Robo_Grunt

If anyone has gotten a SCSI to USB cable to work under win2k please send me a link for the driver. Thanks....You will be heralded as a hero.

Hey boneheads...your I.P. is logged. Good job telling on yourselves. I bought mine at Staples but still come here for tech stuff. You should watch what is said here....big brother is watching.....

At the moment...I am waiting for drivers also. I have a Sony external cd-rw drive that uses an ethernet to usb cable. Worked fine in Win98 but unfortunately there are no drivers from anyone that I can find for Win2k. The only manufacturer that claims to be developing drivers is HP for it's external 8200e cd-rw drive. Supposedly they will be released in mid March. Cross your fingers. Hopefully other manufacturers will get it together and support their customers.

What the hell?!! My system has been up for weeks without a single involuntary reboot. I only just rebooted yesterday and only after installing the latest security and compatability updates. My system is rock solid. Love it. Not one problem since installing it back in January. Please don't flame me...it's true. System: PentIII/450 128meg SDRam PC-100 2/Maxtor 8gb IDE drives ATA-33 Voodoo3/2000(no problems from start) SoundBlaster Live Value (ditto) Pioneer 10x DVD Abit BX6-2 (flashed bios B-4 install) Linksys 10/100 Ethernet (no probs) Cable Modem Sony 17" Trinitron [This message has been edited by Robo_Grunt (edited 23 February 2000).]

Thanks bro...you cleared that up for me. Now it makes sense. Well, hopefully they will get off their can and do it up right.

I have a Sony Spressa USB CD-RW drive. It functions fine in Win2k as a regulare CD-Rom drive but I need compatile Shuttle USB drivers. Does anyone else have this drive and have it burning CD's in Win2k?

Nope. HP has a similar drive and I am hoping that they are sitting on some drivers for the final release of Win2k Thursday. Sony has not had any updates. The problem is that the drivers have to be totally re-written. No cut and paste. Win98 and Win2k use totally different emulation standards. Sucks! I love my drive and I am gonna wait! er...uh..I also am (shamefully) putting together a second system with Win98 installed just in case. Win2k is better...but Win98 has more device support right now.

Unfortunately, Win98 and Win2000 uses totally different emulators for USB. That is why support is spotty right now. The drivers have to be totally rewritten. Totally. I think that win98 uses VXD's and win2000 uses something called VDM's(?). Not positive but I do know that emulation under win2000 is difficult. At least that's what driver authors are saying.

If anyone has gotten their USB CD-R drive to work in Win2k can you please explain how you did it or provide me with driver location. Thanks

I am sorry and I hope that this doesn't start a huge post session but I am trying to get to the bottom of this in order to help others with similar problems. What is so different with NT5 usb support and Win98 usb? There can't be that much difference as the protocols should be identical. I want to re-write my drivers to make them work with Win2k. I don't have any problems with the standard hub, Win2k accepts that just fine and probably works with every readers system...but the MSD adapter (scsi to usb) is driving me insane. Specifically it is the shuttle usb adapter. It sees the driver, knows what it is but says that it isn't specifically written for Win2k.(even after rewriting the darned thing) Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks....:-)