At 09:42 AM 5/28/1999 -0500, you wrote:
>Unless someone else has some experience with actually doing that, I'm afraid
>that's just not the case. The original BIOS interfaces, which DOS uses,
>have a limit of ~540MB. Newer BIOSes have an alternate set of interfaces
>with a much higher limit. These interfaces use cylinder, head, and sector
>numbers, and don't have anything to do with partitions. DOS itself manages
>the partitions and filesystems and turns them into cylinder, head, and
>sector references. Unless I'm mistaken, the BIOS doesn't have anything to
>do with normal partitions, except during the initial boot.
>
>Thus, if you have a BIOS with a 540MB limit, DOS is also limited to that
>540MB. It won't be able to see anything over that (past the 1024th
>cylinder), not even another partition. (Actually, it will be able to see
>the partition table entry, which describes the partition, but won't be able
>to access any data within the partition).
>
>Linux is exempt from this limit (except at boot time), because it provides
>its own routines for working with the disk drives, and doesn't use the BIOS
>interfaces.
>
>Windows 95/98 also provides some 32 bit disk access routines, which (I
>think) don't use the BIOS interfaces, so it may also be able to access data
>past the 540MB boundary if those 32 bit routines are enabled. The limit
>then is based on the filesystem you choose. The FAT16 filesystem, used by
>DOS, Win 3.1, and the first release of Win 95, has a 2GB limit.
>
>Russell
Looks like I'm going to have to try it and see.
I'll be sure and let you know when I do.
I'm dual booting linux 6.0 and win98 so there is a chance I can have more
than 540 Megs for win98.
I've also considered a backpack hard drive if possible, although the
equipment is supposed to be a cdrom drive so slipping in the HD might not
fly there either.
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