Thanks to sunamigaza for the SUBSTOR.INF.
Unfortunately there is no reply from Maximus regarding the possibility of using "Eject" as described in my message above.
Has someone else any idea?

Just read through and no answer so here goes...

Can this be "Slipstreamed"? (Added in pre-install)

Dear Maximus

When i install 98se sp2.2 and then install USB2.2 AND then 98se2me the pen drive is not working after installing 98se2me.

i have to reinstall it again with USB2.2 what is the best sequence to install it.


thanks u.
best of luck 4 u'r mission.

Sorry i got it

Installation Guide

Prerequites:
- Windows 98 SE English (4.10.2222A).
- 32 MB of RAM minimum.
- At least 40 MB free hard disk space.

Installation order:
*1- Install Windows 98 SE (with or without 98lite).
*2- Install IE 6.0 SP1.
3- Install all newest drivers of your hardware.
*4- Install DirectX (9.0c).
*5- Install MS Office.
*6- Install/Use 98lite to remove any features.
7- Close ALL open programs.
8- Install latest SE SP.
*9- Install critical updates from WindowsUpdate.
*10- Install MDGx's latest 98SE2ME.
========================///
*11- Install Maximum-Decim's latest Native USB Drivers.///
====================================
*12- Install Tihiy's latest Revolutions Pack.
13- Update or re-install drivers of your hardware, if you have any problem.

Anytime, Wijono.

AFAIK, on Windows 98SE using drivers from USB Disk vendors:
- when running Windows Explorer or double-clicking My Computer there'll be an
icon "Removable Disk" then right-clicking it will open pop-down menu which
lists i.e. "Eject" to remove USB Disk. (CMIIW)
- the eject icon (if) appears mostly only once on the System Tray when plug-in
USB Disk for the first time (CMIIW), if the USB Disk removed that icon gone.
If replug-in USB Disk that icon won't re-appear (however, the USB Disk still
working and have to use "Windows Explorer...Eject..." steps to remove USB
Disk) unless re-booting.

Since NUSB22 from M.Decim uses some of WinMe files:
- the above function of "Eject" is replaced by the icon "Unplug or eject
hardware" on the System Tray to remove USB Disk.
Therefore the above steps (Windows Explorer...Eject...) seems inapplicable
coz a pop-up menu will give a warning "Unsafe removal..." and suggesting to
use the icon "Unplug or eject hardware" on the System Tray instead.
- and that icon always appears each time re-plug USB Disk, no need rebooting.
[Win Me/XP style. Dunno of Win2k, any1 knows pls info]

PS: add 3 new lines in USBSTOR.INF, pls have a look into Readme.txt in the
revised Readme.zip

Hope this might help.

Hi
Recently i bought a camera: Sony Cyber-Shot 3.2 Mega Pixels DSC-P32.
With Windows XP, the camera was recognize, but on Windows 98 was not recognized.
So i tried to install Maximus Decim Native USB ver.2.2.
But nothing changed, The same message appear, "searching for a driver"
Click to view attachment
I would like to know if it's possible Win98 recognize the camera like WinXP.
Just a curiosity; Is it necessary to have SYSTRAY.EXE file in windows\system?

nm - wonder why I couldnt delete my own post?

Hi folks...

I have two USB 2.0 devices: an ADS enclosure (housing a DVD drive) and a Maxtor One Touch II. The problem is that they can not seem to co-exist in Win98SE. Tech support for ADS suggested that both devices may be trying to access the same driver, causing my system to hang.

Would the Maximus Decim Native USB ver.2.2 solve this conflict? Any other work around?

Thanks... :)

Hiya All,

Would it be possible to use/adapt this package for Win95 OSR2.5B with the usb support add-on?

I'm rolling out a bunch of legacy PCs and this would be really useful.

Thanks for your time.

Native USB (NUSB) 2.2.1 update
*********************************************************************
Only .INF file!!!

Use only after installation of the NUSB 2.2 !
For installation copy the file USBSTOR.INF in the hidden
catalogue WINDOWS\INF\ with replacement of an old file.

What's new:
* Added very many new devices.


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

maximus-decim, do you plan to update the original 2.2 installer with this new INF?

it would be great and easier to deploy if an updated installer is available.

Yet will not be, later. The structure of the usbstor.inf for reduction of its size will be changed. New devices will be still added.

Thanks to Maximus.

