Subj : Re: MS-DOS HDDs and partitions
To   : StormTrooper
From : paulie420
Date : Sat Apr 22 2023 15:23:22

 St> I noticed in a later message you mention putting larger values in the
 St> custom bios settings.  You can put whatever values you want in there,
 St> but the 500Mb BIOS limit still remains. I remember having to use OnTrack
 St> as well.. didn't think to much about it at the time. Times change though.

Yea; I now know that the CFCard is 3909cylinders 16heads 63sectors. I've found the 'best' way for my setup is to put 3909/16/63 in the BIOS - yer right, FDISK will only allow me to format 504MB; but I've found that if I boot with an OnTrack Boot Disk - use IT to FDISK/FORMAT the CFCard, it creates a full 2GB PRI DOS partition and formats to 2GB...

then when I install/boot into MS-DOS, FDISK SAYS 504MB is the max, but it READS the 2GB partition as a PRI DOS - and I can access the entire 2GB. Furthermore, I can put the CFCard in a modern system and see the standard FAT16 partition - for copying data to/from...



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