Jim Read wrote:
> --- In os2user{at}yahoogroups.com, "Basil Fernie"
 wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> After much quietness with my early eCS 1.2 installed on a 5-year old  
>> desktop of stable configuration, I now have the opportunity to put
> it onto  
>> a 6-month old laptop. But on booting for installation it hangs on
> loading  
>> the DaniS506 driver, indicating I presume that that particular
> venerable  
>> driverset is at a loss to deal with the current (probably SATA)
> hardware.
>> Two possible courses of action appear feasible:
>>
>> 1.	Update the driverset on the desktop and burn new installation CDs
> from  
>> that
>>
>> 2.	Do the trickier thing, similar to what I did recently to backlevel  
>> someone's new Fujitsu Amilo from Vista to XP. XP couldn't even see the  
>> HDU, so I had to make an image on HDU of the XP CD, replace the
> standard  
>> XP drivers in that image with the SATA-level drivers from the Fujitsu  
>> website using a freeware utility, and burn a new XP from that. (Worked  
>> fine, massive performance improvement.) In principle, I could do the
> same  
>> thing for the eCS1.2 CDs using the XP utility, once the new  
>> DANIS506xxx.exe has been exploded under eCS or Warp4 into a directory.
>>
>> I seem to recall various postings dealing with Option 1 - can anyone  
>> summarise the How, since this should be more straightforward? Failing  
>> which, can anyone indicate whether Option 2 is viable - after all,
> we are  
>> dealing with standard ISO images I presume?
>>
>> Best regards to all,
>>
>> Basil
> 
> Basil,
> 
> I just bought a new AMD quad processor machine with SATA II drives.
> Naturally RC4 would not install on it - because of the stupidity of
> RC4 having a 3 yr old DANI IDE driver in it. My solution which worked
> very well was to use WinXP and a shareware app named Active ISO File
> Manager (full featured for 14 days, lots of others can do this but
> won't do over 300MB ISO until registered) to modify the ISO. It simply
> extracts the files in the ISO to a local dir. Change whatever you
> wish. It then rebuilds the ISO and then burns it if desired. Worked
> like a charm. If you do it, make sure you recreate the ISO with the
> Joliet file system, otherwise the non-8.3 file names in the ISO (there
> are quite a few) will fail the install at some point.



I just tried the same using NetDrive with the ISOFS plugin.  It reads the 
eCS 2.0 RC4 ISO fine, but when I try to drag an updated danis506.add to it 
(using FileStar 3.0) it says that the media is read only.  Though the 
NetDrive Control Panel shows it as writable.  Anyone know of a way to do 
this under eCS?  I suppose one could do the same as Jim did in xp and copy 
all the files to disk, replace the DANIS506.ADD and then use mkisof2.exe to 
write a new ISO image, but the NetDrive plugin sounded like a more 
"OS/2"-like experience, if only it had worked.

Mark

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