In article ,
Martin Hotze wrote:

On Tue, 21 Nov 2006 18:23:12 -0800, Peter Duniho wrote:

Once those drivers are
installed, you don't need additional drives specific to the make or model of
USB flash drive.

it shows that you never used a USB stick on a win98 machine.

Martin is correct. Win98 machines are very finicky when it comes to USB
devices. Some work, some don't. Win98 was the first implementation of
USB. It is the combination of hardware and software that determines
whether it will work with ones system.