Hello!

Interesting story
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=29356
("It's the chip, stupid!" motto proved right
SD Mini USB 2.0 microdrive works in Win98
By Fernando Cassia: 30 jan 2006, 22:51)

Cheers, Roman

Forgive me Maximum, but what do you mean by remove all USB drivers. I'm not a 'tech-e' in any way, detailed, and simple instructions on how to install your patch would be greatly appreciated. Im glad there's geniouses like you out there so that dummys like me can get things done.
Thanks, jp

Have 2 USB hard drive enclosures, NSpire 2.5", Bytecc 3.5", both using Myson-Century CS8818.
Both recognized seamlessly after inserting these lines in nusb2.2 usbstor.inf:

;Myson-Century
%VID_04CF&PID_8818.DD%=USBSTOR_BULK,USB\VID_04CF&PID_8818
.
.
.
;Myson-Century
VID_04CF&PID_8818.DD="Myson-Century CS8818 USB Mass Storage Device"

How should i contact Microsoft to get hotfix Q242975 and Q291362 on danish?
I suppose there is an other way than paying money for e-mail support.

Q242975 in Danish can be downloaded here: http://www.microsoft.com/windows98/downloa...394/license.asp

For Q291362 Microsoft has to be asked, it may differ in different countries, you can try to call local Danish MS number, then ask for hotfix hotline, and then just ask for Q291362 hotfix in Danish. If this will not work, I can make Danish user.exe for you.

Petr

doh... wrong hotfix number. I got 242975dan8.exe
I need 291362 and 239696


In another thread they mention which email to use, to get the hotfixes send from microsoft. But I don't know if it is best to write the email in englsih and ask for the danish update or I should write the entire email in danish. In the other thread all the updates' names are like 250514UP.EXE. If I should ask for Q291362 and Q239696 in danish which filenames should I then exact ask for?

I think you can either ask international Microsoft support in English or Danish support in Danish. I'd call Danish Microsoft ( http://www.microsoft.com/danmark/msdk/content/cservice.asp ) and ask them where to get the hotfix. Just ask for sending hotfix, not for any support.

The file names will be 291362DAN8.EXE and 239696DAN8.EXE.

Petr

okay, thanks for the answer. I'll try calling them tomorrow.

Could I send the 3 hotfixes to you, and ask you to compile a danish compilation, like nusb22da.exe?
I haven't used the iexpress tool before.

I tried to localize IOS.VXD and USER.EXE from these hotfixes, you can find them here: http://www.winpack.org/petr/dan.zip . No warranty that they are OK but I believe so.

Petr

Thanks a lot for all the help Petr. I just used the nusb211se.sed file you posted earlier and repacked it with the danish files, and now i got a fully danish windows again.

I need some technical help on the usb driver.

I have installed the driver in my Windows 98 and most of the devices were detected correctly.
I have a 865G chip board and therefore the board should have USB 2.0 ready.

I have also download and installed the USB 2.0 driver from Intel and the device manager contained the following USB controller:

"Intel® 82801EB USB2 Enhanced Host Controller - 24DD"

However, when I attached the external hdd and start transferring a folder with around 260MB content, it required more than 5 minutes to finish. So it should end up using USB 1.1 for transfer.

So, my question is:

1. Do the driver support USB 2.0 with high speed?
2. How can I prove or determine if the device is running at USB 2.0 speed? (except from the transfer speed)
3. Any other suggestion to speed up the transfer?
4. A sidetracked question. How could I make 2 identical USB-IDE devices co-exist?


Thanks alot

Maximus Decim USB Driver contains just mass storage driver, not low level drivers for USB chips.

"Intel® 82801EB USB2 Enhanced Host Controller - 24DD" requires Orangeware driver 1.01.0000.2, this is the only one driver version that works with ICH5 southbridge. It shall be available for download from the website of your motherboard manufaturer.

You can use usbview utility to check whether your devices are connected to USB 1.1 hub or to USB 2.0 hub

Petr

Maximus-Decim,

Thanks so much for for the nusb22e.exe drivers. I installed the drivers in my old 98se Dell Optiplex GXa, 440LX, 333MHz PII and they work great. USB flash drives are so much better than using floppies or CDs to transfer files, I really can't tell you how much I appreciate it.

So far, only one little bug concerns me. That is when I click on the Unplug or Eject Hardware icon and follow the prompts until the Wizard says it's O.K. to remove the device, the LED on the flash drive is still on. With my XP tower, the LED goes off when I reach this point.

I'm not familiar enough with this technology to know if it is safe to remove a USB flash drive if the LED is still on, so I'm playing it safe and working around it by just shutting down first. Very minor concern for the benefits realized, but if you could let me know your thoughts/advice on this, I would feel better about just trying a possible hot-unplug. Meanwhile, I'll Google around and see if I can get more education on the subject.

