>On Thu, 21 Jun 2001, joe wrote:> One of the nice
>> things about the P IIIs is that they have a very extensive drive table in
>> the BIOS so you can install a LOT bigger hard drive.
>
>If you are running DOS 3.3[0], then you can't easily exceed 32M per drive
>letter. If you are running 3.31 or above, then you can go up to 500M.
There were some OEM versions of 3.3 that allowed greater than
32meg per partition, notably Zenith's 3.3+. Is the 3.31 with 500meg
partitons a Compaq-specific item? With the exception of Zenith, I
thought the 32meg partition barrier wasn't broken until DOS 4? Not
that I'd ever recomend the use of PC-DOS 4 to anyone.....buggy as all
heck....
Jeff
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