Hi Murray,

On 14-Nov-99, Murray Lesser wrote to Eddy Thilleman:



 ML> posts!).  IIRC, the prohibition against early AMI (and some other)
 ML> BIOSes was never mentioned in the documentation for Warp 3 (and
 ML> later).  The following is an edited excerpt (via clipboard) from
 ML> Appendix G of the OS/2 2.1 "Installation Guide" as it appears on
 ML> the 1993 CD-ROM edition of the "OS/2 Online Book Collection":

 ML> ..... G.2  AMI BIOS

 ML> The later BIOS versions from American Megatrends, Inc. (AMI)
 ML> provide a screen ID code, which is visible at the lower-left
 ML> corner of the screen during the initial random-access-memory (RAM)
 ML> count...  On an AMI BIOS or AMI BIOS Plus, the message will be in
 ML> the form:

 ML> aaaa-bbbb-mmddyy-Kc

 ML> On an AMI HI-Flex BIOS, the message will be in the form:

 ML> ee-ffff-bbbbbb-gggggggg-mmddyy-hhhhhhhh-c

 ML> 1.  If an IDE-type hard drive is installed, the date mmddyy should
 ML> be 040990 or later for use with any operating system, including
 ML> DOS. This is because of the special timing requirements of IDE
 ML> drives, which were accommodated on the date noted. .....

 ML> Since I cnnot find this information in the reference material I
 ML> have for any later versions of OS/2, I cam make one of two
 ML> assumptions: 1).

Exactly the same information as you quoted is in the printed Users
Guide for Warp 3 red, first edition, page 300 et sequa.

 ML> The restriction is no longer in existence for later versions of
 ML> OS/2; or 2)  By the time later versions of OS/2 came out, the
 ML> people compiling the documentation had forgotten that there were
 ML> any old machines still in use.

It is for Warp 3 red Connect, just hidden away :-(


George

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