I use windows 98 and linux

"Shadow" <sh@dow> wrote in message
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> On Mon, 20 Oct 2008 18:51:04 -0500, "philo" <philo.DeleteThis@privacy.net> wrote:
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> >"Shadow" <sh@dow> wrote in message
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> >> On Mon, 20 Oct 2008 17:10:41 -0500, "philo" <philo.DeleteThis@privacy.net> wrote:
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> >Though I had prior computer experience,
> >it was back in the days of vacuum tube powered main frames
> >and punch cards. I hated it.
> You win grandpa. Though I DID have exams at university I had
> to punch holes in cards so the computer could correct them.
> But them you were probably the teacher
> []'s

I was no teacher...just a big dummy with no ability to write a program...
that's why I eventually became a service engineer.

What amazed me when I started college was that in the year 1967 (for gosh
sakes),
they were still using punch cards. Here we were just a few years from
putting a man on the moon
and computers still used punch cards? Absurd.

(BTW: the school did have *one* terminal but that was only for the
upper-classmen)

The real kicker though, was after I graduated and got a job...
I went back to school for additional education...
and I recall still punching cards in the year 1979!!!

There were some terminals, but I never had access to them.

>> Or is there some hope ?

sure there is hope. assuming your hardware can take the disk.
first find out what computer/motherboard you have.


> You didn't give much information, HOWEVER:
> Since you bought a SATA2 then you obviously have a newer computer with
> on-board support.
> There is no native support for SATA2 in 98. IF the computer manufacturer

yes for windows to support sata one need motherboard-drivers
(is it really driver for the southbridge or the northbridge?)

but perhaps it is instead possible to set PATA compatible mode
for SATA in bios? if your bios have that option to 'emulate' pata

> OR the HD manufacturer provided some driver you MAY be able to partition
> the
> drive to the limits of 98 support.
> There are parties who have worked/are working on un-official support.

assuming drivers for the motherboard is found, I suppose the Enable48BitLBA
patch http://www.msfn.org/board/Enable48BitLBA-Break-1-t78592.html
is allso needed to let win98 use more than first 137GB of the disk?
what windows98-version is you using Shadow?
win98SE should use 4102225F.ZIP and win98 first editition use 4102186F.ZIP
or download from
www.mdgx.com/files/48BITLBA.EXE (98se), www.mdgx.com/files/9848BLBA.EXE
(9

There is an "Universal ATA driver" in the works too, with Win 9x/ME support
planned ...


if all else fails: there is sata-to-pata converter plugs so you can
connect your sata disk to the normal parallell harddisk contact.
have anyone here tried some?