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From: Bas Heijermans                                    15-Oct-99 10:17:09
  To: Mike Roark                                        16-Oct-99 00:50:18
Subj: Matrox drivers?

Mike Roark made noise to Bas Heijermans:

Hi Mike,

 DC>> drive and put a different drive in as primary and everything
 DC>> boots fine. Haven't dared try the DANIS driver a second
 DC>> time.

 BH> Here they screwed the desktop, I had to rebuild the ini's, that has
 BH> never happened before, I'm still recovering from that experiance.

 MR> I've run all of them except the 5th beta IIRC. For some
 MR> reason, and it was probably something silly, it wouldn't
 MR> work. I dropped back to beta 4, and all was well until I got
 MR> 6. Now, I just drop the latest one in if I happen to see it.
 MR> It made a world of difference on drive access times. The
 MR> whole system seemed to work faster.

Well I havn't seen that much speed improvement, maybe you just see
cache-burst's from you drive instead of real increase of performance?

Warp3SMP,

Bas Heijermans.

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From: George Fliger                                     15-Oct-99 05:51:08
  To: Kris Steenhaut                                    16-Oct-99 07:23:13
Subj: Re: Logitech Trackman Marble+

On 11 Oct 99 01:02pm, Kris Steenhaut wrote to Leonard Erickson:

 KS> To bad the SDD drivers aren't stable enough yet.

Not to mention how EXTREMELY slow they are.

George


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From: Matt Bedynek                                      16-Oct-99 20:16:24
  To: Ruth Argust                                       17-Oct-99 05:29:24
Subj: CPU change

Hello Ruth.

Wednesday October 13 1999 00:26, Ruth Argust wrote to Matt Bedynek:

 MB>> Out of three computers here, only one has a single ISA card.

 RA> I guess it would be simpler if we didn't have all the junk added on :)

I think so. There are some excellent motherboards around and the effort found
hunting down such a beast would be pointless.

 MB>> is 5/2/1 or 4/3/1 (pci/isa/agp).

 RA> We just ordered a new HD so when it gets here, we are going to verify
 RA> for certain how many ISA slots we need. At that point, if 3 will
 RA> handle it, I might be in business.

What type of ISA cards do you have.

 MB>> To get anymore ISA slots you might need to get an older board.

 RA> Running a P233 MMX processor now and can't go faster on this MB ... I
 RA> don't want to get any older :)

AGP is not an option on Pentium systems, but for the prices.  I'd look into at 
least a PII-350.  The only problems you would face then would be inflated RAM
prices. :(

Rgds, Matt

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From: Jean-Michel Dossogne                              16-Oct-99 06:54:00
  To: All                                               17-Oct-99 05:29:24
Subj: avm & isdn & warp

Hello All.

2 friends have a "little" problem
they both have a fritz avm isa isdn passive card
but AVM says "no capi drivers for os/2"
do you know any workaround, to allow them not to have to use winos2 to
communicate? Thanks!

Jean-Michel

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From: Jean-Michel Dossogne                              16-Oct-99 06:55:10
  To: All                                               17-Oct-99 05:29:24
Subj: multi changer

Hello All.

have a 18cd changer on arrival (second hand, am not that rich :)
now... problem... yups... alphabet only has 26 letters, am already full till
"L"... Any workaround for warp, to use it on the same machine? A linux-way
maybe? Any good advice most welcome, cos' if I can add these 18 in a fast way, 
I'll add also my own 4cd, cos' it's an 8x, a bit faster than that incoming 2x
:-)
thaaaaanks!

Jean-Michel

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From: Holger Granholm                                   16-Oct-99 19:18:00
  To: Ruth Argust                                       17-Oct-99 07:38:10
Subj: Big Hard Drives & Warp

In a message dated 10-14-99, Ruth Argust said to Holger Granholm:

RA>The advent of the D drive... Funny how many people these days have
RA>one gigantic C drive like old times <g>.

 HG> That is often the "legacy" from pre-installed Win9x. You are never
 HG> given the opportunity to partition the HD before the installation
 HG> proceeds. 

RA>That's one good reason, we opt for buying in pieces and putting
RA>together our own :)

Yes we do :-)

Have a nice day,

Holger
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From: Matt Bedynek                                      16-Oct-99 20:30:14
  To: Louis Aubree                                      17-Oct-99 07:38:10
Subj: Scsi Too expensive?

Hello Louis.

Thursday October 07 1999 08:36, Louis Aubree wrote to Charles Gaefke:

 LA> Well, SCSI HD's are expensive. So, go on with ATAPI/IDE HD.
 LA> But you can use SCSI for a CD burner and a scanner and ...

 LA> For this, you don't need an up-to-date SCSI card. No wide bus, just
 LA> an internal 50 pin plug for the CD burner and an external 50 pin D
 LA> plug for the scanner. Cables provided with the peripherals!

 LA> And you don't need to pay the Adaptec premium prices. Look for other
 LA> brands : Tekram, Iwill, ...

 LA>    L.A.

 LA> P.S. The last cheap SCSI scanners were sold 12 months ago, here. (I
 LA> got one!). Now, all the market is for // and USB, except a few
 LA> expensive models.

SCSI is good for server environments.  My BBS here, 106/2 uses a simple 6gb
IDE drive, but my mail server/hub runs SCSI with the latest stuff.  I also use 
this as a business server.   IDE is fine for a BBS, in fact, more than
adequate. With the current size of IDE drives and price I'd recommend anyone
to go that route.

Another way to look at it is that SCSI drives, while more expensive, will
outlast IDE.  I still have my original 4GB UW SCSI drives that I bought
several years ago and they still give current IDE drives a run for thier money 
in speed.  You couldn't pay me any price for one of them. :)

I've owned over 10 SCSI drives in my history of computers and not once has one 
went bad on me.  I sold two, 2 gb drives several years ago and they also still 
run today!  I've owned an equal number of IDE drives and two of them went out. 
One replaced by warranty.

So the money spent on replacing an IDE drive after its warranty runs out could 
add for the cost of a more reliable drive.

Rgds, Matt

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From: Bat Lang                                          17-Oct-99 00:11:22
  To: George Fliger                                     17-Oct-99 12:41:06
Subj: Logitech Trackman Marble+

 -=> Quoting George Fliger to Kris Steenhaut, [15 Oct 99  05:51:16] <=-

 KS> To bad the SDD drivers aren't stable enough yet.

 GF> Not to mention how EXTREMELY slow they are.

Hey, that's a matched pair! If you're not stable, you can't afford to
be too fast.  {^;

Are we both talking about the latest version:?

SDD700B7.ZIP 3855k 10.10.99 * (00) SciTech Display Doctor 7.0 for OS/2,
                               preview release 7. SciTech Display Doctor for
                               OS/2 brings SciTech's proven DOS and Windows
                               device support technologies to the OS/2
                               Operating System.

Good Modeming!  /\oo/\


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From: Eddy Thilleman                                    14-Oct-99 21:01:16
  To: Rich Wonneberger                                  17-Oct-99 16:18:29
Subj: Big Hard Drives & Warp

Hello Rich,

11 Oct 99 21:50, Rich Wonneberger wrote to Eddy Thilleman:

>> RW> If I had 1 Primary partition, and the rest logical partitions in
>> RW> an extended partition, I couldnt have more then 4, 2 GIG
>> RW> partitions??

>> It's quite simple.

RW> My question was a response to a statement that you cant format a
RW> partition as FAT if its beyond the 1023rd cyl.  With drive translation
RW> this would be a 8 gig drive.  With the FAT limit of 2 gig per
RW> partition (aprox), you could have 4 - 2 gig partitions as FAT. (Azzume
RW> 1 pri, 3 extended for simplicity).

you mean 3 logical partitions?

RW> Why couldnt you create one more 2 gig partition as FAT in the
RW> extended??

I use only one FAT partition. I don't have use for more FAT partitions.

RW> I did learn a few things about the pointers from your reply btw.  :}

That can be handy (sometimes)

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From: Eddy Thilleman                                    14-Oct-99 21:35:06
  To: Mike Roark                                        17-Oct-99 16:18:29
Subj: Big Hard Drives & Warp

Hello Mike,

12 Oct 99 19:46, Mike Roark wrote to Eddy Thilleman:

MR> And it doesn't limit the number of logical partitions because as need
MR> arises another partition table can be created or the original
MR> enlarged. It isn't limited by the 'boot' sector. DOS/WIN/NT are
MR> limited in the total number of partitions A-Z. I think that OS/2 has
MR> the same limitation. *nix OTOH, doesn't have this limitation, although
MR> the primary limitation does exist. At least on IBM compatible
MR> computers. I have no idea what happens on mainframes.

I don't know that. I don't have mainframe or mini experience. But I don't
think mainframes and mini's have the same limitations, I think mainframes and
mini's use other schemes of partitioning (om mainframes the partitioning is
not limited to harddisks, mainframes can partition the whole system -
something like virtual machines but then for complete operating systems
capable running very sophisticated programs instead of only real mode programs 
which mainframes don't have use for anyway).

MR> Best long and short explanation I've seen in a while..

Thank you. :)

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From: Scott Jones                                       16-Oct-99 22:26:20
  To: Bas Heijermans                                    17-Oct-99 16:18:29
Subj: Re: Matrox drivers?

-=> On 15 Oct 99  10:17:18, Bas Heijermans wrote to Mike Roark <=-


 MR> It made a world of difference on drive access times. The
 MR> whole system seemed to work faster.

 BH> Well I havn't seen that much speed improvement, maybe you just see
 BH> cache-burst's from you drive instead of real increase of performance?

FWIW, I've seen a marked improvement when going from the stock IBM1S506
driver to Dani's driver.  Running with a Western Digital AC34000,
Shuttle HOT-603 w/AMD 640 (rebadged VIA VP2 chipset), and HPFS386 w/32MB
cache, I got the following from Sysbench:

IBM1S506.ADD                    DaniS506.ADD
------------                    ------------
1496.505 File I/O marks         25205.686 File I/O marks
13.78    Disk I/O marks         42.488    Disk I/O marks
99.15    Disk use CPU Load %    1.69      Disk use CPU load %

So, at least in some cases, it does help improve performance.  As
always, YMMV.


                              Scott Jones
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From: MIKE RUSKAI                                       16-Oct-99 23:06:00
  To: GEORGE FLIGER                                     17-Oct-99 19:31:19
Subj: Re: Logitech Trackman Mar

Some senseless babbling from George Fliger to Kris Steenhaut
on 10-15-99  05:51 about Re: Logitech Trackman Mar...

 GF> On 11 Oct 99 01:02pm, Kris Steenhaut wrote to Leonard Erickson:
 
 KS> To bad the SDD drivers aren't stable enough yet.

 GF> Not to mention how EXTREMELY slow they are.

That's hardly an appropriate statement to make.  In fact, they are faster
than the vendor-supplied drivers for most cards.

I also haven't suffered a single crash from testing them.

Mike Ruskai
thannymeister@yahoo.com


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From: Andy Roberts                                      17-Oct-99 08:41:03
  To: Jean-Michel Dossogne                              17-Oct-99 19:31:19
Subj: avm & isdn & warp

 Jean-Michel Dossogne,

16-Oct-99 06:54:00, Jean-Michel Dossogne wrote to All
          Subject: avm & isdn & warp

 JD> 2 friends have a "little" problem they both have a fritz avm isa
 JD> isdn passive card but AVM says "no capi drivers for os/2" do you
 JD> know any workaround, to allow them not to have to use winos2 to
 JD> communicate?

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From: Don Guy                                           17-Oct-99 10:28:18
  To: All                                               17-Oct-99 22:38:02
Subj: Fun with SCSI

Greetings All!

At the moment I have Warp Connect running on a machine of mixed breed: it
boots to an IDE drive, and stores a bunch of stuff on a SCSI.  What I'd like
to do, is drop the IDE drive completely and go SCSI all the way.

But...  OS/2's FDisk won't allow me to partition the SCSI drive.  Upon
starting FDisk, it claims that "the partition table on Drive x may be
corrupt."  It will then allow me to delete existing partitions, but none
(including the Boot Mgr.) may be created.

The drive in question is a Quantum 540LS, the SCSI host adapter is a Trantor
T130B...  Any suggestions?

-Don



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From: David Calafrancesco                               17-Oct-99 17:31:29
  To: Scott Jones                                       17-Oct-99 22:38:02
Subj: Matrox drivers?

Scott Jones wrote in a message to Bas Heijermans:

-=> On 15 Oct 99  10:17:18, Bas Heijermans wrote to Mike Roark <=-

 MR> It made a world of difference on drive access times. The
 MR> whole system seemed to work faster.

 BH> Well I havn't seen that much speed improvement, maybe you just see
 BH> cache-burst's from you drive instead of real increase of performance?

 SJ> FWIW, I've seen a marked improvement when going from the
 SJ> stock IBM1S506 driver to Dani's driver.  Running with a
 SJ> Western Digital AC34000, Shuttle HOT-603 w/AMD 640 (rebadged
 SJ> VIA VP2 chipset), and HPFS386 w/32MB cache, I got the
 SJ> following from Sysbench:

 SJ> IBM1S506.ADD                    DaniS506.ADD
 SJ> ------------                    ------------
 SJ> 1496.505 File I/O marks         25205.686 File I/O marks
 SJ> 13.78    Disk I/O marks         42.488    Disk I/O marks
 SJ> 99.15    Disk use CPU Load %    1.69      Disk use CPU load
 SJ> % 

 SJ> So, at least in some cases, it does help improve
 SJ> performance.  As always, YMMV.

I don't doubt that it improves performance greatly. What version of OS2 are
you running? What version of HPFS386 were you running? Was lazy writes turned
on? 

The problem that I encountered was that the first boot with that driver in
place, without HPFS386 running on that system, corrupted my drive to the point 
where I could no longer even boot with floppies. I will retry the experiment
at some point, and see what there is to see a second time around. But am glad
to hear it is working for you. 

