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In article <712830895wnr@tyunnos.demon.co.uk>
           rwj@tyunnos.demon.co.uk "robert jones" writes:

>This old chestnut (again).
>
>    I have bought a Conner 850 meg drive yet I am running an ISA PC with AMI
>    BIOS from 1993 and DOS so I will have the problem of accessing over
>    528meg.  However, a magazine article (PC World, Jan. 1995 page 519)
>    says 'an IDE physical drive can be partitioned into more than one
>    logical drive on a DOS machine to overcome [the] problem [of the
>    528meg limit for one logical drive].  Does this sound right and
>    is there anything special that needs to be done when partitioning?
>    I thought part of the accessing problem arose from the BIOS ability
>    (or not) to recognise the number of cylinders (?) so you would be
>    shut out before you could even do a partition which took up all the
>    drive space.
>
>Frankly I hadn't heard of this 'solution' elsewhere so I had already reconciled
> myself 
>to buying an enhanced IDE controller with its own BIOS.  I'm pretty sure I have
> interpreted 
>the above passage correctly.
>
>Is this hopelessly wrong?

I think it it wrong that that there is a 528meg limit for one logical drive.

By partitioning an IDE drive you might be able to have one prfectly normal
partition and one that requires drivers for access, but partitioning, in and
of itself is not a solution.

-- 
John Beardmore