Hi Roy,

On 07-Nov-99, Roy J. Tellason wrote to Linda Proulx:

 GW>> ???? What do you mean "The BIOS is too old"? When is it dated?

 LP>> It's an AMI 386 dated 04/30/89.

 LP>> When OS/2 came out it gave the minimum bios date & mine was 6
 LP>> months too old.  And I don't think Warp would change that.

 LP>> The AMI bios had to be after a certain date & this bios date was
 LP>> not. At least that was the info given to the User Group.

 RJT> The only problem you're likely to run into with this is that it
 RJT> won't have direct support built into the BIOS for newer,  larger
 RJT> drives.  That usually takes the form of more choices in drive
 RJT> mappings,  particularly LBA.  As long as you can set up a
 RJT> smallish partition to _boot_ from,  then once OS/2 boots it takes
 RJT> control of things and the BIOS is out of the picture

According to the OS/2 User Guide, page 300 et sequa, with AMI BIOSs
there are IDE timing problems with BIOSs before 040990 which affect
all OSs. See my post to Peter Knapper for quotes.

 RJT> The only constraint is that the boot partition needs to be within
 RJT> the first 1023 cylinders on the disk

Always a problem in those days...

George

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