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Win 98 SE USB problems

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Perryg114

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Has anybody using external USB drives had problems with win 98 SE dropping the connection resulting is disk errors.

Perry
 
Loss of signal with USB is not all that uncommon. Even USB printers and scanners have to be re-hot plugged occasionally to renew the connection. That is why a hub is handy so it is easy to pull a plug and slip it back in. Usually it doesn't happen during a data transfer, but when a component goes to "sleep."

Hopefully USB 2 is better . . . but my sense is that eventually USB will be buried by Firewire. I have Firewire on a three systems, and have never lost a connection.
 
Well I have had it happen during data transfers but your right most of the time its after long periods of no use that this happens. Problem is I get the blue screen of death when Win98 SE can't find the drive. I can usually get the machine up again but to regain the connection to the drive I have to reboot.

Perry
 
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