Салям!
10-Июл-2005 14:30 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Blair Campbell) wrote to FreeDOS Devel
<Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>:
BC> I would like to see if possible support in the kernel to see
BC> partitions that are bigger than the BIOS allows.
Wrong way. DOS is portable accross many different disks types only
because it uses BIOS to access them.
Though, you may use external BIOS replacement drivers like EzDrive.
BC> In my case, I have a
BC> 386 and its kernel only allows for hard drives up to 201 MB, and I
Old limit was 504 Mb, not 210.
BC> have a 700MB drive in it (The smallest drive I have available.) I am
BC> able to partition it using a linux boot disk to get all 700 MB out of
BC> it, and both DR-DOS and MS-DOS will recognize the drive, but the
All DOSes use only BIOS when accessing disks, so, all what you may see
under those DOSes is only first 504 Mb. The more so: if you split disk (on
other platform) with partitition larger than 512 Mb (with non-translated
access, before 1024 ccylinder), then access this disk on your old 386 is
unsafe (because data will be written into wrong places).
BC> FreeDOS kernel just gives an error and continues, ignoring the
BC> partition.
Right way.
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