DOS 3.3 & Hard drives
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From: Patrick Ryan <D7314@UWAVM>
Subject: DOS 3.3 & Hard drives
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> From: CHRISTOPHER CHUNG <ST802414%BROWNVM...@wiscvm.wisc.edu>
> Subject: softerm II and hard drives.
> To: INFO-...@BRL.ARPA
> Does anyone know how to modify Softerm II to work on a hard drive?
> I called Softronics technical support and they said it couldn't be done
> because DOS 3.3 cannot be run on a hard drive. This sounds very funny
> to me. The problem I am having is that I cannot load any of the
> configurations once I get softerm to boot. Anything that has to access
> the hard drive gives an I/O error. Anyone know why this is happening
> or how it can be fixed? Are there any other programs that you have
> encountered that do the same thing.
> Chris
Well, I don't know about how to fix it, but they weren't lying when they
said DOS 3.3 wouldn't work with a hard disk. Usually, hard disks have their
own DOS's (ie Corvus DOS). The reason is pretty obvious... DOS 3.3 accesses
153(?) K of disk space, since thats all a SSSD disk could handle when 3.3 was
invented oh-so-many years ago. Softerm won't be the only program that has
this problem either... many copy programs won't do DOS 3.3 ---> hard disk for
the same reason.
Patrick Ryan
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