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Eric R Snow

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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
 
Eric R Snow wrote:

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


If you don't have windows, you have to have some other OS (Operating
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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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Eric R Snow wrote:
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
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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
 
On Thu, 07 Jul 2005 14:34:47 -0500, Chris W <1qazse4@cox.net> wrote:

Eric R Snow wrote:

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


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.
Thanks for the info.
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Eric
 
On 7 Jul 2005 13:48:39 -0700, stratus46@yahoo.com wrote:

Eric R Snow wrote:
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
I have a pny thumb drive. I'll look for that board and see if it
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works. Thanks,
eric
 
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Eric R Snow wrote:
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
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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
 
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.


"Eric R Snow" <etpm@whidbey.com> wrote in message
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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
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"Eric R Snow" <etpm@whidbey.com> wrote in message
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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
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Have a look at the following URL

http://www.computing.net/dos/wwwboard/forum/14618.html

These guys seem to sel USB drivers for DOS

Gerhard v d Berg
 
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