Message-ID: <3533c55d.flying-brick@flying-brick.caverock.net.nz>
From: Eric Gillespie <viking AT flying-brick DOT caverock DOT co DOT nz>
To: Matthias Paul <PAUL-MA AT reze-1 DOT rz DOT rwth-aachen DOT de>, opendos AT delorie DOT com
Date:          Wed, 15 Apr 1998 09:21:48 NZT-12DST
Subject:       Re: Harddisk Question
Precedence: bulk

Captains Log, Stardate 14 Apr 98 12:27, Matthias Paul:

: On Sun, 12 Apr 1998 Paul fULLER asked:
: 
: > G'day, whats the biggest hard disk that you can run unpartioned with
: > OpenDOS compared to MS-DOS ? Is it 4.3 gig for both?...
: The maximum partition size for FAT16 is about 2 GB for both DOSes 
: (because of the 32 KB cluster limitation in MS-DOS).
[...snip...]
: INT 13h interface) using so called 'INT 13h extensions' (which cannot
: yet be used by any DOS - with the exception of Windows 95 OSR2+).

Can you explain what then is VFAT and whether it has been implemented in
DR-DOS? Does it have anything to do with the Long File Name support that
Win95 has? The reason I ask is because I tried using the LFN support, but
decided the advantages weren't worth the hassle compared to the problems I
ended up with - luckily I had on hand a copy of Nortons Disk Doctor and
DiskMaster to help me clean up the disk.

Thanks for any replies - hope I can get some answers to the LFN problems.

Cheers, The Viking


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