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From: rr@mips.com (Robert "Bob" Rodriguez)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: DOS 5.0 and WD7000 FASST SCSI CARD
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Date: 13 Jun 91 19:09:24 GMT
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A word of caution. I had a 386sx clone running DOS 3.3.
I installed the WD FASST 7000 SCSI card and a 200 MB drive.
I used THEIR software to handle LARGE partitions (>32 MB)
under DOS 3.3. I upgraded to 5.0. DOS 5.0 cannot recognize
the scsi partitions. I HAVE to backup the whole 200 MB
scsi disk and the rerun the setup program to install a new
partition table. They call it the old DOS versus the DOS+ partition
tables. Sigh... I thought I would warn anyone who I could
that you might get bit if you use old disk partitioning software
on older versions of DOS. A friend of mine had DOS 4.01 with
his WD 7000 and a 100 MB scsi and the upgrade worked fine for
him since 4.01 and 5.0 have compatible LARGE partition support.
Hope I help someone. Meanwhile, I'm off to buy about 50 floppies....
-- 
Robert Rodriguez
rr@mips.com
Workstations forever!