msnyder1{at}cfl.rr.com wrote:
> In the never-ending quest for more storage space, I recently bought a 320
> GB SATA drive and a Creative I/O controller card, which has a VIA VT6421
> chip.  If I plug the drive into the card and boot with the eCS 1.2R CD1,
> the computer boots to a command prompt and the drive appears in LVM.  If I
> save the changes and exit, and let the computer boot to the installed
> version of 1.2R, the boot hangs for a few minutes at os2dasd.dmd, and then
> stops completely at lvm.dmd.
> 
> I obviously don't know much about SATA, but I'd like to make it work.  The
> card was cheap, and was supposedly supported by danis506.add.  Does anyone
> have experience with getting SATA to work on a PCI card?
> 
It sounds to me as if you may not have the same version of the Dani 
drivers loaded on you harddisk as on the install CD is that possible ? 
I'd suggest you download the very latest Dani drivers from Hobbes and 
install them to your system anyway, also check what parameters you have 
set on DANIS506.

I have:

BASEDEV=DANIS506.ADD /A:1 /BM /U:0 /ATAPI /RMV /U:1 /ATAPI /RMV /V

However all these are related to my Optical drives as the SATA 
controller is Unit (U:) 2 - you may want to use /V however so that the 
driver displays what it finds.

My Danis506.add file is dated :

  4/12/05   3:05      68646           0  DaniS506.ADD

And is in C\OS2\BOOT

This is an OS/2 Warp 4 CP2FP5 system, however eCS 1.2 works the same on 
another partition.

(This system is running from a SATA HD connected to a noname PCI 
controller with a Silicon Image SATA controller chip).


Cheers/2

Ed.


 
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