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Storage / Re: DISKCACHE causes delays on JFS volumes
« on: June 16, 2014, 10:15:58 pm »
As far as I know DISKCACHE is only of use with FAT formatted drives so is useless with a JFS system.  Also it is not needed with floppy disks or anything formatted as FAT32.

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Boris, we will have to agree to differ on that but in my 50+ years in IT and Engineering I have found that keeping it as simple as possible works better but YMMV.

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Sorry Martin, I was under the impression that you not only wanted to import the .be site but also to increase the amount of hardware that will run OS/2 eCS by getting information from the users of that equipment.

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Boris, not everyone is using their computer with the browser open all the time and it a lot easier to use a simple text editor to get your information down and checked first, especially if it need such things as the output of PCI.EXE, RMVIEW etc.

An HTML form might work for simple add in cards, USB adapters etc but howmany pages would you need to give full information about a motherboard?  Especially where you need to note the changes that need to be made to the BIOS to get it to boot, what order the HD controllers need to be in etc.

Your idea would work if all that was needed were responses like 'works', 'takes some time to set up', 'sound not working' or 'sound only works with xyz driver'.   

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Martin, a couple of observations from me wearing my engineers hat.

Contrary to what Eugene says ordinary people will contribute if you make it simple for them to do so. 

Your average person is, generally, not into editing a Wiki page usually because they are not sure what is wanted.  There is a way to bypass that but it requires that whoever controls the Wiki does the actual editing based on e-mailed reports from users.

To do something like that it would require you to produce templates (something like the hobbes readme.template but in much greater detail) that people can download, fill in and e-mail back.  You would also need to provide some indication of the types of information you needed as well as how to obtain it if necessary (see the problem.txt provided with Dani's drivers).

I can say the above does work because I setup such a system at a large engineering plant so their service department a) knew what equipment had problems and b) also knew what replacement parts were most probably required (my consultant fees were paid for in the first 6 months of operation by reduced down time costs).

If you want to discuss in more detail e-mail me, my registered e-mail works.

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Utilities / Re: S.M.A.R.T. Monitoring
« on: June 02, 2014, 09:11:26 pm »
Thanks Pete,

It does find the drives and tapes nut other than giving the drive temperature the remaining information does not look like any SMART info I am used to.

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General Discussion / Re: Website - Os/2 Release Notes is back up !
« on: June 02, 2014, 09:08:49 pm »
Hi Greggory,

Attached is a screen grab of what I see here.

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Utilities / Re: S.M.A.R.T. Monitoring
« on: May 31, 2014, 12:17:01 pm »
Hi Andy,

That is the version I tested and it is no-go with SCSI.

Thanks anyway.

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Utilities / Re: S.M.A.R.T. Monitoring
« on: May 30, 2014, 04:19:34 pm »
Hi Andi,

Unless there was a radical change between v1.51 and v1.55 I very much doubt that it will support SCSI drives and tapes.

If you could attach it here I will give it a try.

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Utilities / S.M.A.R.T. Monitoring
« on: May 30, 2014, 01:04:07 pm »
I know this is a strange request but does anyone know of a S.M.A.R.T. monitoring utility that runs on OS/2 and shows the S.M.A.R.T. data of SCSI disks and tapes.

SmartMon does on nearly all OSs but not OS/2.  SmartCtl appears to be for IDE/SATA drives only.  Those are the only two I know of for OS/2 but there might be others around from way back when SCSI disks and tape backup were the norm.

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Applications / Re: VirtualBox and Skype problem
« on: May 29, 2014, 04:49:43 pm »
Sound does not work in the port of vbox that we have for an OS/2 host.

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Hardware / Re: ecs on actual desktop PC
« on: May 23, 2014, 01:38:41 am »
For those interested here is the post from Lars and I'm sorry it is an 8 core processor.

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Date: Fri, 16 May 2014 19:57:11 +0200
From: Lars Erdmann <lars.erdmann@arcor.de>
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: UEFI board and OS/2 - solved

Thanks to all who responded.

I now got it to work correctly. For the record, I have a AsRock Extreme4
MOBO which means it has an 8-core AMD CPU and an AMD SATA controller.

1) in order to properly boot the eCS 2.2 DVD I HAD to set SATA mode to
"IDE compatiblity" and ONLY enable DANIS506.ADD in the preinstallation
selection menu.
In short I had to disable OS2AHCI.ADD in the preinstallation selection
menu. That allowed me to finally see my harddrives during the
installation phase and therefore to install to them.

Trying to boot the eCS 2.2 DVD with "AHCI" enabled is plain impossible.


2) After installation I could leave "IDE compatiblity" mode enabled
during normal operation and use DANIS506.ADD and DANIATAP.FLT. However I
decided to use AHCI for the improved performance.


3) I therefore remmed DANIS506.ADD and DANIATAP.FLT in config.sys and
added OS2AHCI.ADD instead. However I HAD TO specify the /!r switch to
prevent the driver from resetting the SATA ports.


Now everything is fine. Note: even my 8 CPU cores work just fine.
I'll now try and enable NCQ.

Lars
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Posted here to help others trying to get things to work and not having access to the news group.


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Hardware / Re: ecs on actual desktop PC
« on: May 22, 2014, 11:07:51 pm »
Over on the comp.os.os2.misc newsgroup Lars Erdmann outlines his installing of eCS on an Asrock MB with 6 core AMD processor.

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Another thing Andi, what does the firewall log on your router say, assuming you have activated it?  This would give much more information about what is going out - and coming in - on your network.

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Internet / Re: Flash and qt4 browsers?
« on: May 08, 2014, 08:56:35 pm »
Hi Pete,  I don't know if you have noticed but Qupzilla has problems with nested bookmarks as well which is a killer for me.

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