🚀 go-pugleaf

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?
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