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You should definitely skip the disk test.

No, you shouldn't.

From my experience it is the best one can do on modern Hardware to check the box "skip the disk check" in the "Pre Boot Menue". It is better to use the Disc Tools once you passed the first stage of booting.

Yes - this is my experience and Yes, I do speak for myself  :D :D :D :D

Just to be 100% clear the disc checker should never be bypassed. I am bit confused what you mean with using the disc tool after the first stage of booting Sigurd.  The disc util loads in the ArcaOS installer when you selected your installer type. If you know what you are doing then disabling the disc checker can be an option. But in most cases disabling it will not help the user as minilvm will then run into an issue.

The disc utility does nothing at disc controller level. It only scans the hard discs for LVM information.

Roderick

It might Sound strange for you, but that is my experience. I would not have been able to install it (ecs, arcaos) several times on modern Hardware, if I would have done it your way. Mini LVM run into Problems when I selected this Option, and I remember eCS 2.0 Beta 6 (or was it 5 or the Silver realease or the first GA...) where this lead to a damaged HDD Layout.... I can not justify what EXACTLY happend, but I never had this Problems when I disabled this Feature.

It only scans the hard discs for LVM information.

This might be a possible thing: .. it may not find LVM Information, and that lead to.....

That reminds me to the time (in 2010) where you several times said that it was impossible to install eCS next to an existing, preloaded Windows 7 System, in the end I had to build this: http://ru.ecomstation.ru/showarticle.php?id=214 to proof my words and you wrong. This came to my mind once I read your "Just to be 100% clear.".....

Even though, as it seems it did/does not help here, so who cares.

I think I more or less remember here what might have happened

The disc utility is nothing special. In fact! it uses a special version of the OEM Dfsee engine from Jan van Wijk to perform its work.  There was a text mode version of the tool that contained a bug that would cause the hard disc to be wiped.  This was bug *not* in the OEM engine from Jan but in the text mode program that controlled the OEM engine.  That was in eCS 2.0 beta 5 or 6. That textmode disc checker is long gone.

The second issue was indirectly triggered by the disc util. The OEM engine was writing DLAT sectors away to wrong sectors. However be warned. This was *not* caused by the OEM engine. It was caused by a bug in the OS2AHCI driver with +512 GB disc geometry. This issue has long been fixed. This issue might have also been present in the DANIS506.add but I do not remember this for certain!

So far in bugtrackers I have not seen more reports popup about hard discs the content being destroyed.

Roderick

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Applications / Re: Curious about these old patches
« on: March 10, 2018, 10:34:04 pm »
These are some patches I have used in the past.  Are any of these still relevant for ArcaOS?

1. http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/download/pub/os2/system/patches/PMFIX.zip

FIX1: SYS3171 (Stack Overflow) on PMSHELL.EXE and others. FIX2: USING PM_SystemFonts->DefaultFont CHANGES ALL FORM SIZES


2. http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/download/pub/os2/system/patches/mixed/pipepatch.zip

This patch will increase the pipe buffer size of pipes instantiated with the pipe operator | of CMD.EXE from 512 bytes to 65024 bytes (by default). This will significantly improove the throughput and reduce the CPU load. In fact it reduces the minimum number of task swiches per megabyte from 4096 to about 33.


3. http://ca-arnold.de/download/newcalls104.zip

patch for pmmerge.dll to increase performance of writing INI-files.


4.http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/download/pub/os2/util/system/cpuspeed1.4.zip

Tries to keep the CPU as cool as possible without affecting system performance by adaptive throttling using ACPI 2.0. Version 1.4.

One thing I do know. Do *not* use cpuspeed1.4... It can make an OS/2 system unstable as it modified the timing of the system. I have used it the past. If it works you, great. But because it lowers the CPU frequency be prepared for potential system lockups and/crashes. But this may depend on the system as this i a timing sensitive issue!
The HLT support seems to do pretty well in keeping the CPU cool.

As for these other fixes. Arca Noae does not read the forums (they keep telling this to the community).
Or if they read they do not do this every day or week.
So if you really want to have an answer to your questions open a ticket at https://mantis.arcanoae.com.

Roderick Klein

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Applications / Re: File Open dialog not resizable?
« on: March 10, 2018, 10:29:06 pm »
I'm using eCS 2.2 b2, (on two machines), and I like the look of the new FOC, but it does not work with all programs, has more than a few bugs, takes too long to load and has too few options with respect to X-File.

And since X-File works just fine still, I use it. It's ugly, but its functionality, speed and customization can't be beat!

Looks vs. performance and practicality; a no-brainer for me.


