From: Digest To: "OS/2GenAu Digest" Date: Mon, 6 Oct 2008 00:01:52 EST-10EDT,10,1,0,7200,4,1,0,7200,3600 Subject: [os2genau_digest] No. 1719 Reply-To: X-List-Unsubscribe: www.os2site.com/list/ ************************************************** Sunday 05 October 2008 Number 1719 ************************************************** Subjects for today 1 Re: Describe - Windows version : bokeny at earthlink dot net 2 Early daylight savings :( : Paul Smedley 3 Re: On board floppy controller failure on ASUS M2V-TVM : Nicholas Lysaght" 4 Re: On board floppy controller failure on ASUS M2V-TVM : Ed Durrant 5 Re: Early daylight savings :( : Ian Manners" 6 Re: Recommendations for remote control program? : Ian Manners" 7 Re: Early daylight savings :( : Ed Durrant 8 Re: Early daylight savings :( : Ian Manners" 9 Re: On board floppy controller failure on ASUS M2V-TVM : Andrew MacIntyre 10 Re: Early daylight savings :( : Ed Durrant 11 Re: On board floppy controller failure on ASUS M2V-TVM : Ed Durrant 12 Re: On board floppy controller failure on ASUS M2V-TVM : Paul Smedley 13 Re: Early daylight savings :( : Ian Manners" 14 Re: Early daylight savings :( : Paul Smedley 15 Re: Early daylight savings :( : Ian Manners" 16 Re: Recommendations for remote control program? : Peter Moylan 17 Re: On board floppy controller failure on ASUS M2V-TVM : Mike O'Connor 18 Re: On board floppy controller failure on ASUS M2V-TVM : Alan Duval **= Email 1 ==========================** Date: Sat, 04 Oct 2008 15:20:03 -0500 From: bokeny at earthlink dot net Subject: Re: Describe - Windows version In <100-43e3e548-12692.013 at os2site dot com>, on 10/03/2008 at 07:17 PM, "Ian Manners" said: Cant even remember what the DEC >Wordprocessor I used on the VAX was back then. Was not it MultiMate? -- Zoltan Bokeny bokeny at earthlink dot net Fayetteville, North Carolina I will not shop at "Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. of China"! ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- **= Email 2 ==========================** Date: Sun, 05 Oct 2008 11:03:39 +0930 From: Paul Smedley Subject: Early daylight savings :( Hi All, Once again, daylight savings is here early in SA.. Any clues on what the TZ statement should be? Currently I have: SET TZ=CST-9:30CDT,10,-1,0,7200,3,-1,0,7200,3600 Thanks in advance, Paul. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- **= Email 3 ==========================** Date: Sun, 5 Oct 2008 09:39:07 +0800 From: "Nicholas Lysaght" Subject: Re: On board floppy controller failure on ASUS M2V-TVM Hi Ed. You must be really good at reading minds. :-) I was wandering around the usual computer haunts, trying to keep myself updated in case the M2N-TVM gave up for some reason. Well, it looks like that may happen to me too. It appears that the closest thing our local shop (Austin Computers) have to the TVM, is the M2N-MX, but I cannot find any specs on their website about what LAN or Soundcard chipsets it uses. It seems to have the 2+1 PCI Slots though, as well as the PS2 inputs for keyboard and mouse. Think I might stretch the net a bit further now. Regards NICK On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 2:58 PM, Ed Durrant wrote: > Hi, > > It looks like I may have to move to a new motherboard sooner than I > thought ! When I boot the system, I get an error "Floppy Controller failure > Press F1 to continue" and (of course the floppy drive does not work) - yes I > do need the floppy drive from time to time! > > I've checked the usual culprits,checked cable seating and replaced it with > a known good cable. Replaced the floppy drive itself with a known good > drive. > > I've cleared the CMOS to check this wasn't a corrupted CMOS memory issue - > no change. > > I have also back-leveled the BIOS as that was a recent change to the > system. > > All of the above