Sphere478 wrote on 2023-01-03, 05:47:
I have a 64GB DOM (IDE) that I want to use on the I/O card on my 386 system. I have a XT-IDE in a 8-bit ISA slot.
It's really perplexing, for a quick moment I thought you meant 64 MB.
Then I realized that we live in a time in which CF cards already exist in such crazy capacities. 😵
Sphere478 wrote on 2023-01-03, 05:47:
Any suggestions on how to set this up? I understand if I can't use all the space. but 8.4 GB should be usable right?
It depends. If FDISK reports the full capacity, then everything should be fine, I suppose.
The partition table contains information about the length of the medium, I think
Programs that rely on MS-DOS for file handling should work as expected.
Windows 3.1x should work fine, too, depending on the swap file settings.
If it uses MS-DOS and a temporary swap file, it's fine.
("Temporary" setting is just using an ordinary file through DOS/int21h, "fixed" setting reads FAT directly via BIOS/int13h and uses a contiguous block of sectors or clusters.)
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