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Article #153Re: Using a 4G SCSI disk under DOS ? (how?)
From: Stefan Sautter
Date: Wed, 20 Dec 1995 10:56
Date: Wed, 20 Dec 1995 10:56
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In article <4b5qis$lag@gazette.bcm.tmc.edu>, dan@dna.neusc.bcm.tmc.edu writes: |> I know this must be a FAQ-type question but... |> How does one get a SCSI disk > 2Gb to work under DOS ? |> I have a 4Gb Micropolis hanging of an Ultrastor 24F controller. The |> controller sees the 4Gb fine, But FDISK doesn't. I would like to make 2 * 2Gb |> FAT partitions from this drive. Is it possible ? |> Thanks. |> Cheers, |> Dan Ts'o 713-798-3331 |> You have to enable >1GB on your SCSI contoller. Then you can use fdisk to create 2 2GB partitions. DOS can't handle more than 2GB, but 2 partions are OK. Create a primary partion of 2GB, then an extended partion using the rest. Works fine for me. Stefan
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage,comp.periphs.scsi,comp.os.msdos.misc Message-ID: <4b8tl6$k1e@luxor.mch.sni.de> From: sautter@mch.sni.de (Stefan Sautter) Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!luxor.mch.sni.de!teles!sautter Subject: Re: Using a 4G SCSI disk under DOS ? (how?) Date: Wed, 20 Dec 1995 10:56:22 +0000 Reply-To: sautter@athen.mch.sni.de References: <4b5qis$lag@gazette.bcm.tmc.edu> X-Gateway: ZCONNECT XX ius.gun.de [UNIX/Connect v0.73] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit