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In article <2aab4eed@ralf> Ralf.Brown@B.GP.CS.CMU.EDU writes:
>Yeah, but the geometry translation is based on the limits of the BIOS, which
>are 1024 cyl x 64 heads x 63 sectors/track--a little less than 4G sectors
>per BIOS-recognized drive.  To get more on a physical drive, you'll have to
>split it into multiple drives before the BIOS sees it.

Now this one makes sense.  Except that BIOS does not limit you to 1024
cylinders, that is DOS.  So theoretically you could have 2048 x 64 x 63.

Of course, you'd have to use something stupid like Disk Manager to partition
it, and then you would be having real large cluster sizes.
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