DOS ain't dead - USB 2.0 driver for DOS available

USB 2.0 driver for DOS available - DOSUSB (Announce)

posted by Japheth , Germany (South), 30.06.2010, 07:57

> after loading the usbdisk.sys driver you can use int25/int26 (absolute disk
> read/write) to access logical disk sectors of the USB disk. You have to
> define a parameter block here since the partition is >32 MB.
>
> So if you use DOS and not a different OS you can use these interrupts
> instead of int13.

Thanks for your reply! As Bret already noted, you can use int 25h/26h only when the stick is formatted in a special way - mine are formatted as "hard-disks", with a MBR, so int 13h is needed for accessing the first 63 sectors.

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USB 2.0 driver for DOS available - DOSUSB - georgpotthast, 20.06.2010, 15:41 (Announce)
- USB 2.0 driver for DOS available - DOSUSB - Japheth, 20.06.2010, 16:53
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