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Win-98 and large hard drives, custom cluster size (new information)
I have just installed win-98se on my Asrock test platform, on a new 500 gb hard drive. I used the switch that prevents ACPI installation, and after all is said and done I have no yellow (!) showing up in device manager. On-board lan and USB are functional. I haven't tried sounds wonderful :-) the on-board sound device yet, so I don't know if I'll get it to work (I have it disabled in the bios). Windows hung during the first startup attempt - bootlog.txt showed the problem was hsfloppy.pdr. I strange that you needed the motherboard drivers to preventing the windows floppy support to hang the system Under System Properties, Performance tab, it says: "Performance may be improved by enabling virtual memory" In the Performance status list, virtual memory is indeed disabled. In the Virtual Memory window, the button "Let windows manage my virtual settings" radio button is selected. if you set the settings yourself, making a permanent swapfile do it still say that virtual memory is disabled? someone had some similar problem after installing the servicepack and fixed it by edited both Min/MaxFileCache [vcache] in system.ini he did set them to 2048 (but that is only 2Mb but you could try fiddle with it, there is some size recomendations at http://www.thpc.info/ram/vcache98.html ) the error could allso be given if win386.swp is readonly Neither windows scandisk and defrag run. They both complain about not do scandisk/defrag even run on a LBA48 drive? (I thought they killed any data after 137 GB, but I might be wrong) There must be something better that one can replace them with versions. Only issue so far is that the system doesn't shut down properly (it goes to a black screen with a blinking cursor in the upper left corner). Hmm... have you tried a older version of the nvidia drivers to se if it shut down corectly then? The WD software requires me to select with OS I will be using. Even when I tell it I want to create a FAT-32 partition, it still wants me to specify the OS, and it lists Win-98 along with ME as different aha.. western digital send a partitioning program with its disk... And I guess they think the program is more "userfriendly" that way :-) (and maybe it is for people that never heard of partitions and formatting and different formats - and don't want to know) otherwise you could use freedos fdisk I think When booting into dos, it takes a few minutes to perform the first DIR command (this was expected based on previous tests with 160 gb why? or are there something I missunderstood here... This is a great motherboard, either for exclusive win-98 use, or for dual boot use. My test board is an older version of this motherboard (only supports dual-core CPU's according to the box) but I have several others (new-in-box) that are 4-core versions (quad-core you have several motherboards just lying around there? I'm a bit jealous .... In theory I could perform a file-creation test and load this drive with millions of files to see how 98 handles it. just download lots of random songs and movies with dc++ or something and make copys (and copys of the copys recursively in a nice directory hierachy till the disk is 90% full ;-) |
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