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Hardware / Re: Limitation on using an USB DVD and CD writer under ArcaOS
« on: February 12, 2018, 09:27:57 pm »


No, as I checked in my arcaos copy, it has latest OS2CDROM.DMD v. 10.163, the same as supplied with UDF 2.16

2David Graser:
Good that the version from cdrtools 2.01.01.a59 works for you. But v. 10.163 is newer and has more features. Some IOCTL's are missing from Froloff's version. RSJ may not work with it too. And UDF will not work with it, too. Did you checked, which CDRTOOLS version is supplied together with CD/DVD Toys? I'd suspect that this version work well with Froloff's version of OS2CDROM.DMD (because CD/DVD Toys uses Froloff's version of CDRTOOLS), but RSJ needs OS2CDROM.DMD from UDF distribution. This is only a hypothesis. Hm, looking into my version of DVD Toys, I don't see cdrecord in its installation directory. Where does it looks for it, interesting?

Yes, too bad that Nickk/Froloff disappeared both and did not left the sources.
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Given a choice between the newer version or the earlier version, at this moment I have go with the earlier version.  I want USB writer capability.

Can Froloff's driver be disassembled to possibly see what he added or changed?

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Hardware / Re: Limitation on using an USB DVD and CD writer under ArcaOS
« on: February 12, 2018, 07:33:48 pm »
2David Graser: What is your os2cdrom.dmd version? You need a custom version from Froloff (cdrtools 2.01.01a59, or so), or from latest UDF 2.14-2.16. Older versions of OS2CDROM.DMD may not support ioctl's required to write CD's in packet mode. OS2CDROM.DMD 10.163 works for me.

Thanks Valery!  I did an internet search and found the driver,  I installed it with the other 2 packages that the page recommended installing with it.

cdrtools 2.01.01a59
emx0944.exe
aspirb10.zip

Rebooted and started DVD Toys again.  Bingo, this worked like a charm.  This is with ArcaOS 5.02.

Tried RSJ Writer. but it did not work.  It was then I realized that this program probably only works with CDR drives and not DVD writers.

So it appears that without this version, ArcaOS 5.02 cannot install to an USB DVD writer.

Again thanks for all the help from everyone.

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Hardware / Limitation on using an USB DVD and CD writer under ArcaOS
« on: February 12, 2018, 09:28:12 am »
I took the ArcaOS 5.02 image, using DVD Toys, was able to easily burn the image onto a disk.  This was using an internal DVD writer.

I then tried it using my USB LG DVD writer.  DVD Toys could not find it.  However when I put a data disk into the drive, the drive is recognized easily by the operating system, however, with a blank disk in the USB drive, neither RJS CDWriter or DVD Toys was able to burn the image.

Is this a known issue, not being able to burn to an USB DVD or CD writer?


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Hardware / Re: Best FAT32 driver settings
« on: February 11, 2018, 08:44:20 am »
I went into FM/2 settings and changed the scan settings to not load the system icons, but to use FM/2's default icons when loading the files.  FM/2 now comes up almost instantaneously using its default icons.  Thanks for all the suggestions I received.

David

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Hardware / Re: Best FAT32 driver settings
« on: February 10, 2018, 06:01:19 pm »
I can't believe it has a virus.  Windows populates the screen in seconds.
To leave doubts, if it could be a virus. It's simple.
1-You can format from OS2 as fat32.
2- Copy reliable os2 files.
3- Try
a-If it works well, os2 is not the problem, and you should think about a windows virus.
b-If it does not work well, the problem is not a virus.
If the answer is (a)
Format the partition again, start windows and see what files the virus has copied to that partition.

I had a similar problem recently and it was a windows virus, which spread through all the fat32 partitions, when starting win.
saludos
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I ran Kaspersky Antivirus over the FAT32 partition.  It found nothing.  I am beginning to believe it is the the way the WPS handles files.  Windows GUI must handle FAT32 files differently than the WPS.   

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Hardware / Re: Best FAT32 driver settings
« on: February 10, 2018, 05:37:00 pm »
Strange. What filesystem has your disk C: ? It seems, it wrongly assumes this disk being FAT. The message

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FAT32: Error: Sector 7 does not exist on drive C:

means that number of sectors on disk < 7 (usually 0). Also, please, check the newer version fat32.ifs, r332: ftp://osfree.org/upload/fat32/fat32-0.10-r332-os2.zip, I made some additional checks in FS_MOUNT, so it should not wrongly mount other file systems, than FAT/FAT32/exFAT.

The drive C was a NTFS partition.  Installed your latest driver, added the /Fat switch, rebooted, the the system booted up fine.  This version corrects the error.

To test something else , I tried the WPS drive objects on both machines.  It is almost just as slow as Fm/2.  I just thought of one other difference between the two machines.  One uses ArcaOS and the other uses eCS 2.0.  One other thing to test.

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Hardware / Re: Best FAT32 driver settings
« on: February 10, 2018, 07:09:24 am »
Was using an earlier version of FM/2 3.20 on my eCS laptop.  Although not fast populating the screen, once populated, I could switch back and forth between drives and it was fast.  Something changed between 3.20 and version 3.24.

