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- From: madmac@ils.nwu.edu (Douglas M. MacFarlane)
- Subject: Re: More than 1024 cyls in Dos 5??
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- Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1992 23:10:27 GMT
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- In article <rob.723450242@hp11>, rob@hp11.aws.waii.com (Rob Freyder) wrote:
- > Perhaps OS/2 allows non-bootable partitions to lie above 1024 cyls.
- >
- > As long as they dont use the bios for disk I/O that would be reasonable.
-
- Actually, since all the I/O is handled by OS/2 internally, there is no
- reason why partitions (both bootable and non-bootable) can't lie above,
- below, or accross 1024 cylinders. I'm speaking of SCSI drives, ofcourse,
- and not IDE or ESDI drives. The 2gb drives I have were formatted into 1
- large, 1745mb partition over approx. 1645 cylinders.
-
- Douglas M. MacFarlane
- madmac@ils.nwu.edu
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