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from: Gary Welles
date: 2004-09-01 11:30:02
subject: Disk Size Limits

From: Gary Welles 

I need some suggestions on what to do with an additional 5-7
large harddisks I just finished attaching to my DR-DOS 7.03
machine.  It's over the top, but I want to sort out the DOS
possiblilties before adding a Unix.

The 4-6 18.2 Gb drives on the Dell PowerEdge 100 with 8UWS
Backplane are have seeming unusable SFS format and I've
repartitioned two using FDISK /X.

BTW: I'd appreciate knowing where any technical data on this
sold by Dell disk system can be found.

So far I've learned that I'm limited to 8Gb per harddisk and
DOS primary partitions are limited to 2Gb.  While FDISK R2.13
will allow creation of up to 4Gb (4094.6Mb) logical drives in
the extended partions, file functions crash trying to access
them.

I haven't checked yet, but I'm guessing the working logical
drive limit is 2Gb, which seems to be the limit for FDISK
R1.76.

-- Gary Welles



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