I have seen the 128G "limit" spoken of before yet I have a 5 x 160G raid
5 stripped set with several partitions of which one is 1901G. This
partition is full well beyond the 128G "limit." Perhaps the difference
is the stripping software? High-Point Technologies, Rocket Raid 454.
Up to 8 physical drives of over 300G supported in most raid formats
including raid 5. The partition was formatted using Partition Magic 8
and is running on Win98se patched current. The installation was done
about 18 months ago and a drive has failed. For a week I ran on the
system with the drive removed then had the software rebuild the array
when the replacement drive was available. It took about 26 hours on a
1.8G AMD box but did so successfully and has been running uninterrupted
since. Reboots are done about once a month or before I do a backup to a
CD or DVD. The box is used only as a file server with very little
keyboard activity.

James

Jonny wrote:
The Cypress chip is the bios for the removable hard drive, inside the
enclosure's interface card. Its not part of the hard drive.

You have SP1 or higher with XP. That's why no problems on the other two
hard drives.

You can remove a thumb drive in 98SE and XP as long as they are not being
accessed at the time. ME and XP have the safe to remove icon for these
thumb drives, but not 98SE. ME requires you use this icon for safe removal
before shutting down or restarting. Most thumb drive makers provide this in
their instructions for operation/installation.

Don't use hard drives in excess of 128 GB formatted capacity in 98SE or ME.