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#1
Seems to be a configuration problem, I installed a PCI communication card with 2 serial and 1 parallel port (needed for some other project I am working on) and the system recognized the zip drive. Can it be that due to reshuffle of the interupt assignments the driver now loads correctly?

However LVM is not working anymore. I now get errormessage: unable to start lvm engine.
Can somebody tell me how this is possible and why now the driver loads correctly?

Thanks in advance,

Jan
#2
There is only one flatcable connector available to which this drive is connected.
In the manual of the motherboard I see that the board has two ESATA ports connected to the JMicron chip also, I don't know if these are the primary or secondary ports, however these ports are not used at the moment.
Attached find the documentation of the JBM363 chip, it seems that the PATA connection is completely seperate from the SATA connection.
#3
Hi,

I tested the following combinations (I think these are all possible combinations):
Master while attached to Master: No Luck.
Master while attached to Slave: No Luck.
CS while attached to Master: No Luck.
CS while attached to Slave: No Luck.
Slave while attached to Master: No Luck.
Slave while attached to Slave: No Luck.
All above combinations also tested with a zip disk inserted while booting: No Luck.
It seems that if a zipdrive is connected to the JMicron IDE port booting keeps failing.
#4
Hi,

The zip drive is configured as master and the only drive attached to this IDE controller.

The /!BIOS option was added during default installation of ECS RC5.

The documentation of DANIS506 tells me that it might be the best to switch this option because information is now based upon the drive it self: (Quote of DANIS506.DOC)

     One user reported a boot failure in a particular situation which involved
     SCSI and ATA/ATAPI units. The solution was to avoid BIOS INT13 calls. The
     driver asks the BIOS about the geometry properties of the ATA drives. In
     general, this information is not required because the most authorative
     source of the geometry info is the drive itself (by inspecting the MBR and
     BPBs). This implies that no BIOS INT13 calls are required in almost any
     scenario. The only exception is if your disk is completely blank, and you
     want to partition this blank disk by OS/2 FDISK with a geometry compatible
     to the BIOS one.

     So, if you prefer to deny the driver calling the BIOS, add the option
     /!BIOS. When doing so, the "strange" VDM seen with some process management
     utilities is gone as well.


I don't think the cabling is the problem because I can use all functionality of the drive under Linux as well as Windows XP on this same system and setup. This is a multi boot configuration with those operating systems.
In the past I have used 80wire cables with zipdrives and this worked fine under ECS.

I rebooted with the /!BIOS removed, with BASEDEV=DANIS506.ADD.
The system booted and showed Loading OS2DASD.DMD and stayed there forever.

After switching back to the options /!BIOS /A:2 /I the system booted normally again.
I have attached dumpide output in case I boot with the /A:2 /I options.
Also attached current config.sys containing more information about the system.

Regards,

Jan
#5
Hello,

The following hardware setup:
IOMega Zip 250 attached to Jmicron JMB 363 with 80 pin flatcable. Jumper set to master on the zip drive.
Zipdrive works fine under Open Suse Linux 10.3.

If I now boot ECS, the system shows Loading OS2DASD.DMD in the lower left corner (altf2on.$$$ enabled).
In case I disable the JMicron controller the system boots normally, after loading OS2DASD.DMD, it says Installed OS2LVM.DMD.
In case I change the config.sys entry BASEDEV=DANIS506.ADD /!BIOS to BASEDEV=DANIS506.ADD /!BIOS /A:2 /I, the system boots normally.
I would like to use this zip drive under ECS for backup purposes.
Can some one give me a tip on how to enable my zipdrive.

Thanks in advance,

Jan
#6
Hi,

The problem was 4GB of memory, I removed one bank and installation continued.
Also acpi works correctly, did the tests mentioned in the link and all OK.
Still want to know if it will be possible to run with 4GB RAM. Are there settings that can be changed to boot with 4GB memory.
If any one has some info how to overcome this problem, his help will be appreciated.

Regards,

Jan van Dijk
#7
Hi,

Today I tried to install Ecomstation 2.0 RC5, but no luck, problem stays the same, immediate reboot after first reboot after installation.
I used default settings during installation, only did not do the check while formatting the HPFS partition, because this takes a lot of time.

The motherboard is brand new and contains an Intel P35 chipset with ICH9R.
Installed CPU Intel E8200
Installed Memory 2x2GB.
2x Lan RTL 8111 displayed during installation as RTL 8167
6x SATA (via ICH9R, Harddrive Seagate 500GB. connected to SATA port 1 and DVD-writer connected to port 3, DVD ROM connected to port 4.
IEEE 1394 2x.

Phoenix BIOS settings:
Onchip SATA Device:
Busmaster: Enabled.
Onchip SATA Controller: Enabled.
- SATA Mode: IDE
OnChip PCI Device:
OnChip Autio Controller: Enabled
- FP Audio: HD-Audio
USB Device Setting:
USB Functions: Enabled
- USB 2.0 Operation Mode High Speed
- USB Keyboard Support Via BIOS
- USB Mouse Support Via OS
- USB Storage Function Enabled
SuperIO Device:
Floppy Disk Controller Enabled.
Onboard PCI Device:
IEE 1394 Controller: Enabled
Network Controller 1 Enabled
-Invoke Boot Agent Disabled
Network Controller 2 Enabled
-Invoke Boot Agent Disabled
Storage Controller Enabled
-SATA Mode IDE
Power Management Setup
ACPI Suspend Type: S1 (PowerOn-Suspend) (Choises are S1 and S3)
x - Resume by USB from S3: Enabled, Can be disabled using S3.
Power Button Function: Instant-Off
Wake Up by.... all Disabled.
Power On By PS2 KB/MS: Disabled
Restore on AC Power Loss: Power Off.
Advanced Chipset Features:
DRAM Timing Selectable: By SPD
PCIe Compliancy Mode v1.0a (selection possible: v1.0a and v1.0)
PEG Force X1: Disabled
Init Display First: PCI Slot

Attached find a zip file showing the output of some acpi utilities I ran from the maintenance console:
acpitree.log containing the output of acpitree.
acpiirq0.log containing the output of acpiirq 0
acpiirq1.log containing the output of acpiirq 1
scanpci.log containing the output of scanpci
also included the config.sys for investigation, I have no idea how to see if acpi is enabled, I see some acpi statements in config.sys but don't know if this is correct.
I don't know if the correct kernel is installed but the current date of os2krnl is 5-01-07 2:16p, size 849262.

Hope some one can help me to find out what is the problem here.

Best regards,

Jan van Dijk
#8
Hi,

Has any one experience installing Ecomstation on an ABIT IP35 Pro motherboard.
Today I tried to install it but it failed during second reboot, you see ECS shortly in the upper left corner and after that the system reboots.
If you then startup in the maintenance console you can access the drive you installed ECS on and every thing seems OK.
I have no idea how I can find out what is wrong. I haven't found any logfile indicating what is wrong.
Can any one give me some info about what is wrong.