Path: utzoo!bnr-vpa!bnr-fos!bmers58!mlord
From: mlord@bmers58.UUCP (Mark Lord)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: IBM-AT BIOS ROMSREFRESH
Keywords: 3085 Disk Manager
Message-ID: <280@bmers58.UUCP>
Date: 28 Sep 89 13:57:49 GMT
References: <1989Sep19.021545.8110@NCoast.ORG> <3831.251d3ff8@uwovax.uwo.ca> <[2058.13]comp.ibmpc;1@point.UUCP>
Reply-To: mlord@bmers58.UUCP (Mark Lord)
Organization: Bell-Northern Research, Ottawa, Canada
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In article <[2058.13]comp.ibmpc;1@point.UUCP> wek@point.UUCP (Bill Kuykendall) writes:
>>DM is a device driver loaded through the CONFIG.SYS, so it may as well be
>>considered a TSR.  And it _does_ cover Miniscribe hard disks; a copy came with
>
>>my old 3650.
>
>Bull hockey.  DM is a standard run of the mill program that is used to
>format, partition, sysgen, etc hard disks.  DMDRVR.BIN is a device driver
>that has no value whatsoever since 'DOS 3.3 became readily available.  A

Double "Bull hockey".. DMDRVR.BIN is infinitely useful with DOS 3.3, as it
allows DOS to access multiple partitions of a large hard drive (normally
DOS 3.3 can only access the boot partition).  It also allows these extended
partitions to be of any size, no limited to 32MB.  Very useful.  DOS 4.xx
comes with such support built-in around all of its bugs, so many folks have
stuck with DM & 3.3.

-Mark