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You should not need drivers for this disk. If you are talking overlays,
then we're into a whole different ball game. You are quite correct to surmise that the primary (boot) disk needs to be configured correctly if the secondary disk needs overlays, and you most definitely cannot move a disk configured with overlay software when it was the primary drive to the secondary without quite nasty side effects. Are you quite sure that the procedure you are using is not installing any overlay software? Of course, it's possible that the disk will work properly when you install the overlay software - it's designed to get around exactly the sort of BIOS program we are theorising about. But in that case the disks must be set up while in their final configuration, and they cannot be moved between primary and secondary after being set up. If LBA and LARGE settings return a 2Gb disk size, even after you have found the procedure to force the BIOS to automatically detect the disk, then that's a pretty good indication the BIOS is the problem. -- Jeff Richards MS MVP (Windows - Shell/User) "Jerry" wrote in message ... Hello Jeff,,, OK and all this makes sense,,,THANKS!!!! And, I am comfortable that for W98SE the SCANDISK should work for a 6GB drive if the BIOS can handle that size. Likewise, since I have no idea why/where the FAT32 was set I am beginning to suspect that even if the W98SE sees the disk as FAT32 and 6GB the BIOS does not, even if the BIOS is POST 1994. Now here is something NEW---JUST IN,,,,,,I am being told more about this system,,,,,,it went down and the CPU was replaced. The disk on C was the 6GB disk. It was replaced with a brand new "out-of-the-box" 2GB drive (an older drive with lots of dust on the box, but works great for this application). The 6GB was then installed to SECONDARY/MASTER. After W98SE was re-installed to the NEW 2GB drive the 6GB drive was FDISKE'd and FORMATTED . Now here is the kicker,, the new 2GB drive obviously would not have the FUJITSU drivers or any required overlays on that 2GB disk,,,it was brand new out of the box and the stuff from the 6GB was not copied to it. AND, the Fujitsu CDs/documents for this 6GB drive cannot be found(?????)...... So I am now looking on the Internet where the documents and drivers for this 6GB Fujitsu drive can be found,,,if at all. Since I am not that familiar with drives 2GB, there might be some stuff on the Fujitsu CDs that will make the ajustment (drivers plus overlay, etc. ????). This may be the problem and I am trying to find out via the US Fujitsu Support web page and contacts. While I am looking for these answers,,,,,,, As for the BIOS capability to configure for the larger drives that are 2GB, it does allow the setting of the IDE SECONDARY/MASTER to: USER and MODE NORMAL Then allows the manual settings to the specs specified in the Fujitsu SPEC SHEET for #CYLS, #HEADS, #SECS. Also, the BIOS allows the selection of MODE LBA and/or LARGE, but these selections do not allow any other manual settings and in this case they are HARD set to 2GB. I cannot remember if there is a BIOS selection that allows the BIOS to AUTOMATICALLY find and set the the #CYLS, #HEADS, and #SECS. I will give this a look in all the other BIOS displays the next time I get the machine. So far, I have just been using the CONFIG display part of BIOS that shows only the TIME/DATE settings and the IDE/ATAPI configs for the IDE devices, and I cannot remember if there is a selection on this display that tells the BIOS to do these settings immediatly(automatically) (F1, F2, F19,,,,etc.). Since I have no idea where/why the FAT32 was set for this disk, I am running all the stuff over again. And, just to maike sure I am interpreting all the numbers correctly that are reported by the Fujitsu ERASE and DIAGNOSTIC, the Microsoft FDISK and FORMAT, these numbers will be watched closely,,,,, Also, I will try to understand where/why the FAT32 was set during these processes. The W98SE reports FAT32 and 6GB, but like you I am not sure this is the case when it comes to the BIOS when SCANDISK is trying to write/read 2GB size. THANKS again for your time, advise, and help!!!!! ,,, plus further thoughts!!! Jerry "Jeff Richards" wrote: FAT32 is almost indifferent to heads and sectors and such. If the system can address the clusters properly, then the file system will keep its indexes and such in good shape. However, it's quite possible that your problem is with the configuration. FDISK doesn't look at the disk beyond the areas needed to write the partition information, and if the disk access required for that task seems OK then FDISK will happily report the whole disk as OK, and anything else that simply reads the partition info will say the same thing. FORMAT might or might not attempt to access the whole disk, but it doesn't do any real testing. The hardware diagnostic should test all parts of the system in a form that ensures it is OK for use. For instance, it is possible that two different head/sector/track combinations actually map to the same physical disk location. This can fool FDISK and FORMAT and even Windows and the file system (for a time) but it shouldn't get past a decent diagnostic program. OTOH, sometimes hardware diagnostics bypass BIOS and access the disk directly, so if the problem is in the BIOS it is possible that the diagnostic won't see it. That's why I suspect your problem is with the configuration and the