Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!samsung!usc!apple!oliveb!orc!bu.edu!bucsf.bu.edu!eggbert From: eggbert@bucsf.bu.edu (Eugene Wang) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: Avoid mangling your hard drive with DMDRVR.BIN Message-ID: Date: 13 Apr 90 18:05:52 GMT References: <18605@boulder.Colorado.EDU> <10343@portia.Stanford.EDU> <1379@jtsv16.UUCP> Sender: news@bu.edu.bu.edu Organization: Boston University Lines: 22 In-reply-to: gil@jtsv16.UUCP's message of 12 Apr 90 16:58:09 GMT >>>> On 12 Apr 90 16:58:09 GMT, gil@jtsv16.UUCP (gil) said: > > 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. > >> 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. HMMM...Well, when I used QEMM and LOADHI to place the DM driver into high memory, the LOADHI screen said it was only was using a little over 2K in high memory. It might have something to do with the size of the partition. I only have two 22MB partitions on a 44MB hard disk, but a 30 time increase?? -- Eugene Wang eggbert@bucsf.bu.edu