I've recently been dealing with hard drives and noticing the incredible inabilitiy of the industry to adapt to its own growth rate. Instead of PATCHING the BIOS/OS problems associated with ever increasing hard drives, how about FIXING IT once and for all. When the hard drive states its size the BIOS/OS should simply calculate how large it's variables/arrays need to be and use that information. No arbitrary limits what so ever. If the bios encounters a piddly 40gig hard drive, no problem. If it hits a 300 gigabyte hard drive it'll work with that. 40terabyte? NO PROBLEM! Oh, what's this...a quadrillion, quadrillion exabyte hard drive? Hey, if you've got a million years to format, we've got file, block and partition allocation tables to deal with it. The fact that these "barriers" have popped up at least 5 times is inexcusible