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- TITLE: 941216 OS/2 WARP ENHANCED IDE SUPPORT
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- SYSTEMS WITH
- NATIVE SUPPORT TRANSLATED BIOS*
- ENHANCED IDE FEATURE
- DOS OS/2 DOS OS/2
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- DRIVES > 1024 CYL (> 528 MB)
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- BOOT PARTITIONS < 1024 CYL YES YES YES YES
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- ACCESS DISK PAST 1024 CYL NO NO YES YES
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- LOGICAL BLOCK ADDRESSING NO YES NO YES
- with parameters with parameters
- for performance /A:0 /U:0 /LBA /A:0 /U:0 /LBA
- saves drive 3 multiplies
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- FASTER PIO MODE YES YES YES YES
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- DMA ADDRESSING NO NO NO NO
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- not prevalent on controllers
- advantage for EISA systems only
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- WD UTILITY "ON TRACK" YES ** NA NA
- provides BIOS translation for
- system without translated BIOS
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- * IBM Systems with translated BIOS include Valuepoint and IBM
- Mobile
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- ** On Track will have a OS/2 filter that provides translation at
- Warp ship. This filter will be shipped with On Track other
- Enhanced IDE Utilities with WD and IBM hard files for use on
- systems that do not have translated BIOS. In the meantime
- we have worked with On Track to have FDISK identify the
- signature (45H) to prevent corruption.
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