way that BIOS uses the configuration information. If you can get some standard hardware diagnostics not matched to the specific hardware (and therefore forced to use BIOS routines to test the disk) then that may reveal the problem. These sorts of tests are not good tests of the drive itself, but they can reveal problem in accessing a particular disk in a particular configuration. -- Jeff Richards MS MVP (Windows - Shell/User) "Jerry" wrote in message ... Hello Jeff,,,, OK,,,,THANKS for that reply and the articles!!! Having read all that and relating it to all the things I use to be familiar with in the original stuff that came out in DOS and BIOS it all makes sense. The OLD STUFF (16bit sizes, 504MB, the GB limits, FAT16, etc.) and then the changes that occured( pro 1994) in BIOS and the "AT ROM BIOS INT13h" and the use of LBA, #cyls, #heads, #sectors, to make 2GB work. In this case the BIOS for USER and MODE NORMAL, the BIOS allows the setting of #cyls, #heads, #sectors to get the 6gb size with the following: FOR FAT32 #cyls = 13,410 #heads= 15 #sectors= 63 And, for a FAT32 I do not know if these are all acceptable based on any limits for FAT32(???). These settings were listed on the SPEC SHEET supplied by Fujitsu. And, once FDISK and FORMAT are executed the disk is reported as a FAT32 by the W98SE operating system using MYCOMPUTER/PROPERTIES fon drive D and is recognized as a 6gb drive. I have no idea how this FAT32 was set (FDISK/FORMAT). I do not remember any selection I made for FAT32 or FAT16 while running FDISK or FORMAT. I am at a loss, because I can find nothing on the INTERNET or at Microsoft that indicates a 2GB problem with SCANDISK on a FAT32 size of 6GB. And, the delima is that FDISK and FORMAT run to completion with no errors and report the 6GB size. And, the Fujitsu DIAGNOSTIC and ERASE for this model drive run to completion and report no errors..... OHH WELLLL ------------------- I am gonna start all over again and see if there is a place that I am not setting the numbers correctly in the BIOS for a "FAT32" and "AT ROM BIOS INT13h" (#cyls, #heads, #sectors); or I am not seeing the numbers correctly in the reports from the Fujitsu Diagnostics, BIOS, FDISK, and/or FORMAT for total size, number of clusters, and size of clusters. THANKS for your advise, time, and HELP!!!!! Exceptional!!!! Jerry "Jeff Richards" wrote: AFAIK there is no issue with Scnadisk at 2Gb and there are no service packs that I know of that address any such issue. This might be what you are thinking of: http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=243450 ScanDisk Errors on IDE Hard Disks Larger Than 32 GB or possibly" Knowledge Base Problems Accessing FAT16 Drives Larger Than 2 GB PSS ID Number: 127851 Article Last Modified on 5/6/2003 The information in this article applies to: Microsoft Windows 98 Microsoft Windows 95 Microsoft MS-DOS operating system Microsoft Windows NT Workstation 3.5 Microsoft Windows NT Workstation 3.51 Microsoft Windows NT Workstation 4.0 Microsoft Windows NT Server 3.5 Microsoft Windows NT Server 3.51 Microsoft Windows NT Server 4.0 Microsoft Windows Millennium Edition This article was previously published under Q127851 SUMMARY Microsoft Windows NT supports the creation of primary partitions and logical drives of up to 4 gigabytes (GB) using the File Allocation Table 16 (FAT16) file system, but Windows 95/98 and MS-DOS do not support these drives. The size limit for logical drives using the FAT16 file system in Windows 95/98 and MS-DOS is 2 GB. NOTE: Windows 95 OEM Service Release 2 and later support drives larger than 2 GB using the FAT32 file system. For more information about FAT32, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base: ARTICLE-ID: 154997 TITLE : Description of the FAT32 File System Windows NT 4.0 does not support FAT32, but FAT32 support has been added in Windows 2000. MORE INFORMATION Microsoft does not recommend using MS-DOS or Windows 95/98 with a 4 GB FAT16 drive created in Windows NT. If you use Windows NT's dual boot feature to boot MS-DOS or Windows 95/98, you may be able to access the drive, but you may experience unexpected behavior. In particular, some programs or utilities may incorrectly report that no free space (0 bytes) exists on the drive. In addition, you cannot run Windows 95/98 Setup if your computer has a FAT16 drive created by Windows NT. For example, during Windows 98 Setup you receive the following error message if your system has a FAT16 drive larger than 2 GB: Setup has detected that your hard drive has a 64K-cluster FAT partition. Because ScanDisk does not work on disks with this cluster size, Setup cannot continue. To complete Setup, you must repartition your hard drive, format the partition with a FAT file system that has a cluster size of 32K or less, and then restart Setup. Other problems accessing FAT16 drives larger than 2 GB in Windows 95/98 may include the following: Running the Defrag tool on the drive causes a "Divide by zero" error message or the Defrag tool stops responding (hangs). ScanDisk for MS-DOS stops responding (hangs) or causes an "Out of memory" error message. The Chkdsk tool may report multiple "allocation errors" on the drive. ScanDisk for Windows typically runs without error on 64k cluster FAT16 drives and shows 64K clusters/allocation units on the Summary dialog. Both MS-DOS and the retail release of Windows 95 use a 16-bit FAT for logical drives larger than 15 megabytes (MB). The maximum