From: Digest To: "OS/2GenAu Digest" Date: Mon, 8 Feb 2010 00:00:20 EST-10EDT,10,1,0,7200,4,1,0,7200,3600 Subject: [os2genau_digest] No. 1927 Reply-To: X-List-Unsubscribe: www.os2site.com/list/ ************************************************** Sunday 07 February 2010 Number 1927 ************************************************** Subjects for today 1 Re: External drive problem fixed : Alan Duval 1 Re: External drive problem fixed : Ed Durrant 2 command line mp3 playback ? : Voytek Eymont" **= Email 1 ==========================** Date: Sun, 07 Feb 2010 16:07:53 +1100 From: Alan Duval Subject: Re: External drive problem fixed Hi, I've fixed this problem where the external drive wasn't being seen. Tried Ed's suggestion first and installed DFSee in Ubuntu but it couldn't see any drive although Ubuntu could see the external drive. Next disconnected my SATA drive (which is my main drive) and allowed the PC to boot to WIN XP which is on an IDE drive. WIN XP could see the external drive this time so I formatted the two HPFS partitions to FAT 32 and the 3rd partition to NTFS. Reconnected my SATA drive and booted to eCS and then plugged in the external drive and the drive and partitions are recognized. My SATA drive is set to IDE mode but there seems to be problems in such setting and I am thinking of scrapping it and getting a 500G IDE drive. Don't know whether one can clone the partitions from a SATA drive in IDE mode to a IDE drive. Has anyone done this? Regards, Alan Duval -------------------------------------------------- http://www./melbpc/ - The Melbourne OS/2 SIG === **= Email 1 ==========================** Date: Sun, 07 Feb 2010 16:15:29 +1100 From: Ed Durrant Subject: Re: External drive problem fixed Alan Duval wrote: > Hi, > > I've fixed this problem where the external drive wasn't being seen. > Tried Ed's suggestion first and installed DFSee in Ubuntu but it > couldn't see any drive although Ubuntu could see the external drive. > Next disconnected my SATA drive (which is my main drive) and allowed > the PC to boot to WIN XP which is on an IDE drive. WIN XP could see > the external drive this time so I formatted the two HPFS partitions to > FAT 32 and the 3rd partition to NTFS. Reconnected my SATA drive and > booted to eCS and then plugged in the external drive and the drive and > partitions are recognized. > > My SATA drive is set to IDE mode but there seems to be problems in > such setting and I am thinking of scrapping it and getting a 500G IDE > drive. Don't know whether one can clone the partitions from a SATA > drive in IDE mode to a IDE drive. Has anyone done this? > > Regards, > > Alan Duval > -------------------------------------------------- > > http://www./melbpc/ - The Melbourne OS/2 SIG === > Hi Alan, I wonder if part of the problem was that you had the FAT32 partition not at the beginning ? I know FAT32 can be a problem if it starts after cylinder 1024 some times. Since you now used NTFS in place of FAT32, if that was the problem its now gone away. As for cloning partitions from SATA to IDE - if it's a data partition it wont be a problem. If its an eCS boot partition, just make sure you have the correct disk drivers loaded before you clone (i.e. the latest Dani drivers) - if it's a Windows partition you are cloning, it's security checks to see you aren't stealing windows may cause a problem. -- Cheers/2 Ed eComStationAustralia podcast http://eComStationAustralia.podbean dot com or iTunes -------------------------------------------------- http://www./melbpc/ - The Melbourne OS/2 SIG === **= Email 2 ==========================** Date: Sun, 7 Feb 2010 16:49:55 +1100 (EST) From: "Voytek Eymont" Subject: command line mp3 playback ? what can I use to command line playback of mp3 ? I want to set up my voice messages to convert from PMFax wav to mp3 and sent to me as emails -- Voytek -------------------------------------------------- http://www./melbpc/ - The Melbourne OS/2 SIG