BV> If you are going to use LBA mode, then you should start with a
BV> freshly formatted disk or a disk which does NOT contain any data.

That was not pointed out to me.  If I knew I had to do that, I
wouldn't have put the new hard disk in my old machine in the 
first place.

BV> Think about it Paul. LBA addresses the disk in a manner which is NOT
BV> normal. Hence the different terminology.

I had no idea what LBA did.

BV> IOW, he's fucked it himself and now
BV> he's going to claim that LBA has a problem. Typical of Paul.
PE> Unless I misunderstood Rod, so long as I used HPFS, there was
PE> no LBA issue.

BV> Until you enabled it. LBA works below the OS at the BIOS level.
BV> Your OS makes calls to the disk which the BIOS handles. If you
BV> format the disk for X heads, Y cylinders, Z sectors using Normal
BV> access then configure it for A heads, B cylinders, C sectors using
BV> the LBA mode, things are going to get pretty screwy because the BIOS
BV> sees it as a different disk. It doesn't simply convert all standard
BV> requests into LBA requests. Well, it probably does but the sectors
BV> aren't going to be in exactly the same place. The ACCESS method is
BV> different.

Ok, I didn't know this.  For all I knew, it only converted calls
outside normal range and remapped them.

PE> I only used HPFS.  Not to mention the fact that it worked anyway,
PE> I was initially able to read the data, and even install 7 OS/2 disks.
PE> AND I was able to recover all the data with a utility, even with LBA
PE> enabled.

BV> It was a fucking miracle then Paul.

It also leaves a large gap in your LBA theory.  How do you explain
it away, if it's all been remapped?  Surely NONE of my data would
be readable?  If NONE of it was readable, I wouldn't have had a 
problem, because I wouldn't have been able, or even trying to, install
OS/2 onto a drive which was obviously fucked.  I would have instead
played around with the BIOS settings until the data was visible.

In actual fact, after the initial boot, it WASN'T visible, because
I hadn't done a "ide drive setup" yet, so it thought I had no hard
disks at all.  So I did something about it.  BFN.  Paul.
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