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Maximum Hard Drive Size?
I'm thinking of putting a 200GB WD hard drive into a 4-year old
E-3400 with 700MHz chip. Does Win 98 SE have any limitation on the size of the hard drive? Thanks! Scott |
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You're going to need a controller card to run the drive, in which case, the
support of it depends on the card's BIOS and drivers. The only versions of Windows that support large drives are 2000 SP4 and XP SP1, and since your system BIOS won't support a 48-bit LBA, you'll need a controller card that does. "Scott" wrote in message ... I'm thinking of putting a 200GB WD hard drive into a 4-year old E-3400 with 700MHz chip. Does Win 98 SE have any limitation on the size of the hard drive? Thanks! Scott |
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Edward,
OK, I've used Promise Ultra Controller cards before with excellent results. Thanks! Scott "Edward J. Neth" wrote: You're going to need a controller card to run the drive, in which case, the support of it depends on the card's BIOS and drivers. The only versions of Windows that support large drives are 2000 SP4 and XP SP1, and since your system BIOS won't support a 48-bit LBA, you'll need a controller card that does. "Scott" wrote in message ... I'm thinking of putting a 200GB WD hard drive into a 4-year old E-3400 with 700MHz chip. Does Win 98 SE have any limitation on the size of the hard drive? Thanks! Scott |
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Edward,
I checked out the Promise website, and I'm a little confused. I think my E-3400 has a bus clock] speed of 100 megahertz, yet Promise talks about "66 MHz PCI bus support" with the 2-Port Serial ATA/150 Controller plus 1 Ultra ATA/133 Channel with Large LBA mode support for drives larger than 127 GB. Am I looking at the right kind of controller card for my system? Thanks! Scott "Edward J. Neth" wrote: You're going to need a controller card to run the drive, in which case, the support of it depends on the card's BIOS and drivers. The only versions of Windows that support large drives are 2000 SP4 and XP SP1, and since your system BIOS won't support a 48-bit LBA, you'll need a controller card that does. "Scott" wrote in message ... I'm thinking of putting a 200GB WD hard drive into a 4-year old E-3400 with 700MHz chip. Does Win 98 SE have any limitation on the size of the hard drive? Thanks! Scott |
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