<quote who="David Fitch">
> speaking of this, someone told me "older" PCs have problems with IDE disks
> above somewhere around the 60-80Gb mark.
>
> "Older" being approx pentium2 vintage and earlier (not that old IMO!).
> And "problems" being that the BIOS doesn't even see the disk therefore it
> can't be used under any OS without a BIOS upgrade.
>
> Now I find this hard to believe myself, but not having an 80Gb disk to try
> it with can't say for sure. Anyone heard of such a thing?
Sure, it wasn't very long ago that most BIOS could not grok drives bigger
than 2GB. I doubt the drives are invisible to the BIOS though, just that
they'd autodetect incorrectly.
- Jeff
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