[WarpCast] USB Removable Media support released - 8/31/99




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Source: Erico Mendonca (slaughter@malaconet.org)
Moderator: Christopher B. Wright (wrightc@dtcweb.com)
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There's a new package on the Device Driver 
Pack for USB Removable Media drives (beta), 
dated Aug 26th. 

Here's the long description:

"This USBFLPPY.EXE driver package provides 
you with IBM's most current support for 
Universal Serial Bus (USB) Removable Media 
devices
on the OS/2 Operating System. 

This driver package supports standard 
removable-media I/O operations with the 
following exceptions: 

    Formatting of LS120 Media is not 
supported 
    Boot capability has not been defined by 
the USB Organization and is currently not 
supported 

The USBFLPPY.EXE package supports the 
following removable-media USB devices and 
compatibles: 

    Floppy Diskette Drives 
        Inter-Cable Systems iFloppy-USB 1.44 
MB Floppy Diskette Drive 
        Newer Technology uDrive External USB 
1.44 MB Floppy Diskette Drive 
        VST Technologies VST USB 1.44 MB 
Floppy Diskette Drive 
    LS120 Drives 
        Imation SuperDisk USB 120 MB Drive 
        Winstation USB Super Disk 120 MB 
External Drive 
    ZIP Drives 
        Iomega 100 MB External USB Zip Drive 

Note: The USBBASIC.EXE package is a 
PRE-REQUISITE for the USBAUDIO.EXE package. 
USBBASIC.EXE must be installed prior to
installing USBAUDIO.EXE. "


These drivers may be found at:
http://service.software.ibm.com/os2ddpak

Look under "Universal Serial Bus", then 
select the brand (Iomega, Imation, etc). 
They all point to the same package.


-- Erico Mendonca




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