app requires C: less than 1.9GB?

Tue Mar 18 20:14:49 PST 2003

On Tue, 18 Mar 2003 22:45:19 -0500 
N Thomas <nthomas at cise.ufl.edu> wrote:

> Someone just asked us puzzling question. They have a medical
> application that runs on Windows (don't know which version), and
> requires that the size of the C: drive it is installed on to be less
> than 1.9GB.

Some licensing approaches attempt to write to the raw drive.  Usually
this is done either by finding a bad sector on the drive within the
first N, or by falsely marking a good sector bad within the same space.
If, somewhere in there they are being incredibly stupid and are opening
the drive as a raw device and etc...to do the same stupid trick, a <2Gig
limit would make sense.

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