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New UIDE Available (May 15) (Announce)

posted by rr  , Berlin, Germany, 19.05.2009, 13:49

> Can RDISK.SYS be modified to allow 64 KB cluster sizes? Thereby, we could
> create a FAT16 drive with up to 4 GB of XMS. SHSURDRV does allow this.
> Indeed, I've allocated up to 3.5 GB with it successfully.

Jack sent the following to me:

To "Zyzzle": I regret that I cannot modify RDISK to
allow up to 4-GB of RAM memory. On my V6.22 MS-DOS
system a 64K cluster size works, but CHKDSK declares
a Divide Overflow!! Limiting RDISK to 32K clusters
permits CHKDSK to work O.K. Thus, 64K clusters are
NOT a "safe" option on all DOS systems, and I do not
want them in RDISK.

If you want to re-assemble RDISK "for your use only"
note the following:

I_Siz1: mov     ax,DrvSize.lw  ;Get user's desired size.
        cmp     ax,2047    ;Does user want over 2-GB?

If you use 4095, not 2047, RDISK will go up to 4-GB.

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Complete thread:

• New UIDE Available - rr, 28.04.2009, 09:56 (Announce)
  • New UIDE Available - Rugxulo, 28.04.2009, 22:43
    • New UIDE Available - sol, 29.04.2009, 00:37
  • New UIDE Available - rr, 29.04.2009, 22:40
    • New UIDE Available - Ninho, 01.05.2009, 13:09
      • New UIDE Available - Khusraw, 01.05.2009, 15:04
        • New UIDE Available - Ninho, 02.05.2009, 11:06
          • New UIDE Available - Khusraw, 02.05.2009, 14:36
            • New UIDE Available - Ninho, 02.05.2009, 23:23
            • New UIDE Available - rr, 04.05.2009, 22:52
            • New UIDE Available - Ninho, 05.05.2009, 10:52
              • New UIDE Available (May 6) - Rugxulo, 10.05.2009, 03:29
                • New UIDE Available (May 15) - Rugxulo, 17.05.2009, 01:10
                  • New UIDE (May 15) - Does this work for anyone at all ??? - DOS386, 17.05.2009, 05:26
                    • New UIDE (May 15) - Does this work for anyone at all ??? - sol, 17.05.2009, 20:03
                    • New UIDE (May 15) - Rugxulo, 17.05.2009, 22:58
                      • New UIDE4W98SSE (May 15) R.P. - DOS386, 18.05.2009, 06:16
                        • New UIDE4W98SSE (May 15) R.P. - Rugxulo, 18.05.2009, 08:34
                  • New UIDE Available (May 15) - Zyzzle, 18.05.2009, 03:58
                    • New UIDE Available (May 15) - rr, 19.05.2009, 13:49
                      • New UIDE Available (May 15) - Zyzzle, 20.05.2009, 00:07
                  • New UIDE Available (May 15) - Rugxulo, 18.05.2009, 08:40
                  • RDISK test - small bugfix. - Japheth, 19.05.2009, 12:22
                    • RDISK test - small bugfix. - rr, 19.05.2009, 16:30
                  • New UIDE Available (May 27) - Rugxulo, 28.05.2009, 22:13
                    • New UIDE Available (June 1) - Rugxulo, 03.06.2009, 16:13
                      • New UIDE Available (June 9) - Rugxulo, 11.06.2009, 04:03
                        • New UIDE Available (June 23) - Rugxulo, 24.06.2009, 22:54
                          • Custom RDISK Build ("RDISK-S") - Paul, 16.07.2009, 23:18
                            • Custom RDISK Build ("RDISK-S") - Rugxulo, 17.07.2009, 08:50
                              • Custom RDISK Build ("RDISK-S") - roytam, 17.07.2009, 13:12
                                • Custom RDISK Build ("RDISK-S") - Paul, 18.07.2009, 21:48
                                  • Custom RDISK Build ("RDISK-S") - roytam, 19.07.2009, 03:55
                                    • Custom RDISK Build ("RDISK-S") - Paul, 19.07.2009, 18:44
                                      • Custom RDISK Build ("RDISK-S") - roytam, 20.07.2009, 12:23
                                        • Custom RDISK Build ("RDISK-S") - Paul, 21.07.2009, 23:38
                              • Custom RDISK Build ("RDISK-S") - Paul, 18.07.2009, 21:48