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Programming / Re: OS2AHCI interface?
« on: April 13, 2020, 08:20:47 pm »
Hi All

Hi Dariusz,

It sounds as if you are looking at that which I was looking for way back last year - some way to get smartctl.exe from smartmontools to display the output of smartctl -a ahci1 without having to pipe it to a file and then read that file, in other words just like smartmon from Dani's IDE driver package.

No one came up with a way of doing that when I asked so maybe you could produce the necessary graphical interface needed.


It is funny you should mention that as I started playing around with something I call PMsmartctl as a result of your post.

It is a simple frontend for smartctl and displays selected information in the Text Editor (e.exe) which gives you the option of Saving and Printing - with minimal work by me  :-)

NOTE:  Only works with http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/download/pub/os2/util/disk/smartmontools-6.6-r4424.zip

If anyone feels like testing and reporting - along with suggestions for improvement - I attach PMsmartctl_Beta_0_1.zip


Regards

Pete



182
Comments, Suggestions & Questions / Re: Lost sound
« on: April 10, 2020, 05:04:26 pm »
Hi Eugene

I could not find a uniaud readme anywhere in my ArcaOS installation... Luckily my ecS2.2b2 installation has the same release of uniaud installed. Here is the switches section:-

2.2 Device Driver Load Options
--------------------------------

The following options are supported in CONFIG.SYS:

DEVICE=x:\MMOS2\UNIAUD32.SYS /V /C:CARDNAME
  - /A:n - Use audio adapter n where the first adapter is 0. (Really skip n adapters).
  - /V - Verbose
  - /C:DRIVER - Force audio hardware to *only* use the specified driver.
        Where DRIVER is:
      - SBLIVE      : Sound Blaster Live!
      - CS4281      : Cirrus Logic CS4281
      - ALS4000     : Avance Logic ALS4000
      - CMEDIA      : C-Media CMI8738, CMI8338
      - ICH         : Intel ICHx, NFORCE1/2/3
      - CS46XX      : Cirrus Logic CS4280, CS46XX
      - VIA82XX     : VIA VT82C686A/B/C, VT8233A/C, VT8235
      - ESS1938     : ESS Solo-1 (ESS 1938)
      - MAESTRO     : ESS Maestro1/2/2E, TerraTec DMX
      - MAESTRO3    : ESS Maestro3/Allegro/Canyon3D-2
      - YAMAHA      : Yamaha YMF 724/724F/740/740C/744/754
      - ENSONIQ     : Ensoniq AudioPCI ES1371/73, Creative Labs SB PCI64/128
      - ALI5451     : ALI 5451
      - TRIDENT     : Trident 4D Wave, SI7018
Default: Fully automatic operation. Use of switch is not recommended.

DEVICE=x:\MMOS2\UNIAUD16.SYS /V /C /M /L
  - /V - Verbose
  - /C - Enable CD output
  - /M - Enable Microphone output
  - /L - Enable Line-In output
Default: /C ((verbose messages; CD output enabled)


Regards

Pete

183
Games / Re: Java Games
« on: April 10, 2020, 01:34:19 am »
Hi Martin

Did icedtea - I think that is what the openjava plugin is called - get dropped or is it still in development?

Last time I tried it was years ago and it did not work very well at all.


Regards

Pete

184
Hi Sigurd

I certainly hope that the corona virus problem has been resolved before December - hopefully long before.

The idea to combine Warpstock 2020 with your event sounds like a good idea to me but I think you probably need to contact Roderick at os2voice directly to discuss the possibility.


Regards

Pete

185
Off Topic discussions / Re: COBOL revived
« on: April 07, 2020, 07:15:58 pm »
Hi

COBOL was the 3rd language that I learnt but have not used it since... err... 1991-ish. I probably would not be much use to New Jersey especially as I used to work on ICL mainframes running VME, never used an IBM mainframe in my life :-)

And, of course, travel restrictions would probably prevent me leaving the UK even if I was interested.


Regards

Pete

186
General Discussion / Re: ArcaOS User Accounts
« on: April 07, 2020, 01:25:44 am »
Hi Jack

There are some extensions to enable multiuser:-

Multidesk/2 is available from hobbes - https://hobbes.nmsu.edu/download/pub/os2/util/wps/md-0-2-0.wpi
Here is a couple of articles about it http://www.os2voice.org/VNL/past_issues/VNL0901H/vnewsf5.htm and http://www.os2voice.org/VNL/past_issues/VNL0901H/vnewsf6.htm

Also on hobbes is Workplace Shell Access Control - https://hobbes.nmsu.edu/download/pub/os2/util/wps/WPSac_4-0.zip

Both used to work OK on OS/2 but not sure how well they will work on ArcaOS; may need a little tweaking...


Regards

Pete

187
Hardware / Re: PCIe - SATA3 card choices?
« on: April 06, 2020, 08:49:13 pm »
Hi Dariusz

Which build of os2ahci.add are you using? - the "port #3 interrupt error status: 0x40000001; restarting port" is indicative of the flaky v2.03 driver supplied with ArcaOS5.0.1/5.0.2.

