Thanks Eli,
Joy, more reading! LOL!
OK, I'll try the 4-digit year. Yes, I though DOS622 did support up to 2gb
but I have not
seen it yet so far in fdisk. This is an original set of DOS622 disks I
have had for years....
Yes, I'll accept a bios issue, but I'm at the wall now. The current "CR"
bios for this old
440BX m/b is last available, and, it seems ABIT has washed their site of
any/all legacy
m/b's (or I just do not remember how to drill into the site!)
A software fix? Hmm. Most interesting.
Best of the Season,
Duncan
At 12:32 12/24/2007 -0500, Eli wrote:
http://y2k.berkeley.edu/computers/fixpcs/checklists/pc/dos/
So looks like you should be able to type in a 4 digit year
And going by:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/69912
Should support 2gb in DOS 6.22
This makes it seem like a bios issue:
http://www.hardwaresecrets.com/article/482/6
this implies there is a software fix: (search for 504)
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/255867
http://www.xs4all.nl/~gklein/bc.html#Q1-1-4
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of DHSinclair
Sent: Monday, December 24, 2007 12:19 PM
To: Hardware Group
Subject: [H] FDISK and HD Size
Does MS-Dos 6.22 and its' fdisk.exe have a size limitation of 504Mbytes max?
Or is this my old bios sending bad hd geometry.......?
I'm trying to clean up an IBM dpea-31080 (really old) to try and load
FreeNAS.
At least fdisk did show me 3 non-dos partitions on the drive. They are now
gone
per fdisk. Now fdisk tells me the max size of the hd is 504Mbytes. It
really should
be 1034Mbytes. This is not a shocker; just wondering?
BTW, the only way I could be MS-DOS 6.22 to boot up was to lie to it and
say the
date was 12-24-1997! LOL! It would not accept "07" for yy.
And, I'm still working with a suspect eide cable.......... :)
Best,
Duncan
