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==Format==
==Format==


''Note: The following is not an official specification, it has been reverse engineered from hard disk images and information collected from various sources. The labels given to bytes are entirely arbitrary and should not be taken as the official labels.''
''Note: The following is not an official specification, it has been created from information collected from various sources. The labels given to bytes are entirely arbitrary and should not be assumed to be official designations.''


IDEDOS supports up to 65535 partitions on a hard disk, with a theoretical maximum partition size of 2TB. However IDEDOS does not support [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logical_Block_Addressing LBA mode] therefore the hard disk capacity is limited to 128GB by the limitations of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cylinder-head-sector CHS addressing].
IDEDOS supports up to 65535 partitions on a hard disk, with a theoretical maximum partition size of 2TB. However IDEDOS does not support [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logical_Block_Addressing LBA mode] therefore the hard disk capacity is limited to 128GB by the limitations of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cylinder-head-sector CHS addressing].