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Applications / Re: LarsenCommander - new test version
« on: December 06, 2025, 05:47:50 pm »
Dariusz wrote -
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'Bytes per second' window no longer shows the graphical throughput rate
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So I left the above section of your post purposely because I now wonder if perhaps the "...Skip sending lot of GUI (PM) messages..." is the root cause of this???
I'm pretty sure you are completely right on this. Recently I copied a lot of stuff to a NAS samba share and sometimes the speed counter were updated. Currently I'm not sure about the internal logic of this display element. I'm not sure if I can make it work again cause my 'message skipping' logic is on a rather low level where I may not be able to selectively filter (or allow) them easily.

Anyway if I ever find the time for more LCMD work first would be reworking of EA handling during copy. I had a few full system hangs (most probably JFS problem, see above) when I wanted to copy >100GB of data. Only wanted to say thanks for all the testing and giving a sign that I'm still alive ;-) Although don't doing much OS/2 programming stuff anymore.

Btw. copying on Linux isn't that solid too. I tried at least 3 file manager there (Caja, Nemo, ??, ??) until I came across Dolphin. The others are toys not capable of copying huge amount of files too. Always though before a Linux (Debian) box is made for real work. But especially on the GUI stuff there seems to be a lot of amateur programmers. And our well known problems with unresponsive network shares (WPS hangs or long timeouts) exist to some extend on Linux too. Even with NFS shares which I thought is their native and preferred network sharing protocol :-(.

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Storage / Re: Sharing drive between OS/2 and linux
« on: November 28, 2025, 06:36:37 pm »
I never could get USB working fast on OS/2. Maybe on my new system USB3 would work but not on my old one. Would transfer over LAN instead. But our samba is not that stable too IMHO. And FTP is terrible slow with a lot of small files. Seems I've to rar it and then FTP over LAN.

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Storage / Re: Sharing drive between OS/2 and linux
« on: November 28, 2025, 03:26:18 pm »
Hi Lars,
it has jumper positions and I tried it. But it does not help. But the description of WD is a bit vague about the jumpers on newer drives.

OTOH if it would be a 4k drive only I think I couldn't partition and use it on OS/2 anyway, right?

Is there any possibility to force MiniLVM to create partitions on 4k boundaries? Maybe DFSee?

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Storage / Re: Sharing drive between OS/2 and linux
« on: November 28, 2025, 10:01:35 am »
I need to transfer a few 100GBs so HPFS is not good enough. I try to mount from command line with different options.
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root@zazu:/etc# mount -t jfs /dev/sda1 /media/500GB/ -o rw,nosuid,nodev,relatimeHope this is the right format. But nothing work. /media/500GB exists and has 777. Mind now this drive is sda1. No clue why my BIOS mixes around the order. fdisk -l says -
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Disk /dev/sda: 465,76 GiB, 500107862016 bytes, 976773168 sectors
Disk model: WDC WD5000AZLX-6
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes
Disklabel type: dos
Disk identifier: 0xdf5ee166

Device     Boot Start       End   Sectors   Size Id Type
/dev/sda1  *       63 976768064 976768002 465,8G  7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
Funny Disk identifier. I read it as it was created with DFSee16.6 ;-)

OpenSuse gives another hint when it can not mount. Something about blacklisting. But the blacklisting files seem to not exist on my installation. So this shouldn't be the problem. Yes I've install JFS support for Debian and OpenSuse.

Funny thing is when gparted checks it sees the size and the used size correct. But it can't mount it either. Maybe picture helps.

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Storage / Re: Sharing drive between OS/2 and linux
« on: November 27, 2025, 10:53:05 pm »
I've OpenSuse installed on this system too. But this can not mount it either :-(

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Storage / Re: Sharing drive between OS/2 and linux
« on: November 27, 2025, 10:28:33 pm »
I've just booted with Puppy DFsee16 stick and there I can read from that drive. mount shows rw,relatime options whatever that means. No clue why this does not work on Debian 12.

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Storage / Re: Sharing drive between OS/2 and linux -JFS
« on: November 27, 2025, 03:51:18 pm »
I can't manage to mount a OS/2 created JFS partition on my Debian 12. No matter what I tried it does not work.
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root@zazu:/dev# mount -t jfs /dev/sdc1 /media/500GB/
mount: /media/500GB: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sdc1, missing codepage or helper program, or other error.
       dmesg(1) may have more information after failed mount system call.
In dmesg I see nothing what would help -
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root@zazu:/srv# dmesg | grep -i sdc
[    3.817598] sd 3:0:0:0: [sdc] 976773168 512-byte logical blocks: (500 GB/466 GiB)
[    3.817600] sd 3:0:0:0: [sdc] 4096-byte physical blocks
[    3.817612] sd 3:0:0:0: [sdc] Write Protect is off
[    3.817615] sd 3:0:0:0: [sdc] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
[    3.817632] sd 3:0:0:0: [sdc] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
[    3.817650] sd 3:0:0:0: [sdc] Preferred minimum I/O size 4096 bytes
[    3.840623]  sdc: sdc1
[    3.840683] sd 3:0:0:0: [sdc] Attached SCSI disk
[  361.915751]  sdc: sdc1
[  362.183053]  sdc: sdc1
[  686.496790]  sdc: sdc1
[12970.328576]  sdc: sdc1

