On Sun, Sep 14, 2003 at 07:40:21PM +0800, Robert Storey wrote: > On Sun, 14 Sep 2003 21:23:47 +1200 > cr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I thought DOS could only handle partitions of up to ~500MB (512? > > 528?). I must be wrong, it happily formatted 600MB, at least for > > partition 3. > > DOS (that is, FAT16) can handle partitions up to two gigabytes in size. > And you can have four of them, so eight gigs can be used.
Yes. The half-gig limit is to do with old BIOSes that don't do CHS translation. > But as I > understand it, when you get to that size a lot of space gets wasted > (very inefficient block size, or something like that). 64k, I think. -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons Get my GPG key here: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x21C61F7F
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