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Third Floppy Drive ? Twenty Six Drives ? (Emulation)

posted by Oso2k, 16.07.2021, 20:17

> What is the max number of floppy drives I can have on FreeDOS under
> VirtualBox ?
>
> How many CD-ROMS can I have ?
>
> Hard Drives ?
>
> USB Drives ?
>
> Right now this is all hypothetical conjecture.
>
> Just thinking that it might be useful knowledge one day.

26 floppy/hard disk/optical/network/usb drives per DOS machine or whatever is set in your LASTDRIVE var. Note, each drive takes some bytes of RAM whether or not it is mounted or available to DOS.

Complete thread:

• Third Floppy Drive ? Twenty Six Drives ? - CLINT, 16.07.2021, 15:40 (Emulation)
  • Third Floppy Drive ? Twenty Six Drives ? - Oso2k, 16.07.2021, 20:17
  • Third Floppy Drive ? Twenty Six Drives ? - mceric, 16.07.2021, 20:43
  • Third Floppy Drive ? Twenty Six Drives ? - bretjohn, 16.07.2021, 22:01
    • Third Floppy Drive ? Twenty Six Drives ? - Rugxulo, 17.07.2021, 00:15