laserjock Posted November 25, 2006 Share Posted November 25, 2006 LLXX:It's been a few months since your original postings of your fix ... I've read thru the postings here, but I'm sure you've also had other direct feedback. What has been the over-all sucess? Do you feel confident now that these patches completely solve the 137GB limitation? And do you have any reservations at this time based on comments submitted to you? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LLXX Posted November 25, 2006 Author Share Posted November 25, 2006 (edited) There are certain chipsets it doesn't seem to work properly on, but then again it might just be because the original chipset hardware was not 48-bit LBA capable, and there's nothing I can do about that.Other than that I can't really give an estimate of success, since I think most of the users just download the files and it works for them, but they don't bother to post. The ones which it doesn't work on are more likely to post...I've been using it with no problems. Edited November 25, 2006 by LLXX Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Petr Posted November 26, 2006 Share Posted November 26, 2006 There are certain chipsets it doesn't seem to work properly on, but then again it might just be because the original chipset hardware was not 48-bit LBA capable, and there's nothing I can do about that.Do you really think that there is something like "48-bit LBA capable chipset"?Petr Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LLXX Posted November 26, 2006 Author Share Posted November 26, 2006 There are certain chipsets it doesn't seem to work properly on, but then again it might just be because the original chipset hardware was not 48-bit LBA capable, and there's nothing I can do about that.Do you really think that there is something like "48-bit LBA capable chipset"?PetrMost of them implement passthrough, so reads/writes are passed directly through the IDE bus and to the device, but I wouldn't be surprised if some of them do something with the requests besides directly giving them to the devices. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
erpdude8 Posted November 28, 2006 Share Posted November 28, 2006 (edited) well if the mobo has a 48bit LBA enabled BIOS [like the refurbished DFI CM33-TL mobo I have], then 137gb HDs or bigger should work okORget a 48bit LBA enabled IDE controller card as mentioned here. Edited November 28, 2006 by erpdude8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
esecallum Posted December 8, 2006 Share Posted December 8, 2006 There are certain chipsets it doesn't seem to work properly on, but then again it might just be because the original chipset hardware was not 48-bit LBA capable, and there's nothing I can do about that.Do you really think that there is something like "48-bit LBA capable chipset"?PetrMost of them implement passthrough, so reads/writes are passed directly through the IDE bus and to the device, but I wouldn't be surprised if some of them do something with the requests besides directly giving them to the devices.helloi have installed the 48lba esdr.pdr to windows meand tested it on a seagate 160 mb hard drive and also on a 200gb maxtor hard drive....it seems to be fine...yes,yes i did fill the drives to the brim bycoping/pasting files using 2,4,8,16,32 method...i.e doubling a file then pasting it again and again...next week i will try with a 250 gb samsung drive.....once again thanks for your hard work for these patcheswhich i have burned to dvd and copied for safe keeping.....the next thing is to fix the memory problem in winme.....so that we dont need to keep rebooting after running lots of programs.....also another thing is to zip or winrar files within the windows directory...egfontscursersthemesgames,etc,this makes windows fasterby reducing the number of files in the windows directory.... i compress them and make them into self extracting exe filesusing winrar or winzip....then delete the originals....if i need anything i just double click the exe file.....i suggest you do the same....or try it yourself....LLXX:It's been a few months since your original postings of your fix ... I've read thru the postings here, but I'm sure you've also had other direct feedback. What has been the over-all sucess? Do you feel confident now that these patches completely solve the 137GB limitation? And do you have any reservations at this time based on comments submitted to you?QUOTE(LLXX @ Nov 26 2006, 06:08 AM) *QUOTE(Petr @ Nov 26 2006, 05:15 AM) *QUOTE(LLXX @ Nov 26 2006, 12:25 AM) *There are certain chipsets it doesn't seem to work properly on, but then again it might just be because the original chipset hardware was not 48-bit LBA capable, and there's nothing I can do about that.Do you really think that there is something like "48-bit LBA capable chipset"?PetrMost of them implement passthrough, so reads/writes are passed directly through the IDE bus and to the device, but I wouldn't be surprised if some of them do something with the requests besides directly giving them to the devices.helloi have installed the 48lba esdr.pdr to windows meand tested it on a seagate 160 mb hard drive and also on a 200gb maxtor hard drive....it seems to be fine...yes,yes i did fill the drives to the brim bycoping/pasting files using 2,4,8,16,32 method...i.e doubling a file then pasting it again and again...next week i will try with a 250 gb samsung drive.....once again thanks for your hard work for these patcheswhich i have burned to dvd and copied for safe keeping.....the next thing is to fix the memory problem in winme.....so that we dont need to keep rebooting after running lots of programs.....also another thing is to zip or winrar files within the windows directory...egfontscursersthemesgames,etc,this makes windows fasterby reducing the number of files in the windows directory....i compress them and make them into self extracting exe filesusing winrar or winzip....then delete the originals....if i need anything i just double click the exe file.....i suggest you do the same....or try it yourself.