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Hardware / eCS and 3 inch CD drives?

« on: September 26, 2014, 08:23:17 pm »

Hi All!

In some ways this is really a general hardware question, but I also thought I'd ask as it relates to eCS.

I recently bought an AULA gaming mouse, for the very infrequent times I actually can get around to playing games, and when I received it, it came with one of those small 3 inch CD / DVD type discs, which has software to adjust sensitivity settings, button controls etc.

I've seen these types of discs in the past, and have always wondered about where you could get a drive to read them - the standard CD / DVD drives in North America don't seem to have an option (unless some come with some sort of insert to center the disc in the drive?), so I was wondering what type of computer drive takes them, and where they can be bought (have heard of small MP3 players taking these discs, but not computers).

I thought someone here might be aware of them - also, would eCS recognize such a storage drive? - I doubt any OS/2 / eCS specific software or drivers would ever be packaged on such a disk, but if they could be read, perhaps an experiment in MP3 discs may be in order, if such a drive could be easily obtained (the experimental hardware technogeek in me is always intrigued by new hardware to play with).

Just curious today, and Best!

Mark

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Networking / eCS 2.1 - Network Share Problem

« on: September 02, 2014, 12:22:21 am »

Hi All!

I'm new to this forum, but old in regards to usage of first OS/2 (from v2.0) and then eCS, from the start.

Today, I ran across a problem I've never encountered before, and thought some advice was in order.

It involves eCS v2.1 on one of the partitions of one of my machines - for some reason I seem to have lost my share data, for allowing other machines to access this one.

I'm using the Sharing and Connecting icon under IBM File and Print Client to set the shares for this machine. This time, the window opened normally after login; however, attempting to change to the "Share" Tab to see what it said, clicking on the tab immediately restarted the desktop!

I was able to reset the shares and access permissions for the appropriate drives from the desktop menu, but after completing these tasks, and clicking OK, the desktop is restarted yet again. The share and access permissions are indeed recreated, but only for that session - rebooting the computer puts me right back to square one.

I have two eCS partitions on each of my machines, and going to the other one for this machine, the shares are available and functioning normally, so it doesn't seem to be related to problems with the drives - it also doesn't seem to be related to the desktop itself, as restoring from my desktop archives to a previous level, does not eliminate the problem. I'm assuming something network related has become corrupted, related to Sharing and Connecting, but only the Share Tab seems to be affected - the other tabs can be accessed without any problems.

Have any of the network gurus hanging around the forum seen this problem before? Everything else on the partition continues to function normally, with the exception of the share problem.

Thanks and Best!

Mark