Dave Calafrancesco, Team OS/2
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From: Linda Proulx                                      17-Oct-99 13:24:18
  To: Bat Lang                                          18-Oct-99 00:18:00
Subj: Question

-=> Bat Lang wrote to George Fliger <=-

 BL> SDD700B7.ZIP 3855k 10.10.99 * (00) SciTech Display Doctor 7.0 for OS/2,
 BL>                                preview release 7. SciTech Display

What does this program do actually?  The info does not actually say.

Anon,

Linda

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From: Dan Egli                                          17-Oct-99 18:11:09
  To: Bas Heijermans                                    18-Oct-99 06:45:12
Subj: Matrox drivers?

 -=> Quoting Bas Heijermans to David Calafrancesco <=-

 BH> David Calafrancesco made noise to Will Honea:

 BH> Hi David,
 BH> Here they screwed the desktop, I had to rebuild the ini's, that has
 BH> never happened before, I'm still recovering from that experiance.

I never bothered with Danis. I just went to the Os/2 device driver pak online
and downloaded the latest IDE drivers from there. Works great! 8.4GB HDD
on an ALI Chipset.

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From: Matt Bedynek                                      18-Oct-99 01:05:08
  To: Don Guy                                           18-Oct-99 06:45:12
Subj: Fun with SCSI

Hello Don.

Sunday October 17 1999 10:28, Don Guy wrote to All:

 DG> At the moment I have Warp Connect running on a machine of mixed breed:
 DG> it boots to an IDE drive, and stores a bunch of stuff on a SCSI.  What
 DG> I'd like to do, is drop the IDE drive completely and go SCSI all the
 DG> way.

 DG> But...  OS/2's FDisk won't allow me to partition the SCSI drive.  Upon
 DG> starting FDisk, it claims that "the partition table on Drive x may be
 DG> corrupt."  It will then allow me to delete existing partitions, but
 DG> none (including the Boot Mgr.) may be created.

 DG> The drive in question is a Quantum 540LS, the SCSI host adapter is a
 DG> Trantor T130B...  Any suggestions?

Can't speak for controller brand have zero experience with them. All adaptec
here.  Do you have any drive translations enabled on the drive?

I'm sure someone will come right out and point the problem since someone else
here is bound to have that same controller.

Rgds, Matt.

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From: Stephen Haffly                                    16-Oct-99 21:36:10
  To: Mike Roark                                        18-Oct-99 06:45:12
Subj: DANIS506 Driver problem

On (13 Oct 99) Mike Roark wrote to Stephen Haffly...

Hi Mike,

I changed the subject to suit the current thread.

 SH> Western Digital drives compatable with the DANIS506 driver?), or the
 SH> motherboard.  Since I don't have a non-WD drive to test with, I cannot
 SH> say.

 SH> I am sure that the DANIS506 driver is very good for some people.
 SH> Unfortunately, it wasn't for my particular system.  Perhaps one day,
 SH> I'll replace the drive with one of another brand, and the DANIS506
 SH> driver will work well for me as well.

 SH> What brand drive are you using anyway?

 MR> Western Digital. Both 8.4 and 6.4gig drives. Running on a Tyan MB with
 MR> a via MVP3 chipset. Going back to the ibm driver is like going back
 MR> from a Ferrari to a Model T. I will say that I had problems with traps
 MR> on one of the gamma versions. Gamma 6 or 7 IIRC. But I dropped back
 MR> and then 8 came out and I've just kept upgrading. 1.09 or something
 MR> like that. I don't look at the versions anymore.

OK.  So probably Western Digital drives are not the problem.  Mine is a
5.1 Gb.  I agree with you on the speed difference.  I also will have to
look at which version of the DANIS506.ADD I was trying.  I'll look for
#8 and give that a try again.

I guess I should also check FIC's web site for BIOS updates as well.

Thanks for the feedback,


TTYL,

Stephen
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From: Stephen Haffly                                    16-Oct-99 21:41:05
  To: David Calafrancesco                               18-Oct-99 06:45:12
Subj: DANIS506.ADD drivers

On (14 Oct 99) David Calafrancesco wrote to all...

Hi David,

 DC> Is anyone using the DANIS506.ADD driver on an FIC motherboard using a
 DC> VIA MVP3 chipset with a Matrox G200 AGP based video card? I was only
 DC> using a 6.4gb drive so there likely wasn't any conflict there. There
 DC> was either a Kingston KNE40 or KNE120 PCI ethernet card in the system
 DC> at the time. So far the common platform causing problems is the FIC
 DC> VIA MVP3 chipset and possibly a Matrox.

Not using a Matrox card, but am using an FIC motherboard with MVP3
chipset.  What problems are you having?  I would like to compare notes
with you.


TTYL,

Stephen
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From: Stephen Haffly                                    17-Oct-99 21:23:23
  To: Daniela Engert                                    18-Oct-99 06:45:12
Subj: DANIS506 driver question

On (13 Oct 99) Daniela Engert wrote to Stephen Haffly...

Hi Daniela,

 SH> Are there any known issues of hardware compatability issues with your
 DE> driver?  I tried it
 SH> with a new VIA VA503+ motherboard with Cyrix 6x86 PR-166 processor and a
 DE> Western Digital
 SH> Caviar 5.1 Gb drive.  I wound up with a corrupted disk drive.

<SNIP>

 DE> In fact, I have many reports from people using my driver on this
 DE> particular board, and none of these has problems. But you are right,
 DE> the Cyrix may be the reason of your troubles if it doesn't run with a
 DE> FSB speed of 66MHz (and most likely it doesn't). Reread the section on
 DE> the PCLK option and the use of /!BM and /MR:. And take my 'words of
 DE> wisdom' *serious*, these contain the conclusion drawn from many
 DE> peoples experiences.

I'm was not sure what FSB speed was until I got the newest version
(1.0.9) today.  According to the bootup screen using the /w option, it
appears to be at 41 MHz.  I used the /PCLK:0 switch to test this version
out.  I also modified a cable by cutting off the excess length so that
it connects with the shortest possible distance between the motherboard
connector and the HDD.  So far, so good.

 DE> IIRC, the VA503+ mobo has a VIA 586B southbridge, and this is
 DE> *exactly* what I have in my machine here.

That's what the manual has.

 DE> Another thought: many WDC drives have very little noise margins in
 DE> their bus drivers, so they are *very* susceptable to negative effects
 DE> of bad or too long cables (this includes power), noisy power supplies,
 DE> ringing (no dangling cables!) or the like. This is why I recommend to
 DE> stay away from WDC.

That could very well be the problem.  It would seem to run for a while,
then I would start to get beeps, and then it would freeze.  On reboot,
the drive would be corrupted.  I tried this and it happened the same way
more than once.  I am hoping that between the new version, the shorter
connector cable, and the /PCLK:0 switch that things will be stable.

Being that this is the case, and since I can't change drives right now,
is there any cable that works better than a standard drive connector
cable?  When I am able to change, what drives do you consider the most
reliable currently?

Thank you very much for your assistance.


TTYL,

Stephen
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From: MIKE RUSKAI                                       18-Oct-99 01:42:00
  To: DON GUY                                           18-Oct-99 09:06:05
Subj: Fun with SCSI

Some senseless babbling from Don Guy to All
on 10-17-99  10:28 about Fun with SCSI...

 DG> Greetings All!

 DG> At the moment I have Warp Connect running on a machine of mixed breed:
 DG> it boots to an IDE drive, and stores a bunch of stuff on a SCSI.  What
 DG> I'd like to do, is drop the IDE drive completely and go SCSI all the
 DG> way. 
 DG> But...  OS/2's FDisk won't allow me to partition the SCSI drive.  Upon
 DG> starting FDisk, it claims that "the partition table on Drive x may be
 DG> corrupt."  It will then allow me to delete existing partitions, but
 DG> none (including the Boot Mgr.) may be created.

 DG> The drive in question is a Quantum 540LS, the SCSI host adapter is a
 DG> Trantor T130B...  Any suggestions?

Well, you have basically two options:

1)  Go through the drive with a sector editor, to find where the partitions
actually begin and end.  Then modify the partition table to reflect those
values.

2)  Backup all your data, delete all partitions, reboot, then create the
new ones.

Mike Ruskai
thannymeister@yahoo.com


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From: Jean-Michel Dossogne                              17-Oct-99 19:09:03
  To: All                                               18-Oct-99 09:25:28
Subj: chinon cd-rom & warp

Hello All.

got a small problem
trying to "convert" a friend to warp - "holly" mission, not? :)
his old pc uses an old-timer scsi controller & cd-rom
the drive : cds-535 internal 1x scsi cd-rom, supporting cd-r and all the like
the controller : cds-323, 16bit isa long card, with external 37p and internal
50p connectors.
all I have are Dos drivers (chinon doesn't make cd's anymore and their site is 
empty about what they made as drives..)
and on the warp connect diskette 1, I have a file called chincds1.flt, with as 
text in file header :
This program cannot be run in a DOS session.
CHINCD1     chincds1.DLL      CHINCD1 CHINON

if I try to install, I don't get the cd-rom found by warp.
Any idea/workaround/suggestion?

sure that warp connect would be better, on a 486dx33/8mb/250mb than win3.11
and all the problems he brings with him!

smile.. crossposting some places... need so baaaaadly an answer :-)

thanks for help

Jean-Michel
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From: Kris Steenhaut                                    14-Oct-99 10:48:28
  To: Daniela Engert                                    18-Oct-99 11:30:23
Subj: DaniS506.ADD and removable HD's

Hello Daniela,

I'm taking the liberty to bumb in.

I am wondering about this passage in the readme:


++++ Knip.....Begin van het bestand DaniS506.DOC .....++++

                      Daniela's S506 ADD - Release 1.0.9
                      ----------------------------------

     -------------------------------------------------------------------------

     If you have a removable drive which you want to boot from, this
reportedly
     fails. To enable booting from this unit it has to be treated as a fixed
     one. This can be done with the option /!RMV applied to the proper unit.
     It is reported also that some Syquest drives have buggy firmware which
     doesn't report properly the support of the removable feature set. To
     announce these drives to OS/2 a removable drives add the /RMV option to
     the appropriate unit.

     -------------------------------------------------------------------------

++++ Knip.....Einde van het bestand DaniS506.DOC .....++++

Afaik, since FP6 the Zips are hardcoded in the OS2DASD.DMD as removable
harddisks. So, why are you saying this?


Sam Detweiler told me it's only possible to boot from a removable if that
removable is the only hard disk in the system.

Do you suggest otherwise, or I'm I reading it wrong?

Anyway, did have a try:

- without the /!RMV swith, OS/2 quits after reading the last basedev
(os2scsi.dmd)

- with the /!RMV switch OS/2 goes a little bit further, initiates the Dani*
and the AIC7870.ADD. But then quits in the same way: "the system can't read
the HD or floppy drive".


Would be glad to have your comments on this.

On the other hand, I never had any problem with your driver. But most
certainly that's because I always mess up with OS/2, as the experts keep
telling me. :-)))))

Groeten uit Gent,
    Regards/2

      Kris

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From: Bat Lang                                          17-Oct-99 23:48:15
  To: Linda Proulx                                      18-Oct-99 14:15:03
Subj: Question

 -=> Quoting Linda Proulx to Bat Lang, [17 Oct 99  13:24:37] <=-

 -=> Bat Lang wrote to George Fliger <=-

 BL> SDD700B7.ZIP 3855k 10.10.99 * (00) SciTech Display Doctor 7.0 for OS/2,
 BL>                                preview release 7. SciTech Display

 LP> What does this program do actually?  The info does not actually say.

Beats me! Why not ask Mr. Fliger or the other chap that claimed it was
unstable. They are evaluating it, I am not. It's just another huge app
that purports to provide driver support to a gaggle of video boards,
plus a passle of system diagnostic tools. Good Modeming!  /\oo/\


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From: Eddy Thilleman                                    17-Oct-99 12:24:01
  To: Steve Mccrystal                                   18-Oct-99 15:30:18
Subj: Matrox drivers?

Hello Steve,

14 Oct 99 06:38, Steve McCrystal wrote to Bas Heijermans:

SM> Second, calling Dani's drivers buggy is more than a bit unfair. I have
SM> used them in the past, even the early releases, without significant
SM> problems. Problems others have had have been addressed... and fixed.

I don't have a problem with Dani's driver, and I regard her driver as a fine
piece of work.

SM> Could we have a show of hands of those people who actually understand
SM> what "ALPHA" and "BETA" mean with respect to software development?

I think I understand what "alpha" and "beta" means to software development,
because I'm a programmer myself. If I wouldn't be a programmer it would be
very possible I wouldn't understand the status of alpha- and beta-software.

SM> Again, this sort of thing is why I'm a big supporter of closed betas,
SM> but they only work if all the players understand the rules.

Sure, that's true.

  Greetings   -=Eddy=-        email: eddy.thilleman@net.hcc.nl

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From: Cyrill Vakhneyev                                  13-Oct-99 15:28:20
  To: Rich Wonneberger                                  18-Oct-99 15:30:18
Subj: CPU change

Hello Rich!

07 Oct 99 20:32, Rich Wonneberger wrote to All:
 RW> I have 2 systems I would like to get a bit more speed in.  Both are
 RW> Pentiums, one a 133 mhz, the other a 166 mhz.  The boards will only go
 RW> up to a 200 mhz processor.  I was thinking about a AMD K6 and under
 RW> clocking it, but am not sure which would work right and is still
 RW> available.
    AMD K6-ready MoBo must have 2.1V feed for CPU core. Use K6 only if sure...
Probably, MoBos may have undocumented jumper's position for high clock rates
and
strange voltages.
 RW> Also, would this effect OS/2??
    OS/2 - no, wynn - maybe. IMHO.

Bye!
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From: Steve McCrystal                                   17-Oct-99 08:00:25
  To: George Fliger                                     18-Oct-99 16:08:14
Subj: Logitech Trackman Marble+

;
In a msg of <Friday October 15 1999>, George Fliger writes to Kris Steenhaut:
;
George,

 KS>> To bad the SDD drivers aren't stable enough yet.

 GF> Not to mention how EXTREMELY slow they are.

I've noticed that, too.

