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From a message posted on the ecomstation.support.hardware newgroup:

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Hi all,

I just wanted to report this, because it is a GREAT SUCCESS! I have been trying for several months to get my USB key working under OS/2. If you look at a recent thread regarding USB memory sticks in this forum, you can see I have been trying EVERY possible solution without success.

A few days ago Martin Kiewitz posted his MMPORTS package to hobbes, which is a way to transfer files to/from an USB-enabled CASIO watch.

The package contains, amongst other files, an updates USBD.SYS, which uses a different hw detection scheme than the one used by IBM. More precisely: it uses the detection scheme used by M$ drivers (which - guess what? - is nonstandard).

Once I put this updated USBD.SYS on my system and rebooted, suddenly eCS 1.1 (with the latest IBM USB drivers) recognized the device and attached it to a drive letter. I am confident that much more USB devices can be made to work with this updated driver. Now, if only IBM could be convinced to use the new detection scheme....

I understand (from Martin docs) that the detection scheme used by IBM is perfectly following the standard, so I guess they're not very happy to change it to follow an M$ non-standard, but they could at least use a new switch to change detection scheme at boot.

I hope other people will have success like I had.
Bye

Cris

Source: OS2VOICE

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