greggt@VAX1.CC.UAKRON.EDU (Gregg Thompson) (01/14/89)
Why does TANDY's MS-DOS 3.2 format the hard disk with 8k cluster size? Can I change this?? (2k preferable on a fully packed 20meg hard disk). Any suggestions??? My father purchased MS-DOS 2.11 and registered it and all that stuff and we have yet to receive ANY information what-so-ever from TANDY as to new updates or even newer releases of TANDY MS-DOS. We have Tandy 1000s. Infact what is the latest version of TANDY MS-DOS available for Tandy 1000s? THANKS! GRegg Thompson 426 JAnes LAne MAcedonia, OH 44056-1820 216-650-6330 -- To live is to die, to die is to live forever; GRegg Thompson Where will you spend eternity? greggt@vax1.cc.uakron.edu
andyross@igloo.UUCP (Andrew Rossmann) (01/15/89)
In article <72@VAX1.CC.UAKRON.EDU> greggt@VAX1.CC.UAKRON.EDU (Gregg Thompson) writes: > Why does TANDY's MS-DOS 3.2 format the hard disk with 8k cluster size? >Can I change this?? (2k preferable on a fully packed 20meg hard disk). Any >suggestions??? > My father purchased MS-DOS 2.11 and registered it and all that stuff >and we have yet to receive ANY information what-so-ever from TANDY as to >new updates or even newer releases of TANDY MS-DOS. We have Tandy 1000s. >Infact what is the latest version of TANDY MS-DOS available for Tandy 1000s? > THANKS! >GRegg Thompson If you upgraded from MS-DOS 2.11 to 3.2, did you re-format the disk?? You MUST do that in order for 3.2 to reduce down to 2K clusters. Also, are you partitioning the disk? MS-DOS 3.2 will use 4K clusters if a logical disk size is <12M. I am using Tandy's MS-DOS 3.2 on my 1000SX and a Seagate ST-251 drive. It is formatted as 2 20M partitions and 1 2M partition. The 20M partitions have 2K clusters, and the 2M partition has 4K clusters. I use the 2M partition for temporary files and other little miscellaneious stuff where it is nice to be able to do a simple DEL *.* when I'm done. andyross@igloo.UUCP, andyross@ddsw1.MCS.COM