> I'm a new IDE user :) And I have two questions.
>
Welcome to the club of IDE-users then.
> 1. Assigning driver letters.
>
> Is it possible that I use only two drive letters for a IDE harddisk
> when there are more than two partitions?
>
It is possible. At the moment, you can select which partitions to use
initially when you boot up the system by disabling all partitions except the
partitions you want to have at boot-up. The number of enabled partitions are
equal to the number of drives which will be assigned for the IDE. The other
partitions can be selected for the drives using a program called IDEPAR.
> 2. Maximum Capacity.
>
> According to a document from Sunrise home page (IDEFAT16.TXT),
> 2GB is possible to for one parition. Is it correct?
>
When using FAT16 this is correct. When using the usual FAT12 the maximum
size for a partition is 32 MB.
> And what is the maximum capacity of a harddisk (not a partition)
> which can be handled by IDE interface/file system.
>
The absolute maximum for IDE in this state is a hard disk of 8 GB. When
installing a master and a slave device for a single interface, it possible
to address 16 GB (2 x 8 GB)
GreeTz, BiFi
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