IBM PC disks

[WILLIAM PIPHER]

In article <22576 at usc.edu> kjh at pollux.usc.edu (Kenneth J. Hendrickson
N8DGN) writes: 
      >I have heard that MS-DOS (yech!) can only handle fixed disks 
      >of 32 MB and smaller.  

Roger Knopf (SCO Consulting Services) replies:
 
      rM>They set up their MS-DOS partitions as the first partition on
      rM>their HD and Xenix on the rest. 


Or the second if they like.  The second partition can be as large as 
desired, so long as it is divided into logical drives such that no 
single logical drive is > 32M.  This is true for MS DOS 3.3.  Other 
versions and OEM MS DOS's may have different capabilities.

Of course, it may be that this "extended dos" partition might not be
accessable from a Xenix/Dos bridge -- but that question wasn't asked.

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