External USB Hard Drive - Addressing limit?

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Does the built-in electronics in an external USB hard drive take
care of addressing so that partition size limit imposed by the BIOS
(e.g., "137gB") doesn't matter?

I bought an enclosure, am shopping for a drive to build an external
HDD to use for backup of several machines ... including two born
ten years ago. I tried my other USB drive (80gB, one partition)
on one old-timer (AOpen P200 vintage 1996). It saw the whole drive
with no problem. Is that typical or should I plan on partitioning
to suit the machine with the lowest BIOS limit?

Roby
 
Roby said:
Does the built-in electronics in an external USB hard drive take
care of addressing so that partition size limit imposed by the BIOS
(e.g., "137gB") doesn't matter?
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The BIOS limit shouldn't apply, but the OS may still have that same
137GB limit anyway.
 
Roby said:
Does the built-in electronics in an external USB hard drive take
care of addressing so that partition size limit imposed by the BIOS
(e.g., "137gB") doesn't matter?

I bought an enclosure, am shopping for a drive to build an external
HDD to use for backup of several machines ... including two born
ten years ago. I tried my other USB drive (80gB, one partition)
on one old-timer (AOpen P200 vintage 1996). It saw the whole drive
with no problem. Is that typical or should I plan on partitioning
to suit the machine with the lowest BIOS limit?

Roby
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That's typical.
 
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