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Article #17221Re: Installing WARP on a 1 gig IDE drive
From: Reed Mangino
Date: Thu, 23 Feb 1995 00:39
Date: Thu, 23 Feb 1995 00:39
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Michael Hemsworth (mhemswor@acs.ryerson.ca) wrote: : 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. I have OS/2 on a WD 730 meg drive. Luckily I have a bios(AMI) that allows for LBA translations. If your bios doesn't allow this, then you won't be able to use all of the drive(actually anything past 528 meg). -- ()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()() () tornado@esu.edu () "It is better to write bug-free () () Reed R. Mangino () code, rather than being very () () Student of Computer Science () good at finding bugs." () () East Stroudsburg University () TURBO ASSEMBLER MANUAL () ()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()HiMom!()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1044c2,cadd1aaf7887a8bc X-Google-Attributes: gid1044c2,public X-Google-Thread: 10cd94,cadd1aaf7887a8bc X-Google-Attributes: gid10cd94,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1995-02-23 07:54:19 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!nntp.gmd.de!dearn!blekul11!idefix.CS.kuleuven.ac.be!Belgium.EU.net!EU.net! howland.reston.ans.net!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!msunews!netnews.upenn.edu!jake.esu.edu!s30204.esu.edu!tornado From: tornado@esu.edu (Reed Mangino) Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc,bit.listserv.os2-l Subject: Re: Installing WARP on a 1 gig IDE drive Followup-To: comp.os.os2.misc,bit.listserv.os2-l Date: 23 Feb 1995 00:39:15 GMT Organization: East Stroudsburg University, Pennsylvania Lines: 22 Message-ID: <3iglfj$fpr@jake.esu.edu> References: <3iffd7$s9u@hermes.acs.ryerson.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: s30204.esu.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL0]