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from: Gary Welles
date: 2005-06-29 09:25:32
subject: Re: SCSI drives (was: Fun with USB)

From: Gary Welles 

Joe da Silva wrote:

> Firstly, you need SCSI drivers or BIOS that provide
> an Extended Int 13h API.

This may not be the case.  The machine was once described as
having an "NT BIOS".  However it's setup disks are for NT
3.5x, DOS/Win3.1, OS/2 v2.x or Warp, Netware v3.12/v4.x,
UnixWare 2.x, SCO UNIX 3.2/4.2 or OpenServer 3.0.

Which could explain my inability to break the 8Gb limit with
FDISK R2.31 and DR-DOS 8.0 or a WinMe DOS and FDISK.

Perhaps of interest a SCSI BIOS default is:

  Extended BIOS Translation for DOS Drives > 1 GByte

and FDISK R2.31 offers:

  /CHS or /LBA  Force MBR to use either CHS or LBA INT 13 Extensions.

In any event DOS partitions greater than 2Gb are of limited
use, and now with Joe's "Firstly" information I expect I'll
skip ROM-DOS and try SCO OpenServer.

-- Gary Welles



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