Dear MS Customer Support!


I would like to convince You to enhance support for esdi_506.pdr IDE driver,
becouse all current Intel based PC systems (chipset 865/875/915/925 with 48Bit
BIOS suport) has controllers which use esdi_506.pdr driver to handle IDE drives.
As all we know there is no support of large IDE 48-bit for drives connected
using esdi_506.pdr as channel controller driver.

The original Intel Application Accellerator doesn't suport Windows 98SE/ME
systems for large drives for chipsets 865/875/915/925 (only chipsets i860 and
olders are supported by this application). These Intel chipsets: 865/875/915/925
offers driver for Hard Disk Controller (82801EB) but it uses esdi_506.pdr IDE
driver which is limited to 32-bit LBA acess.

It is very simple for You to enhance support becouse You have source code of
esdi_506.pdr IDE driver.
There is a big demand for all people who have to use Win98SE system for
software-test purposes or use it every day to have possibility to work on large
IDE drives.

Regards,
Mike.