number of clusters for a 16-bit FAT drive is 64K. In addition, the maximum cluster size for a FAT16 drive in MS-DOS, or Windows 95 is 32K. Therefore, the maximum logical drive size for FAT16 is calculated as follows: 32K x 64K = 2048 MB = 2 GB The maximum cluster size for a FAT16 drive in Windows 98 is 32K, or 32,768 bytes. Therefore, the maximum logical drive size for FAT16 is calculated as follows: 32K x 64K = 2048 MB = 2 GB Windows NT uses a 64K maximum cluster size to allow drives larger than 2 GB using FAT16. The maximum logical FAT16 drive size in Windows NT is calculated as follows: 64K x 64K = 4096 MB = 4 GB NOTE: On a FAT drive, space is allocated by clusters. That is, a file that is smaller than the drive's cluster size is still allocated one full cluster, thus wasting the additional space in the cluster. Similarly, a file that is large enough to fill 3-1/2 clusters is allocated four full clusters. Using a smaller cluster size typically results in less wasted space on the drive. The cluster size for a FAT drive is determined when the drive is formatted and varies depending on the size of the logical drive. For more information about cluster and logical drive sizes in MS-DOS, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base: ARTICLE-ID: Q67321 67321 TITLE : FAT Type and Cluster Size Depends on Logical Drive Size Windows 95 and MS-DOS use the FDISK utility to partition a disk. When it accesses a hard disk, FDISK uses the system AT ROM BIOS INT13h interface, which has a maximum of 1024 cylinders, 255 heads, and 63 sectors per track. FDISK can access any drive within the limits imposed by the AT ROM BIOS, which means that FDISK can access drives of up to 8 GB, calculated as follows: 1024 cylinders x 255 heads x 63 sectors per track x 512 bytes per sector = 8,422,686,720 bytes, or roughly 8 GB The original IDE hardware interface is limited to 16 heads, which reduces the maximum drive size to 504 MB. Newer IDE (ATAPI) technology, however, uses a translation scheme called Logical Block Addressing (LBA) to exceed the 504 MB limit as imposed by the system AT ROM BIOS and IDE specifi- cation. SCSI and ESDI hard drive controllers use similar translation methods that are usually built into the controller card's ROM BIOS to exceed the 504 MB size limit. For more information about the use of large hard disks with MS-DOS and Windows 95/98, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base: ARTICLE-ID: 126855 TITLE : Windows Support for Large IDE Hard Disks The FDISK utility in MS-DOS and the retail release of Windows 95 can create an extended partition larger than 2 GB. FDISK can then create multiple formatted drives of up to 2 GB in this extended partition that conform to the AT ROM BIOS constraints mentioned earlier. FDISK does not, however, allow the creation of a primary FAT16 partition or logical FAT16 drives in an extended partition that is larger than 2 GB. Note also that, as mentioned earlier, logical drives larger than 504 MB cannot be accessed using MS-DOS or Windows 95 unless LBA or geometry translation is used. In Windows NT, you can create 4 GB FAT16 drives, either as a primary partition or as a logical drive in an extended partition. Because MS-DOS and Windows 95/98 have a maximum logical FAT16 drive size of 2 GB, FAT16 drives larger than 2 GB created using Windows NT cannot be reliably accessed using MS-DOS or Windows 95/98. Additional query words: 98 msdos Keywords: kbDiskMemory kbinfo kbinterop kbsetup KB127851 Technology: kbMSDOSSearch kbWin95search kbWin98 kbWin98search kbWinME kbWinMEsearch kbWinNT350search kbWinNT351search kbWinNT400search kbWinNTS350 kbWinNTS350search kbWinNTS351 kbWinNTS351search kbWinNTS400 kbWinNTS400search kbWinNTsearch kbWinNTSsearch kbWinNTW350 kbWinNTW350search kbWinNTW351 kbWinNTW351search kbWinNTW400 kbWinNTW400search kbWinNTWsearch kbZNotKeyword3 Send feedback to Microsoft © 2004 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.-- |
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Hello Jeff ,,,,
THANKS for your comments,,,those helped me to re-think and make some other searches on the Internet as well as my use of the settings in this AWARD BIOS(1997). Turns out it appears to be related to my experience using BIOS settings for this AWARD BIOS(1997). The following BIOS values were set for this Fujitsu (MPB3064ATU) drive from the Fujitsu specifications sheet: CYL HEADS SECTORS MODE USER 13410 15 63 NORMAL The BIOS calculation of SIZE was 6488 MB and is correct for this 6GB disk. Using these settings in BIOS the FDISK and the FORMAT routines would report a 6GB disk. And, after FORMATTING the properties of MY COMPUTER shows the disk as 6GB and is FAT32. But, the SCANDISK would error for every cluster after cluster 512378 (~2GB). Based on documents found on the INTERNET related to Hard Disk Drives greater than 2GB, BIOS's prior to 1994 and after 1994, the change for LBA or LARGE, and the problem associated with INT13 the following was seleted in this AWARD BIOS(1997): Direct setting of the BIOS for MODES LBA or LARGE would only set to 2111MB (2GB) and no manual entry of CYL/HEAD/SECTOR values were allowed. Here is the lack of experience using this AWARD BIOS(1997) and it was discovered by using the following steps: 1. Using this AWARD BIOS(1997) the settings as mentioned above for USER CYL/HEADS/SECTORS MODE NORMAL must be set as sepcified using the Fujitsu Specification Sheet. 