Re: int 0x13 utility



On Sun, 23 Mar 2008 08:45:10 -0700 (PDT), I waved a wand and this
message magically appears in front of Rugxulo:

On Mar 22, 10:30 am, Alex Buell <spamt...@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I recently bought a SATA controller for my old Pentium III box, and
plugged it in. Hooked up a 120GB SATA hard disk, booted up with
MSDOS 6.22. Imagine my surprise when MSDOS FDISK refused to create a
partition larger than 503MB even though it was specifically told it
could use the large disk feature.

Maybe their FDISK doesn't support SATA? The only one I know of that
for sure does is SPFDISK:

I'm very sure it's the int 0x13 calls that makes FDISK thinks the
maximum is 503MB...
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