Message-ID: <001d01bd2e6a$79d2a160$bb272599@krw-desk>
From: "Kurt Wall" <krwall AT earthlink DOT net>
To: <djgpp AT delorie DOT com>
Subject: Re: RHIDE Crashes
Date: Sat, 31 Jan 1998 10:05:45 -0700
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---Original Message---
From: Paul Derbyshire <ao950 AT FreeNet DOT Carleton DOT CA>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com <djgpp AT delorie DOT com>
Date: Saturday, January 31, 1998 12:03 AM
Subject: Re: Rhide crashes!


>
>Vik Heyndrickx (Vik DOT Heyndrickx AT rug DOT ac DOT be) writes:
>> I've run RHIDE 1.1 on a computer with AMD486 + Ontrack without
problems.
>> Ontrack is loaded BEFORE DOS...
>
>What the bleeding hell load *before* the *OS*???
OnTrack is a BIOS extension used to fool DOS into dealing with large hard
drives, so it has to load before the OS.  It is, IMHO, a royal pain in the
arse, but if you have DOS (only) and a 3 gig hardrive, you don't have a
lot
of options.

Kurt
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Trying not to flame...

>
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>ObDJGPP: What's the latest word on PGCC, DJGPP 2.02, and GCC 2.8.0?
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