Large Disk HOWTO

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Large Disk HOWTO

Andries Brouwer, `aeb at cwi.nl`

v2.5, 2004-11-01

All about disk geometry and the 1024 cylinder and other limits for disks.

For the most recent version of this text, see www.win.tue.nl.

4. History of BIOS and IDE limits

6. Disk geometry, partitions and `overlap'

7. Translation and Disk Managers

8. Kernel disk translation for IDE disks

12. The Linux 65535 cylinder limit

12.1 IDE problems with 34+ GB disks

13. Extended and logical partitions

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