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Article #3598Re: IDE/dmdrvr.bin/bios
From: Mark Lord
Date: Mon, 01 Oct 1990 17:32
Date: Mon, 01 Oct 1990 17:32
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In article <6470006@hpspkla.spk.hp.com> bollard@hpspkla.spk.hp.com (Lee M. Bollard) writes: > >Can someone clarify: If my bios supports IDE, then I won't have to use >DMDRVR.BIN to make things work, and necessitate putting the line in >WIN.INI that slows things down (VirtualHDIrq=off) Is this true. I don't >want things to slow down in Windows! Maybe. DMDRVR.BIN can be used for many purposes: 1) to ease use of > 17 sectors/track with bios. 2) to ease use of > 1024 cylinders with DOS/BIOS. 3) to support multiple partitions under DOSes prior to 3.3. 4) to support BIG partitions under DOSes prior to 3.31/4.xx. -- ___Mark S. Lord__________________________________________ | ..uunet!bnrgate!mlord%bmerh724 | Climb Free Or Die (NH) | | MLORD@BNR.CA Ottawa, Ontario | Personal views only. | |________________________________|________________________|
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!cunews!bnrgate!bwdls58!mlord From: mlord@bwdls58.bnr.ca (Mark Lord) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc Subject: Re: IDE/dmdrvr.bin/bios Message-ID: <4464@bwdls58.UUCP> Date: 1 Oct 90 17:32:52 GMT References: <6470006@hpspkla.spk.hp.com> Sender: mlord@bwdls58.UUCP Reply-To: mlord@bwdls58.bnr.ca (Mark Lord) Organization: Bell-Northern Research, Ottawa, Canada Lines: 19