Date:  Sat, 01 Jun 2002 22:22:56 -0400
From:  madodelatptdprolog.net
Subject:  [VOICENWS] eCS: eComStation German and English booting on SCSI systems with CD 1

From: "Roderick Klein" <rwkleinatwanadoo.nl> 

There has been quite some discussion about the booting of eComstation on
SCSI systems. New diskette images have been posted on www.ecomstation.com
on the 17th of May. Especialy people with Adaptec cards may find these
disks useful.... As it turns out it looks like something is wrong with the
Adaptec drivers that are in eCS 1.00. We have had a customer that had boot
problems, made boot disks. Still failed on his Adaptec SCSI system.
Replaced only the SCSI driver and then suddenly booting off diskettes was
succesful....  

You need  a password and user id to download these disks... Please note
for this and more features you don't need upgrade protection.... Here is
the manual:


Boot Diskettes (CD1) update may 2002 

Manual for the updated boot disks:

If you are booting from CD 1 (German or English) and you are NOT able to
start the installation, please do the following:

Before downloading please consult the manual. If you have an ATI based
videocard, select standard VGA from the advanced boot menu then select SDD
(Scitech Display doctor when in one of the first screens of the
installation). 

If it still not works download one of the following 2 diskette images for
CD 1:

CD1D1I1.dsk

or 

CD1D1I2.dsk

(both are in the same zipfile - bootdisk.zip)

--> This replacement diskette 1 can be used with both the German 
    eComStation CD 1 and the English eComStation CD 1!

If you are using an IDE only system it does not matter which diskette you
download.  If you are however using a system where you need to select a
SCSI card in the advanced boot menu (option 2 when booting). eCS needs to
load SCSI drivers eCS from "diskette 1", which has only 1.44 MB of
diskspace. For this reason there are 2 replacement diskette  

"diskette 1" images. 
Please look in the manual (that came with your eCS package if your ordered
from Mensys) in appendix D to find out exactly which SCSI card you need to
select in the preboot menu.

If you do not have a manual with eCS, you can download the following PDF
file (requires Acrobat reader):

http://www.ecomstation.com/docs/release1.0/ecs-ga-pdf-a5.pdf

CD1D1I1.dsk you need to create if you need to select one of the first 7
options in the SCSI menu (Adaptec AICU160, AIC78U2, AIC7870, Adaptec
non-PCI, Advansys ASC, Buslogic

CD1D1I2.dsk supports the options Initio, Qlogic, RAID, Symbios SYM_HI,
Symbios SYM8XX, Tekram TMSCSIW and Tekram TRM3x5.

Both the diskette 1 images its possible to select the I2O Storage option
and MO drive attached. For the rest all options in the preboot menu can be
used with both CD1D1I1.dsk  and CD1D1I2.dsk. If you select a SCSI driver
with a diskette that is NOT listed your system will not boot and will give
an error message because the driver is not on the disk. 


To make boot disks for CD 1 do the following:

Run on a computer from CD 1 (the file is in the root directory on CD 1)
makedisk.bat or makedisk.cmd. 

You will get the following disks with which eCS boots in the following
order:

"Installation diskette"
"Diskette 1"
"Diskette 2"

The "diskette 1" that has been created needs to replaced with a new
version. On CD 1 in the directory \diskimgs is the program loaddksf.exe.
Run it from there (from the commandline) for example like this: 

loaddsk C:\download\CD1D1I1.dsk A: .






                           

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