Command: usbdrive
USBDOS is a collection of different USB drivers and tools:
USBDRIVE is a DOS Driver for up to 8 SCSI-compatible USB Mass
Storage Devices.
Syntax:
USBDRIVE [Options]
Options:
/? Show this HELP screen
/A Show all ALIASES for these command line Options
/E Show all ERRORLEVELs (DOS Return Codes)
/U UNINSTALL from memory
/L:Y|N Force installation into LOW memory (Default = No)
/Dvcs:# Support a maximum of # USB Device/Interfaces (1-8, Default = 4)
/Dsks:# Support a maximum of # Disk/LUNs (1-16, Default = 8)
/Drvs:# Support a maximum of # DOS Drive Letters (1-16, Default = 8)
/Ltr:# Assign drive LETTERS starting with # (C:-Z:, default = C:)
/Dly:# Delay # seconds before accessing new disks (0-60, Default = 0)
/T:Y|N Assign drive letters to FAT32 partitions (Default = Yes if
DOS 7.1+)
/X:# Transfer a maXimum of # sectors at a time (1-64, Default = 1)
/R:# Reset USB Device Index # (0-7)
/Format # Low-level Format Disk # (80h-FFh)
/S Display current STATUS of program & disks
/D Display current status of USB DRIVES
/I Display INQUIRY data for all SCSI-compatible disks
/C Display CONFIGURATION (& other) descriptors of last
device found
/B Show list of BAD (incompatible) devices found
/F Show contents of various buFfers in TSR
/Q:# Show SCSI Additional Sense Code & QUALIFIER history for disk #
/Beep:Y/N BEEP Speaker when bad device is found (Default = Yes)
Comments:
USBDRIVE is too complex and too long to describe it completely in
htmlhelp. Please have a look into pages 141 till 164 of USBINTRO.DOC,
see links below).
For more information see:
https://gitlab.com/FreeDOS/drivers/usbdos/-/tree/master/DOC/DOSUSB
OR:
C:\FREEDOS\DOC\usbintro.doc (too big for edit, please use
another editor, e.g. Blocek!)
OR:
https://bretjohnson.us/
Examples:
usbuhci (only UHCI is supported at the moment!)
usbdrive
See also:
boundtst
drives
errorlevel/exitcodes
hidsupt1
inklevel
irq
ps2mtest
scantest
thrust
uni2asci
usbdevic
usbdos
usbhosts
usbhub
usbjstik
usbkeyb
usbmouse
usbprint
usbsupt1
usbuhci
usbuhcil
vendorid
Copyright © 2008 Bret E. Johnson, help version 2023 W.Spiegl.
This file is derived from the FreeDOS Spec Command HOWTO.
See the file H2Cpying for copying conditions.