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From: dcasey@ibm.net                                    27-Aug-99 17:08:15
  To: All                                               28-Aug-99 03:31:24
Subj: Re: Seagate Hawk spin down problem

From: dcasey@ibm.net (Dan Casey)

In article <37C69A48.678A0F3F@jm-usa.com>,
Stephen Eickhoff <eickhsr@jm-usa.com> wrote:
>Hopefully no one flames me for not having the exact model, but I have a
>2.1 GB Seagate Hawk drive in a DECPC XL590. The controller is an onboard
>PCI Symbios Logic 53c810, I believe. The drive's problem is that it will
>make a nasty noise, as if the brakes were suddenly put on the platters,
>and spin down. Then it will immediately spin back up.

<SNIP>

I had this problem, a few years ago. Turned out to be a faulty power
connector (a "Y" cable to be exact). I replaced it, and it (the
problem) went away for good.

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From: zayne@omen.com.au                                 28-Aug-99 01:04:06
  To: All                                               28-Aug-99 03:31:25
Subj: Re: Promise ata-66 and Danis settings

From: zayne@omen.com.au (Mooo)

derekm666@yahoo.com wrote:

>I was wondering if there were some special settings for danis506.add? I
>have it installed and while booting up os/2 it says Cant handle storage
>device or something like that and stops. Any help would be appreciated.

Have you read the -very- detailed docos that come with the danis
package?  They are great, not just for the package itself, but also
for a peek at how these things work.

Cheers,
Craig

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From: fleggett@dakota.gate.net                          28-Aug-99 00:23:00
  To: All                                               28-Aug-99 10:43:13
Subj: Re: Yamaha, nope...Ricoh, yes.

From: fleggett@dakota.gate.net (Fred Leggett)

In article <geribeurzfyrlqvnycvcrkpbz.fh5e6k1.pminews@news.dial.pipex.com>,
Trevor Hemsley <Trevor-Hemsley@dial.pipex.com> wrote:
>
>I've had TRAP 000E's in 1.8a23 and 1.8a24 - both in SCSIMGR$ when I first
>ask it to try to do something with a CD-R. If the screen was readable then
     Ah hah!  So, I'm not the only one!  Good, well bad, no good...you get
the idea.
     I was about to go on a new motherboard search.  Incidentally, I was
also experiencing trap e's in the aic7870 driver (along with scsimgr$).
-- 
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Fred Leggett - fleggett@gate.net

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From: xkn19@dial.pipex.com                              28-Aug-99 05:13:01
  To: All                                               28-Aug-99 10:43:13
Subj: Re: Seagate Hawk spin down problem

From: "Martin Payne" <xkn19@dial.pipex.com>

David A. Lethe wrote in message <37c69a91.2615078@news.gte.net>...
>On Fri, 27 Aug 1999 10:01:44 -0400, Stephen Eickhoff
><eickhsr@jm-usa.com> wrote:
>
>>Hopefully no one flames me for not having the exact model, but I have a
>>2.1 GB Seagate Hawk drive in a DECPC XL590. The controller is an onboard
>>PCI Symbios Logic 53c810, I believe. The drive's problem is that it will
>>make a nasty noise, as if the brakes were suddenly put on the platters,
>>and spin down. Then it will immediately spin back up. This happens once
>>or twice a day. My first thought was that it has a heat problem.
>>Although it's only a 5400 RPM drive, it's 3.5" half-height so the CD-ROM
>>above and 5.25 floppy below are nearly touching. I've taken the blank
>>plate off the front to see if that will help, and I plan to remove the
>>useless floppy later when I take the system offline for other
>>maintenance. The one good thing about this is that OS/2 doesn't crash
>>when the drive poops out 8^P I've done several scans with Gammatech
>>Utilities for bad sectors and it doesn't show any, and doesn't show any
>>hotfixes so the media is still good. I made a drive image just to keep
>>Murphy away!
>>
>Nasty noises are never good.  BACK UP EVERYTHING!
>Then call seagate and hope you qualifiy for a RMA.  Most of their
>disks carry a 5 year warranty (unless the drive is a DEC OEM version).
>
>David
>

This sounds to me like the power lead into the drive is coming loose.

Try pulling gently on the lead whilst the drive is spinning (don't try to
pull it out, just prove if there is a bad connection). You'll soon recognise
if this is causing your problem.

I've had this happen to me several times over the years.

cheers, Martin


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From: rsteiner@visi.com                                 28-Aug-99 02:24:13
  To: All                                               28-Aug-99 10:43:13
Subj: Re: Install OS/2 Warp Server 4.0 with an 8GB SCSI

From: rsteiner@visi.com (Richard Steiner)

Here in comp.os.os2.setup.storage, Bob Germer <bobg.REMOVEME.@pics.com>
spake unto us, saying:

>Anyone who installs a new SCSI Hard drive and/or a new SCSI adapter and
>doesn't low level the drive is asking for problems. Many will work without
>this step, but one cannot be secure without first "marrying" the drive to
>the adapter.

I've installed seven SCSI hard drives here over the past few years w/o
bothering to do that sort of thing (using various drive manufacturers
including DEC, Seagate, IBM, and Quantum), and I've never had any
problems.

FWIW, my SCSI controllers are all Adaptec 2940U or 2940UW controllers.

-- 
   -Rich Steiner  >>>--->  rsteiner@visi.com  >>>---> Bloomington, MN
     OS/2 + Linux + BeOS + FreeBSD + Solaris + WinNT4 + Win95 + DOS
      + VMWare + Fusion + vMac + Executor = PC Hobbyist Heaven! :-)
           MTV - why Johnny can't read, tie his shoes, or speak...

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From: nospam@null                                       28-Aug-99 10:35:28
  To: All                                               28-Aug-99 10:43:13
Subj: Re: RSJ Problem

From: nospam@null (Richard A Crane)

On Fri, 27 Aug 1999 00:17:52, ames@deltrak.demon.co.uk (Andrew Stephenson) 
wrote:


> THE PROCEDURE:
> 
> 1) Ensure the disk is in the drive properly.
> 
> 2) Open an OS/2 command line session and give the command
> 	trackcpy
>    NB: Like "trackcopy" but without an 'o'.
> 
> 3) When the '>' prompt appears, give the command
> 	blank cdr: 0
> 
> 4) Wait.  Apparently the time required varies with the type of
>    drive.  For Yamahas, it takes about as long as the original
>    recording (plus finalisation) took.  So go brew up a cup of
>    something legal and let the machine do its thing.
> 
> 5) When it has finished and the next '>' prompt appears, give
>    the command
> 	quit
> 
> And that's it.  The disk should now attach in the usual way.
> 
 Could I suggest "trackcpy && blank cdr:0 && quit"

A slightly shorter version (you don't have to check for it in the middle it
just
all runs)
Richard A Crane ph 08 8945 3252 fx 08 8945 5952
Check Copyright of this with the author you may suffer litigation or 
embarrassment.

ps Foolproof is not good enough ..... we're not dealing with fools

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From: as@sci.fi                                         28-Aug-99 13:18:16
  To: All                                               28-Aug-99 10:43:14
Subj: Re: Yamaha, nope...Ricoh, yes.

