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eCS 2.0 GA - first details

Started by warpcafe, 2010.05.06, 16:17:50

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RobertM

Quote from: lewhoo on 2010.05.10, 17:13:07
Quote from: CDRWSel on 2010.05.10, 17:08:33
Just define partition to have them below 500MiB (only 500MiB are seen by OS/2 and LVM)

You mean boot partition? Will OS/2 see the other, non-bootable, larger partition occupying the rest of the HD?

Yes. Someplace there is a thread on this problem. And a method to allow OS/2 to create larger partitions (that are non-bootable). If I find it, I will post a link here.

-R


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Pete

Hi All

With disks >512Mb you need to set to the mbr to zero using dfsee, www.dfsee.com

This is done using the dfsee menu option Mode=FDISK -> MBR or EBR area operations -> Wipe start of disk to zero

LVM should then be able to see all of the disk.

Hope that is of help

Pete




The Blue Warper

Yes, Robert, I remembered reading perhaps the same thread as the one you mentioned, too.  I found this one:
"Can't install RC5 on big HD (> 500Gb)": http://www.os2world.com/forum/index.php/topic,1321.0.html


The last post is from Roderick Klein, who points to another thread started by him on the same subject.  This is the URL:
"Mensys needs feedback! (Installing eCS on discs +512 GB and next to Vista)": http://www.os2world.com/forum/index.php/topic,1406.0.html

There are several technical points in them (especially in the first thread), so I suggest (and even recommend...) reading them, 'cause one can find some useful information.

Bye!

RobertM

Thanks TBW!

Those are indeed the threads!!!

Best,
Robert


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lewhoo

Thanks guys - those wiping out HDD solution is encouraging. However I understand that the installation of ECS 2.0 out of the box on a large HD is now not yet possible. For me not a big problem, but for many people may be a to be or not to be for ECS on their machines...

rwklein

Quote from: lewhoo on 2010.05.12, 16:52:51
Thanks guys - those wiping out HDD solution is encouraging. However I understand that the installation of ECS 2.0 out of the box on a large HD is now not yet possible. For me not a big problem, but for many people may be a to be or not to be for ECS on their machines...

As promised eCS 2.0 GA will be revealed to the world at Warpstock. Its has been a long haul up the steep incline with the train.
But it made it...

Attached i the eCS 2.0 GA manual. In that you can read the scenario's for hard disc bigger then 512 GB and whats more new...

I hope the community can see that OS/2 is not yet dead. We have been working are asses at Mensys to get it where its now...
Long days and nights. In the end I hope the community can find renewed faith in the OS that seemed dead.
2009 was best year in cooperated sales ever and the freight is only now picking up speed.

Keep an eye on the warpstock.eu website for my presentation. Because for the next version of eCS we have more in store...

Please note eCS 2.0 GA will not be online right now. It will be done next week.

But its a fact now on friday the first people will have eCS 2.0 in their hands...

Regards,

Roderick

ivan

Roderick,

Thank you for keeping everyone informed.  If eCS v2.0 is as good as you say I will have to start thinking about getting it for my clients rather than finding shrink wrapped versions of Warp 4 on eBay and similar sites.

ivan

rwklein

Quote from: ivan on 2010.05.13, 02:17:22
Roderick,

Thank you for keeping everyone informed.  If eCS v2.0 is as good as you say I will have to start thinking about getting it for my clients rather than finding shrink wrapped versions of Warp 4 on eBay and similar sites.

ivan

Is eCS 2.0 as good as I say it is. I certainly hope everybody has a nice experience with the product. One thing I do know is that not that often do you hear happy customers in forums. Because how often does somebody mention that it just works. Thats just human nature...

If Warp 4 works for your clients, that's fine. But as far as I can tell its becoming a plain pain in the...... to install Warp 4. If you have hardware that works...

But looking at all the patches and boot problems. I'm almost tempted to write a list. But I think I will still be sitting here this morning.

MCP1/MCP2 is also running out the gas. Try booting Warp 4 on a modern desktop, oke you could sneak in a floppy drive since most mainboards have one. A laptop, get a USB floppy drive. Oke you need to patch the diskettes, good luck.
Standard no Aurora kernel so limited support for large discs. Network card support and detection ?  Video card support....

eCS 2.0 boots from external USB CD ROM drives (see manual I posted). We have the Panorama driver, bootable JFS wagon loads of NIC drivers. USB is setup automatically for most USB  mouse and keyboards. Good support for mainstream virtual machines...

We have a new version of Java planned now, AHCI support, more updates to USB drivers. New NIC driver for Intel Gigabit chipsets ported from Linux.

So Warp 4 if it does the laundry and the dishes, that's fine :-) But from my point of view its getting pretty hard to run older versions and that not that strange considering Warp 4 is 14 years old now..

Roderick Klein
Mensys

rwklein

Its 03:00 at the night here so I'm not fully awake...

The things I mentioned: "We have a new version of Java planned now, AHCI support, more updates to USB drivers. New NIC driver for Intel Gigabit chipsets ported from Linux."

These will of the next version of eCS!!! Or released as standalone components!!!!
Just to clarify, now off to bed...

Roderick

lewhoo

Hmm... I wonder if there is... any chance on upgrade pricing from ACP/MCP or even warp 4?

Fahrvenugen

I'm guessing that pricing information will have to wait until Warpstock Europe, I asked that question several days back and as of yet there's been no info.

But considering it is this weekend, we won't have long to wait!


Pete

Hi Roderick

Funny you should mention "wagon loads of NIC drivers" as I was just looking in QCKGUIDE.PDF to see what recent/current gigabyte nics are supported. The PDF file states this:-

4.5 What network card chipsets are supported?
For an extensive list please visit http://www.ecomstation.com/faq/558


I had a look at the above url and see this:-

Q:     What Networkcards are supported by eComStation 2.0 ?
A:


I guess someone is still preparing that FAQ page?


Regards

Pete