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re: Usb flash drive, Verbatim, 2GB
Friday, December 7, 2007 at 9:16 am
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Posted by gewg_ (3487 messages posted)


|||I recently got a Verbatim 2GB lash drive
||| Michael W, Crane
|||
Is that the lash drive you have to tie to the top of your car
or the one that hits you with a bullwhip?  8-)

|||I need to find a driver for Win98
|||
Ah.  This old chestnut.
http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=site:annoyances.org+"forum+win98"+intitle:usb+intitle:drive
Especially
http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=site:annoyances.org+"forum+win98"+...+toastytech


|I have 4 Kingston and 3 PQI USB flash drives and each size needs different drivers
| Keith Stanier
|
I don't think Keith burned his offerings to the USB gods
in quite the proper way.  ;-)
I almost never see a failure report WRT these "universal" drivers
and Keith's report of *mass failure* is unique in my observation.

|You will find when gewg_ reads this
|he will make a comment about these Windows 98 USB Mass Storage Device Drivers,
|he's used them and found they work.
|
Yup.  The attempt here is to make a "universal" device driver.
The one Keith mentioned is from Maximus Decim and is a good one.
Nathan Lineback has an even better one (covering even more devices/brands). 
cache of http://toastytech.com/files/cruzerwin95.html


||When a driver works for one but not another, it's almost certainly
||because it has been tailored very precisely to a particular model spec
|| Alan Masterman
||
Well, kinda: "model" is right; "spec" isn't.
More specifically:
What is missing from those drivers is **that** device's *Plug 'n' Play ID number*.
Capitalism being what it is, a manufacturer isn't going to go to any trouble
to assure the data for the gear of *his competition*
is included in the driver he supplies for *his* gear.

Hackers (such as the 2 mentioned) have no dog in this fight,
so they put EVERYTHING THEY CAN FIND into their personal versions.

I don't even recommend farting around with the manufacturers' drivers;
go get the **universal** one straight away.
Only if that doesn't work do I advise looking on the mfr's site.




Written in response to:
re: Usb flash drive, Verbatim, 2GB (Keith Stanier: Friday, December 7, 2007 at 4:40 am)

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All messages in this thread [show all]
-Usb flash drive, Verbatim, 2GB (Michael W, Crane: Thu, Dec 6, 2007, 3:45 am)
*re: Usb flash drive, Verbatim, 2GB (Carl: Thu, Dec 6, 2007, 7:11 am)
-re: Usb flash drive, Verbatim, 2GB (Alan Masterman: Thu, Dec 6, 2007, 3:24 pm)
-re: Usb flash drive, Verbatim, 2GB (Keith Stanier: Fri, Dec 7, 2007, 4:40 am)
*re: Usb flash drive, Verbatim, 2GB (gewg_: Fri, Dec 7, 2007, 9:16 am)
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