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to: JACK STEIN
from: MIKE FRITZ
date: 1998-05-13 18:19:00
subject: 6.4 gig EIDE

JS> JS> I don't think size has anything to do with it.  You can't boot
JS> JS> past 1024, or 1023 cylinders, whatever size that happens to
JS> JS> represent on your system.  I guess it represents 2 gigs on yours? 
JS> JS> It represents 504 megs on mine, which is absolutely no problem for
JS> JS> me, I have 3 OS's in there, how many do you need? My only gripe is
JS> JS> that DOS crap must be in a primary partition, and that is a sick
JS> JS> limitation as far as I'm concerened.
JS> 
JS>  MF> I know size has nothing to do with it.  But I know DOS fat16
JS>  MF> is limited to 2 gigs.  
JS> 
JS> But DOS, any version, including DOS/WIN95 and NT cannot boot bast
JS> 1024 cylinders either, and OS/2 is not limited at all as far as size
JS> goes, up to I reckon 12 gigs, and that is not an OS/2 limit, just a
JS> driver limit.
I was just saying that DOS FAT16 is limited to 2 gigs.  No real big
deal to me, unless I have OS/2 after that 2 gigs, then it won't boot. 
(Don't know why.)
JS> MF> But then OS/2 can't boot.  
JS> 
JS> What do you mean OS/2 can't boot?  It can boot any where DOS can
JS> boot, plus it can boot from a non-primary partition.
OS/2 is on an extended logical partition.  But it will not boot if it
is located over the 1 - 2 gig mark.  OS/2?  BIOS?  I don't know.  It's
not that big a deal, I'll just keep my DOS partition 1 gig, and my OS/2
partition 5 gig.  Works for me!  ;) 		Mike Fritz
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