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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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