On 2/12/2014 11:28 AM, David Riley wrote: There is one of the protected modes that OS2 did that it did not deal with originally. However it seems to run fine now. jim 4

On Wed, 12 Feb 2014, tom wrote: I for one am NOT glad the 98 topic came up. It is off topic for this list, and is generating far too much off topic activity. Mike Loewen mloewen at cpumagic.scol.pa.us Old Technology http://sturgeon.css.psu.edu/~mloewen/Oldtech/

On 13/02/2014 10:06 a.m., tom wrote: If you mean a website style forum that then check out the link below if you want to talk Pentium era. As for hard drive capacity, I think 98SE had a weird limit of 128Gb. Never pushed the memory high enough most machines in that era were lucky to have over 128Mb. Stability seems to vary a lot depending on what it's run on and the quality of drivers / software provided. Link to a Pentium discussion forum: http://www.vintage-computer.com/vcforum/forumdisplay.php?70-Pentium-%28Firs…

I apologize to waiting so long to respond! I started to run my W98SE system in 2002 after I upgraded my old system from W95. Initially, I used 40 GB hard drives which failed about 3 years ago and were replaced with 160 GB drives. HOWEVER, as noted above, during the boot operation, the drives are noted as being 131,069 MB which is about three times as larger as the 40 MB drives which I initially started with, so I am very pleased with the result - most especially since the 160 MB drives (about 8 years later, of course) were less expensive than the original 40 MB drives. SO QUESTION: My assumption for the 128 GB limit in W98SE is the FAT32 table or something similar. OR the limit may be in the BIOS. BUT, is there any way to overcome the 128 GB limit and use the full 160 MB of the drive? My stability seems quite reasonable. But I only use the W98SE system for e-mail and running Ersatz-11, the latter being 95% of the usage. I avoid web sites almost completely. When I do so, I usually back up my complete C: drive (using GHOST), copy the files I want (to or from the internet site - often using an ftp site with Wget.exe to my F: drive), then do a complete restore of the C: drive just in case. I also check the number of files and directories whenever I boot to verify that I have not picked up any extra files. I realize that a virus is usually placed in areas other than a file, but hopefully keeping track of strange files does help a bit. I checked the site. However, I don't see anything of much interest. I mainly use my system to run Ersatz-11, so it really looks like a VERY FAST PDP-11/93 running RT-11 most of the time with about 12 VT100 terminals sitting on my desk top. Jerome Fine

On Feb 27, 2014, at 11:27 PM, Jerome H. Fine <jhfinedp3k at compsys.to> wrote: It's a 28-bit LBA limit which is definitely present in Win98 (though I think the OS can use larger drives, SCANDISK and DEFRAG don't understand larger LBAs). It often also plagues the BIOS, which means at the very least you should have a boot partition less than 128 GB. - Dave

False alarm. I cleaned the connectors and plugged things back together. I've got 100% core working again. I'll have some spare driver chips anyway. Earlier I had a problem where 2 of the banks had a bit 11 stuck high. I'd thought is was a wire wrap problem but removing the write and read boards and the data bits were all connected when checking with an ohm meter across connectors. Again, cleaning the connectors seemed to fix it. I hope the problem doesn't come back. The first bank worked fine, just the other two were not working on the same bit? Maybe just wiggling things by pulling boards in and out got the wire wrap connect to work again? Maybe both had the same bit needing the connector cleaned ( somehow, a 1 in 20 probability ). I'll have to keep a watch on it. Dwight ----------------------------------------

On 2/12/2014 12:12 PM, Andreas Holz wrote: I am running dos, windows 3.1, and windows 98 on esxi server 5.1 and latest. No signs of any problems. I also run a completely different OS as far as the architecture is concerned, Pick, and it still runs fine. It runs in what one would consider Dos Real mode with int 13 and post disk drivers. Supports up to 2.2gb / drive thru bios. jim 4