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

Flashing to the latest
bios/HPT bios, loading the 3.51 HPT drivers and hanging the drive off
the HPT controller just might do the trick.

As information, I'm not using the HPT at all. In fact, when I went to
the 7N BIOS, I had the drive on the HPT and it _still_ only saw 137GB
but the main IDE controller saw the full drive just fine. So I went with
that and HPT went back burner for me.

I've been told (and Jef has noted) that HPT didn't support it til
v2.something and the recommendation is to pick up the newest one. But
I haven't bothered yet. I'll just have the one HD in that machine.

Right, the bios(es) directly from Abit will NOT have the latest HPT
bios included in them. I believe it was Jef (?) who posted a link
with the latest bios AND the latest HPT bios INTEGRATED to both give
your board the A9 bios for the BOARD and the 2.351 bios version for
the HPT Controller. Hope that helps clarify that a bit. Foolish/lazy
on Abit's part to not update the HPT controller bios in their last
bios for the board IMO.

In regards to the chipset driver I linked, I was just trying to make
your life easier, yes it's a conglomerate of drivers, but that's the
point. They help 98 (and other OS's for that matter) figure out what
to DO with the chipset in question, and I highly suggest loading the
package rather than piecemeal it.

-GV

On Fri, 08 Sep 2006 09:09:15 -0400, 0_Qed
wrote:

I was fairly certain that my old Win98SE system wouldn't do the 300GB.
flash my BIOS up to the 7N version. This is said to recognize drives
over 137GB.

- the "137" barrier : W98 -

it is the barrier for partition size, not disk size ..
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Spajky wrote:

- the "137" barrier : W98 -

it is the barrier for partition size, not disk size ..

:-)
HD overall 'size' ...

The 'links' prev provided describe both a 'patch', and a drop_in,
for the W98 OS included, default HD driver' .

Ptn bashing(MBR), and formating, yet another problem.

Qed.

MalcolmO wrote:

N.B. -- The Win98 manual says on page 81:

The FAT32 file system has the folowing advantages over FAT16:

. It allows a hard disk of up to 2 TB (yes! terabytes!) to be formatted
as a *single* drive, eliminating the need to partition the hard disk.

[Later edit: Just realized that MS is only claiming this capability for
*FAT32*, not for Windows98. GRRR!!!]

http://download.microsoft.com/downlo...LocFileSys.doc
is probably the best reference I've found.

2 terabytes is the maximum volume size allowed by the FAT32 file system
design.

127.5 gigabytes is the maximum volume size allowed by the Windows98 file
system driver.

Note those are volumes, not disk size. A footnote also mentions Win98
defrag limitations, then later says the volume limit is lifted in
Windows Me! So use the WinME defragger.

Hope that helps clarify that a bit.

Oh, I didn't find it unclear; I just went a different way because of the
circumstances I encountered.

Foolish/lazy
on Abit's part to not update the HPT controller bios in their last
bios for the board IMO.

No, no. Just each company letting the other have its due. Not at all
unusual or unreasonable.

Saw a Labor_Day special @ $100USD

Mine was Labour Day special @ $109CAD!

As to the other stuff you've mentioned, not needed. I _have_ a proper
BIOS and a proper driver. Once I had those, partitioning and formatting
were no problem at all.

What I need are scandisk and defrag replacements that work.

it is the barrier for partition size, not disk size ..

No. Using the software that is included with Win98, it's both.

Should be able to do the partitioning with BootIt NG.

Can do it with the software that comes with the drive. But only if the
driver supports it, which the Miniport does.

what's really needed is a replacement that will do the job. Ditto for defrag.

I thought that I'd posted already about Diskkeeper Lite to replace
defrag but I don't see such here.

As it happened, I used that to defrag the new disk and now Win98 will
not stand on its hind legs and walk.

I will need to put the old Quantum 30GB back in, boot with that and do
the 300GB drive over again to restore Win98 to full Rory Calhoun status.

And I'll throw away Diskkeeper Lite. :P

and specific for win98 and lba
http://www.48bitlba.com/win98.htm

Excellent site. Thanks, Jon.