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Medalist 17242, 13032, 10232, 8422 and 4312, Rev. A
Addressing drive-capacity limitations
Some DOS-based computers and operating systems are not
designed to accommodate large-capacity hard disc drives. The
most common system limitations are listed below.
528-Mbyte limit
The BIOS in some older computers cannot accommodate drives
with capacities greater than 528 Mbytes. Seagate provides free
Disk Manager software with your drive to overcome this limita-
tion. Alternatively, you can purchase a hard drive controller or a
BIOS upgrade that supports drives with capacities greater than
528 Mbytes.
4,092-cylinder limit
The BIOS in some computers cannot support drives that have
more than 4,092 cylinders (approximately 2.1 Gbytes). If you
install a drive with more than 4,092 cylinders in one of these
computers, the computer may "freeze" or fail to boot . If you have
this problem, see "Alternate capacity jumper" on page 25 for
more information.
8.4-Gbyte limit
If your drive's capacity is greater than 8.4 Gbytes, the capacity
may exceed the limits of your system BIOS and operating sys-
tem. DOS and Windows operating systems and most system
BIOSs limit the drive partitions to 8.4 Gbytes per physical drive.
Because of this limitation, a 32-bit file allocation table (FAT32) is
needed to support drive capacities greater than 8.4 Gbytes.
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