Having been impressed by the reviews, and checking for Win98SE support both at the nvidia website and various motherboard manufacturers, I bought one.
After a long struggle, the retailer finally extracted the truth from nvidia - the ide controller driver has been REMOVED from the Win98SE driver set, because of "problems". So, I'm left with the default Microsoft controller and single FIFO on both channels (so I can only mount one device on each IDE channel). Data transfer is about 1/10 what it could be with this hardware.
How nice of nvidia to make this clear, and how nice of the motherboard makers to pass on the information. If win98SE is obselete, then by all means pull all support. But don't claim to support it and then cripple performance by leaving out vital components.
nvidia do not plan to release an IDE driver for win98SE in the future, so if like me you see little point in adding to Bill Gate's fortune, then an nforce2 is out of the question.
Just a note to maybe save someone else from falling into the same trap.
After a long struggle, the retailer finally extracted the truth from nvidia - the ide controller driver has been REMOVED from the Win98SE driver set, because of "problems". So, I'm left with the default Microsoft controller and single FIFO on both channels (so I can only mount one device on each IDE channel). Data transfer is about 1/10 what it could be with this hardware.
How nice of nvidia to make this clear, and how nice of the motherboard makers to pass on the information. If win98SE is obselete, then by all means pull all support. But don't claim to support it and then cripple performance by leaving out vital components.
nvidia do not plan to release an IDE driver for win98SE in the future, so if like me you see little point in adding to Bill Gate's fortune, then an nforce2 is out of the question.
Just a note to maybe save someone else from falling into the same trap.