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Georg Potthast's DOSUSB (Announce)

posted by Japheth , Germany (South), 07.09.2008, 18:56

> the largest file i can find is 8mb so i copied it over and over in several
> nested directories. r/w works ok for me, but it really is slow. and if
> dosusb is not accessed for sometime, there is a delay the next time it is
> accessed. the behavior is similar to a cdrom that has spinned down.

Ok thanks, so there are conditions where it will work, apparently. Because for me it does not. I can copy small files to the stick, but usually it crashes. It's also common that the whole disk is trashed then and must be formatted. No problems with this stick in Windows.

FYI, I also did a few tests with "superfloppy" format, that is, there's no MBR on the disk, just a FAT file system. AFAIKS USBDISK cannot handle this.

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MS-DOS forever!

Complete thread:

• Georg Potthast's DOSUSB - Laaca, 06.09.2008, 01:04 (Announce)
  • Georg Potthast's DOSUSB - Japheth, 06.09.2008, 12:51
    • Georg Potthast's DOSUSB - tikbalang, 06.09.2008, 15:12
      • Georg Potthast's DOSUSB - tikbalang, 06.09.2008, 17:23
        • Georg Potthast's DOSUSB - Japheth, 06.09.2008, 19:50
          • Georg Potthast's DOSUSB - tikbalang, 07.09.2008, 03:55
            • Georg Potthast's DOSUSB - tikbalang, 07.09.2008, 06:00
              • Georg Potthast's DOSUSB - Japheth, 07.09.2008, 18:56
                • OT: HX in VPC2004 SP1 - rr, 07.09.2008, 19:24
                  • OT: HX in VPC2004 SP1 - Japheth, 07.09.2008, 20:03
                • Georg Potthast's DOSUSB - RayeR, 13.09.2008, 05:44
                  • Georg Potthast's DOSUSB - rr, 13.09.2008, 19:00
                    • Georg Potthast's DOSUSB - RayeR, 14.09.2008, 00:00
                      • Georg Potthast's DOSUSB - rr, 14.09.2008, 16:20
                        • Georg Potthast's DOSUSB - RayeR, 14.09.2008, 18:46
                        • Georg Potthast's DOSUSB - DOS386, 15.09.2008, 05:33
                          • Georg Potthast's DOSUSB - RayeR, 29.09.2008, 02:51
                            • Georg Potthast's DOSUSB - ecm, 29.09.2008, 09:33
                            • Georg Potthast's DOSUSB - Japheth, 01.10.2008, 12:59
                            • Georg Pott ... | fixed ZERO-bug, DISKSPY not - DOS386, 04.10.2008, 04:44
                              • Georg Pott ... | fixed ZERO-bug, DISKSPY not - RayeR, 07.10.2008, 11:04
                                • Georg Pott ... | fixed ZERO-bug, DISKSPY not - ecm, 07.10.2008, 14:49
                                • Georg Pott ... | fixed ZERO-bug, DISKSPY not - RayeR, 10.10.2008, 04:04
                                • Georg Pott ... | fixed ZERO-bug, DISKSPY not - DOS386, 16.10.2008, 00:54
                                  • Georg Pott ... | fixed ZERO-bug, DISKSPY not - Japheth, 16.10.2008, 18:43
                                    • Georg Pott ... | fixed ZERO-bug, DISKSPY not - DOS386, 18.10.2008, 01:02
                  • Georg Potthast's DOSUSB - Laaca, 14.09.2008, 10:09
                    • Georg Potthast's DOSUSB - RayeR, 14.09.2008, 18:36