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From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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>> > > Note that the whole partition doesn't have to be under 1G, only:
>> >                       ``slice''

>Thanks to everyone who reminded me the 1G limitation.

There is no such limitation.  There is a 1024-cylinder limitation, which
gives a 1G limitation when certain excessively limited defaults are used
for the number of heads and sectors/track.  Other excessively limited
defaults give other limitations on the drive size.  A 504MB used to be
normal for IDE drives.  There is an 8032.5MB limitation ...

Bruce