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My Warp 3 PC, under development

Started by Tommy in Scotland, 2009.02.19, 20:48:23

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Tommy in Scotland

Some time ago I installed Warp 3 on an old Elonex Pentium 166MHz PC, together with Windows 3.11fw plus some old OS/2 office apps I was lucky enough to find on ebay. I only did all this as an experiment, but I like the system and I would like to develop it much further. I am hoping to migrate the installation onto a vacant Celeron 700 system in the next two weeks. There have been problems however. My installation refuses to recognise a second hard drive or a CD ROM drive. Regardless of whether or not there is a CD in the drive, OS/2 does not see the drive. The same effect occurred when I installed a second hard drive in the system, although that was so long ago I cannot remember how the extra drive was formatted. OS/2 would not see the second hard drive.

I intend to keep working on this system over the next few weeks and hopefully develop it into a practical, working PC. I intend to upgrade the video card/driver, install a PCI network card with TCP/IP, and install some worthwhile software so I can actually use the PC, particularly with access to my hard-wired LAN and maybe even the Internet. To this end, I would like to have Odin or a good Win32 interface. I went onto the Netlabs Odin site and looked up Odin, but the most recent build I could find was early 2005. Are there newer builds available? Where can I find one and which is the most stable?

Fahrvenugen

Hi,

There should be no problem getting Warp 3 to work on that computer, or to recognize your second hard disk or CD Rom, it likely just needs some updated drivers.

The base Warp 3 is ancient by today's standards, even when it came out it didn't take long for IBM to update the drivers to fix some of the very issues you've run into.

My advice is to replace the IBM1s506.add driver with danis506.add

You'll likely also need updated drivers in IBM's IDE fix, or... 

It is probably just easiest to install Fixpak 40.  This will update Warp 3 to the latest code level that IBM had available for Warp 3, plus install a bunch of the updated drivers too.

Since installing Warp 3 red / blue / Warp 3 Connect (red / blue), etc - has been covered before I'll just direct you to the previous posts.  Be sure to check:

http://www.os2world.com/cgi-bin/ultraboard/UltraBoard.cgi?action=Read&BID=62&TID=834&SID=jEZfDfp4FYY8aPhp

Also, for updating Warp, the following post deals with Warp 4, but many of the concepts are similar under Warp 3, so check it out too:

http://www.os2world.com/cgi-bin/ultraboard/UltraBoard.cgi?action=Read&BID=62&TID=1102&P=1&SID=jEZfDfp4FYY8aPhp#ID16

Fixpak info can be found at:

http://www.os2world.com/cgi-bin/ultraboard/UltraBoard.cgi?action=Read&BID=62&TID=698&P=1&SID=#ID5

As for a network card, it is definitely possible to get the card working with TCP/IP and online.  You just need to install MPTS (which can also be downloaded from IBM).  If you want to talk to other computers on the network via netbios file sharing, you'll need something more, either Warp Connect (which contains the Peer networking stuff), or you can also use the command line apps that are a part of Samba.

For the video upgrade, you'll likely need to have Fixpak 40 installed.  Once you do that, you can then run Scitech SNAP which will work with a lot of the newer video cards.

As for ODIN, that's more of a hit or miss.  Some people have managed to get it to somewhat work on Warp 3, but generally it doesn't work for most on Warp 3.  Your best bet is either Warp 4 or (preferably) eCS.


Tommy in Scotland

OK Fahrvenugen, thank you for your information. Are the fixpaks cumulative like Windows Service Packs? So I don't have to install loads of fixpaks on hundreds of floppy discs...

I hope to get onto the project over the next week, and hopefully bring new life to my Warp 3.0 system. I may install the Windows Win32 program in my Win/OS2 subsystem. That way I hope to get a few more Windows programs running on it, and I also hope to get the latest OS/2 versions of Open Office and Firefox to run on it, which would be great. In order to install anything, however, I must get access to my CD ROM drive... so none of my goals will be achieved in a great hurry.