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- From: renfro@crchh610.BNR.CA (Randy Hoekstra)
- Subject: re: floptical
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.004244.23242@bnr.ca>
- Sender: news@bnr.ca (News on crchh327)
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- Reply-To: renfro@crchh610.BNR.CA (Randy Hoekstra)
- Organization: Bell-Northern Research Ltd.
- References: <1992Nov18.153926.1015@engage.pko.dec.com>
- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 00:42:44 GMT
- Lines: 16
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- In article <1992Nov18.153926.1015@engage.pko.dec.com>,
- wallace@yngstr.enet.dec.com (Ray Wallace) writes:
- |>
- |>>From: csullogg@cc4.crl.aecl.ca
- |>>Subject: Reply to Matt (floptical)
- |>
- |>>One problem, if you have TOS 1.2 or less, programs will not run from
- |>>the floptical.
- |>Anyone know why this is? Doesn't the floptical just look like another hard
- |>disk partition to TOS?
-
- Pre TOS 1.4 versions could not handle a hard drive partition greater
- than 16 Meg
- and thus the 21 Meg floptical would be too large a partition.
-
- RandyH
-