🚀 go-pugleaf

In <3iffd7$s9u@hermes.acs.ryerson.ca>, mhemswor@acs.ryerson.ca (Michael Hemsworth) writes:
>Hi Y'all:
>	One of our OS/2 boxes is getting a 1 gigabyte IDE drive.
>I'm having problems getting to install to run. It doesn't seem
>to like what the manufacturer's (Seagate) setup problem did to
>the partition table.
>	I've heard nasty rumors that OS/2 doesn't like 1 gig IDEs.
>Please tell me this isn't true.
>	I realize this has been posted before but at the time
>it was not an issue for me so I paid no attention. Sorry.

In the manual from WARP Fullpack, it states that if installing to IDE drive larger
than 528 meg, you MUST start the BIOS translation utility BEFORE installing OS/2.

SInce I use SCSI, I can't verify this, but the manual states:
	Start the system and wait for the BIOS translation screen to appear.
	Look for a message like "Press Spacebar to Start From Diskette".
	Insert the OS/2 Installation Diskette in Drive A: and "Press Spacebar".
	Continue with the normal installation.

A proven method is to partition the drive so that the BOOT partition is within the
first 1024 cylinders of the drive.

If you're using a version of Ontrack to translate the IDE drive, there is an OS/2
filter for Ontrack available from ftp.cdrom.com.

Dan Casey
Team OS/2
daniel@iquest.net