Subj : checking for bad sectors under OS/2
To   : Michael Balcos
From : Johan Zwiekhorst
Date : Tue Apr 12 2005 10:25 pm

Hi Michael!

In your message to me, dated <Tuesday April 12 2005 02:19>, you wrote:

 >MB: But that would mean setting a big hard drive to use LBA mode from the
 >MB: BIOS. Will that be safe and not harm my OS/2 Warp 3 HPFS partitions?

No, that's not safe! Changing the access mode for your hard disk WILL garble 
all data on it and make it unreadable. (As long as you don't write on the disk, 
reverting to the previous access mode will make your partitions readable again, 
by the way.) If you want to switch to another access mode, you will need to 
backup your partitions first and restore them after the switch has been 
executed.

Warp 3 will work with any drive thrown at it, by the way, as long as you use a 
current driver. There's no difference with Warp 4 in that respect.

Kind regards,

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