Re: Partioning 560meg hard drive

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From: Benedict Chong
Date: Tue, 07 Nov 1995 00:00

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Raymond Warichet <raymond.warichet@brsadv.enet.dec.com> wrote:

%According to my little experience (please correct me), there are
several 
%alternatives:
%
%1) you buy a new motherboard, with LBA (Large Block Addressing)
support 
%in the BIOS.
%
%2) you buy an EIDE disk controller, with on-board ROM, to support
disks > 
%512 MB (which will do exactly the same as #1 but at the controller
level)
%
%3) you install Disk Manager, wich installs a device driver to bypass
the 

You forgot bios add-on cards like AmiDisk & LBA Pro. These are ISA bus
cards with a bios eprom that enables translation for disk accesses so
that you can access more than 504M.

Ben

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From: bluesky@singnet.com.sg (Benedict Chong)
Subject: Re: Partioning 560meg hard drive
Date: 1995/11/07
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