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In article <4992@ut-sally.UUCP> nather@ut-sally.UUCP (Ed Nather) writes:
>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.
>

Ed Nather describes his counter-example as follows:
(1) single PC-DOS partition 20 MB in size.  
(2) formatted by and running PC-DOS 2.1. 
(3) 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.

and asks, "Has anyone else done it this way?"

Yep.  Works fine.  I use MS-DOS 2.11, Microscience 20 MB harddisk.  No 
problems.

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