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From: ormohrbh@ubvmsd.cc.buffalo.edu (Richard Ohrbach)
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Subject: Re: looking for program to break 32MB barrier
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Date: 22 Jan 91 20:08:38 GMT
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In article <1991Jan21.230226.4874@hub.cs.jmu.edu>, jmidili@hub.cs.jmu.edu (jeff midili) writes...
> 
>I'm looking for a program that will break DOS 3.XX's 32 meg byte 
>barrier.  Are there any available?  Either public domain or commercial
>would be just fine.
> 
>thanks,
> 
>    Jeff midili
>jmidili@hub.cs.jmu.edu

SeaGate, maker of hard drives, has a program called On-Trac, which formats 
a hard drive into user-specified number of partitions, etc, and which uses 
a proprietary file loaded as a device through the config.sys that allows 
DOS 3.xx to access the hard drive.  The manner in which the FAT is read and 
written through this utility is compatible with the FAT created by DOS 
formatting.  I have used On-Trac (On-Trak?) and was very satisfied with the 
results, in that I had a 150 Mb hard drive, but an application program that 
required DOS 3.x FAT for DMA file transfers, and my application program is 
content with On-Trac + DOS 3.3, but it complained a lot when the drive was 
formatted with DOS 4.01 (regardlesss of partition size when using 4.01).

Hope that this helps.  Sorry, but I don't have the address for SeaGate.

Richard Ohrbach
University at Buffalo