Re: Looking for H/D patch for DOS 3.3

[nathan@visi.com (Nathan Mates)]

In article <C090396170529.6835@darkcastle.ecore.fnet.org>,
Dark_Dude <Dark_Dude@darkcastle.ecore.fnet.org> wrote:
>>   Dos 3.3 disks have a fairly hard limit of 400K per disk, unless you

>There was a DOS 3.3 hard disk... 5 MB. They must have patched the software
>real hard to get that to work.

   Dos 3.3 disks have a limit of 400K per disk _volume_, as I should
have said above. That limit is extremely similar to ProDOS's
32MB/partition limit. You can "overcome" either by putting multiple
volumes or paritions on one physical HD, but they're still distinct
entities.

   ProDOS has _MUCH_ better support for lots of partitions; 99% of the
DOS 3.3 software (not even counting the copy protected ones which
would require mucho hacking to get working off one of those Dos 3.3
volumed drives) that I used only cared about slot/drive, not volume #.

   DOS 3.3 is great for 140K floppies. 2 400K volumes on one 800K 3.5"
(doable via UniDOS and other programs/patches) sounds just fine. A HD
full of 400K volumes, yuck. I'd write a decent DOS 3.3 FST for GS/OS
before doing that. (Not that I really have the time... working on
updates to that csa2 FAQ could almost be a fulltime job. It'll be 500K
by the time I'm done with it, and ready to be published :)

Nathan Mates
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