However, in my experience, this has never been the case with external drives, which a lot of his seem to be (I don't remember if this one was). This was a BIOS limitation only evident on EIDE internal drives.
On Jan 26, 2008 10:03 PM, Tom Piwowar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >drive Z: thought it was 400 GB, but My Computer reports it as 200 GB. > > Writing data beyond 256GB could cause this. I have read about situations > where high-capacity drives are installed on computers with disk > controllers that do not have an address space wide enough to span the the > disk's capacity. Everything is fine as long as you don't need to write to > a part of the drive that needs the missing high address bits. When you > finally get around to needing the last bits you have a problem when the > drive starts to overwrite lower addresses because that high bit is not > being communicated to the drive. This results in sudden data loss. ************************************************************************ * ==> QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in <== * ==> the body of an email & send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <== * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ************************************************************************ * List archive from 1/1/2000 is on the MARC http://marc.info/?l=computerguys-l * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header "X-No-Archive: yes" will not be archived ************************************************************************
