Accredited Standards Committee *	X3, Information Technology

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Doc. No.:	PR/96-015
Reply to:	Lynn Barra at lbarra@itic.nw.dc.us 


X3 Announces the Approval of a New Project for a
Technical Report for Boot Considerations for Devices Greater than 8 Gbytes


Washington D.C., February 1996 -- Accredited Standards Committee X3, 
Information Technology announces approval of this neW project being 
developed within Technical Committee, X3T10, Lower Level Interface.

The traditional personal computer firmware mechanism for accessing files on a 
hard disk has an intrinsic limit of 8 GByte total disk capacity.  SCSI disks are now 
available that exceed 8GByte, and similar ATA drives will be available in the 
near future.  There has been considerable confusion over how to deal with this 
situation.  X3T10  has addressed this question and feels that the industry would 
be well served by a document describing the current limitation and a 
recommended solution.

This project will prepare a technical report on hard disk addressing
mechanisms on PC/AT compatible computers.

The next meeting of X3T10 is March 14, 1996 in San Diego, CA in Hyatt
Islandia.  For hotel information, call (619) 224-1234.

Inquiries regarding this project should be sent to the Chairman of 
X3T10, Mr. John Lohmeyer, Symbios Logic. Inc., 1635 Aeroplaza Dr., 
Colorado Springs, CO  80916  Email:. john.lohmeyer@symbios.com

An initial call for possible patents and other pertinent issues (copyrights, 
trademarks) is now being issued.  Please submit information on these 
issues to the X3 Secretariat at 1250 Eye Street NW, Suite 200, Washington 
DC  20005. Email: x3sec@itic.nw.dc.us   FAX:  (202)638-4922.

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