IDE hard drive capacity barriers

Capacity barriers, in reference to installing IDE hard drives, are nothing new to the PC industry. As higher capacity disk drives emerge in the market, end users have become frustrated when trying to install these higher capacity drives into systems where the BIOS and/or operating systems do not support the full capacity of the hard drive. This paper will describe past, current, and future capacity barriers associated with higher capacity disk drives and describe the solutions being implemented to solve them.