Works great ! (The USB patch included in SP 1.6.2. was poor)

Does it support USB 2 also ? (I can't test it becasue of lack of HW)

Yes

I managed to get the patch working without adding any of the registry entries that are normally added by the installer, into a ghost image of Win98SE. Now, it's a whole lot easier getting Win98SE systems up and running, with the mortified ghost image... erm, modified.

A fix for hotplug icon missing from system tray:

After installing the USB update, my USB flash drive was recognized, but no hotplug icon appeared in the system tray.

In the registry branch
HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CV\Applets\SysTray

HotPlugFlags = 0x00000002
Services = 0x0000000d

The fix was to edit the Services key to 0x0000000f.

It looks like the bits in the Services value specify which icons appear in the system tray.

0x0000000d = binary 1101
0x0000000f = binary 1111

The 2nd last bit probably controls the hotplug icon.

Clicking the hotplug icon activates Hotplug.dll

Maximus - perhaps the Services value could be set up accordingly in the nusb installation script.

I help in the school of handicaped teenagers and would like to istall your USB PATCH on school computers since lots of students carry their seminars on USB drives. The computers are still running Win98 since the school won't allow budget for new compos.
But the problem is that they are all running Win98 SE SLOVENIAN EDITION. What would happen if I installed your USB patch which is only for ENGLISH version of windows?

Tanx in advance

Hello!

After installing Maximus Decim Native USB ver.2.2 german on a computer with an Albatron KX600 mainboard the connection to USB 2 devices is interrupted every few seconds. Connection to USB 1 devices is fine. The mainboard has a VIA KT600 chipset. How to solve the problem?

How to deinstall Maximus Decim Native USB? I could'nt find.

Philip

Hello, BigDaddy!

You can download Slovenian version here:
http://rapidshare.de/files/6512839/nu221slo.zip.html

It includes latest usbstor.inf!

Cheers, Doc. Imr Oman

Woav!
Tanx. Will try it first thing tommorrow!

btw. Just wondering who did the slovenian version?*

Hi everyone,
Just joined the forum and found this wonderful proggie. Thanks Maximus!

1) Hotplug Icon Missing
---------------------------
The Hotplug icon did not appear on my system tray
even after trying iscove's suggestion to edit the registry key in
HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CV\Applets\SysTray

Services = 0x0000000d

I discovered that, for some reason, the volume icon has to be turned on
in order for the hotplug icon to appear on the system tray.
The last bit turns on the power icon, the second last the hotplug icon,
the 3rd last the volume icon, so just set the 2nd and 3rd last bit of the
Services key to 1 and it'll be fine,
i.e. set the key as any one of the following:

Services = 0x0000000e
or
Services = 0x0000000f

The first will turn on both the volume and the hotplug icon
and the second the power, volume and hotplug icon.

Alternatively, simply go to Control Panel, Multimedia and
check "Show volume control on the taskbar".

Reboot and plug in a USB mass storage device and viola! The hotplug icon appears.

2) Sony PlayStation Portable
---------------------------------
I edited my USBSTOR.INF file as follows and Win98 recognizes my PSP! :)

[Microsoft]
;Sony
%VID_054C&PID_01C8.DD%=USBSTOR_BULK,USB\VID_054C&PID_01C8

[Strings]
;Sony
VID_054C&PID_01C8.DD="Sony PSP"

Try it out. It should work unless there are different PIDs for different PSP models.

Hi!

Just a question. Why does the package susbstitute user.exe. My Windows version is not English so I don't want the user.exe included in the pack. May I change it to the original version after installing the package?

Cheers.

yes, U can do that, but U have change it with the same or the newest version in your language

I did!
Here are the files included:

slovenian files
---------------
qfecheck.exe, 4.10.0.1998
systray.exe, 4.10.0.2224
user.exe, 4.10.0.2227
hotplug.dll, 4.10.0.2224
QFECHECK.HLP


english files
-------------
advpack.dll, 4.72.3110.0
user32.dll, 4.10.0.2227
1394BUS.SYS, 4.10.0.2226
NTMAP.SYS, 4.10.0.2227
OHCI1394.SYS, 4.10.0.2228
SBP2PORT.SYS, 4.10.0.2227
USBAUTH.SYS, 4.90.3000.1
USBNTMAP.SYS, 4.90.3000
USBSTOR.SYS, 4.90.3000.1


language neutral
----------------
USBU2A.SYS, 1.4.2.0


VXD, PDR files
-----------
NTMAPHLP.PDR
USBMPHLP.PDR
DISKTSD.VXD
IOS.VXD

BTW, have you installed the package???

