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Only SATA, any options for DANI?

Started by lpino, 2008.09.23, 03:55:03

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lpino

I can't boot (OS2DASD.DMD dies) to my RC1 and I can't update it to RC5.

My PC doesn't have disk drives so I was wondering if I could use a USB pen drive and go to the command line and replace the DANI driver with the latest. I guess I would need FAT32 support on boot.

My other choice is to add options to the driver and see if that makes it work.

Are the developers thinking about these things?. Most PCs today don't have a drive A, what are the choices to replace drivers?

Thanks

ivan

Do you have a CD drive?  If so then boot from the CD and go to a command line then copy the latest Dani drivers to your boot partition (note you must use both Dani drivers, daniatapi and danis506).

lpino

The drivers are nowhere in the CD, probably they are packed. Only the docs are available. Anyway I discovered that the developers did think about booting with USB support and I was able to use my pen drive to update the dani driver (although I only updated danis506.add and not the atapi driver).

Since the loading was stopping on os2dasd.dmd I used the /!DM option on danis506, witch prevents os2dasd.dmd to manage the drives. Then the boot process stopped at os2aspi.dmd.

I'll follow the advice and replace the daniatapi file with the new one. After that mmmm... I don't know

Thanks

The Blue Warper

Hi!

This might not be your case, but... did you try a chkdsk to your drive?  You could run the command booting from your eCS CD and then starting a console (VIO) session.
Good luck!

Blonde Guy

It's a pity you aren't in the SF Bay Area -- we discussed the all SATA system at our last meeting. It's a bit of trouble to get drivers loaded (you can use a USB thumb drive) RC6 is going to just work with the all SATA system -- only an out-of-date Dani driver is stopping you.

Neil
Expert Consulting for OS/2 and eComStation

The Blue Warper

Quote from: lpino on 2008.09.23, 03:55:03

My PC doesn't have disk drives so I was wondering if I could use a USB pen drive and go to the command line and replace the DANI driver with the latest.


OK, sorry for my previous post.  I should have noticed you said "My PC doesn't have disk drives"...

eCS 2.0 RC1 came with Danis506 1.7.10.  The first version that reliably worked with SATA and ACPI was, if I remember correctly, 1.8.1.
Danis506 1.8.x series should be coupled with DaniATAPI 0.4.x.
Now, as RC1 was released in June 2007 (the announcement in OS/2 World News is dated 20 June 2007) and, on the other hand, daniatapi 0.4.0 has the date Aug 1st 2007, I assume RC1 has a daniatapi 0.3.x version, which, AFAIK, is incompatible with (or can't reliably handle) SATA drives and/or ACPI.
So you should update both Danis506 and DaniATAPI to the latest versions (which should be 1.8.5 and 0.4.0 respectively), as stated by ivan and Neil/Blonde Guy.

Hope this post can be more useful than my previous one...

lpino

Ok, I tried the latest danis506 and daniatapi and there was no luck. I removed the os2aspi.dmd from the config.sys since I don't need it but the boot process stopped at os2lvm.dmd and clearly that can't be removed.

So what are my options now?... I can remove the /!DM from danis506 driver and see if it works or/and I can put back my DVD IDE ROM and see if the the system wakes up having at least one IDE drive.

Any ideas on the BIOS options here?,, I turned off all the IDE functionality, maybe I can play with those options too

Thanks

lpino

Removing the option did nothing so I put the IDE DVD back and voila, I got my system back... ufff 34 days without OS/2,, I really missed it


ddan

Well, I don't know of any reason TO turn IDE off in BIOS, and interested to know whether the problem is present when it's enabled but without any IDE drives connected, or is nailed down to just being turned off. Don't see any major implications if the latter, but needing an actual IDE drive could be annoying.

Also, have any benchmarks for the SATA HD?