2. Once these values are entered using the USER and MODE NORMAL then the MODE NORMAL must be set to MODE LBA. Once LBA is selected from the above settings the BIOS now calculates the correct documented values for CYL/HEADS/SECTORS for BIOS and INT13 to use for this 6GB drive. SCANDISK now runs to completion for the full 6GB disk with no errors detected. I will keep this in mind for other BIOS's if there is another situation like this. And, if these two steps are normal procedures for any BIOS related to disk drives greater then 2GB for W98/95 then I appologize for this lack of knowledge. THANKS for your time, advise, and help!!!!! Jerry "Jeff Richards" wrote: You should not need drivers for this disk. If you are talking overlays, then we're into a whole different ball game. You are quite correct to surmise that the primary (boot) disk needs to be configured correctly if the secondary disk needs overlays, and you most definitely cannot move a disk configured with overlay software when it was the primary drive to the secondary without quite nasty side effects. Are you quite sure that the procedure you are using is not installing any overlay software? Of course, it's possible that the disk will work properly when you install the overlay software - it's designed to get around exactly the sort of BIOS program we are theorising about. But in that case the disks must be set up while in their final configuration, and they cannot be moved between primary and secondary after being set up. If LBA and LARGE settings return a 2Gb disk size, even after you have found the procedure to force the BIOS to automatically detect the disk, then that's a pretty good indication the BIOS is the problem. -- Jeff Richards MS MVP (Windows - Shell/User) "Jerry" wrote in message ... Hello Jeff,,, OK and all this makes sense,,,THANKS!!!! And, I am comfortable that for W98SE the SCANDISK should work for a 6GB drive if the BIOS can handle that size. Likewise, since I have no idea why/where the FAT32 was set I am beginning to suspect that even if the W98SE sees the disk as FAT32 and 6GB the BIOS does not, even if the BIOS is POST 1994. Now here is something NEW---JUST IN,,,,,,I am being told more about this system,,,,,,it went down and the CPU was replaced. The disk on C was the 6GB disk. It was replaced with a brand new "out-of-the-box" 2GB drive (an older drive with lots of dust on the box, but works great for this application). The 6GB was then installed to SECONDARY/MASTER. After W98SE was re-installed to the NEW 2GB drive the 6GB drive was FDISKE'd and FORMATTED . Now here is the kicker,, the new 2GB drive obviously would not have the FUJITSU drivers or any required overlays on that 2GB disk,,,it was brand new out of the box and the stuff from the 6GB was not copied to it. AND, the Fujitsu CDs/documents for this 6GB drive cannot be found(?????)...... So I am now looking on the Internet where the documents and drivers for this 6GB Fujitsu drive can be found,,,if at all. Since I am not that familiar with drives 2GB, there might be some stuff on the Fujitsu CDs that will make the ajustment (drivers plus overlay, etc. ????). This may be the problem and I am trying to find out via the US Fujitsu Support web page and contacts. While I am looking for these answers,,,,,,, As for the BIOS capability to configure for the larger drives that are 2GB, it does allow the setting of the IDE SECONDARY/MASTER to: USER and MODE NORMAL Then allows the manual settings to the specs specified in the Fujitsu SPEC SHEET for #CYLS, #HEADS, #SECS. Also, the BIOS allows the selection of MODE LBA and/or LARGE, but these selections do not allow any other manual settings and in this case they are HARD set to 2GB. I cannot remember if there is a BIOS selection that allows the BIOS to AUTOMATICALLY find and set the the #CYLS, #HEADS, and #SECS. I will give this a look in all the other BIOS displays the next time I get the machine. So far, I have just been using the CONFIG display part of BIOS that shows only the TIME/DATE settings and the IDE/ATAPI configs for the IDE devices, and I cannot remember if there is a selection on this display that tells the BIOS to do these settings immediatly(automatically) (F1, F2, F19,,,,etc.). Since I have no idea where/why the FAT32 was set for this disk, I am running all the stuff over again. And, just to maike sure I am interpreting all the numbers correctly that are reported by the Fujitsu ERASE and DIAGNOSTIC, the Microsoft FDISK and FORMAT, these numbers will be watched closely,,,,, Also, I will try to understand where/why the FAT32 was set during these processes. The W98SE reports FAT32 and 6GB, but like you I am not sure this is the case when it comes to the BIOS when SCANDISK is trying to write/read 2GB size. THANKS again for your time, advise, and help!!!!! ,,, plus further thoughts!!! Jerry "Jeff Richards" wrote: FAT32 is almost indifferent to heads and sectors and such. If the system can address the clusters properly, then the file system will keep its indexes and such in good shape. However, it's quite possible that your problem is with the configuration. FDISK doesn't look at the disk beyond the areas needed to write the partition information, and if the disk access required for that task seems OK then FDISK will happily report the whole disk as OK, and anything else that simply reads the partition info will say the same thing. FORMAT might or might not attempt to access the whole disk, but it doesn't do any real testing. The hardware diagnostic