Virtual COM port (VCP) drivers cause the USB device to appear as an additional COM port available to the PC. Application software can access the USB device in the This page contains the VCP drivers currently available for FTDI devices. For D2XX Direct drivers, please click here. FTDI USB Serial Port driver is the software that helps your operating system to communicate with USB Serial Port devices. Get the latest driver Please enter your product details to view the latest driver information for your system.
If the driver is already installed on your system, updating (overwrite-installing) may fix various issues, add new functions, or just upgrade to the available version. Take into consideration that is not recommended to install the driver on Operating Systems other than stated ones.
In order to manually update your driver, follow the steps below (the next steps):
1. Extract the .cab file to a folder of your choice
2. Go to Device Manager (right click on My Computer, choose Manage and then find Device Manager in the left panel), or right click on Start Menu for Windows 10 and select Device Manager
3. Right click on the hardware device you wish to update and choose Update Driver Software
4. Choose to select the location of the new driver manually and browse to the folder where you extracted the driver
5. If you already have the driver installed and want to update to a newer version got to 'Let me pick from a list of device drivers on my computer'
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6. Click 'Have Disk'
7. Browse to the folder where you extracted the driver and click Ok
About Keyboard Driver:
Install the proper keyboard software and your system will be able to recognize the device and use all available features. This will also make it possible for owners to configure additional hotkeys.
In case additional keyboard accessories are connected, this step can also improve the bundle’s overall stability and compatibility, as well as performance.
Therefore, if you wish to install this release, simply make sure that your computer OS is supported, save the package, extract it if necessary, run the available setup, and follow the on-screen instructions for a complete installation.
Bear in mind that, even though other platforms might be compatible, we do not recommend applying this software version on configurations running under OSes other than the specified ones.
That being said, if you consider applying the present version, download and install the package. Also check with our website whenever you can, in order to stay up to speed with latest releases.
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The ATA port driver and ATA miniport driver models may be altered or unavailable in the future. Instead, we recommend using the Storport driver and Storport miniport driver models.
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In addition to the SCSI Port Driver and the Storport Driver, Windows Vista and later versions of the Windows operating system provide the ATA port driver (Ataport.sys), a storage port driver that is especially suitable for use with IDE controllers.
The most significant difference between the ATA port driver and other system-supplied storage port drivers is the protocol that the ATA port driver uses to communicate with other drivers. All other system-supplied storage port drivers use SCSI request blocks (SRBs) to communicate both with higher-level drivers, such as storage class drivers, and with miniport drivers. The ATA port driver uses SRBs to communicate with higher-level drivers only. To communicate with its miniport drivers, ATA port uses a packet called an IDE request block (IRB), which is defined by the IDE_REQUEST_BLOCK structure. IRBs are better designed than SRBs to the characteristics of ATA devices.
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Another difference between the ATA port driver and other system-supplied storage drivers is that the ATA port driver shields ATA miniport drivers from certain requirements that are defined by the SCSI standard. For example, the ATA port driver uses ATA commands to collect the equivalent of SCSI sense data from the ATA miniport driver, translates the data so that it complies with a SCSI sense data format, and passes the data to higher-level drivers as if it were SCSI sense data. Therefore, ATA miniport drivers do not have to respond directly to requests from higher-level drivers for SCSI sense data.
The ATA miniport driver interface closely resembles the SCSI port driver interface. Therefore, if you have already written a SCSI miniport driver, you should be able to easily learn how to write an ATA miniport driver. Drivers for current ATA/ATAPI technologies, such as Serial ATA (SATA), should use the higher performance Storport miniport interface.
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Together with the ATA port driver, the operating system provides a default ATA miniport driver and a default controller minidriver. The system-supplied default drivers work for most controller hardware, and we strongly recommend that the default minidrivers be used wherever possible.