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usb harddisk and NT 4.0
Name: Joao Date: June 23, 2001 at 07:40:35 Pacific
Comment:
Is it possibble to get a external usb harddisk(Apstech) connected to Windows NT 4.0? Would the usb&Nt4.0 software from wwwbsquare.com do the thing. Please help.
Name: Dr. Zhivago Date: June 24, 2001 at 00:18:05 Pacific
Reply:
I have put out an appeal more than once for someone here at the forum to offer a testimonial (or a condemnation) of the bsquare USB software. So far, no one has step forward. Consequently, you will be travelling at your own risk if you decide to experiment.
Please do us the favor of posting an evaluation if your budget allows the purchase and if you commit to installing it on your machine.
I even asked a forum participant who had just recently been hired at bsquare to offer a subjective opinion on the quality of their product. He referred me to a colleague in the marketing department, which, of course, leads me to assume that they are full of bull $#|%.
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Response Number 2
Name: bob smith Date: June 26, 2001 at 13:34:55 Pacific
Reply:
USB and NT 4.0 is a no no...I would waste time or money on software for USB..I would recommed upgrading to Windows 2000 pro.
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Response Number 3
Name: Dr. Zhivago Date: June 29, 2001 at 00:04:18 Pacific
Summary: It's not quite that cut and dried. There's an outfit called Inside Out Networks (www.ionetworks.com) that has managed to get some level of USB support in NT 4.0, at least for the products they make (m...
Summary: You can use a serial modem and connect it to a device like EdgePort. It plugs into an USB port and provides 4 or 8 ports of serial. It comes with drivers that makes USB work under NT 4.0 (for the devi...
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