should test all parts of the system in a form that ensures it is OK for use. For instance, it is possible that two different head/sector/track combinations actually map to the same physical disk location. This can fool FDISK and FORMAT and even Windows and the file system (for a time) but it shouldn't get past a decent diagnostic program. OTOH, sometimes hardware diagnostics bypass BIOS and access the disk directly, so if the problem is in the BIOS it is possible that the diagnostic won't see it. That's why I suspect your problem is with the configuration and the way that BIOS uses the configuration information. If you can get some standard hardware diagnostics not matched to the specific hardware (and therefore forced to use BIOS routines to test the disk) then that may reveal the problem. These sorts of tests are not good tests of the drive itself, but they can reveal problem in accessing a particular disk in a particular configuration. -- Jeff Richards MS MVP (Windows - Shell/User) "Jerry" wrote in message ... Hello Jeff,,,, OK,,,,THANKS for that reply and the articles!!! Having read all that and relating it to all the things I use to be familiar with in the original stuff that came out in DOS and BIOS it all makes sense. The OLD STUFF (16bit sizes, 504MB, the GB limits, FAT16, etc.) and then the changes that occured( pro 1994) in BIOS and the "AT ROM BIOS INT13h" and the use of LBA, #cyls, #heads, #sectors, to make 2GB work. In this case the BIOS for USER and MODE NORMAL, the BIOS allows the setting of #cyls, #heads, #sectors to get the 6gb size with the following: FOR FAT32 #cyls = 13,410 #heads= 15 #sectors= 63 And, for a FAT32 I do not know if these are all acceptable based on any limits for FAT32(???). These settings were listed on the SPEC SHEET supplied by Fujitsu. And, once FDISK and FORMAT are executed the disk is reported as a FAT32 by the W98SE operating system using MYCOMPUTER/PROPERTIES fon drive D and is recognized as a 6gb drive. I have no idea how this FAT32 was set (FDISK/FORMAT). I do not remember any selection I made for FAT32 or FAT16 while running FDISK or FORMAT. I am at a loss, because I can find nothing on the INTERNET or at Microsoft that indicates a 2GB problem with SCANDISK on a FAT32 size of 6GB. And, the delima is that FDISK and FORMAT run to completion with no errors and report the 6GB size. And, the Fujitsu DIAGNOSTIC and ERASE for this model drive run to completion and report no errors..... OHH WELLLL ------------------- I am gonna start all over again and see if there is a place that I am not setting the numbers correctly in the BIOS for a "FAT32" and "AT ROM BIOS INT13h" (#cyls, #heads, #sectors); or I am not seeing the numbers correctly in the reports from the Fujitsu Diagnostics, BIOS, FDISK, and/or FORMAT for total size, number of clusters, and size of clusters. THANKS for your advise, time, and HELP!!!!! Exceptional!!!! Jerry "Jeff Richards" wrote: AFAIK there is no issue with Scnadisk at 2Gb and there are no service packs that I know of that address any such issue. This might be what you are thinking of: http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=243450 ScanDisk Errors on IDE Hard Disks Larger Than 32 GB or possibly" Knowledge Base Problems Accessing FAT16 Drives Larger Than 2 GB PSS ID Number: 127851 Article Last Modified on 5/6/2003 The information in this article applies to: Microsoft Windows 98 Microsoft Windows 95 Microsoft MS-DOS operating system Microsoft Windows NT Workstation 3.5 Microsoft Windows NT Workstation 3.51 Microsoft Windows NT Workstation 4.0 Microsoft Windows NT Server 3.5 Microsoft Windows NT Server 3.51 Microsoft Windows NT Server 4.0 Microsoft Windows Millennium Edition This article was previously published under Q127851 SUMMARY Microsoft Windows NT supports the creation of primary partitions and logical drives of up to 4 gigabytes (GB) using the File Allocation Table 16 (FAT16) file system, but Windows 95/98 and MS-DOS do not support these drives. The size limit for logical drives using the FAT16 file system in Windows 95/98 and MS-DOS is 2 GB. NOTE: Windows 95 OEM Service Release 2 and later support drives larger than 2 GB using the FAT32 file system. For more information about FAT32, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base: ARTICLE-ID: 154997 TITLE : Description of the FAT32 File System Windows NT 4.0 does not support FAT32, but FAT32 support has been added in Windows 2000. MORE INFORMATION Microsoft does not recommend using MS-DOS or Windows 95/98 with a 4 GB FAT16 drive created in Windows NT. If you use Windows NT's dual boot feature to boot MS-DOS or Windows 95/98, you may be able to access the drive, but you may experience unexpected behavior. In particular, some programs or utilities may incorrectly report that no free space (0 bytes) exists on the drive. In addition, you cannot run Windows 95/98 Setup if your computer has a FAT16 drive created by Windows NT. For example, during Windows 98 Setup you receive the following error message if your system has a FAT16 drive larger than 2 GB: Setup has detected that your hard drive has a 64K-cluster FAT partition. Because ScanDisk does not work on disks with this cluster size, Setup cannot continue. To complete Setup, you must repartition your hard drive, format the partition with a FAT file system that has a cluster size of 32K or |
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Thanks for letting us know that you got it sorted out.
