4 Oct
2020
4 Oct
'20
11:18 a.m.
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On Oct 4, 2020, at 1:07 PM, Fred Cisin via cctalk
<cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
I think it?s the laptop BIOS faking the USB as a standard floppy to DOS.
On Sun, 4 Oct 2020, Will Senn wrote:
I am using a Thinkpad T430 w/DOS 6.22. If I can figure out how to get 3.31 on there,
I'll give it a shot. I bought a Floppy-USB connector for my old 1.44 floppy drive and
it works fine with DOS 6.22, but I'm not sure where to locate 3.31 media that I could
burn onto a 1.44 floppy and boot. I have sealed IBM DOS 3.3 media, but I don't think
my T430 is really compatible :). So, I'm not keen on opening the seal...
I'm curious.
6.22 did not have native USB support - that didn't come about until WIN98SE.
Are you running CONFIG.SYS drivers for it?
If you can find an original copy of COMPAQ MS-DOS
3.31, that was originally available on 1.2M and 1.4M
Zenith MS-DOS 3.31 is another popular choice.
Try to find it, rather than opening the PC-DOS 3.30. 3.30 (and all earlier) did not
support HDD >32M, although there were ways to cheat that limitation, such as the
network redirector (with MSCDEX) coul make a local drive LOOK like it was a network drive
elsewhere.
Great to know, thanks!
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Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin at xenosoft.com