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teebo
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Re: Win-98 and large hard drives, custom cluster size (new information)
> I have just installed win-98se on my Asrock test platform, on a new
> 500 gb hard drive. I used the switch that prevents ACPI installation,
> and after all is said and done I have no yellow (!) showing up in
> device manager. On-board lan and USB are functional. I haven't tried
sounds wonderful
> the on-board sound device yet, so I don't know if I'll get it to work
> (I have it disabled in the bios). Windows hung during the first
> startup attempt - bootlog.txt showed the problem was hsfloppy.pdr. I
strange that you needed the motherboard drivers to preventing
the windows floppy support to hang the system
>
> Under System Properties, Performance tab, it says:
> "Performance may be improved by enabling virtual memory"
> In the Performance status list, virtual memory is indeed disabled.
>
> In the Virtual Memory window, the button "Let windows manage my
> virtual settings" radio button is selected.
if you set the settings yourself, making a permanent swapfile
do it still say that virtual memory is disabled?
someone had some similar problem after installing the servicepack
and fixed it by edited both Min/MaxFileCache [vcache] in system.ini
he did set them to 2048 (but that is only 2Mb but you could try
fiddle with it, there is some size recomendations at
http://www.thpc.info/ram/vcache98.html )
the error could allso be given if win386.swp is readonly
> Neither windows scandisk and defrag run. They both complain about not
do scandisk/defrag even run on a LBA48 drive?
(I thought they killed any data after 137 GB, but I might be wrong)
There must be something better that one can replace them with
> versions. Only issue so far is that the system doesn't shut down
> properly (it goes to a black screen with a blinking cursor in the
> upper left corner).
Hmm... have you tried a older version of the nvidia drivers
to se if it shut down corectly then?
> The WD software requires me to select with OS I will be using. Even
> when I tell it I want to create a FAT-32 partition, it still wants me
> to specify the OS, and it lists Win-98 along with ME as different
aha.. western digital send a partitioning program with its disk...
And I guess they think the program is more "userfriendly" that way
(and maybe it is for people that never heard of partitions
and formatting and different formats - and don't want to know)
otherwise you could use freedos fdisk I think
> When booting into dos, it takes a few minutes to perform the first DIR
> command (this was expected based on previous tests with 160 gb
why? or are there something I missunderstood here...
> This is a great motherboard, either for exclusive win-98 use, or for
> dual boot use. My test board is an older version of this motherboard
> (only supports dual-core CPU's according to the box) but I have
> several others (new-in-box) that are 4-core versions (quad-core
you have several motherboards just lying around there?
I'm a bit jealous ....
> In theory I could perform a file-creation test and load this drive
> with millions of files to see how 98 handles it.
just download lots of random songs and movies with dc++ or
something and make copys (and copys of the copys recursively
in a nice directory hierachy till the disk is 90% full ;-)
> I have just installed win-98se on my Asrock test platform, on a new
> 500 gb hard drive. I used the switch that prevents ACPI installation,
> and after all is said and done I have no yellow (!) showing up in
> device manager. On-board lan and USB are functional. I haven't tried
sounds wonderful
> the on-board sound device yet, so I don't know if I'll get it to work
> (I have it disabled in the bios). Windows hung during the first
> startup attempt - bootlog.txt showed the problem was hsfloppy.pdr. I
strange that you needed the motherboard drivers to preventing
the windows floppy support to hang the system
>
> Under System Properties, Performance tab, it says:
> "Performance may be improved by enabling virtual memory"
> In the Performance status list, virtual memory is indeed disabled.
>
> In the Virtual Memory window, the button "Let windows manage my
> virtual settings" radio button is selected.
if you set the settings yourself, making a permanent swapfile
do it still say that virtual memory is disabled?
someone had some similar problem after installing the servicepack
and fixed it by edited both Min/MaxFileCache [vcache] in system.ini
he did set them to 2048 (but that is only 2Mb but you could try
fiddle with it, there is some size recomendations at
http://www.thpc.info/ram/vcache98.html )
the error could allso be given if win386.swp is readonly
> Neither windows scandisk and defrag run. They both complain about not
do scandisk/defrag even run on a LBA48 drive?
(I thought they killed any data after 137 GB, but I might be wrong)
There must be something better that one can replace them with
> versions. Only issue so far is that the system doesn't shut down
> properly (it goes to a black screen with a blinking cursor in the
> upper left corner).
Hmm... have you tried a older version of the nvidia drivers
to se if it shut down corectly then?
> The WD software requires me to select with OS I will be using. Even
> when I tell it I want to create a FAT-32 partition, it still wants me
> to specify the OS, and it lists Win-98 along with ME as different
aha.. western digital send a partitioning program with its disk...
And I guess they think the program is more "userfriendly" that way
(and maybe it is for people that never heard of partitions
and formatting and different formats - and don't want to know)
otherwise you could use freedos fdisk I think
> When booting into dos, it takes a few minutes to perform the first DIR
> command (this was expected based on previous tests with 160 gb
why? or are there something I missunderstood here...
> This is a great motherboard, either for exclusive win-98 use, or for
> dual boot use. My test board is an older version of this motherboard
> (only supports dual-core CPU's according to the box) but I have
> several others (new-in-box) that are 4-core versions (quad-core
you have several motherboards just lying around there?
I'm a bit jealous ....
> In theory I could perform a file-creation test and load this drive
> with millions of files to see how 98 handles it.
just download lots of random songs and movies with dc++ or
something and make copys (and copys of the copys recursively
in a nice directory hierachy till the disk is 90% full ;-)