On my machine (MGA G-200 AGP), according to Sysbench, they are only about 3.5
times as fast as the Matrox 2.30 drivers.  I was hoping for way more. :)

-[Steve]-

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From: Steve McCrystal                                   17-Oct-99 08:07:09
  To: David Calafrancesco                               18-Oct-99 16:08:14
Subj: DANIS506.ADD drivers

;
In a msg of <Thursday October 14 1999>, David Calafrancesco writes to all:
;
David,

 DC> Is anyone using the DANIS506.ADD driver on an FIC motherboard
 DC> using a VIA MVP3 chipset with a Matrox G200 AGP based video card?

Not on an FIC, but a DFI K6VB3+ board with the MVP3 chipset and the same video 
card you have (at least it is probably the same, there are a couple of
variations of the G-200).

 DC> I was only using a 6.4gb drive so there likely wasn't any
 DC> conflict there.

Shouldn't matter a bit.

 DC> So far the common platform causing problems is the FIC VIA MVP3
 DC> chipset and possibly a Matrox.

Have you looked for BIOS updates?  I know there were a couple for the FIC
motherboard I used to run.

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From: Mike Roark                                        17-Oct-99 11:30:22
  To: Bas Heijermans                                    18-Oct-99 21:15:09
Subj: Matrox drivers?

Hello Bas!

Friday October 15 1999 10:17, Bas Heijermans wrote to Mike Roark:

 MR>> 6. Now, I just drop the latest one in if I happen to see it.
 MR>> It made a world of difference on drive access times. The
 MR>> whole system seemed to work faster.

 BH> Well I havn't seen that much speed improvement, maybe you just see
 BH> cache-burst's from you drive instead of real increase of performance?

I verified the improvement here with sysbench. It's been a long time ago, and
I don't have the information pages I saved anymore..


Have a good day!!
Mike
Internet bcomber@cave.fido.de
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From: David Calafrancesco                               18-Oct-99 20:22:24
  To: Don Guy                                           19-Oct-99 02:39:20
Subj: Fun with SCSI

Don Guy wrote in a message to All:

 DG> At the moment I have Warp Connect running on a machine of
 DG> mixed breed: it boots to an IDE drive, and stores a bunch of
 DG> stuff on a SCSI.  What I'd like to do, is drop the IDE drive
 DG> completely and go SCSI all the way.

 DG> But...  OS/2's FDisk won't allow me to partition the SCSI
 DG> drive.  Upon starting FDisk, it claims that "the partition
 DG> table on Drive x may be corrupt."  It will then allow me to
 DG> delete existing partitions, but none (including the Boot
 DG> Mgr.) may be created.

 DG> The drive in question is a Quantum 540LS, the SCSI host
 DG> adapter is a Trantor T130B...  Any suggestions?

The SCSI was formatted originally under a different SCSI host adapter or
different OS. Delete all the partitions, shut down, reboot, retry FDISK and
see if now it will allow creation of a partition. If not, shut down, remove
the IDE drive so that the SCSI is drive 0, then again reboot (from floppies
this time) and retry the FDISK. If that again fails, reboot to a dos disk and
use a sector editor to edit the MBR to write zeros into the entire first
physical sector of the drive. Don't forget to the last 2 bytes need to be
wiped as well. Once this is all done, the drive should be partitionable, if
not, use a low level format tool for your SCSI drive/host adapter. 

Also, that Trantor T130B is one of the worst SCSI host adapters going. You
would be better off with almost any other brand if you can swing it. The T130B 
is a polled device, meaning the system has to keep asking the SCSI host if it
has information, instead of the current interrupt driven SCSI hosts. Usually
the T130B was found on a Pro Audio Spectrum. It was considered barely useable
for a CD, and then only if no other CD drive or SCSI host was available. 

Dave Calafrancesco, Team OS/2
dave@drakkar.org

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From: David Calafrancesco                               18-Oct-99 20:30:12
  To: Stephen Haffly                                    19-Oct-99 02:39:20
Subj: DANIS506.ADD drivers

Stephen Haffly wrote in a message to David Calafrancesco:

 SH> On (14 Oct 99) David Calafrancesco wrote to all...

 DC> Is anyone using the DANIS506.ADD driver on an FIC motherboard using a
 DC> VIA MVP3 chipset with a Matrox G200 AGP based video card? I was only
 DC> using a 6.4gb drive so there likely wasn't any conflict there. There
 DC> was either a Kingston KNE40 or KNE120 PCI ethernet card in the system
 DC> at the time. So far the common platform causing problems is the FIC
 DC> VIA MVP3 chipset and possibly a Matrox.

 SH> Not using a Matrox card, but am using an FIC motherboard
 SH> with MVP3 chipset.  What problems are you having?  I would
 SH> like to compare notes with you.

I reported on my experience a few days ago. If you don't have that message,
drop me a note in netmail/email and I will drop you a copy. I don't really
want to repost it as this echo is sometimes too busy as it is without seeing
messages twice in a week. 

Dave Calafrancesco, Team OS/2
dave@drakkar.org

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From: David Calafrancesco                               18-Oct-99 20:37:14
  To: Steve McCrystal                                   19-Oct-99 02:39:20
Subj: DANIS506.ADD drivers

Steve McCrystal wrote in a message to David Calafrancesco:

 SM> ;
 SM> In a msg of <Thursday October 14 1999>, David Calafrancesco
 SM> writes to all: ;
 SM> David,

 DC> Is anyone using the DANIS506.ADD driver on an FIC motherboard
 DC> using a VIA MVP3 chipset with a Matrox G200 AGP based video card?

 SM> Not on an FIC, but a DFI K6VB3+ board with the MVP3 chipset
 SM> and the same video card you have (at least it is probably
 SM> the same, there are a couple of variations of the G-200).

 DC> I was only using a 6.4gb drive so there likely wasn't any
 DC> conflict there.

 SM> Shouldn't matter a bit.

 DC> So far the common platform causing problems is the FIC VIA MVP3
 DC> chipset and possibly a Matrox.

 SM> Have you looked for BIOS updates?  I know there were a
 SM> couple for the FIC motherboard I used to run.

Nope. The motherboard was less than a month old and had just arrived at my
distributor the day it was shipped to me. 

Dave Calafrancesco, Team OS/2
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From: George Fliger                                     18-Oct-99 05:53:17
  To: Bat Lang                                          19-Oct-99 07:50:22
Subj: Re: Logitech Trackman Marble+

On 17 Oct 99 12:11am, Bat Lang wrote to George Fliger:

 -=> Quoting George Fliger to Kris Steenhaut, [15 Oct 99  05:51:16] <=-

 KS> To bad the SDD drivers aren't stable enough yet.

 GF> Not to mention how EXTREMELY slow they are.

 BL> Hey, that's a matched pair! If you're not stable, you can't
 BL> afford to be too fast.  {^;

 BL> Are we both talking about the latest version:?

 BL> SDD700B7.ZIP 3855k 10.10.99 * (00) SciTech Display Doctor 7.0
 BL> for OS/2, preview release 7. SciTech Display Doctor for
 BL>                                OS/2 brings SciTech's proven DOS
 BL>                                and Windows device support
 BL>                                technologies to the OS/2
 BL>                                Operating System.

Slow enough that I wasted no time putting my Matrox drivers back in
which, btw, were working fine.  I was curious to see what the hoopla
was all about.

George


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From: George Fliger                                     18-Oct-99 05:56:08
  To: Mike Ruskai                                       19-Oct-99 07:50:23
Subj: Re: Logitech Trackman Mar

On 16 Oct 99 11:06pm, MIKE RUSKAI wrote to GEORGE FLIGER:

 MR> Some senseless babbling from George Fliger to Kris Steenhaut
 MR> on 10-15-99  05:51 about Re: Logitech Trackman Mar...

 GF> On 11 Oct 99 01:02pm, Kris Steenhaut wrote to Leonard Erickson:
 MR>
 KS> To bad the SDD drivers aren't stable enough yet.

 GF> Not to mention how EXTREMELY slow they are.

 MR> That's hardly an appropriate statement to make.  In fact, they
 MR> are faster than the vendor-supplied drivers for most cards.

The operative phrase here is "most cards."

 MR> I also haven't suffered a single crash from testing them.

Maybe you haven't suffered any crashes with them (I didn't either and
never claimed I did) but when you have to sit and watch every screen
update paint itself down the display, I'd say that's rather slow,
wouldn't you?

George


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From: Stephen Haffly                                    18-Oct-99 11:52:05
  To: Daniela Engert                                    19-Oct-99 07:50:23
Subj: DANIS506 driver question

On (13 Oct 99) Daniela Engert wrote to Stephen Haffly...

Hi Daniela,

<SNIP>
 DE> Another thought: many WDC drives have very little noise margins in
 DE> their bus drivers, so they are *very* susceptable to negative effects
 DE> of bad or too long cables (this includes power), noisy power supplies,
 DE> ringing (no dangling cables!) or the like. This is why I recommend to
 DE> stay away from WDC.

What does the following output from diskinfo mean (especially the part
about misalignmed)?

[D:\danis]diskinfo c
0/m: WDC AC35100L
Device counters
Total operations    :    32853 reads,     9432 writes
Total sectors       :  1701105 reads,    67462 writes
Busmaster operations:    32711 reads,     8946 writes,    12444
misaligned
Total errors        :        0 reads,        0 writes,        0 seeks

0/s: (not present)
1/m: BCD-16X 1997-03-25
1/s: (not present)
2/m: (not present)
2/s: (not present)
3/m: (not present)
3/s: (not present)


Also, here is a copy of the dumpide output:

PCI BIOS V2.10 detected, 3 PCI buses present.
Found embedded VIA 571 on 0/7/1
00:  06 11 71 05  07 00 80 02  06 8A 01 01  00 40 00 00
10:  00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00
20:  01 E4 00 00  00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00
30:  00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00
40:  0B E2 09 BA  69 13 C0 00  A8 21 A8 21  00 00 FF FF
50:  03 03 03 E1  00 00 00 00  A8 A8 A8 A8  00 00 00 00
60:  00 02 00 00  00 00 00 00  00 02 00 00  00 00 00 00
70:  02 00 00 00  00 00 00 00  02 00 00 00  00 00 00 00
BusMaster Registers:
00:  08 00 20 00  00 10 F1 00  00 00 04 00  00 00 00 00

VendorID 1106, DeviceID 0571
IOBase      E400h (Len 10h)

South bridge (1106/0586 rev 47) on 0/7/0


Things do appear to be working fine with the new version.  I think the
PCLK:0 parameter was the key.  Now to figure out what is happening with
the speeds.


TTYL,

Stephen
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From: Coridon Henshaw                                   18-Oct-99 13:22:19
  To: Don Guy                                           19-Oct-99 09:15:14
Subj: Fun with SCSI

On Sunday October 17 1999 at 10:28, Don Guy wrote to All:

 DG> But...  OS/2's FDisk won't allow me to partition the SCSI drive.
 DG> Upon starting FDisk, it claims that "the partition table on Drive x
 DG> may be corrupt."  It will then allow me to delete existing
 DG> partitions, but none (including the Boot Mgr.) may be created.

Use a DOS or Linux-based FDISK to wipe the partition table.  Reboot to OS/2
and FDISK should now work.

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From: Linda Proulx                                      18-Oct-99 17:12:02
  To: Bat Lang                                          19-Oct-99 13:22:11
Subj: Re: Question

-=> Bat Lang wrote to Linda Proulx <=-

 BL> Beats me! Why not ask Mr. Fliger or the other chap that claimed it was
 BL> unstable. They are evaluating it, I am not. It's just another huge app
 BL> that purports to provide driver support to a gaggle of video boards,
 BL> plus a passle of system diagnostic tools. Good Modeming!  /\oo/\

So it's OS/2 video drivers.  Thanks for the info.

Anon,

Linda

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From: Jean-Michel Dossogne                              18-Oct-99 23:58:06
  To: All                                               19-Oct-99 15:32:07
Subj: chinon cd-rom & warp

Hello All.

Dimanche 17 Octobre 1999 19:09, Jean-Michel Dossogne wrote to All:

 JMD> the controller : cds-323, 16bit isa long card, with external 37p and
looking everywhere, I also looked in my dusty os/2 2.1 box, took out of the
.dsk file what was in it and found this :
===========
A93G5861.DSK                         1474560     Col 0     21% 23:57
                                                       10 October 1993
------------
| OVERVIEW |
------------

This README describes an OS/2 device driver (CHINCDS1.FLT) for the
Chinon 435 and 535 CD-ROM drives.

The Chinon CD-ROM drive MUST be attached to a SCSI adapter which
is supported under OS/2 with an OS/2 SCSI Adapter Device Driver (.ADD).
Currently, there is no support for the Chinon SCSI adapter which is
typically bundled with the Chinon drive.  Chinon is developing an OS/2
adapter device driver for their SCSI card, but it is not available at
this time.
===========

so, by that time was the chinon controller not yet supported
anyone knows if later he becomed so, before they stopped making pc-stuff?


 JMD> if I try to install, I don't get the cd-rom found by warp.
 JMD> Any idea/workaround/suggestion?
that one is more than ever actual :)

Jean-Michel

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From: Roy J. Tellason                                   19-Oct-99 11:50:09
  To: Don Guy                                           19-Oct-99 19:20:16
Subj: Fun with SCSI

following up a message from Matt Bedynek to Don Guy:

 DG> At the moment I have Warp Connect running on a machine of mixed breed:
 DG> it boots to an IDE drive, and stores a bunch of stuff on a SCSI.  What
 DG> I'd like to do, is drop the IDE drive completely and go SCSI all the
 DG> way.

 DG> But...  OS/2's FDisk won't allow me to partition the SCSI drive.  Upon
 DG> starting FDisk, it claims that "the partition table on Drive x may be
 DG> corrupt."  It will then allow me to delete existing partitions, but
 DG> none (including the Boot Mgr.) may be created.

 DG> The drive in question is a Quantum 540LS, the SCSI host adapter is a
 DG> Trantor T130B...  Any suggestions?

 MB> Can't speak for controller brand have zero experience with 
 MB> them. All adaptec here.  Do you have any drive translations 
 MB> enabled on the drive? 

 MB> I'm sure someone will come right out and point the problem 
 MB> since someone else here is bound to have that same controller.

