9 Aug
2010
9 Aug
'10
11:13 p.m.
On 8/10/10 2:09 AM, Fred Cisin wrote:
Yes, the 44MB disks were all partitioned as ~32MB and ~10-11MB and
showed up as two drives.
(this was with
a 44MB drive) The OS in use was DOS, probably v3.3.
PC-DOS 3.30 and MS-DOS 3.30 couldn't believe that a drive could be over
32M. But, they could be tricked into thinking the drive was a network
device, instead of a drive with MSCDEX or equivalent (from DOS 3.10 on,
with mostly undocumented "network defirector").
MS-DOS 3.31 and PC-DOS 4.00 could comptrehend drives larger than 32M. IIRC, Iomega had some squirelly software to use on
older DOS.
I seem to recall having heard about that, but I don't think we ever
used it.
-Dave
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Dave McGuire
Port Charlotte, FL