MS-DOS 6.2 is actually limited to 2GB Partitions. You can probably get a
driver from WDC to allow access to the other 8GB...(that used to be the way
we did it...)
-JD-
>
> Ronald J. Hall wrote:
> > Okay, with HD prices so low, I bought a 2nd (20 gig)
> > Seagate hard drive. I added it to my current system, and
> > decided to make a dual-boot system, using my old 10 gig WDC
> > as the boot HD, for DOS stuff, and the new 20 gigger for my
> > precious Linux stuff. I'm not going to go into a huge
> > lengthy narrative here, but it works, except that with DOS
> > 6.2, I get 2 gigs out of 10 available on my 1st hard drive.
> > I know that if I installed Windblows, I'd get the full
> > benefit of the drives space, but I refuse to have it on my
> > system. Note that I'd also much prefer to have DR-DOS on my
> > first drive, if anyone out there has experience with it
> > (and pointers for getting/installing it?) I found some
> > stuff on Caldera's web site, but its all bigger than the 2
> > gigs I've got on my 1st HD. Any idea on how to get the
> > other 8 gigs from DOS 6.2, until I can get DR-DOS
> > installed? (and does DR-DOS find my full 10 gigs as well?)
> >
> > Thanks in advance! ;-)
>
> Ronald....your question made me curious. I have Caldera
> DR-DOS 7.01 on my primary IDE drive, but I'v only partitioned
> the 1st 200mb for it. It is the home for Partition Magic 6.0
> and BootMagic. I bought it from CheapBytes (it's in the book
> section) for about $25.
>
> Anyway, I booted up on DR-DOS and fiddled with the fdisk
> program for a while. I appears to max out at 8 gig (the 1024
> cylinder limit). So I suspect that 8 gigs might be your
> limit on that 10 gig drive. But perhaps, if you were to
> partition it with Linux fdisk, DR-DOS might be able to use
> the space anyway. Good luck.
