> I have Promise's DriveMax card installed on the machine which modifies the
BIOS to recognize HDs up to 128 GB.
> Using Partition Magic (DOS), all 30 GB are visible.
> Creating an extended DOS partition on the 30 GB HD, all 30 GB are available.
> Creating logical (FAT16) drives in the extended DOS partition on the 30 GB
HD, Partition Magic showed a default size of 2.1 GB and I didn't see any
reason to change it (experimenting). I made three logical drives of 2.1 GB
each without any problem and all three are accessible via DOS.
> Configuration information: Gateway P5-75 computer with the first HD (Drive
0) being an 840 MB HD partitioned as follows:
> C: Primary DOS partition
Extended DOS partition containing logical drives D: thru K:
> The second HD (Drive 1) is a 30 GB HD with an extended DOS partition
containing logical drives L: thru N:
> CD-ROM drive is drive O: (Oh, not Zero)
> Ram Disk is drive P:
> I have no problem copying files from hard drive 0 to hard drive 1. Although
I have not formatted M: and N:, I can even copy files from any
drive\directory on hard drive 0: to drive M: or N:.
> Roger Turk
Tucson, Arizona USA
Can you read files on the non-formatted M: and N:, or can you copy files from
those non-formatted drives? So it looks like you have only 6 or 6.3 GB in use.
Could DOS, aside from Partition Magic, access beyond 8 GB or 8.4 GB (1024
virtual cylinders)? Maybe I could try to make such a logical partition on my
new computer, using Linux cfdisk and mkdosfs, and see if DR-DOS 7.03 recognizes
it?
Since Bluegrass Net switched their domain IP address range, Internet access, at
least from DOS, has become more complicated. No problem where I know and use IP
address in place of host name, but there is a consistent 30-second delay
accessing hosts by name from 16-bit applications, including Arachne, and DPMI
applications can't find the host at all by name. DOSLYNX, that dinosaur version
with pulldown menus that doesn't even look like Unix-native Lynx, remembers the
IP address, so there is no delay following internal links in a web page, but
Arachne usually doesn't remember, so there is a 30-second delay nearly every
time, even within the same web site. Anybody else have such a problem? I don't
know whether the bug is with LSPPP, with Bluegrass Net, or something else in DOS
TCP/IP. LSPPP is the only program that connects to the Internet, as opposed to
merely accessing the modem and dialing, on my new computer. EPPPD apparently
can't connect the serial port at base 0xd400 IRQ 5, though it worked with
base 0x2e8 IRQ 5. So it looks like I need to install Linux Slackware 8.0 and
NetBSD 1.5.2.
