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to: Colin Wheat
from: Poe Lim
date: 1997-02-28 00:39:20
subject: SCSI boot partition beyond 1Gb with Boot Manager

Hello Colin,

On Feb 26 01:07 in a msg to Poe Lim, Colin Wheat of 3:690/613 wrote:

 CW> We have found recently that while greater than 2GB partitions
 CW> appear fine in technical operation, some applications have problems
 CW> with them, regarding their space available checking. We noted some
 CW> DOS, WIN, 95, and OS/2 apps report no space available (on a bare
 CW> ~2.5GB partition) during initial installation runs; that machine
 CW> was later repartitioned using only <=2GB sized partitions. 

So I noticed; one way around that is when the partition free-space drops
below 2Gb; then the programs are happy.

Cheers,
Poe

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