BV> At a guess, I'd say that he ENABLED LBA mode while the disk was
BV> formatted for standard access.
PE> That sounds exactly like what I did.

Bzzzttt... WRONG !!!

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

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

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.

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

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.

It was a fucking miracle then Paul.
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