Large IDE drive, old BIOS question

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From: Falchion
Date: Tue, 11 Jun 1996 00:00

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I just picked up an 850MB IDE hard drive.
I'm planning on splitting it up into 2 equal partitions,
one for Linux, one for Dos/Windows. 
Do I need to load any special program to overcome
the BIOS limitation of 528 meg ? My BIOS is dated 1992.

thanks,

-- Simon (simc@mundil.cs.mu.oz.au)

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From: simc@mundil.cs.mu.OZ.AU (Falchion)
Subject: Large IDE drive, old BIOS question
Date: 1996/06/11
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