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Old December 2nd 05, 12:53 PM posted to microsoft.public.win98.disks.general
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Default utility for safe removal of usb drives win98se?

I have usb hard drives, flash card readers and thumb drives.

I have ONE hard drive with a Cypress chip that behaves properly in Win98SE.
I get an icon in the system tray that lets me safely remove the drive.
None of the other devices cause the icon to appear. (they all behave
properly in winXP). I've installed the unofficial service pack.

The flash card readers let me right click and eject the drive. But that
doesn't work on the thumb drives...although I've not YET had any data
corruption just ripping them out. I've loaded all the 98 software that
came with the drives.

I have trashed my hard drive on the two hard drives that don't enable
the safe removal icon. The drives are bigger than 137GB, so I can't just
scandisk them to fixup drive corruption. Scandisk thinks there's not
enough memory???? Is there a workaround for this? I have been able to
scan the drives on an XP system in a pinch.

Is there a registry tweek or a (free) utility that will make all the
hard drives safely removable in 98SE?
Thanks, mike

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Old December 2nd 05, 01:44 PM posted to microsoft.public.win98.disks.general
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Default utility for safe removal of usb drives win98se?

The Cypress chip is the bios for the removable hard drive, inside the
enclosure's interface card. Its not part of the hard drive.

You have SP1 or higher with XP. That's why no problems on the other two
hard drives.

You can remove a thumb drive in 98SE and XP as long as they are not being
accessed at the time. ME and XP have the safe to remove icon for these
thumb drives, but not 98SE. ME requires you use this icon for safe removal
before shutting down or restarting. Most thumb drive makers provide this in
their instructions for operation/installation.

Don't use hard drives in excess of 128 GB formatted capacity in 98SE or ME.

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"mike" wrote in message
...
I have usb hard drives, flash card readers and thumb drives.

I have ONE hard drive with a Cypress chip that behaves properly in

Win98SE.
I get an icon in the system tray that lets me safely remove the drive.
None of the other devices cause the icon to appear. (they all behave
properly in winXP). I've installed the unofficial service pack.

The flash card readers let me right click and eject the drive. But that
doesn't work on the thumb drives...although I've not YET had any data
corruption just ripping them out. I've loaded all the 98 software that
came with the drives.

I have trashed my hard drive on the two hard drives that don't enable
the safe removal icon. The drives are bigger than 137GB, so I can't just
scandisk them to fixup drive corruption. Scandisk thinks there's not
enough memory???? Is there a workaround for this? I have been able to
scan the drives on an XP system in a pinch.

Is there a registry tweek or a (free) utility that will make all the
hard drives safely removable in 98SE?
Thanks, mike

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Old December 3rd 05, 05:03 PM posted to microsoft.public.win98.disks.general
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Default utility for safe removal of usb drives win98se?

I have seen the 128G "limit" spoken of before yet I have a 5 x 160G raid
5 stripped set with several partitions of which one is 1901G. This
partition is full well beyond the 128G "limit." Perhaps the difference
is the stripping software? High-Point Technologies, Rocket Raid 454.
Up to 8 physical drives of over 300G supported in most raid formats
including raid 5. The partition was formatted using Partition Magic 8
and is running on Win98se patched current. The installation was done
about 18 months ago and a drive has failed. For a week I ran on the
system with the drive removed then had the software rebuild the array
when the replacement drive was available. It took about 26 hours on a
1.8G AMD box but did so successfully and has been running uninterrupted
since. Reboots are done about once a month or before I do a backup to a
CD or DVD. The box is used only as a file server with very little
keyboard activity.

James

Jonny wrote:
The Cypress chip is the bios for the removable hard drive, inside the
enclosure's interface card. Its not part of the hard drive.

You have SP1 or higher with XP. That's why no problems on the other two
hard drives.

You can remove a thumb drive in 98SE and XP as long as they are not being
accessed at the time. ME and XP have the safe to remove icon for these
thumb drives, but not 98SE. ME requires you use this icon for safe removal
before shutting down or restarting. Most thumb drive makers provide this in
their instructions for operation/installation.

Don't use hard drives in excess of 128 GB formatted capacity in 98SE or ME.

