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Old December 29th 04, 01:51 PM
Lil' Dave
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MS will not make an official reply to this newgroup. That includes any MS
official that monitors this newsgroup unofficially.
I can assure you that MS is fully aware of the 48 bit LBA problem with the
Win9X operating systems, and has been aware of it for quite some time.
There is not just one, but many problems with this. Windows rides on the
disk operating system (DOS), and has an environment called "windows". The
48 bit access problem has to be addressed in both environments. In
addition, windows tools like scandisk and defrag were not designed to work
in the environments if the OS can address 48 bit disk access. Am not sure,
but windows explorer may have problems in this environment as well. There
may be other unknowns that will have problems as well.

So, as you can easily see, windows 9X needs a complete revamp to work in the
environment that can access 48 bit LBA. MS has been developing their more
current OSes to work properly in this area. So, I don't expect MS to revamp
Win98/98SE for that purpose.

My suggestion is to use their most current operating system if you require
48 bit LBA on your hard drives for full capacity use, and for windows disk
tools to operate correctly as well. To avoid partition size limitations,
use the NTFS for a filesystem vice FAT32.
"user" wrote in message
...
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.