Re: Make DRDOS report Version >3.3

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From: John Villalovos
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 07:17

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In article <6971@taurus.cs.nps.navy.mil> rovero@guam.oc.nps.navy.mil (Josh Rovero) writes:
>Is there some way to make DRDOS 6 report that it is a dos version
>greater than 3.3?  I know MS-DOS has setver.exe, but it doesn't appear
>to work with DRDOS.

DR-DOS reports itself as ver 3.31 like Compaq DOS 3.31
>SCSI EXPRESS is too "smart" -- it detects DRDOS as version 3.3, and so
>assumes it cannot address more than 32M in a partition.  With a dos version
>greater than 4.00 this wouldn't be a problem (and is in fact not a problem
>with DRDOS).

Personally I would say that SCSI EXPRESS sounds like it isn't smart enough
since DOS versions 3.31 and greater support over 32MB per partition.  I don't
know if the manufacturer is willing to correct that but you might try.  Maybe
lie and say that you have Compaq DOS 3.31 if they don't want to support DRDOS.

Later,
-- 
John Villalovos
Certified Netware Engineer
villalj@xanth.cs.orst.edu
(503) 753-7883

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