Re: OS/2 need help for disk > 512kb

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From: Michael Hermann
Date: Mon, 23 Dec 1996 00:00

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In article <59lcnr$lf5@mippet.ci.com.au>, Antonio Lam <laman@accsoft.com.au> writes:
|> In Australia, one of the leading PC magazine, PC User, comparing Win95, 
|> WinNT and OS/2 Warp in the Operation System Section of the Vol 9 Number 
|> 1 January 1997 issue, says:
|> 
|> "Both OS/2 and NT directly support RAID (redundant array of inexpensive 
|> drives) for reliable sky's-the-limit storage, while Windows 95 doesn't.  
|> On the other hand, OS/2 Warp needs help to handle IDE disks larger than 
|> 512kb."
|> 
|> That is ridiculous, 512kb is smaller than space available on the floppy 
|> disk.  I think he is talking about the 512MB BIOS limitation.  Could 
|> someone knowledgable write to the editor on "pcuser@apc.com.au" and 
|> explain to the author what 512MB limit is.

They probably meant 512MB (I don't know if they support it or not),
I have a SCSI 2GB drive installed (but partitioned) with no problems

 -Mike

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From: hermann@wolfker.uni-passau.de (Michael Hermann)
Subject: Re: OS/2 need help for disk > 512kb
Date: 1996/12/23
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