From: Digest To: "OS/2GenAu Digest" Date: Sat, 19 Apr 2003 00:04:01 EST-10EDT,10,-1,0,7200,3,-1,0,7200,3600 Subject: [os2genau_digest] No. 595 Reply-To: X-List-Unsubscribe: www.os2site.com/list/ ************************************************** Friday 18 April 2003 Number 595 ************************************************** Subjects for today 1 Re: Troubles : Ian Manners" 2 Re: Cross-migration was Novell migrates to Linux : Ed Durrant 3 Re: Troubles : Ed Durrant 4 Re: Cross-migration was Novell migrates to Linux : Paul Smedley" 5 Re: Troubles : brianb at kdfisher dot com dot au 6 Re: Cross-migration was Novell migrates to Linux : Simon Coulter" 7 Re: Troubles : **= Email 1 ==========================** Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2003 00:04:41 +1000 (EST) From: "Ian Manners" Subject: Re: Troubles Hi > I had also installed a SCSI disk on my machine, I did this in a > desperate attempt to install eCS. Secret, if you want to boot from SCSI, make sure the SCSI driver is in FRONT of the IDE driver. The card you use makes a big difference as well, what brand and model are you using ? > But I found that trying to boot to the SCSI drive with an IDE > drive in > the same machine is impossible. Easy, just get your boot drive sorted first before you install the other type of media, and ensure the driver that handles the boot volume is loaded first in config.sys. Which also probably explains your problems below. > I think that I have found out where I've gone wrong. With all > the troubles I was having I removed the IDE drives from my machine > and did the install with only the SCSI drive. > I later installed each IDE drives one at a time, ensuring that > all the partitions were made compatibility volumes as well as > installing a boot manager on the IDE drive. > drivers. One did, it used a Realtek RTL8139 chip, the packaging > OS/2 drivers, enen the text files on the driver disk listed > I went to Realtek's web site and downloaded OS/2 drivers which Caution here, a RTL8139 is not an RTL8139, my experience shows me it depends a lot on the code loaded on the card as well, I have a collection of five different RTL8139 drivers, all for different brand RTL8139 cards, some work with one lot but not the other lot, and not one works with all the different ones I have here. Also, put your NIC driver as your last driver loaded in your config.sys file. Call it voodoo but it sometimes works for no logical reason that I have ever been able to figure out. Cheers Ian B Manners http://www.os2site dot com/ ... Printout - A document to verify data you know is wrong anyway. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- **= Email 2 ==========================** Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2003 09:55:52 +1000 From: Ed Durrant Subject: Re: Cross-migration was Novell migrates to Linux However .... Hoblink X11 includes an X-Server component, surely the remote *nix box should be the server ?? Ed. Paul Smedley wrote: > On Thu, 17 Apr 2003 20:43:10 +1000, Ed Durrant wrote: > > >Does having an X-11 environment (such as that available commercially for OS/2 in the > >form of HobLink X11), automatically make it possible to run any X-11 app from another > >platform, without re-compile / rewrite etc. ? > > Nope. Tha main use of something like Hoblink is to allow the running of remote apps from a > *nix server on a local PC. For eg at Uni we used to run some process design software on a > Windoze PC that was actually running on a DEC server and just being controlled remotely. > > Regards, > > Paul. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- **= Email 3 ==========================** Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2003 10:10:47 +1000 From: Ed Durrant Subject: Re: Troubles Handling a mixed SCSI / EIDE configuration has always been tricky under OS/2. In fact a lot of what is possible depends upon the motherboard of your PC. If the motherboard CMOS allows you to select SCSI as an option in the boot up sequence, then I'd set the sequence as Floppy, CDROM, SCSI. If SCSI is not listed, you're pretty well stuck with realising that if the motherboard finds an EIDE drive it will try to boot from that first, If you remove (or disable in the bios) the EIDE drive, the M/B will possibly search for "other" boot devices which include SCSI drives. Then there's the SCSI controller - some have BIOS modifications that in principal should get around the motherboard problem (if the motherboard bios is compatible with the SCSI card code). Some (older) Adaptec cards would not boot from a SCSI drive unless it had SCSI ID 0 or 1, some