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Date:	Tue, 19 Feb 2002 17:26:31 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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Steven Levine wrote:
>
> there can still be confusion if the .add driver decides
> the geometry is different that what the BIOS thinks it is.

Yes, agreed.

> The newer BIOS's allow the drive to be accessed
> by CHS or LBA. The new BM and os2ldr support
> LBA addressing. The versions you are using don't.

I'm using Warp 4 FP 10 on everything. What level moves to the "new BM
and os2ldr"?

What's really confusing me is why Boot Manager and OS2LDR, which don't
have any drivers loaded yet so must be using the motherboard BIOS, can't
use the drive geometry that's be configured into the motherboard BIOS.

Also, since I'm configured for LBA, how is my "old" OS2LDR (I don't use
Boot Manager) reading the stupid drive if it can't read LBA geometry?

Wait 'til I put my old 150 MB ESDI drive back in -- the one which used
"debug -gc800:5" to set up "sector translation".

- Peter

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