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Re: SpeedStor Problem with DTK 386/25

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From: Phil Ngai
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 1990 21:31
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I think your problem is more than DOS 3.3 partition size limits.
The disk you are using has more than 1024 cylinders and DOS (BIOS?)
can only handle 10 cylinder address bits. I thought speedstore
got around this problem somehow but I've never done it.

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From: phil@pepsi.amd.com (Phil Ngai)
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Subject: Re: SpeedStor Problem with DTK 386/25
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