[arachne] Re: instability

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From: Rob <robo13@xxxxxxxxxxx>

> At one time or another I have used FreeDos on all
> three that I'm using now. The K6 has only had ver1.0
> tho. The HP Pavilion has had earlier versions and 1.0.
> The Dell only earlier versions. When I got the K6, I
> tried Opendos7.01, DrDos7.03, and M$6.22. Problems
> with all of them. I thought maybe it was bad memory but

> ...

> tho that using a Linux, NetBSD or OpenBSD MBR on it with
> Freedos, it recognizes all 20 gigs of hardrive. With a
> DOS MBR only 3078 Megs. I wish DOS could recognize more

FreeDOS 1.0 is known to cause problems; several critical bugs have
been fixed since its initial release, though there is still no v1.1.
Also, OpenDOS 7.01, DR-DOS 7.03 and MS-DOS 6.22 all do not support
large hard disks. However, I am using the DR-DOS 7.03 MBR without
problems on all of my machines, and so far there are no problems with
hard disks of up to 465 GB. I suspect there is a problem not with the
MBR code but with the partition table(s) on your system.

You did not tell us what exactly you mean by "it recognizes only 3072
Megs". I presume that you mean that it only recognizes partitions
within the first 3072 MB.

I remember that early versions of FD FDISK had massive problems, I
could not make it work on any of my machines.

Partition Magic 8.0 is very good at spotting problems with the
partition tables; it even finds problems that normally do not manifest
themselves.

Regards,

Udo

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