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From: Howard Lew <hlew@cycle.Stanford.EDU>
To: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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Subject: Re: 2.05R panics on boot
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On Mon, 19 Jun 1995, Bruce Evans wrote:

> >> DOS has no problems handling >= 504 MB.  This is a BIOS problem.
> 
> >This is strange because I can configure the bios for 32 heads and over 
> >800 Megs, but if I do a fdisk, DOS says the maximum partition size is 504 MB.
> 
> This _is_ strange.  How do you know that you can configure the BIOS like
> this.  I only have old BIOS's that allow you to enter 32 heads in setup
> but don't actually support 32 heads.

Actually, I really meant configuring the CMOS for 32 heads is possible.  
Maybe the BIOS doesn't support that CMOS parameter under drive type 47, 
so DOS says the max is 504 MB per partition.  But DOS says over 800 MB  
when Ontrack DM is installed.