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PC-98 A-Mate series (Ae, Ap, An) all have a limited BIOS which supports IDE drives up to 540MB, some later machines support up to 4.3GB. SCSI controllers and disks can go bigger, up to 30GB-ish in some cases. | PC-98 A-Mate series (Ae, Ap, An) all have a limited BIOS which supports IDE drives up to 540MB, some later machines support up to 4.3GB. SCSI controllers and disks can go bigger, up to 30GB-ish in some cases. | ||
- | However, support for anything bigger is just not possible on the stock system, such as [[https://targetearth.dyndns.org/ | + | However, support for anything bigger is just not possible on the stock system, such as [[https://www.target-earth.net/ |
It is technically possible to write this ROM to an unused card on the PC-98 C-Bus and have it initialised at boot time. The most common method would be something like a SCSI card, where the SCSI functions are not needed. | It is technically possible to write this ROM to an unused card on the PC-98 C-Bus and have it initialised at boot time. The most common method would be something like a SCSI card, where the SCSI functions are not needed. | ||
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That's saying something about not being able to write the boot sector or something along those lines... it's the same regardless of disk. Also notice that it picks up the incorrect size of the partition, in the above image it should be showing a entire-drive partition from a 60GB disk... but it doesn' | That's saying something about not being able to write the boot sector or something along those lines... it's the same regardless of disk. Also notice that it picks up the incorrect size of the partition, in the above image it should be showing a entire-drive partition from a 60GB disk... but it doesn' | ||
- | What you actually need to use is a tool called FORMATX which cannot be found on the web any more but can still be found via archive.org, | + | What you actually need to use is a tool called FORMATX which cannot be found on the web any more but can still be found via archive.org, |
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You may want to create a DOS directory and copy over the contents of the Win 98 boot floppy, as well as extracting the EBD.CAB cab file which contains additional Win 98 SE DOS commands (edit, format, etc). | You may want to create a DOS directory and copy over the contents of the Win 98 boot floppy, as well as extracting the EBD.CAB cab file which contains additional Win 98 SE DOS commands (edit, format, etc). | ||
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+ | === IBM/PC Compatible Partitions === | ||
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+ | The PC-98 partition table is //not// compatible with Windows/ | ||
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+ | The image above shows the utility running on the fully partitioned and formatted 80GB IDE drive from the tests below. After this step, the above partition is dual-use and can be used fully in both PC-98 and in Windows and Linux on standard PC hardware. | ||
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