I haven't heard of that particular arrangement before, but I do know that many older BIOSes have their peculiarities when it comes to dealing with 'large' hard disk drives. Glad to be of help in getting you started on the right research path. -- Jeff Richards MS MVP (Windows - Shell/User) "Jerry" wrote in message ... Hello Jeff ,,,, THANKS for your comments,,,those helped me to re-think and make some other searches on the Internet as well as my use of the settings in this AWARD BIOS(1997). Turns out it appears to be related to my experience using BIOS settings for this AWARD BIOS(1997). The following BIOS values were set for this Fujitsu (MPB3064ATU) drive from the Fujitsu specifications sheet: CYL HEADS SECTORS MODE USER 13410 15 63 NORMAL The BIOS calculation of SIZE was 6488 MB and is correct for this 6GB disk. Using these settings in BIOS the FDISK and the FORMAT routines would report a 6GB disk. And, after FORMATTING the properties of MY COMPUTER shows the disk as 6GB and is FAT32. But, the SCANDISK would error for every cluster after cluster 512378 (~2GB). Based on documents found on the INTERNET related to Hard Disk Drives greater than 2GB, BIOS's prior to 1994 and after 1994, the change for LBA or LARGE, and the problem associated with INT13 the following was seleted in this AWARD BIOS(1997): Direct setting of the BIOS for MODES LBA or LARGE would only set to 2111MB (2GB) and no manual entry of CYL/HEAD/SECTOR values were allowed. Here is the lack of experience using this AWARD BIOS(1997) and it was discovered by using the following steps: 1. Using this AWARD BIOS(1997) the settings as mentioned above for USER CYL/HEADS/SECTORS MODE NORMAL must be set as sepcified using the Fujitsu Specification Sheet. 2. Once these values are entered using the USER and MODE NORMAL then the MODE NORMAL must be set to MODE LBA. Once LBA is selected from the above settings the BIOS now calculates the correct documented values for CYL/HEADS/SECTORS for BIOS and INT13 to use for this 6GB drive. SCANDISK now runs to completion for the full 6GB disk with no errors detected. I will keep this in mind for other BIOS's if there is another situation like this. And, if these two steps are normal procedures for any BIOS related to disk drives greater then 2GB for W98/95 then I appologize for this lack of knowledge. THANKS for your time, advise, and help!!!!! Jerry "Jeff Richards" wrote: You should not need drivers for this disk. If you are talking overlays, then we're into a whole different ball game. You are quite correct to surmise that the primary (boot) disk needs to be configured correctly if the secondary disk needs overlays, and you most definitely cannot move a disk configured with overlay software when it was the primary drive to the secondary without quite nasty side effects. Are you quite sure that the procedure you are using is not installing any overlay software? Of course, it's possible that the disk will work properly when you install the overlay software - it's designed to get around exactly the sort of BIOS program we are theorising about. But in that case the disks must be set up while in their final configuration, and they cannot be moved between primary and secondary after being set up. If LBA and LARGE settings return a 2Gb disk size, even after you have found the procedure to force the BIOS to automatically detect the disk, then that's a pretty good indication the BIOS is the problem. -- Jeff Richards MS MVP (Windows - Shell/User) "Jerry" wrote in message ... Hello Jeff,,, OK and all this makes sense,,,THANKS!!!! And, I am comfortable that for W98SE the SCANDISK should work for a 6GB drive if the BIOS can handle that size. Likewise, since I have no idea why/where the FAT32 was set I am beginning to suspect that even if the W98SE sees the disk as FAT32 and 6GB the BIOS does not, even if the BIOS is POST 1994. Now here is something NEW---JUST IN,,,,,,I am being told more about this system,,,,,,it went down and the CPU was replaced. The disk on C was the 6GB disk. It was replaced with a brand new "out-of-the-box" 2GB drive (an older drive with lots of dust on the box, but works great for this application). The 6GB was then installed to SECONDARY/MASTER. After W98SE was re-installed to the NEW 2GB drive the 6GB drive was FDISKE'd and FORMATTED . Now here is the kicker,, the new 2GB drive obviously would not have the FUJITSU drivers or any required overlays on that 2GB disk,,,it was brand new out of the box and the stuff from the 6GB was not copied to it. AND, the Fujitsu CDs/documents for this 6GB drive cannot be found(?????)...... So I am now looking on the Internet where the documents and drivers for this 6GB Fujitsu drive can be found,,,if at all. Since I am not that familiar with drives 2GB, there might be some stuff on the Fujitsu CDs that will make the ajustment (drivers plus overlay, etc. ????). This may be the problem and I am trying to find out via the US Fujitsu Support web page and contacts. While I am looking for these answers,,,,,,, As for the BIOS capability to configure for the larger drives that are 2GB, it does allow the setting of the IDE SECONDARY/MASTER to: USER and MODE NORMAL Then allows the manual settings to the specs specified in the Fujitsu SPEC SHEET for #CYLS, #HEADS, #SECS. Also, the BIOS allows the selection of MODE LBA and/or LARGE, but these selections do not allow any other manual settings and in this case they are HARD set to 2GB. I cannot remember if there is a BIOS selection that allows the BIOS to AUTOMATICALLY find and set the the #CYLS, #HEADS, and #SECS. I will give this a look in all the other BIOS displays the next time I get the machine. So far, I have just been using the CONFIG display part of BIOS that shows only the TIME/DATE settings and the IDE/ATAPI configs for the IDE devices, and I cannot remember if there is a selection on this display that tells the BIOS to do these settings immediatly(automatically) (F1, F2, F19,,,,etc.). Since I have no idea where/why the FAT32 was set for this disk, I am running all the stuff over again. And, just to maike sure I am interpreting all the numbers correctly that are reported by