In article <kspousta.725768937@qualcom> kspousta@qualcom.qualcomm.com (Kevin Spousta) writes:
>orville%weyrich@uunet.uu.net (Orville R. Weyrich) writes:
>
>>My question is this: I have heard that SCSI disks larger than 1 Gb may
>>not work properly without BIOS upgrades or special drivers. Is this true for
>>OS/2?
>
They will work fine with OS/2 but you may want the BIOS upgrade if you
plan to install DOS as well. There is also a limitation with OS/2 that
it will NOT boot from a partition with more than 1024 cylinders. You can
-
The extended BIOS translation will allow booting from a single partition
and let MS-DOS see the whole drive.
>I dunno 'bout OS/2, but that's the case for DOS.. You'll need the latest BIOS
>from Adaptec (The microcode is available for DL via their BBS) and the latest
>ASPI4DOS.SYS (v3.0a) to access all of your large disks. I discovered this
>while trying to get a friend's Micropolis 1.6g drive to format to it's capacity.Luckily, we got through to Adaptec's BBS on the 1st try and were able to grab
>
MS-DOS requires the new BIOS because int 13 is limited to 1024 tracks.
The OS/2 drivers do NOT use the BIOS but instead talk directly to the
firmware. Of course the BIOS is used to do the initial boot.