I can only test what I have, which are an original Maxtor One-Touch and a
One-Touch II (maybe a III, have to check my wife's business equipment.) In
other words, I'm in the middle testing, now. I'll have an answer in another
day or two. Have to build and update 2 entire OS systems one after the
other, and I have other hobbies, too, s.

To be honest, I think you should look into a simple External USB II
Enclosure into which you install any old IDE drive. AFAIK, there are few
problems with these so long as USB II is decently supported. Firewire is
another option, but again, with the original flavor of Win98, all bets are
off without actually testing.

Anyway, I'll get back to you tomorrow or Monday.

--
Gary S. Terhune
MS-MVP Shell/User
www.grystmill.com

"SlickRCBD" wrote in message
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Gary S. Terhune wrote:
Thoughtful partitioning, and the use of a third-party partitioning app,
like BootIt NG, gets rid of most those pesky problems you refer to. It's
not that you CAN'T create huge partitions formatted FAT32 and using 4KB
clusters, it's that when you do so the FATs themselves get to be larger
than MS thinks they ought to be, the concern being how long it takes to
read the FATs (FAT32 systems have two copies of the File Allocation
Table.) But, what with today's CPU speeds and RAM allotments, I don't
think there's much lag time to speak of when reading large FATs.

Most external drives are used for larger files, not little 10 or 20 KB
files (such as typically exist in the system files) If, for example, the
intent is to store multimedia or image files or other large files, slack
space is literally negligible. Biggest problem with FAT32, other than the
obvious ones involving security and durability is that it only permits a
maximum file size of 4GB.

I'd divide the drive into quarters (~150GB each), partition and format
using BootIt NG, and leave it at 4KB clusters. Or even divide the drive
into eighths. Much more manageable than one huge 750GB drive.

Your last post didn't appear until well into the 27th. As the previous
posts appeared negative, I took the drive back and got a promise from the
person who gave it to me to order one that would work. What drive would
you recomend to be used for sharing with a Win98SE desktop and a Win98FE
laptop set of computers? By sharing, I mean keeping it connected to the
desktop, but occasionally hooking it up to the laptop since I don't own a
wifi hookup and hooking it up to the ethernet is a PITA.

Please list brand and the highest capacity that can be easily accomidated.
ALso I need reliable drivers.