re: New Network Hard Drives compatible with 98SE (Follow-Up)
Saturday, February 28, 2009 at 8:54 am
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by C K
(6680 messages posted)
It should say what types of devices it supports. Without that knowledge, it is impossible
to tell.. Supporting a HDD is different than supporting a printer for example.
On Win 9X, there is not the same support built in thus, the need for extra installable
support. On top of that, the software needs to know that it should be looking for
a USB interface first, to get to the network protcols at the tail end. If the programmer
didn't code that scenerio into the program, then the drive won't be found at the
end of the line so to speak..
Every consumer level network drive I have installed, needed it's own software to
operate at the tail end, whether it was passed through USB first or not. That is
where you get into difficulty with the operating system and the software's support
thereof. When no one codes for it, it won't work. Realize also that the way in which
Win 9x was designed, is night and day different than NT (which is NT3, NT4, W2K,
XP and beyond) so drivers and most programs/applications (that are not standalone)
must be rewritten for NT, and in some cases the hardware is simply incompatible with
the way new code that would have to be written to work on an NT operating system.
Bottom line as Gewg says, if it doesn't specifically say Win 9X, don't give them
your money.
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