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[Edit]1 SubWiki: USB Mass Storage Device Boot Support Compatibility

Do the preparation of the device Systematically by DFSee:
 
 - attach, wipe, eject, shut-down + restart
 
    From the DFSee menu, the wipe is:
      Mode=FDISK ->
        MBR area operations ->
           Wipe start of disk to ZERO ->
              ... select disk to wipe ... 
 
 
 - attach, format -o:v, eject, shut-down + restart
    From the DFSee menu, the format is:
      Actions ->
        Format with FAT filesystem ->
            Current, OS2LDR.SEK Bootable
 
 - attach, fc/2 or xcopy mini-system tree to C:, eject, shutdown

     The mini-system is simply a prepared directory-tree with
     a minimum bootable OS/2 or eCS installation (about 5Mb) 


 - Boot from stick ->> Result ??
 
     Please specify the EXACT error message(s) in case of failure
 

Please use the USB Resource Manager - View Device Report - to get the Vendor and Product ID stored in the firmware.

The Current List of USB ID's - Input to USB Resource Manager (http://www.linux-usb.org/usb.ids) can be download form the link and stored in the directory of the USB Resource Manager.

[Edit]1.1 'No-name blue stick 128 Mb' USB 2.0 stick

Vendor  ID      : 04E8   Samsung / Dane-Elec
Product ID      : 0111   Connect3D Flash Drive 

failed

This stick causes the LVM subsystem to misbehave as soon as it is formatted as large floppy, LVM.EXE itself will fail to start saying 'Cannot open LVM Engine' and DFSee starts with ZERO partitions shown, no disks accessible. It claims a geometry on the stick using 1 sector per track.

2007-02-16 Almere the Netherlands  Jan van Wijk  (http://www.dfsee.com) 

[Edit]1.2 'Transcend JetFlash 32Mb' USB 1.1 stick

Vendor  ID      : 0C76   Transcend / JmTek
Product ID      : 0005   JetFlash 

works, takes about two minutes to boot to DFSee (or CMD.EXE)

2007-02-16 Almere the Netherlands  Jan van Wijk  (http://www.dfsee.com) 

Trying this SAME stick again with my current procedure, makes it FAIL with the 'usbuhcd.sys' file not found hang.

2007-02-27 Almere the Netherlands  Jan van Wijk  (http://www.dfsee.com) 

[Edit]1.3 'FreeCOM DataBar 128Mb' USB 2.0 stick (Media Markt)

Vendor  ID      : 07AB   FreeCom
Product ID      : FEF6   DataBar 128 

works, boots to DFSee menu in less than a minute on a Thinkpad T42p

2007-02-27 Almere the Netherlands  Jan van Wijk  (http://www.dfsee.com) 

[Edit]1.4 'Sandisk Micro Cruzer 512Mb' USB 2.0 stick

Vendor  ID      : 0781   Sandisk
Product ID      : 5151   Micro Cruzer 256/512 

failed

It has a new failure mode though, it starts booting, then says the 'usbuhcd.sys' is not in the correct location, then hangs ...

2007-02-27 Almere the Netherlands  Jan van Wijk  (http://www.dfsee.com) 

[Edit]1.5 'Apacer Handy Steno 512Mb' USB 2.0 mini-stick

Vendor  ID      : 1005   Apacer
Product ID      : B113   Handy Steno HT202/HT203 

works, boots to DFSee menu in 40 seconds on a Thinkpad T42p

It DOES give the same error about 'usbuhcd.sys' as the above, but continues to boot a few seconds after showing that.

2007-02-27 Almere the Netherlands  Jan van Wijk  (http://www.dfsee.com)

[Edit]1.6 'Apacer Handy Steno 1 Gb' USB 2.0 stick

Vendor  ID      : 1005   Apacer
Product ID      : B113   Handy Steno HT202/HT203 

works, boots to DFSee menu in 38 seconds on a Thinkpad T42p

It DOES give the same error about 'usbuhcd.sys' as the above, but continues to boot a few seconds after showing that.

I actually tested TWO different sticks in this 1Gb capacity, one advertized as 200x speed and expensive, the other cheap:-)

2007-02-27 Almere the Netherlands  Jan van Wijk  (http://www.dfsee.com) 

[Edit]1.7 'Sandisk Micro Cruzer 256 Mb' USB 2.0 stick

Vendor  ID      : 0781   Sandisk
Product ID      : 5151   Micro Cruzer 256/512 

failed

This stick causes the LVM subsystem to misbehave as soon as it is formatted as large floppy, LVM.EXE itself will fail to start saying 'Cannot open LVM Engine' and DFSee starts with ZERO partitions shown, no disks accessible. It claims a geometry on the stick using 1 sector per track.

2007-02-27 Almere the Netherlands  Jan van Wijk  (http://www.dfsee.com) 

[Edit]1.8 'Imation Imation USB - capactity 1GB' USB 2.0 stick

Vendor  ID      : 0718   Imation
Product ID      : 0285   Micro Cruzer 256/512 

failed

This stick cannot not format correcty - DEFSee Warning messages. Boot does not switsch form real to protected mode when using the stick. Messages " OS/2 cannot ...."

2008-02-03 Australia Tested by Ed Durrant - Add to Wiki by Rainer

[Edit]1.9 'UDISK PDU15_8G 7BI2.0 0.00 - capactity 8GB' USB 2.0 stick

Vendor  ID      : 1307   Laser
Product ID      : 0163   UDISK PDU15_8G 7BI2.0 0.00

works, boot on the ASUS EeePC

This stick cannot not format correcty - DEFSee Warning messages. Boot does not switsch form real to protected mode when using the stick. Messages " OS/2 cannot ...."

2008-02-03 Australia Tested by Ed Durrant - Add to Wiki by Rainer

[Edit]1.10 'Victorinox 2.0 Swissbit - capactity 1 GB' USB 2.0 stick

Vendor  ID      : 1370   Swissbit
Product ID      : 0321   Victorinox 2.0
Device Release# : 0002

Does not work correctly at T23 USB 1.1 port, obviously driver timing problem.

Does work at T43 USB 2.0 port.

Boot function not tested jet.

Product Information: SwissMemory (http://www.victorinox.ch/index.cfm?site=victorinox.ch&page=157&lang=D)

2009-09-27 Germany tested  by Rainer

Last changed: 27.09.2009 12:05 by Rainer D. Stroebel -