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Article #6904Re: The Limits of DOS
From: William C. Marsh
Date: Wed, 18 Jun 1986 19:32
Date: Wed, 18 Jun 1986 19:32
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In article <2750@teddy.UUCP> jpn@teddy.UUCP (John P. Nelson) writes:
>> If you don't have
>>one of these, and have a disk over 32meg, you MUST divide it into
>>several partitions, each <= 32meg.
>
>OK, but I want to have all my disk space online AT ONCE. The standard
>PCDOS FDISK allows only one DOS partition, and the IBM BIOS only supports
>one active partition per drive. How do I get more than one partition active
>at once? Is there a public domain device driver I can install to gain access
>to more than one partition?
The Vfeature Deluxe package from Golden Bow Systems allows you to 'break'
the 32 Meg barrier. You can also partition your disk drive into many DOS
volumes, with optional password security for each volume. I have been using
this with my AT using a maxtor 1065 hard disk (55 Mbytes formatted) for many
weeks now and have had no problems. It's great to see chkdsk show 55 Mbytes
available!
Address:
Golden Bow Systems
P.O. Box 3039
San Diego, Calif. 92103
(619) 298-9349
Vfeature Deluxe costs $120
This is the same software described in a recent PC Tech Journal, and it is
used by Emerald, et. al. I have no connection with Golden Bow except as a
very satisfied customer.
--
Bill Marsh, Naval Ocean Systems Center, San Diego, CA
{arpa,mil}net: bmarsh@nosc
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.3 4.3bsd-beta 6/6/85; site noscvax.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!ucbvax!sdcsvax!noscvax!bmarsh From: bmarsh@noscvax.UUCP (William C. Marsh) Newsgroups: net.micro.pc Subject: Re: The Limits of DOS Message-ID: <528@noscvax.UUCP> Date: Wed, 18-Jun-86 15:32:15 EDT Article-I.D.: noscvax.528 Posted: Wed Jun 18 15:32:15 1986 Date-Received: Fri, 20-Jun-86 03:07:12 EDT References: <352@ethz.UUCP> <5487@think.COM> <2750@teddy.UUCP> Reply-To: bmarsh@cod.UUCP (William C. Marsh) Organization: Naval Ocean Systems Center, San Diego Lines: 40