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Article #8335Re: DOS 4.01: need partition s'ware?
From: Phil Ngai
Date: Fri, 08 Dec 1989 19:07
Date: Fri, 08 Dec 1989 19:07
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In article <111700175@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu> lmhg0369@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu writes:
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|I have an original-AT circa clone with a 40M hard drive. Currently I
|am using partitioning software (Disk Manager) to be able to use >32M.
|Now, if I get DOS 4.01, will I be able to run the hard drive without
|the partitioning s'ware?
DOS4 does handle partitions larger than 32 M.
|Of course, the parms for my drive aren't in the BIOS tables.
This is not something that DOS4 addresses. A newer controller might
help, but that's kind of an expensive fix.
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Phil Ngai, phil@diablo.amd.com {uunet,decwrl,ucbvax}!amdcad!phil
AT&T Unix System V.4: Berkeley Unix for 386 PCs!
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