dmerrill@hpspcoi.HP.COM (David Merrill) (02/08/90)
>/ hpspcoi:comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d / kjh@pollux.usc.edu (Kenneth J. Hendrickson N8DGN) / 4:21 am Jan 30, 1990 / >I have heard that MS-DOS (yech!) can only handle fixed disks of 32 MB >and smaller. I assume that Xenix has no such limit. My question is >this: > >What do MS-DOS users do when they want to use a disk larger than 32 MB? >Do they partition the physical disk into many logical disks of 32MB or >smaller? Do they use a seperate device driver that uses memory? >[Perhaps do they abandon MS-DOS in favour of Xenix? :-)] > >What do people do when they want to use a large disk for both MS-DOS and >Xenix? Do they use the MS-DOS fdisk program to set up the partitions? >Does Xenix come with a similar program? Does the Xenix version of this >program have the ability to set up partitions on MS-DOS disks? > >Is there any way in MS-DOS to get around the 32 MB limit? MS-DOS 3.x and lower have this limit. Users DO have to set up logical drives to use the full capacity of their hard drive. This has been "fixed" in DOS 4.x. The capacity limit under DOS 4.x is something in the gigabytes. I understand that you CAN set up partitions for both Xenix and MS-DOS on your hard drive. I'm not quite sure about the details. It has something to do with vp/ix (from Xenix). I don't know how you would boot the Xenix partition if DOS was your primary partition. As far as fdisk is concerned, I would set up DOS partitions from DOS's fdisk and Xenix's partition from Xenix's fdisk. Don't take all this as gospel. I'm not too sure about all of it. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Paradise is exactly like |The ideas expressed herein are completely fictitious. where you are right now |Any similarity to any actual opininion, living only much, much BETTER |or dead, is entirely coincidental. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- dave merrill dmerrill@hpspcoi.HP.COM -------------------------------------------------------------------------------