RS> In that case it looks pretty certain that for some reason OS2 is
RS> having a problem with that size drive, particularly in the light of
RS> a specific mention of something similar about >2GB drives in the APAR.

I've had a thought.  My 2.5 gig drive is 4969 cylinders, 16 heads and 63
sectors.  The normal thing to do is scale down the number of cylinders by 4
and increase the number of heads to 64. That won't work for me, because
4969/4 > 1024.  So maybe I cannot have bios remapping?

Another thing is that according to the Linux docs, LBA is a method of
addressing the disk using a block number INSTEAD of using the physical
sectors.  So what is wrong with enabling LBA on all my drives?  How can
that EVER cause any harm?  That ISN'T remapping of physical address, that
is just ALLOWING a smart application to use an ADDITIONAL form of
addressing?

RS> Corse that assumes you really did try it properly just have a
RS> SINGLE 2.5GB hard drive installed, no other drives at all, you
RS> zeroed out the bytes in the first physical sector. You disabled
RS> LBA in the motherboard bios and then tried installing OS2 in a partition
RS> below the 1024 cylinder limit and THAT much simpler config failed.

I never did this.  I may have come close to trying that when I was first
having problems, I cannot remember.  BFN.  Paul. 
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