Overview

What is SMAX?

SMAX : A TSR driver needed to access MAXI style extended capacity disks on some systems

In depth

A closer look at SMAX

While DOS versions 3.2x and later can automatically handle the housekeeping required to access MAXI style extended capacity disks, the BIOS and hardware on many systems will not. SMAX .com is a memory resident driver which is used to improve the compatibility of MAXI extended capacity disks with some combinations of hardware and DOS. It is not a true device driver in the conventional sense of DOS terminology. Rather, it is a simple TSR (terminate but stay resident) program which patches into the BIOS disk interrupt vector (interrupt hex 13) and changes the EOT (end of track, or last sector in a track) parameter to match the increased value of the MAXI extended capacity disks when it detects a disk read or write operation. MAXI Form v1.8 or later, MAXI Disk v3.2 or later, and FreeForm v2.3 or later will automatically configure SMAX for the type of disk being formatted. SMAX will automatically configure itself for the read/write operations to allow transparent access to all DOS and MAXI formatted disks, regardless of density.

Verdict

Should you download SMAX?

SMAX runs on Windows 10/11 and is available under the Freeware license — the installer is 22 KB. We’ve catalogued it under System.

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SMAX specifications

Category: System
Publisher: Herne Data Systems Ltd.
Last updated: Nov 19, 2023
License: Freeware
Operating system: Windows 10/11
File size: 22 KB
Price: Free
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