I have no direct personal experience with that controller here,  but the point 
about translations being enabled is a good one.  I have an Adaptec 2842 in
this box,  and had originally tried setting it up in a 386 box a while back,
where I'd done that -- enabled the translation in the controller's BIOS -- and 
it gave me exactly the same symptom after I'd disabled it.  FDISK listed a
partition table that looked seriously weird,  too,  showing multiple small
primary partitions preceding each of several extended partitions...

What is fdisk showing you for a partition table?  That'd clear things up,
probably.

You *may* end up having to wipe that drive out and start from scratch.

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From: Kris Steenhaut                                    17-Oct-99 11:44:24
  To: David Calafrancesco                               19-Oct-99 19:20:16
Subj: Logitech Trackman Marble+

Hello David,
donderdag 14 oktober 1999 21.17, David Calafrancesco wrote to Kris Steenhaut:

 DC> Your mouse is a serial mouse on Com4 (2E8, Irq 3),

Why do you say that? My mouse is since always a PS/2 , irq 12:

Device=E:\OS2\Boot\PMDD.Sys
Device=E:\OS2\Boot\PointDD.Sys
Device=E:\Os2\Rodent.Sys Protocol=PS IRQ=12 DPI=640 BAUD=19200
Device=E:\OS2\Boot\Mouse.Sys TYPE=RODENT$
Device=D:\Techniek\Quatech\qcom.Sys (1,3F8,4) (2,2F8,3)
REM Device=D:\Techniek\Sio\Sio.Sys
REM Device=D:\Techniek\Sio\Sio.Sys (3,03E8,5)
REM DEVICE=E:\OS2\BOOT\USBCOM.SYS
Device=D:\Modem\Faks\FMD.Sys

++++ Knip.....Einde van het bestand config.sys .....++++

 DC>  and as a result it
 DC> conflicts with the MGA chip that accesses that IO port. Move the
 DC> serial port to a different IO address.

Do you see any other possibility, besides replacing the Matrox?


    Groeten uit Gent,
    Regards/2

      Kris

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From: Daniela Engert                                    17-Oct-99 18:44:12
  To: Bryan Rubingh                                     19-Oct-99 21:23:14
Subj: 1868 & IDE port

Hi Bryan!

Thus quoth Bryan Rubingh to Rob Basler:
 BR> Being a hardware tinkerer, do you know how I can get the specs on
 BR> the 1868 chip?  I've searched the net and not found anything but a
 BR> white paper on ESS's web site.

Same experiences as mine: I was looking for the ESS Maestro 2E specs (built
into my notebook).
My tip for you: have a look into the Linux source tree. Assuming the 1868
Audiodrive is a WSS compliant ISA device with some additions, getting PCM wave 
and FM MIDI output is fairly easy and straightforward.

 BR> I'd like to try
 BR> writing a device driver for it, although I'm sure it would get put
 BR> on the back burner for now (at least until Y2k).

I did that for a Yamaha OPL3-SA based board more than a year ago. Start with
the Tropez sources on DDK and basic operation for your intended chipset should 
be achievable within a few hours.

bye, Dani

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From: Mike Roark                                        18-Oct-99 19:54:24
  To: Eddy Thilleman                                    19-Oct-99 21:23:14
Subj: Big Hard Drives & Warp

Hello Eddy!

Thursday October 14 1999 21:35, Eddy Thilleman wrote to Mike Roark:

 MR>> limited in the total number of partitions A-Z. I think that OS/2
 MR>> has the same limitation. *nix OTOH, doesn't have this limitation,
 MR>> although the primary limitation does exist. At least on IBM
 MR>> compatible computers. I have no idea what happens on mainframes.

 ET> I don't know that. I don't have mainframe or mini experience. But I

Just take a look at linux. You can name the partitions anything you want. I
mount my os/2 partitions as /os2c, /os2d, etc. my DOS/win partition is /Win98. 
my linux partitions are /boot, /, /opt, /home, and so on.How many names for
partitions can you make? I have no idea. But you aren't limited to c:,d: up to 
z:.

 ET> don't think mainframes and mini's have the same limitations, I think
 ET> mainframes and mini's use other schemes of partitioning (om
 ET> mainframes
 ET> the partitioning is not limited to harddisks, mainframes can partition
 ET> the whole system - something like virtual machines but then for
 ET> complete operating systems capable running very sophisticated programs
 ET> instead of only real mode programs which mainframes don't have use for
 ET> anyway).

You can do something similar with linux now. using a program called VMware,
you can create virtual computers within one machine. There are also the
emulators available like DOSemu.


 MR>> Best long and short explanation I've seen in a while..

 ET> Thank you. :)

it was one of those that I saved to the HD. Always good to have when needed..


Have a good day!!
Mike
Internet bcomber@cave.fido.de
This OS/2 system uptime is 1d 9h 23m 58s 843ms (en).

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From: Daniela Engert                                    17-Oct-99 18:45:06
  To: David Calafrancesco                               19-Oct-99 21:23:14
Subj: DANIS506.ADD drivers

Hi David!

Thus quoth David Calafrancesco to all :

 DC> Is anyone using the DANIS506.ADD driver on an FIC motherboard using a VIA 
MVP3 chipset with a
 DC> Matrox G200 AGP based video card?

Are you talking about the VA503+ ? If so you might contact Piotr Oniszczuk
<admin@contec.com.pl> (mentioned in the docs of DANIS506.ADD); he has this
board and ran into some data integrity troubles. After some fiddling with the
BIOS settings affecting L2 cache operation these problems went away.

Another thought. There is no such thing as a VIA MVP3 chipset. Depending on
the choice of the mobo manufacturer there are several flavours of MVP3:

1) VT82C597 north bridge plus VT82C586A south bridge
2) VT82C597 north bridge plus VT82C586B south bridge
3) VT82C597 north bridge plus VT82C596  south bridge
4) VT82C597 north bridge plus VT82C596A south bridge
5) VT82C597 north bridge plus VT82C596B south bridge
6) VT82C597 north bridge plus VT82C686A south bridge

All of these south bridges have tiny differences in their embedded EIDE
controller's registers (undocumented of course), which DANIS506 takes into
account. 1) up to 4) can do ATA33 max., 5) and 6) are ATA66 capable.

Some hours ago I had a first encounter with a 686A south bridge (my father got 
a brand new AMD Athlon500 equipped on a FIC SD11 board). UltraDMA mode 4
(66MB/s max.) worked like a charm :-)

bye, Dani

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From: Mike Roark                                        18-Oct-99 21:05:22
  To: Andy Roberts                                      19-Oct-99 21:23:14
Subj: avm & isdn & warp

Hello Andy!

Sunday October 17 1999 08:41, Andy Roberts wrote to Jean-Michel Dossogne:

 JD>> 2 friends have a "little" problem they both have a fritz avm isa
 JD>> isdn passive card but AVM says "no capi drivers for os/2" do you
 JD>> know any workaround, to allow them not to have to use winos2 to
 JD>> communicate?

 AR> -+-
 AR> Cf2_297D.Zip                    08-30-99         382,008
 AR>     cFos/2 2.97d - OS/2 - COM Port Emulator for ISDN CAPI Serial
 AR> device
 AR>     driver that interfaces with ISDN CAPI 1.1 and 2.0 PDD.  Supports
 AR> multiple

That won't work. Cfos as the description shows is a comport emulator, and not
the capi driver. AVM unfortunately doesn't support Os/2. I really don't know
of any that do anymore. I've kept my Teles 16.3 for that reason alone. I would 
dearly love to have a pci version.


Have a good day!!
Mike
Internet bcomber@cave.fido.de
This OS/2 system uptime is 1d 10h 31m 23s 687ms (en).

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From: Holger Granholm                                   18-Oct-99 21:18:00
  To: Jean-Michel Dossogne                              19-Oct-99 21:23:14
Subj: avm & isdn & warp

In a message dated 10-16-99, Jean-michel Dossogne said to All:

Hello Jean-Michel,

JD>but AVM says "no capi drivers for os/2"
JD>do you know any workaround, to allow them not to have to use winos2
JD>to communicate? Thanks!

Have you tried CapiTel (CTELO333.ZIP) and/or cFos/2 (CF2_296D.ZIP)?
They are both for OS/2 Warp.

Have a nice day,

Holger

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From: Holger Granholm                                   18-Oct-99 21:18:00
  To: Jean-Michel Dossogne                              19-Oct-99 21:23:14
Subj: multi changer

In a message dated 10-16-99, Jean-michel Dossogne said to All:

JD>have a 18cd changer on arrival (second hand, am not that rich :)
JD>now... problem... yups... alphabet only has 26 letters, am already
JD>full till "L"... Any workaround for warp, to use it on the same
JD>machine? A linux-way maybe? Any good advice most welcome, cos' if I
JD>can add these 18 in a fast way, I'll add also my own 4cd, cos' it's
JD>an 8x, a bit faster than that incoming 2x :-)

Hello Jean-Michel,

IIRC there has been a utility named Pathfinder with Nakamichi and
Mountain CD changers. Its purpose is to have all CD platters under
one driveletter with each disk as its own subdirectory. That should
be what you need.

The above CD changers are SCSI which I suppose the ones you are
getting are also. OTOH, I don't suppose that the software should
make any difference.

JD>(8:7620/1)

BTW where is Zone 8 ?

Have a nice day,

Holger

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From: Louis Aubree                                      21-Apr-99 20:59:00
  To: K. Lindholm                                       19-Oct-99 21:23:14
Subj: Upgrading

Hello K. !

   I've just read your reply dated 1999-04-12. I'm sorry to have
excited you about OS/2 vs Win<anything>, and about you vs your wife
using the home computer. In my second message about your upgrade,
I didn't want to push you so far this way, I just wanted to explain
my first message (so I explained how I feeled your needs _before_
you added details). Then, maybe I should also have typed more
smileys.

   Thus, to make things clear: you are the one who knows the best how
your computer is used, and it's up to you to fit a general best buy
advice to your exact needs. Someone else also advised you to look for
a brand new machine. Up to details now.

 KL>>> Are you saying that new machines are a major hassle/impossible
 KL>>> to put Warp on?

 LA>> Somewhat difficult, if you read OS2 and OS2HW carefully, e.g. :
 LA>> - Many new graphic cards and sound cards are difficult to use
 LA>> - Warp 4 needs a refresh before installation on a large HD

KL> I'll take my chances, I would rather have an OS/2 machine with
KL> major hassles involved than put up with a psuedo-operating system
KL> from Redmond.

   Well, as long as I can know, the only well known maker still
shipping graphics card with a driver for OS/2 is Matrox. I don't know
about the IBM Aptiva series. Don't take chances about the graphics
card. Don't take for granted any second hand information about a
driver for OS/2. The only question : is a driver for OS/2 from the
manufacturer being included in the box ?  Don't agree about a
standard driver from the graphics chip set maker (I KNOW that's not
enough!!) nor about a driver that could be available maybe some day
by internet. If you can't find a new machine like that, then spend
the less with a low end graphics card (not integrated on the main
board), then look for a separate new Matrox or maybe for a used card
with the right driver.

   About installing Warp on a new big HD, as long as you have an
other machine alongside, you can overcome the process to update the
installation diskettes with the new drivers for large HDs. Maybe it
would be tedious enough to stop at a 8GB size, not jumping in unclear
lands towards 20 GB. (Still waiting a detailed report of a real user
of a 12 to 20 GB HD).

 LA>>>> *Look now for a scanner.    ....<snip>...
 LA>> Look elsewhere in this echo, about refurbished HP scanners _with_
 LA>> OS/2 driver, bargain price (at BMT ?) (if you live in the USA).
KL> I do, in the middle of it as a matter of fact.

I checked it somewhat in this echo. The HP 4C scanners (SCSI) are not
bundled with OS/2 driver. The clearest advice said to buy one without
the SCSI card, but with an Adaptec card, then buy the ImpOS/2 driver.
(Used HP 4C on www.onsale.com, less than $150, were $1000 2 years ago).

Other way : Indelible Blue, sells Microtek scanners bundled with
ImpOS/2. 

Then, other drivers seem to be available from CFM (at BMT Micro), or
from the SANE project (ported from Linux), but I can't say which
scanners they support.

I'm not an expert about scanners, and I wouldn't buy one from the US
market (I'm living in Europe). But I think it's the right time to buy
a SCSI scanner, still available, for a bargain, just now, because the
next models are only for parallel or USB ports (or will be expensive).

    L.A.   
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From: Louis Aubree                                      03-May-99 18:33:00
  To: All                                               19-Oct-99 21:23:14
Subj: Dvd

Hi!

Most of us are still dubious about CD writers under OS/2, but the DVD
family is (more or less?) on the way. Just a short, simplified tour,
from a magazine I have at hand.

Now, many new PCs are sold with DVD readers. A DVD reader can read
DVD-ROMs with 4.38 GB/side. Only a few DVD-ROMs titles are available,
mainly in the game and encyclopedia arenas, just to prevent spreading
on several CD-ROMs. (Already seen on DVD-ROM: CICA Windows, from
Walnut Creek).

The DVD readers can read the common CD-ROM formats. Most are bundled
only with Win95/98 drivers, (maybe NT ones, I don't remember), and at
least one also supporting OS/2 (maybe also Win3.11 and DOS, not sure).

A DVD reader needs to be backed by a strong PC, at least in IDE/ATAPI
versions (SCSI versions are uncommon) or in order to make the most of
available titles. In order to look at DVD video movies, a DVD kit
including a hardware MPEG-2 decoder is strongly suggested. The
software MPEG-2 decoders need very-very fast processors.

Maybe on the way: the DVD writers. Well, a bunch of different formats:

* DVD-R, only from Pionneer, 3.68 GB/side (soon 4.38GB),
readable by almost any CD-ROM reader, available, $20.000 !

* DVD-RAM, from Hitachi and al., about $700, writes 2.4 GB/side,
but these rewritable DVDs cannot be read on any other unit.

* DVD-RW, not approved yet, rewritable, 4.38 GB/side, readable by
most DVD readers

* DVD+RW, check at the "+" :), pushed by Philips, Sony and al., as
the DVD-RW approval by the DVD Forum is late.

