Re: BIOS upgrade to LBA mode or workaround?

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From: Ovidiu Popa
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1998 00:00

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Hi, Helmut.

>I am using NeXTSTEP (NS) and you are right and wrong:
>it uses BIOS for things like NS-fdisk to partition the disk, and it is said
>that once the disk is formatted and all it can do without BIOS translation.
>However, I experimented for more than a week with different strategies and
>could not get it to work. The only thing that consistently works is using
>BIOS-LBA mode to partition the disk and to also use the disk, under WIN95
as
>well as under NeXTSTEP (UNIX).

My experience in NeXTSTEP is nil - don't even know if it really qualifies as
UNIX :-)

>Well, burning a new EPROM doesn't cost me (close to) anything, and would
sure
>be worth saving all the hassle of trying to make it work somehow with the
old
>non-LBA bios.

Well, I meant: writing the new _code_ is expensive, not burning the EEPROM
:-)

Ovidiu Popa
MS-MVP (DTS)

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From: "Ovidiu Popa" <opopa@imt.ro>
Subject: Re: BIOS upgrade to LBA mode or workaround?
Date: 1998/10/15
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