Re: int 0x13 utility
- From: Rugxulo <spamtrap@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 23 Mar 2008 08:45:10 -0700 (PDT)
Hi,
On Mar 22, 10:30 am, Alex Buell <spamt...@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I recently bought a SATA controller for my old Pentium III box, and
plugged it in. Hooked up a 120GB SATA hard disk, booted up with MSDOS
6.22. Imagine my surprise when MSDOS FDISK refused to create a
partition larger than 503MB even though it was specifically told it
could use the large disk feature.
Maybe their FDISK doesn't support SATA? The only one I know of that
for sure does is SPFDISK:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/spfdisk
but when it queried
the BIOS for the parameters of its SATA hard disk, it reported: 16
heads, 1022 cylinders and 63 sectors. Ah! That's why MSDOS couldn't
create partitions larger than 503MB!
So it's a BIOS issue? Hmmm, that might be tough to get fixed. (Yes,
it's a shame no one is supporting DOS these days. They must be too
busy or maybe can't be bothered. Meh.)
P.S. Not to nag too hard, but MS-DOS 6.22 is quite old, and although I
think you should keep it "for comparison", you might get more use out
of FreeDOS (with FAT32, at least), especially since 1.1 "official" is
in the works:
http://rugxulo.googlepages.com
.
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