> by the IDE hardware: ALL IDE harddisk types can be connected. (1MB,
> 10GB, 40GB, 123GB, ...)
> by the IDE software: current bios 2.01 'only' support reading/writing of
> sectors in the first 8 GB range of the device. So if you're using a 10
> GB harddisk, the last 2GB can't be accessed. The IDEFDISK software which
> you need to generate partitions, will automatically limit your
> partitions to the 8GB boundary.
Jon, I have a question.
The new BIOS v2.0 isn't compatible with the old one already because of the
added 24-bit sector access. So most direct-interface-access programs already
don't work. Why didn't you increase the size of the drive info block at the
same time??? Now all direct-access software has to be adapted for version
2.0, and once again for version 3.0... It would be easier to do this in one
go I think...
~Grauw
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