Remember that the DVD-ROM format is 4.38 GB/side. The DVD-Videos will
be double coated (8.76 GB/side), and every format seems to have the
double side option (but readers-writers are only seeing one side at a
time). 

There are already a whole bunch of video variants (not counting
zoning the world in 6 commercial parts) and we can foresee the same
mess in the upcoming audio variant.

All this mess results from the Hollywood plot to kill free use of the
DVD media. Divide to rule...

Off topic, but remember... Years ago, Panasonic won the VCR battle
'cause movies were available only for VHS. Then, Sony bought CBS
entertainment in order not to lose an other battle. But last year,
the Dutch Philips sold its entertainment activities (Polygram
records) and is now advertising for home CD-Audio duplicators...

It seems that the audio side of the entertainment industries is
already doomed and that new ways to spread music records are going to
replace the money-grabbing companies.

(If anyone wants to reply only about Hollywood-entertainment-music
records, please do so in a new "Entertainment" thread).

   L.A.  
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From: Louis Aubree                                      03-May-99 20:36:00
  To: Jonathan De boyne poll                            19-Oct-99 21:23:14
Subj: Hard Drives

Hi, Jonathan!

On 1999-04-24, you wrote to Preston Smith, about "ATA" and "IDE".

JDBP> (...) "ATA", which stands for "AT Attachment", is quite simply
JDBP> the proper term (...)

JDBP> Many people mistakenly call such drives "IDE".  But this was a
JDBP> marketing term when these drives were first introduced to the
JDBP> PC world.  The major innovation of "IDE" drives (an innovation
JDBP> in the PC world, that is) was that instead of the drive
JDBP> controller chip residing on the motherboard, or an expansion
JDBP> card, it resided on the drive unit itself.

<snip>

JDBP> The designation "ATA", however, is better, (...)
JDBP> "AT Attachment" describes the fact that the drive uses a
JDBP> connector cable that is an extension of the ISA bus used in the
JDBP> IBM PC/AT, and the controller chip register interface and
JDBP> command set of the IBM PC/AT.  The drive "attaches" in the way
JDBP> that drives attach in the PC/AT.

I have a simpler explanation. The printed circuit board makers use to
silkscreen print on their boards the designation of the components
and the use of the connectors. Then, the connector for the floppy
disk drive is simply designated by "FLOPPY", and when HD drives with
IDE became largely used, they simply began to print "IDE", just to
say "plug in here the cable to the IDE drive" (not older ST-506
drives!). In the same logic, the connector for the keyboard  should
be labelled "KEYBOARD" or "KBD", just to say what, not how. The idea
about plug labels is "what to plug here", not "what's on the board to
deal with the external device".

Of course, the IDE drives could have been named "ATAPI drives"...
but the AT bus had been there for several years and the new thing was
"drive with IDE".

JDBP> "Enhanced IDE" is simply yet another marketing term.  Indeed,
JDBP> when "EIDE" was a new idea, there were several different,
JDBP> competing, terms for the same thing invented by the various
JDBP> vendors' marketing departments (even though, ironically, the
JDBP> manufacturers, in the discussions on various standards bodies
JDBP> and in technical literature, were using the correct term
JDBP> "ATA").  "EIDE" is simply the one that was advertised the most.

Should the "EIDE" have been named "VLBA" or "EISAA" or "PCIA"?
'cause, according to an other message elsewhere, EIDE appeared with
the 32 bit buses. I don't remember this.

JDBP> Ironically, perhaps, what happened in the 1980s to hard disc
JDBP> drives is now happening to floppy disc drives. [...]

JDBP> The new LS-120 floppy disc unit, that holds 120MeB, works like
JDBP> ATA hard discs do, with a controller chip on the drive unit
JDBP> itself, and a cable that carries a subset of the ISA bus
JDBP> signals to that chip.

So, where is the LS-120 going in the near future designs without ISA?

JDBP> It is amusing to note that we don't hear the LS-120 described
JDBP> as an "IDE floppy drive", however, even though the situation,
JDBP> of "integrating the drive electronics", exactly parallels the
JDBP> transformation that hard disc drives underwent.

If the board makers add a connector just for an LS-120 drive,
(because the standard ATAPI ones could be relabelled as "UDMA"),
they will label it "LS-120".

JDBP> So much for consistency in Marketingspeak!  (-:

The same happens in many fields and also in the common language.
I agree with you that a careful choice should be made about every new
idea, at the very beginning, just before the idea spreads widely.

The marketing schmucks often make worse, not only spreading
inaccurate designations, but even quite confusing ones (remember "SX"
by Intel, "PS/2" and "OS/2" by IBM). Now, the top prize could be won
by the modem makers: the names of their models are so confusing that
they manage to mistake the retailers.

   L.A.  
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From: Louis Aubree                                      03-May-99 21:47:00
  To: Roy J. tellason                                   19-Oct-99 21:23:14
Subj: Cd-rw For os/2

Hi Roy!

On 1999-04-29, you wrote to Rich Wonneberg with (declared) subject
still set to WANGTECH SCSI TAPE, in the OS2 echo.

It was about tape HW, and you drifted about buying a CD-RW for OS/2,
so I move this to the OS2HW echo with new subject.

RJT> I was [...]  giving some serious thought to buying a cd burner.
RJT> the rewritables were up there, [...]  up over $300 [...] a
RJT> couple of months back.

RJT> Then yesterday a guy here got one,  a Hewlett-Packard (!),  at
RJT> Sam's Club for $179...!

RJT> I get to install this thing shortly.

Also thinking about this.

RJT> The biggest problem [...] it comes with a whole mess of software,
RJT> all of that software runs under w95/8, or NT.

* Up to now, not seen any CD writer sold with OS/2 support.

* Not the only big problem : many CD writers are only for IDE/ATAPI,
so they are highly relying on very fast processors to get a
continuous stream of data to write on the CD. Also, a large cache
memory on the CD writer integrated controler helps about this (now up
to 4 MB, AFAIK).

* Both of these problems can be helped with SCSI, but I'm still
looking for full detailed reports by OS/2 users.

RJT> With the price getting that attractive,  I'm thinking more that
RJT> one of those would be the way to go for backup and storage of
RJT> fairly static files...

Look at an other message about upcoming (??) DVD writers.

   Louis   
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From: Louis Aubree                                      03-May-99 22:08:00
  To: Stewart Buckingham                                19-Oct-99 21:23:14
Subj: Atx Mobo & ups

SB> When I had a non-ATX mobo and my UPS exhausted the system would
SB> reboot when power came back on. Now I have an ATX mobo, when
SB> power returns the system does not boot until I press the power
SB> switch on the front of the computer. This pretty much defeats
SB> non-attended operations. Does anyone have a solution to this
SB> phenomenum?

UPS is for nothing in this. The same happens without a UPS. All of
this discussed here around January.

Look for a BIOS setting about what the system is asked to do when the
power comes again. On a few mobos, it can be a jumper. But many ATX
mobos seem to be without such an option and remain stucked when the
power comes again, or at least with this option disabled as default.

   L.A.
   
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From: Louis Aubree                                      09-May-99 16:50:00
  To: Eddy Thilleman                                    19-Oct-99 21:23:14
Subj: Atx Mobo & ups

Hi Eddy,

SB>> When I had a non-ATX mobo and my UPS exhausted the system
SB>> would reboot when power came back on. Now I have an ATX mobo,
SB>> when power returns the system does not boot until I press the
SB>> power switch on the front of the computer.

ET> My ATX mainboard has a jumper to set it you want.

Please, brand, model number, socket/slot type ?

    Louis  
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From: Preston Smith                                     12-May-99 16:55:15
  To: Don Guy                                           19-Oct-99 21:23:14
Subj: Drive Problems

Hello Don!

Tuesday May 11 1999 21:01, Don Guy wrote to Preston Smith:

 DG>> FWIW, I have a Fujitsu 100-something drive in a print server, and
 DG>> that drive won't work with *anything* else I have here.

 DG> Wow, do I ever feel like an idiot.  The drive in question is a Samsung; I
 DG> don't think I've ever owned a Fujitsu drive in my life!  :-/

HeHe!! I would never make a mistake like that <grin>

Preston (prsmith@navnet.net)

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From: Daniela Engert                                    13-Oct-99 20:23:25
  To: Stephen Haffly                                    19-Oct-99 21:23:14
Subj: DANIS506 driver question

Hi Stephen!

Thus quoth Stephen Haffly to Daniela Engert:
 SH> Hi Daniela,

 SH> Are there any known issues of hardware compatability issues with your
driver?  I tried it
 SH> with a new VIA VA503+ motherboard with Cyrix 6x86 PR-166 processor and a
Western Digital
 SH> Caviar 5.1 Gb drive.  I wound up with a corrupted disk drive.

 SH> Reverting back to the standard IBM1S506 driver (and restoring from
backup) made the system
 SH> stable again at the expense of speed. Since I have read that others have
used your driver
 SH> with VIA chipsets with no problems, could there be an issue with Western
Digital drives (or
 SH> with Cyrix processors)?

In fact, I have many reports from people using my driver on this particular
board, and none of these has problems. But you are right, the Cyrix may be the 
reason of your troubles if it doesn't run with a FSB speed of 66MHz (and most
likely it doesn't). Reread the section on the PCLK option and the use of /!BM
and /MR:. And take my 'words of wisdom' *serious*, these contain the
conclusion drawn from many peoples experiences.

IIRC, the VA503+ mobo has a VIA 586B southbridge, and this is *exactly* what I 
have in my machine here.

Another thought: many WDC drives have very little noise margins in their bus
drivers, so they are *very* susceptable to negative effects of bad or too long 
cables (this includes power), noisy power supplies, ringing (no dangling
cables!) or the like. This is why I recommend to stay away from WDC.

bye, Dani

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From: Bryan Rubingh                                     19-Oct-99 23:05:00
  To: Daniela Engert                                    19-Oct-99 23:05:00
Subj: 1868 & IDE port


Hi Dani,

Thanks for the reply & ideas.  Actually I'm not so much interested in
sound as I am in getting the PnP IDE port to work, because the OS/2
sound drivers work fine.  I figured that since the sound & IDE enabler
are separate drivers in DOS they can be separate in OS/2 also.  Thus,
I'm more interested in the specs for the IDE port (specifically the PnP
specs) than in the sound specs.  Any ideas on that?  I realize that
there are places to obtain generic PnP specs, but I'm assuming that the
1868 requires something special for the IDE to be enabled.  However, I
haven't checked out anything on the PnP specs either, and I'm not
familiar with the internals of them, so maybe I'm wrong, perhaps generic
PnP specs would provide me with enough info to get it working.  That
would probably be a good place to start.

As a side note, I've found that W95 enables the IDE port just fine.  So
does DOS... as long as I'm starting from a cold boot.  If I boot W95,
shutdown, three finger salute & boot DOS, the IDE won't work.
Apparently there's a bug in the DOS enabler.

  Bryan Rubingh


-=> Quoting Daniela Engert to Bryan Rubingh <=-

 DE> Hi Bryan!

 DE> Thus quoth Bryan Rubingh to Rob Basler:
 BR> Being a hardware tinkerer, do you know how I can get the specs on
 BR> the 1868 chip?  I've searched the net and not found anything but a
 BR> white paper on ESS's web site.

 DE> Same experiences as mine: I was looking for the ESS Maestro
 DE> 2E specs (built into my notebook).
 DE> My tip for you: have a look into the Linux source tree. Assuming the
 DE> 1868  Audiodrive is a WSS compliant ISA device with some
 DE> additions, getting PCM wave and FM MIDI output is fairly
 DE> easy and straightforward.

 BR> I'd like to try
 BR> writing a device driver for it, although I'm sure it would get put
 BR> on the back burner for now (at least until Y2k).

 DE> I did that for a Yamaha OPL3-SA based board more than a
 DE> year ago. Start with the Tropez sources on DDK and basic
 DE> operation for your intended chipset should be achievable
 DE> within a few hours.

 DE> bye, Dani

 DE> -!- Sqed/32 1.14/r01354
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From: MIKE RUSKAI                                       19-Oct-99 07:29:00
  To: GEORGE FLIGER                                     20-Oct-99 00:12:22
Subj: Re: Logitech Trackman Mar

Some senseless babbling from George Fliger to Mike Ruskai
on 10-18-99  05:56 about Re: Logitech Trackman Mar...

 GF> On 16 Oct 99 11:06pm, MIKE RUSKAI wrote to GEORGE FLIGER:
 
 MR> Some senseless babbling from George Fliger to Kris Steenhaut
 MR> on 10-15-99  05:51 about Re: Logitech Trackman Mar...
 
 GF> On 11 Oct 99 01:02pm, Kris Steenhaut wrote to Leonard Erickson:
 MR>
 KS> To bad the SDD drivers aren't stable enough yet.
 
 GF> Not to mention how EXTREMELY slow they are.
 
 MR> That's hardly an appropriate statement to make.  In fact, they
 MR> are faster than the vendor-supplied drivers for most cards.

 GF> The operative phrase here is "most cards."
 
 MR> I also haven't suffered a single crash from testing them.

 GF> Maybe you haven't suffered any crashes with them (I didn't either and
 GF> never claimed I did) but when you have to sit and watch every screen
 GF> update paint itself down the display, I'd say that's rather slow,
 GF> wouldn't you?

I'd say they're slow on your specific chip, not slow in general.  That's
the point of my message.

Mike Ruskai
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From: MIKE RUSKAI                                       19-Oct-99 07:30:00
  To: BAT LANG                                          20-Oct-99 00:12:22
Subj: Question

Some senseless babbling from Bat Lang to Linda Proulx
on 10-17-99  23:48 about Question...

 -=> Quoting Linda Proulx to Bat Lang, [17 Oct 99  13:24:37] <=-
 
 -=> Bat Lang wrote to George Fliger <=-
 
 BL> SDD700B7.ZIP 3855k 10.10.99 * (00) SciTech Display Doctor 7.0 for OS/2,
 BL>                                preview release 7. SciTech Display
 
 LP> What does this program do actually?  The info does not actually say.

