[arachne] Re: DELL P4 LAPTOP WITH USB FLOPPY DRIVE

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Brian C. Murphy schrieb:
> If anyone has any experience using standard floppy's with a USB floppy 
> drive, I would appreciate your comments.

If you are booting from USB-FDD then DOS will work with the floppy as
normal. The BIOS should support booting from USB-FDD, if not you are out
of luck with USB-FDD booting.

Otherwise if you are booting from harddisk/cd then it's not sure
whenever you can access the USB-FDD, seldom the BIOS offers an option
USB legacy support for mass storage, see
http://grub4dos.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/USB_booting#USB_legacy_support

I did never keep care if DOS USB drivers also support USB-FDD, you have
to check it out yourself.
http://www.unet.univie.ac.at/~a0503736/php/drdoswiki/index.php?n=Main.USB

If all cords break you can still use either eltorito floppy emulation or
grub4dos (memdisk like) device emulation and images.

-mr
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