has not helped. > > I have one free PCI slot in the system, but I cannot find anyone > advertising a PCI floppy disk controller, I suspect if I did find one, it > would cost more than the motherboard in any case! > > The board is (of course) out of warrenty and I can't think any company > would repair a faulty on board floppy disk controller any more. > > So I'll be searching to see what I can find, that is fairly current and can > take the components from this board. I could simply buy the same board again > but that's not a challenge! > > Cheers/2 > > Ed. > > > [attachments have been removed] ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- **= Email 4 ==========================** Date: Sun, 05 Oct 2008 13:16:27 +1000 From: Ed Durrant Subject: Re: On board floppy controller failure on ASUS M2V-TVM Nicholas Lysaght wrote: > Hi Ed. > > You must be really good at reading minds. :-) > > I was wandering around the usual computer haunts, trying to keep myself > updated in case the M2N-TVM gave up for some reason. Well, it looks like > that may happen to me too. > > It appears that the closest thing our local shop (Austin Computers) have to > the TVM, is the M2N-MX, but I cannot find any specs on their website about > what LAN or Soundcard chipsets it uses. It seems to have the 2+1 PCI Slots > though, as well as the PS2 inputs for keyboard and mouse. > > Think I might stretch the net a bit further now. > > Regards > > NICK > > On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 2:58 PM, Ed Durrant wrote: > > >> Hi, >> >> It looks like I may have to move to a new motherboard sooner than I >> thought ! When I boot the system, I get an error "Floppy Controller failure >> Press F1 to continue" and (of course the floppy drive does not work) - yes I >> do need the floppy drive from time to time! >> >> I've checked the usual culprits,checked cable seating and replaced it with >> a known good cable. Replaced the floppy drive itself with a known good >> drive. >> >> I've cleared the CMOS to check this wasn't a corrupted CMOS memory issue - >> no change. >> >> I have also back-leveled the BIOS as that was a recent change to the >> system. >> >> All of the above has not helped. >> >> I have one free PCI slot in the system, but I cannot find anyone >> advertising a PCI floppy disk controller, I suspect if I did find one, it >> would cost more than the motherboard in any case! >> >> The board is (of course) out of warrenty and I can't think any company >> would repair a faulty on board floppy disk controller any more. >> >> So I'll be searching to see what I can find, that is fairly current and can >> take the components from this board. I could simply buy the same board again >> but that's not a challenge! >> >> Cheers/2 >> >> Ed. >> >> How about ASUS M2N-MX-SE-PLUS A$65.95 at http://www.shoppingsquare dot com dot au/p_3526__ASUS_M2NMXSEPLUS and until Monday only A$5 post and handling. But any M2 board from ASUS is now old - They are mainly into M3A series now (which supports the 3 and 4 core AMD Phenom processors). *Specifications:* Model Brand ASUS Model M2N-MX SE Plus Supported CPU CPU Socket Type AM2+/AM2 CPU Type Athlon 64 X2 / Athlon 64 FX / Athlon 64 / Sempron FSB 1000MHz Hyper Transport (2000 MT/s) Chipsets North Bridge NVIDIA GeForce 6100 South Bridge NVIDIA nForce 430 Memory Number of Memory Slots 2×240pin Memory Standard DDR2 1066 Maximum Memory Supported 4GB Dual Channel Supported Yes Expansion Slots PCI Express x16 1 PCI Slots 2 Storage Devices PATA 1 x ATA100 2 Dev. Max SATA 3Gb/s 2 SATA RAID 0/1 Onboard Video Onboard Video Chipset NVIDIA GeForce 6100 Onboard Audio Audio Chipset Realtek ALC662 Audio Channels 6 Channels Onboard LAN Max LAN Speed 10/100Mbps Rear Panel Ports PS/2 2 COM 1 LPT 1 Video Ports D-Sub USB 4 x USB 2.0 Audio Ports 3 Ports Onboard USB Onboard USB 2 x connector supports 4 x USB 2.0 ports Physical Spec Form Factor Micro ATX Dimensions 9.6" x 7.6" Features Power Pin 24 Pin Packaging Package Contents M2N-MX SE Plus Driver Disk User Manual Rear I/O Panel Shield IDE/PATA Cable FDD Cable SATA Cable 4-pin to SATA Power Cable Software Disk Cheers/2 Ed. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- **= Email 5 ==========================** Date: Sun, 05 Oct 2008 13:39:12 +1000 (EST) From: "Ian Manners" Subject: Re: Early daylight savings :( Hi Paul, >Once again, daylight savings is here early in SA.. early ? It's the same everywere now, started this morning in VIC as well as WA. >Any clues on what the TZ statement should be? >Currently I have: >SET TZ=CST-9:30CDT,10,-1,0,7200,3,-1,0,7200,3600 I've still got SET TZ=EST-10EDT,10,1,0,7200,4,1,0,7200,3600 in my config.sys but probably need to check it. Chris might step in and point the way if none of us check the various TZ programs available for OS/2 - eComstation. The server is the same, and reachs out to update its clock ever 12 hours, midnight and midday, so it didnt update to DST until 12noon, ditto all the clients :-) Should probably change that to update at 2:10 am and 2:10 pm. Cheers Ian Manners http://www.os2site dot com/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- **= Email 6 ==========================** Date: Sun, 05 Oct 2008 13:42:13 +1000 (EST) From: "Ian Manners" Subject: Re: Recommendations for remote control program? Hi Peter, Cant access your FTP server, says not allowed from where I am. >Thanks, Ian, I'd appreciate getting one. Where I'm up to now is that the AGP or PCI, will send Monday for you. Looking at heading over west for a while again myself. Cheers Ian Manners http://www.os2site dot com/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- **= Email 7 ==========================** Date: Sun, 05 Oct 2008 14:05:31 +1000 From: Ed Durrant Subject: Re: Early daylight savings :( Ian Manners wrote: > Hi Paul, > > >> Once again, daylight savings is here early in SA.. >> > > early ? > It's the same everywere now, started this morning in VIC > as well as WA. > > Actually isn't WA in a couple of weeks ? (We've changed here in NSW by the way). Cheers/2 Ed. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- **= Email 8 ==========================** Date: Sun, 05 Oct 2008 14:15:17 +1000 (EST) From: "Ian Manners" Subject: Re: Early daylight savings :( Hi Ed, >Actually isn't WA in a couple of weeks ? (We've changed here in NSW by >the way). I was corrected by my father in Perth, WA switchs in 3 weeks time. I heard somewere that we were all the same now but I guess WA figured that it had already set DST to match the east a year ago, before the east decided to sync, so best not to mess with the trial period. Cheers Ian Manners http://www.os2site dot com/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- **= Email 9 ==========================** Date: Sun, 05 Oct 2008 15:50:47 +1100 From: Andrew MacIntyre Subject: Re: On board floppy controller failure on ASUS M2V-TVM Ed Durrant wrote: > Hi, > > It looks like I may have to move to a new motherboard sooner than I > thought ! When I boot the system, I get an error "Floppy Controller > failure Press F1 to continue" and (of course the floppy drive does not > work) - yes I do need the floppy drive from time to time! Does a USB floppy work on OS/2? Cheers, Andrew. