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Date:	Mon, 18 Feb 2002 22:46:42 PST7
From:	"Steven Levine" <steve53@earthlink.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Any limitation on hard drive size ?

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In <3C71DF75.5B6D@peterskye.com>, on 02/18/02
at 09:16 PM, Peter Skye said:

>You're assuming I know who made these motherboards!

There's always:

http://www.fcc.gov/oet/fccid/

>your selected operating system using its old drivers which can only look
>in the "first 8 GB" (the "1024 cylinder" limit), then as soon as your
>selected operating system initializes and switches to its own drivers you
>have the entire drive. Yes?

Only if the BIOS and the driver agree on the geometry. Otherwise, it's
can't find country.sys time.

Newer BIOS's no longer have the 1024 cylinder limit.

Steven

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