Will Honea wrote in a message to James Byrnes:
 WH> From the been-there-done-that file, I would suggest that you 
 WH> first kill ALL the partitions - wipe the table clean.  Boot to 
 WH> the BIOS setup and NOW select LBA - 
This seems to contradict the following, from the OS2 echo:
Lawrence Garvin wrote in a message to Francois Thunus:
 LG> Also, do NOT enable LBA in the bios. OS/2 will handle the disk 
 LG> mapping arrangements once the drivers load, but the boot tracks 
 LG> and such need to be in a partition in the first 1024 cylinders 
 LG> for -any- operating system to load.
Or am I missing something here?
 WH> make a note of the 'cyl/hd/sec' numbers it gives.  Older Bios's 
 WH> had some funny notions about what LBA was! 
What would you call "older" in this context?  FWIW I have an Award BIOS here 
with a date of 1/17/96.
email: roy.j.tellason%tanstaaf@frackit.com 
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