From:	"Bob Jonkman" <bjonkman AT sobac DOT com>
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Date:	Sat, 16 Sep 2000 21:24:12 -0400
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Subject:	Re: DRDOS FDISK
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This is what Charles Dye <opendos AT delorie DOT com> said about 
"Re: DRDOS FDISK" on 16 Sep 2000, at 17:01

> At 06:29 PM 9/15/00 -0600, "Pat" wrote:

> DR-DOS can create partitions that are big-time incompatible
> with MS-DOS, possibly resulting in trashed volumes if such
> drives are accessed by The Evil Empire DOS.  I don't recall the
> size limit -- 127 megs, perhaps? -- but I'm pretty sure I first
> saw the problem on a Maxtor 7120.

> Reading a small drive set up this way under MS-DOS is
> amusing and harmless.  Writing to a drive set up this way
> under MS-DOS will probably trash disk structures and data.
> I do not recommend using the newer (Caldera) versions of
> FDISK.  The one that shipped with Novell DOS 7 is probably
> okay.
> 

I've used the DR-DOS FDISK/format (both v7.02 and v7.03) regularly on 
40 Mbyte drives with no problem.  Of course, I only use DR-DOS to 
write to them, since MS-DOS is nowhere to be found on these 
computers.  Applications (WordPerfect v5.1, Pegasus Mail v3.3) seem 
to have no trouble with a DR-DOS partition/file system.  

Pat: Were you perhaps meaning that you FDISK a drive with DR-DOS's 
FDISK, then run MS-DOS (MSDOS.SYS, IO.SYS, COMMAND.COM) on that 
drive?


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