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Date:	Tue, 19 Feb 2002 18:28:39 PST7
From:	"Steven Levine" <steve53@earthlink.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Any limitation on hard drive size ?

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In <3C72FB2F.5ABE@peterskye.com>, on 02/19/02
at 05:26 PM, Peter Skye said:

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

WSeB, MCP and eCS.

>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.

They do, but then there's auto mode and there's the geometry recorded in
the boot records. It's a kludge, but that's the definition of PC
architecture. As long as all the values agree there's no problem.

>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?

Turning on LBA support does not turn off the CHS addressing support. You
just can't address the entire drive with CHS addressing.

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

What about my 80MB Seagate SCSI doorstop? 39 mSec seek time. 1-1
interleave.

Steven

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