other makes (one started with F I think), needed the SCSI ID to be the high one (eg 6 on an 8 bit card, 14 on a 16 bit card - 7 or 15 are used for the controller itself). Note: SCSI IDs start at zero. On to the fast ethernet. I presume you mean 100Mb/s ? If so I'd recommend the IBM or Intel cards - they work perfectly and are OS/2 supported. If you mean 1Gb/s there ARE some OS/2 supported cards but they are expensive ! Realtek is supported by VPC/2 so it should work as well. However Realtek have the image of being "cheap and cheerful", not the fastest or most reliable cards, but for home use they're normally fine. I wouldn't use them in a commercial installation, I'd prefer to pay the little extra and go with Intel. Cheers/2 Ed. djn at peninsula.hotkey dot net dot au wrote: > Hi all, > I had also installed a SCSI disk on my machine, I did this in a > desperate attempt to install eCS. > > However after much gnashing of teeth and tearing out of hair, I have > finaly given up on eCS. I have installed the IBM version. > > But I found that trying to boot to the SCSI drive with an IDE drive in > the same machine is impossible. > > I think that I have found out where I've gone wrong. With all > the troubles I was having I removed the IDE drives from my machine > and did the install with only the SCSI drive. > > Anyway this is not my only problem. I need to get a fast > Ethernet adapter card. > None of the ones I've been offered at the local shops mention > OS/2 drivers. One did, it used a Realtek RTL8139 chip, the packaging > boasted OS/2 drivers, enen the text files on the driver disk listed > them, but they were not there. > I went to Realtek's web site and downloaded OS/2 drivers which > I installed, but they caused a system crash every time they were > loaded. I reinstalled the OS and the drivers three times before I gave up > on them. > So if anyone can recomend a Fast ethernet card I will be grateful. > > Now all I have to do is see if this gets sent successfully. > > Have a happy Easter > > Regards Dennis. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- **= Email 4 ==========================** Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2003 10:28:45 +0950 (CST) From: "Paul Smedley" Subject: Re: Cross-migration was Novell migrates to Linux On Fri, 18 Apr 2003 09:55:52 +1000, Ed Durrant wrote: >However .... Hoblink X11 includes an X-Server component, surely the remote *nix box should be >the server ?? I'd imagine that this is so the reverse situation can be done - ie a Linux box run an app remotely that's running on the OS/2 X11 Server.... Regards, Paul. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- **= Email 5 ==========================** Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2003 12:07:18 +1030 From: brianb at kdfisher dot com dot au Subject: Re: Troubles Dennis, I agree with Ed's comments on your SCSI problems. As far as NICs go I am using the following with OS/2 at 100MBs Full Duplex, and they all work well. Acer ALN325 D-Link DFE530 TX Alloy 1430TX As well as various Intel chips built into motherboards. Good luck! ----------------------------------------- Brian Butler System Administrator brianb at kdfisher dot com dot au ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- **= Email 6 ==========================** Date: Fri, 18 Apr 03 12:51:14 From: "Simon Coulter" Subject: Re: Cross-migration was Novell migrates to Linux Hello Ed, You wrote: >However .... Hoblink X11 includes an X-Server component, surely the remote >*nix box should be the server ?? You would think so but X-Windows reversed the normal meaning of client and server. In an X11 environment the X-Server is running on the local (client) system. If I recall correctly the rationale for the terminology swap was because they consider the X-Server to be 'serving' the local display or some such nonsense. 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Re the Network card I was offered the D_Link DFE-530-TX+ card by one of the local computer mobs, it's mainly Apple, but they do PC's as well. Anyway there was nothing on the box, and he looked up their web site and could find nothing mentioned about OS/2. However I've just been there and downloaded the drivers for the card and Low and Behold, under NDIS2 there is a OS/2 directory with the necessary drivrs. So tomorrow or Monday I'll go back and get one. Interestingly, I noticed that it uses the Realtek 8139 chip. I guess it's entirely how they intergrate it or whatever. Oils aint Oils comes to mind. Once again, thanks for the help. Regards Dennis. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------