generic 98 SE mass storage driver

Hey all,

after years of ignoring old 98 SE I have to return and clanly set up
many PCs with 98SE (Toshiba Satellite Pro 4600). The PCs will get
cloned from one master image.
So I want to include as little drivers as possible but as many as
needed for that generic machine to get the image from.

I was wondering if there is a generic solution for USB mass storage (PC
has USB 1.1 ports)
I found this in this NG
>This is claimed to be a generic USB mass storage driver for W98SE (by LexarMedia):
> http://www-user.tu-chemnitz.de/~heha...Mass%20Storage...

and was wondering, if there are others out

Do they support external hard drives as well ?
(and up to what size ? Is there a 128 GB boundary as well for external
FAT32 drives ?)

Can I support all / many current USB Sticks with that too ? eg Sandisk
Cruzer ..etc)


tia
w.b.

I can't get your link to work, but it is probably the same driver as described here:
http://www.technical-assistance.co.uk/kb/usbmsd98.php

It states it works with many USB flash drives, cameras, hard drives, mp3 players,
and PSP. I have used it on a number of Win98SE systems with a small variety of
flash drives, and it has worked with all I have tried. I haven't tested it with the
other device types, so let us know how it works for them.

If the ports are USB 1.1, you won't get satisfactory results with a USB hard drive
with any driver, because of the slower speed. You should install USB 2.0 ports via
an add-on card, or in the case of a laptop, with a PC Card.

I suspect a USB hard drive will be subject to the same size limitation, but I'll let
someone who has experience with them in Win98SE answer that. I don't use USB hard
drives in any operating system at the moment.
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"Willi Behrens" <analox@gmx.de> wrote in message
news:1164279588.782865.197850@j72g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
> Hey all,
>
> after years of ignoring old 98 SE I have to return and clanly set up
> many PCs with 98SE (Toshiba Satellite Pro 4600). The PCs will get
> cloned from one master image.
> So I want to include as little drivers as possible but as many as
> needed for that generic machine to get the image from.
>
> I was wondering if there is a generic solution for USB mass storage (PC
> has USB 1.1 ports)
> I found this in this NG
>>This is claimed to be a generic USB mass storage driver for W98SE (by LexarMedia):
>> http://www-user.tu-chemnitz.de/~heha...Mass%20Storage...
>
> and was wondering, if there are others out
>
> Do they support external hard drives as well ?
> (and up to what size ? Is there a 128 GB boundary as well for external
> FAT32 drives ?)
>
> Can I support all / many current USB Sticks with that too ? eg Sandisk
> Cruzer ..etc)
>
>
> tia
> w.b.
>

"glee" <glee29@spamindspring.com> wrote in message
news:O89U$ayDHHA.2176@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...

> I can't get your link to work

The file suffix was dropped

http://www-user.tu-chemnitz.de/~heha...%20Storage.zip

glee,

thank you for the pointer, the driver seems to work very well.

I checked several sticks, SD card readers and hard disks, all OK.

And I am aware of the poor 1.1 performance, it's just intended as a
means to access files in an emergency.

A 250 GB FAT32 (a single big partition) worked fine and even a 300 GB
external NTFS drive was acessible though NTFSDOS :)
(this was of course not due to the USB driver, but to winternal's fine
software)


THANK YOU

w.b.

"Willi Behrens" <analox@gmx.de> wrote in message
news:1164450392.661387.189700@l12g2000cwl.googlegroups.com...
> glee,
>
> thank you for the pointer, the driver seems to work very well.
>
> I checked several sticks, SD card readers and hard disks, all OK.

Excellent....good to know.


> And I am aware of the poor 1.1 performance, it's just intended as a
> means to access files in an emergency.
>
> A 250 GB FAT32 (a single big partition) worked fine and even a 300 GB
> external NTFS drive was acessible though NTFSDOS :)
> (this was of course not due to the USB driver, but to winternal's fine
> software)

Well, that's good to know also. I learned something new. :-)


> THANK YOU

Thank the fellow who wrote the driver! I'm just the messenger.
Good luck.
--
Glen Ventura, MS MVP Shell/User, A+
http://dts-l.org/