Subj : 4DOS
To   : Jasen Betts
From : Peter May
Date : Thu Sep 16 2004 07:06 pm

Jasen Betts wrote in a message to Peter May:

Thanks for your reply Jasen.

 PM> Hey Jasen,
 PM> How would he get DOS to see a 4.3 gig HD?

 JB> first the bios needs to see the hard drive.

Thats no worries. But then PC-DOS does funny things.

 PM> I'm having problems with IBM PC-DOS 7:00 seeing large drives,
 PM> anything over 850 meg and they wont boot properly when I clone my
 PM> existing BBS drive over to them. Even if I use a newer Valuepoint
 PM> with better BIOS and drivetable.


 JB> Have you tried installing dos rather than trying to "clone" it? 

Yep, and then laplinked over the BBS files.
Initially it worked and seemed stable, but locked up on boot after 450 meg of 
BBS files were loaded on.

 PM>  I heard somewhere the Caldera Open DOS or DR-DOS 7:03 will see
 PM> larger drives and will allow long filenames etc.

 JB> I have opendos here, it works.

I've just installed Caldera Open Dos (now called DR-DOS) on the new box, it's 
brilliant and actually seems to work.
I might have some probs yet with SCSI divers etc, will find out this weekend.


Regards,
Peter
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