From: letoured_at_together.net
Date: Fri Nov 15 2002 - 21:35:23 EST
In <000b01c28c1a$fceb1ba0$9c02a8c0_at_sierpinski>, on 11/14/02
at 10:18 AM, "David Ross" <ross_at_math.hawaii.edu> said:
>> >I would still have a go with MS-DOS 6.0, which is what I used on my
>> >drive. Unless you do, you won't really know if it is the drive or
>> >the OS.
>>
>> And the difference between IBM PC DOS 7 and MS DOS 6 is what? --
>> Besides the fact that IBM fixed some bugs MS didn't?
>The difference is that they were written by different companies, are
>internally entirely different pieces of software, and that MS DOS 6.0
>is known to work on a flash disk in my machine whereas PD DOS 7 is
>not. This is not a question of whether one OS is better than
>another, it is simply a matter of reducing variables in a diagnosis.
The configuration is not automatic -- you need to set up pcmata.sys in
the config.sys file, but PC DOS 7 supports spram and IDE disk cards.
Flash cards are supported with a different driver.
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