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Date:	Sat, 26 Jul 2008 06:39:40 -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,
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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