[K12OSN] nfs problems, continued

norbert bear2bar at netscape.net
Tue Jul 6 15:56:51 UTC 2004


Hi Les,

Wasn't it MS-Dos 6  ? I believe that PC-DOS handled it in an earlier 
version ... M$ was always solw to catch up & by the look of things it 
hasn't changed much .... :-D

norbert

petre at maltzen.net wrote:

> Showing my age I suppose: Yes, I do remember when 40MB disks had to be 
> split into two partitions because DOS couldn't handle anything larger 
> than 32MB.  I believe, though I'm not certain, that it was 3.2 that 
> allowed partitions bigger than 32MB; but it had a number of bugs, 
> which were fixed in 3.3 such that 3.3 became a standard 
> recommendation.  4.0 came out, very buggy, 4.1 was arguably better, 
> but getting fatter.  It went downhill from there.
>
> 'Showing my age' means not only did I go through it, it's been so long 
> I can't remember the exact details. ;-)
>
> Petre
>
> Les Mikesell wrote:
>
>> ...how to work around bugs that change every year.  Does anyone
>> remember what version of MSDOS was the first to recognize more
>> than 32 Megs in a disk partition - or which hardware vendors added
>> their own hacks to earlier versions? (Repeat for 2.1 gigs, 8 gigs,
>> 32 gigs, 120 gigs, etc...).
>>
>> ---
>>   Les Mikesell
>>     les at futuresource.com
>>
>>
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