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to: Ben Ritchey
from: Lance Lyon
date: 2004-04-11 09:35:00
subject: Re: DOS on large hard drives

* 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
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