the Fujitsu ERASE and DIAGNOSTIC, the Microsoft FDISK and FORMAT, these numbers will be watched closely,,,,, Also, I will try to understand where/why the FAT32 was set during these processes. The W98SE reports FAT32 and 6GB, but like you I am not sure this is the case when it comes to the BIOS when SCANDISK is trying to write/read 2GB size. THANKS again for your time, advise, and help!!!!! ,,, plus further thoughts!!! Jerry "Jeff Richards" wrote: FAT32 is almost indifferent to heads and sectors and such. If the system can address the clusters properly, then the file system will keep its indexes and such in good shape. However, it's quite possible that your problem is with the configuration. FDISK doesn't look at the disk beyond the areas needed to write the partition information, and if the disk access required for that task seems OK then FDISK will happily report the whole disk as OK, and anything else that simply reads the partition info will say the same thing. FORMAT might or might not attempt to access the whole disk, but it doesn't do any real testing. The hardware diagnostic should test all parts of the system in a form that ensures it is OK for use. For instance, it is possible that two different head/sector/track combinations actually map to the same physical disk location. This can fool FDISK and FORMAT and even Windows and the file system (for a time) but it shouldn't get past a decent diagnostic program. OTOH, sometimes hardware diagnostics bypass BIOS and access the disk directly, so if the problem is in the BIOS it is possible that the diagnostic won't see it. That's why I suspect your problem is with the configuration and the way that BIOS uses the configuration information. If you can get some standard hardware diagnostics not matched to the specific hardware (and therefore forced to use BIOS routines to test the disk) then that may reveal the problem. These sorts of tests are not good tests of the drive itself, but they can reveal problem in accessing a particular disk in a particular configuration. -- Jeff Richards MS MVP (Windows - Shell/User) "Jerry" wrote in message ... Hello Jeff,,,, OK,,,,THANKS for that reply and the articles!!! Having read all that and relating it to all the things I use to be familiar with in the original stuff that came out in DOS and BIOS it all makes sense. The OLD STUFF (16bit sizes, 504MB, the GB limits, FAT16, etc.) and then the changes that occured( pro 1994) in BIOS and the "AT ROM BIOS INT13h" and the use of LBA, #cyls, #heads, #sectors, to make 2GB work. In this case the BIOS for USER and MODE NORMAL, the BIOS allows the setting of #cyls, #heads, #sectors to get the 6gb size with the following: FOR FAT32 #cyls = 13,410 #heads= 15 #sectors= 63 And, for a FAT32 I do not know if these are all acceptable based on any limits for FAT32(???). These settings were listed on the SPEC SHEET supplied by Fujitsu. And, once FDISK and FORMAT are executed the disk is reported as a FAT32 by the W98SE operating system using MYCOMPUTER/PROPERTIES fon drive D and is recognized as a 6gb drive. I have no idea how this FAT32 was set (FDISK/FORMAT). I do not remember any selection I made for FAT32 or FAT16 while running FDISK or FORMAT. I am at a loss, because I can find nothing on the INTERNET or at Microsoft that indicates a 2GB problem with SCANDISK on a FAT32 size of 6GB. And, the delima is that FDISK and FORMAT run to completion with no errors and report the 6GB size. And, the Fujitsu DIAGNOSTIC and ERASE for this model drive run to completion and report no errors..... OHH WELLLL ------------------- I am gonna start all over again and see if there is a place that I am not setting the numbers correctly in the BIOS for a "FAT32" and "AT ROM BIOS INT13h" (#cyls, #heads, #sectors); or I am not seeing the numbers correctly in the reports from the Fujitsu Diagnostics, BIOS, FDISK, and/or FORMAT for total size, number of clusters, and size of clusters. THANKS for your advise, time, and HELP!!!!! Exceptional!!!! Jerry "Jeff Richards" wrote: AFAIK there is no issue with Scnadisk at 2Gb and there are no service packs that I know of that address any such issue. This might be what you are thinking of: http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=243450 ScanDisk Errors on IDE Hard Disks Larger Than 32 GB or possibly" Knowledge Base Problems Accessing FAT16 Drives Larger Than 2 GB PSS ID Number: 127851 Article Last Modified on 5/6/2003 The information in this article applies to: Microsoft Windows 98 Microsoft Windows 95 Microsoft MS-DOS operating system Microsoft Windows NT Workstation 3.5 Microsoft Windows NT Workstation 3.51 Microsoft Windows NT Workstation 4.0 Microsoft Windows NT Server 3.5 Microsoft Windows NT Server 3.51 Microsoft Windows NT Server 4.0 Microsoft Windows Millennium Edition This article was previously published under Q127851 SUMMARY Microsoft Windows NT supports the creation of primary partitions and logical drives of up to 4 gigabytes (GB) using the File Allocation Table 16 (FAT16) file system, but Windows 95/98 and MS-DOS do not support these drives. The size limit for logical drives using the FAT16 file system in Windows 95/98 and MS-DOS is 2 GB. NOTE: Windows 95 OEM Service Release 2 and later support drives larger than 2 GB using the FAT32 file system. For more information about FAT32, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base: ARTICLE-ID: 154997 TITLE : Description of the FAT32 File System Windows NT 4.0 does not support FAT32, but FAT32 support has been added in Windows 2000. MORE INFORMATION Microsoft does not recommend using MS-DOS or Windows 95/98 with a 4 GB FAT16 drive created in Windows NT. If you use Windows NT's dual boot feature to boot MS-DOS or Windows 95/98, you may be able to access the drive, but you may experience unexpected behavior. In particular, some programs or utilities may incorrectly report that no free space (0 bytes) exists on the drive. In addition, you cannot run Windows 95/98 Setup if your computer has a FAT16 drive created by Windows NT. For example, during Windows 98 Setup you receive the following error message if your system has a FAT16 drive larger than 2 GB: Setup has detected that your hard drive has a 64K-cluster FAT partition. Because ScanDisk does not work on disks with this cluster size, Setup cannot continue. To complete Setup, you must repartition your hard drive, format the partition with a FAT file system that has a cluster size of 32K or |
