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Article #6599Re: IBM PC/XT UPGRADE
From: Ed Nather
Date: Tue, 20 May 1986 17:57
Date: Tue, 20 May 1986 17:57
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In article <692@nicmad.UUCP>, brown@nicmad.UUCP writes:
> Help is in the form of PC-DOS 3.1. If my memory serves me correctly,
> PC-DOS 2.1 will only 'see' 10 MB hard disks.
Not so. We run 20 MB disks under DOS 2.1 with no problems, other than
those caused by the 12-bit FAT pointer which limits the minimum size of a
file to 8K bytes. In this regard (and a few others) DOS 3.1 is better:
a minimum file size of 2K is standard. The DOS version is not your
problem, however. I really don't know what is. I've never seen the
symptom.
--
Ed Nather
Astronomy Dept, U of Texas @ Austin
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nather@astro.AS.UTEXAS.EDU
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!harvard!seismo!ut-sally!nather From: nather@ut-sally.UUCP (Ed Nather) Newsgroups: net.micro.pc Subject: Re: IBM PC/XT UPGRADE Message-ID: <4948@ut-sally.UUCP> Date: Tue, 20-May-86 13:57:59 EDT Article-I.D.: ut-sally.4948 Posted: Tue May 20 13:57:59 1986 Date-Received: Fri, 23-May-86 23:35:57 EDT References: <846@mhuxt.UUCP> <692@nicmad.UUCP> Organization: U. Texas CS Dept., Austin, Texas Lines: 16