Reply 140 of 145, by Disruptor
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feipoa wrote on 2024-01-15, 12:50:I haven't been following this thread and didn't even know about it until now. So it sounds like mkarcher's BIOS fix would allow, for example, that w95 partition of mine to be 64 GB (in the above example), with the drawback being that the w95 read speeds would be reduced?
It would be nice if we had XT-IDE ROMs for SCSI VLB/EISA controllers.
Windows 9x has its own driver that has no problems with the 8 GB limit.
So mkarcher's BIOS patch will not influence transfer speed.
And his patch works on the EISA 2740 controller series too.
If you use Windows 95 B or C, I'd recommend to have DOS partitions within 1021 cylinders, and to have the LBA partitions to start at cylinder 1022.
DOS partition
NT partition
Extended: 2 GB FAT 16 partition
Cylinder 1022: W95 partition (60 GB?)