From: "Matthias Paul" Organization: Rechenzentrum RWTH Aachen To: opendos AT delorie DOT com Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 18:48:11 +0100 Subject: Re: more than 8GB X-mailer: Pegasus Mail v3.22 Message-ID: <2F2274D6D8C@reze-1.rz.rwth-aachen.de> Reply-To: opendos AT delorie DOT com On "Florian Xaver" wrote: > Is there a way, to use more than 8GB with Dr-DOS? > Lineo writes in their FAQ, that there is no way (they say because > it is a 16-bit OS ;-)))) Quite funny, isn't it... ;-) > Maybe with the FAT32 driver ? The DRFAT32.SYS device driver fully supports LBA access to overcome the 8 GB barrier of the CHS addressing scheme. However, since there is no DRFAT16.EXE redirector driver, you can use this only in conjunction with the DRFAT32.EXE redirector, that is for FAT32 drives. Given the memory footprint of the shipping issue (with EMS and DPMS support disabled) and the fact that it is not cached by NWCACHE, this is not actually a solution. The DR-DOS 7.04/7.05 OEM kernel that ships with Ontrack's Easy Recovery 5 natively supports FAT32 and LBA. So this should also work on FAT16 drives. However, there are a number of compatibility issues with this OEM kernel... For now, I would use DiskManager or a similar software to work around the problem even before DOS loads. Matthias ------------------------------------------------------------------- Matthias Paul, Ubierstrasse 28, D-50321 Bruehl, Germany eMail: Web : http://www.rhrz.uni-bonn.de/~uzs180/mpdokeng.html -------------------------------------------------------------------