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#! rnews 1624 bsd Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!howland.erols.net!EU.net!usenet2.news.uk.psi.net!uknet!usenet1.news.uk.psi.net!uknet!dispatch.news.demon.net!demon!prds-grn.demon.co.uk!prds-grn!t.d.g.sandford From: t.d.g.sandford@prds-grn.demon.co.uk (Thomas D.G. Sandford) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Dos Partition Mount Date: 4 Oct 1996 00:50:58 GMT Organization: Paradise Green Technical Services Lines: 20 Message-ID: <531n1i$fc@prds-grn.demon.co.uk> References: <01bba9f8$8c05e240$b0675ac2@defau> <52qq1q$1a2@anorak.coverform.lan> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.demon.co.uk X-NNTP-Posting-Host: prds-grn.demon.co.uk X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Brian Somers (brian@anorak.coverform.lan) wrote: : In article <52pium$14h@newsbr.eunet.fr>, : fgm@osinet.fr (Frederic G. MARAND) writes: : > Vlad D. Nebolsin <nebo@glas.apc.org> wrote: : >>Resume: DON'T MOUNT >400Mb DOS PARTITIONS or you will nuts with deadful : >> system. : > Actually, ithe limit is not 400 Mb, but around 500 MB (I guess it is : > 528 MB, but someone had better confirm/infirm). It has to do with the : > bios boot code. More details were given (must have been last year) in : > Unix Reviiew. : It's >= 512 Mb ;O I believe it is ~1GB - I have a 2GB drive partitioned not quite equally. The (slightly) smaller partition mounts fine, mounting the larger is a recipe for total disaster. Fortunately I bought a DAT drive with the same order... -- Thomas Sandford | t.d.g.sandford@prds-grn.demon.co.uk Paradise Green Technical Services: S'ware/Hw design and Theatre Tech. Services