On 6/27/2006 at 7:39 PM Teo Zenios wrote:
I was wondering if there were any drivers or utils
available that would
allow a DOS or Win3.1 machine to have drive partitions over 2GB? I know
old IDE controller had hardware limitations to the drive size they can
read (BIOS issues also) but would there be a problem with raiding SCSI
drives on say an old Adaptec card to give you 20GB of space that DOS could
read and write to (non booting)? I am not worried about DOS being modified
so that the individual file size can be extended, just the available
partition size so I don't have a dozen 2GB partitions.
Why not use the FAT32 feature that comes with DOS 7 under Win95. You don't
have to install Windows, just use the underlying DOS. I usually add a long
filename DOS driver to the combination and it works just fine.
Also have a look at FreeDOS--I think it supports FAT32.
Cheers,
Chuck