From: Digest To: "OS/2GenAu Digest" Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2005 00:02:08 EST-10EDT,10,-1,0,7200,3,-1,0,7200,3600 Subject: [os2genau_digest] No. 1154 Reply-To: X-List-Unsubscribe: www.os2site.com/list/ ************************************************** Wednesday 27 July 2005 Number 1154 ************************************************** Subjects for today 1 DAC960 (again) : Chris Graham [WarpSpeed]" 2 ot: fat mem card GU UD ? : Voytek Eymont" 3 XBDA : Chris Graham [WarpSpeed]" 4 Re: ot: fat mem card GU UD ? : Chris Graham [WarpSpeed]" **= Email 1 ==========================** Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2005 20:43:56 +1000 (EST) From: "Chris Graham [WarpSpeed]" Subject: DAC960 (again) I finally manged to get the DAC960 card up and running. I have a DAC960/P/PD/PDU. The P means PCI, the D dual channel and the U ultra. There were 16 different variants listed on the site, the M variants were for Microchannel (these cards were from 1996ish). The PG and PJ variants are newer PCI variants that allow for PCI hotswap capability. They have a 72 pin slot on them for cache memory, up to 64Mb. The cards I have, one has 16Mb DRAM (64Mb max) on it and the other has 4Mb (8Mb max) of EDRAM which is 0 wait state. I am not sure which performs better. The DAC setup and config uses a DOS based configuration utility. This is like the IBM ServeRAID V3.50 setup. V3.60 was Win 95 based and V4 (or 5+) was linux based. The DAC960 setup program is called DACCF.EXE. Put it on a bootable DOS disk (V3.3+) and boot to real dos and then run the program. This enables you to configure 'Drive Packs' (Logical disks in IBM ServeRAID speak). Once you've created the drive pack(s) you need to initialize them. Then the disk pack(s) should appear to your OS as physical disk(s). DACD.EXE is the dos based diagnostics disk for the '960. From what I can tell, there is no equivalent of background data scrubbing that the IBM ServeRAID cards have (with newer firmware, supported on the 3L and above). So you need to synchronise the disks regularly. (Can someone who is using these cards, and I know that there are some on this list, please confirm this)? I've managed to get the PDF files for most variants of the 960 and all of the drivers that I can. I plan to make a bootable CD that allows you boot and setup/diagnose the 960. I'll add in all of the drivers and PDF files as well. Can someone please send me the disk image of the original DAC960 'Setup and Configuration' floppy, it has a few things on it that I'd like to reference. Anyone else interested in the ISO image of the CD when I finish? -Chris WarpSpeed Computers - The Graham Utilities for OS/2. Voice: +61-3-9307-0344 Internet: chrisg at warpspeed dot com dot au FAX: +61-3-9307-0633 Web Page: http://www.warpspeed dot com dot au Postal: WarpSpeed Computers, PO Box 212, Brunswick, VIC 3056, AUSTRALIA ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- **= Email 2 ==========================** Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2005 21:25:32 +1000 (EST) From: "Voytek Eymont" Subject: ot: fat mem card GU UD ? Chris, I notice there is a number of utilities for 'recovering' files from camera cards, is there anything 'special' about the memory cards ?? I mean, the GU FAT-UD will work just as well, no ? I just tried, seems OK. -- Voytek ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- **= Email 3 ==========================** Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2005 21:24:03 +1000 (EST) From: "Chris Graham [WarpSpeed]" Subject: XBDA This comes from a readme for the latest DACBIOS: When upgrading an existing or new DAC960 controller with this FW and Bios, the DAC960 will require XBDA(the Extended BIOS Data Area) support in the system BIOS. (For more info. on XBDA support, please visit our FAQ site on our homepage.)If your motherboard BIOS does not support XBDA, the DAC960 will disable it's own BIOS and indicate this with an error message. You must contact your system or bios board manufacturer to make sure this function is supported of your current bios, and if available, then upgrade your system board bios. If unavailable, and you have already flashed to the new firmware/bios, you can flash back to your original firmware/bios which will be downloadable from our website. Who do you tell if your bios supports this? I have a very old M/B. It is an iWill P55XB2 (Pentium MMX at 200MHz). -Chris WarpSpeed Computers - The Graham Utilities for OS/2. Voice: +61-3-9307-0344 Internet: chrisg at warpspeed dot com dot au FAX: +61-3-9307-0633 Web Page: http://www.warpspeed dot com dot au Postal: WarpSpeed Computers, PO Box 212, Brunswick, VIC 3056, AUSTRALIA ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- **= Email 4 ==========================** Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2005 21:33:34 +1000 (EST) From: "Chris Graham [WarpSpeed]" Subject: Re: ot: fat mem card GU UD ? On Wed, 27 Jul 2005 21:25:32 +1000 (EST), Voytek Eymont wrote: >Chris, > >I notice there is a number of utilities for 'recovering' files from camera >cards, is there anything 'special' about the memory cards ?? > >I mean, the GU FAT-UD will work just as well, no ? > >I just tried, seems OK. If the memory card drivers present the card to me as a disk drive, and a local one at that, then I don't see it any different, so long as the bios data returned about the 'drive' is correct. What does DI say? -Chris WarpSpeed Computers - The Graham Utilities for OS/2. Voice: +61-3-9307-0344 Internet: chrisg at warpspeed dot com dot au FAX: +61-3-9307-0633 Web Page: http://www.warpspeed dot com dot au Postal: WarpSpeed Computers, PO Box 212, Brunswick, VIC 3056, AUSTRALIA ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------