 BL> Beats me! Why not ask Mr. Fliger or the other chap that claimed it was
 BL> unstable. They are evaluating it, I am not. It's just another huge app
 BL> that purports to provide driver support to a gaggle of video boards,
 BL> plus a passle of system diagnostic tools. Good Modeming!  /\oo/\

SDD is a third-party display driver package, made by SciTech Software.  The
one package works for all supported chipsets, which right now includes the
vast majority of new ones, and a slew of older ones.

It's based on a set of core drivers, which are exactly the same across
platforms.

The long-range utility of this driver package is that since they're updating
their core drivers for all platforms (including Windows), OS/2 will never
be without drivers for new graphics adapters.

IBM has already sign a license agreement with SciTech to put their drivers
(a basic version, without all the gizmos that buying them would get you) up
for download by OS/2 users, when they are out of beta, and pass IBM's
quality tests.

Mike Ruskai
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From: Will Honea                                        19-Oct-99 22:43:03
  To: Daniela Engert                                    19-Oct-99 22:43:03
Subj: DANIS506 driver question

Daniela Engert wrote to Stephen Haffly on 10-13-1999

DE> Another thought: many WDC drives have very little noise 
DE> margins in their bus drivers, so they are *very* 
DE> susceptable to negative effects of bad or too long cables 
DE> (this includes power), noisy power supplies, ringing (no 
DE> dangling cables!) or the like. This is why I recommend to 
DE> stay away from WDC.

Dani, I was about to join the chorus and blame your drivers for
fouling me up when I (blush) discovered that I had neglected to correct
the SOMIR path after the last install of Visual Age C++.  Didn't seem
to matter until I put FP12 on but it sure did then!

As for the noise problem, I still use full size towers which means
relatively long parallel cables.  I had all sorts of grief with about
everything IDE until I picked up a handful of ferrite bars that IBM
used on some of their early SCSI cables.  Clamped those on the cables
and the erratic noise problems went away.  Looking at the signals it
appears that the termination of the IDC-type ribbon cables is not quite
what the standard 130 ohm terminations match (it's actually closer to
120 ohms into a CMOS gate, anyway).  Using the ferrite surpressors cut
the overshoot and reflection on the lines to essentially nothing.  Just
one more trick for your bag if you ever just have to live with narrow
noise margins.

Your drivers are working great with the older VIA bridges as well as
the 503 - and I have yet to see the dead-lock conditions I can induce
with IBM1S506.ADD.  One question: you stated (in one of the readme's)
that you have departed from the DDK model. May one ask in what way and
why?

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From: George Fliger                                     19-Oct-99 06:04:10
  To: Steve Mccrystal                                   20-Oct-99 10:17:05
Subj: Re: Logitech Trackman Marble+

On 17 Oct 99 08:00am, Steve McCrystal wrote to George Fliger:

 SM> ;
 SM> In a msg of <Friday October 15 1999>, George Fliger writes to
 SM> Kris Steenhaut: ;
 SM> George,

 KS>> To bad the SDD drivers aren't stable enough yet.

 GF> Not to mention how EXTREMELY slow they are.

 SM> I've noticed that, too.

 SM> On my machine (MGA G-200 AGP), according to Sysbench, they are
 SM> only about 3.5 times as fast as the Matrox 2.30 drivers.  I was
 SM> hoping for way more. :)

Sounds like they're more optimized for AGP-based cards than PCI. :)

I had the same issue with IBM's GRADD drivers, too.

George


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From: Stephen Haffly                                    19-Oct-99 08:09:12
  To: David Calafrancesco                               20-Oct-99 10:17:05
Subj: DANIS506.ADD drivers

On (18 Oct 99) David Calafrancesco wrote to Stephen Haffly...

Hi David,

 SH> Not using a Matrox card, but am using an FIC motherboard
 SH> with MVP3 chipset.  What problems are you having?  I would
 SH> like to compare notes with you.

 DC> I reported on my experience a few days ago. If you don't have that
 DC> message, drop me a note in netmail/email and I will drop you a copy. I
 DC> don't really want to repost it as this echo is sometimes too busy as
 DC> it is without seeing messages twice in a week.

No need to.  I searched the message base, and found the thread.

Anyway, to keep this brief, when I tried DANIS506.ADD the first time, it
was unstable.  Using the new version (1.0.9), and using the /PCLK:0
switch, it is performing wonderfully.  Without the switch, the driver
was assuming that the motherboard was using a 33 MHz speed.  When I used
the switch, I found out that it is actually set for 41 MHZ, which
definitely made for an unstable setup.

Adding the switch allowed the driver to select the proper speed at
which to operate.  If you try the driver again, try using this switch
and see if it makes the difference for you as well.


TTYL,

Stephen
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From: Bat Lang                                          19-Oct-99 23:51:10
  To: George Fliger                                     20-Oct-99 13:25:14
Subj: Logitech Trackman Marble+

 -=> Quoting George Fliger to Bat Lang, [18 Oct 99  05:53:34] <=-

 KS> To bad the SDD drivers aren't stable enough yet.

 GF> Not to mention how EXTREMELY slow they are.

 BL> Hey, that's a matched pair! If you're not stable, you can't
 BL> afford to be too fast.  {^;

 BL> Are we both talking about the latest version:?

 BL> SDD700B7.ZIP 3855k 10.10.99 * (00) SciTech Display Doctor 7.0

 GF> Slow enough that I wasted no time putting my Matrox drivers back in
 GF> which, btw, were working fine.  I was curious to see what the hoopla
 GF> was all about.

My MGA driver is also working just fine, thanks. I believe the biggest
news with this pkg may be the large number of supported boards. For
some, I suspect that being able to make use of an existing board =might=
be attractive enough to go that route, rather than $pend for another.
That list of boards includes (their claim, not mine):

 . 3DLabs Permedia, Permedia 2, Permedia 2V
 . Alliance ProMotion 6422, ProMotion AT24, ProMotion AT25
 . Alliance ProMotion AT3D
 . ATI Mach64 GX, Mach64 CX, Mach64 CT, Mach64 ET, Mach64 VT, 3D Rage
 . ATI Mach64 VTB, 3D Rage II, 3D Rage II+, Mach64 VT4, 3D Rage IIC
 . ATI 3D Rage Pro, 3D Rage LT Pro, Rage Mobility, Rage XL, Rage XC
 . ATI Rage 128
 . Chips & Technologies 65550, 65554, 65555, 68554, 68555, 69000
 . Cirrus Logic CL-GD5434, CL-GD5440, CL-GD5436, CL-GD5446
 . Cirrus Logic Laguna 5462, Laguna 5464, Laguna 5465
 . Cyrix Media GX, Media GXi, Media GXm
 . InteGraphics IGA1680, IGA1682, IGA1683, CyberPro 2000
 . InteGraphics CyberPro 2010
 . Intel i740
 . Macronix 86250, 86251
 . Matrox MGA Millennium, MGA Millennium II, MGA Mystique
 . Matrox MGA Mystique 220, MGA G100, MGA G200, MGA-G400
 . Philips 9710, 9712
 . Rendition Verite V1000, Verite V2100/V2200
 . S3 Vision 864, Vision 964, Vision 868, Vision 968, Trio32, Trio64
 . S3 Trio64V+, Trio64UV+, Trio64V2/DX, Aurora64V+, Virge, Virge/DX/GX
 . S3 Virge/VX, Virge/GX2, Virge/MX, Trio3D, Trio3D2x, Savage3D
 . S3 Savage4
 . Sigma Designs RealMagic 64 GX
 . SiS 6202, 6205, 6215, 5597/5598, 6326, 5595/530
 . Tseng Labs ET6000, ET6100

Which is old news for you, since you already tried it. But for others,
there it is.  Good Modeming!  /\oo/\


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From: Bas Heijermans                                    19-Oct-99 08:21:05
  To: Scott Jones                                       20-Oct-99 15:14:08
Subj: Re: Matrox drivers?

Scott Jones made noise to Bas Heijermans:

Hi Scott,

 MR> It made a world of difference on drive access times. The
 MR> whole system seemed to work faster.

 BH> Well I havn't seen that much speed improvement, maybe you just see
 BH> cache-burst's from you drive instead of real increase of performance?

 SJ> FWIW, I've seen a marked improvement when going from the
 SJ> stock IBM1S506 driver to Dani's driver.  Running with a
 SJ> Western Digital AC34000, Shuttle HOT-603 w/AMD 640 (rebadged
 SJ> VIA VP2 chipset), and HPFS386 w/32MB cache, I got the
 SJ> following from Sysbench:

 SJ> IBM1S506.ADD                    DaniS506.ADD
 SJ> ------------                    ------------
 SJ> 1496.505 File I/O marks         25205.686 File I/O marks
 SJ> 13.78    Disk I/O marks         42.488    Disk I/O marks
 SJ> 99.15    Disk use CPU Load %    1.69      Disk use CPU load
 SJ> % 

 SJ> So, at least in some cases, it does help improve
 SJ> performance.  As always, YMMV.

Well could be, but I have absolutly no clue what these numbers are that you
present here, but you can be sure of one thing, if you do this type of testing 
you should reduce your HPFS cache to a minimum size in order to test the
driver in question.

Warp3SMP,

Bas Heijermans.

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From: Bas Heijermans                                    19-Oct-99 08:33:01
  To: David Calafrancesco                               20-Oct-99 15:14:08
Subj: DANIS506.ADD drivers

David Calafrancesco made noise to all:

Hi David,

 DC> Is anyone using the DANIS506.ADD driver on an FIC
 DC> motherboard using a VIA MVP3 chipset with a Matrox G200 AGP
 DC> based video card? I was only using a 6.4gb drive so there
 DC> likely wasn't any conflict there. There was either a
 DC> Kingston KNE40 or KNE120 PCI ethernet card in the system at
 DC> the time. So far the common platform causing problems is the
 DC> FIC VIA MVP3 chipset and possibly a Matrox.  

I use the same chipset/videocard and the Dani drivers has messed up my system, 
when I went back to the normal IBM drivers and rebuilding the ini's the system 
would run stable again.
The motherboard here is an AOpen AX59Pro.

Warp3SMP,

Bas Heijermans.

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From: Bas Heijermans                                    19-Oct-99 08:41:10
  To: Dan Egli                                          20-Oct-99 15:14:08
Subj: Matrox drivers?

Dan Egli made noise to Bas Heijermans:

Hi Dan,

 BH> Here they screwed the desktop, I had to rebuild the ini's, that has
 BH> never happened before, I'm still recovering from that experiance.

 DE> I never bothered with Danis. I just went to the Os/2 device
 DE> driver pak online and downloaded the latest IDE drivers from
 DE> there. Works great! 8.4GB HDD on an ALI Chipset.

Same here.

Warp3SMP,

Bas Heijermans.

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From: Steve McCrystal                                   19-Oct-99 06:32:00
  To: Eddy Thilleman                                    20-Oct-99 16:13:08
Subj: Matrox drivers?

;
In a msg of <Sunday October 17 1999>, Eddy Thilleman writes to Steve
Mccrystal:
;
Eddy,

 SM>> Could we have a show of hands of those people who actually
 SM>> understand what "ALPHA" and "BETA" mean with respect to
 SM>> software development?

 ET> I think I understand what "alpha" and "beta" means to software
 ET> development, because I'm a programmer myself. If I wouldn't be a
 ET> programmer it would be very possible I wouldn't understand the
 ET> status of alpha- and beta-software.

That was a sort of generic question, not pointing fingers at you! OTOH, your
understanding is not shared by everyone.  :^)

-[Steve]-

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From: Steve McCrystal                                   19-Oct-99 21:54:03
  To: Linda Proulx                                      20-Oct-99 16:13:08
Subj: Question

;
In a msg of <Sunday October 17 1999>, Linda Proulx writes to Bat Lang:
;
Linda,

 LP> What does this program do actually?  The info does not actually
 LP> say.

FWIW, from WarpCast:

    SciTech Display Doctor for OS/2 Beta 8

     SciTech Display Doctor for OS/2 Beta 8 has been released. SciTech Display 
Doctor for OS/2 brings SciTech's
     proven DOS and Windows device support technologies to the OS/2 Operating  
System. Although one of the core
     features of our DOS and Windows products is the support for the VESA   
VBE/Core standard, the OS/2 version has
     nothing at all to do with VESA services. Rather SciTech Display Doctor
for OS/2 incorporates the new SciTech
     Nucleus, Graphics Architecture device driver technology to bring
SciTech's device support to the OS/2 platform.

     SciTech Nucleus is a binary portable, OS neutral, device driver   
architecture. As binary portable drivers, SciTech
     can fully develop and test the core device drivers in the DOS and Windows 
environments, while being able to
     target any Intel x86 based OS as the runtime environment (such as OS/2).  
This essentially allows the OS/2 product
     to utilise the same SciTech binary device drivers as the DOS and Windows  
versions of the product, improving the
     quality and performance of the drivers for all supported operating   
systems.

     You can download a copy of the beta from ftp.scitechsoft.com.


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From: Scott Jones                                       18-Oct-99 13:15:22
  To: David Calafrancesco                               20-Oct-99 18:42:10
Subj: Re: Matrox drivers?

-=> On 17 Oct 99  17:31:58, David Calafrancesco wrote to Scott Jones <=-


 SJ> So, at least in some cases, it does help improve
 SJ> performance.  As always, YMMV.

 DC> I don't doubt that it improves performance greatly. What version of OS2
 DC> are you running? What version of HPFS386 were you running? Was lazy
 DC> writes turned on?

Warp v4 FP12, bldlevel shows HPFS386 to be v53.40.4, lazy writes are on,
DaniS506.ADD v1.0.8 (and to forestall comments from others, ACL's are
disabled, and yes, I have a license for HPFS386).

 DC> The problem that I encountered was that the first boot with that driver
 DC> in place, without HPFS386 running on that system, corrupted my drive to
 DC> the point where I could no longer even boot with floppies. I will retry
 DC> the experiment at some point, and see what there is to see a second
 DC> time around. But am glad to hear it is working for you.

Unfortunately, I'm of no help, since I've had no problems with it since
the first beta I tried.  All I can suggest is the usual, i.e., stepping
through the docs and following Dani's suggestions.

