04-02-2017, 01:05 PM
many drives have proprietary software that is used by the O/S to achieve the performance ratings that are given for the device. it's not so much a driver as it is a helper app, at least on windows, not sure how linux handles it if in fact linux supports it at all but i have had usb drives that would not run at all unless the drive software was first installed on windows units and i'm wondering if this may be a drive that operates via installed software?