Path: utzoo!censor!geac!jtsv16!gil
From: gil@jtsv16.UUCP (gil)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Avoid mangling your hard drive with DMDRVR.BIN
Message-ID: <1379@jtsv16.UUCP>
Date: 12 Apr 90 16:58:09 GMT
References: <18605@boulder.Colorado.EDU> <10343@portia.Stanford.EDU> <EGGBERT.90Apr10150321@bucsf.bu.edu>
Organization: Tech Noir Inc., Toronto, Canada
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In article <EGGBERT.90Apr10150321@bucsf.bu.edu>, eggbert@bucsf.bu.edu (Eugene Wang) writes:
> 
> FDISK stores the partition information on the disk, while DM does it in
> the driver, but then the driver only takes up 2-4K anyway. 
>  
> Eugene Wang
> eggbert@bucsf.bu.edu

I tried a little experiment; using chkdsk and booting without and with
the driver. I saw a difference of about 60K, no 2-4K. Could somebody
explain the difference?

As it sits on the disk, the driver IS about 10K.

	Gil

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