From: Anssi Saari <as@sci.fi>

"Trevor Hemsley" <Trevor-Hemsley@dial.pipex.com> writes:

> On 27 Aug 1999 01:44:56 +0300, Anssi Saari wrote:
> 
> ->> ->It's just a bug/problem with higher relaeases of Cd-record!
> ->> 
> ->> Has anyone tried the new version 1.8a24 (23/08/99)?
> ->
> ->I have now. The readme says the bug which caused those crashes with
> ->some peoples Yamahas and Ricohs is fixed. I haven't had a crash yet,
> ->after playing around with the thing. The other new thing in this
> ->release is support for the FIFO.
> 
> I've had TRAP 000E's in 1.8a23 and 1.8a24 - both in SCSIMGR$ when I first
> ask it to try to do something with a CD-R. If the screen was readable then
> I'd report it but it's full of random flashing spaceinvaders so it makes
> it a bit difficult ;-0

I haven't had a trap, but I couldn't blank an RW disc. The -atip option
doesn't work either. The message says 

Cdrecord release 1.8a24 Copyright (C) 1995-1999 J”rg Schilling
scsidev: '2,0'
scsibus: 0 target: 2 lun: 0
Device type    : Removable CD-ROM
Version        : 2
Response Format: 2
Capabilities   :
Vendor_info    : 'RICOH   '
Identifikation : 'CD-R/RW MP7040S '
Revision       : '1.30'
Device seems to be: Generic CD-ROM.
G:\TOOLS\CDRECORD.EXE: Sorry, no CD/DVD-Recorder or unsupported
CD/DVD-Recorder
found on this target.

Or more accurately, the -atip option only works with CD-Rs, 'real' CDs
and RWs give the above message.  The thing also makes a SCSI reset with
-toc and -atip and -inq, which is really annoying. I put a session on
an RW disc and it worked fine, no traps.

-- 
Anssi Saari - as@sci.fi

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From: mike.luther@ziplog.com                            28-Aug-99 14:18:25
  To: All                                               28-Aug-99 14:21:24
Subj: 8.? magic line for drive size?

From: mike.luther@ziplog.com

Confronted with an out of room HPFS 4G SCSI box..  It's WARP 4 system
with an Adaptec 2940UW and at Fixpack 8 level as are all my maintenance
disks with the FP8 level full 32bit CHKDSK programs and whatever drivers
FP8 now has as updated drivers on the system.


It's a plain OS/2 HPFS system, no boot manager, no other operating
system on the drive.  The old drive is carved up so that the initial
drive C:, the boot partition is less than 1GB, and, as far as I know, in
the first 1024 cylinder section of the disk...


I'd like to use Drivecopy by the Partition Magic group to clone a new
8 GB SCSI box from the already beautifully working old one.  Then, if
needed, I ought to be able to use Partition Magic 3.0 to move the sizes
of the partions around, if I need to do that, or at least I have been able
to do that with partitions before...

The mother board(s) in question, are ASUS P5(somethings).  To my
knowledge, they can support the greater than 8GB IDE stuff.  With the
Adaptec on-board SCSI chipset, I suspect the can support the greater
than 8GB SCSI drives as long as the driver for OS/2 is the right one in
the CONFIG.SYS run...

      1.) What is the magic limit around 8 GB for problems to appear,
          if there is one, for SCSI?  Is there a critical point, say
          at 8.1 GB, vs. 8.3 GB, whatever?

      2.) Will Drive Copy attempt to expand the new partition sizes
          on the now double space available to 'best fit', in this case?
          It's my recollection that when I tried this in a much smaller
          version of this deal, I wound up with empty space.

      3.) Instead of just expanding the created partitions with
          Partition Magic, can I create new partitions in this
          new 'vast wasteland' which will be seen by OS/2 when
          it re-boots?  Or, will they be hidden with no way to
          get them seen ..   Seems to me I once hit a snag like
          this long ago and far away when all the world was smaller!

      4.) What are the ground rules, in all of the above, if the
          new drive is IDE and the old one was SCSI?  You can use
          Drive Copy to move from one type to the other.

          What if the box had and IDE 4 GB disk to start with?

          What if I wanted to move from IDE to SCSI?

At what magic point around 8 GB do we hit this greater than 8 GB
problem?  I think I understand correctly that 8 GB may not be precisely
the 8 GB size that trips us up..  however maybe that's not true around 8
GB like it was around 1 GB!


//-----------------------------
Mike.Luther@ziplog.com
Mike.Luther@f3000.n117.z1.fidonet.org


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From: mchasson@ibm.net                                  28-Aug-99 16:39:23
  To: All                                               29-Aug-99 05:35:21
Subj: Low Cost SCSI TAPE

From: mchasson@ibm.net

I noticed that ComputerGeeks and  a second vendor in MASS are now offering
the AIWA TD-2000 SCSI TRAVAN 4 Tape drive for $69.  I bought one of these
about six months ago for $95 in an OEM box and found the unit to be very
easy to install and works well with NovaBack.  I could not get Seagate
Exec to write to the tape although it did everything else.  Well worth the
cost.  Particularly if you can buy some low cost Tape at EBAY. -- 
----------------------------------------------------
------
Monroe Chasson
mchasson@ibm.net
-----------------------------------------------------------
MR2ICE reg#51 

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From: pcguido@ibm.net                                   29-Aug-99 01:06:18
  To: All                                               29-Aug-99 10:42:25
Subj: Re: Install OS/2 Warp Server 4.0 with an 8GB SCSI

