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To: Zeuspaul who wrote (5768)	1/31/1999 10:23:00 PM
From: Spots	Respond to of 14778

>>There is a message as you pass the 1024 cyl (8.4 gig) mark warning the drive may not boot I think that's warning you that the bios might not dig the big partition (big = >8.4 gig; used to be > 512 meg <gg>). I think any bios that runs a chipset which can handle ultra DMA will be able to do it, but I don't know about others. Probably why my Tyan board with TX chipset got no ulcers over the 17gb disk size. (I don't have my systems from Minotaur yet. I emailed Jon about the BX6-2 but haven't got an answer; if that's an option, may delay me a few more days. Well, I'm in no hurry. I keep telling myself <g>.) I'm impressed fat32 can handle this size. Thanks for the info.