                              Scott Jones
                        (sjones@crosswinds.net)


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From: Daniela Engert                                    18-Oct-99 18:10:10
  To: Jean-Michel Dossogne                              20-Oct-99 21:25:24
Subj: avm & isdn & warp

Hi Jean-Michel!

Thus quoth Jean-Michel Dossogne to All :

 JD> 2 friends have a "little" problem they both have a fritz avm isa
 JD> isdn passive card but AVM says "no capi drivers for os/2" 

I'm working on an OS/2 CAPI for the Fritz! (ISA classic, ISA PnP, and PCI
flavours), but due to time constraints progress is neglectable at present...

bye, Dani

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From: Mike Roark                                        19-Oct-99 15:42:25
  To: Stephen Haffly                                    20-Oct-99 21:25:24
Subj: DANIS506 Driver problem

Hello Stephen!

Saturday October 16 1999 21:36, Stephen Haffly wrote to Mike Roark:

 MR>> IIRC. But I dropped back and then 8 came out and I've just kept
 MR>> upgrading. 1.09 or something like that. I don't look at the
 MR>> versions anymore.

 SH> OK.  So probably Western Digital drives are not the problem.  Mine is
 SH> a 5.1 Gb.  I agree with you on the speed difference.  I also will have
 SH> to look at which version of the DANIS506.ADD I was trying.  I'll look
 SH> for #8 and give that a try again.

Go to Hobbes, and get the latest one. 1.0.9. and there is a site that she
mentions in her docs that has some settings that are supposed to help also.

 SH> I guess I should also check FIC's web site for BIOS updates as well.

Never hurts. It seems like the motherboard builders keep trying to fix things
that we mortal folks know nothing about.. ;-)


Have a good day!!
Mike
Internet bcomber@cave.fido.de
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From: Don Guy                                           20-Oct-99 17:51:24
  To: Matt Bedynek                                      21-Oct-99 06:34:22
Subj: Fun with SCSI

Greetings Matt!

   A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, a coded message from Matt
Bedynek to Don Guy was intercepted...

 MB> Do you have any drive translations enabled on the drive?

None that I'm aware of.  Any idea how I would go about finding out?


-Don



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From: Don Guy                                           20-Oct-99 17:54:12
  To: MIKE RUSKAI                                       21-Oct-99 06:34:22
Subj: Fun with SCSI

Greetings MIKE!

   A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, a coded message from MIKE
RUSKAI to DON GUY was intercepted...

 MR> 1)  Go through the drive with a sector editor, to find where the
 MR> partitions actually begin and end.  Then modify the partition table
 MR> to reflect those values.

I could probably pull that off with Norton's DiskEdit, but what I was trying
to accomplish was not only some repartitioning, but install the Boot Manager
as well.

 MR> 2)  Backup all your data, delete all partitions, reboot, then create
 MR> the new ones.

Tried that, with a /little/ progress, but not much.  OS/2's FDisk no longer
complains that the partition table might be bad, but it still will not allow
me to create partitions.  :-(

-Don



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From: George Fliger                                     20-Oct-99 05:37:19
  To: Mike Ruskai                                       21-Oct-99 06:53:07
Subj: Re: Logitech Trackman Mar

On 19 Oct 99 07:29am, MIKE RUSKAI wrote to GEORGE FLIGER:

 MR> Some senseless babbling from George Fliger to Mike Ruskai
 MR> on 10-18-99  05:56 about Re: Logitech Trackman Mar...

 GF> On 16 Oct 99 11:06pm, MIKE RUSKAI wrote to GEORGE FLIGER:
 MR>
 MR> Some senseless babbling from George Fliger to Kris Steenhaut
 MR> on 10-15-99  05:51 about Re: Logitech Trackman Mar...
 MR>
 GF> On 11 Oct 99 01:02pm, Kris Steenhaut wrote to Leonard Erickson:
 MR>
 KS> To bad the SDD drivers aren't stable enough yet.
 MR>
 GF> Not to mention how EXTREMELY slow they are.
 MR>
 MR> That's hardly an appropriate statement to make.  In fact, they
 MR> are faster than the vendor-supplied drivers for most cards.

 GF> The operative phrase here is "most cards."
 MR>
 MR> I also haven't suffered a single crash from testing them.

 GF> Maybe you haven't suffered any crashes with them (I didn't either and
 GF> never claimed I did) but when you have to sit and watch every screen
 GF> update paint itself down the display, I'd say that's rather slow,
 GF> wouldn't you?

 MR> I'd say they're slow on your specific chip, not slow in
 MR> general.  That's the point of my message.

And also, part of my point.  Do you think we should turn this issue over
to Kris so he can partake of his, "these drivers suck all over the world
with everybody" campaign? :)

George


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From: Linda Proulx                                      21-Oct-99 00:28:27
  To: Steve McCrystal                                   21-Oct-99 09:08:03
Subj: Re: Question

-=> Steve McCrystal wrote to Linda Proulx <=-


 SM>     SciTech Display Doctor for OS/2 Beta 8

 SM>      quality and performance of the drivers for all supported operating
 SM>    systems.

Which means that it's video device drivers?

Linda

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From: Ruth Argust                                       21-Oct-99 03:03:28
  To: Matt Bedynek                                      21-Oct-99 09:25:14
Subj: CPU change

Hi Matt.

Matt Bedynek wrote in a message to Ruth Argust:

I hadn't answered since I didn't have the answers until now :)

 RA> We just ordered a new HD so when it gets here, we are going to verify
 RA> for certain how many ISA slots we need. At that point, if 3 will
 RA> handle it, I might be in business.

 MB> What type of ISA cards do you have.

3 cards, one for the SB, one for the SCSI (cd rom) and the STB 3 com.

 MB> AGP is not an option on Pentium systems, but for the prices.  I'd
 MB> look into at least a PII-350.  The only problems you would face
 MB> then would be inflated RAM prices. :(

Yes, it will probably come down after Christmas and the backup in production
is caught up. Meanwhile at least I have little upgrades here and there.

                             *ruth*


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From: Cyrill Vakhneyev                                  21-Oct-99 16:54:24
  To: Stephen Haffly                                    21-Oct-99 16:46:01
Subj: DANIS506 Driver problem

Hello Stephen!

19 Oct 99 15:42, Mike Roark wrote to Stephen Haffly:
 MR> Go to Hobbes, and get the latest one. 1.0.9. and there is a site that
 MR> she mentions in her docs that has some settings that are supposed to
 MR> help also.
    Latest is 1.0.11. On hobbes ;)

Bye!
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From: MIKE RUSKAI                                       21-Oct-99 11:24:00
  To: GEORGE FLIGER                                     21-Oct-99 16:46:01
Subj: Re: Logitech Trackman Mar

Some senseless babbling from George Fliger to Mike Ruskai
on 10-20-99  05:37 about Re: Logitech Trackman Mar...

 GF> On 19 Oct 99 07:29am, MIKE RUSKAI wrote to GEORGE FLIGER:
 
 MR> Some senseless babbling from George Fliger to Mike Ruskai
 MR> on 10-18-99  05:56 about Re: Logitech Trackman Mar...
 
 GF> On 16 Oct 99 11:06pm, MIKE RUSKAI wrote to GEORGE FLIGER:
 MR>
 MR> Some senseless babbling from George Fliger to Kris Steenhaut
 MR> on 10-15-99  05:51 about Re: Logitech Trackman Mar...
 MR>
 GF> On 11 Oct 99 01:02pm, Kris Steenhaut wrote to Leonard Erickson:
 MR>
 KS> To bad the SDD drivers aren't stable enough yet.
 MR>
 GF> Not to mention how EXTREMELY slow they are.
 MR>
 MR> That's hardly an appropriate statement to make.  In fact, they
 MR> are faster than the vendor-supplied drivers for most cards.
 
 GF> The operative phrase here is "most cards."
 MR>
 MR> I also haven't suffered a single crash from testing them.
 
 GF> Maybe you haven't suffered any crashes with them (I didn't either and
 GF> never claimed I did) but when you have to sit and watch every screen
 GF> update paint itself down the display, I'd say that's rather slow,
 GF> wouldn't you?
 
 MR> I'd say they're slow on your specific chip, not slow in
 MR> general.  That's the point of my message.

 GF> And also, part of my point.  Do you think we should turn this issue
 GF> over to Kris so he can partake of his, "these drivers suck all over the
 GF> world with everybody" campaign? :)

Only if he promises to break a few laws of physics, too.

Mike Ruskai
thannymeister@yahoo.com


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From: Scott Jones                                       21-Oct-99 02:33:15
  To: Bas Heijermans                                    21-Oct-99 16:46:01
Subj: Re: Matrox drivers?

-=> On 19 Oct 99  08:21:10, Bas Heijermans wrote to Scott Jones <=-


 SJ> IBM1S506.ADD                    DaniS506.ADD
 SJ> ------------                    ------------
 SJ> 1496.505 File I/O marks         25205.686 File I/O marks
 SJ> 13.78    Disk I/O marks         42.488    Disk I/O marks
 SJ> 99.15    Disk use CPU Load %    1.69      Disk use CPU load
 SJ> %

 SJ> So, at least in some cases, it does help improve
 SJ> performance.  As always, YMMV.

 BH> Well could be, but I have absolutly no clue what these numbers are that

Simply put, file I/O improved almost 1700%, disk I/O almost 300%, and
CPU usage dropped dramatically.

 BH> you present here, but you can be sure of one thing, if you do this type
 BH> of testing you should reduce your HPFS cache to a minimum size in order
 BH> to test the driver in question.

Done.  Dropped the HPFS386 cache to 256KB, and here are the results:

IBM1S506.ADD                    DaniS506.ADD
------------                    ------------
1951.359 File I/O marks         2529.451 File I/O marks
31.340   Disk I/O-marks         43.517   Disk I/O-marks
91.070   Disk use CPU Load %    3.160    Disk use CPU Load %

Disk performance has still improved, albeit less so than with a larger
cache.  There is, as before, a large decrease in CPU usage.


                              Scott Jones
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From: Daniela Engert                                    19-Oct-99 18:52:23
  To: Stephen Haffly                                    21-Oct-99 21:51:25
Subj: DANIS506 driver question

Hi Stephen!

Thus quoth Stephen Haffly to Daniela Engert:

 SH> I'm was not sure what FSB speed was until I got the newest version
 SH> (1.0.9) today.  According to the bootup screen using the /w option,
 SH> it appears to be at 41 MHz.

This is not unlikely with a Cyrix. Some models have a 75MHz or 83Mhz FSB speed 
which translates on some boards into 37.5MHz or 41.5MHz PCI bus clock. If this 
is the case, setting the regular 33MHz based timing values into the EIDE
controller registers leads to heavy overclocking of the EIDE channel. Most
disks (with the regular exception of IBM drives) just barf or exhibit data
distortions.

 SH>   I used the /PCLK:0 switch to test this version out.  I also
 SH> modified a cable by cutting off the excess length so that it
 SH> connects with the shortest possible distance between the
 SH> motherboard connector and the HDD.  So far, so good.

Godd idea!

 DE>> Another thought: many WDC drives have very little noise margins in
 SH> That could very well be the problem.  It would seem to run for a
 SH> while, then I would start to get beeps, and then it would freeze. 

Ah! Beeps do indicate communication errors on the EIDE channel. Some time ago
I built this feature into the driver for debugging purposes but as it turned
out to be a good indicator of data at risk!

 SH> On reboot, the drive would be corrupted.

Of course. Most likely, vital data structures just didn't get written to disk.

 SH>   I tried this and it happened the same way more than once.  I am
 SH> hoping that between the new version, the shorter connector cable,
 SH> and the /PCLK:0 switch that things will be stable.

 SH> Being that this is the case, and since I can't change drives right
 SH> now, is there any cable that works better than a standard drive
 SH> connector cable?  When I am able to change, what drives do you
 SH> consider the most reliable currently?

There *is* a better cable available, and I recommend it to everyone running
disks at high speed: the so called 80-wire cable (a prerequisite for ATA66
operation). Basically it is a regular cable with 40pin connectors, but in
between each of the regular wires is an additional ground wire which improves
signal quality considerably.

My hardware recommendation: taking into account the 1000+ reports I got in the 
past few months I can see a clear pattern:

Apart from programming errors (my fault) there were *no* trouble reports from
people using

- either Intel chipsets (one exception: a particular line of PIIX3's)

- or IBM disk drives

Either one seems to prevent data errors. I've got several IBM drives and never 
experienced any data corruption. They tolerate a considerable amount of noise
and heavy overclocking.

bye, Dani

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From: Gregory Urban                                     21-Oct-99 03:05:00
  To: Jean-michel Dossogne                              22-Oct-99 00:35:18
Subj: chinon cd-rom & warp

Greetings Jean-Michel,

 JD> the drive : cds-535 internal 1x scsi cd-rom, supporting cd-r and all

My first OS/2 system had the CDS-435 external drive...

 JD> the like the controller : cds-323, 16bit isa long card, with external
 JD> 37p and internal 50p connectors.all I have are Dos drivers (chinon

Had this card too....it didn't work under OS/2, no way at all.  I bought an
Adaptec AHA-1542 SCSI controller which was supported by Warp.  I also 
had to buy a different cable as the 32 pin cable connection to the Chinon
card was proprietary.  The connector on the CD-ROM drive was standard.
Of course you won't have this problem since it is an internal drive and you
already are using an internal 50 pin connector...

 JD> if I try to install, I don't get the cd-rom found by warp.
 JD> Any idea/workaround/suggestion?

Get a different SCSI controller that is OS/2 compatible...check the list of 
supported hardware in the Warp setup program.  

 JD> sure that warp connect would be better, on a 486dx33/8mb/250mb than
 JD> win3.11 and all the problems he brings with him!

Most definitely.  The system I was using at the time was a 486/66 DX2 with
16mb RAM and a 230mb HDD.

Later,
Greg
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From: Jean-Michel Dossogne                              21-Oct-99 09:22:07
  To: Andy Roberts                                      22-Oct-99 00:35:18
Subj: avm & isdn & warp

Hello Andy.

