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First post, by lucky7456969

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I am trying to mount a large flat disk to dosbox.
Is it possible?
Currently, I don't get any success yet
Thanks
Jack

Reply 2 of 4, by ppgrainbow

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lucky7456969 wrote:
I am trying to mount a large flat disk to dosbox. Is it possible? Currently, I don't get any success yet Thanks Jack […]
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I am trying to mount a large flat disk to dosbox.
Is it possible?
Currently, I don't get any success yet
Thanks
Jack

Official versions of DOSBox can only support up to 1,024 cylinders, 16 heads and 63 sectors per track for a total of 504 MB. DOSBox has limited LBA support, which means that you can create up to two hard disk images of up to 2 GB (2^31) each.

The current DOSBox SVN Daum version, which is not officially supported in DOSBox, you can image mount up to two hard disk images of up to 1,023 cylinders, 255 heads and 63 sectors per track for a total of 7.837 GB each.

Last edited by ppgrainbow on 2015-09-11, 20:50. Edited 1 time in total.

Reply 3 of 4, by Gamecollector

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ppgrainbow wrote:

Official versions of DOSBox can only support up to 1,024 cylinders, 63 heads and 16 sectors per track for a total of 504 MB. DOSBox has limited LBA support, which means that you can create up to two hard disk images of up to 2 GB (2^31) each.

The current DOSBox SVN Daum version, which is not officially supported in DOSBox, you can image mount up to two hard disk images of up to 1,023 cylinders, 255 heads and 16 sectors per track for a total of 7.837 GB each.

504 MiB limit - 1024 tracks, 16 heads, 63 sectors.
7.875 GiB limit (Int13h) - 1024 tracks, 256 heads, 63 sectors.

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Reply 4 of 4, by ppgrainbow

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Gamecollector wrote:

504 MiB limit - 1024 tracks, 16 heads, 63 sectors.
7.875 GiB limit (Int13h) - 1024 tracks, 256 heads, 63 sectors.

Thank you for correcting the error. 😀