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[Kurt Mosiejczuk]

On Mon, 20 Aug 2001, James Lockwood wrote:

> There was a 32GB limit as well, but I think it was addressed before bigger
> drives became commonplace.  It was a BIOS issue that came from a 16-bit
> limit on the number of cylinders (16*63*512*65536 is about 32GB).

Nope.  Right around that time yes, but the jumpers on the IBM drives
aroudn that time had an option to make the drive ignore the last
2-4 gig (depending on model) so that your BIOS didn't yarf.

--Kurt