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to: LANCE LYON
from: BEN RITCHEY
date: 2004-04-12 22:48:42
subject: Re: DOS on large hard drives

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

 BR>> AFAIK, DOS 6.22 can only "see" the first 8.2GB of any drive, so
 LL: > I managed to get around the problem by using an older copy of
 LL: > Seagate's Disc Wizard & the machine now happily has 10 2gb
 LL: > partitions C: - L: so the problem is solved, thanks for the

Very interesting. Did you install the DDO overlay? Can you post your partition
table so I can see your layout?

Obviously something else is blocking my extra drives from DOS, possibly the
fact that they are not contiguous ...

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