Re: IDE disk size on old PC

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From: Mike Tomlinson
Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2000 00:00

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In article <vdCZ2p92dNiH-pn2-z5MiOd2DdjB1@localhost>, Jim Backus
<JHB@jita.nospam.demon.co.uk> writes

>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.

If you've tested it on the 386 with a pre-existing partition, it will
appear to work, but as soon as anything writes to cylinder 1024, it will
'wrap around' to cylinder 0 and bang, bye-bye data.

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

http://come.to/eide/

-- 
Mike Tomlinson

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