said:
>>What you are asking is the
>>same as asking why the OS/2 USB drivers don't support every existing USB
>>device.
>I didn't think that I was. The OS/2 MSD USB drivers seem to support most
>of these kinds of devices. I suspect that most of them follow a
>standard.
You are, in a way. Most is not the same as all. There are standards, but
the standard for a USB CDROM is not the same as the standard for a MSD.
Think about your broadband wireless card. It is entirely standards based,
but that did not mean that it could be used, out of the box by OS/2. Most
of the reasons for this were/are OS/2 driver limitations, but the end
result is the same. It does not "just work."
>I wouldn't have expected it to do that without any way to tell it where
>to find it.
It's a file. The file has a name. There's a bit more to booting from the
content of this file than just finding it.
>I was hoping that it would copy the structure to the
>directory. But that appears not to be the case.
I'm not quite sure what it tried to copy to the memory stick. I would
have expected RSJ to the track file, just as it did whe you pointed RSJ to
a hard drive. Perhaps, the stick needs to be formatted HPFS for this to
work.
>I told it exactly the same thing. I pressed the same button that seems
>to copy it to the media, though with the CD, I had to "finalize" it.
It's likely as I suspected. RSJ knows the difference between a hard drive
and a CD writer and takes this into account.
>Unless I told it only to write a bootable image to a specific directory
>on the volume, which is what I thought it would do.
Well, know you know that this is not quite what happens.
Steven
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