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From: mlord@bwdls58.bnr.ca (Mark Lord)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: MS-DOS 3.3 or 4.01?
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Date: 14 Nov 90 15:43:54 GMT
References: <71077@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu> <4260@ruuinf.cs.ruu.nl> <13227@encore.Encore.COM> <1990Nov13.012007.1283@jato.jpl.nasa.gov>
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In article <1990Nov13.012007.1283@jato.jpl.nasa.gov> baalke@mars.UUCP (Ron Baalke) writes:
>Most people don't realize this, but the 32MB limitation in DOS 3.3 only applies
>to the partition that you boot off of.  In other words you can have 
>partitions greater than 32MB, as long the partition is not the boot partition.
>I have DOS 3.3 using a 212MB hard disk with two partition.  My C: drive is
>32MB, thats the one I boot off of, and my D: drive is 180MB.  

Err.. before making a wild claim like this, even if it is true, 
you probably ought to specify EXACTLY what DOS 3.3 you are running..
Ie.  is it plain vanila MS-DOS 3.30 directly from Microsoft? (Obviously not).
or is it Compaq DOS 3.31 ?
or is it Zenith MS-DOS 3.30 ?

Etc..

The plain vanilla MS-DOS 3.30 from Microsoft can indeed create extra partitions
and logical drives within those partitions, but it does not permit creation
of a logical drive larger than 32MB in ANY partition.. unless of course, one
augments this with DMDRVR.BIN or some other third party driver.

But then, most of us already know this..
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