Hi,

One can buy 'High Capacity Disk Patch" from Rudolph R. Loew:
http://members.aol.com/rloew1/Programs/Patch137.htm

(This patch updates ESDI_506.PDR)

Cheers, Roman

Interesting and thank you. I can't, for the life of me, imagine paying for
something such as this. I'd sooner partition personally though it does
answer my qeustion as to "how" one manages to do this. I suppose with
FATxx and the inherant file size limitations there's no real concern about
using the entire drive either way. My current thought process is on the
lines of creating an ME box that is at maximum capacity, an idea that
stems from trying to get ME to run on a 64 bit AMD. (No, I don't have a
good reason for any of this, just the reason that it's something to do...)
Thanks again, I'll take a look at the demo, see what it does, and think
about other alternative methods.


Yep, it's a great challenge to install old Windows OS-es on new PC-s.
Currently I limit myself to WIndows 98SE (dual boot with XP.SP2),
max 512 MB RAM and max 120 GB HDD PATA.

Regarding alternatives, there is quite an activity on MSFN forum from
a group of people (gape, MDMx, Tihiy, Maximus-Decim, ...) who are
trying to enhance old Windows (like general USB Mass Storage support
in Windows 98SE). Here is a new thread (2005-MAY-22) about
ESDI_506.PDR (it seems they plan to develop free 137GB solution):

http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=46752
(There are also couple of messages from author of commercial patch...)


Regards, Roman