In , on 06/13/06
   at 06:19 PM, Ray Davison  said:

>All I have been able to determine is /DEBUG:31.

Was this at Dani's request?  Note that Danis506.doc says


     Undocumented options
     --------------------

     /LAT
     /FIXES
     /DEBUG


To me this means the fiddling with /DEBUG on your own is not likely to
provide useful results.

Further down is the statement


     If any of your EIDE devices is not detected at boot-up, please
contact me.
     The driver has special debug code built in; I will tell you how to
enable
     and gather these traces.


To my way of thinking your setup quaifies as one of these.

If I wanted to resolve this on one of my systems, I would trust Dani's
abilities and read and follow the documentation to the level the failing
system allowed

  DumpIDE > Good.dmp

to gather data from the working driver

 COPY IBMS506$ good.copy

to gather data from the working driver

Capture the /V output of the failing driver either by hand or with a
camera.  

This would all get sent along to Dani with the other data she requests.

I am sure she will not fault you for not sending data that it is
impossible for you to collect with your current level of knowledge.

>Hence my general question.  I am not so much interested in beating one 
>particular system into submission, but rather having a general approach 
>to collecting boot data.

The general approach is to follow Dani's instructions.  What is it that
you are finding difficult about this?

>  There just might be a third.....

Who cares?  Attempting fix problems you don't yet have is a waste of time,
IMO.

Regards,

Steven

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