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In <43cc32$2p3@News1.mcs.net>, itsinc@mcs.com writes:
>	Another follow-up...I finally reached someone at IBM who said that
>while they didn't know what the limit was, drives in the 9 to 12 GB range
>were no problem (she was pretty sure the limit was fairly high).  So that kind 
>of reinforces the 64 or 512 GB references.

I formatted up a 9Gb drive as HPFS the other day. No problems.

>	She DID say that the partition that OS/2 is booted from cannot be
>larger than 2 GB, and that is what the README file is apparently supposed
>to be saying.

The limit is within the first 1024 cylinders. This comes about from the original
BIOS limitation, which is used as part of the boot process.

1024 cylinders / 2Gb is the limit for FAT patitions.

HPFS when used as a boot drive still has to be in the first 1024 cylinders.

-Chris

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