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From: dmurdoch@watstat.waterloo.edu (Duncan Murdoch)
Subject: 1024 byte sectors
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Date: Mon, 10 Dec 90 14:47:57 GMT
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A program I've written (SHOWFAT) seems to die when it sees 1024 byte secctors
on other people's machines.  I'm trying to set up a ramdisk with big sectors
on my machine to see what's going on, but am having no luck.

The RAMDRIVE.SYS programs that come with DOS 3.2 and 4.01 both give an
option for 1024 byte sectors, but DOS always refuses to load them with
that option.  The error message is explained in the DOS 4.01 manual as:

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Sector size too large in file filename
[MS-DOS]
The specified device driver loaded by config.sys uses a sector size larger
than that of any other device driver on the system.

You cannot run this device driver.
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Can anyone tell me how to get around this stupid error?

Duncan Murdoch
dmurdoch@watstat.waterloo.edu