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> However, no one mentioned anything like the actual choices:
>
> A. Replace the C drive because it is now bad.
> B. Conclude that the two drives are incompatible.
> C. Conclude that the two drives are non-standard.
> D. Replace both the C and D drives because they are now bad.


When CompTIA decided to prevent any professional question writers from
participating in th groups that write these things, we started seeing this
type of question. Blame the guys who wrote questions, then put this on the
front of their book: "We wrote the exam questions!" They are still writing
books, btw.

BTW, "B" is the only one that makes any sense whatsoever, but you'll *NEVER*
know what answer they are looking for.

-John O

"Jack C." <> wrote in message
news:...
> On Wed, 03 Aug 2005 16:25:55 GMT, "JohnO" <johno@@&%heathkit##.com>
> wrote:
>
> >>
> >> Next step - look for a cylinder limitation jumper on each of the
drives.
> >>
> >
> >Edjumacate me on this one....some drives have such a jumper? What type of
> >drive has this?
> >
> >-John O
> >
>
> Some, if not all IDE drives have a jumper that limits the drives'
> detected size to 32GB because some older BIOS's will hang when detecting
> any drive larger than 32GB. Want to know more, just Google "cylinder
> limitation".
>
> Jack
>
>

I always thought that was just a setting in BIOS but I guess we learn
something new everyday.

On Sat, 06 Aug 2005 23:08:12 GMT, "CLV3" <>
wrote:

>> >> Next step - look for a cylinder limitation jumper on each of the
>drives.

>> Some, if not all IDE drives have a jumper that limits the drives'
>> detected size to 32GB because some older BIOS's will hang when detecting
>> any drive larger than 32GB. Want to know more, just Google "cylinder
>> limitation".

>I always thought that was just a setting in BIOS but I guess we learn
>something new everyday.

It couldn't be a 'setting in the BIOS'.
The problem is, that some bios are unable to handle the size of
such an 'huge' disk at all. They just crash.
Caused by something like '32 GB ought to be enough for everyone'
in the design stage.

Because many BIOS versions couldn't handle more than 32 GB the
drive manufacturers created a 'solution': "lie to the PC about
your size".

(Yes, I know. But this one actually works

--
Kind regards,
Gerard Bok