I have a CNC machine that uses a pentium computer for the brains. The CNC software does not use windows and I believe windows was removed from the machine. Can a USB card still be added to this computer to emulate or replace a floppy drive? Thanks, eric R snow
FWIW, my Gigabyte board (GA-7N400 Pro2) will read and write to a PNY Attache flash drive from MS DOS 6.22. It will only do this if the flash drive is plugged in during boot up. It surprised the devil out of me when I found the drive letters re-assigned the first time.
The HDD is 3 partitions, 2 gig FAT 16 MS DOS, 2 FAT 16 gig shared area,
115 gig NTFS for Win XP. Don't know if other boards do this.Glenn Gundlach
If you don't have windows, you have to have some other OS (Operating System). It would depend very much on what that OS is and what version of said OS you are running as to whether or not you can use USB flash drives. Even if it were running windows you would need a version that is new enough to support USB flash drives. You need to find out what OS and what version you are running.
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Thanks for the info. Eric
I have a pny thumb drive. I'll look for that board and see if it works. Thanks, eric
Does the software look like "windows" software or look like DOS software (ugly green screen?)??? I have seen tons of software that does a good job of hiding the OS and usually a call to the vendor would find out how to get to it.
Install FreeBSD OS, and then use the DOS emulator to run your DOS programs. Use another disk just to try it out first :-) DOS drive files/info could be transfered to the USB Flash disk using FreeBSD.
Drives mounted under FreeBSD might be directly accessible via the emulated DOS. Other UNIX flavours could used. It might just be worth a try.
Gerhard
Have a look at the following URL
These guys seem to sel USB drivers for DOS
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