windows 98se hard drive question

[wgjojotater16]

I was just wanting to know if there i a limit on how big your hard drive can be while running windows 98se .I was thinking about getting a couple of maxtor 300 gb hard drive's. I have a maxtor Ulta ATA/100 PIC adaptor card in an computer that i bought for parts ."Here is a link "


http://www.maxtor.com/portal/site/Maxtor/menuitem.5d2b41d3cef51dfe29dd10a191346068/?channelpath=/en_us/Support/Product%20Support/Accessories/Ultra%20ATA/Ultra%20ATA[s]100%20PCI%20Adapter%20Card


If there is a limit can i use this card to get by this limit .


For those of you that dont know my hardware profile's here is some links
Mother board
fic.com.tw/product/motherboard/1stmainboard_detail.aspx?type=legacy&model_id=45[/url]

athlon xp 1900+ palomino

1024 mb of ram

windows 98 se

[GaryRouth]

There is a barrier at 137gb in systems limited to 28bit LBA (Logical Block Addressing).

You can have 48bit LBA support by using that Maxtor PCI card, but you'll likely have to flash it's bios to get that support (the original version didn't support 48bit LBA). Here's the link to the flash update http://www.maxtor.com/portal/site/Ma...&downloadID=28

Systems with recent Intel chipsets can use the Intel Application Accelerator drivers, which support 48-bit LBA, and replace the OS controller drivers for Win98se/Me/2000/XP.

For full details, here are a few links from the Maxtor site.
Hard Drive Limitiations https://maxtor.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/...anVtcGVy&p_li=
137gb Barrier http://maxtor.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/m...hp?p_faqid=960
137gb Barrier Detailed Instructions in Adobe Acrobat format http://service.maxtor.com/rightnow/p..._Solutions.pdf

I don't know if either a Bios update for the motherboard, or a more recent version of the Via chipset drivers, would yield a suitably compatible IDE controller driver or not. I'd have to check (and that might have to wait till tomorrow - since it's late here. . . )

If you decide on the Maxtor card, with the bios update (for the card) you should be OK.

Best of luck
. . . Gary

[glc]

You can exceed the 137gb limit in hardware, but you are limited to 128gb or smaller partitions. This cannot be exceeded. You will also need a 3rd party partitioning tool or an updated FDISK to work with drives larger than 64gb properly. Use the controller card, and update its bios.

[wgjojotater16]

Is there a limit on a 48 bit lba ?

[glc]

144,000,000 gigabytes.

[wgjojotater16]

Well i dont think i will need that many .Think i can get it to working with this info. thanks