Hi
30 Sep 2001, "Samuel W. Heywood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> SH> MS-DOS 7.00 instead of a good version of DOS.
>> Why is DOS 7 not a good version ??
SH> DR-DOS comes provided with much better utilities than WIN95 DOS 7.0.
IMHO you can use dr-dos utilities under ms-dos
SH> Also I can always preserve a little more conventional memory with
SH> DR-DOS 7.02 than I can with WIN95 DOS 7.0.
622 KB is enough for me :))
SH> I think the DOS drivers read the DOS version number.
but this is a deficiency of the driver, not DOS.
PS: Try setver
SH> I think the reason why they won't work for me under WIN95 DOS 7.0 is
SH> that they aren't right for that DOS version.
They _ARE_ right ... but they simply have an instruction like this in them:
if (dos_major >6) {
cry for mommy
die
}
this is sad, but setver helps
SH> For that reason I want to run my machine in real DOS mode under
SH> DR-DOS.
ms-dos 7 is just as real as dr-dos :))
(as long as you typed f8 -> boot to dos, or have boorgui=0 in your
msdos.sys)
>> SH> Various DOS versions also have different limitations as to the
>> SH> maximum size hard drive partition it can recognize.
>> ??? really ???
SH> Yes, really. DOS 3.30 will not recognize hard drive partitions
SH> larger than 32MB.
yepp ... sorry ...
I thought that you meant that recent versions from different vendors have
different max sizes. (eg PC DOS other than drdos)
SH> Other versions (DOS 5.0, I think) will recognize partitions only up
SH> to 512MB. There exist some special "BIOS overlay programs" that you
SH> can install to the master boot record to overcome this problem. The
SH> BIOS overlay programs are offered by hard drive manufacturers and
SH> they are specific for certain brands and models of hard drives.
thos programs fix a BIOS problem in many older bioses.
>> IMHO not ... the max size for a fat16 partition is 2 GB.
SH> I think you can use larger partitions than 2GB if you install a
SH> suitable BIOS overlay program.
no.
max partition size of fat16 is 2 GB.
(65535 clusters a 32 KB)
SH> I think I will have to use some version of DOS other than WIN95
SH> DOS 7.0. There is a bug in this WIN version of DOS if it can't use
SH> DOS drivers that will work with other DOS versions.
the bug is in the driver
SH> Regards,
SH> Sam Heywood
CU, Ricsi
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