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From: dbc0027@cec1.wustl.edu (Daniel Bryan Crank)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: 1024 cylinder limit in 1.2
Message-ID: <1990Sep10.152015.29987@cec1.wustl.edu>
Date: 10 Sep 90 15:20:15 GMT
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In article <135200001@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu> twg0214@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu writes:
>A number of articles on OS/2 1.2 stipulated that HPFS removed any
>disk size limits. Therefore, I did not hesitatate to buy a
      :
>After low-level format of my disk to 1024 cylinders (and losing 132 Mbytes)
>OS/2 installed nicely as either FAT or HPFS partition. Apparently, the
>1024 cylinder limit is still in 1.2.  Does anybody know if this limit will
>gone in 1.21 or 2.0?  

I ran into a similar problem when attempting to set our network server up
with a 360MB Maxtor Drive (1224 cylinders) and the existing Western Digital
controller.  We were able to _low-level_ format the entire thing, by using
DOS's debug program to jump into the setup program on the controller card's
ROM... (many, many thanks to Western Digital for helping us out -- they have
the best technical support staff in the known universe).

Anyway, the low-level format succeeded, but PMFDISK reported that the maximum
partition size was just under 300MB, and nothing would change its mind.  We
wound up letting that extra 60-odd megabytes go in order to get the drive
running...*sigh*.

The people you should probably be talking to first are the manufacturers of
the hard disk controller...especially if it's Western Digital :^)

                                                        danno

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