Article: Q73735
Product(s): Microsoft Disk Operating System
Version(s): MS-DOS:5.x,6.0,6.2,6.21,6.22
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Last Modified: 17-DEC-2000
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The information in this article applies to:
- Microsoft MS-DOS operating system versions 5.0, 5.0a, 6.0, 6.2, 6.21, 6.22
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SUMMARY
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The device driver LDRIVE.SYS provided with some Future Domain hard drive
controllers is incompatible with MS-DOS versions 5.0 and later. To install
MS-DOS 5.0 and later onto the hard drive, it is necessary to back up the hard
drive, repartition and reformat the drive under MS-DOS 5.0 or later, and restore
backups. The device=LDRIVE.SYS line should be removed from CONFIG.SYS.
LDRIVE.SYS is intended to provide greater than 32 MB logical drives under MS-DOS
3.3 and earlier. It provides this service by using a technique called logical
sectoring in which sector sizes greater than 512 bytes are used. Without a
driver such as LDRIVE.SYS, MS-DOS is not capable of reading these disks. This
necessitates reformatting the disk using MS-DOS FORMAT to make the disk usable
without special drivers.
Additional query words: 6.22 5.00 5.00a 6.00 6.20
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Technology : kbMSDOSSearch kbMSDOS621 kbMSDOS622 kbMSDOS620 kbMSDOS600 kbMSDOS500 kbMSDOS500a
Version : MS-DOS:5.x,6.0,6.2,6.21,6.22
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