[arachne] Re: USB drivers Re: Missing configuration options

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Hi Folks,

On Tue, 25 Apr 2006 00:52:21 +0100
"Bastiaan T.Edelman" <bastiaan.pa3ffz@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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> On Sat, 22 Apr 2006 22:36:20 +0000, "patrice.lemonnier" 
> <arc.f.ruc@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > Joe.daSilva has sent to me the driver( Thank You very much JOE)
> 
> > I send to you the driver and my config.sys.
> 
> > Patrice LEMONNIER
> 
> Many thanks Patrice,
> 
> I did some experiments with this but was not able to get my cardreader
> working.
> Many choises can be made. The cardreader is installed now but cannot de
> read to or written.
> 
> Panasonic USBASPI.SYS seems to load correctly and is scanning the USB
> devices. The cardreader can be used for 4 different types of cards and
> all 4 are indentified correctly.
> 
> DI1000dd.sys does not find an installable device. I put it out of use.
> 
> NJ32DISK.SYS is loaded correctly, but...
> All cards are seen as 127MB cards and they are not.
> A card should be drive F: but drive F: cannot be approached without
> blocking the computer... that must be reset by cutting off the power.

    I found exactly the same when I first tried them.

    However, after much trial and error and re-reading of all the 
documantation, I found that the Panasonic USBASPI.SYS and the DI1000dd.sys will 
work, but you need to allow EMM386 to leave some memory addresses free -
from my config.sys:
...
DEVICE=c:\dos\himem.sys
DEVICE=c:\dos\emm386.exe RAM X=D000-DFFF i=B000-B7FF H=255 HIGHSCAN
    (it is the X=D000-DFFF that is the important bit. (D zero zero zero - DFFF))
DOS=HIGH,UMB
DEVICE=c:\aspi_usb.drv\panasonc\usbaspi.sys /v /w
DEVICE=c:\aspi_usb.drv\novac\DI1000dd.sys
Buffers= etc....

   Do not try DEVICEHIGH=  it will not work.  :(

ALSO:    Just typing:      cd h:    (or whatever your new "drive" is called) 
may get an error message, such as "invalid media: or "cannot read - Abort Retry 
Fail ?".   If this happens, type R for Retry.

   I get the same sort of response when I use Arachne - my computer - 
drive(new), and a second click gets me in.  I have also found that DOS 
Controller finds, AND READS, the cardreader immediately, as does DOS Navigator, 
as well as some stuff that I wrote myself.  Reads AND writes.

   This works for me using a FlashCard in the reader, but not a SecureData card 
that has been formatted for a Kodak EasyShare camera.

Good luck,

Regards,
        Ron

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