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From: andyross@igloo.UUCP (Andrew Rossmann)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.tandy
Subject: Re: 8k Cluster Size! & Why doesn't Tandy notify us of new versions of MS-DOS?!!!!
Keywords: HELP!
Message-ID: <1396@igloo.UUCP>
Date: 14 Jan 89 20:42:18 GMT
References: <72@VAX1.CC.UAKRON.EDU>
Reply-To: andyross@igloo.UUCP (Andrew Rossmann)
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In article <72@VAX1.CC.UAKRON.EDU> greggt@VAX1.CC.UAKRON.EDU (Gregg Thompson) writes:
>	Why does TANDY's MS-DOS 3.2 format the hard disk with 8k cluster size?
>Can I change this?? (2k preferable on a fully packed 20meg hard disk).  Any
>suggestions???
>	My father purchased MS-DOS 2.11 and registered it and all that stuff
>and we have yet to receive ANY information what-so-ever from TANDY as to
>new updates or even newer releases of TANDY MS-DOS.  We have Tandy 1000s.
>Infact what is the latest version of TANDY MS-DOS available for Tandy 1000s?
>	THANKS!
>GRegg Thompson

  If you upgraded from MS-DOS 2.11 to 3.2, did you re-format the disk?? You
MUST do that in order for 3.2 to reduce down to 2K clusters. Also, are you
partitioning the disk? MS-DOS 3.2 will use 4K clusters if a logical disk
size is <12M.
  I am using Tandy's MS-DOS 3.2 on my 1000SX and a Seagate ST-251 drive. It
is formatted as 2 20M partitions and 1 2M partition. The 20M partitions
have 2K clusters, and the 2M partition has 4K clusters. I use the 2M
partition for temporary files and other little miscellaneious stuff where
it is nice to be able to do a simple DEL *.* when I'm done.

andyross@igloo.UUCP, andyross@ddsw1.MCS.COM