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From: bruce@cher.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.micro.pc
Subject: Re: IBM PC/XT UPGRADE
Message-ID: <119@cher.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 30-May-86 16:10:22 EDT
Article-I.D.: cher.119
Posted: Fri May 30 16:10:22 1986
Date-Received: Sun, 1-Jun-86 09:46:22 EDT
References: <846@mhuxt.UUCP> <692@nicmad.UUCP> <4948@ut-sally.UUCP> <704@nicmad.UUCP> <4992@ut-sally.UUCP>
Reply-To: bruce@cher.UUCP (PUT YOUR NAME HERE)
Organization: Benetics Corp, Mt.View, CA
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In article <4992@ut-sally.UUCP> nather@ut-sally.UUCP (Ed Nather) writes:
>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.
>

Ed Nather describes his counter-example as follows:
(1) single PC-DOS partition 20 MB in size.  
(2) formatted by and running PC-DOS 2.1. 
(3) 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.

and asks, "Has anyone else done it this way?"

Yep.  Works fine.  I use MS-DOS 2.11, Microscience 20 MB harddisk.  No 
problems.

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+   Bruce Stewart @ Benetics Corporation, Mt. View, CA
+         We stand behind everything we sell ... except our manure spreaders ..
+   {cdp,greipa,idi,oliveb,sun,tolerant}!bene!cher!bruce
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+   Bruce Stewart @ Benetics Corporation, Mt. View, CA
+         We stand behind everything we sell ... except our manure spreaders ..
+   {cdp,greipa,idi,oliveb,sun,tolerant}!bene!cher!bruce
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