If I am right it could be worth trying either a later driver or the 1.32 build from eCS.


Regards

Pete

188
General Discussion / Twenty Years Online
« on: April 05, 2020, 05:42:49 am »
Hi Martin

Looking forward to the next 20  :-)


Regards

Pete

189
Games / Re: Quarantine Gaming !! - Dev/Port Help
« on: April 02, 2020, 10:28:59 pm »
Hi Martin

Attached is WDSchess_V1-0.zip containing:-

   WDSchess.exe - chess game
   WDScreate.cmd - script to create program object in Games folder
   WDSchess.txt - this file
   WDS_src.zip - modified source files and instructions

I have uploaded the zip file to hobbes but very happy to also have it on the OS2World Gaming site.

Maybe a more competent coder could look into adding an option to Save/Load Game as I am having trouble understanding the coding.


Regards

Pete


 



190
Games / Re: Quarantine Gaming !! - Dev/Port Help
« on: April 01, 2020, 10:58:13 pm »
Hi Martin

It does look like sdl is a bit of a mess. I don't really use sdl apps so have not noticed just how bad...

You may not have noticed the duplicate cdtbl.dll on your system. I wonder which location is best suited for that - os2\dll or mmos2\dll ?


Regards

Pete

191
Games / Re: Quarantine Gaming !! - Dev/Port Help
« on: April 01, 2020, 06:28:17 am »
Hi David

Yes, simple but seems capable. I am not much of a chess player myself and struggle to win games on any difficulty setting higher than 2 - and lose more than I win even when set to Novice (1)...

If I can work out the coding I will try to add Save/Load Game capability - sadly the source code is lacking any comments. Moan, moan - even back in the late 1980s it was obvious that comments would be useful when revisiting code at a future date and college coding assignments were marked down if there were not enough informative comments.


Regards

Pete

192
Games / Re: Quarantine Gaming !! - Dev/Port Help
« on: April 01, 2020, 01:17:23 am »
Hi All

Had my own corona virus scare recently: Had double hernia repair surgery on 10 March, discharged on 11 March at noon but about 12 hours later I was having trouble breathing and was coughing up blood - some of it bright red. My wife phoned an advice line who told her to wait for a call from an out of hours doctor service. They rang rang almost immediately, listened to wifes description of my problems and sent an ambulance. Turns out that the hospital where I had the surgery had had its first death from this virus the day before I had surgery and my symptoms were similar enough to cause a mild panic. However, after a checkup at hospital turns out I was suffering from a lung infection probably the result of having had a breathing tube inserted/removed during surgery. The wife and I were told to "self isolate" for a minimum of 14 days simply because we had been at 2 hospitals within 2 days...

Not being able to do much of anything due to the surgery the "self isolate" bit was not a great hardship - of course, now the whole UK is going through the same "self isolate" bit and will be for the forseeable future...

Looking for something to do I investigated the sample applications supplied with WDSibyl. I am not a games coder myself but compiled the chess game sample and added some code to save and read an ini file which saves the screen position and Difficulty setting - the default setting is 3 which is way above my Novice level of play  ;-)

I have attached WDSchess.zip in case anyone wants to give it a try - something to do while stuck at home  :-)
If it gets positive reactions I will upload it to hobbes.


In the meantime: Stay Healthy, everyone.


Regards

Pete

193
Hardware / Re: PCIe - SATA3 card choices?
« on: March 29, 2020, 09:59:02 pm »
Hi Dariusz

You are switching disk driver not file system driver so do not need to reformat.

How much you pay for a card seems to depend on how many sata3 ports you want - 2 port cards look fairly inexpensive eg https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/PCI-E-2-0-PCI-Express-to-SATA-3-0-2-Port-Expansion-Controller-Adapter-Card-6Gbps/352922289234?hash=item522bcec452:g:DRsAAOSwoZZeey5g&autorefresh=true

Check [BootDrive]:\sys\doc\AHCI\README.TXT for details of switches.


Regards

Pete



194
Hardware / Re: PCIe - SATA3 card choices?
« on: March 29, 2020, 06:14:23 am »
Hi Dariusz

You may be on a "suck it and see" with this question...

i have not needed to investigate this myself but a quick look at a few options on ebay suggests that no special driver is required for windows - no drivers mentioned in ads.

So, I would expect it to work with os2ahci, possibly with a(some) command line switch(es) to get driver to recognise and work with adapter.


Have fun  :-)

Pete

195
Storage / Re: How to make a disk drive for a distant computer
« on: March 27, 2020, 01:00:05 am »
Hi Neil

The "OS/2 is unable to operate the hard drive" can often mean that the drive letter has got screwed up somehow ie installation may have been to partition/volume D: but, for whatever reason, during boot the drive letter D: now refers to another partition/volume.

Are there other disks installed causing this problem?


Regards

Pete



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