If you are interested you should be able to get an updated FOC here:
ftp://ecosoft.5nets.ru/eCoRT/Base/
Its included in the eCo runtime.

Could you define with has
* To many bugs ? Such as system crashes ?
* Loads slowly ? (when you have network drives) I think they are no longer preloaded.

The new FOC has many bug fixes and has a exclude list for application that do not work with it.
Maybe you can share here if they new version better suits your needs if you want.

Roderick

Let me clarify on the exclude list. You can for example add in the exclude list unimaint.exe and it will exclude it and show the old FOC from IBM.

Roderick

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Applications / Re: File Open dialog not resizable?
« on: March 10, 2018, 10:09:48 pm »
I'm using eCS 2.2 b2, (on two machines), and I like the look of the new FOC, but it does not work with all programs, has more than a few bugs, takes too long to load and has too few options with respect to X-File.

And since X-File works just fine still, I use it. It's ugly, but its functionality, speed and customization can't be beat!

Looks vs. performance and practicality; a no-brainer for me.


If you are interested you should be able to get an updated FOC here:
ftp://ecosoft.5nets.ru/eCoRT/Base/
Its included in the eCo runtime.

Could you define with has
* To many bugs ? Such as system crashes ?
* Loads slowly ? (when you have network drives) I think they are no longer preloaded.

The new FOC has many bug fixes and has a exclude list for application that do not work with it.
Maybe you can share here if they new version better suits your needs if you want.

Roderick

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Aaah oke about the 5 hours, in my Mensys years providing eCS support I had customers that would describe standing the systems for 5 hours hoping it would boot. Oke in this case you did not wait on purpose leaving your system for 5 ours.

MCP 2 is not going to work I will explain why:
You miss a whole truck load fixes in MCP2. I do not even know where to start. The OS2DASD driver for example is outdated. It boots with the _W4 kernel MCP 2 which the ACPI.PSD only supports in a very limited fashion.
https://www.arcanoae.com/arcaos-kernel-14-201-released/
I understood from David Azarewicz at Warpstock that you should either use OS/2 kernel 14.105 or the ArcaOS SMP 14.201 kernel. The SMP kernel has much further reaching  PSD support then the _W4 kernel.
Or are you going to use MCP with an SMP kernel ? Changes are you will get a trap in the OEM handler without ACPI.

Did you put a ticket in at Arca Noae ? Somehow it seems the OS2AHCI has difficulty talking to the controller.
That is why your hanging most likely  at the splash screen.

Roderick

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Since the support tickets can be read in the bugtracker I found your bug in Mantis from Arca Noae.

Couple of other items you should mention in the ticket (I think).

* One tell in the ticket how you tried to boot system DVD or USB key. The laptop most likely has USB 3.0 host controller so you are possibly better of booting with a DVD only.

* Upload the screenshot you posted to os2world.com

* I missed checking that did you mention what version of ArcaOS you posted.

For everybody describing an issue, tell how the you reached that failure.
So in this case did you boot from USB stick or a DVD ?

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All of that is irrelevant when it won't even get to that point with the installer.

As I said, the initial dos selector works but after pressing f10 to move on all that happens is the ArcaOS splash screen appears and that is it (I left it like that when I went to do something else, 5 hours later it was still doing nothing).

I now have a boot partition image from a working AMD Sempron 3850 APU (the younger brother of the Ryzen) install on a new Seagate 1TB FireCuda disk that has been checked and tested (the boot partition is 2 GB HPFS, other partitions are for utilities, programs, data etc.).

The next thing is to edit the config.sys (the disk connected to main PC with a SATA/USB adapter) as outlined by Roderick earlier to see if it will boot or even produce ant log files that might give any indication what is happening.

I assume it is not a good idea to open a ticket saying 'it doesn't install or boot' without some logs to back it up.

The fact that the preboot menu works before the ArcaOS splash screen is loaded makes perfect sense. That is real mode BIOS code that gets executed. Its not OS/2 loading even...

Everybody in this forum can tell an OS/2 user if OS/2 does not continue loading at startup after 3 to 5 minutes.
Hit CTRL ALT F10 twice. System then hangs ? Your toast you do not have to wait 5 hours, with every second that passes after 5 minutes is most likely a waste of your time. And if you get a booting at all it will most likely be completely useable anyway !

Did try to boot without ArcaOS Ivan without ACPI loaded ?

Ivan another very important question what version of ArcaOS are you loading ? I know ArcaOS 5.02 has more support for MSI interrupt. Pretty crucial for modern system.

Roderick

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You should definitely skip the disk test.

No, you shouldn't.