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Andrew I MacIntyre "These thoughts are mine alone..." E-mail: andymac at bullseye.apana dot org dot au (pref) | Snail: PO Box 370 andymac at pcug dot org dot au (alt) | Belconnen ACT 2616 Web: http://www.andymac dot org/ | Australia ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- **= Email 10 ==========================** Date: Sun, 05 Oct 2008 18:36:18 +1000 From: Ed Durrant Subject: Re: Early daylight savings :( Ian Manners wrote: > Hi Ed, > > >> Actually isn't WA in a couple of weeks ? (We've changed here in NSW by >> the way). >> > > I was corrected by my father in Perth, WA switchs in 3 weeks time. > > I heard somewere that we were all the same now but I guess WA > figured that it had already set DST to match the east a year ago, > before the east decided to sync, so best not to mess with the trial > period. > > Cheers > Ian Manners > http://www.os2site dot com/ > > > I think different parts of the world (and now different states of Australia) either change at the same time as the UK or at the same time as the USA. Cheers/2 Ed. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- **= Email 11 ==========================** Date: Sun, 05 Oct 2008 18:38:17 +1000 From: Ed Durrant Subject: Re: On board floppy controller failure on ASUS M2V-TVM Andrew MacIntyre wrote: > Ed Durrant wrote: >> Hi, >> >> It looks like I may have to move to a new motherboard sooner than I >> thought ! When I boot the system, I get an error "Floppy Controller >> failure Press F1 to continue" and (of course the floppy drive does >> not work) - yes I do need the floppy drive from time to time! > > Does a USB floppy work on OS/2? > > Cheers, > Andrew. > Yes, I can use an external USB Floppy - as long as you have the floppies=1 parameter on the USBMSD.ADD line in config.sys it works. But it's inconvienient when compared to having a built in drive. Cheers/2 Ed. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- **= Email 12 ==========================** Date: Sun, 05 Oct 2008 17:33:49 +0930 From: Paul Smedley Subject: Re: On board floppy controller failure on ASUS M2V-TVM Hi Andrew, Andrew MacIntyre wrote: > Ed Durrant wrote: >> Hi, >> >> It looks like I may have to move to a new motherboard sooner than I >> thought ! When I boot the system, I get an error "Floppy Controller >> failure Press F1 to continue" and (of course the floppy drive does not >> work) - yes I do need the floppy drive from time to time! > > Does a USB floppy work on OS/2? Does for me - with an el-cheapo USB floppy drive from ebay Cheers, Paul. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- **= Email 13 ==========================** Date: Sun, 05 Oct 2008 19:29:28 +1100 (EDT) From: "Ian Manners" Subject: Re: Early daylight savings :( Hi Ed, >I think different parts of the world (and now different states of >Australia) either change at the same time as the UK or at the same time >as the USA. I think thats the 6 month bit, I'm still not sure if I like or dislike DST but then I'm a Western Australian :-) Cheers Ian Manners http://www.os2site dot com/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- **= Email 14 ==========================** Date: Sun, 05 Oct 2008 18:22:35 +1030 From: Paul Smedley Subject: Re: Early daylight savings :( Hi Ian, Ian Manners wrote: > Hi Paul, > >> Once again, daylight savings is here early in SA.. > > early ? > It's the same everywere now, started this morning in VIC > as well as WA. What I mean is, earlier than the eCS default TZ statement recognises :/ ie we are switching 3 weeks earlier than 'usual' along with 'some' of the rest of the country!! > I've still got > SET TZ=EST-10EDT,10,1,0,7200,4,1,0,7200,3600 > in my config.sys but probably need to check it. I'll try this with the appropriate amendments for SA of course :) Cheers, Paul. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- **= Email 15 ==========================** Date: Sun, 05 Oct 2008 20:08:59 +1100 (EDT) From: "Ian Manners" Subject: Re: Early daylight savings :( [Australia/Sydney] TZ=AEST-10AEDT-11,M10.1.0,M4.1.0 [Australia/Adelaide] TZ=ACST-9:30ACDT,M10.1.0,M4.1.0 [Australia/Hobart] TZ=AEST-10AEDT-11,M10.1.0,M4.1.0 [Australia/Brisbane] TZ=EST-10 [Australia/Darwin] TZ=CST-9:30 ; West Australia is trying DST until 2009 (from Dec 2006) [Australia/Perth] TZ=AWST-8AWDT,M10.5.0,M3.5.0 [Australia/Eucla] TZ=CWST-8:45CWDT,M10.5.0,M3.5.0 Interesting DST Links, not the first one even lists OS/2. Adding or changing time zone settings Sources for Time Zone and Daylight Saving Time Data Cheers Ian Manners http://www.os2site dot com/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- **= Email 16 ==========================** Date: Sun, 05 Oct 2008 20:39:34 +1100 From: Peter Moylan Subject: Re: Recommendations for remote control program? Ian Manners wrote: > Hi Peter, > > Cant access your FTP server, says not allowed from where I am. > Aargh! I've just discovered that I can't access it from here, either; and I only have Windows here, so can't even use remote management via INIServe. (Making a web interface to INIServe is becoming more urgent.) And there's no point trying VNC, because I didn't get around to finding out what port(s) VNC uses, so I haven't set up the NAT on my router to allow VNC through. The FTP server problem is obviously a side-effect of moving all my servers from one computer to another. Probably I forgot to create an "anonymous" account, or something like that. I'll be home on Wednesday, so I'll tackle it then. -- Peter Moylan peter at pmoylan dot org http://www.pmoylan dot org ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- **= Email 17 ==========================** Date: Sun, 05 Oct 2008 20:20:08 +1000 From: Mike O'Connor Subject: Re: On board floppy controller failure on ASUS M2V-TVM Ed Durrant wrote: > How about > > ASUS M2N-MX-SE-PLUS > > A$65.95 at http://www.shoppingsquare dot com dot au/p_3526__ASUS_M2NMXSEPLUS > and until Monday only A$5 post and handling. > > But any M2 board from ASUS is now old - They are mainly into M3A > series now (which supports the 3 and 4 core AMD Phenom processors). > > *Specifications:* > > Model > Brand ASUS > Model M2N-MX SE Plus > Supported CPU > CPU Socket Type AM2+/AM2 > CPU Type Athlon 64 X2 / Athlon 64 FX / Athlon 64 / Sempron > FSB 1000MHz Hyper Transport (2000 MT/s) > Chipsets > North Bridge NVIDIA GeForce 6100 > South Bridge NVIDIA nForce 430 > Memory > Number of Memory Slots 2×240pin > Memory Standard DDR2 1066 > Maximum Memory Supported 4GB > Dual Channel Supported Yes > Expansion Slots > PCI Express x16 1 > PCI Slots 2 > Storage Devices > PATA 1 x ATA100 2 Dev. Max > SATA 3Gb/s 2 > SATA RAID 0/1 > Onboard Video > Onboard Video Chipset NVIDIA GeForce 6100 > Onboard Audio > Audio Chipset Realtek ALC662 > Audio Channels 6 Channels > Onboard LAN > Max LAN Speed 10/100Mbps > Rear Panel Ports > PS/2 2 > COM 1 > LPT 1 > Video Ports D-Sub > USB 4 x USB 2.0 > Audio Ports 3 Ports > Onboard USB > Onboard USB 2 x connector supports 4 x USB 2.0 ports > Physical Spec > Form Factor Micro ATX > Dimensions 9.6" x 7.6" > Features > Power Pin 24 Pin > Packaging > Package Contents M2N-MX SE Plus > Driver Disk > User Manual > Rear I/O Panel Shield > IDE/PATA Cable > FDD Cable > SATA Cable > 4-pin to SATA Power Cable > Software Disk > > Cheers/2 > > Ed. Hi Ed, Nicholas, Ed, you might remember I spent a lot of time chasing all over this continent trying to get myself an Asus M2V-TVM like yours, without *any* success - after mistakenly buying ane of the above M2N-MX SE boards - it's a "popular Windoze" motherboard, IMO useless for eCS - virtually all the onboard gear - video+sound+LAN *didn't* work with eCS. I was able to eventually source from Asus (AU) in Brisbane two (one for my friend in Brisbane who picked them up) M2V-MX motherboards on which_ everything_ worked out of the box with eCSV2.0RC2 except the sound (until I updated Uniaud to 1.1.4RC5). I don't have any fancy speaker system here - just plain stereo, so I'm assuming it works in 4/6/8 channel too! I have 2 x 1GB DDR2-800, using 256MB as Video