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12 Medalist 8641, 6531, 4321 and 3221, Rev. B The 32-bit disk access feature in Windows 3.1 does not work with drives that have capacities greater than 528 Mbytes. If you want to use 32-bit disk access with Windows 3.1, see the file SEG32BIT.TXT, located on your DiscWizard diskette, for further information. 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 26 for more information. 8.4-Gbtye limit If your drive's capacity is greater than 8.4 Gbytes, the capacity may exceed the limits of your system BIOS and operating system. DOS and Windows operating systems and most system BIOS's 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. To achieve your drive's full capacity, you need a Windows operating system that supports FAT32 and device support for drive capacities greater than 8.4 Gbytes, from one of the following: • Third-party device driver, such as Disk Manager (Disk Man- ager is provided on the DiscWizard diskette included with your drive), or • An intelligent ATA host adapter, or • A system BIOS upgrade