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echo: os2prog
to: Peter Fitzsimmons
from: John Poltorak
date: 1995-03-14 21:07:56
subject: OS/2 16MB barrier

JP>> would normally start. This happens whilst using the
 JP>> IBM2SCSI.ADD device driver. If I REM this out, the

 PF> Have you tried the warp csd yet?  Here's one of the apars

 PF>  APAR= PJ16151
 PF>   IBM2SCSI WON'T ALLOW BOOT PARTITIONS > 4 GIGS OR BEYOND 4 GIGS
 PF>   IF THE PARTITIONS ARE SMALL UNDER OS2 3.0, 2.11 ABD BELOW

I'll try to order the CSD tomorrow. Someone from IBM mentioned IBM2SCSI.ADD
being updated and said something about it not working previously above
16MB.
This seems very unlikely as I would expect a lot of file servers to be
Model 95's running with a lot of memory, and I can't imagine then using a
different device driver.

 PF> Also,  the debug kernel (actually the debug loader) will print out
 PF> everything OS/2 is assuming about your memory when it first loads.

How do I invoke this?

John

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