OS/2, eCS & ArcaOS - Technical > Storage
USB Floppy Drive Setup.
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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