First post, by rishooty
[Optional Intro]
Hi there! It's been a while. I believe after many years of searching, I've finally found my retro pc mainstay. I absolutely love this little thing! I got it in exchange for a donation to my local vintage computer museum. The only thing wrong with it is he had master/slave drive issues, in which case the drive needed 2 headers to determine master/slave and was missing one.
https://archive.shuttle.eu/2004/en/ss51g_faq.htm#download
After I got the minimum working and tested, I ended up swapping the floppy drive that was already installed out for the startech CF to 3.5" adapter anyway.
https://www.amazon.com/StarTech-com-Single-Ad … C72&sr=1-3&th=1
After installing that, a geforce 4 mx440 SE (128-bit thankfully), and the sound blaster audigy platinum I already had, it worked fantastic once everything was set up properly. It blew me away that such capable vintage gaming could be in such a small form factor without compromises, and I was glad I snatched it up at that museum event when I did
[Actual thing]
However, no matter what I do I can't get the 32GB transcend card i got brand new off of amazon to read the full 32GB. It's a 478 socket with a northwood pentium 4 and usb 2.0, i couldn't believe that there was a limit at this point, or that at the very least it would be 32GB.
Now strangely enough, the bios reads it perfectly. If i hit auto detect, or chs, or lba, it will show all the exact CHS settings no problem.
But for some reason windows 98 SE fdisk won't read it. Now, i'm using a rather hacked up version of w98 that's more or less like an alpha of 98lite but much better even despite it's known bugs so far: https://www.razorback95.com/projects/redtoast/. I recognize it probably doesn't have the latest fdisk and purely accounted for RLOEW patches being slipstreamed in as he reset the whole project recently and is just working on the important parts.
So, ok cool, i probably need to use another fdisk. I boot up my Super FDISK 1.0 disc, which i'm 90% sure is based on freedos aaaaand.... it still only reads as 8GB.
[Conclusion]
I'm completely stumped. I don't mind burning a giant stack of cds and not doing full installs, or having multiple installs on 8gb CFs, but i'm clearly missing something here.
1. Would freedos or ME fdisk fare any better?
2. If I'm stuck with this due to some weird bios quirk (note the bios is fully updated), would this in any capacity affect win2000, xp, or linux?