From: pcguido@ibm.net

In <7q3fui$h0k$1@nntp5.atl.mindspring.net>, frank_mckenney@mindspring.com
(Frank McKenney) writes:
|In <37c53796$1$obot$mr2ice@news.pics.com>, Bob Germer
<bobg.REMOVEME.@pics.com> writes:
|--snip--
||Anyone who installs a new SCSI Hard drive and/or a new SCSI adapter and
||doesn't low level the drive is asking for problems. Many will work without
||this step, but one cannot be secure without first "marrying" the drive to
||the adapter.
|
|Bob,
|
|Could you clarify this a bit?	Given that SCSI drives have on-board
|controllers, it's hard to picture them being subject to the same
|problems as the old ST506 "we take our clock from the controller" drives
|did.
|
|Now, I'm aware that SCSI adapters do vary in terms of which is the "boot
|drive" (e.g.  Adaptec likes ID=0 and IBM MCA likes ID=6), and they may
|use different CHS translation algorithms (as I was painfully reminded a
|few months back).	The first is...  um, "addressed" (;-) by jumpers or
|DIP switches, and the second by using FDISK (if one was fortunate) or
|reinitializing the MBR by writing all zeroes to CHS 0/0/0 with all
|zeroes.
|
|What kind of condition would force a low-level sector-by-sector rewrite
|of the media? Are there differences in "bad track" handling as well?
|
|
|Frank McKenney, McKenney Associates
|Richmond, Virginia / (804) 320-4887
|E-mail: frank_mckenney@mindspring.com

Frank,

In my experience, it is only necessary to do the low-level thingie if
you change SCSI adapters; i.e., go from Adaptec to Tekram (or such).

Even then I only had to do than once, and it was long ago.

These days, if you have to low-level format your SCSI drive, the drive
may well be on its last legs!

regards,

Guido

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From: bobg.REMOVEME.@pics.com                           29-Aug-99 07:37:15
  To: All                                               29-Aug-99 15:49:08
Subj: Re: Install OS/2 Warp Server 4.0 with an 8GB SCSI

From: Bob Germer <bobg.REMOVEME.@pics.com>

On <37c8879c@news1.us.ibm.net>, on 08/29/99 at 01:06 AM,
   pcguido@ibm.net said:


> In my experience, it is only necessary to do the low-level thingie if
> you change SCSI adapters; i.e., go from Adaptec to Tekram (or such).

If one doesn't do it, one is looking for nasty surprises. Or at least one
shouldn't be surprised or upset when things go to hell in a handbasket and
one loses data.

> Even then I only had to do than once, and it was long ago.

> These days, if you have to low-level format your SCSI drive, the drive
> may well be on its last legs!

Anyone who doesn't do it when installing a new drive is risking nasty
problems down the road. It doesn't take all that long and insures the
integrity of data and programs installed on the drive.

At the very least doing a low level format on a new drive verifies the
data provided by the manufacturer about bad sectors. One also insures that
there was no damage in handling and transit.



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Bob Germer from Mount Holly, NJ - E-mail: bobg@Pics.com
Proudly running OS/2 Warp 4.0 w/ FixPack 8
MR/2 Ice Registration Number 67
Aut Pax Aut Bellum
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From: bobg.REMOVEME.@pics.com                           29-Aug-99 07:42:10
  To: All                                               29-Aug-99 15:49:08
Subj: Re: Install OS/2 Warp Server 4.0 with an 8GB SCSI

From: Bob Germer <bobg.REMOVEME.@pics.com>

On <q64x3oHpv+1d092yn@visi.com>, on 08/28/99 at 02:24 AM,
   rsteiner@visi.com (Richard Steiner) said:

> Here in comp.os.os2.setup.storage, Bob Germer <bobg.REMOVEME.@pics.com>
> spake unto us, saying:

> >Anyone who installs a new SCSI Hard drive and/or a new SCSI adapter and
> >doesn't low level the drive is asking for problems. Many will work without
> >this step, but one cannot be secure without first "marrying" the drive to
> >the adapter.

> I've installed seven SCSI hard drives here over the past few years w/o
> bothering to do that sort of thing (using various drive manufacturers
> including DEC, Seagate, IBM, and Quantum), and I've never had any
> problems.

> FWIW, my SCSI controllers are all Adaptec 2940U or 2940UW controllers.

In my opinion installing a new drive without doing a low level is like
driving without using seat belts. Most of the time nothing bad will
happen. But sooner or later.......

Changing adapters without a verified backup is like driving a car with
only a hand brake.

Even using the same brand and model adapter is not without risk. Firmware
revisions are constantly made. Depending on the age of the adapters
involved the "new" one may be an earlier revision of the firmware than the
"old" one.

The same goes for device driver files.

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Proudly running OS/2 Warp 4.0 w/ FixPack 8
MR/2 Ice Registration Number 67
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From: mike.luther@ziplog.com                            29-Aug-99 20:25:20
  To: All                                               29-Aug-99 19:53:19
Subj: Re: Install OS/2 Warp Server 4.0 with an 8GB SCSI

From: mike.luther@ziplog.com

In <37c91c8a$1$obot$mr2ice@news.pics.com>, Bob Germer
<bobg.REMOVEME.@pics.com> writes:
>On <37c8879c@news1.us.ibm.net>, on 08/29/99 at 01:06 AM,
>   pcguido@ibm.net said:
>

>> These days, if you have to low-level format your SCSI drive, the drive
>> may well be on its last legs!
>
>Anyone who doesn't do it when installing a new drive is risking nasty
>problems down the road. It doesn't take all that long and insures the
>integrity of data and programs installed on the drive.
>
>At the very least doing a low level format on a new drive verifies the
>data provided by the manufacturer about bad sectors. One also insures that
>there was no damage in handling and transit.

>Bob Germer from Mount Holly, NJ - E-mail: bobg@Pics.com

Yes, indeedie so ...

Gee, even my Mommie told me that, "You get what you inspect, Mikey, not
what you expect!"

This time, even Gilbert and Sullivan won'd do!

         "What never?"

         No ... *NEVER*

I don't like getting sick a sea!




//-----------------------------
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Mike.Luther@f3000.n117.z1.fidonet.org


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From: as@sci.fi                                         29-Aug-99 23:49:17
  To: All                                               29-Aug-99 19:53:19
Subj: Re: Install OS/2 Warp Server 4.0 with an 8GB SCSI

From: Anssi Saari <as@sci.fi>

Bob Germer <bobg.REMOVEME.@pics.com> writes:

> In my opinion installing a new drive without doing a low level is like
> driving without using seat belts. Most of the time nothing bad will
> happen. But sooner or later.......

Well, how does one do a low level format? I'd assume the normal OS/2
format command doesn't do it? 

FWIW, I've had two SCSI discs and didn't do anything to them except
partition and format with OS/2 fdisk and format. One came from an
Amiga, the other was new. No problems ever. I probably won't get any
more SCSI drives since the price difference seems to be 4x in favor of
IDE drives...
 
