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From: leefi@microsoft.UUCP (Lee Fisher)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: re: Need info - Using large capacity hard disk w/MS-DOS
Message-ID: <1151@microsoft.UUCP>
Date: 10 Feb 88 20:24:03 GMT
References: <5561@sgistl.SGI.COM> <4583@ecsvax.UUCP>
Organization: Microsoft Corp., Redmond, WA
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In article <4583@ecsvax.UUCP>, mvolo@ecsvax.UUCP (Michael R. Volow) writes:
[edited] 
> How do I format a large hard disk into two partitions which are both
> useable as two different logical drives. What level DOS is needed to
> do this reliably?

DOS v3.30 is the first release that supports multiple logical partitons
for large hard disks. Each one has to be under 32M, however. 

Many OEMs realized that people wanted this support, and thus many have
added this ability in earlier OEM versions. Compaq did this starting
from v3.10 of their DOS, I believe. Wyse, and Tandy are amongst other
OEMs that have added this to their DOS, most of them at version 3.2.

Some of these formats are not completely compatible with the DOS v3.30
standard (which is almost identical to the current OS/2 partitioning
method), so I'd always reccommend that you try to get the latest OEM
version of DOS for your system.

-Lee
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