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Re: Help! TCP/IP 2.0 for OS/2
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Neeraj_Gupta.OSBU_North@xerox.com)
Thu Nov 10 12:49:45 1994
From: Neeraj_Gupta.OSBU_North@xerox.com
Date: Thu, 10 Nov 1994 09:48:15 PST
In-Reply-To: "kurgan%mit:edu's message of 8 Nov 94 23:22:03 PST (Tuesday)"
To: kurgan@MIT.EDU
Cc: os2partners@MIT.EDU
Hi Louis.
I have a proprietary BIOS for my motherboard, Mylex (upgradeable FLASH Bios,
update 6.07). But that is not important. Here is the deal:
1. If you have an EIDE controller, any BIOS will work. The BIOS gets set to
drive type 1, and the controller's BIOS is responsible for the drive. The
EnhancedIDE controller/drive combo should work with all operating systems
(because it fakes it so the drive only appears to have 1024 cyls to the outside
world).
2. If you want to use software disk managers (for the purpose of getting
DOS/FAT to recognize the rest of the drive), your BIOS must support the larger
drive. The only way to know that would be to actually put the drive parameters
in you BIOS and see if it takes cyls > 1024. If so, your BIOS should work.
3. If you want to use OS/2 to access the rest of the disk with HPFS, the BIOS
must support the large drive. Same as #2.
Hope this helps.
/neeraj
