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Date:	Mon, 18 Feb 2002 21:16:19 PST7
From:	Peter Skye <pskye@peterskye.com >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Any limitation on hard drive size ?

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xowatson@concentric.net wrote:
>
> fairly reliable. The drives, that is, not the ladies.

You've done full hardware testing, yes?

> Like Steve said, you can usually upgrade the BIOS.

You're assuming I know who made these motherboards!

> ... the BIOS said it's only 8 gigs ... jumper
> for 34 gigs, the BIOS now sees 34 gigs ... a
> BIOS flash, now I have the full 60 gigs.

I _think_ that OS/2 Warp with current drivers will see the entire drive
since it doesn't use the motherboard BIOS. The motherboard BIOS is,
after all, just a bunch of drivers. So, the motherboard BIOS boots to
your selected operating system using its old drivers which can only look
in the "first 8 GB" (the "1024 cylinder" limit), then as soon as your
selected operating system initializes and switches to its own drivers
you have the entire drive. Yes?

- Peter

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