OT: Anyone have any spare hard drives?

[Ben Scott]

On 7/19/07, Neil Joseph Schelly <neil at jenandneil.com> wrote:
> I'm looking for a 30-60GB hard drive to replace a failed drive in a Win98 box.
> Since Win98 doesn't like 64+GB drives ...

  I can't be sure (it's been awhile since I had to deal with Win98 in
any serious fashion), but I think it's just Win98's FDISK that gets
confused after 64 GiB.  I think most of Win98 can handle up to 128
GiB.

  At 128 GiB, you hit the 28-bit IDE address limit.  The Win98 IDE
driver doesn't handle that.  Third-party drivers are available, but
typically only work with add-in IDE cards, not motherboard chipsets.
Several of the Win98 tools (notably SCANDISK) also fall apart.

  Many modern hard drives come with jumpers which will limit the
capacity the drive reports to the host.  These may be of use to you.

References:

http://tinyurl.com/yuuhtf

http://tinyurl.com/2oet9c

http://www.48bitlba.com/win98.htm

-- Ben