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echo: os2_z3
to: Paul Edwards
from: Russell Brooks
date: 1996-10-28 06:31:38
subject: diskcache

PE> OS/2 to an LBA drive on my 3rd IDE, it trashed my HPFS partition and then

 PE> it incorrectly handling > 2 gig disks.  Not sure how you are meant to 

 PE> was, and they said to move the disk to my first IDE, because IDE only 

 PE> handled

 PE> the first 2 drives or something.  I didn't believe a word of it, but I 

 PE> did it,

 PE> and it worked!  I think what reality is is that there is a bug in OS/2 

 PE> when

 PE> dealing with the >2 gig drives on > 2nd IDE.  It seems it
wasn't handling 

 PE> the

 PE> LBA properly, as I

 PE> ran a program to display cyls/heads etc and it reported stupid values (in 

 PE> a DOS

 PE> box under OS/2), whilst it worked fine on real DOS.  BFN.  Paul.



Further to the above,

One question......



Has any one had any trouble using a 3.2Gig EIDE drive on Warp 3.

Partitioned as 100meg for C: and the 3.1gig as D:

With 2  EIDE 4 stackers on the secondary master & slave



Russell

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