Ok guys, as the question says, I'm looking to put a secondary drive in one of my 98se computers for storing music and I'd like to know what's the best I can do?
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The motherboard limit might be something to consider too...
I've been using 120gb drives no problem, although after installing win98 I've noticed I had to mount the drive and grow the partition using another OS. Remember there's a 4gb limit in FAT32 for individual file size, so music is probably good- movies or zip archives, watch out.
Everything I keep reading says the theoretical limit is 8tb, although some tools in windows like scandisk/defrag have a limitation of 127.53gb for the partition size.
http://techcosupport.com/press/maximum-size-o … t-32-partition/
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/184006
Good luck!
Yeah I want to use it for music primarily
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I can recommend this, although it is commercial software with a serious price tag (but you have support from the author)
http://rloew.x10host.com/Programs/Patchtb.htm
AFAIK the 4 GB file size barrier is Win9x kernel-based, so even if you install Paragon or DiskInternals NTFSReader you will not be able to play larger than 4GB files.
"Ita in vita ut in lusu alae pessima iactura arte corrigenda est."
Well I installed Win 98 SE on 32GB partition on ~1,67TB size of actual 4TB drive... so yeah 😀
I kinda cheated tho since I did use PCI SATA controller, but still - it worked fine 😉
YT video of it for anyone interested : LINK
And yes I know it's possible to do 32GB+ partitions, I just wanted to avoid pushing my "luck" too far in this case.
Windows 98SE supports up to 128GiB, the 28bit LBA addressing limit.
wrote:Windows 98SE supports up to 128GiB, the 28bit LBA addressing limit.
Isn't that just a BIOS limitation?
I often link to http://toastytech.com/guis/miscb2.html, which shows Windows 95 running on a 500GB disk.
wrote:Windows 98SE supports up to 128GiB, the 28bit LBA addressing limit.
This. Checked it recently, settled for a 73 GB WD Raptor. Works without any additional software.
wrote:wrote:Windows 98SE supports up to 128GiB, the 28bit LBA addressing limit.
Isn't that just a BIOS limitation?
I often link to http://toastytech.com/guis/miscb2.html, which shows Windows 95 running on a 500GB disk.
It's a limit to the IDE driver (ESDI_506.PDR) IIRC, in addition to IDE controllers. You can show higher capacities, but addressing an IDE HDD past 128 GiB is "unreliable". The slightly lower 127.5 GiB is the limit for some of the disk tools that come with 98SE, capped by a 16 MB max memory allocation.
Even if your BIOS supports 48-bit LBA, Windows 98SE's esdi_506.pdr driver does not. You could run 9x in "Compatibility Mode" (use BIOS Int 13h for disk access) for those cases, but that is annoyingly slow. There were 3rd party drivers that did support 48-bit LBA, Intel's chipset drivers were one of them. Many of the SATA card with 9x drivers should too. Its too bad a port of UniATA hasn't happened yet, it would solve this problem along with the lack of AHCI drivers.
