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From: nather@ut-sally.UUCP (Ed Nather)
Newsgroups: net.micro.pc
Subject: Re: IBM PC/XT UPGRADE
Message-ID: <4992@ut-sally.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 24-May-86 15:12:05 EDT
Article-I.D.: ut-sally.4992
Posted: Sat May 24 15:12:05 1986
Date-Received: Sun, 25-May-86 16:03:07 EDT
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Organization: U. Texas CS Dept., Austin, Texas
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In article <704@nicmad.UUCP>, brown@nicmad.UUCP writes:
> The only way you can have PC-DOS 2.10 run 20MB hard drives is if:
> 	1. You run partitioned drives with two 10MB partitions or
> 	2. You butchered the drive to fool DOS
> As PC-DOS 2.10 stands, it is not able to format 20MB hard drives as 20MB.

Sorry, but the computer I'm using to answer this note has a 20MB Seagate
disk with a single PC-DOS partition 20 MB in size.  It was formatted by and
is running PC-DOS 2.1.  I'm glad I didn't know better, or I might never
have tried to use it this way.  I did no butchery of any kind on the drive.
The only ugly side effect is that the minimum file size is 8 KB instead of
the 4 KB on a 10 MB disk.

Has anyone else done it this way?

-- 
Ed Nather
Astronomy Dept, U of Texas @ Austin
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