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* In a messge originally to LANCE LYON, BEN RITCHEY said: BR> AFAIK, DOS 6.22 can only "see" the first 8.2GB of any drive, so all of the BR> logical partitions will certainly have to at least start within (and probably BR> be contained completely within) this limitation. I still use native MS- DOS 6.22 BR> daily, but have never been able to get DOS to go past that 8.2G barrier. :( BR> BR> The only other way would be to boot the DOS 6.22 C: Drive as a virtual BR> "machine" using DOSEmu (under Linux) which *MAY* allow you to attach the BR> remaining logical drives, though I've never actually done this (I've booted BR> my MS-DOS 6.22 C: drive using DOSEmu but not tried to access other drives past BR> 8.2G using same). I managed to get around the problem by using an older copy of Seagate's Disc Wizard & the machine now happily has 10 2gb partitions C: - L: so the problem is solved, thanks for the suggestions though. So it *is* possible for DOS to see a drive larger than 8.4gb, it just needs a little help :-) Obviously, you could probably only go as far as about 40gb using native DOS, after that, you run outta drive letters :-( But, 20 is all I need - at least at the moment! cheers, Lance ---* Origin: Landover Amiga BBS - http://commodore.thebbs.org (3:712/313) SEEN-BY: 633/267 270 @PATH: 712/313 848 379/1 396/45 106/2000 633/267 |
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