hitachi jumper clip to 32 gigs

I had 2 250 gig Hitachi drives that were showing up in my BIOS and operating system as 33.8 gigabytes. A while back certain operating systems had a 32gig limit on the drive size that would be recognized by the operating system. To support this, drives were shipped with jumpers to allow them to be "clipped" at 32 gigs.

Looking at this objectively, it seems like a really silly thing to do. Why spend the extra money to buy a drive that you are going to clip back to 32 gigs. Also, I don't recall EVER having an operating system that couldn't support more than 32 gigs. The fact that it wasn't an issue back in 1999 when I purchased my first >32 gig drive (40 to be exact), I don't see why 9 years later drives are still being shipped with this fairly terrible hack. This is mostly justifying my lack of attention to the different jumper settings on the drive. It just seems pretty amazing that after working with computers heavily since 1994, this is the first time I've ever run across this problem.