Hi!
8-Фев-2004 17:59 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bernd Blaauw) wrote to
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>>BTW, what needed in BIOS (which INT 13 functions?) for support big
>>drives in MS-DOS7 and FreeDOS?
BB> define "Big Disks" please
7.8+ Gb.
BB> only thing I understand as big disk is 48bit Logical Block Adressing
BB> (LBA-48) instead of 28bit LBA (128GB).
This is next barrier and, AFAIK, its breaking is transparent for apps
over BIOS (including DOS). Anyway, is there documented ways to detect, if
LBA48 (and 127+ Gb disks) is supported by BIOS?
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