Recently I decided to use the USB ports on my computer. I bought a 4GB memory stick, which I tried to connect the windows 98.I have installed the Generic USB Mass Storage Device Driver (NUSB 3.3 available at ). The device was datected (Sony USB mass storage) and I was able to read (see) the contect of USB stick, but I was unable to copy anything onto HDD. The activity LED of flash drive blinked, but the copy progress dialog did not appear. Destination file was created, but had a size 0kb.So I decided to use Windows ME. I didn't need to install the Generic USB Mass Storage Device Driver on this system. The device was detected and I was able to read (see) and copy the files, but only the small files (about 10MB).
When I try to copy larger file then after some time there is error displayed (file not available). Drive assigned to the unit for a moment disappear and appear again, but then you can only see the contents and device's LED is blinking all the time. The device is usable again after system restart. It is possible to copy files again, but only small ones.Could someone advise how to solve this issue. Is this a software or hardware issue?Newbie Posts: 22 Joined: 2015-7-23 @ 07:03.
Could it be possibly something to do with the new USB stick having problems with pre-USB 2.0 ports?If you happen to have an XP rig which still has some USB 1.1 ports to rule out if it's a hardware issue (in this case it won't work in any USB 1.1 port, no matter what OS you use) or a software issue (if it works in XP, then it might be related to something about 9x in general).The large file you were trying to copy from the USB drive.it wasn't larger than 2GB? Iiuc the older 32 bit OS's had some issues with files exceeding 2GB.Other than that, I don't know. Tetrium wrote:Could it be possibly something to do with the new USB stick having problems with pre-USB 2.0 ports?If you happen to have an XP rig which still has some USB 1.1 ports to rule out if it's a hardware issue (in this case it won't work in any USB 1.1 port, no matter what OS you use) or a software issue (if it works in XP, then it might be related to something about 9x in general).Maybe I will try to install other operating system (Windows 2000, Windows XP.) just to check if the USB stick is working fine with these USB ports. Brotalnia wrote: You don't need third party drivers to use flash drives in Windows 98. The default Microsoft driver works fine, you just have to insert the Windows 98 installation cd when it ask you for drivers and it'll find it there.Incorrect.
Win98 doesn't support the USB mass storage device class by default, required for flash drivers to work in a generic way, so you need to provide vendor drivers,which will add the support, but in a per-vendor/per-device fashion.From Win9x OS family, only Windows ME has support built in for UMS, and will recognize flash drives without 3rd party drivers. Member Posts: 163 Joined: 2015-5-15 @ 16:44. Brotalnia wrote: You don't need third party drivers to use flash drives in Windows 98.
The default Microsoft driver works fine, you just have to insert the Windows 98 installation cd when it ask you for drivers and it'll find it there.Incorrect. Win98 doesn't support the USB mass storage device class by default, required for flash drivers to work in a generic way, so you need to provide vendor drivers,which will add the support, but in a per-vendor/per-device fashion.From Win9x OS family, only Windows ME has support built in for UMS, and will recognize flash drives without 3rd party drivers.So i am imagining things and the hundreds of times i've transferred files to my windows 98 pc through usb didn't actually happen?
Go try it yourself! Do a clean install of Windows 98, insert a flash drive and tell it to search for drivers on the installation cd. It finds a driver, installs it and works.
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No need to download anything.Newbie Posts: 26 Joined: 2015-5-14 @ 12:33. @brotalnia: You might have just been lucky that the USB sticks you were using had drivers that shipped with Windows, but looking around on Google, most people aren't so lucky.I guess you could edit the.inf files for some of the drivers to make them work with other devices, but I did find for 98SE, except it's source only so you have to compile it yourself. I wonder whether anyone has the 98DDK set up to try it out? If it works they could distribute the compiled driver to make the process easier.Oldbie Posts: 597 Joined: 2006-6-11 @ 02:24 Location: Brisbane, Australia.