>I was helping someone with a 1Gb HDD that would only partition 500+Mb
and was being difficult. I wrote IBM tech support. I have the info on
downloadable untility that will fix things.
Write me so I can give you the info.
>
Old BIOSes could only recognize slightly > 500 MB, or the first 1024 cylinders
of an IDE HDD. Any bootable partition, or any FAT partition, had to be entirely
contained within the first 1024 cylinders, but a nonbootable HPFS (OS/2) or
ext2fs (Linux) partition could exceed that limit. EIDE permitted the BIOS to
see up to 8 GB. HDDs > 1024 cylinders came with a disk manager such as Ontrack
that would permit the BIOS and DOS to see the entire HDD, but the disk manager
would not be needed with an EIDE controller or BIOS.
