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USB Floppy Drive Setup.

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Dave Yeo:

--- Quote from: Roderick Klein on August 12, 2025, 02:23:48 pm ---Interesting its not turned on by default floppies:1. It should be plug and play.

--- End quote ---

All my config.sys's seem to be the same with floppies:0. Can't remember if there was an option in the installer about it. Perhaps the config.sys should have more documentation in itself in the form of REM statements.

Dan Eicher:
My config had a floppies = 0, which would make sense as I didn't have the device plugged in during installation.
It was easy peasy to change that to a 1.

I was then able to reboot and access a: perfectly.

But... and you knew there would be a but.

When I went to start a DOS session full screen to do the install, that worked, BUT... the darn keyboard quit taking input.

I was able to get to the CAD menu, but it also wouldn't accept any key strokes.

Anyone have any clues as to what that's about?

Thanks,
Dan



Dave Yeo:
How does your autoexec.bat look? Perhaps rem out the DOSKEY stuff?

Dan Eicher:
I commented out the DOSKEY line on the T530, no change, no keyboard input.

The DOSKEY line, that I commented out, is the same as on a virutalbox install that works just fine.

I've included my config.txt, in case that might help.

Thanks,
Dan

{0}[c:\] cat AUTOEXEC.BAT
@ECHO OFF
ECHO.
PROMPT $i$p$g
REM SET DELDIR=C:\DELETE,512;S:\DELETE,512;T:\DELETE,512;Z:\DELETE,512;
SET WIN3DIR=C:\OS2\MDOS\WINOS2
PATH=C:\OS2;C:\OS2\MDOS;C:\;C:\OS2\MDOS\WINOS2;C:\SYS\MDOS\BIN;C:\TCPIP\DOS\BIN;

LOADHIGH APPEND C:\OS2;C:\OS2\SYSTEM
SET TMP=C:\var\temp
LOADHIGH C:\SYS\MDOS\BIN\2GBFIX.COM >NUL
LOADHIGH DOSKEY FINDFILE=DIR /A /S /B $*
LOADHIGH MOUSE
REM DOSKEY EDIT=QBASIC/EDITOR $*
SET DIRCMD=/A
SET TEMP=C:\OS2\MDOS\WINOS2\TEMP
SET ETC=C:\TCPIP\DOS\ETC

Dave Yeo:
Perhaps create a program object for  your  program and play with various DOS settings under the session tab. There's a few KBD settings and even things like INT_DURING_IO might affect things

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