I know this has been a problem for a number of people but despite trying most things I haven't been able to get my Win98SE based desktop PC (Dell 4100) to recognise the iPod even just as an external drive. I've dowloaded Windows 98 Second Edition 1394 Storage Supplement from Microsoft since this patch has helped some people. In the device manager on connecting the iPod it is under other devices with a yellow question mark beside it; inside this folder the Apple Inc_Ipod is there but with a yellow question mark superimposed with an exclamation mark. This suggests a driver is required (?) but where do get this from if it is indeed needed? I haven't downloaded any software to this computer, and was going to download Ephpod to use as my syncing software.

The firewire connection is through an Adaptec DuoConnect PCI card that appears to be correctly connected since it appears to charge the iPod and allows full functionality thro' the USB2 ports (with a Belkin memory stick reader). I chose Adapatec since a lot of people have suggested their cards are very reliable with iPods.

The ipod has been restored on my IBM A21p laptop, so is Windows formatted with FAT32 compliance. On this computer the connection is thro' a SIIG USB2+Firewire cardbus DV kit (which incidentally worked well, and has a separate jack for external powering of this cardbus card). The laptop runs with Windows 2000 Pro and has succesfully transferred data just in firwire mode and music via EphPod. So, the ipod works fine on that sytem.

Anyone know if/where i need drivers to make the ipod recognisable on the Win98SE desktop computer? Any suggestions?