KT7A-RAID + 300GB Maxtor + Win98SE = no joy :(

Bird Janitor® wrote:
Sparkle wrote:
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| Something like http://www.siig.com/product.asp?catid=103&pid=437
| will take care of that, no?

The add-on card you reference will make no difference.

The BIOS for the KT7A-RAID board has been updated in the most recent
releases to support 48-bit LBA.

The BIOS for the add-on card you have referenced also supports 48-bit LBA.

What's missing here is support from Windows 98SE for 48-bit LBA. FAT32 is
limited to 28-bit LBA in Windows 98SE (and in Windows ME). 28 address bits
only allows for addressability of about 137GB (decimal) of disk space.

48-bit LBA provides additional address bits to break the 137GB barrier.

The problem here is not the motherboard .. it's the operating system.
Microsoft never released updates to Windows 98SE to support 48-bit LBA.
Both the motherboard BIOS *and* the OS must support 48-bit LBA for the 137GB
barrier to be broken.

Jef

The site Jon Hildrum pointed to says
"The drivers provided with controller card will provide 48-bit LBA
support in Windows 98 or Me."
http://www.48bitlba.com/win98.htm

VIA drivers that GlassVial asked about are also mentioned there, plus a
couple of patches at http://www.48bitlba.com/tools.htm