From: Digest To: "OS/2GenAu Digest" Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2008 00:00:51 EST-10EDT,10,-1,0,7200,3,-1,0,7200,3600 Subject: [os2genau_digest] No. 1614 Reply-To: X-List-Unsubscribe: www.os2site.com/list/ ************************************************** Sunday 02 March 2008 Number 1614 ************************************************** Subjects for today 1 Re: FAT32 problems : Mike O'Connor 2 Re: FAT32 problems : Ed Durrant 3 JFS : Alan Duval 4 Re: JFS : Peter Moylan 5 Re: FAT32 problems : Ed Durrant 6 Re: JFS : Kris Steenhaut **= Email 1 ==========================** Date: Sun, 02 Mar 2008 06:35:38 +1000 From: Mike O'Connor Subject: Re: FAT32 problems Ed Durrant wrote: > Hi - I have problems with FAT32 support under eCS 2.0 (RC3) - I'm > pretty sure it used to work but now, although the driver load without > error, when I connect a USB Key that is Fat32 formatted and can be > read on other systems - eCS says there no objects present (or > something similar). > > I have re-installed FAT32 from it's WPI file - still no change. > > Has anyone seen this ? Could it be a conflict with other file system > software - e.g. NTFS or EVFS support ?? > > Cheers/2 Ed, What is the size of that USB stick? If it's out of a camera/printer and it's 4GiB or less, I'd say it's a custom VFAT FS - not necessarily FAT32. Regards, Mike ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- **= Email 2 ==========================** Date: Sun, 02 Mar 2008 08:44:58 +1100 From: Ed Durrant Subject: Re: FAT32 problems Ed Durrant wrote: > Hi - I have problems with FAT32 support under eCS 2.0 (RC3) - I'm > pretty sure it used to work but now, although the driver load without > error, when I connect a USB Key that is Fat32 formatted and can be > read on other systems - eCS says there no objects present (or > something similar). > > I have re-installed FAT32 from it's WPI file - still no change. > > Has anyone seen this ? Could it be a conflict with other file system > software - e.g. NTFS or EVFS support ?? > > Cheers/2 > > Ed. > > > Answering my own problem - the issue turned out to be the partitioning of this particular (Imation) USB Key - all is explained VERY WELL here: http://www.os2voice dot org/vnl/past_issues/VNL0606H/feature_2.html#format_dialogue This is also a very good reference about all things USB connectable ! Cheers/2 Ed. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- **= Email 3 ==========================** Date: Sun, 02 Mar 2008 18:07:38 +1000 From: Alan Duval Subject: JFS Hi, I hope to have my new PC running within a week. If I install eCs 2.0 on a JFS partition should I also make my APPS and data partitions JFS partitions? Also is there a facility in eCs 2.0 to format existing partitions with JFS? Also does LVM still function with JFS? Regards, Alan Duval ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- **= Email 4 ==========================** Date: Sun, 02 Mar 2008 18:20:23 +1100 From: Peter Moylan Subject: Re: JFS On 02/03/08 19:07, Alan Duval wrote: > Hi, > > I hope to have my new PC running within a week. If I install eCs 2.0 > on a JFS partition should I also make my APPS and data partitions JFS > partitions? Also is there a facility in eCs 2.0 to format existing > partitions with JFS? Also does LVM still function with JFS? I can't answer the first bit (although I'm pretty sure that you can have any mix of partition types), but LVM works fine. I'm still using eCS 1.14 - never seem to have the time to install the copy of 1.2 that I bought over a year ago - and at some stage I decided to try out JFS on a couple of partitions. Completely trouble-free. Once I do get time to do a new installation I'll probably gradually convert other partitions to JFS. It's mostly a matter of working out where to park my existing files while I'm re-formatting; and that's usually easy to solve. -- Peter Moylan peter at pmoylan dot org http://www.pmoylan dot org ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- **= Email 5 ==========================** Date: Sun, 02 Mar 2008 18:51:10 +1100 From: Ed Durrant Subject: Re: FAT32 problems Mike O'Connor wrote: > Ed Durrant wrote: >> Hi - I have problems with FAT32 support under eCS 2.0 (RC3) - I'm >> pretty sure it used to work but now, although the driver load without >> error, when I connect a USB Key that is Fat32 formatted and can be >> read on other systems - eCS says there no objects present (or >> something similar). >> >> I have re-installed FAT32 from it's WPI file - still no change. >> >> Has anyone seen this ? Could it be a conflict with other file system >> software - e.g. NTFS or EVFS support ?? >> >> Cheers/2 > Ed, > > What is the size of that USB stick? > If it's out of a camera/printer and it's 4GiB or less, I'd say it's a > custom VFAT FS - not necessarily FAT32. > > Regards, > Mike > > > Hi Mike, You'll see I posted an answer to this - it was a partitioning problem. The USB key is 1GB and I was formatting it with Win XP - I now realise we can format FAT32 under OS/2 using DFSee. In any case - the issue is that the USB key as it comes is actually running as a "large floppy" and has no partition created - Windoze and Linux are happy with this OS/2 and eCS are not. Cheers/2 Ed. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- **= Email 6 ==========================** Date: Sun, 02 Mar 2008 13:31:01 +0100 From: Kris Steenhaut Subject: Re: JFS Duval ha scritto: > Hi, > > I hope to have my new PC running within a week. Congratulations. > If I install eCs 2.0 on a JFS partition should I also make my APPS and > data partitions JFS partitions? Not at all. But at this stage of the era and technonolgy, I would strongly advise against hpfs. > Also is there a facility in eCs 2.0 to format existing partitions with > JFS? You can do anything you want from the maintenace console at install type and later from the drives object. Or even better, using grandpa's method at a command prompt: format c: (or whatever) /jfs /q > Also does LVM still function with JFS? > It's the other way around my dear friend: jfs can't function without LVM. :-) -- Groeten uit Gent, Kris ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------