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Old December 3rd 05, 09:49 PM posted to microsoft.public.win98.disks.general
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Default utility for safe removal of usb drives win98se?

It isn't a partition limit, its a file data total size limitation per hard
drive. Buying a hard drive in excess of that is excess capacity that can't
be used without file loss problems.
98/98SE/ME all have this limitation.
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Jonny
"James" wrote in message ...
I have seen the 128G "limit" spoken of before yet I have a 5 x 160G raid
5 stripped set with several partitions of which one is 1901G. This
partition is full well beyond the 128G "limit." Perhaps the difference
is the stripping software? High-Point Technologies, Rocket Raid 454.
Up to 8 physical drives of over 300G supported in most raid formats
including raid 5. The partition was formatted using Partition Magic 8
and is running on Win98se patched current. The installation was done
about 18 months ago and a drive has failed. For a week I ran on the
system with the drive removed then had the software rebuild the array
when the replacement drive was available. It took about 26 hours on a
1.8G AMD box but did so successfully and has been running uninterrupted
since. Reboots are done about once a month or before I do a backup to a
CD or DVD. The box is used only as a file server with very little
keyboard activity.

James

Jonny wrote:
The Cypress chip is the bios for the removable hard drive, inside the
enclosure's interface card. Its not part of the hard drive.

You have SP1 or higher with XP. That's why no problems on the other two
hard drives.

You can remove a thumb drive in 98SE and XP as long as they are not

being
accessed at the time. ME and XP have the safe to remove icon for these
thumb drives, but not 98SE. ME requires you use this icon for safe

removal
before shutting down or restarting. Most thumb drive makers provide

this in
their instructions for operation/installation.

Don't use hard drives in excess of 128 GB formatted capacity in 98SE or

ME.



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Old December 11th 05, 08:27 AM posted to microsoft.public.win98.disks.general
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Default utility for safe removal of usb drives win98se?

Are you referring to the size of one file or when all files total beyond
the limit data loss can occur?

James

Jonny wrote:
It isn't a partition limit, its a file data total size limitation per hard
drive. Buying a hard drive in excess of that is excess capacity that can't
be used without file loss problems.
98/98SE/ME all have this limitation.

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Old December 11th 05, 11:20 AM posted to microsoft.public.win98.disks.general
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Default utility for safe removal of usb drives win98se?

Sum total, one or more files is the sum. Sum cannot exceed 128GB.

Have only read only one confirming website. All else I've read concentrates
on partition size limitations, LBA restrictions et al. Not if you can use
every bit of a hard drive once all this has been fixed/patched/addressed.
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Jonny
"James" wrote in message
...
Are you referring to the size of one file or when all files total beyond
the limit data loss can occur?

James

Jonny wrote:
It isn't a partition limit, its a file data total size limitation per

hard
drive. Buying a hard drive in excess of that is excess capacity that

can't
be used without file loss problems.
98/98SE/ME all have this limitation.



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Old December 21st 05, 08:06 PM posted to microsoft.public.win98.disks.general
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Default utility for safe removal of usb drives win98se?



"mike" wrote:

I have usb hard drives, flash card readers and thumb drives.

I have ONE hard drive with a Cypress chip that behaves properly in Win98SE.
I get an icon in the system tray that lets me safely remove the drive.
None of the other devices cause the icon to appear. (they all behave
properly in winXP). I've installed the unofficial service pack.

The flash card readers let me right click and eject the drive. But that
doesn't work on the thumb drives...although I've not YET had any data
corruption just ripping them out. I've loaded all the 98 software that
came with the drives.

I have trashed my hard drive on the two hard drives that don't enable
the safe removal icon. The drives are bigger than 137GB, so I can't just
scandisk them to fixup drive corruption. Scandisk thinks there's not
enough memory???? Is there a workaround for this? I have been able to
scan the drives on an XP system in a pinch.

Is there a registry tweek or a (free) utility that will make all the
hard drives safely removable in 98SE?
Thanks, mike

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I found a file utility for safely removing USB drives. It's call the USB
Mass Storage Flusher. You can search for it on the web, or if you like I can
send you a copy of the file. It's freeware.
 




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