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re: Usb flash drive, Verbatim, 2GB
Friday, December 7, 2007 at 9:16 am Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by gewg_
(3487 messages posted)
|||I recently got a Verbatim 2GB lash drive
||| Michael W, Crane
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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