Superblock seems to be okay -
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root@zazu:/dev# jfs_tune -l /dev/sdc1
jfs_tune version 1.1.15, 04-Mar-2011

JFS filesystem superblock:

JFS magic number: 'JFS1'
JFS version: 1
JFS state: clean
JFS flags: JFS_OS2  JFS_COMMIT  JFS_GROUPCOMMIT  JFS_INLINELOG 
Aggregate block size: 4096 bytes
Aggregate size: 976672248 blocks
Physical block size: 512 bytes
Allocation group size: 1048576 aggregate blocks
Log device number: 0xb
Filesystem creation: Thu Nov 27 16:56:38 2025
Volume label: 'JFS_BACKUP'

I tried different disks. Numerous attempts to create a JFS partition with MiniLVM and try to mount it in Linux. But can't get it to work.

fdisk complains that it does not start on sector boundary. But how can that be? I think OS/2 - ArcaOS can create partitions on sector boundaries only.
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root@zazu:/dev# fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sdc: 465,76 GiB, 500107862016 bytes, 976773168 sectors
Disk model: WDC WD5000AZLX-6
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes
Disklabel type: dos
Disk identifier: 0xdf5ee166

Device     Boot Start       End   Sectors   Size Id Type
/dev/sdc1  *       63 976768064 976768002 465,8G  7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT

Partition 1 does not start on physical sector boundary.

Any attempts to create the partition on Linux an see it on ArcaOS fails also. Help appreciated.

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Events / Re: Warpstock 2025 USA - The end of my journey with ArcaOS
« on: November 12, 2025, 04:15:01 pm »
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who have the knowledge, time and interest
  • who have the knowledge
  • time and
  • interest

Tell me when you have a candidate for only one of the above 3 questions.

Seriously, I've been the maintainer of xwlan and our port of wpa_supplicant for about a decade. Although I've fixed and extended a lot and invested countless hours, even these two project are far from what we would need today. And that's only an interface to a driver. I know porting or writing a wifi driver would be a lot of more (huge more) work. From my experience the majority of 'non programmers' don't even get feedback. Not to talk about helping out with testing or writing readme's..... So dream on.

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General Discussion / Re: Spam Bots
« on: November 05, 2025, 10:20:36 am »
That's the site I'm talking about https://w1.fi/ (most probably).

Sorry I wrote Jouni Malinen's name wrong above. He wrote about spam bots and Anubis in the news group. As I don't have any knowledge about bots and protection I can't say anything about different approaches or software.

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General Discussion / Re: Spam Bots
« on: November 01, 2025, 10:44:37 am »
Joulian installed on the hostap/wpa_supplicant site something called Anubis. No clue what it is or does though. But he said traffic load goes down by more than 99% cause all of these bots are now blocked before they load the server.

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Once again I've disabled messages from the group above. Again I worried about this newsletter which to many times advertises ancient programs. Even with no change to the software within the last decade the so called 'newsletter' lists such programs.

Do anyone like such regular advertising of stone age old software?

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Terrible slow now. SM most of the time says something like 'waiting on TLS handshake' or simply waiting on os2world.com.

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Networking / Re: Samba client on eCS
« on: September 08, 2025, 10:02:05 am »
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close to the first entry, perhaps after the dot, on LIBPATH in config.sys.
I always recommend BEFORE the dot. As the first entry. LIBPATH=%UNIXROOT%\usr\lib;%UNIXROOT%\usr\local\lib;........

I've always the '.;' entry as the last one in libpath. Otherwise some program which have an old dll in it's own directory will load this outdated one (if the right one was not loaded before). And afterwards no other program have a chance to load the correct one (except with libpathstrict and beginlibpath, but that's another topic)

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Networking / Re: Samba client on eCS
« on: September 07, 2025, 05:25:32 pm »
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Thank you to all who have answered my questions over the last week - much appreciated. However, I shall now be wiping my eCS box and installing something more, shall we say, polished...
It seems to me you've mixed dlls from wpis and rpm (yum, ANPM) which most of the time ends up in a mess. eCS have some important dlls in places where it may conflict with the right ones.

If you wanna install some sort of OS/2 which is more 'poished' you have to start with ArcaOS, not eCS. But of course there are other options too.

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Hardware / Re: Soundblaster Live 1024 drivers
« on: August 22, 2025, 02:38:11 pm »
I wanted to avoid UNIAUD, because I have big problems with my development machine.
I don't know, if it the driver or the HW in my T480, but I wanted to try "native" drivers.

IIRC I once had a Terratec DMX Xfire 1024 but no driver. Terratec announced a Win31 driver but never delivered it. So I gave it back and bought a Turtle Beach Pinnacle instead. This one never had OS/2 drivers too. It uses some CS4xx chip too. But it worked (and still will when I set the IRQs in BIOS correct and boot up this ancient machine) in WinOS2.

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