USB Flash driver probs

I thought it was specific to one machine, esp when I got the
SuperTalentFlash.com driver to work correctly on a seconf W98
machine. Except a few days later the second w98 machine didn't
recognise the USB flash drive any more.

But I had the SuperTalentFlash working fine for two years.

Before it I had bought another one and THAT never worked.

Mind you they BOTH worked on XP machines.

What gives? Any tricks for dealing with these problems?

If XP knows all USB drives fine, why can't someone make a universal
W98 driver that always works? It doesn't make sence that you need
multiple dirvers on w98 and no driver at all in xp.


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Wadda you folks think of this post on the net:

http://help.lockergnome.com/lofivers...hp/t22753.html

Another way of getting USB access on w98 (any) is by installing
Iomega's zipdrive software, even if you don't have/use this hardware.
Strangely (...), this installation software is able to force usb
support on most win systems (98, nt4, me, 2k). When I 'upgrade' an
older system, this package is on my tools cd.



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On Mon, 17 Oct 2005 01:19:08 +0000 (UTC),
put finger to keyboard and
composed:

I thought it was specific to one machine, esp when I got the
SuperTalentFlash.com driver to work correctly on a seconf W98
machine. Except a few days later the second w98 machine didn't
recognise the USB flash drive any more.

But I had the SuperTalentFlash working fine for two years.

Before it I had bought another one and THAT never worked.

There is a utility on your Win98 CD called "usbview.exe". It detects
and displays the parameters of all attached USB controllers, hubs, and
devices.

Usbview is also available he
ftp://ftp.microsoft.com/Services/Tec...se/USBVIEW.EXE

Mind you they BOTH worked on XP machines.

Although I'd expect it to be backwards compatible, is it possible that
a USB2.0 device may have difficulties with a USB1.1 controller ???

What gives? Any tricks for dealing with these problems?

I see something in the MSKB regarding an update for a problem
involving VIA USB chipsets and AMD CPUs faster than 350 MHz.

If XP knows all USB drives fine, why can't someone make a universal
W98 driver that always works? It doesn't make sence that you need
multiple dirvers on w98 and no driver at all in xp.

Seems like a fair question.

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