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On Fri, 9 Apr 1999, Richard Ashton <{R}@sunshine.tm> wrote:

>I would like to fully understand this. There are AFAIK three
>"barriers" at 528Mb, 2.1Mb and 8.4Mb.
>
>1) 528Mb. This is with old machines that do not have a translating BIOS
>where the system bios is limited by the combination of the IDE spec
>and BIOS Int13H capability giving a maximum of 1024 Cyls 16heads and
>63 tracks this equals 512,482,304 bytes or around 504Mb formatted.
>
>2a) 2.147Mb. There is BIOS issue with LBA drives that cannot go past
>    4097 cyls.
>
>2b) 2GB? There is a specific maximum DOS partition size caused by ?
>
>3) 8.4Gb. DOS 6.xx and earlier also Windows 3.1 cannot see past 8.4Gb, why?
>          NT4 with SP3 does recognise drives > 8.4Gb
>          Novell 4.11 needs drivers to see past 8.4Gb
>          Novell 5 supports 8.4Gb drives and bigger
>          OS/2 Warp needs a fix to see past 8.4Gb
>
>Any help getting this right welcome.
>
>{R}
>

I beleive that there is an additional obstacle which may affect ancient
BIOS, requiring a disk manager, like Ontrack, to be run additionally.
Anyone stuck with a non-upgradeable BIOS could fit a Promise BIOS board.

http://www.promise.com

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Barry Smith
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