Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.19990223133225.00953100@es.co.nz> X-Sender: raygr AT es DOT co DOT nz X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.5 (32) Date: Tue, 23 Feb 1999 13:32:25 +1300 To: opendos AT delorie DOT com From: Ray Greene Subject: Maximum floppy drive size Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" 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.