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In article <59lcnr$lf5@mippet.ci.com.au> Antonio Lam <laman@accsoft.com.au> writes:

>In Australia, one of the leading PC magazine, PC User, comparing Win95, 
>WinNT and OS/2 Warp in the Operation System Section of the Vol 9 Number 
>1 January 1997 issue, says:

>"Both OS/2 and NT directly support RAID (redundant array of inexpensive 
>drives) for reliable sky's-the-limit storage, while Windows 95 doesn't.  
>On the other hand, OS/2 Warp needs help to handle IDE disks larger than 
>512kb."

>That is ridiculous, 512kb is smaller than space available on the floppy 
>disk.  I think he is talking about the 512MB BIOS limitation.  Could 
>someone knowledgable write to the editor on "pcuser@apc.com.au" and 
>explain to the author what 512MB limit is.

Rubbish as you rightly say. I have just installed a second drive (850 MB) on 
an old system. The BIOS and DOS can't see over 512MB but OS/2 has no trouble.

Note that is in any case necessary to have DOS/FAT partitions at the beginning 
of the disk as DOS can't see the HPFS partitions.

Pearson