OT: Is any hard disk brand better/worse than the others?

Thu Dec 4 20:03:17 UTC 2008

D. Hugh Redelmeier <hugh-pmF8o41NoarQT0dZR+AlfA at public.gmane.org>:

> | From: jemcinto-cpI+UMyWUv+w5LPnMra/2Q at public.gmane.org
>
> | > Ehm, DOS style partition table has a limit of 2TB (2^32 sectors).
> |
> | 2^32 sectors is NOT 2TB, it is 4GB.
>
> ???
>
> 2^32 = 4G
>
> A sector is (usually) 512 bytes so
>
> 2^32 sectors = 2TB

I apologize. You are correct.

On the other hand, MS-DOS prior to MS Windows 95 supported only 2 GB per
partition.

Did it use only 22 bits of the 32 ?
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