[ale] IDE > 4Gig

[Vernard Martin]

> For some stupid reason, this drive (fugitsu I think, it's at home, I'm not)
> has 89XX cylendars...  That puts my first partition at 400Megs if I do that...
> Not good..
 
IDE drives usually use LBA (Logical Block Addressing) to map the cylinders
differnetly to get aroudn this problem.

The partition has to start within the first 1024 cylinders, that's all. It can
end wherever it wants.

V
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