Can USB/Flash drives be seen/used in DOS?

[LiamC]

Floppies really give me the irrits.

I could burn onto CD/CDRW, but a thumb drive seems much easier.

Sometimes still I absolutely have to boot into DOS from a floppy.

 

[Stereodude]

You can boot into DOS from a USBkey/memory stick on some newer systems.

 

[Mercutio]

Actually, IBM branded machines have been able to boot USB devices for as long as they've had USB ports.

Ghost - about the only non-game DOS program I use - can see some Firewire and USB drives. Depending on the hardware in question, you might be able to configure your DOS machine as a LAN manager client and map to the drive (on another machine) through that.

 

[CityK]

A short while back I mentioned I had some good resources (articles, discussions, drivrs) about booting usb with dos. Well, here they are (in no particular order):

http://www.bootdisk.com/usb.htm
http://www.stefan2000.com/darkehorse/PC/DOS/Drivers/USB/
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=10215
http://www.computing.net/dos/wwwboard/forum/13447.html
http://www.computing.net/dos/wwwboard/forum/15115.html
http://radified.com/cgi-bin/YaBB/YaBB.cgi?board=general;action=display;num=1095438251
http://www.msfn.org/board/lofiversion/index.php/t36123.html
http://www.freedos.org/freedos/news/technote/179.html
http://fd-doc.sourceforge.net/faq/cgi-bin/viewfaq.cgi?faq=General_Information/219
http://newdos.yginfo.net/usbdos.htm
http://www.hollants.com/external_usb_controller_chips.html

 

[LunarMist]

Yes, and it is also possible to boot from a CF card and USB 2 reader. I have several utilities on a old 128MB card which is otherwise useless. Drive Image, Parturition magic, old versions of Ghost, and True Image work fine.

 

[LiamC]

CityK--you da man!