G'Day Paul,

On 26/10/96, Paul Edwards said to Patrick Cole the following :

 PE> I didn't believe a word of it, but I did it, and it worked!  I think
 PE> what reality is is that there is a bug in OS/2 when dealing with the
 PE> >2 gig drives on 2nd IDE.  It seems it wasn't handling the LBA
 PE> properly, as I ran a program to display cyls/heads etc and it
 PE> reported stupid values (in a DOS box under OS/2), whilst it worked
 PE> fine on real DOS.

It doesn't correctly handle any drive greater than 1024 cylinders on the
secondary IDE controller.  Seems that the system isn't picking up the INT13
information from the controller.

Doesn't happen on every system, but still occurs quite regularly.  Its a
known problem, actually discovered and reported by IBM Australia :-)

Fix should hopefully follow.

Regards,


       Jason Meaden.

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