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Problematic OS/2 installation on IBM x3200

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Francesco:

--- Quote from: ivan on August 20, 2020, 03:51:12 pm ---Somewhere in my archives I think I still have the disk images that worked from that time - let me know if you think they would help.

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It would be great to have the chance to try those images!

Francesco:

--- Quote from: Neil Waldhauer on August 20, 2020, 03:59:34 pm ---Once I added a SATA hard drive, I was able to install on x3100 from eCS disks with no changes.

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Interesting, there's hope!

I guess that my problem is still related to the hardware, maybe I will try to use a IDE drive instead of SATA.

Am I supposed to partition the drive before installing OS/2 or is it possible to do it with fdisk during the installation? I know it looks like a silly question but I have never installed OS/2 before but I always heve goosebumps when I see the warped OS/2 logo....  :-*

ivan:
To use an SATA disk you need the OS2AHCI.ADD driver and it must be mentioned in config.sys as a BASEDEV.

Depending on the size of the drive it would be a good idea to setup the partitions first.  If you have another working computer and an external SATA/USB adapter you can DFSee to do the job (just read the instructions carefully first).  Fdisk that comes with OS/2 will also do the job, always assuming you have the correct drivers installed.

BTW, I seem to have missed which version of OS/2 you are trying to install.  I ask that because I have iso images of Warp 4 and Warp 4 CP that allow booting and installing from the CD and can make them available if you are interested (built with bootAble)

Martin Iturbide:
FYI: There is an old (2011) free compiled driver of  OS2AHCI.ADD here.
Honestly, I had never tried to update an installation diskette or boot CD image with it.

Dave Yeo:
The Dani driver referenced earlier supports many older SATA chipsets. I'd try that next.
During install, you will get a chance to use fdisk or the LVM manager with Warp v4.52 to partition the disk. Only use OS/2 tools to do the partitioning, so if you were also going to install Linux or Windows along side OS/2, partition from OS/2 and then install to the existing partition.

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