[Gllug] Disc partitions

[John Winters]

Richard Jones wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 09:44:29PM +0100, Peter Corlett wrote:
>> Although it's rather moot as IDE is dead, even though the corpse  
>> continues to twitch. It won't be missed.
> 
> Well, IDE did provide a disk solution that actually worked, provided
> cheap disks to the masses, didn't come in 20 different and mutually
> incompatible varieties, and didn't have the "guess where I need to put
> the termination" game.

But did have the traditional mis-match between addressing methods,
resulting in yet another artificial and unnecessary limit on HD size.

John
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