Servus.

i brought a new usb flash stick its made by ati i checked their site and they had a 98se driver which was cool.but before i tryed it i thought lets install maxium 2.2 and low and behold it detected my usb stick first try.we often hear only the bad case scenaios in here i thought id post a happy tale of a product that works well thxz max u rock.

Is there an all-in version 2.3 on the horizon by any chance?

of course,
but the best way to make it is to publish here links to infs and drivers missed in 2.2 - it's so hard to browse web everyday for the newones
Also we have one limitation - USBSTOR.INF is about 50KB in size now - 64K max

There are lots of "DeviceDesc"s on the "Strings" section. You can combine most of them.

agreed

Had some problems with WIn98 since we only had the first edition installed. And such things moves very slowly in school. So I finally got around to do a fresh WIn98SE SLO install. Will tell u the results on friday. Wish us luck!!
And tanx again for SLO edition. Which town are U from?

When is the next version due??

I'm also interesting in whether there will be a new version anytime soon, as I'm prepping the Windows 98 Power Pack compilation yet again, and I want to get all the latest, stable apps integrated into it.

I've noticed that in 2.21 are the following lines for Mitsumi:

%VID_03EE&PID_0000.DD%=USBSTOR_CBI, USB\VID_03EE&PID_0000
%VID_03EE&PID_6901.DD%=USBSTOR_CBI, USB\VID_03EE&PID_6901
;%VID_03EE&PID_6902.DD%=USBSTOR_CBI, USB\VID_03EE&PID_6902

As I already reported here, the driver does not work with Mitsumi Floopy drive with VID_03EE&PID_6901 so I suppose it should be commented out too.

Strange thing is that with Windows ME it works perfectly without any driver, and wit Windows 98 SE without nusb and with Mitsumi supplied driver too. I have no idea what is wrong with nusb driver.

Petr

Great Problem here.

I am happy with the Maximum-Decim Native USB driver for a period of time. However, when I decide to add one more external USB disk (I already have an identical one), the system just cannot recognize the new disk. Only if I eject the existing drive, the new drive probe up.

Are there any methods that can make them co-exist?

thanks

You can add Maxtor PL series to the list of drives that work with NUSB, I tried to get my Sandisk Cruzer to work too, but no joy there, have to use Sandisk drivers

I work above the following version of the NUSB (2.3?). New devices will be added many. The file usbstor.inf will be divided into some files (usbstor1.inf, usbstor2.inf, etc) that it was possible to add easily the new device independently. But I very much do not have time, therefore the new version will be not fast.

@Petr

Recently, a friend just bought IBM usb fdd which was made by Teac and hoping
it really IBM.
However, Win XP (no driver needed) & 98SE (using the supplied drivers)
recognized it as Mitsumi usb fdd.

Attached is usb-fdd.zip (MTMFDVSD.INF + MTMUSBFD.INF) of IBM usb fdd which
might interest u, especially MTMFDVSD.INF refers to "Port Driver".
Those 2 files might be identical to ur Mitsumi usb fdd or pls pm for complete
supplied drivers.

HTH.

hello, this universal driver should work in a win98SE spanish version?

If don't, there are any possibility to modify it for work? Is difficult? if necessary, I can spend some time trying to port it to spanish version....

Hi, the English version should work but many system messages would change from Spanish to English. There are some files that should be modified for spanish version.

Hardware.hlp - available in Q242975 update
Hotplug.dll 4.10.2224 - available in Q242975 update
Systray.exe 4.10.2224 - available in Q242975 update
QFECheck.exe - available in Q242975 update
QFECheck.hlp - available in Q242975 update
Ios.vxd 4.10.2225 - you have to ask Microsoft for Spanish version of Q239696 hotfix
User.exe 4.10.2231 - you have to ask Microsoft for Spanish version of Q291362 hotfix
!readme.txt - has to be translated by you
_nusb.inf and maybe other infs - has to be translated by you if you need

Q242975 update can be downloaded here:
http://download.microsoft.com/download/win.../242975SPA8.EXE

For building the installation package you will need the iexpress utility, it is part of the IEAK - can be downloaded here: http://download.microsoft.com/download/ie6...XP/ES/ieak6.exe

Iexpress utility uses SED (Self Extraction Directive) files that describe how the package should be build. It can build new SED files or it can use already prepared file. I have prepared an example of such file for Spanish nusb here: http://www.winpack.org/nsp_petr/nusb221es.sed - it expects all files in nusb221es folder.
If you want just to build the package with no interactive options, you can use the following command line:
iexpress /N nusb221es.sed

You may also want to translate the "FriendlyName" in the .SED file.

