On Mon, 8 Jul 2002, John J. Boyer wrote: > A few days ago it was stated on this list that dosemu cannot access more > than 2 GB. My Windows 98 partition is 13 GB. If I try to access a file > beyond 2 GB will the access simply fail or will the hard disk be > corrupted? Suppose a file starts under 2 GB but extends higher. What > happens?
In general this is no problem if you use lredir (or specify a directory through $_hdimage, or use dosemu -home, which gives you the same thing), since the hard disk is abstracted away through Linux. The only thing that looks strange is the reported _free space_ which DIR reports incorrectly as long as you have more than 2GB free. Also files larger than 2GB pose problems. But DOSEMU does not care where the file physically is. Now if you use direct partition access ($_hdimage="/dev/hda1") then things are a little different. DOSEMU implements the BIOS extensions to get beyond 8GB, so then it depends on the DOS that runs in DOSEMU. But then in general you should not use direct partition access. 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
