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In article <1991May15.072231.11848@lynx.CS.ORST.EDU> larsen@CAS.ORST.EDU (Scott Larsen) writes:
>I have an XT that I have a 40 meg hard disk in.  I am currently running
>ONTRACK'S Disk Manager to partition it off.  THis is under MS-DOS 3.2
>
>However, under 4.01 (The OS I would LIKE to use) disk manager causes
>the machine to crash.
>
>How can I use disk manager under 4.01 or use something else to get
>my machine to recognize a 40 meg hard disk?
>
>Thanks!
>
>Scott Larsen
>larsen@darkstar.cas.orst.edu             UUCP: hplabs!hp-pcd!orstcs!larsen
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>"If at first you don't succeed, you are running about average."
>		- M.H. Alderson

If you haven't already heard, DOS 4.01 *does* handle >32meg hard disks...
you just need to use their utility program "share" (or the PD "noshare") 
as a TSR (I think) when you boot the system. I have a similar setup...an
IBM-XT (yup...a true blue...:-) with two 65meg hard disks running DOS 4.01.
I've been using this setup for almost a year now with no problems...
Try to avoid using a disk manager to access > 32meg drives...basically what
I did was low level format both drives using the low level formatter provided
with the controller, and then used PC-DOS's FDISK to partition the disks
(all 65 megs in one partition). After that I did a normal format of the disk
and have been running ever since (this is the standard method given in the 
DOS manual for installing a new disk...)


John


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