From my experience it is the best one can do on modern Hardware to check the box "skip the disk check" in the "Pre Boot Menue". It is better to use the Disc Tools once you passed the first stage of booting.

Yes - this is my experience and Yes, I do speak for myself  :D :D :D :D

Just to be 100% clear the disc checker should never be bypassed. I am bit confused what you mean with using the disc tool after the first stage of booting Sigurd.  The disc util loads in the ArcaOS installer when you selected your installer type. If you know what you are doing then disabling the disc checker can be an option. But in most cases disabling it will not help the user as minilvm will then run into an issue.

The disc utility does nothing at disc controller level. It only scans the hard discs for LVM information.

Roderick

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Welcome to the growing band of us with modern leading edge equipment that we can't install and run ArcaOS on.

You can try a new hard disk with ArcaOS already installed but be prepared for hangs part way through the config.sys (you need a file altf2on.$$$ in the root of the boot partition to see the config.sys loading)

Good luck.

Its most likely going to backfire this approach, why ? Because if ArcaOS boots from the ramdisc and the os2ahci driver can not find the controller you are always going to be toast.

Roderick

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Everybody please *look* very *closely* at the screenshot posted.

1. Danis506.add will most likely not load at all since the driver is for older hardware (not sata hardware).

2. Item two in the screen shot shows what you need todo, you need to open a ticket at Arca Noae via mantis.arcanoae.com. In this forum *most* likely nobody is able to help you. What is interesting is that it states:

Ignoring AHCI device Intel Generic (0:23:0 8086:a103) class 0x010601
Invalid interrupt (IRQ=0)
No adapters found
I have not had time to look into the sources:
I have not had time yet to dive into the sources of the driver:
http://trac.netlabs.org/ahci/browser/tags/2.04/src/os2ahci?rev=195

Reading the readme:
http://trac.netlabs.org/ahci/browser/tags/2.04/src/os2ahci/ReadMe.txt?rev=195

I think the /!R is just not going to work as advised. The AHCI driver can not reset a port on a controller it can not find.
You could maybe try (see the readme file for details):
/G:<vendor>:<device>   Add generic PCI ID to list of supported AHCI adapters
101                          (e.g. /G:8086:2829)

But if you want to have this fixed open a ticket at Arca Noae. No ticket=no support.

Roderick



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Did you switch your laptop to CSM support in your BIOS ? You have the system possibly only set to  boot in UEFI mode...


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Applications / Re: File Open dialog not resizable?
« on: March 09, 2018, 07:28:34 am »
Hi Sigurd.

I tried to contact Brad Warde ll from Stardock to open source Object Desktop some years ago (2013), but I never got a reply. I think it is time to try again, I will see if he has some conditions, or at least if he can turn it AS IS freeware.

Regards

I also send Brad Wardell some emails over the years and a friend request on Linkedin is still pending.
So keep trying but I think you chances are slim you will get a response.

About Object Desktop one thing I do remember is that Stardock licensed some of the products from other vendors/developers. But its *years ago*. The point is that it might be difficult for Stardock to relicense or publish the source code.

Roderick

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I could boot the laptop up, but it took a really long time. You should definitely skip the disk test.

You mean the disc utility ?

I know what the disc utility does and its in general a **wrong** advise to skip the disc utility in the ArcaOS installation. It fixes things the LVM from IBM can fall over (fail). If you disable the disc utility be prepared for more issue's...
If you look in the helpfile of the disc util its clear it does a whole lot of stuff that is pretty useful.

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Networking / Re: ArcaOS network compatibility with OS/2
« on: March 08, 2018, 09:46:24 pm »
I will put it more directly and more clear. The peer support in OS/2 is running on its last legs...
While its true it still works with Windows 10 and older versions with Windows. Its going to go away...

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4034314/smbv1-is-not-installed-windows-10-and-windows-server-version-1709

The other reason is that the SMB 1 protocol is simply old and insecure. Now on your local LAN at home you will most likely run very little risk. Especially if you run OS/2 the chance of SMB 1 attacks that execute malicious code is small.
Since it would most likely only work on WIndows.

You will be able to use it with eCS and older versions of OS/2 the IBM peer client. But if you are working with multiple OS'es between different computers: SMB 1 is going to fade out.  Its most likely easier to getting used to using Samba then that OS/2 users are late at the game (as usual).

So you can still install it but the connectivity problems from Windows to ArcaOS are only going to increase.
Also the amount of devices such NAS'es that used to support SMB 1 will see it being turned off faster and faster.
Hence the reason Samba gets installed by default.

You can BTW use selective install for networking in the install remove folder to install the PEER client.

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I you want it fixed I suggest you open a ticket at Arca Noae,

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