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Date:	Tue, 23 Feb 1999 13:32:25 +1300
To:	opendos AT delorie DOT com
From:	Ray Greene <raygr AT es DOT co DOT nz>
Subject:	Maximum floppy drive size
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Reply-To:	opendos AT delorie DOT com

I have come across a driver called ZapA that will let you access and boot
from a Zip drive as though it were a floppy drive - the Zip drive becomes
a: or b: - at http://www.blueskyinnovations.com

However, it says that MS-DOS will only recognise up to a 32Mb floppy drive,
which is a waste of a lot of Zip disk space.

Can anyone tell me if OpenDOS has the same 32Mb limit for floppy drives? 
If anyone has else tried this driver, did it work OK? Does it work with Linux?

I'm unable to check the floppy drive size limit for myself just now as my
DOS HDD has just died on me.
Which leads to another question. The partition table has been corrupted and
when I booted from an MS-DOS bootdisk (I normally run OpenDOS) HIMEM.SYS
reported faulty RAM. I removed the offending SIMM and HIMEM does not report
any more problems. 
Could the faulty RAM have caused the partition table problem?
Also, are there any RAM-testing utilities that I can run from OpenDOS at
boot time? 
MS-DOS's HIMEM has twice found faulty RAM when I have had problems with my
computer. I have been told that it is not very good for testing RAM but it
is certainly better than nothing.

Ray Greene.

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