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to: LANCE LYON
from: BEN RITCHEY
date: 2004-04-23 23:22:48
subject: Re: DOS on large hard drives

* An ongoing debate between Lance Lyon and Ben Ritchey rages on ...

 BR: >> Very interesting. Did you install the DDO overlay? Can you post
 BR: >> your partition table so I can see your layout?
 BR: >> Obviously something else is blocking my extra drives from DOS,
 BR: >> possibly the fact that they are not contiguous ...
 LL: > Will do - I'll retreive the info off the drive tonite when I get
 LL: > home from work & post it.

That would help, and if you need a PartInfo utility, just holler. :-)

I tried again with a new drive, first creating a 1 GB, C: Primary partition and
everything else in an extended partition with 7 logical 2 GB FAT-16 drives, but
no joy. :(

The second time I created one big extended partition with all logicals, but DOS
6.22 still won't see anything past around 8.2 GB .

At least I got three more/new 2 GB drives for native DOS (from 6 to 9!) by
adding an additional/third physical drive . Strange.

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