First post, by Jed118
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So no matter what I try, I can't get the SD card to make a 2Gb partition using DOS. I tried Windows 98 boot disk and DRDOS 7.03, and still nothing.
Here's the letter I wrote to the shipper (manufacturer) three days ago without an answer yet:
(Edit to be fair, I did email him on a Friday afternoon)
Hello,
I purchased one of these:
http://store.inertialcomputing.com/SCSI2SD-p/scsi2sd-v5b.htm
as reviewed by Phil's Computer Lab and for the life of me I could not get more than a 1 Gb partition out of it. First, I was using an old (standard) 2GB MicroSD card, which after a few DOS installations which failed to yield 2Gb and troubleshooting, stopped working entirely. The next thing I did was to pull a 4Gb out of my old Garmin and I was able to get two 1 Gb partitions out of this one, but that's not what I want.
Later, I read on the tech page that it needs SDHC cards to cross the 1Gb barrier, so I went out and bought one hastily just now. Just like the others, I write to the card through the USB port and software specifying a 2GB partition with the standard sector size. Again, when I go to install DOS (using a real 486 computer), I get some tiny 4Mb FAT 12 partition and then a 1Gb partition. Once I delete those partitions and allow DOS to make new ones, goddamnit, 1 GB again. I'm using two computers to do this actually, just to be sure. One is a 486DLC 40MHz with an Adaptec AHA 1542, and just to be sure, I took apart my AMD 486/66 with an Adaptec AHA 1540CF and tried it there. The results are the same - 1Gb partition. If I use a modern i7 under Ubuntu's Disks, I can make a 2Gb partition on the SD card, but FDISK (DOS 6.22, DR-DOS 7.03, as well as DOS 7 (Win98)) under the 486s sees the partition as NON DOS.
Am I missing a step somewhere?
Oh, and look at the attached screenshot - That was my most recent Load From Device result (on the brand new microSD card (8GB)
All I want is a 2GB partition onto which I can load my games. It doesn't need to be bootable because I have a hybrid SSD/IDE 512Mb primary.
HALP!
-Jed
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