Thanks again...

By chance I found out that in his "Native USB ver.2.2" maximus-decim is using also Update KB242975, which is "Update for 1394 Storage Peripherals in Windows 98 Second Edition". It is the pair "Systray.exe" and "Hotplug.dll" that are doing the job for "Unplug or eject hardware", which is also meant to unplug a 1394 (FireWire) device, no wonder it takes quite long to do the so called Safe Removal of a USB device. Anyway it still is a great work from maximus-decim!!

Down the road in this thread, I was asking the possibility of achieving this Safe Removal behaviour as it is in Windows XP, where we can opt for "Safely Remove Hardware" in the notification area or just simply right-click the drive in Windows Explorer and click "Eject". With the NUSB-2.2, if we click "Eject", then we will get "Unsafe Removal of Device" error message.

In the thread, iscove has written about hotplug icon that is controlled by the following key in the registry:

HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CV\Applets\SysTray
HotPlugFlags = 0x00000002
Services = 0x0000000d

Well, "Services" does control what is displayed in the System Tray. As to "HotPlugFlags", I have done an experiment with different values, with the hope to achieve the XP behaviour mentioned above to no avail.

I won't give up, I tried to look into the "Systray.exe", and changed only one Byte in it to bypass the error trapping routine, voila!! Now I get it work as in WinXP, I can still opt for the "Unplug or eject hardware", or for a simple thumbdrive just right-click and eject with no more "Unsafe Removal of Device" error message.

Hello. Just to let you know...
I installed your USB driver pack on: Windows 98 Finnish ,and it works 100%.
So seems it works also for normal Win98 and non-english versions aswell..

The following Windows 98 versions are based on so called "United States version": English, German, Italian, Norwegian, Swedish, Dutch, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Danish, Finnish, Russian, Polish, Hungarian, Greek, Turkish, Czech, Slovak, Slovenian, Portuguese-Brazil, and others. These versions contains exactly the same code, just text strings differ.

nUSB driver contains English version of several files that are localized (translated) for non English W98 versions. Therefore many text strings and dialogues will change from the local language to English after installing the English version of nUSB. But everything will work because of the same binary code.

Petr

Mille was asking what byte pattern to search and what byte to change in order to achieve the hot plug behavior as it is in the WinXP.

Make sure that you have done Maximus Decim Native USB patch, and that the SYSTRAY.EXE Version is 4.10.0.2224, file size 27,648 bytes. Copy SYSTRAY.EXE to a temporary folder, then with a binary editor search for following byte pattern: 75 1B 52 68, once you find it, change the byte 75 with EB. What you will do is basically changing the instruction from "JNZ SHORT" (75) to certain address to "JMP SHORT" (EB) to certain address, thereby bypassing the "Unsafe Dialog".

Once you did it, I would recommend you to use SFC to replace the original SYSTRAY.EXE by the one you have patched, so that you will have a backup just in case...Hope that helps.

Now the last words, I can guarantee nothing about and I am not responsible for this patch. It works great for me. So if you decide to do it, the risk is fully yours.

It seems impossible to download the 2.2.1. update from the following link:

http://rapidshare.de/files/6032283/nusb221e_upd.zip.html

Is there another link (mirror site) we can download it from?

Will this usb pack support sony psp and ipod becuz both use mass storage drivers
if so u r the best, if not u r still the best

Thanks Wijono the Patch works great.

I really tried many time from the link above, and always got "Download-session invalid".
Is there really no mirror site I can download from???

For Mille,
You are welcome.

I've just clicked at your link and there was absoutely no problem with the download, I had the file within 10 seconds.

If you need it, I've put it here: http://www.winpack.org/petr/nusb221e_upd.zip

Petr

Thanks a lot Petr for your great help.
I got <nusb221e_upd.zip> from your site now.
But I really had and still have problem downloading from Rapishare as I mentioned, I don't know why.

Hats off to those involved in this great development !

I have Win 98 SE (French). Does someone know where I could find the files off Q23696 & Q291362 ?

Concerning the NUSB22E.EXE : may I pick & extract & replace the files one by one (using WinRAR for instance), so that I can be sure it doesn't replace newer files ? Is there something to update in Registry in addition to replacing files in their respective directories ?

Is the NUSB22E (and its updated .inf file) sufficient for USB 2 storage to work ? I mean, without also doing the MDGX "98SEtoME" modification ? I don' t like the idea of going for the latter, esp. since he does not provide non US versions, and I am nervous about how that would interact with Windows Updates, and finally because I do not want some of his replacements - the Scandisk from ME for instance is definitely not good for 98 SE (doesn't work with Drivespace). But I am digressing...

Do I have to "remove" all my USB storage devices before I install NUSB22E (or the files within) ?

