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From: phil@diablo.amd.com (Phil Ngai)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: DOS 4.01: need partition s'ware?
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Date: 8 Dec 89 19:07:56 GMT
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In article <111700175@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu> lmhg0369@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu writes:
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|I have an original-AT circa clone with a 40M hard drive.  Currently I
|am using partitioning software (Disk Manager) to be able to use >32M.
|Now, if I get DOS 4.01, will I be able to run the hard drive without
|the partitioning s'ware?

DOS4 does handle partitions larger than 32 M.

|Of course, the parms for my drive aren't in the BIOS tables.

This is not something that DOS4 addresses. A newer controller might
help, but that's kind of an expensive fix. 

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