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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).

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Reed Mangino (tornado@esu.edu) wrote:
: 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).

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: ()  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!()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()

I'm not sure this is correct.  I know with reguard to being able to boot
from an IDE hard disk that the bootable partition must not be be beyond
cylinder 1024. This is something to due with the BIOS or something.  Once
OS/2 loads the disk driver there is no 528 MB limit since the driver
bypasses the BIOS altogether.  There are IDE controller cards that have
their own BIOS on them that help to support the >528MB drives too.

-Anthony

aschlemm@netcom.com

> 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.
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Should work.  FDisk into two partitions, and make sure the top half is hpfs.
Some Bios' don't like to put FAT past 1023 cyls, and yours may be that
type.

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longhaul@aloha.com
http://www.aloha.com/~longhaul

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