> -----Original Message-----
> From: Olin Lathrop [SMTP:olin_piclist@EMBEDINC.COM]
> Sent: Monday, September 29, 2003 2:44 PM
> To:   PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU
> Subject:      Re: [EE]: 40GB Hard Disk for a Pentium 200MHz PC
>
> > "Ontrack"  disk manager software (often available free from the disk
> > drive supplier) has helped overcome disk size limitations on several
> > occasions. You MAY need an older version, but maybe not.
> >
> > Here's their site, but they probably won't give you the free version
> > directly.
> > But you can always ask.
>
> How is any software that isn't part of the bios supposed to help the bios
> see the disk drive?
>
Because the limitations in the BIOS generaly only prevents the whole disk
capacity being accessed, it does not (usualy) prevent all disk access.

Mike





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