I tried to localize Ios.vxd and user.exe by myself and build the package here:

http://www.winpack.org/nsp_petr/nusb221es.exe

It was not tested at all (I have no Spanish Windows 98 SE here) so please be careful and backup first!. It may not install or crash your system, I don't know!

If you will need more information about INF files and other related things, you can check te following website: http://www.winpack.org/petr/INF_web/ - the original disappeared so I just mirrored it from web archive.

Petr

I'm having an issue with these drivers... Whever I plug in a USB flash device, it shows up in device manager, but no drive letter gets assigned to the Disk Drive component... This also happens with the vendor's drivers. Does anyone have a fix for this?

Thanks,

mtp

It's too general question. What "USB Flash device"? What is the VID and PID? Is the VID and PID of your flash device listed in USBSTOR.INF? What "vedndor's drivers" do you use?

Before installing nUSB all other USB storage drivers should be removed (in Safe Mode) including their INF files from %windir%\INF folder and all USB flash devices should be removed from the system. The best way is to install nUSB on fresly installed Windows 98 SE.
Then you will install the nUSB driver and then you can plug in your USB flash device. There is no warranty that all devices will really work.

Petr

Mr The Plague
have U "lastdrive=..." string in your config.sys file?
have U "net use ..." command in any startup file (f.e. autoexec.bat or any logon script with drive mapping)?
is your PC used as a workstation in Novell Netware network?

Well, the drivers provided by the vendor for the respective devices. - concord Eye-Q 4363Z camera, Lexar Jumpdrive, and Jumpdrive Secure. The camera gets recognized as a GenericBulkOnly, and the jumpdrives get recognized as their names. They just don't get a drive letter assigned by Windows.

I cannot install this on a fresh 98se box; it's for my girlfriend and she'd freak if I had to reformat.



None of the above.

Thank you very much!!!!!!

at the moment, it seems to work well, if it don't give problems in the PC that I installed it, soon I will install it in the rest.

All of a sudden I've got ghost usb hdd drives, didn't show up right away, was a couple of days later. Does anyone know how to get rid of them? Doesn't affect performace, just annoying

I hope i installed the latest version the file is nusb22es.exe. Anyways, after i installed nusb, it did NOT work with one of my USB flash disks. The disk is a Sony MicroVault USB 2.0 256 MB. Is it because Win98SE WON'T support USB 2.0, or what? Nusb worked with a Sandisk Cruzer Mini, but it ONLY works after i restart my computer. What gives? I thought USB is Plug'n' Play.

hard disk usb ? perhaps in NTFS format no ? if that windows 9x/me can't read ntfs drive directly ...

Do you mean nusb221es.exe ? As far as I know, no file associated with this project is called nusb22es.exe .

The latest English version is nusb22e.exe.

There's also an additional update of the USBSTOR.INF file to download as a .zip package and install afterwards, called nusb221e_upd.zip.

Petr has put together a version for Windows 98 SE Spanish, after someone here requested one, called nusb221es.exe. Is this the version you installed? If you did, then hopefully you intended to install this Spanish version (because your OS is a Spanish version, I would presume).

From what I understand, USB has often been problematic for several well-known hardware manufacturers. An updated Windows 98 SE should be able to handle USB 2.0, providing you have the correct drivers from your motherboard manufacturer (in addition to these 'native' USB drivers for USB devices). So, if you know what make and model your motherboard is and you haven't already done this, go to the manufacturer's website and download the latest USB driver. I guess you would have to re-install these nUSB drivers after updating your motherboard's USB drivers.

It's well worth taking a look at the USBMan website for help (although some parts of it may be a little bit out of date), particularly if you have a VIA chipset/motherboard.

Hope this helps. Maybe someone more experienced with matters USB will chip in and help you out some more if needed.

Oops, your right, it is nusb22e.exe. Where can i download the update to USBSTOR.INF? My motherboard is an Intel 440ZX, i think, once i'm certain i'll check out Intel's site and look for those USB update drivers. After i install the motherboard USB drivers, can i UN-install Nusb, or will it be fine to just RE-install it instead? Also, about having to Restart after inserting the Sandisk Flash drive, USBman.com says it should be PnP, what's the deal? Is there something internally wrong with my PC, because i have to reboot the system everytime i use the Sandisk Flash disk?

Hi

I have put the drivers on my website in case anyone is having problems downloading from Rapidshare.

http://www.technical-assistance.co.uk/kb/usbmsd98.php

Thanks for the great drivers Maximus!

Softstag