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Date:      Sun, 18 Sep 2005 15:45:39 +0200
From:      Sebastien Chassot <seba.bsd@sebsd.net>
To:        FreeBSD questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: what was it ?
Message-ID:  <1127051139.694.4.camel@dell.sinux.seb>
In-Reply-To: <432D53FF.8050906@reston.demon.nl>
References:  <20050918133429.35e96a73.dick@nagual.st> <432D53FF.8050906@reston.demon.nl>

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On Sun, 2005-09-18 at 13:48 +0200, Yuri van Overmeeren wrote:

> 
> "Old MS-Dos" machines used FAT16, if the hardware is from that time 
> period you also might run into the hardware limitation that BIOS can not 
> adress more then a 32GB harddisk, most drives however have a capactiy 
> limit jumper setting for this reason. (limits drive at 32GB).
> 

In BIOS or jumper setting it's call LBA for Large Block Addressing.



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Sebastien Chassot - Geneva




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