[Gllug] Hard disk upgrade for older system

Daniel P. Berrange dan at berrange.com
Fri Dec 21 20:47:56 UTC 2007


On Fri, Dec 21, 2007 at 08:36:11PM +0000, Richard Jones wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 21, 2007 at 07:58:06PM +0000, John Winters wrote:
> > These boundaries blur in my mind, but for one of them at least ISTR that 
> > it's only the BIOS which has a problem.
> 
> I was actually wondering the other day if anyone knows of a definitive
> list of these limits ...  Starting with the 32MB DOS HDD limit in the
> mid '80s.

Seagate has a reasonable number of them listed between 512 MB and
33 GB:

 http://www.seagate.com/support/kb/disc/bioslmt.html

Dan.
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