RS> As usual you are FAR too cryptic about just WHAT you did. Clearly you
RS> have managed to install OS/2 on the other 2.5GB drive somehow.

PE> No, I haven't.  I have 4 drives, 420, 540, 2440, 2440.
PE> I have OS/2 3.0 installed on the 420 and 540.  All sorts
PE> of disasters happened last time I tried to install OS/2 on
PE> the 3rd drive, which is why I am now harassing the 4th drive.

OK, that wasnt clear from what you had said at the time, when you
were adding the first 2.5GB drive etc. I somehow got the impression
that trying harder with the second one got it installed on that fine.

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

I've also since heard a comment that those particular Quantum
Sirrocco 2.5GB drives can have 'problems' on Pentiums specifically.
Havent heard any specifics at all tho and what was said was pretty
vague. It WAS said by that crowd you bought yours from tho, so it
may just be that he was actually talking about YOUR problem, and
its not actually Pentiums at all thats the problem but OS2.

In the circumstances it might be better to carry on regardless with
OS2 installed on one of the smaller drives if you still see the problem
with all the latest fixpacks applied to the current Warp and wait till
they get off their arse and fix the problem with Merlin. Coz its now
starting to look much more like an OS2 quirk, nothing to do with the
more general question of installing over the 1024 cylinder limit.

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

Just be careful tho, that sort of furiously swapping of physical hard drives
around is taking a hell of a risk with your data, even on the OTHER 3 drives
you arent playing with, coz you need to be VERY careful you put them back
the way they were when you stop playing and restore the original config.
@EOT:

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