It appears to be more than the version numbers.  The slowest access time is coming from my multiprocessor notebook every time the FAt32 drive is accessed.  On the other single processor laptop, it is slow scanning, but once done, it is fast bringing up the FAT32 drive once it has been scanned for the first time.  This is not true for the notebook.  The scan time is the same no matter how many times it is accessed.

Tried PMView.  Same thing.  On the single processor laptop, the files do load faster than on the multiprocessor notebook.

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Hardware / Re: Best FAT32 driver settings
« on: February 10, 2018, 06:15:29 am »
2David Graser: hi

I'm using

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ifs=d:\os2\boot\fat32.ifs /cache:2048 /h /ac:* /largefiles /fat /exfat /eas /plus
call=d:\os2\cachef32.exe /f /p:2 /m:50000 /b:250 /d:5000

PS: Also, AFAICS, WPS opens these 128 GB and 1 TB drives faster than 40 s. It scans all directory structure for about 10 s (folder view), but just opening an icon view is fast -- 1-2 s. FC/2 does not scan whole directory structure each time, but FM/2 probably, does.

It appears that FM/2 is indeed the problem and only on FAT32 drives.  ZTreeBold brings the display up instantaneously.

Icon editor brings up the text fast and then brings up the graphical displays one at a time.   Same thing with PMView.  Text first and then   the picture for each file one pic at a time.  Even under text view, it makes no difference for FM/2.  it is no faster.

Valery, thank you for the additional switches and their excellent descriptions and your thoughts on what my problem might be!

David

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Hardware / Re: Best FAT32 driver settings
« on: February 10, 2018, 05:48:34 am »
I tried your settings and am now getting an internal processing error at location
##1000:05b5 - 0003:05b5.
65535, 9051
FAT32: Error: Sector 7 does not exist on drive C:

128606a7
Internal revision 14.201_smp

The system is stopped. Record all of the above information and contact your service representative.

Testing has revealed that the /fat switch is the problem.  If left out of the statement, the FAT.IFS driver loads fine.

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Hardware / Re: Best FAT32 driver settings
« on: February 10, 2018, 05:26:57 am »
I tried your settings and am now getting an internal processing error at location
##1000:05b5 - 0003:05b5.
65535, 9051
FAT32: Error: Sector 7 does not exist on drive C:

128606a7
Internal revision 14.201_smp

The system is stopped. Record all of the above information and contact your service representative.


I am now going to add each switch one at time and see which one is causing the processing error.


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Programming / Re: Trying to build my First RPM Package
« on: February 10, 2018, 01:14:30 am »
I have come to the party late so I am a little confused about RPM.  Is RPM to be a replacement for Warpin or are they be be used together?   Is Warpin to be used for ArcaOS developed programs and RPM to be used Linux ported programs?

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Hardware / Re: Best FAT32 driver settings
« on: February 10, 2018, 01:08:16 am »
Try testing without the cache options including the call.

Did as you suggested.  Still 40 seconds to populate the screen with all files.  This is with FM/2.

Icon edit and PMView are faster.  However it looks they load whatever directory you are in and then the graphic files appear one at a time.

I can't believe it has a virus.  Windows populates the screen in seconds.

On a much older machine using eComstation 2 and the FAT32 driver, it takes over a minute to load the FAT32 drive.

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Hardware / Best FAT32 driver settings
« on: February 09, 2018, 06:10:11 pm »
I am presently using the fat32-0.10-r331-os2 driver with ArcaOS and I have the following settings in my config.sys.

ifs=D:\OS2\BOOT\fat32.ifs /cache:2048 /h /q /ac:* /largefiles
call=D:\OS2\cachef32.exe /f /p:2 /m:50000 /b:250 /d:5000

I have plenty of hard drive space and 4 GB of RAM.

I want the fastest access to my FAT32 partition possible.  Can reading the drive be speed up by changing my IFS and Call statements and if so, to what?

Right now it takes approximately 40 seconds to bring up all the files on the drive.  Under Windows, it is almost instantaneous.  This drive contains a lot of graphics.  It has slowed Windows down to a few seconds to access.  This is a 34.4 GB drive with 23.4 GB used

Any suggestions?  Thanks!

David

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Graphics and Window Design / Re: Dynamic Icons
« on: January 19, 2018, 08:15:16 am »
Here is one of the many themes I made years ago.  Works good with eCS.  This is the red folder theme.  I also have it in black and yellow.  I also have smoke and purple glass folders themes and others.  All folders are based on Linux folders.  I have attached one if anyone wants to try.  I had problems running these themes on ArcaOS.  Done in wpi so they can be removed.  Before installing, it is a good idea to back up the desktop.

Start the wpi and see a screen shot.  Can always cancel the install afterwards.

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Graphics and Window Design / Re: Dynamic Icons
« on: January 15, 2018, 10:32:25 am »
Martin

I have to apologize.  I was getting eschemes mixed up with the icon toolkit.  Like I said, it has been around 5 years or longer since I last messed with either one.  A lot has been forgotten.  The html from the toolket does an excellent job describing what what needs to be done, which I have attached.  Be sure and read the credits at the bottom of the page.

David

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