do i need large disk drivers...

[cdoublejj]

if i have 100gb drive. i tried a 320gb before it didn't work as well so i put it in a newer laptop. any how do i need the large disk drivers for a 100gb ide?

[dencorso]

Since 100 < 137, *of* *course* you don't.

[cdoublejj]

Thanks for the info. sounds like i could get away with a 120 as well.

[Queue]

Thanks for the info. sounds like i could get away with a 120 as well.

Yes, you can. You could also get a larger one and format it to 128 GB. I did that for years without incident. The problem occurs when a write beyond the 128 GB physical location occurs, so if you've formatted smaller than that (and don't put another partition in the wasted space beyond the 128 GB mark) you'll be fine.

Or, more sanely, you can just install the patched driver and not have to worry about it. Why don't you just do that?

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[cdoublejj]

well i had problem after problem with the last drive i ended up RMAing it. it is going to find a coz yhome in a Toshiba R15. I originally was gonna load a good chunk of my music collection on my 98se laptop. i think i'll stick with games and maybe xubuntu.

[Fredledingue]

enable48bitlba-break-137gb-barrier and install-large-drives-above-137gb. All you need to know is there.

You don't need any driver. You just need a patch.

[Guest wsxedcrfv]

Why hasn't anyone mentioned that win-98 will usually NOT have a problem with large SATA drives?

[rloew]

Why hasn't anyone mentioned that win-98 will usually NOT have a problem with large SATA drives?

Windows 98 will not have a problem with large SATA Drives only if a RAID Driver is available for the SATA Controller.

Otherwise you will need the Large Hard Drive Patch and most likely my SATA Patch as well.

[Guest wsxedcrfv]

Windows 98 will not have a problem with large SATA Drives only if a RAID Driver is available for the SATA Controller.

I'm not sure that a "raid" driver is needed, as opposed to just a win-98 driver for the SATA controller.

SATA and RAID are two different things.

[rloew]

Windows 98 will not have a problem with large SATA Drives only if a RAID Driver is available for the SATA Controller.

I'm not sure that a "raid" driver is needed, as opposed to just a win-98 driver for the SATA controller.

SATA and RAID are two different things.

The SATA Drivers I have seen all have been described as RAID Drivers. There is no need to actually implement a RAID configuration.

In addition, if the BIOS is not set to RAID mode, the ESDI_506.PDR Driver is likely to take control of the SATA Drive(s).

The ESDI_506.PDR Driver requires my SATA Patch and Large Hard Drive Patch to properly support SATA Drives.

[dencorso]

RLoew is right. All Via Win 9x/ME compatible SATA drivers *are* described as RAID drivers. This is the last version that works OK: SerialATA_V220E.zip (direct download). There may be others, from other manufacturers.