Help with >1024 cylinders

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From: Kenneth S. Lee
Date: Wed, 20 Feb 1991 08:24

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I have Rodime RO5090 MFM drive which have 1224 cylinders.  In order to get the full 75 MB as specified, I must use the driver supplied with the disk drive since DOS does not support >1024 cylinders.  If I use the driver, I cannot have a partician >32 megabytes.  I want to know if there is a way to get around this problem and have 1 big partician (using DOS 4.01).  Thanks for any response.


Please respond to kslee@athena.mit.edu


Thanks.

Ken

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