250 GB Drive with Win98se - problem...

[Svend Olaf Mikkelsen]

It goes to diskaddress modulo 128GiB.
In other words the first sector over 128GiB goes to your MBR (bootsector).

That is the behavior for the 128 GB problem in Windows 2000 and XP,
but not Windows 98.

I have not been able to figure out the exact nature of the 128 GB
problem in Windows 98, but my GB32 program can detect three different
variants of the problem. More variants may exist.

The only reliable solution I know of for disks larger than 128 GB in
Windows 98 is with Intel chipset and the latest version of Intel
Application Accelerator.

 

[Splork]

And where did he say anything about partitoning?

He Didn't, I did. What is the intent of your comment??

http://members.aol.com/rloew1/Programs/Patch137.htm

referenced from here http://www.48bitlba.com/tools.htm

This is not the one I refer to. There is another source of a better and free
solution. I lost the url but it appears the individual has found the correct
info.

Here is a URL that may be the one I used or links to it.
http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=78592&st=60

Actually that depends on whether the original driver is flawed.
If not it will just issue an error message to the calling app.

My experience had the data written to the folder in one partition overwriting
files and folders in another partition. No problem existed until I exceeded a
disk total of 137G. The resulting folders and files looked like chinese
newspapers and scandisk would not run to repair.

MBR was untouched, Original driver undamaged.

 

[Splork]

That is the behavior for the 128 GB problem in Windows 2000 and XP,
but not Windows 98.

I have not been able to figure out the exact nature of the 128 GB
problem in Windows 98, but my GB32 program can detect three different
variants of the problem. More variants may exist.

The only reliable solution I know of for disks larger than 128 GB in
Windows 98 is with Intel chipset and the latest version of Intel
Application Accelerator.

The accelerator only covered certain chipsets. My intel 875 was not included in
the remedy.

See here (mid thread) and look over some of the discussion.
http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=78592&st=60

 

[Folkert Rienstra]

That is the behavior for the 128 GB problem in Windows 2000 and XP,
but not Windows 98.

As I said in the piece that you snipped above, "IF" the driver is flawed.
So where does the the first sector over 128GiB go to in your opinion?

I have not been able to figure out the exact nature of the 128 GB
problem in Windows 98, but my GB32 program can detect three different
variants of the problem. More variants may exist.

The only reliable solution I know of for disks larger than 128 GB in
Windows 98 is with Intel chipset and the latest version of Intel
Application Accelerator.

So are you hereby giving a value judgement about the Loew and the
MSFN patches or just uttering your state of mind?

 

[Svend Olaf Mikkelsen]

As I said in the piece that you snipped above, "IF" the driver is flawed.
So where does the the first sector over 128GiB go to in your opinion?

I do not know. When I was working with it, I considered writing the
sector number to every sector of a disk to figure it out, but I (and
others I assume) newer came to that.

So are you hereby giving a value judgement about the Loew and the
MSFN patches or just uttering your state of mind?

They may be reliable.

I guess I did see some texts on the web sites, which made me not test
them, but I do not have more than everybody can see for themselves.