Re: What about FORMAT?

Bart Oldeman <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.freedos.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Sat, 26 Oct 2002, Brian E. Reifsnyder wrote:

> Yes, I know.  But, it has a couple minor problems with extremely large hard
> drives (>128GB), needs international language support, needs regression
> tested, and has a few bugs left to fix.  In addition, I don't think it will
> work with hard disks > 512GB at this time.   :-)

That's the 65536 cylinder limit right? Since even for LBA you still let
partitions start at a "cylinder boundary"?

You'll hit another and this time really fundamental limit someday with 2
TiB (2^32 sectors).

Bart
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