19 Nov
2007
19 Nov
'07
11:09 p.m.
On 19 Nov 2007 at 15:47, woodelf wrote:
I remember seeing it, but not having the time or inclination to check
it out.
Lots of vendors were increasing the block size in MS-DOS to support
large partitions around the same time. The problem was that it broke
a lot of things (many utilities expected 512 byte sectors and got
very upset (i.e. crashed) if things were otherwise) and was hideously
inefficient for small files. An approach that some used was to
employ the DOS network redirector and implement a private filesystem
on the large drive and map it as a network drive, which seems to work
a bit better.
Cheers,
Chuck
Did anybody
ever use their OS? (bundled with some of their 5.25" floppy
drives)
Never heard of that. I just can't remember what drives I seen used
around 1990
but I do know the hacked into to DOS to give you very large drives for the time.
I think 8K sectors rather than 512 sectors under standard DOS.