On 2010-04-18 23:02 (AEST), scott wrote:
On 04/18/2010 07:57 AM, Mike O'Connor wrote:
Good advice from Ed, but to answer your other questions;
Depending which Adaptec HBA (Host Bus Adapter] you have [they're all,
at least up to the (LVD) 29160/29160LP/29160N, AFAIR, but probably not
the U320 driver] supported by OS/2 (Warp4 FP15 - the last free FP from
IBM - you can still get FP15 via links from
www.os2site.com/sw/upgrades/upgrades.html!). eCS has all of them!
If your HBAs are only the slow 8-bit SCSI, you can have up to a
maximum of 7 disks attached to it - but you probably won't find a
cable with that many connectors. Usually they only have 2-4
connectors.
If the HBAs are 16-bit (wide SCSI) with 68-pin connectors, you can
have up to 15 SCSI HDDs attached to a single HBA in theory - the HBA
itself uses SCSI ID7, but in practical terms you'll find it difficult
to find a cable with that many connectors.
You can however have as many HBAs as you have free IRQs in the BIOS,
as they can't share them.
OS/2 doesn't have any problems having mixed SCSI/PATA/SATA systems -
just remember that on any mixed type system, SCSI BOOT drive [post
2000 with LVM, (MCPx/eCs) they are referred to as Boot-Volumes, an
entirely different - more friendly - way of organising disk partitions
with whatever drive (volume) letter you wish to use for
installation/data], must have its driver ahead of the PATA/SATA (IDE)
driver, and vice-versa!
HTH
Regards,
Mike
Thank you Ed, Mike,
Instead of using an Adaptech HBA, perhaps it would be better/faster
if I used SATA/eSATA drives if the adapter card has a PCI connector and
has an OS/2 driver?
I have used a variety of Adaptec HBAs, with no problems at all here.
I would bet the USB port is 1.0. However as long as it can access a
flash drive for occasional use then that is fine. I will have to check
if the OS has CP2 (How would I be able to tell?). Upgrading to eCS
might be a problem with the system that it is on.
Why would that be? Some people have used some pretty ancient hardware
with eCS - successfully!
Scott
Hi Scott,
There are USB drivers for USBOHCI and USBUHCI (USB 1.x), though no
USBEHCI (USB2.0) included in the XR_D003 Device Driver PAK, along with
the base USB drivers you'll need. I have attached them for you on the PM
copy of this, also a complete listing of the files in the FP15 diskette images, as well as the Device driver PAK..
Also the IBM DIUNPACK.EXE that converts the individual *.?DK files in
FP15 to HDD-based directories, and instructions on its usage..
If your Fixpack level is MCPx (it would show 4.51/4.52 when issuing
"VERSION /R"). With Warp4 prior to FP15 it probably only shows as
Version 4.0, though they might have started from FP13 with 4.50 i.e.
same as W4FP15/16/17 do. All eCS to date (1.0 to 2.0RC7) show as 4.50!
It's been so long since I've had to apply a FP that I can't remember
whether it adds the entries to the config.sys or not: Probably not in
which case you'll have to manually incorporate the following entries
(ignoring for the moment any entries you maybe don't have drivers for)!
DEVICE=D:\OS2\BOOT\USBKBD.SYS
DEVICE=D:\OS2\BOOT\USBMOUSE.SYS
rem BASEDEV=USBUHCD.SYS (these two entries were on a former machine)
rem BASEDEV=USBUHCD.SYS
BASEDEV=USBOHCD.SYS
BASEDEV=USBOHCD.SYS
BASEDEV=USBEHCD.SYS
BASEDEV=USBD.SYS
BASEDEV=USBHID.SYS
BASEDEV=USBMSD.ADD /FLOPPIES:0 /REMOVABLES:2
REM BASEDEV=USBCDROM.ADD
REM DEVICE=D:\OS2\BOOT\USBCOM.SYS
REM DEVICE=D:\OS2\BOOT\USBPRT.SYS
DEVICE=D:\OS2\BOOT\USBRESMG.SYS
That was from a Warp4 (FP16-17) Bootable logical drive near the end of
this 250GB HDD, i.e up around cylinder 28K.
In order to have the capability of working with Warp4 and booting above cylinder 1023, you also need to have the updated IBM Boot Manager, and Extended INT13H support. That's in a file called ExpartW4, which I'll
send you separately, after I locate it here.
BTW both of the attachments on your personal copy are *ips, they just
don't have the extensions attached for e-mail violation problems, so if
you don't have an application that like Object Desktop, doesn't need to
be told that they are *ip files to work with the contents, add the .*ip
back on after saving! Read my additional notes included in there first!
Enjoy yourself, updating/upgrading!
Regards,
Mike
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