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On Fri, 20 Feb 1998 03:07:58 -0500 (EST), Stephen Amadei wrote: >On Thu, 19 Feb 1998, Paul Khoury wrote: > >> On Thu, 19 Feb 1998 13:29:51 -0800 (PST), Patrick West wrote: >> >> >A question. I've heard that if one changes the drive in a caddy one must >> >use something like Ontrack to get the system to see it? >> > >> >Is this true? >> > >> It all depends on the size of the drive and if the system's BIOS >> supports EIDE. >> >> You only need to worry if the drive is over 500MB. > >But this can be gotten around with those drive overlays? Right? > Correct. I don't know exactly how they work (or rather how to explain them, since I'm thinking about several other things simultaniously), but it allows EIDE drives to be used on regular IDE controllers. And David, about LBA, I've never seen a HD that ONLY works on LBA. I'm pretty sure it has to do with the drives parameters and how it's addressed, but not with the IDE/EIDE size barrier. -- Paul Khoury <pkhoury@loop.com> http://pkhoury.dyn.ml.org (If you get an error, then the server is not online) Current system statistics: The Operating System/2 Version is 4.00 Revision 9.029 There are 24 Processes with 90 Threads. This machine's uptime is 0d 3h 21m 12s 578ms.