Sphere478 wrote on 2022-05-31, 21:55:
It does. I have used it with 9x though it’s been a while, I recall there being a driver.
After poking around on waybackmachine, it looks like the TX2 cards had windows 9x drivers, but the Tx4 didn't.
Seems like some people got the Win9x TX2 drivers work with the Tx4 by editing the driver inf files in the TX2 drivers to include the Tx4 device strings.
Jo22 wrote on 2022-05-31, 19:08:I once updated an Windows 3.11 installation (with the MicroHouse FastDisk driver installed) to Windows 95.
After the upgrade, th […]
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I once updated an Windows 3.11 installation (with the MicroHouse FastDisk driver installed) to Windows 95.
After the upgrade, the 32-Bit Protected Mode driver from MicroHouse was still working!
However, it had an 8GB HDD limit, just like DOS 6.2x!
Anyway, I just wanted to mention this. Maybe it's helpful somehow. 🤷♂️
Maybe the original poster needs to install support for LBA48 on windows 98 before he can get the card to work with a large drive. Could be that the issue isn't lack of drivers, but lack of LBA48 support.
https://msfn.org/board/topic/129027-big-hdd-4 … a-thread-index/
Micro How-To
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Case One: One already has Win 9x working, out of a <137GB disk, and simply wants to add another >137GB IDE HDD, as a second disk, not as system disk:
1) Grab and install BHDD31.ZIP.
2) Reboot. Win 9x now has 48-bit LBA support.
3) Add new (Big) HDD. Partition and format it with The Ranish Partition Manager.
4) Get back to Win 9x and enjoy it!
Case Two: One already has Win 9x working, out of a <137GB disk, and simply wants to substitute it for a >137GB IDE HDD, as system disk:
1) Grab and install BHDD31.ZIP.
2) Reboot. Win 9x now has 48-bit LBA support.
3) Clone the boot partition of the old disk to the boot partition of the new one.
3) Swap the disks.
4) Get back to Win 9x and enjoy it!
Case Three: One wishes to do a fresh install on a >137GB IDE HDD, using the original Windows Install CD.
1) Partition and format the HDD with The Ranish Partition Manager.
2) Start windows install and *turn off* the machine at the point when it starts to reboot into Win 9x.
3) Boot to DOS from a diskette and substitute the file ESDI_506.PDR found at C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\IOSUBSYS by the updated one, grabbed from inside BHDD31.ZIP. Win 9x now has 48-bit LBA support.
4) Resume windows install.
5) After it finishes install BHDD31.ZIP, to update the other programs.
6) Get back to Win 9x and enjoy it!
Case Four: One wishes to do a fresh install on a >137GB IDE HDD, using a modified Windows Install CD.
1) Copy the contents of your Windows 98 install CD to a folder in your HDD.
(Let's use D:\98CD\ as an example.)
2) Extract the contents of BHDD31.ZIP to D:\98CD\Win98.
(Extracting !read.me, _bighdd.inf, _install.bat and xxFiles.txt isn't necessary.)
3) Extract the boot sector from the original install CD using IsoBuster or UltraISO.
4) Burn the contents of D:\98CD\ to CD or CD-R with your favorite CD burning program.
(Don't forget to make your CD bootable with the boot sector you just extracted!)
5) Partition and format the HDD with The Ranish Partition Manager.
6) Install Windows 98 from CD like you would normally do.
7) Get back to Win 9x and enjoy it![/i]