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Date:	Sat, 26 Jul 2008 10:20:11 -0700
From:	"Harry Motin" <hmotin@sbcglobal.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	< "scoug-help@scoug.com" > scoug-help@scoug.com >
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Use of USB Port for Storage Devices

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Hello Everyone,
Let me make an amendment to what I reported, below. I now know that I can boot, using

BASEDEV=USBMSD.ADD /REMOVABLES:4

in my CONFIG.SYS file. It just takes an awful long time. In addition, I cannot seem to
establish a volume, partition or format for the flash drive that I am trying to access.

Any help here is greatly appreciated. Thank you.
HCM

On Sat, 26 Jul 2008 06:38:48 -0700 (PDT), scoug-help@scoug.com wrote:

>Hello Everyone,
>Thank you for your help. I wrote my original E-Mail, while the SCOUG website/E-Mail
>was down. Since then I've done some research and I now understand that I've got to
>have either the USB mass storage device driver and/or the USB CDROM driver in my
>CONFIG.SYS. And I've tried that.
>
>Now my problem is that my system will NOT load, when I have either one or both of
>them in my CONFIG.SYS file. Specifically, I've tried using one or both of the following
>lines:
>
> BASEDEV=USBMSD.ADD /REMOVABLES:11
> BASEDEV=USBCDROM.ADD
>
>When I do, the system stops loading, when it gets to either one of the above lines in
the
>CONFIG.SYS. On my system it loads:
>
> BASEDEV=OS2ASPI.DMD /ALL
>
>and then it stops right there. Can anyone give me some advice of what the hangup
>might be?
>HCM
>
>
>
>
>On Fri, 25 Jul 2008 17:50:37 -0700, scoug-help@scoug.com wrote:
>
>>Glad (and Very Surprised) to see we are back online
>>again . . . tho' I'm sure it won't last long. ;-(
>>
>>--- Tom Brown wrote:
>>
>>> You need:
>>>
>>> BASEDEV=USBMSD.ADD /FLOPPIES:1 /A_USAGE:0
>>> /REMOVABLES:8
>>>
>>> Mine is right after USBHID.SYS.
>>>
>>> I would highly recommend that you get a copy of
>>> USBCFG, run it, RTFM, etc.
>>
>>_WHAT_ manual ??
>>
>>But all that aside:
>>
>>At this point, I must have at least 8 thumbdrives, of
>>various brands and sizes. I think all but one of them
>>have been usable straight away under eCS, as it comes
>>out of the install for 1.2 onward. The type you
>>should absolutely *avoid* are the U3 variety (like
>>from Sandisk), because they insist on presenting
>>themselves as two drives -- one of these taking the
>>form of either a CD or an HDD, I can't recall, but
>>probably the former -- and I don't think this can be
>>changed after the fact. It also wants to install a
>>bunch of software you don't need and don't want. This
>>is even a pain in the rear under Win, but ends up
>>being a real problem for us.
>>
>> Jordan
>>
>>
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