Why are Win98 USB Memory Stick drivers not generic ?

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"Mike S." wrote:


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Andreas Koch wrote:
Hi,

USB Flash memory sticks work on XP without requiring
a driver. On Win98, you need to install a driver
for every type of memory stick you use.


Windows ME generic USB Mass Storage drivers for Win98SE

http://www.3721pc.com/soft/soft/1196.htm

"Andreas Koch" wrote in message
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David wrote:

LOL Thats nice. You always this rude???

I'm not rude. If you want to interpret me rude,
thats your problem.

and your question is quite stupid.

LOL Thats nice. You always this rude???

"Why are Win98 usb memory stick
drivers not generic??" Why ask that here nobody here
manafactures them. Win98 is quite old now you know and in
a lot of cases just not supported anymore.

I know that and it doesn't have anything to do with the
problem, as far as my technical horizon allows me to
recognize.

Win98 is able to make contact with any USB device (otherwise
it couldn't detect it and ask for drivers).
Everything beyond the point of contact is just a matter
of protocols. If the "standard usb stick protocol" would
be "send 01 sectors wanted address of sectors wanted"
then obviously one driver would work for all sticks.
So, either the protocols are different - but then WinXP would
either have to include drivers for all protocols - which
is impossible as there are sticks newer than XP - or XP
would have a generic driver and custom Win98 drivers would
be generic in nature too but have some artifical lock that
prevents them to work with other manufacturers' sticks.

I hoped perhaps someone here allready digged a bit in the
internals of this matter and can tell me more on the subject
from a technical point of view.

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Andreas
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or you could contact a stick manufacturer OR Ms and see if they would even
respond, you self absorbed pipsqueek. Yes, you are rude, speaking in a
logical, dispassionate manner doesnt make you less rude.
Remember, NO ONE here gets paid for this, so at least be a bit
appreciative of FREE tech advice/help/support/concern.
Just my personal thoughts here...

EdK

That's a very good question. Frankly, I suspect USB stick vendors
simply don't want their drivers to support other sticks, and look for
thier own brand markers or refuse to work.

Remember how one always had to have the "right" driver for ATAPI
CD-ROM drive's DOS support, until Win98's generic OakCDROM.sys blew
all that nonsense away?



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