-- 
Anssi Saari - as@sci.fi

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From: Trevor-Hemsley@dial.pipex.com                     29-Aug-99 22:42:19
  To: All                                               29-Aug-99 19:53:19
Subj: Re: Install OS/2 Warp Server 4.0 with an 8GB SCSI

From: "Trevor Hemsley" <Trevor-Hemsley@dial.pipex.com>

On 29 Aug 1999 23:49:34 +0300, Anssi Saari wrote:

->> In my opinion installing a new drive without doing a low level is like
->> driving without using seat belts. Most of the time nothing bad will
->> happen. But sooner or later.......
->
->Well, how does one do a low level format? I'd assume the normal OS/2
->format command doesn't do it? 

At least one of the IBM drives I've bought recently included in the
instructions that it should NOT be lowlevel formatted under ANY
circumstances or it would void the guarantee.


Trevor Hemsley, London, UK
(Trevor-Hemsley@dial.pipex.com or 75704.2477@compuserve.com)



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From: rsstan@ibm.net                                    29-Aug-99 18:21:01
  To: All                                               30-Aug-99 03:42:11
Subj: Internal IDE Orb drive

From: "Bob Stan" <rsstan@ibm.net>

There was a recent posting that stated that even Orb IDE drives were
incompatable with OS2.  All I know is that I am using one with the latest
idedasd package and the Danis506.ADD driver with no real problems.

I don't know how a removable drive is supposed to work, but this one does
fine.  The "eject" command ejects the cartridge and I can put in another. 
The only quirk seems to be that a cartridge must be installed at boot for OS2
to recognize the drive.


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From: jdc0014@InfoNET.st-johns.nf.ca                    29-Aug-99 22:57:24
  To: All                                               30-Aug-99 03:42:11
Subj: FAT32 IFS tips...

From: jdc0014@InfoNET.st-johns.nf.ca (John Hong)

	First things first...hats off to Henk Kelder for a *swank* FAT32 
driver for OS/2. :-)

	Anyhow, I have my FAT32 driver installed exactly the way I saw it 
in the fat32.txt file (ie. BASEDEV=PARTFLT.FLT /P 0b /W)

	My hard drive is setup as the following:

Win95 - Primary Partition - FAT32
OS/2 - Primary Partition - HPFS
Logical Partition - FAT32
Boot Manager - Primary Partition

	Now, when I launch OS/2, C: is OS/2, but it didn't hide the C: 
Win95 partition.  I can in fact read/write to it.  I didn't really want 
that, though.  Basically, I wanted the Win95/OS2 primary partitions 
completely hidden from one another.  So that made my original D: 
partition into an E: partition (now that Win95 was D:).
	Any chance I can setup the driver so that I only see C: belonging 
to OS/2, and D: belonging to the logcal FAT32 partition?


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From: rsteiner@visi.com                                 29-Aug-99 20:41:00
  To: All                                               30-Aug-99 05:29:12
Subj: Re: Install OS/2 Warp Server 4.0 with an 8GB SCSI

From: rsteiner@visi.com (Richard Steiner)

Here in comp.os.os2.setup.storage, Anssi Saari <as@sci.fi>
spake unto us, saying:

>Bob Germer <bobg.REMOVEME.@pics.com> writes:
>
>> In my opinion installing a new drive without doing a low level is like
>> driving without using seat belts. Most of the time nothing bad will
>> happen. But sooner or later.......
>
>Well, how does one do a low level format? I'd assume the normal OS/2
>format command doesn't do it?

My Adaptec controllers have an option to do that in their BIOS menu,
and I would assume other controllers have something similar.

-- 
   -Rich Steiner  >>>--->  rsteiner@visi.com  >>>---> Bloomington, MN
     OS/2 + Linux + BeOS + FreeBSD + Solaris + WinNT4 + Win95 + DOS
      + VMWare + Fusion + vMac + Executor = PC Hobbyist Heaven! :-)
                     Why *AM* I doing this again?

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From: gayleburnett@earthlink.net                        29-Aug-99 21:34:17
  To: All                                               30-Aug-99 05:29:13
Subj: Acer 624E CD-ROM problems

From: Gayle Burnett <gayleburnett@earthlink.net>

I am having trouble with my CD-ROM drive- an Acer 624E 24X internal EIDE
drive. When I installed OS/2 Warp 4, I had to
disable hardware detection because I had so many error messages about
OS/2 not recognizing the drive. It installed fine with disabled hardware
detection.
But sometimes when I put a CD-ROM in the drive, the light doesn't come
on and I get an error message. Other times, it will come on after a few
minutes.
Then there are times when it will come on and then it dies and I
get another error message. This has also happened when installing new
programs- it quits in the middle of installing from the CD-ROM.

I am using OS/2 Warp 4, FixPak 9.

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From: stephen@inisant.actrix.gen.nz.x                   31-Aug-99 03:20:21
  To: All                                               30-Aug-99 16:56:27
Subj: Re: Install OS/2 Warp Server 4.0 with an 8GB SCSI

From: stephen@inisant.actrix.gen.nz.x (Stephen Worthington)

In article <geribeurzfyrlqvnycvcrkpbz.fh9bj30.pminews@news.dial.pipex.com>,
Trevor Hemsley <Trevor-Hemsley@dial.pipex.com> wrote:
>On 29 Aug 1999 23:49:34 +0300, Anssi Saari wrote:
>
>->> In my opinion installing a new drive without doing a low level is like
>->> driving without using seat belts. Most of the time nothing bad will
>->> happen. But sooner or later.......
>->
>->Well, how does one do a low level format? I'd assume the normal OS/2
>->format command doesn't do it? 
>
>At least one of the IBM drives I've bought recently included in the
>instructions that it should NOT be lowlevel formatted under ANY
>circumstances or it would void the guarantee.
>
>
>Trevor Hemsley, London, UK
>(Trevor-Hemsley@dial.pipex.com or 75704.2477@compuserve.com)

Yes, I got one of those warnings with my new IBM drive too. 
Generally, low level formats are things to avoid on modern SCSI
drives.  However, the problem of getting the correct mapping of
logical sector addresses to actual C/H/S geometry remains.  This is
usually the problem when changing SCSI cards, or installing a new
drive.

In my case, I attempted to use PartitionMagic 4.0 to copy partitions
from my old SCSI drive on the old controller (DPT PM2144UW) to the
new drive on the new controller (Tekram DC-390U2W).  When I rebooted,
the DC-390U2W popped up a warning message about bad sector
addressing!

