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.

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

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

JM> Fix should hopefully follow.

Hopefully follow?  There is what looks like a bug fix in one of the
fixpacks for Warp.  I would assume that the problem doesn't exist in
Merlin.  BFN.  Paul.
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