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From: greggt@ncoast.UUCP (Gregg Thompson)
Newsgroups: net.micro.pc
Subject: Re: Re: IBM PC/XT UPGRADE
Message-ID: <1262@ncoast.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 25-Jun-86 07:04:52 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jun 25 07:04:52 1986
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> In article <704@nicmad.UUCP> brown@nicmad.UUCP (Mr. Video) 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.
> >
> >As another reference see the article "Finding Disk Parameters" in the
> >May 1986 issue of PC TECH JOURNAL.
> >
> >So, in conclusion, the original poster still needs PC-DOS 3.10 or 3.20.

	PC-Dos 2.10 WILL format a 20 meg hard drive! It may not `support'
it in the sense if something is wrong with the hard drive after 15 megs
I think. I have used PC-DOS 2.1 to format a 20 hard drive from Qubie' and
then I have moved MS-Dos over to the hard drive. This is because Tandy
at first was not selling there Hard Disk utilities when the Tandy 1000
just came out. If you bought a hard disk from Tandy then you got the formatting
programs, if you purchased elsewhere forget it (now they have changed).
Using this technique of putting Tandy's Ms-Dos onto the 20 meg drive I have
disproved several Tandy people because I am using the Original rom Bios that
the older versions of the Tandy 1000s were using, they said it couldn't be
done without THEIR drives.