The fix in my case was to use a sector editor program to zap the
first sector on the disk (the MBR) to all zeroes, then boot OS/2 from
my BOOTOS2 commandline emergency boot partiton and use OS/2 FDISK to
create and install a BootManager partition on the new drive.  That
set up the geometry correctly and after that I was able to use
PartitonMagic 4.0 successfully.

The conclusion I have come to is that the first time a hard disk MBR
is written fixes the addressing geometry used somehow (is there a BPB
record in the MBR?), and hence the first thing you use to write to a
drive had better be using the geometry you want.  So it is not
necessary to low level format - all that is needed is to wipe out the
MBR sector somehow.

--
Stephen Worthington
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From: sgfarris@aracnet.com                              30-Aug-99 16:51:07
  To: All                                               30-Aug-99 16:56:27
Subj: Fixpack 7 = no ide cdrom?

From: sgfarris@aracnet.com (Steve Farris)

I've been struggling to recreate my machine.  I installed a new 8 gig drive
and replaced my trusty old and slow scsi cd with a shiny new fast ide cd
drive.

Install works fine, I have access to the cd drive.  But after applying
fixpack 7, The cd has disappeared.  when I turn on verbose mode for the
drivers, os2cdrom.dmd says it can't load.  I've tried replacing files from
a backup.  I've tried several different install routes.  Nothing seems to
work.  When I go to selective install, the cd is in the options so nothing
happens when I say ok. 

I guess I will try deselecting the drive from setup and then reinstalling
it.  I might also try replacing the drivers with the original install
drivers.  Any thought out there as to how to proceed?  Would fixpack 11
help?  I didn't see any of the cd drivers in the fixpack files.  I need fp
7 because it allows access to my zip as a normal removable drive (didn't
like all the workarounds I was using before the fixpack came out...).

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From: osmo.vuorio@sonera.fi                             30-Aug-99 19:20:10
  To: All                                               30-Aug-99 16:56:28
Subj: Re: 8.? magic line for drive size?

From: osmo.vuorio@sonera.fi (osmo vuorio)

In article <rsfrub21j7117@corp.supernews.com>, mike.luther@ziplog.com says:
>
>      1.) What is the magic limit around 8 GB for problems to appear,
>          if there is one, for SCSI?  Is there a critical point, say
>          at 8.1 GB, vs. 8.3 GB, whatever?

There are some basic rules based on the Int13h working principles.
So, within 1024 cylinders and 63 sectors/cyl and 255 logical heads
to get a partition to be bootable.

Osmo

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From: jkross@TIRED_OF_SPAM@oxford.net                   30-Aug-99 20:43:05
  To: All                                               30-Aug-99 21:34:14
Subj: Re: Fixpack 7 = no ide cdrom?

From: jkross@TIRED_OF_SPAM@oxford.net (John Ross)

In message <37cab4b5.262651@news.aracnet.com> - sgfarris@aracnet.com (Steve
Farris) writes:
:>
:>I've been struggling to recreate my machine.  I installed a new 8 gig drive
:>and replaced my trusty old and slow scsi cd with a shiny new fast ide cd
:>drive.
:>
:>Install works fine, I have access to the cd drive.  But after applying
:>fixpack 7, The cd has disappeared.  when I turn on verbose mode for the
:>drivers, os2cdrom.dmd says it can't load.  I've tried replacing files  

	If you install the CD-ROM on an IDE channel you must jumper the drive as
master if it is the only device.	With older versions of IDE1s506.add it didn't
matter.

-john ross

http://www.oxford.net/~jkross

Remove "@I_hate_spam" from address to reply.... 

              
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From: jscott@csolve.net                                 31-Aug-99 03:30:22
  To: All                                               31-Aug-99 11:04:19
Subj: Re: Fixpack 7 = no ide cdrom?

From: JohnS <jscott@csolve.net>

You may have the same problem on a later FP as well. I just tried the 
latest DASD package (9908) that says that it can be loaded over the
FP6 install.  My CD is a slave on drive 1 with a IDE as master on the
same drive.  The CD disappeared  AND  my drive bay activity light is
now permamently on.
Pent 100, HX chipset, 3 IDE drives, 1 atapi CD, 1 SCSI drive, 1 SCSI
JAZZ.

Reverting to the FP6 files fixed the problem.





John Ross wrote:
> 
> In message <37cab4b5.262651@news.aracnet.com> - sgfarris@aracnet.com (Steve
> Farris) writes:
> :>
> :>I've been struggling to recreate my machine.  I installed a new 8 gig
drive
> :>and replaced my trusty old and slow scsi cd with a shiny new fast ide cd
> :>drive.
> :>
> :>Install works fine, I have access to the cd drive.  But after applying
> :>fixpack 7, The cd has disappeared.  when I turn on verbose mode for the
> :>drivers, os2cdrom.dmd says it can't load.  I've tried replacing files
> 
>         If you install the CD-ROM on an IDE channel you must jumper the
drive as
> master if it is the only device.        With older versions of IDE1s506.add
it didn't
> matter.
> 
> -john ross
> 
> http://www.oxford.net/~jkross
> 
> Remove "@I_hate_spam" from address to reply....
> 
> 
> --
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> massive, difficult to redirect, awe-inspiring, entertaining, and a
> source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least expect
> it."--spaf@cs.purdue.edu (1992)

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From: sgfarris@aracnet.com                              31-Aug-99 22:09:07
  To: All                                               31-Aug-99 21:19:21
Subj: Re: Fixpack 7 = no ide cdrom?

From: sgfarris@aracnet.com (Steve Farris)

Well, I got the cd to work.  It was difficult to reinstall the original cd
support since I didn't have a cd drive!  Had to use winblows to copy the
os2image directory to a hard disk, then try it.  It didn't work, anyway.
So I got the latest ide drivers from IBM.  The computer wouldn't boot with
them ("cannot operate your hard disk...").  But when I returned all the
drivers to fp7 level except for os2cdrom.dmd and ibmidecd.flt, it worked.

The ide drivers said they were from fixpack 12.  I looked on the fix pack
site and only saw fix packs 7 and 11.  11 says it doesn't contain any
drivers.  Has 12 been pulled from distribution?

I still have some instability--the computer locks up randomly.  I haven't
been able to even figure out specific causes, although it usually has to do
with opening or closing a window.  I'm wondering if mixing fp7 and 12 in
the drivers has caused some disk instability.


