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12 Medalist 4342, 3232 and 2122, Rev. C 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

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Medalist 4342, 3232 and 2122, Rev. C
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 sys-
tem. 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 operat-
ing 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