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Using external USB floppy emulator inside DOS?

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First post, by Synaps3

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Will the device be accessible and show up as A: or B:? I have no experience using external USB floppy drives and can't find an answer to this after extensive searching. Everybody seems to use them in Windows.

To elaborate. I have a Vortex86 based mini PC board. It supports DOS and uses an SD card as the C: drive. The only peripherals it has are COM, LPT, and USB. I installed DOS from a bootable USB flash drive. Now that it's installed, I want to get some kind of floppy support in DOS so I don't have to remove the SD card to transfer files.

So, will I be able to get a GOTEK (or similar) external USB floppy and have DOS treat that as a real internal floppy drive?

Systems:
BOARD | RAM | CPU | GPU
ASUS CUV4X-D | 2GB | 2 x PIII Tualatin ~1.5 GHz | Radeon HD 4650
DELL DIMENSION XPS 466V | 64MB | AMD 5x86 133MHz | Number Nine Ticket to Ride
Sergey Kiselev's Micro8088 10MHz | 640KB | Trident VGA

Reply 1 of 1, by timw4mail

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If the BIOS can see the USB Floppy, it should show up as A:. I'd say that if there's a USB floppy option or similar in the BIOS, this is more likely to work.

I'm not sure about a floppy emulator, but provided it looks like a floppy drive to the bios, it should show up in dos that way.

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