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Hello Jeff,,,,,
OK and thanks again for your time, advise, and help!!!! FYI,,,,,,I have been messing around with several different BIOS's (PHOENIX, AMI, AWARD, etc.) and some provide an AUTO detection via a statement at the bottom of the BIOS screen (F4 to auto detect). And, some allow the manual setting of the CYL/HEAD/SECTOR----all post 1994. So it appears indeed ",,,, that many older BIOSes have their peculiarities when the MODE is set,,,,". !!!!!! As far as this issue is related it is a done deal!!!! And, THANKS again!!!! Jerry "Jeff Richards" wrote: Thanks for letting us know that you got it sorted out. I haven't heard of that particular arrangement before, but I do know that many older BIOSes have their peculiarities when it comes to dealing with 'large' hard disk drives. Glad to be of help in getting you started on the right research path. -- Jeff Richards MS MVP (Windows - Shell/User) |
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IGNORE THE PREVIOUS POST BY JERRY dated 7/11/2005 at 1:52PM PST. And for any future research this post can be ignored,,,,,the original post and that thread started on 7/8/2005 provided all the discussion necessary to resolve the issue and inclides a final description on the issue resolution. While the discussions did not specifically answer the issue the situation was resolved based on the provided advise!!!! Jerry "Jerry" wrote: Hello,,,,, OOOPPPSSS,,,,I see that I did not ask any questions,,,,,Sorry!!! :| :| So, at the end of the following original post are the questions: "Jerry" wrote: Hello W98 File/Disk Management Newsgroup,,,, And, THANKS for your advise, time, and help!!!! Using the following environment: o Motherboard is: SPACEWALKER SHUTTLE HOT-637 o Windows 98 Second Edition is installed (no upgrades, i.e no Service Paks at this time) o Award Modular BIOS V4.51PG Award Plug & Play BIOS Extension v1.0A Copyright 1997 o A Fujitsu Hard Disk (MPB3064ATU) rated at 6.48GB on drive D: (Secondary/Master) ~ D:\ Drive Bios set for the D: drive to the following: USER 13,410 Cylinders 15 Heads 63 Sectors MODE: NORMAL o The Fujitsu supplied ERASE and DIAGNOSTIC were executed as required in a pure DOS environment and both ran to completion without error. The D: disk is now clean with binary 0's written to the disk! o Fdisk from DOS ran to completion in the creation of one primary partition with no errors and all 6.48GB was recognized. o Format from DOS ran to completion with no errors for all 6GB. o After a boot the BIOS shows 6.48GB and W98SE recognizes the D: drive as 6.03GB and FAT32,,,,so far so good!!! When the pure DOS execution of "SCANDISK D: /checkonly /surface" the MAP of the drive did not show any red colored B's ("some bad sectors"), and all seems to be good. However, when the SCANDISK reached the 512,378 CLUSTER (about the 2.09GB point) SCANDISK hung!! It seemed to be stuck on this CLUSTER with no further changes in the display to show any progress of SCANDISK after several hours of run time. The SCANDISK was executed using the following four methods: 1. from Pure DOS (SCANDISK.EXE), 2. a W98SE Recovery boot diskette (SCANDISK.EXE), 3. W98SE SAFE mode using SCANDSKW.EXE, and 4. W98SE normal boot (SCANDSKW.EXE). All of these SCANDISK started producing errors at the 2.09GB point and the SCANDISK producing a LOG file showed the errors for all CLUSTERS remaining on the disk(???) !!!!. The SCANDISK found on the C:\ drive are the following: COMMAND\SCANDISK.EXE 141KB 4/23/99 WINDOWS\SCANDSKW.EXE 5KB 4/23/99 Version 4.70.1998 The SCANDISK used from the W98SE Recovery Diskette is the following: Eramdrive)\ SCANDISK.EXE 143,818 5/6/98 After searching on the www.support.microsoft.com for any similar description the following items were found: o The IDE upgrade (Article ID = 273017). o The upgrade for esdi_506.pdr (Article ID=243450) The description of these did not precisly describe the above SCANDISK situation but these were installed anyway. These did not fix the situation. THANKS for your time, advise, and help!!! Jerry The Questions: o For the dates, size, and versions of the SCAN DISKs listed above, are these the ones that should (or will) work for 2GB disk drives? o Or, is there a Service Pak that may correct for this situation? If so, where can it be found? Jerry |
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While the original post and discussions on this TRHEAD did not specifically answer the issue,,,,,these discussions and advise from JEFF were the KEY to this issues' solution!!!! As far as future research using this THREAD the rating should be at a (3) or EXCELLANT!!! And, the spccific BIOS in this case is: AWARD MODULAR BIOS V4.51PG AWARD SOFTWARE, INC. AWARD PLUG & PLAY BIOS EXTENSION V1.0A COPYRIGHT 1997 12/05/97-i440LX-ITE8679-2A69JH2BC-00 This issue is resolved and is a DONE DEAL!!!! Jerry "Jerry" wrote: Hello Jeff,,,,, OK and thanks again for your time, advise, and help!!!! FYI,,,,,,I have been messing around with several different BIOS's (PHOENIX, AMI, AWARD, etc.) and some provide an AUTO detection via a statement at the bottom of the BIOS screen (F4 to auto detect). And, some allow the manual setting of the CYL/HEAD/SECTOR----all post 1994. So it appears indeed ",,,, that many older BIOSes have their peculiarities when the MODE is set,,,,". !!!!!! As far as this issue is related it is a done deal!!!! And, THANKS again!!!! Jerry "Jeff Richards" wrote: Thanks for letting us know that you got it sorted out. I haven't heard of that particular arrangement before, but I do know that many older BIOSes have their peculiarities when it comes to dealing with 'large' hard disk drives. Glad to be of help in getting you started on the right research path. -- Jeff Richards MS MVP (Windows - Shell/User) |
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