What is the manual way for "removing" the devices in question ? Do I simply remove them in Device Manager, or must I also clear the Registry (I think so...) and, please, which registry keys would have to be removed ?

Or can I trust the uninstallers for the respective devices ?

Sorry these are many questions :-(

Rapidshare is a dead loss. Major Geeks is better but that too is a little convoluted and difficult to get to work. I would go for SoftPaedia - never had any problems with it.

Hi
I am glad to find this forum! I have been looking for a generic usb driver for Win98se and was certainly overjoyed to find the MaximumDecim USB driver.

I have downloaded and it works for the Palm T5 in drive mode ! great stuff and thanks to you Maximum Decim!

I am encountering some problem though.. 2 issues..
1. I got an unknown (I cannot find any brand name anywhere on the flash drive) flash drive from friend and after plugging in, the system identify it as ADAM USB device and installed the relevant driver. Now the sytsem could recognise the drive but the problem is that it cannot access the data on this flash drive because all the file names are "____" with the respective file extn eg. .ppt, .doc etc for MS office files... Can anyone help me out ? I suppose the installed driver in this case was not totally compatible... Is there a way to install a new driver and where to get this driver ?

2. RIght now I can only access the Palm T5 on drive mode but is unable to sync data with desktop because Palm does not provide any drivers for Win98se since Microsoft is not supporting Win98/98se anymore... can anyone help in this area ? where do I get the driver so that I could sync the Palm t5 with the desktop on win 98se ?

thanks !!

Just an idea - isn't possible that these file names are in different character set than is the default character set of your Windows 98?

Petr

Please see READ1ST.TXT for details how to install 98SE2ME option 8, which installs only USB, Firewire + WDM drivers from WinME CD + 98SE2ME directory [C:\9!M] without installing the rest of 98SE2ME:
http://www.mdgx.com/9s2m/READ1ST.TXT

Hope this helps.

[quote]see READ1ST.TXT for details how to install only USB, Firewire + WDM drivers from WinME CD + 98SE2ME directory [C:\9!M] without installing 98SE2ME[/quote)

Hail, MDGx! Yep, since that earlier post of mine I have tried many things, including the NUSB2 and 98SE2ME limited to USB/Firewire, as per your earlier posts. It's fine, but has done nothing to alleviate my problem, which as discussed in another thread is that the motherboard manufacturer, SiS (now Foxconn I believe) did not want to pay for licencing the OrangeWare USB 2.0 stack for Windows 98/SE/ME, nor did they bother to develop one in-house. As a result of this, users of SiS based mother boards in Windows 9x are limited to USB 1.1 functionality even though the hardware is USB 2.0 capable (and works in Win 2k SP4).

Thank you for your impressive work

--
Ninho

[quote name='chucknobucks' date='Feb 22 2006, 04:35 PM' post='469016']
Maximus-Decim,

So far, only one little bug concerns me. That is when I click on the Unplug or Eject Hardware icon and follow the prompts until the Wizard says it's O.K. to remove the device, the LED on the flash drive is still on. With my XP tower, the LED goes off when I reach this point.

When I plug in my Avixe USB 256MB drive nothing happens. I have to install drivers for it separately (after nusb22e), and the drive works BUT there is no tray icon / remove dialog.

Maximus! Many thanks to you for this excellent driver! I purchased a Sandisk Sansa M240 mp3 player as a gift for my son thinking that it had Win98se support. Unfortunately, Sandisk does not support Win98se for this player, which led me on a long search for a driver to allow me to load files to the player. After finding this forum and installing your driver....Sweet Relief!!!! It works perfectly and is very easy to use. You have my thanks and respect Sir! Keep up the good work!

zgbg9
Memphis, TN
USA

A very handy tweak indeed, yes many thanks for your efforts Maximus..
It didn't work 1st go though, but I worked it out in the end...
1st it wouldn't detect a thing so I browsed through this entire thread
& installed all add-ons I thought might help, & in the end I have 2
98se machines seeing all my different brands of flash drives..
1st, I installed the nusb22e.exe from the 1st post & not much
happened at all after a reboot, except that the machine now
has the dreaded shutdown problem { wont shutdown }
then I installed the updated usbstor.inf into the Windows\Inf
folder, but still no-go.
Then I installed the drivers for one of my flash-drives &
then it would detect, but now all other brands detect as well,
plus the icon for disconnecting the devices also shows next to
the volume icon, bottom right..
I'm wondering if installing the drivers for one of my flash drives
somehow made a registry change that kept it working & detecting
every other drive from there on in using your drivers..


