Text 841, 74 rader
Skriven 2007-10-24 14:42:50 av Mike Luther (1:117/3001.0)
    Kommentar till text 840 av Mark Lewis (1:3634/12.0)
Ärende: Large harddisks for Warp
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Well Marcus ..

 MLu> As of her latest incantation of her data song, you must also
 MLu> substitute her DaniATAPI.FLT for use with DaniS506.ADD.  Otherwise
 MLu> you won't be able to see or use your CD/DVD devices!

 ml> minor item of contention here... those would be _IDE_ 
 ml> CD/DVD devices, right? my SCSI CD stops working any 
 ml> time i put any of those *ATAPI.FTL things in place...

Well, not exactly same experience here.  Yes, these would be _IDE_ CD/DVD
devices ordinarily for most people.  But interestingly, my main CD-RW burner
box for making CD disks has both an IDE CD-Read only unit and a PlexWriter
12/4/32 which is a SCSI device.  This box is also, other than the single IDE
CD-Read only device, a complete SCSI box running the Adaptec 29160 controller
card in an Intel 915GAVL motherboard with a 2.9Ghz Intel CPU.

I got caught originally by not CAREFULLY reading Dani's documentation for her
DaniS506.ADD driver version 1.81 which I now have.  I didn't realize that if
you moved forward from the 1.7 version of her DaniS506.ADD driver, you MUST use
her DaniATAPI driver as well in substitution for IBM's ATAP file system driver.

I noticed that after upgrading to the 1.81 version of DaniS506.ADD I had no
more IDE CD-ROM object in my Connections folder.  But on reading the
documentation carefully, and with the install of her ATAPI component, I also
noticed that if you wanted her ATAPI code to *NOT* convert the IDE unit(s) to
SCSI units, you had to have a command line which looks like:

   BASEDEV=DaniATAPI.FLT /!SCSI

Now at the time when I first was stumbling through this learning curve,I
thought that meant that if I was using a SCSI drive system, complete with SCSI
CD-RW device, I had better use the complete exemption command line code as
above.  So I did it.

OK, I've also got RSJ 5.5.3 installed on this system, which also manipulates
the PlexWriter CD-RW device, part of the same Adaptec 29160 controller card,
which has, as well as the Seagate hard drive, a Seagate 4MM DAT tape backup
system handled by BA2K Server Pro here.

Well, with the above command line parameter, I wind up seeing the same drive
letter and object for the IDE CD-ROM drive I had before this latest
DaniS506.ADD code, using her version 1.7 last code, along with the IBM IDE and
ATAPI driver service.

I also have had no trouble at all with the SCSI PlexWriter device.  I can read
it, write to it, clone copy from the IDE CD-ROM device to it,whatever.  That
with the command line code above.  But as expected, once the RSJ driver has
gone to work on the SCSI CD-RW device, it is no longer 'visible' in the normal
Drives object in the Connections folder. Just as it has never been before since
I installed RSJ.

Now .. I have later been asked if that /!SCSI command parameter should be
necessary at all, given that it was suggested to be a different 'controller'
than my Adaptec 29160 card.  With a completely different device.

Well, one of the things I have yet to try, is to remove that command line
parameter above and see if that trashes my access or work with the SCSI
PlexWriter device.  I figured it would.  Some others in the OS/2 Newsgroups
think not.

If it isn't too much trouble, why don't you try the above command line
parameter and see it you can see your SCSI device after that?


--> Sleep well; OS/2's still awake! ;)

Mike @ 1:117/3001




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