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From: bogus.due2UCE@gate.net                            31-Aug-99 16:25:15
  To: All                                               01-Sep-99 10:43:22
Subj: Re: Install OS/2 Warp Server 4.0 with an 8GB SCSI

From: Felix Miata <bogus.due2UCE@gate.net>

Bob Germer wrote:
 
> rsteiner@visi.com (Richard Steiner) said:
 
> > Bob Germer spake unto us, saying:
 
> > >Anyone who installs a new SCSI Hard drive and/or a new SCSI adapter and
> > >doesn't low level the drive is asking for problems. Many will work
without
> > >this step, but one cannot be secure without first "marrying" the drive to
> > >the adapter.
 
> > I've installed seven SCSI hard drives here over the past few years w/o
> > bothering to do that sort of thing (using various drive manufacturers
> > including DEC, Seagate, IBM, and Quantum), and I've never had any
> > problems.
 
> > FWIW, my SCSI controllers are all Adaptec 2940U or 2940UW controllers.

FWIW, I've never used any Adaptec product.

Since switching to Symbios hosts, I've never found a brand new drive one
couldn't use right out of the wrapper. IIRC, I haven't even found a used
drive it couldn't use without a LL either. I've bought Mac formatted
drives several times without seeing any difference from a drive that
still had windoze on it. Then again, I haven't bought but one
non-Quantum SCSI drive since 1990, my first and last Seagate.

> In my opinion installing a new drive without doing a low level is like
> driving without using seat belts. Most of the time nothing bad will
> happen. But sooner or later.......

I think it's more like loading the family, friends and gear in a used
boat you've just bought, and only *then* trying to start it for the very
first time.
 
> Changing adapters without a verified backup is like driving a car with
> only a hand brake.

This is more like not even having seatbelts to use.
 
> Even using the same brand and model adapter is not without risk. Firmware
> revisions are constantly made. Depending on the age of the adapters
> involved the "new" one may be an earlier revision of the firmware than the
> "old" one.

Sounds maybe like an Adaptec problem. I've never encountered any
compatibility trouble switching drives between different brands of HBA,
as long as they had any variation of of a Symbios chip at heart. (note
I've intentionally never tried to use anything from Diamond)
 
> The same goes for device driver files.

I've never encountered any compatibility trouble switching drives
between different driver versions, as long as they were directly from
Symbios and I wasn't trying to use a driver that significantly predated
the hardware.
-- 
A fool finds pleasure in evil conduct, but a man of understanding
delights in wisdom.        Proverbs 10:23 NKJV

 Team OS/2

Felix Miata  ***  http://www.gate.net/~mrmazda

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From: rsteiner@visi.com                                 31-Aug-99 23:54:07
  To: All                                               01-Sep-99 17:47:18
Subj: Re: Install OS/2 Warp Server 4.0 with an 8GB SCSI

From: rsteiner@visi.com (Richard Steiner)

Here in comp.os.os2.setup.storage, Felix Miata <bogus.due2UCE@gate.net>
spake unto us, saying:

>Bob Germer wrote:
> 
>> rsteiner@visi.com (Richard Steiner) said:
> 
>> > Bob Germer spake unto us, saying:
> 
>> > >Anyone who installs a new SCSI Hard drive and/or a new SCSI adapter
>> > >and doesn't low level the drive is asking for problems.
>> > 
>> > I've installed seven SCSI hard drives here over the past few years w/o
>> > bothering to do that sort of thing (using various drive manufacturers
>> > including DEC, Seagate, IBM, and Quantum), and I've never had any
>> > problems.
> 
>> > FWIW, my SCSI controllers are all Adaptec 2940U or 2940UW controllers.
>
>Sounds maybe like an Adaptec problem. I've never encountered any
>compatibility trouble switching drives between different brands of HBA,
>as long as they had any variation of of a Symbios chip at heart. (note
>I've intentionally never tried to use anything from Diamond)

[The above is compressed for clarity]

Are you confusing the above quotes?

I'm the one who said I had Adaptec controllers (three 2940U's and two
2940UW's), that I've never btohered to do a LLF, and that I've never
seen any problems when installing new drives.  :-)

-- 
   -Rich Steiner  >>>--->  rsteiner@visi.com  >>>---> Bloomington, MN
     OS/2 + Linux + BeOS + FreeBSD + Solaris + WinNT4 + Win95 + DOS
      + VMWare + Fusion + vMac + Executor = PC Hobbyist Heaven! :-)
               "Ethel the Aardvark goes Quantity Surveying."

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From: postmaster@bill.co.uk                             01-Sep-99 13:37:28
  To: All                                               01-Sep-99 17:47:19
Subj: urgent fdisk problem...

From: Bill Dossett <postmaster@bill.co.uk>

Hi,

I'm trying to load warp 4 onto a system with a 9 gig disk
on it.  The fdisk supplied with warp 4 won't really let me
do anything... warp 3 fdisk allows me to partition, but the
numbers are all screwy for sizes and it won't let me set
a partition installable... so  is there an fdisk.exe that will
partition this for me?  And where can I get it?  if anyone
could possibly contact me if they have one that works and 
put it on my ftp server, or email it to me or something whatever,
I'm trying to avoid having to go and find and download fixpaks
cos I'm crap at finding them... kindof a disability or something.

Thanks 

Bill
--
"It wasn't so much that he was a hero -
I'd say he was more of an effective administrator."
Tom Servo

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From: piquant00@uswestmail.net                          01-Sep-99 14:34:13
  To: All                                               01-Sep-99 17:47:20
Subj: Re: urgent fdisk problem...

From: piquant00@uswestmail.net (Annie K.)

On Wed, 1 Sep 1999 12:37:56, Bill Dossett <postmaster@bill.co.uk> wrote:

:so  is there an fdisk.exe that will
:partition this for me?  And where can I get it? 

 It isn't fdisk, that's screwed, it's ibm1s506.add (assuming an IDE disk).
You need ftp://ps.boulder.ibm.com//ps/products/os2/os2ddpak/idedasd.exe

:I'm trying to avoid having to go and find and download fixpaks
:cos I'm crap at finding them.

 Save this URL: 
http://ps.software.ibm.com/pbin-usa-ps/getobj.pl?/pdocs-usa/softupd.html

-- 
Anthropomorphic Hamburger

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From: rjfreem@ibm.net                                   01-Sep-99 10:31:09
  To: All                                               01-Sep-99 17:47:20
Subj: Re: FAT32 IFS tips...

