Standard Windows drivers for what? You said Windows described it as a ramdisk? That's not how a standard USB drive is identified on any version of Windows I've used. (I've not used Windows 10, but I doubt Microsoft bothered to change that.)

If it's only a standard USB drive, Device Manager will have a "USB Mass Storage Device" and within that there will be a "USB Flash Disk USB Device" entry.

If it's something else, you may have an entry "USB Composite Device" or some other description either instead or as well.

(Make sure you are viewing Device Manager as "Devices by connection", and look through all the USB Host Controller / USB Root Hub entries.)


Anyhow, something that probably wont work but could be worth trying just to be sure: use VirtualBox or Qemu to run Windows in a VM on Linux - does the device behave the same or differently there?

Windows install has some stored devices that it can install. Doesn't always need to go online. Not sure how much could be default windows drivers in that wim.

That all is kind of not needed really for this issue.

The fact that Nikon mentions it is a storage device and hub makes me think it can do two things at once (at least on windows.)

Makes me also wonder if this ram disk is really a faux thing that is built on windows to implement these device. Meaning it is really a windows ram disk??

lsusb seems to report it is a mass storage device so it could or should update. I'd press F5 in almost any gui you are using and see if it updates