Hi Will,

On 15-Nov-99, Will Honea wrote to George White:

 WH> George White wrote to Peter Knapper on 11-11-1999

 GW>> page 300 there is a section on AMI BIOS. Page 301, General Rules:

 GW>> "If an IDE-type hard drive is installed, the date mmddyy should
 GW>> be 040990 or later for use with any operating system, including
 GW>> DOS. Special timing requirements of IDE drives were accomodated
 GW>> on the date noted.

 WH> George, you miss a very large point here: if the BIOS will support
 WH> the IDE drive enough to get far enough into the boot to load
 WH> IBM1S506.ADD it doesn't matter WHAT the BIOS timings are - they
 WH> are totally irrelevant from that point on.  Hence the advice: boot
 WH> the system and try it.  If you can install, press on and don't
 WH> look back.

I've _not_ missed the point at all, you've cut the critical sentence
in Peter Knapper's post that I was responding to. He said:-

 PK> I have never seen any statement that suggests "Your BIOS must be
 PK> dated after xxx to load/run OS/2", so I will repeat the above
 PK> question - What date is your BIOS

So I replied with the quote from the Warp Connect Users Guide (above)
which _does_ suggest that the BIOS must be after a certain date. I
agree with all you say, but IBM are covering their backsides by saying
any AMI BIOS prior to that date should not be used. As usual in the
real world it's a YMMV situation, so it's worth trying as quite
possibly it isn't an issue at all (and doesn't appear to be for
Linda).

George

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