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From: kony on 24 Feb 2010 15:28
On Tue, 23 Feb 2010 21:06:59 +0100, "frischmoutt"
<frischmoutt(a)ici.com> wrote:


>Hi Dilbert,
>
>I'm not sure that Win 98SE ia able to handle such a capacity.
>Although the sata controller will support virtually any size til PB, the
>limitation will come from the OS.
>For example, in Win 2000, LBA-48 mode needs to be activated.
>I seem to recall that Win98SE only enables 28-bit addressing mode, that
>leads to 128GB/137GB capacity, depending on the weight of the kilo prefix.
>Beyong 128 GB, data will wrap around the addressing range, overlaying the
>data that were written at the beg. of the disk.

You can write/use a drive over 128GB on win98se, but with a
controller having it's own 48bit LBA capable bios, and an OS
driver that supports it... for example a PCI PATA133 card
with > 128GB HDDs I filled on a Win98SE system w/o any
issues... but you still have to be aware of the disk utility
limitations in 98SE that I linked in a prior reply in this
topic.



From: larry moe 'n curly on 25 Feb 2010 01:43


dilbert firestorm wrote:
>
> I just recently bought a WD Caviar Blue 320gig Sata2 hard drive.
>
> I've looked at some options on hooking up this drive to a win 98se
> machine based on the IDE hard drive interface. It has an existing 20gig
> hard drive, Fireball ATA-133 I think (don't remember who makes it)
> and its running out of drive space.
>
> 1. Sata 1 or Sata 2 controller card
>
> 2. Sata - IDE/ATA adapter
>
> 3. SATA - IDE/ATA - USB adapter
>
> points to consider, its meant to be a temporary/stop gap measure until I
> can retire this old machine which is based on the Pentium 2-350 cpu.
>
> I am looking at addonics for the adapters, but am open on the controller
> cards without raid support as long as its cheap.

Addonics seems to be a good choice because their cards are based on
Silicon Image controller chips, which seem to work fine with SATA 1
and SATA 2 drives, unlike some other chips.

I would choose #1, the SATA controller card, because it's unlikely
your motherboard's BIOS supports 48-bit LBA, a must for drives bigger
than 137GB. The SATA controller card's own BIOS will add 48-bit LBA
support.
From: dilbert firestorm on 26 Feb 2010 05:19
larry moe 'n curly wrote:
>
> dilbert firestorm wrote:
>> I just recently bought a WD Caviar Blue 320gig Sata2 hard drive.
>>
>> I've looked at some options on hooking up this drive to a win 98se
>> machine based on the IDE hard drive interface. It has an existing 20gig
>> hard drive, Fireball ATA-133 I think (don't remember who makes it)
>> and its running out of drive space.
>>
>> 1. Sata 1 or Sata 2 controller card
>>
>> 2. Sata - IDE/ATA adapter
>>
>> 3. SATA - IDE/ATA - USB adapter
>>
>> points to consider, its meant to be a temporary/stop gap measure until I
>> can retire this old machine which is based on the Pentium 2-350 cpu.
>>
>> I am looking at addonics for the adapters, but am open on the controller
>> cards without raid support as long as its cheap.
>
> Addonics seems to be a good choice because their cards are based on
> Silicon Image controller chips, which seem to work fine with SATA 1
> and SATA 2 drives, unlike some other chips.
>
> I would choose #1, the SATA controller card, because it's unlikely
> your motherboard's BIOS supports 48-bit LBA, a must for drives bigger
> than 137GB. The SATA controller card's own BIOS will add 48-bit LBA
> support.

I believe I'll go with the controller card. prolly easier to set up
given the 48LBA issue.

know any thing about this card by via?

http://www.buy.com/retail/product.asp?sku=213271884&listingid=63280122
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