On Fri, 5 Jul 2002, Reinhard Karcher wrote: > > Aren't there BIOS Calls to support big disks? > >
Yes, and they are in DOSEMU too, but ... > You can't use BIOS Calls to MFS-Directories. You can't give the whole > partition to DOS without dismountig it from linux. You can't do > concurrent access from linux and dosemu BIOS Calls to the same partition > without data corruption. indeed. But we don't know what the original poster did exactly. > Perhaps the MFS Redirector can access more than 2G? > Even if it can, many DOS Programs can't cope with more than 2G data on > one partitionen. That's true. The maximum that the MFS (int2f/110c) reports is now: 32 sectors/cluster 1024 bytes/sector 65535 total clusters 65535 free clusters so 2G max. A similar limit exists for int21/ah=36, and although you can stretch that many DOS programs would be confused if you would do that. The only way to get around that problem is to find a way to communicate between the MFS and int21/ax=7303. That is certainly possible for FreeDOS, but I'm not sure about Win98 DOS. Only a few DOS programs know about that function. Bart - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-msdos" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
