IDE disk size on old PC

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From: Jim Backus
Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2000 00:00

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I was recently given a 1 GB IDE HD which was supposed to be faulty.  
As a test, I put it into an old 386 that is set up with boot manager 
to run either OS/2 or PC Dos.  The disk seems to be OK but the 
surprise is that the PC recognises it's full capacity under both PC 
Dos and OS/2.  I was expecting it to be limited to 528MB.

So what is the story about hard disk size restrictions under IDE?

Is it just a boot limitation?

--
Jim Backus  OS/2 - 32 bits without the bloat
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From: JHB@jita.nospam.demon.co.uk (Jim Backus)
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Date: 2000/01/29
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