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Re: 504MB DOS IDE limit - an further query

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From: Carl Warnell
Date: Sun, 07 Apr 1996 00:00

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In article: <9ZHkjHAuGYZxEwyP@helix.demon.co.uk>  Mike Clarke 
<mike@helix.demon.co.uk> writes:
> Has anybody had experience, favourable or otherwise, of using large
> disks with the June 1992 AMI BIOS?

Yep. I (still) have this BIOS, and I bought a 1.27Gb Samsung (hey, it was 
cheap...) HD about six months ago. It was fine setting up the drive 
parameters in the BIOS, but DOS refused to format more than 528Mb. The 
supplied software (Wide Disk or something) sorted that out, but it seemed a 
bit kludgy so I bought a Promise EIDE controller. This is fine, when it 
boots, which seems to be about two times in three, or less if it's cold...
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From: Carl Warnell <boz@bogart.demon.co.uk>
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Date: 1996/04/07
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