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First post, by Doggy

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So I have my retro computer installed windows 98 and use sd to IDE adapter 16gb sd card works flawless. The thing is i want a bigger sd card for my system because I want more games on my pc. I've a 128 gb sd card I used it for my Nikon camera but I don't need 128gb it's too much. I formatted to fat32 but does not recognize in the bios. So my question is what is the limitation for sd card adapter ?? I know that win98 limited "137GB".
I'm about to buy a 120gb hdd but I really love my sd card system it's so easy to copy files on it and dead quiet, fast. Any idea what to do to get more space storage ?

My system specs:
Mobo: B683/B680 i440bx
CPU: 550Mhz PIII
ram: 128MB
gpu: voodoo3 2000
HDD: 16gb kingston sd card
ODD: dvd rom
Floppy drive 1.44

DOS 6.22 / WIN 3.1 - 386 DX40 16MB RAM ET4000 ESS 1868F
DOS Machine - AMD-K6/300AFR 64MB RAM CL-GD5446BV SB16 CT2770
3DFX WIN98 PC - P600 Mhz 128MB RAM Voodoo 3 2000 16MB Audigy 2 Zs
XP Machine - Gigabyte P35-DS3L -E8400 2GB RAM 8600 GT

Reply 2 of 7, by Doggy

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What if I resize the 128gb to 64 ?

DOS 6.22 / WIN 3.1 - 386 DX40 16MB RAM ET4000 ESS 1868F
DOS Machine - AMD-K6/300AFR 64MB RAM CL-GD5446BV SB16 CT2770
3DFX WIN98 PC - P600 Mhz 128MB RAM Voodoo 3 2000 16MB Audigy 2 Zs
XP Machine - Gigabyte P35-DS3L -E8400 2GB RAM 8600 GT

Reply 3 of 7, by mothergoose729

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I have a SATA to IDE adapter with a 120gb SSD that installed windows 98 just fine. My PIII setup is very similar to yours. I would try a smaller SD card first and make sure the adapter is working.

From what I have read, windows98 is ok with up to 120gb drives.

Reply 4 of 7, by chinny22

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Maybe your not using the latest firmware that enables large disk support? quick google found this
http://wims.rainbow-software.org/index.php?st … rt=200&count=40

or maybe the adapter has its own limit? in which case you could always get another 64gb card and adapter and have 2 hard drives

Reply 5 of 7, by doaks80

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I use a cf/sd adapter inside a cf/ide adapter and it works brilliantly. For DOS though, where it blew away hdd benchmarks (the program thought i had some kind of cache enabled). Nice thing about the cf/ide adapter is it plugs straight in to the ide port without a cable.

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Reply 6 of 7, by tayyare

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agent_x007 wrote:

Win98 has problems with FAT32 partitions over 64GB big.
Try using smaller one (like 32GB or 64GB).

I never heard of this. The probematic limit, as far as I know and supported by experience, is 128GB (137, if you wrongly use 1000s instead of 1024s).

Some utility software that came with it has some superficial problems with larger than 64GB partitions though. For example FDISK and FORMAT cannot show the size of the drive correctly (but even in this condition, they work and does thier thing correctly).

And there is a fix for that minor issue, anyway:

http://www.mdgx.com/files/FDSKFRMT.EXE

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Reply 7 of 7, by dr_st

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Doggy wrote:

I formatted to fat32 but does not recognize in the bios. So my question is what is the limitation for sd card adapter ?? I know that win98 limited "137GB".

The adapter itself may not support SDXC, in which case you have a 32GB limit.

doaks80 wrote:

I use a cf/sd adapter inside a cf/ide adapter and it works brilliantly. For DOS though, where it blew away hdd benchmarks (the program thought i had some kind of cache enabled). Nice thing about the cf/ide adapter is it plugs straight in to the ide port without a cable.

I'm curious; can find a semi-modern OS to run CrystalDiskMark benchmarks on it? I'm curious about both sequential and 4K speeds; most SD cards I've had had rather bad 4K speeds, and I haven't yet owned a SD-to-CF adapter that supported UHS-1 and speeds over 25MB/s.

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