Re: Larger than 8 gig IDE drives

[Ignatios Souvatzis <is%beverly.kleinbus.org@localhost>]

On Sun, Mar 04, 2001 at 04:16:26PM +0200, Jukka A Andberg wrote:
> On Sat, 3 Mar 2001, Ignatios Souvatzis wrote:
> 
> > A) Yes! Let me explain how I think modern IDE drives work:
> >
> > - the c-h-s geometry indicates the maximum that the (old) BIOS functions
> > can handle, 8.mumble Gigabytes, depending on the definition of GB.
> >
> > (16383 * 255 * 63 * 512 bytes).
>            ===
> Don't you mean 16? That would make rather much more than 8GB.
*scratching head*

I thought it was 1023 * 255 * 63 * 512 bytes, but I checked the original disk,
and that disk is advertizing 16383/16/63. Hm. Whatever.

Regards,
        -is