First post, by AlessandroB
Hello everyone. I got myself an IBM disk to put inside one of my IBM computers (as you know I choose to have only IBM brand computers in my backs). The disk in question is a Deskstar 7200 rpm and 20Gb and I chose it because it seems to me to have been the first 7200 rpm and therefore legendary for the time. But the problems started... it seems that the computer in question IBM PC330 P200 is limited to 8.4Gb (currently there is the Samsung disk that you see in the photo). By doing various combinations in the IBM disk between 15/16 Head the bios manages to see an 8GB disk but then DOS 6.22 formats it to 16MB! and windows 98 fails to install, even using fdisk in DOS and win95 version you are unable to partition / format correctly, in short, the bio sees it as 8GB but then the operating systems are unable to manage it. But if with the jumpers I set it as 2GB limit it seems to work and under DOS 6.22 it installs and sees 2.1 GB.
1) Why?
2) Considering using DOS with its 2GB, isn't it a bit small for a compyer to install games from 1993 to 1997? (I don't mean all the games ever released, but at least 20 and some on CD-ROM which I think will require enough space)
3) using only DSO6.22 on a Pentium200, wouldn't that be too limiting? I like the idea of using DOS (like in the best days of the 486) but maybe the 2GB visible I'm afraid are too few. Using Win98 on the Samsung disk (if I couldn't get the IBM disk to work) and starting win98 from the prompt, would I still have the various choices of config.sys and autoexec.bat exactly as if I were using DOS 6.22? This thing is not clear to me in the functioning...
tnks