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1. USB floppy (A-drive) on eCS 1.1
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Hello,

I 've installed eCS 1.1, from CD, on a portable (where no more floppy is on and without USB-floppy connected).
Now I want to make use of a USB-floppy.
I disconver that eCS is not (yet) plug-and-play for USB. (or I am wrong?)

What USB drivers do I need to have my A-drive back on my USB-floppy drive?
USB basic + USB MSD?

regards

Date: 11 Apr, 2007 on 19:20
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2. Re:USB floppy (A-drive) on eCS 1.1
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PHE (11 Apr, 2007 19:20):
Hello,

I 've installed eCS 1.1, from CD, on a portable (where no more floppy is on and without USB-floppy connected).
Now I want to make use of a USB-floppy.
I disconver that eCS is not (yet) plug-and-play for USB. (or I am wrong?)

What USB drivers do I need to have my A-drive back on my USB-floppy drive?

USB basic + USB MSD?

regards


Hi

USB seems fairly "plug'n'play" here but I have never tried a USB floppy...

If you are talking about using the USB drivers supplied with eCS1.1 I suggest that you update all USB and IDE drivers - and maybe others available - with the latest packages available from ecomstation.

There is a tool available called eCSMT which you can also download from ecomstation and which may help in keeping the system up to date. The downside is that you have to do a bit of reading to work out how to use it


There is a useful USB configuration tool available which will help configure USB drivers to your requirements http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/os2/system/usbcfgb7a.zip


To finally answer your question

In your config.sys file:-

You need however many of whatever type of controller(s) is/are available to your system - the usbbasic install should handle that. As a "for example": If you have 1 USB2 and 2 USB1 controllers you should see something like this in config.sys after installing usbbasic:-

BASEDEV=USBEHCD.SYS
BASEDEV=USBOHCD.SYS
BASEDEV=USBOHCD.SYS
BASEDEV=USBD.SYS
BASEDEV=USBHID.SYS

Note the USB1 lines (BASEDEV=USBOHCD.SYS) could be different and may use BASEDEV=USBUHCD.SYS instead - just a different type of USB1 controller

You need usbmsd package installed - the installer will probably opt for the default of
BASEDEV=USBMSD.ADD
which is the same as
BASEDEV=USBMSD.ADD /FLOPPIES:1 /REMOVABLES:1

The default may well work fine for you as you only mention the 1 USB floppy and no other USB drives. The above default also defaults to using the USB floppy as drive A: unless you specify otherwise in the parameters.


Hope that helps

Pete

Date: 12 Apr, 2007 on 02:14
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3. Re:USB floppy (A-drive) on eCS 1.1
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Hope that helps

Pete


Thanks Pete,

I will give it a try !
I will come back with the result !

regards,

Phe,

Date: 12 Apr, 2007 on 11:10
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4. Re:USB floppy (A-drive) on eCS 1.1
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Hello Pete,

Here are the results of my testings :

I looked for actual drivers of USB-basic and USB-msd. (I've found version 10.162 on the ecom-site. I've downloaded them.

I directly started to install these 2 packages as descripted in the corresponding read.me files.

=> no success with this installation. I saw that the floppy led sometimes was activated, sometimes not. When I asked access to the floppy, the diskette was not recognised.
I played around with corresponding USB-settings (in config.sys) and commands found in the install dir, and all of a sudden I got access to the floppy.

I tried to reproduce what I've done. But I could not reproduce it.

I tried to desinstall and reinstall the USB-basic and USB-msd packages.
desinstall : I only removed all USB-lines in the config.sys
I tried to reinstall. But by the installation of USB-msd I got errors.

I did a new desinstall (now I removed all usb-lines in + I removed also all corresponding USB-files in \os2\boot)

And now installation was successfull.

And what do you guess ?

Yes I directly got access to the A-drive ! !

So bottomline :

Before you begin installation of USB-basic and USB-msd :
Remove all USB-statements in config.sys
Remove all corresponding files in \os2\boot (you must remove read only flags ! ! )
Reboot system
Install USB-basic
Reboot system
Install USB-msd
Reboot system
Adapt USB-parameters in config.sys (if needed)
This last line was needed in my case.

These lines were added to the end during the installation.

code:

BASEDEV=USBUHCD.SYS
BASEDEV=USBUHCD.SYS
BASEDEV=USBUHCD.SYS
BASEDEV=USBEHCD.SYS
BASEDEV=USBD.SYS /REQ:USBUHCD$,USBOHCD$,USBEHCD$
BASEDEV=USBHID.SYS
BASEDEV=USBMSD.ADD
BASEDEV=USBCDROM.ADD

(3 times USBUHCD.SYS and 1 USBEHCD.SYS because HCIMONIT reported that 3 UHCI and 1 EHCI were found on the system)


Thanks for your hints Pete.

I hope this can help others also.

Regards,

PHE

Date: 13 Apr, 2007 on 07:13
USB floppy (A-drive) on eCS 1.1
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