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- From: lburgess@glacier.sim.es.com (Lewis Burgess)
- Subject: Re: how use >1024 Zyl. HD
- In-Reply-To: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu's message of Mon, 31 Aug 1992 15:49:24 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug31.154924.2578@midway.uchicago.edu> sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples) writes:
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- First off, I strongly recommend you enable sector translation on your
- hard disk adapter -- most have it. It works well.
-
- Failing that, OS/2 2.0 will support more than 1024 cylinders, but with
- some restrictions. I believe I list those in the FAQ List.
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- I don't have sector translation and I looked through the FAQ and couldn't find
- out how OS/2 supports more than 1024 with restrictions. Does anyone out there
- know how OS/2 does this and what restrictions there are?
-
- Thanx,
- -Lewis
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