From: Thorsten Jaekel (jaekel_at_uke.uni-hamburg.de)
Date: Mon Sep 08 1997 - 02:58:07 EDT
As someone already has pointed out, this is probably the diffence between
540 million bytes and 515 Megabytes. (515 x 1.024 x 1.024 = 540).
Anyway, in case you need a harddisk larger than your machine's BIOS
recognizes, you do not necessarily need to get a BIOS upgrade. You can use
software like Ontrack diskmanager to circumvent the problem, at least for
DOS and Windows. Come to think of it, does anyone know about OS/2 and
software like diskmanager? There is probably no solution for linux.
I like the software approach because upgrading the BIOS can go wrong
leaving you with a nonworking system. This then would have to be fixed by
IBM or an IBM repair place...
Thorsten
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