Some senseless babbling from Stewart Honsberger to Mike Ruskai
on 11-28-99  12:26 about fdisk /query...

 SH> 17 Nov 99 04:24, MIKE RUSKAI wrote to JONATHAN DE BOYNE POLLARD:
 
 MR> What I find most silly in the above is that drive 2 is entirely 
 MR> invisible to DOS, because all of the partitions are beyond 1024 
 MR> cylinders.

 SH> Unbootable, not invisible :>

We're talking about DOS here, not OS/2.

DOS uses the BIOS for all disk access.

So, either the entire drive is inaccessible to DOS, or her BIOS is using
the type of block access Jonathan mentioned previously.

Mike Ruskai
thannymeister@yahoo.com


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