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DOS 6.22 Partition questions

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First post, by Jackhead

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Hi,

i use a UDMA Adapter on my IDE bus for running a Msata 32GB solution.
My Bios (Asus P5A) show the size correctly (i think it can up to 128GB).

Now i want to create some partitions for my pure DOS6.22 system.
So here my questions.
I know max partiton size with fdisk (DOS6.22) i can create 2GB.
But i can only create 1 primary DOS and 2 expanded 2GB partitions?
Or can i do more with another programms?
I run old ISA boards like a SB AWE 3980 where i read that i can getting problems with drivers on DOS 7.1+ ?
So im not sure if i should go up to a fat32 DOS. Not a solution if my drivers dont work and i get mem problems with old games.
I never used another dos as 6.22 .
Any suggestions?

regards
Chris

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Reply 1 of 2, by HanSolo

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Additionally to the primary partiton you create one extended partition and in there you create logical drives

Reply 2 of 2, by Ryccardo

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Microsoft FDISK is indeed limited to creating 1 primary "DOS"* partition and 1 extended partition containing an unlimited** amount of logical ones, yep... so there's one excellent reason to use FreeDOS's 😀

* which, in DOS 6, has to mean CHS-mode FAT16 (MBR type 6 or 4) with backwards compatibility with type 1 FAT12
** an extended partition is basically a sub-MBR where only up to 2 partitions are used: a logical partition and another extended partition to hold the 2nd logical one and so on, but these additional extended ones are automatically handled (and, indeed, invisible) in most "high level" partitioning software!

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