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Old December 29th 04, 05:04 AM
Richard G. Harper
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As Ron said, Microsoft does not monitor this forum and you will get no
official answer from a posting here. I might also point out that Windows 98
is currently in an extended support phase where only critical updates are
being provided, so the odds are that your request will go unanswered.

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"user" wrote in message
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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.