[GEM Development] DR-DOS too

[Thomas F Clayton]

Tomasz:

Another reply, except

THANKING YOU

for the wonderful reference
https://www.win.tue.nl/~aeb/linux/Large-Disk.html
and poking around his website, even more, very informative articles.

Certainly will be helpful IF
I ever create a DRi GEM "15.4" file system.

Thomas Clayton


On 08/15/2019 12:12 AM, Tomasz Konojacki wrote:
> On Wed, 14 Aug 2019, at 06:31, Thomas F Clayton wrote:
>> Bro. Michael:
>>
>>   > it had support for large hard drives that was patched in.
>>
>> So, greater than 32MB? (We'll /never/ run out space with one of those!)
>> or 512MB? or (gulp) 2,048MB? (!) or 8,096MB or ???
>>
>> Equivalently, I'm asking as Ed Mcmahon /might have/ of Johnny Carson:
>> /HOW/ large aaaare we talking about?
>>
>>
>> (Mostly) Sincerely,
>>
>> Thomas Clayton
>> ;-)
>
> It was either 8.4GB or 8.5GB, see https://www.win.tue.nl/~aeb/linux/Large-Disk-4.html
>
> Also, here's more info about those special DR-DOS kernels:
>
> OEM DR-DOS 7.04/7.05: This issue of the kernel can be found within
>       Ontrack's Easy Recovery 5 (2000-07-26) product and natively supports
>       FAT32/LBA and thus does not require the external DRFAT32 driver any
>       more, that shipped with Easy Recovery
>
> (source: http://www.freedos.org/technotes/press/2000-drdos-hist.txt)
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