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From: schuster@panix.uucp (Michael Schuster)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Problems installing OS/2 1.3 SE on a Clone....
Message-ID: <1991Jun6.000144.14705@panix.uucp>
Date: 6 Jun 91 00:01:44 GMT
References: <6jth45l@rpi.edu> <1991Jun05.004604.13421@comp.vuw.ac.nz>
Organization: PANIX - Public Access Unix Systems of NY
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In article <1991Jun05.004604.13421@comp.vuw.ac.nz> Conrad.Bullock@comp.vuw.ac.nz (Conrad Bullock) writes:
>
>In article <6jth45l@rpi.edu>, yee@aix01.aix.rpi.edu (Crimson Avenger) writes:
>|> HELP!  I can't install OS/2 1.3 on my hard disk.
>
>Are you using any DOS device drivers for your disk (such as Disk
>Manager, or Speedstor?) Drive type 1 sounds very very odd for a
>150MB ESDI disk. Drive type 1 is normally a 10 or 20MB drive. You
>should be using the 'user type', type 47, with the correct parameters
>entered into the AMI BIOS setup program.
>

Strictly speaking, that's not always the correct procedure. ESDI controllers
have BIOS ROM extensions on them which write drive parameters into low
memory when they initialize during the power-on sequence. Usually they
tell you to install the hard drive as "type 1" in the CMOS table, which
is then a signal to the disk controller that it must install the true
values during boot-up.


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