Subj : i've got the power
To   : Nancy Backus
From : Maurice Kinal
Date : Wed May 08 2019 03:50:40

Hallo Nancy!

 NB> Richard got around that by partitioning the drive into segments
 NB> that DOS could handle.... of course, this pentium's drive is
 NB> less than 1G... ;)

Yes but that only takes care of the DOS limitation and not the bios's.  In the 
case of the 486 the bios couldn't handle drive sizes bigger than 520M so I had 
to lie about the geometry to the bios in order for it to get past the bios to 
the boot loader in order to boot whatever.  However the only one that could 
boot successfully was lilo installed on the root partition (not the mbr) so 
that the kernel could correct the obviously 'haked' geometry and therefore 
utilize the entire drive no matter how it was then partitioned.

Also no bios upgrades back then.  The only upgrade possible at that time was to 
solder on a whole new chip which is something I wasn't about to do.  Anyhow I 
retired that computer not too long afterwards since it lacked any 32 bit pci 
slots which was the only sensible way to upgrade a pc with whatever looked to 
be attractive at the time, mostly network cards at that time.

Het leven is goed,
Maurice

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