The only problem was the shutdown didn't work, until I installed
3 files from MS
1: 239887up.exe = shutdown supp # 1

2: 4756US8.EXE = shutdown supp # 2

3: 240075up.exe = usb controller update, which according to MS, is for
a system running via chipset with K6 cpu, well one system had a K6cpu, but
had an ALI chipset, yet this update was also needed for that system to
shutdown every time without locking up too.

Some pics to show it working below...

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wont there be any updates? thnx
God Bless

My PQi 1GB flash memory drive is not recognised by your NUSB22E driver file. Is there any way of modifying an inf file so that it will work (instructions please) and will it be supported in future versions.

T.I.A

To work around this problem you can right click the Removable Disk in Windows Explorer and in the drop-down menu click "Eject", the LED will go off. And if you don't want to be bothered by the Unsafe Dialog (error) message that will pop-up, you can patch the SYSTRAY.EXE as I explained here:

http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=43605&st=116

After the patch the hotplug will behave like it is in WinXP.

My friend has mistakenly installed NUSB into his Win98 First Edition.
Certainly it won't work. BSOD will come up each time a device is plugged in.
Any hint on how to uninstall it?
Thanks a lot.

Is there a Slovenian version available, we would need it for school

Please see this post in this thread:

http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?s=&sho...ndpost&p=407390

Petr

Hello!



You can download it from here:
http://www.astral-it.com/usb/nu221slo.exe

Regards, Roman

that download dont work anymore


tanx. already DLit!! gonna try it friday

Mate, I have to thank you!

not only does this usb driver allow Windows 98 SE to detect most of my usb thumbdrives it has now over achieved.

It allowed Windows 98SE to detect my SonyEricsson w800i memory stick

I can now add and delete mp3's to my w800i through windows 98SE usb connection!


1st I had to install Sony Ericsson's USB driver then your USB driver!

You little ripper!

Here's a way to add the "Unplug or Eject Hardware" icon to systray:

1. Install "PCIC or compatible PCMCIA controller" driver, restart.
2. Remove the driver, restart.

The icon should show up after plugging a USB device.

hi . is there a traditional chinese version?

thanks

God Bless

after leaving my usb flash drive in over a period of time
it creates a temp folder on the flash drive and data is writing to it allowing me
not to unplug or shut it down.I have to snatch it out just to close it or restart my computer.

Hello World ( ),
This driver is great, thanks!
I have 3 USB keys, are they present in the driver?
1/ no name, driver = SNXPDR.pdr
2/Verbatim Store'n go, driver = MDOCUSB.sys
3/Ramosruntek disk, drivers=
UMSSFDK2.sys, UMSSPDR2.sys and UMSSPDRF.pdr.
I have, of course, all these drivers which work perfectly under W98SE.
If you need them, I can E-mail them to you.
Greetings from Belgium,
Z.

I have uploaded NUSB 2.2.1 Update here [10 KB, English]:
http://www.mdgx.com/spx/NUSB221.ZIP

HTH

thanks for your job!
W98SE is not -yet- dead!!
Z.

The logical step to enable the detection of as many as possible USB devices is to add the VID and PID of new devices into the USBSTOR.INF, but doing so will quickly fill up the 64 kB limit that Win98SE can handle INF files. In spite of using abbreviation “DD” instead of “DeviceDesc”, Maximus-Decim has reached 62 kB in his NUSB 2.2.1!

To work around it I use another approach as it is done in WinXP. Most of the USB storage devices, such as flash disk, thumbdrive etc. are compatible to the generic driver, hence for the detection of those kinds of devices I rely on the following lines in the USBSTOR.INF:

[Generic]
%GenericBulkOnly.DeviceDesc%=USBSTOR_BULK,USB\Class_08&SubClass_02&Prot_50
%GenericBulkOnly.DeviceDesc%=USBSTOR_BULK,USB\Class_08&SubClass_05&Prot_50
%GenericBulkOnly.DeviceDesc%=USBSTOR_BULK,USB\Class_08&SubClass_06&Prot_50

[Strings]
Generic.Mfg = "Compatible USB storage device"
GenericBulkOnly.DeviceDesc = "USB Mass Storage Device"

We need to specify the VID and PID only for the devices that do not fall into that generic category, e.g., digital camera, USB IDE Hard Drive and so on. With that done, we can have a small USBSTOR.INF of only 17 kB, giving ample of space to add those non-generic devices.

There is a tradeoff though, if you plug in a new device to the system for the first time, Windows will ask you to click “OK” to proceed installing the generic driver. But that should not be too much a problem, right?

With this solution implemented it can detect all my thumbdrives of different brands, it can even successfully detect card reader, the most recent I use is a Neodio based 45-in-1 card reader that I tried already for CF, SD, MMC and MS Pro flash cards.

For those of you that like to follow my way but do not have access to WinXP, I attached herewith that small USBSTOR.INF to try (at your own risk though).

I like anything that saves space
Thank i just replaced it