[Ham-Computers] Re: True or False?

Sun Oct 24 08:52:40 EDT 2004

Duane,

I am running an 120 gigabyte hard drive on a computer using windows 98
second edition. I don't know what the upper limit is.

I do not know if the BIOS can be a limiting factor. This machine was a new
400 MHz Pentium with a new BIOS. The 400 MHz Pentium was not the very top of
the line at the time, it was a couple of steps down, with the corresponding
price reduction.

If the BIOS can be a limiting factor, then an updated BIOS may remove the
limitation.

Rolly  W7DGX

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Duane Fischer, W8DBF" <dfischer at usol.com>
To: <kd7eir at yahoo.com>; "Computers (or other) used for amateur radio,
communications, or experimenting" <ham-computers at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Saturday, October 23, 2004 6:24 PM
Subject: Re: [Ham-Computers] Re: True or False?

> Jim,
>
> 1. What was it about Windows 95a that limited it to 2.1 Gig aprox? Then
Windows
> 95b raises it up to 8.? Gig. How come? What changed?
>
> 2. Why am I told that Windows 98SE will not support a hard drive that is
over 30
> Gig?
>
> What are the 'real facts and real issues?
>
>
> Thank you.
>
> Duane W8DBF
> dfischer at usol.com
>
>
>
> ----------
> From: Jim Myers <kd7eir at yahoo.com>
> To: ham-computers at mailman.qth.net
> Subject: [Ham-Computers] Re:  True or False?
> Date: Friday, October 22, 2004 10:52 PM
>
> All of the following answers relating to hard drive
> size are dependent upon having a BIOS that can support
> the larger drives, regardless of the operating system
> used.
>
> 1) In theory, Win 95b can address a hard drive that is
> 2 terabytes (2,199,023,255,552) in size. The FAT32
> table does not scale well in that as its size
> increases, it takes more time for Windows to find
> information in it. It also takes more time to
> calculate free space at boot-up. The maximum size of
> the FAT32 table is about 128 megabytes. The maximum
> size of any one file on a FAT32 drive is 4 gigabytes.
>
> 2) Yes, you can have a 10 GB hard drive in Windows 95b
> on a laptop.
>
> 3) Yes, you can run an 80 GB hard drive under Windows
> 98.
>
> 4) Many, people sell computers without an installed
> operating system.  eBay is an excellent source of
> these systems, as are most local computer stores (NOT
> a chain store, but a privately owned store.)
>
> 5) No operating system requires a particular brand of
> BIOS.  Some operating systems may work better with
> certain versions of a BIOS, particularly when you have
> an operating system that contains advanced features
> relating to hardware.
>
> 6) BIOS is the Basic Input Output System that allows
> the computer to boot before the operating system is
> loaded.  This allows the system to boot, perform the
> POST (Power On Self Test) which tests the basic system
> components to make sure that they are functioning.
>
> CMOS stands for Complimentary Metal Oxide
> Semiconductor.  CMOS is a type of chip that is
> frequently used to store the BIOS code.  They are
> frequently used interchangeably, but they are not the
> same.
>
> 7) I have never suffered a hard drive failure either.
> The data on hard drive failures does not indicate that
> one type of use is necessarily harder on a hard drive
> than another.  The major cause of hard drive failures
> seems to be excessive heat, caused by inadequate
> cooling of the system that the hard drives are
> installed in.
>
> Jim, KD7EIR
> --- "Duane Fischer, W8DBF" <dfischer at usol.com> wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > Greetings All,
> >
> > Here are some questions that I thought I knew the
> > answers to, but several have
> > told me of their computers which contradict what I
> > was told.
>
>
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