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From: t02@clark.edu (Torry Schreiner)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps
Subject: Re: Disk Manager and MSDOS 5.0
Message-ID: <1991Jun25.072841.10018@clark.edu>
Date: 25 Jun 91 07:28:41 GMT
References: <1991Jun17.221311.15797@aplcen.apl.jhu.edu> <1991Jun18.091756.31516@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu> <1991Jun19.171414.24136@unixg.ubc.ca>
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In article <1991Jun19.171414.24136@unixg.ubc.ca> martell@ucs.ubc.ca (Jonn Martell) writes:
>In article <1991Jun18.091756.31516@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu> 1h1a0m@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu writes:
>
>Thanks to all the folks that gave suggestions about disk manager and dos 5.
>It turned out that disk manager is not needed any longer.  The steps I took
>follow:

>- make dos 5 bootable diskettes
>- boot with dos 5 in drive A:
>- low level format HD with debug (controller has rom in it to do that)
>- fdisk with dos 5
>- format with dos 5

Does anyone know if dos 5 can deal with drives of 1024 cylinders or more?
I need Disk Manager to use 300 plus cylinders of my drive.  Can dos 5 do it
alone so I can get rid of the (pain-in-the-ass) Disk Manager.