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LLXX Posted December 8, 2006 Author Share Posted December 8, 2006 If I'm lucky, by Christmas we may obtain a 4-way RAID adapter (4 IDE -> 1 IDE) and 4 500Gb hard drives.If so, testing will definitely occur Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LordBug Posted December 11, 2006 Share Posted December 11, 2006 Hi allI only just came across this site today, after having purchased a Seagate 250GB harddrive, which, obviously, wasn't going to play nicely under my Version of Win98se.I installed the patch in short order, and I must say LLXX, it is really bloody brilliant I haven't had the chance to test much (Nor will I probably, to be truthful), though I am currently dumping a large portion of data onto the created partitions (The drive is replacing one of my 120's, I haven't gotten around to buying an IDE card )I haven't suffered any apparent data corruption, performance appears to be fine, Partition Magic worked like a charm (As opposed to giving me Error#49 - Write Error each time).I had been deeply afraid that I was going to have to bite the bullet and migrate to XP, but now, I can hold onto the past for a bit longer. This current install is going on 4 years old, and it's faced multiple virus', a couple of drive crashes, a plethora of software being installed and uninstalled, and she's still going strong.Thanks for having produced such a great little patch. It's really made my night Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
esecallum Posted December 12, 2006 Share Posted December 12, 2006 (edited) Hi allI only just came across this site today, after having purchased a Seagate 250GB harddrive, which, obviously, wasn't going to play nicely under my Version of Win98se.I installed the patch in short order, and I must say LLXX, it is really bloody brilliant I haven't had the chance to test much (Nor will I probably, to be truthful), though I am currently dumping a large portion of data onto the created partitions (The drive is replacing one of my 120's, I haven't gotten around to buying an IDE card )I haven't suffered any apparent data corruption, performance appears to be fine, Partition Magic worked like a charm (As opposed to giving me Error#49 - Write Error each time).I had been deeply afraid that I was going to have to bite the bullet and migrate to XP, but now, I can hold onto the past for a bit longer. This current install is going on 4 years old, and it's faced multiple virus', a couple of drive crashes, a plethora of software being installed and uninstalled, and she's still going strong.Thanks for having produced such a great little patch. It's really made my night HELLOi use windows me and i have installed the patch and tested it....it works fine...i suggest u test it by copy/pasting large data flies...using 1 2 4 8 16 32 method i.e u double the data and copy/paste it ad repeat...then check the filesby playing them if its dvd vob files...etc....BUT U MUST REPORT BACK...i too am very grateful to LLEX doing this......i am amazed microsoft never wrote the upgrade patch...i guess they just want your money for the dreadful xp.... Edited December 12, 2006 by esecallum Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nomatrix Posted January 3, 2007 Share Posted January 3, 2007 (edited) I am lost...Months ago i installed esdi_506.pdr and a single 300 GB HDD on my old Pentium system running Win 98 SE. Yesterday i bought another 300 GB HDD. (hd300ld)This fokin HDD won't work. I used various tools from this thread. I can't remember how i installed the first HDD. I used Partition Magic 6 to see the size of my drives. First HDD is 286, second HDD is 131. I used FDISK any many other tools.I remember, perhaps i used Win XP with my first HDD.Any suggestions for win98se? Edited January 4, 2007 by nomatrix Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LLXX Posted January 3, 2007 Author Share Posted January 3, 2007 1. Partition with Free FDISK2. Format with WinME format (look for it somewhere in this thread along with WinME FDISK)3. Install Enable48BitLBA ESDI_506.PDR Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nomatrix Posted January 4, 2007 Share Posted January 4, 2007 (edited) I got two machines:(1) Intel Pentium 233 MMX running Win 98 SE with PhoenixBios 4.06(2) AMD Duron 1200 running Win 98 SE with AMIBIOS 1.24gLeft image was made on (1). Bios setting for HDD is set to "auto" and "enable 32 bit translation".Right image was made on (2). Bios setting for HDD is set to "auto".I wasn't able to create partition on (1) which is larger than 131077 MB.I was able to created partition on (2) and use it on (1) with more than 131077 MB. Edited January 5, 2007 by nomatrix Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LLXX Posted January 5, 2007 Author Share Posted January 5, 2007 What FDISK are you using? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nomatrix Posted January 5, 2007 Share Posted January 5, 2007 (edited) What FDISK are you using?I used Free FDISK in DOS-Box under Win 98 SE on (2) to create extended partition with single drive.Even if (1) wasn't able to create such partition, Win 98 SE on (1) is able to use this HDD and also shows correct size as on (2). It's also possible to format such big HDD on (1) under Win 98 SE.Left image shows results after formatting it on (1).Right image shows results after formatting it on (2). Edited January 5, 2007 by nomatrix Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LLXX Posted January 5, 2007 Author Share Posted January 5, 2007 (edited) Not a problem. Fill it past the 128Gb mark just to be sure. Edited January 5, 2007 by LLXX Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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