RAM - so have 1792MB available at BIOS. Haven't gotten around to setting up SMP on AM2 4800+ dual core - needs a bit of switch fiddling. Relevant details of working Uniaud as just sent from that system: (C) Copyright IBM Corporation 1993-2001 Signature: at #Netlabs:1.1# at ##1## 17 Feb 2008 21:03:04 OBIWAN ::::4:: RC5 at at Universal Audio Driver for OS/2 and eComStation (KEE) Vendor: Netlabs Revision: 1.01 Date/Time: 17 Feb 2008 21:03:04 Build Machine: OBIWAN FixPak Version: RC5 File Version: 1.1.4 Description: Universal Audio Driver for OS/2 and eComStation (KEE) [1792MB USABLE RAM D:\MMOS2]bldlevel uniaud16.sys Build Level Display Facility Version 6.12.675 Sep 25 2001 (C) Copyright IBM Corporation 1993-2001 Signature: at #Netlabs:1.1# at ##1## 17 Feb 2008 21:41:16 OBIWAN ::::4:: RC5 at at Universal Audio MMPM/2 Driver for eComStation Vendor: Netlabs Revision: 1.01 Date/Time: 17 Feb 2008 21:41:16 Build Machine: OBIWAN FixPak Version: RC5 File Version: 1.1.4 Description: Universal Audio MMPM/2 Driver for eComStation [1792MB USABLE RAM D:\MMOS2] Regards, Mike ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- **= Email 18 ==========================** Date: Sun, 05 Oct 2008 21:52:04 +1100 From: Alan Duval Subject: Re: On board floppy controller failure on ASUS M2V-TVM Nicholas Lysaght wrote: > Hi Ed. > > You must be really good at reading minds. :-) > > I was wandering around the usual computer haunts, trying to keep myself > updated in case the M2N-TVM gave up for some reason. Well, it looks like > that may happen to me too. > > It appears that the closest thing our local shop (Austin Computers) have to > the TVM, is the M2N-MX, but I cannot find any specs on their website about > what LAN or Soundcard chipsets it uses. It seems to have the 2+1 PCI Slots > though, as well as the PS2 inputs for keyboard and mouse. > > Think I might stretch the net a bit further now. > > Regards > > NICK > > On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 2:58 PM, Ed Durrant wrote: > > >> Hi, >> >> It looks like I may have to move to a new motherboard sooner than I >> thought ! When I boot the system, I get an error "Floppy Controller failure >> Press F1 to continue" and (of course the floppy drive does not work) - yes I >> do need the floppy drive from time to time! >> >> I've checked the usual culprits,checked cable seating and replaced it with >> a known good cable. Replaced the floppy drive itself with a known good >> drive. >> >> I've cleared the CMOS to check this wasn't a corrupted CMOS memory issue - >> no change. >> >> I have also back-leveled the BIOS as that was a recent change to the >> system. >> >> All of the above has not helped. >> >> I have one free PCI slot in the system, but I cannot find anyone >> advertising a PCI floppy disk controller, I suspect if I did find one, it >> would cost more than the motherboard in any case! >> >> The board is (of course) out of warrenty and I can't think any company >> would repair a faulty on board floppy disk controller any more. >> >> So I'll be searching to see what I can find, that is fairly current and can >> take the components from this board. I could simply buy the same board again >> but that's not a challenge! >> >> Cheers/2 >> >> Ed. >> As I mentioned before, you can get an M2N-TVM motherboard from USA. Go to the following URL: http://cgi.ebay dot com/ASUS-M2V-TVM-SOCKET-AM2-Micro-ATX-Motherboard-New_W0QQitemZ350096746941QQcmdZViewItem?_trksid=p3286.m20.l1116 I bought mine from them and have purchased another just in case. I wouldn't advise the ASUS M3A as I purchased on and haven't been able to get ACPI and SMP working on it nor will it recognize the onboard sound and I had to get a special card to attach my parallel port printer. Regards, Alan Duval ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------