Win98 Driver does not recognize Flash CMFUSB2.0-2GB

[Doogie]

The flash drive isn't the problem, it's Windows 98!

Please remember that Windows 98 was still a DOS based OS. As a result it does have its problems with long file names. Placing a file with an unacceptable long file name into a "Zip" folder may hide the long file name from you, but it won't hide it from Windows 98...more importantly the name of the file within the Zip file isn't likely to be reproduced in a way that allows you to identify it. You would be better off just renaming those few files that are not being transferred to something that conforms to the DOS 8 and 3 requirement (i.e. file name no more than 8 characters followed by a 3 character file extension).

 

PS if you have a large number of files with long file names that you must transfer and renaming them is impractical, it may make more sense just to upgrade the OS to Windows XP (you don't have to activate the installation right away and if you're just trying to get things off that old Compaq, you never have to activate the OS after you've finished transferring the files).

That Compaq has a 500Mhz CPU with a 66Mhz front side bus...it will be slow as molasses, but it should operate well enough to finish the file transfer.

Let us know how this all works out! :):

[biotekno]

Thanks Doogie for the suggestions for dealing with filename problems. However, the filename problems are minor in the grand scope of things, so I'll worry about that a little later.

 

Now that I have a functional Win98SE driver for the Flash CMFUSB2.0-2GB, it makes me wonder whether the same driver might recognize other Flash drives. Could it at least recognize other Corsair Flash drives? with larger storage capacity?

 

biotekno

[Doogie]

The answers are "yes" and "yes"...Note: to my knowledge, Corsair formerly shipped that driver on CD's included with their drives up to 16GB in capacity...;):

[biotekno]

The answers are "yes" and "yes"...Note: to my knowledge, Corsair formerly shipped that driver on CD's included with their drives up to 16GB in capacity...;):

 

Maybe the installed driver will only recognize Corsair Flash drives?

I plugged in an old Attache (256MB) and went through the (apparently) same "Search a location" process, but it did not result in the Attache drive being recognized, but that doesn't mean I did not do something improperly.

 

biotekno

[Doogie]

Did you direct it to the folder containing the SMIMB.INF file? (At this point you should ba able to direct it to the Drivers sub-folder) :confused:

[biotekno]

Did you direct it to the folder containing the SMIMB.INF file? (At this point you should ba able to direct it to the Drivers sub-folder) :confused:

 

Yep. That was one of several "Search a Location" entries I made.

i.e. I enterred

1. C:\Win98SE Driver\FV Win98 Drivers, which is where the smimb.inf file resides with the other 3 downloaded files.

and

2. C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\DRIVERS, which is where the smimb.sys file resides, (presumably) after the 'successful' installation of smimb.inf.

 

Neither of these Search entries allowed recognition of the Attache Flash drive.

 

biotekno

[RAM GUY]

Windows 9X will not see long file names so if you used that naming scheme that may be why it would not work. Cannot be more the 8 characters long and no spaces.