USB Flash Drive in PS2 to USB adapter.

M0nk3m4n · Jan 2, 2009, 05:46 AM

Y'know those adapters you plug into PS2 and you can plug a USB keyboard into?
Well...I have an old laptop that has no USB, (sounds like a lost cause, but it works)
Anyway, I tried one of those adapters and for some reason, though a keyboard
will work with it, (and possibly a mouse), a flash drive will not, assistance?

Liqourice · Jan 2, 2009, 12:40 PM

No, it won't work. PS2 ports are ment for mouse and keyboard, nothing else. Those ports doesn't have the bandwidth for anything else. That adapters are not real USB ports either.

However, I'm sure you can find a cheap PCI USB card somewhere. They don't cost much really. In some places they seem to almost throw them at you when you go into a store.

Matth · Jan 2, 2009, 09:35 PM

For a laptop, it would need to be PCMCIA to USB, if it has a PCMCIA slot.

The mouse adapter is for Combo devices only, which can switch to working with the PS/2 signalling and protocols.

M0nk3m4n · Jan 3, 2009, 01:12 AM

Ah I see thanks for the help guys, well it's so old and crappy that it doesn't have...well
ok it has a couple of ports on the bottom, dunno what they are, but hell the battery's
115 bucks, and this is an old 166Mhz/32Mb ram/Windows 98, I'll just chunk it instead, lol

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Jan 2, 2009, 12:40 PM	#2
Liqourice HardwareHeaven Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Stockholm Posts: 1,699 Rep Power: 98 System Specs	Re: USB Flash Drive in PS2 to USB adapter. No, it won't work. PS2 ports are ment for mouse and keyboard, nothing else. Those ports doesn't have the bandwidth for anything else. That adapters are not real USB ports either. However, I'm sure you can find a cheap PCI USB card somewhere. They don't cost much really. In some places they seem to almost throw them at you when you go into a store.

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Jan 3, 2009, 01:12 AM	Thread Starter #4
M0nk3m4n HardwareHeaven Fanboy :D Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: A world of stupidity. Posts: 125 Rep Power: 28 System Specs	Re: USB Flash Drive in PS2 to USB adapter. Ah I see thanks for the help guys, well it's so old and crappy that it doesn't have...well ok it has a couple of ports on the bottom, dunno what they are, but hell the battery's 115 bucks, and this is an old 166Mhz/32Mb ram/Windows 98, I'll just chunk it instead, lol __________________ Try Rockbox for MP3 players (example: videos, full Classic Doom, etc. on Nano 2G) Technics SA-EX310 (+Z-5500 speakers) on Creative SB X-Fi Fatal1ty Professional