Reply 24400 of 52818, by Intel486dx33
wrote:I have one of these I been wanting to use for my old laptops that don't have a cdrom.
How does it work?
Can you setup a DOS boot disk or Windows 95/98 boot disk to load the driver for this device so you can boot from it with a boot disk ?
It has a special driver for use within pure DOS mode.
You boot to DOS, then run a LOADCD.BAT which loads the drivers and MSCDEX so you can use it in DOS before running the full install for it.
But you can't boot directly from the drive.
The reason I wanted this one is because it has a built in 16-bit sound card. Pretty sure it is ESS-1688 based which also means it has ESFM.
Sound is not usable from pure DOS, but still a good solution for running DOS games from within Windows.
There are also older models which had a sound card option. The sound driver is the same for all.[/quote]
Yes, I think you can customize a DOS or Win95/87 startup boot disk to load backpack drivers even if you have to use 2 or 3 floppy disk.
You can put a "Pause" command in the Autoexec.bat file and then swap out floppies and load more drivers.