Alexander Clouter wrote: > due to microsofts infinite wisdom dos (and so windoze) has trouble > handling more than 1024 cylinders (if I remember correctly).
Much as I love a good M$-bashing occasionally, I don't think this is Microsoft's doing. The 1024 cylinder limit was in the original design of the PC BIOS. Those engineers just couldn't see that anyone would ever have a 30GB disk drive on a PC :-) On most PC's, running any kind of modern operating system (including Windoze), the 1024 limit only applies at boot time. Whatever program is loaded at boot time must not be stored beyond cylinder 1024. I am told that there are some newer BIOS's that can play games with the disk geometry and translate block and cylinder numbers on the fly, to make it look like the disk has a different geometry than it actually has, and get around this limitation. But that is a function of the BIOS, not the operating system. --Greg
