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Article #6640Re: IBM PC/XT UPGRADE
From: Ed Nather
Date: Sat, 24 May 1986 19:12
Date: Sat, 24 May 1986 19:12
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In article <704@nicmad.UUCP>, brown@nicmad.UUCP writes:
> The only way you can have PC-DOS 2.10 run 20MB hard drives is if:
> 1. You run partitioned drives with two 10MB partitions or
> 2. You butchered the drive to fool DOS
> As PC-DOS 2.10 stands, it is not able to format 20MB hard drives as 20MB.
Sorry, but the computer I'm using to answer this note has a 20MB Seagate
disk with a single PC-DOS partition 20 MB in size. It was formatted by and
is running PC-DOS 2.1. I'm glad I didn't know better, or I might never
have tried to use it this way. I did no butchery of any kind on the drive.
The only ugly side effect is that the minimum file size is 8 KB instead of
the 4 KB on a 10 MB disk.
Has anyone else done it this way?
--
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!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!gatech!seismo!ut-sally!nather From: nather@ut-sally.UUCP (Ed Nather) Newsgroups: net.micro.pc Subject: Re: IBM PC/XT UPGRADE Message-ID: <4992@ut-sally.UUCP> Date: Sat, 24-May-86 15:12:05 EDT Article-I.D.: ut-sally.4992 Posted: Sat May 24 15:12:05 1986 Date-Received: Sun, 25-May-86 16:03:07 EDT References: <846@mhuxt.UUCP> <692@nicmad.UUCP> <4948@ut-sally.UUCP> <704@nicmad.UUCP> Organization: U. Texas CS Dept., Austin, Texas Lines: 20