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>From: Thorsten Jaekel <jaekel@uke.uni-hamburg.de>
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>Subject: Re: TP 500 & 540 MB HDD
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>As someone already has pointed out, this is probably the diffence
between
>540 million bytes and 515 Megabytes. (515 x 1.024 x 1.024 = 540).
>Anyway, in case you need a harddisk larger than your machine's BIOS
>recognizes, you do not necessarily need to get a BIOS upgrade. You can
use
>software like Ontrack diskmanager to circumvent the problem, at least
for
>DOS and Windows. Come to think of it, does anyone know about OS/2 and
>software like diskmanager? There is probably no solution for linux.
>I like the software approach because upgrading the BIOS can go wrong
>leaving you with a nonworking system. This then would have to be fixed
by
>IBM or an IBM repair place...
>
>Thorsten
>
What Thorsten says is correct. In reading the Ontrack docs that
came with a Maxtor drive, it says it works fine under Win 95/NT,
DOS and OS/2 (and I have tried it with OS/2, but I don't
think that HPFS will work though :-< ). It says that Linux doesn't
support it, or something like that. I think that if you have the money,
you might consider buying a second hard drive, one for your other OS,
and one for Linux.
Regards,
Paul
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