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- From: exuptr@exu.ericsson.se (exuptr@exu.ericsson.se)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer,comp.os.msdos.misc
- Subject: Re: Disk Drive Purchase?
- Message-ID: <exuptr.458.716059101@exu.ericsson.se>
- Date: 9 Sep 92 17:18:21 GMT
- References: <2aab4eed@ralf>
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- In article <2aab4eed@ralf> Ralf.Brown@B.GP.CS.CMU.EDU writes:
- >Yeah, but the geometry translation is based on the limits of the BIOS, which
- >are 1024 cyl x 64 heads x 63 sectors/track--a little less than 4G sectors
- >per BIOS-recognized drive. To get more on a physical drive, you'll have to
- >split it into multiple drives before the BIOS sees it.
-
- Now this one makes sense. Except that BIOS does not limit you to 1024
- cylinders, that is DOS. So theoretically you could have 2048 x 64 x 63.
-
- Of course, you'd have to use something stupid like Disk Manager to partition
- it, and then you would be having real large cluster sizes.
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