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Since Curtis Stevens moseyed from Phoenix to PD, who officially owns editing of the EDD3 spec? To get down to brass tacks, I've been getting calls about support for 48-bit LBA in OS's that require the Int13 Fn48 call to return back the correct size for a drive larger than 128GB (0x0FFFFFFF sectors) in order to use the entire disk, and I'd like to see something in the BIOS that can help these folks who are having problems. Since there is currently no way an end-user can do to determine if a BIOS can handle these new large drives without buying one (then finding out you either have to chase down a new BIOS or return the new drive), I'd say this is not a very nice thing to do to an unsuspecting end-user. Oh, yes, the customer could track down the BIOS and find out first if the BIOS is capable, but how many people are gonna do that when they are drooling over a big drive at a store and they have their visa(tm) card in their hand? So, what do we gotta do to get a flag in the BIOS to indicate it can handle one of these large drives? MKE.
