USB Storage - FAQ for Driver and Hardware Developers
http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/device...ge/usbfaq.mspx

Windows XP USB Guide
http://www.usbman.com/winxpusbguide.htm

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Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows - Shell/User
Microsoft Community Newsgroups
news://msnews.microsoft.com/

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"Dave Rudolf" wrote:

| Hey all,
|
| Some friends of mine are building a simple USB device for a class project.
| They want to create a random number generator that interfaces with a Windows
| machine via a USB connection. They asked for my help because I am the friendly
| neighbourhood computer nerd, though I confess that I don't know much about USB.
|
| They want to be able to use some existing USB drivers that are built into
| relatively new versions of Windows. They figure that they could treat the
| device as a mass storage device and "read" it like a file, but I suspect that
| there is some easier interface that they could use just to send a sequence of
| numbers for each request. So, if you can, please point us in the right direction.
|
| Thanks.
|
| Dave