From: rjfreem@ibm.net

In <7qcdtd$sdv$2@coranto.ucs.mun.ca>, on 08/29/99 
   at 10:57 PM, jdc0014@InfoNET.st-johns.nf.ca (John Hong) said:


Ordinarily one of the two primary partitions on the same hard drive will
be completely hidden from the other. I had the configuation as you have,
but with a win98 install and without any assisting drivers (PARTFLT). It
worked for a while. I forgot what happened but I had to reinstall win98. I
saw an explaination of why the fat32 is visible, Also which I have forgot.
Not too musch help

RJF

>	First things first...hats off to Henk Kelder for a *swank* FAT32  driver
>for OS/2. :-)

>	Anyhow, I have my FAT32 driver installed exactly the way I saw it  in
>the fat32.txt file (ie. BASEDEV=PARTFLT.FLT /P 0b /W)

>	My hard drive is setup as the following:

>Win95 - Primary Partition - FAT32
>OS/2 - Primary Partition - HPFS
>Logical Partition - FAT32
>Boot Manager - Primary Partition

>	Now, when I launch OS/2, C: is OS/2, but it didn't hide the C:  Win95
>partition.  I can in fact read/write to it.  I didn't really want  that,
>though.  Basically, I wanted the Win95/OS2 primary partitions  completely
>hidden from one another.  So that made my original D:  partition into an
>E: partition (now that Win95 was D:).
>	Any chance I can setup the driver so that I only see C: belonging  to
>OS/2, and D: belonging to the logcal FAT32 partition?



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From: jdc0014@InfoNET.st-johns.nf.ca                    01-Sep-99 20:36:08
  To: All                                               01-Sep-99 21:47:11
Subj: CDrecord How-to?

From: jdc0014@InfoNET.st-johns.nf.ca (John Hong)

	Well, funny thing really...  I sent a money order for a Yamaha 
4416S CDRW and Initio 9100A Fast SCSI-2 card.  What did I end up with?  A 
Ricoh 7040S CDRW and a Initio 9100U Ultra SCSI card.  Wow...I didn't get 
*any* of the things that I wanted, but I'm still happy since I have it 
working.  ;-)
	Well, sort of.  Are there any how-to's on how to use CDrecord/2?  
I tried using that frontend CDWRITER in order to put some data on a blank 
CDR.  What I ended up with was a coaster.  Either I did something wrong 
or it was just a bad CDR (was a Maxell brand name one, apparently they 
are not too popular amongst most CDR/CDRW users).


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From: jingle_man27@hotmail.com                          01-Sep-99 16:39:13
  To: comp.os.os2.setup.storage@list.de..               02-Sep-99 06:35:00
Subj: Re: urgent fdisk problem...

To: comp.os.os2.setup.storage@list.deja.com
From: "radio man" <jingle_man27@hotmail.com>

I imagine you are refering to FDISK from the floppy disks ?
I had a similar problem after loading boot manager - it would not allow me 
to start it at the end of the disk - I thought it was something regarding 
win98 as I had that loaded along side OS2 Ver 3.
In the end I booted into the OS2 partition and run fdisk from there - I 
think its pfdisk or progfdisk or something, sorry cannot remember it was a 
while ago - it was the fdisk from the main partition that worked though, not 
the version from the floppys.
You could also try making a huge swapper.dat file as you have a 9 gig 
drive..... Or, I am sure there is something on the OS2 Supersite that sorts 
out huge hard drive issues with OS2.

Good luck.

>
>Hi,
>
>I'm trying to load warp 4 onto a system with a 9 gig disk
>on it.  The fdisk supplied with warp 4 won't really let me
>do anything... warp 3 fdisk allows me to partition, but the
>numbers are all screwy for sizes and it won't let me set
>a partition installable... so  is there an fdisk.exe that will
>partition this for me?  And where can I get it?  if anyone
>could possibly contact me if they have one that works and
>put it on my ftp server, or email it to me or something whatever,
>I'm trying to avoid having to go and find and download fixpaks
>cos I'm crap at finding them... kindof a disability or something.
>
>Thanks
>
>Bill
>--
>"It wasn't so much that he was a hero -
>I'd say he was more of an effective administrator."
>Tom Servo
>
>
>

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From: amadei@dandy.net                                  01-Sep-99 21:57:23
  To: All                                               02-Sep-99 06:35:00
Subj: I2O driver problems

From: Stephen Amadei <amadei@dandy.net>

Hello,

I have a DPT PM3754U2 controller card with RAID, cache
and 3 hosts.  It uses the I2O drivers, but I cannot
use the bulk of the features from OS/2.  If I use
RAID on two hosts(2 9 Gigs), I only see the first drive as an 8.6Gig. 
If I put both drives on the first host, I can see them, but I cannot see
any drives on the second or third hosts.  I cannot RAID drives that are
both on the first host, either.

I'm using Warp Server for eBusiness.

Does anyone know how to fix this, or possibly the email address of one
of the IBM engineers that created the
I2O drivers?  I desperately need to RAID a pile of drives across hosts. 
Thanx in advance.

				----Steve
Stephen Amadei
Director of MIS
Dandy Connections, Inc.
Atlantic City, NJ

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From: jdc0014@InfoNET.st-johns.nf.ca                    02-Sep-99 15:45:20
  To: All                                               02-Sep-99 16:41:12
Subj: Mkisofs tips...

From: jdc0014@InfoNET.st-johns.nf.ca (John Hong)

	Pretty happy to report that the combo of Initio 9100U Ultra SCSI 
card and the Ricoh 7040S CDRW internal SCSI works quite well with 
CDrecord 1.8.24.

	Okay, now can someone tell me when making the image for burning 
how to preserve directory names?  Basically I have MS Windows 3.1, MS 
Word 6, and WordPerfect 5.1+ all in the CDROM's root directory. ;-)
	Luckily the files were zipped so that it was not too much of a 
problem...this time.
	The switchs I used for mkisofs.exe were:

MKISOFS -o c:/CD_Image.Dat X:/BLAH/BLAH

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From: lsunley@mb.sympatico.ca                           02-Sep-99 16:53:16
  To: All                                               02-Sep-99 16:41:13
Subj: Re: Mkisofs tips...

From: lsunley@mb.sympatico.ca (Lorne Sunley)

On Thu, 2 Sep 1999 15:45:41, jdc0014@InfoNET.st-johns.nf.ca (John 
Hong) wrote:

> 	Pretty happy to report that the combo of Initio 9100U Ultra SCSI 
> card and the Ricoh 7040S CDRW internal SCSI works quite well with 
> CDrecord 1.8.24.
> 
> 	Okay, now can someone tell me when making the image for burning 
> how to preserve directory names?  Basically I have MS Windows 3.1, MS 
> Word 6, and WordPerfect 5.1+ all in the CDROM's root directory. ;-)
> 	Luckily the files were zipped so that it was not too much of a 
> problem...this time.
> 	The switchs I used for mkisofs.exe were:
> 
> MKISOFS -o c:/CD_Image.Dat X:/BLAH/BLAH
> 

Try this one (note the -R )

MKISOFS -R -o c:/CD_Image.Dat X:/BLAH/BLAH

Lorne Sunley

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From: jdc0014@InfoNET.st-johns.nf.ca                    03-Sep-99 00:38:15
  To: All                                               03-Sep-99 06:09:28
Subj: Re: Mkisofs tips...