Dimanche 17 Octobre 1999 08:41, Andy Roberts wrote to Jean-Michel Dossogne:

 JD>> 2 friends have a "little" problem they both have a fritz avm isa
 JD>> isdn passive card but AVM says "no capi drivers for os/2" do you
 JD>> know any workaround, to allow them not to have to use winos2 to
 JD>> communicate?

 AR> -+-
 AR> Cf2_297D.Zip                    08-30-99         382,008
.....
 AR> Versions for DOS, WinXX and WinNT are available from the same URL or
 AR> you can FREQ them from me.
well, ok, but they need a capi driver to operate. If they don't find a capi,
they don't work, do they?

Jean-Michel

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From: Jean-Michel Dossogne                              21-Oct-99 09:23:16
  To: Holger Granholm                                   22-Oct-99 00:35:18
Subj: avm & isdn & warp

Hello Holger.

Lundi 18 Octobre 1999 21:18, Holger Granholm wrote to Jean-Michel Dossogne:

 JD>> but AVM says "no capi drivers for os/2"
 JD>> do you know any workaround, to allow them not to have to use winos2
 JD>> to communicate? Thanks!
 HG> Have you tried CapiTel (CTELO333.ZIP)
don't know that one, gonna look the web for it

 HG> and/or cFos/2 (CF2_296D.ZIP)? They are both for OS/2 Warp.
well, cfos ask for an installed capi, and that's what the Avm lacks

Jean-Michel

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From: Jean-Michel Dossogne                              21-Oct-99 09:24:10
  To: Holger Granholm                                   22-Oct-99 00:35:18
Subj: multi changer

Hello Holger.

Lundi 18 Octobre 1999 21:18, Holger Granholm wrote to Jean-Michel Dossogne:

 HG> IIRC there has been a utility named Pathfinder with Nakamichi and
 HG> Mountain CD changers. Its purpose is to have all CD platters under
 HG> one driveletter with each disk as its own subdirectory. That should
 HG> be what you need.
well.. been looking for it since I saw your message, but pathfinder on
internet = mars mission!
I have a nakamichi changer, as it came as OEM, it's software-less....
any idea where I could find that marvel?

 HG> The above CD changers are SCSI which I suppose the ones you are
 HG> getting are also. OTOH, I don't suppose that the software should
 HG> make any difference.
I suppose too - more, I hope!

 JD>> (8:7620/1)
 HG> BTW where is Zone 8 ?
FamilyNet - we have cross-echoes

Jean-Michel

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From: Jean-Michel Dossogne                              21-Oct-99 09:32:20
  To: Daniela Engert                                    22-Oct-99 00:35:18
Subj: avm & isdn & warp

Hello Daniela.

Lundi 18 Octobre 1999 18:10, Daniela Engert wrote to Jean-Michel Dossogne:

 JD>> 2 friends have a "little" problem they both have a fritz avm isa
 JD>> isdn passive card but AVM says "no capi drivers for os/2"
 DE> I'm working on an OS/2 CAPI for the Fritz! (ISA classic, ISA PnP, and PCI
 DE> flavours),
greaaaaaaaat!
I send this message right away to both of them
sure this will interest lots of people, Fritz cards have been widely sold and
no os/2 support is a real pain.
They only have support for their active cards :(

 DE> but due to time constraints progress is neglectable at present...
maybe with some beta-testers this could help, not?....

Jean-Michel

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From: George Fliger                                     21-Oct-99 06:23:29
  To: Bat Lang                                          22-Oct-99 08:23:00
Subj: Re: Logitech Trackman Marble+

On 19 Oct 99 11:51pm, Bat Lang wrote to George Fliger:

 -=> Quoting George Fliger to Bat Lang, [18 Oct 99  05:53:34] <=-

 KS> To bad the SDD drivers aren't stable enough yet.

 GF> Not to mention how EXTREMELY slow they are.

 BL> Hey, that's a matched pair! If you're not stable, you can't
 BL> afford to be too fast.  {^;

 BL> Are we both talking about the latest version:?

 BL> SDD700B7.ZIP 3855k 10.10.99 * (00) SciTech Display Doctor 7.0

 GF> Slow enough that I wasted no time putting my Matrox drivers back in
 GF> which, btw, were working fine.  I was curious to see what the hoopla
 GF> was all about.

 BL> My MGA driver is also working just fine, thanks. I believe the
 BL> biggest news with this pkg may be the large number of supported
 BL> boards. For some, I suspect that being able to make use of an
 BL> existing board =might= be attractive enough to go that route,
 BL> rather than $pend for another. That list of boards includes
 BL> (their claim, not mine):

 BL>  . 3DLabs Permedia, Permedia 2, Permedia 2V
 BL>  . Alliance ProMotion 6422, ProMotion AT24, ProMotion AT25
 BL>  . Alliance ProMotion AT3D
 BL>  . ATI Mach64 GX, Mach64 CX, Mach64 CT, Mach64 ET, Mach64 VT,
 BL>  3D Rage . ATI Mach64 VTB, 3D Rage II, 3D Rage II+, Mach64 VT4,
 BL>  3D Rage IIC . ATI 3D Rage Pro, 3D Rage LT Pro, Rage Mobility,
 BL>  Rage XL, Rage XC . ATI Rage 128
 BL>  . Chips & Technologies 65550, 65554, 65555, 68554, 68555, 69000
 BL>  . Cirrus Logic CL-GD5434, CL-GD5440, CL-GD5436, CL-GD5446
 BL>  . Cirrus Logic Laguna 5462, Laguna 5464, Laguna 5465
 BL>  . Cyrix Media GX, Media GXi, Media GXm
 BL>  . InteGraphics IGA1680, IGA1682, IGA1683, CyberPro 2000
 BL>  . InteGraphics CyberPro 2010
 BL>  . Intel i740
 BL>  . Macronix 86250, 86251
 BL>  . Matrox MGA Millennium, MGA Millennium II, MGA Mystique
 BL>  . Matrox MGA Mystique 220, MGA G100, MGA G200, MGA-G400
 BL>  . Philips 9710, 9712
 BL>  . Rendition Verite V1000, Verite V2100/V2200
 BL>  . S3 Vision 864, Vision 964, Vision 868, Vision 968, Trio32,
 BL>  Trio64 . S3 Trio64V+, Trio64UV+, Trio64V2/DX, Aurora64V+,
 BL>  Virge, Virge/DX/GX . S3 Virge/VX, Virge/GX2, Virge/MX, Trio3D,
 BL>  Trio3D2x, Savage3D . S3 Savage4
 BL>  . Sigma Designs RealMagic 64 GX
 BL>  . SiS 6202, 6205, 6215, 5597/5598, 6326, 5595/530
 BL>  . Tseng Labs ET6000, ET6100

 BL> Which is old news for you, since you already tried it. But for
 BL> others, there it is.  Good Modeming!  /\oo/\

And, hopefully, this list will continue to grow at a steady but
recognizable rate.

George


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From: Matt Bedynek                                      22-Oct-99 03:08:15
  To: Don Guy                                           22-Oct-99 08:23:00
Subj: Fun with SCSI

Hello Don.

Wednesday October 20 1999 17:51, Don Guy wrote to Matt Bedynek:

 MB>> Do you have any drive translations enabled on the drive?

 DG> None that I'm aware of.  Any idea how I would go about finding out?

Your controller probaly has some internal setup program. Do you see a screen
which says to press a certain key to enter SCSI bios setup?

Rgds, Matt.

   mbedynek@pdq.net
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From: Matt Bedynek                                      22-Oct-99 03:09:11
  To: Ruth Argust                                       22-Oct-99 08:23:00
Subj: CPU change

Hello Ruth.

Thursday October 21 1999 03:03, Ruth Argust wrote to Matt Bedynek:

 RA> I hadn't answered since I didn't have the answers until now :)

No prob.

 MB>> What type of ISA cards do you have.

 RA> 3 cards, one for the SB, one for the SCSI (cd rom) and the STB 3 com.

I see your delima.  :(

 RA> Yes, it will probably come down after Christmas and the backup in
 RA> production is caught up. Meanwhile at least I have little upgrades
 RA> here and there.

I'm going to start selling puter parts online.  If you need some help or
recomendations,.. I'll be glad to help! <g>

Rgds, Matt.

   mbedynek@pdq.net
   ICQ No. 16568532

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From: Stephen Haffly                                    20-Oct-99 07:28:19
  To: Daniela Engert                                    22-Oct-99 14:49:17
Subj: DANIS506 driver question

Hi Daniela,

I'd like to follow up on my earlier message.

With the new 1.0.9 driver, and using the PCLK:0 parameter, things are
very stable.

There is one problem remaining though.  The tape backup (Conner 4 Gb) is
not detected during bootup.  It is detected by the BIOS, but not by the
DANIS506.ADD driver.  The same drive is detected by the IBM1S506 driver.
The drive is an IDE connected 4 Gb compressed/2Gb uncompressed tape
drive that uses QIC-3080 Wide tapes.

Thank you for your help,


TTYL,

Stephen
Team OS/2, Team GEOS
OS/2 & New Deal Office 98 - A great combination.

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From: Ruth Argust                                       22-Oct-99 08:43:05
  To: Matt Bedynek                                      22-Oct-99 16:18:08
Subj: CPU change

Hi Matt.

Matt Bedynek wrote in a message to Ruth Argust:

 MB>> What type of ISA cards do you have.

 RA> 3 cards, one for the SB, one for the SCSI (cd rom) and the STB 3 com.

 MB> I see your delima.  :(

 RA> Yes, it will probably come down after Christmas and the backup in
 RA> production is caught up. Meanwhile at least I have little upgrades
 RA> here and there.

 MB> I'm going to start selling puter parts online.  If you need some
 MB> help or recomendations,.. I'll be glad to help! <g>

Don't forget to give us the URL! You will probably have a lot of visitors.
I'll be glad to give you our business, piece by piece :)

                              *ruth*



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From: John Angelico                                     19-Oct-99 11:00:01
  To: Rob Basler                                        22-Oct-99 19:48:14
Subj: PC-Card Identification

On 12/10/1999, Rob Basler said to John Angelico about PC-Card
Identification:

Hi Rob and thanks for the reply.

RB> Also, there is a newer version of card services, I
RB> believe it is available for free from Software Choice.  Getting my lan
RB> adaptor drivers to work was a little tougher (a Xircom CEM28 28.8
RB> Fax/Lan) and you will most likely need manufacturer's drivers for
RB> that.

I will look for the newer version. I wish I had a Xircom card - at least
they have OS/2 drivers. This thing is an Australian version of something
unknown and the"manufacturer" doesn't believe OS/2 exists (immovable
object).

I may have to sell this to some "lesser being" (eg Win user <g>) and just
go out and get a supported device.
 
RB> 
RB> The card services appear as a subdirectory of the OS/2 System folder
RB> on my Thinkpad.  There is a monitoring program in that directory that
RB> will tell you about the card services running on your system.

OK thannks. Will look shortly (I do all this BBS and email stuff on my
desktop).

 
John Angelico
Co-convener, OS/2 SIG
Melbourne PC User Group
also known as: talldad@kepl.com.au

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From: Daniela Engert                                    20-Oct-99 19:46:29
  To: Stephen Haffly                                    22-Oct-99 23:30:00
Subj: DANIS506 driver question

Hi Stephen!

Thus quoth Stephen Haffly to Daniela Engert:

 SH> What does the following output from diskinfo mean (especially the
 SH> part about misalignmed)?

Current EIDE busmasters (implemented according to the SFF-8038i spec) have
limitations in their hardware. They cannot transfer data blocks of odd byte
lengths, and the memory location must not be an odd byte address. If any of
these two prerequisites is missed, the transfer can't be done by the busmaster 
hardware but has to be carried out by the CPU using PIO mode; this is called a 
'misaligned' transfer. During regular operation this is a non-issue as the
OS/2 kernel and the file systems guarantee properly aligned data transfers.
But during boot or accessing the OS2*.INI files this guarantee no longer
holds.

 SH> Also, here is a copy of the dumpide output:

Looks fine. The UltraDMA cycle timing is slowed down by one PCI clock to
account for the 41MHz PCI bus, just as it should be.

 SH> Things do appear to be working fine with the new version.  I think
 SH> the PCLK:0 parameter was the key.  Now to figure out what is
 SH> happening with the speeds.

Fine. You should experience a 'smoother' feeling of your system.

bye, Dani

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From: Daniela Engert                                    20-Oct-99 20:00:17
  To: Kris Steenhaut                                    22-Oct-99 23:30:00
Subj: DaniS506.ADD and removable HD's

Hi Kris!

Thus quoth Kris Steenhaut to Daniela Engert:
 KS>                       Daniela's S506 ADD - Release 1.0.9           

 KS>      If you have a removable drive which you want to boot from,
 KS> this reportedly      fails. To enable booting from this unit it has
 KS> to be treated as a fixed      one. This can be done with the option
 KS> /!RMV applied to the proper unit.      It is reported also that
 KS> some Syquest drives have buggy firmware which      doesn't report
 KS> properly the support of the removable feature set. To      announce
 KS> these drives to OS/2 a removable drives add the /RMV option to     
 KS> the appropriate unit.

 KS> Afaik, since FP6 the Zips are hardcoded in the OS2DASD.DMD as
 KS> removable harddisks. So, why are you saying this?

I know much too little about OS2DASD to comment on this particular item. In
fact, I have no experiences of my own on booting from removable media other
than floppies. The cited paragraph applies to removable ATA devices (like the
Syquests) only, ATAPI devices (like the ZIP) are a different kind and aren't
controlled by the S506 base driver but the ATAPI filter driver.

The term 'reportedly' means that this statement comes from another user (Allan 
Holm), on who's request these options were introduced. He has two different
firmware revision of his Syquest removable disk one of which has a bug: it
doesn't identify itself as removable. This buggy version enabled him to boot
from the Syquest, the fixed one failed. So, I added the /RMV /!RMV options
pair to bump this particular bit into the proper direction. Users of removable 
ATA disks have the choice now to select between a *removable* disk or a
*bootable* disk.

bye, Dani

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