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| Answer» <html><body><p>The reason USB doesn't work as well as it does with 2000 and XP is simply because there was no provision for device classes; well, that's a lie... there was, but the only ones at the time were pretty much keyboards and mice- HID devices. Flash drives were pretty much just invented at the time; this is why every company pretty much has to <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/make-249948" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about MAKE">MAKE</a> their own driver; there was no abstraction of a generic "Storage device" class, so it's basically just a USB device.<br/><br/>I believe windows ME fixed this; it is no longer up to the driver to understand the device, but the device's job to understand the driver. (turns out that almost every mass-storage device did this already with draft specs)<br/><br/>the Generic Mass Storage Driver (Come to think of it, I'm not 100% sure it was included in the unofficial SP, I might have downloaded separately) either way, there is one available. (maybe it was <a href="http://www.technical-assistance.co.uk/kb/win98se-usb-mass-storage-drivers.php">this one</a>?<br/><br/>Now, of course it's not flawless, I've had issues with hot-plugging and sometimes it takes a few tries before I realize that windows 98 doesn't make the beep-boop sound like XP and open explorer myself, but aside from that it has worked quite well for me.<br/><br/>regarding actually <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/getting-2670847" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about GETTING">GETTING</a> these onto the target PC, only thing I can think of is to burn a CD-R or split the <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/file-11330" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about FILE">FILE</a> onto floppy disks.<br/><br/>That's the one I used, too. Worked on all devices except that one PNY.CC & BC,Thanks guys and very good input. Not very encouraging though. I have <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/definitely-431461" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about DEFINITELY">DEFINITELY</a> come to the <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/conclusion-249181" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about CONCLUSION">CONCLUSION</a> that this is an O/S created issue. As you undoubtedly noted from my earlier post i DID FIND a driver for the supposed "fix on 98SE" but that it did not work. However given that it is probably an O/S issue i believe that dooms soybean's alternative hardware solution to be doomed as well. New PCI usb port card will not remove the overriding issue of the O/S i would think? <br/>BC No the USB root hub does not appear in device manager. I will try the "this one" link and see if it does anything--will advise.Quote from: truenorth on December 21, 2009, 09:05:25 AM</p><blockquote>BC No the USB root hub does not appear in device manager. I will try the "this one" link and see if it does anything--will advise.<br/></blockquote><br/>Ahh, well there's the problem. It's not necessarily a issue with the OS but rather the fact that the OS isn't even aware of the existence of the USB connectors.<br/><br/>you could try using the Add New Hardware wizard. with any luck it will detect it and install automatically.The Unofficial Win98 Service Pak was a 3 year project and could very well solve this.</body></html> | |