From: jdc0014@InfoNET.st-johns.nf.ca (John Hong)

Lorne Sunley (lsunley@mb.sympatico.ca) wrote:

: Try this one (note the -R )

: MKISOFS -R -o c:/CD_Image.Dat X:/BLAH/BLAH

	Thanks for the tip!  Anyways, is there one where I can preserve 
all directory names where I don't have to include all the directory names?
Or am I stuck with putting each directory that I want in all the time?


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From: mcmorran@norfolk.infi.net                         02-Sep-99 22:56:18
  To: All                                               03-Sep-99 10:34:21
Subj: Re: Mkisofs tips...

From: mcmorran@norfolk.infi.net (Peter McMorran)

[courtesy copy sent to poster]

In <7qn5a7$n63$1@coranto.ucs.mun.ca>, on 09/03/99 
   at 12:38 AM, jdc0014@InfoNET.st-johns.nf.ca (John Hong) said:

>Lorne Sunley (lsunley@mb.sympatico.ca) wrote:

>: Try this one (note the -R )

>: MKISOFS -R -o c:/CD_Image.Dat X:/BLAH/BLAH

>	Thanks for the tip!  Anyways, is there one where I can preserve
> all directory names where I don't have to include all the
>directory names? Or am I stuck with putting each directory that
>I want in all the time?

Hi, John,

When you give mkisofs a directory, it puts the files (and
directories) from that directory in the root directory of the CD.
To make that directory itself appear in the CD root, use
dirname/=dirname, where the dirname on the right is whatever the
path to the directory is. I've even used DiskC/=c:/ to copy a
partition to a directory on the CD. Not sure if this answers your
question; if not, please clarify your problem.

By the way, I've evolved the following set of options for
mkisofs:

-a -J -l -L -R

They don't hurt, and the -J in particular makes the original
filenames visible in OS/2, as long as they are less than 64
characters.

Cheers,
Peter

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From: jdc0014@InfoNET.st-johns.nf.ca                    03-Sep-99 07:45:08
  To: All                                               03-Sep-99 11:24:27
Subj: Re: Mkisofs tips...

From: jdc0014@InfoNET.st-johns.nf.ca (John Hong)

Peter McMorran (mcmorran@norfolk.infi.net) wrote:

: When you give mkisofs a directory, it puts the files (and
: directories) from that directory in the root directory of the CD.

	I believe that is what happened to me just now.  My D: is a fat 
partition (674 MB).  This is where I stick the files that I am preparing 
to make an image with.  I had the directories broken down to this:

D:\OS2
D:\DOS
D:\WINDOWS

	In each directory I had other directoires like \APPS\ and \UTILS\.
Now I prepared the image with this:

mkisofs -R -o C:/CDIMAGE.IMG D:/*

	What I got after burning was:

X:\APPS
X:\UTILS

	Basically it just skipped the D:\OS2\ part and only preserved the 
D:\OS2\APPS directory name (as X:\APPS).  Thing is I wanted X:\OS2\APPS 
and X:\OS2\UTILS, etc.

: To make that directory itself appear in the CD root, use
: dirname/=dirname, where the dirname on the right is whatever the
: path to the directory is. I've even used DiskC/=c:/ to copy a
: partition to a directory on the CD. Not sure if this answers your
: question; if not, please clarify your problem.

	Could you give me an example of this?  I think this maybe what 
I'm looking for.

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From: cjlear@my-deja.com                                03-Sep-99 10:53:28
  To: All                                               03-Sep-99 17:08:13
Subj: Sysinstx for v4 urgently required

From: cjlear@my-deja.com

Hi all.

I've shifted house and my OS/2 v4 install disks and CD are in a box -
somewhere.

I need to make a boot diskette like *yesterday* to carry on with some
repartitioning.

Could someone please email me the executable sysinstx.com for Warp 4 as
a file attach?

(The alternative to this potential virus risk is to download all
sixteen diskette images for fixpack 11 - it is on ONE of those disks,
but does the documentation say where?  You bet it doesn't.)

Thanks
 Charlie Lear


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Share what you know. Learn what you don't.

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From: jdc0014@InfoNET.st-johns.nf.ca                    03-Sep-99 12:15:26
  To: All                                               03-Sep-99 17:08:13
Subj: CDRecord/2...

From: jdc0014@InfoNET.st-johns.nf.ca (John Hong)

	Slight problem I'm having with CDRecord 1.8.24, I can't get this 
sucker to go up to speed=4.  I have a Ricoh 7040S, it is 4x write, 4x 
re-write.  Anyway I can get CDRecord to go at full speed or am I stuck 
with 2x?


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From: as@sci.fi                                         02-Sep-99 20:55:20
  To: All                                               03-Sep-99 17:08:13
Subj: Re: CDrecord How-to?

From: Anssi Saari <as@sci.fi>

jdc0014@InfoNET.st-johns.nf.ca (John Hong) writes:

> 	Well, sort of.  Are there any how-to's on how to use CDrecord/2?  
> I tried using that frontend CDWRITER in order to put some data on a blank 
> CDR.  What I ended up with was a coaster.  Either I did something wrong 
> or it was just a bad CDR (was a Maxell brand name one, apparently they 
> are not too popular amongst most CDR/CDRW users).

The manual page is pretty good and has some examples. Unfortunately,
it's provided only in nroff and postscript formats. I guess I could
mail text versions if you like, but really the porter should include
those...

-- 
Anssi Saari - as@sci.fi

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From: as@sci.fi                                         02-Sep-99 20:58:18
  To: All                                               03-Sep-99 17:08:13
Subj: Re: Mkisofs tips...

From: Anssi Saari <as@sci.fi>

jdc0014@InfoNET.st-johns.nf.ca (John Hong) writes:

> 	Okay, now can someone tell me when making the image for burning 
> how to preserve directory names?  Basically I have MS Windows 3.1, MS 
> Word 6, and WordPerfect 5.1+ all in the CDROM's root directory. ;-)

Well, mkisofs seems to always remove the first part of the directory,
so if you want \bar on the CD it seems that you need to have \foo\bar
as the source.

-- 
Anssi Saari - as@sci.fi

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