Guest teebo Posted July 22, 2007 Posted July 22, 2007 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 ;-)
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