[rescue] FREE STUFF in Austin, TX

[Brian Hechinger]

On Mon, Aug 20, 2001 at 08:25:29PM -0700, James Lockwood wrote:
> 
> There was a 32GB limit as well, but I think it was addressed before bigger
> drives became commonplace.  It was a BIOS issue that came from a 16-bit
> limit on the number of cylinders (16*63*512*65536 is about 32GB).

i gave up on IDE shortly after my 90M drive i had in my first (and last) PC (a
386) blew up.  paid an arm and a leg for an adaptec 1542B and a 270MB quantum
ProDrive LPS.  haven't looked back since.

haven't purchased another PC since either though, sooooo (my next computer was
a sparc5)

-brian