stack. Still, without
>recourse to the McKinnis system update tool, I managed to update a couple
>components of the USB stack (this probably included USBMSD) on my own, in
>one of my two eCS 1.1 partitions. As a result, I now have pretty good use
>of USB there, though maybe not as good as it can be. The most important
>functionality is there, though, such as plugging in a flash drive, like the
>SanDisk Cruzer Mini. (You can get the 512M version of this for around $45.
>at Costco, and I recommend it highly.) Also, I've been able to make good
>use of a USB DVD-burner, for copying CDs via RSJ. (DVDs would be another
>story, because then you get into the extra vagaries of the UDF modules.)
>Anyway, I haven't tried an external USB hard drive in this situation, but I
>don't see why it should be any different.
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>eCS 1.2, once you get it installed successfully, should solve your problem
>straight "out of the box", I think. If you are still using Warp 4 with MCP
>fixpacks, I don't know how much of this may apply.
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>Good Luck.
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>Jordan
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You need the USBMSD.sys driver loaded. (USB Mass Storage device
driver). It is installed with eCS 1.2 .
I have only been able to get USB harddrives 20gig and under to work with
it however... Also if the device has been used on a windows system, You
will need the fat32 IFS driver in order to read the existing data on the
drive or share it with a windows device.. (Downloadable from the eCS site.

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