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Howard_Casto:

--- Quote ---I'm not sure what you mean by USB compliant

If it's USB doesn't it HAVE to be USB compliant?
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In a word .... NO

Mac prodcuts in particular are notorious for being non-usb complaint.  You see the conecpt behind usb is that the most basic of the drivers are either stored on the usb controller chip or hard-coded into the operating system.  Something that's non-usb complaint generally asks for a disk, not for software but for drivers.  

Mac's are notorious for this.  As a matter of fact I doubt that with the exception of mice that ANY mac product is usb compliant.  From what I understand mac's merely use the port as a high speed serial interface only, thus ignoring the intercompatability standards built into usb's architecture.  

Todd_H:

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In a word .... NO

Mac prodcuts in particular are notorious for being non-usb complaint.  You see the conecpt behind usb is that the most basic of the drivers are either stored on the usb controller chip or hard-coded into the operating system.  Something that's non-usb complaint generally asks for a disk, not for software but for drivers.  

Mac's are notorious for this.  As a matter of fact I doubt that with the exception of mice that ANY mac product is usb compliant.  From what I understand mac's merely use the port as a high speed serial interface only, thus ignoring the intercompatability standards built into usb's architecture.  
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Howard beat me to it.  When a device is USB compliant, the necessary drivers are stored in the device itself.  So unless someone writes a PC driver for the device or the company puts out a PC version, you're probably out of luck.

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