Looking at the installation described below, I have found that this is a 
Hardware RAID card, not like some of the Promise EIDE RAID cards that 
were software dependant.

It may therefore be possible to set up the RAID-1 or RAID-0 Array from 
the configuration program that is entered in the cards BIOS at startup 
by Pressing CTRL+S or F4. To monitor and alert on a failed array, the 
supplied "Medley" software is JAVA and so may also run under OS/2  !!

Something to investigate for the next project !

Slightly off-topic, but related, when trying to format this drive, I hit 
the size problems, it appears to me ...

FAT maximum size 2GB
FAT32 maximum size 32GB
HPFS maximum size 64GB
NTFS - no issues but can only be read under OS/2 not updated.
JFS - no issues but cannot read under Windoze.

So finding a "common ground" is difficult !

Cheers/2

Ed.


Ed Durrant wrote:
> Hi Bob,
> 
>    No to both of the questions below, however I now have the card and 
> drive working !!
> 
>    In addition to the two on-board EIDE controllers on IRQ 14 and 15, 
> this additional (AUS$29.00) Connectland, Silicon Image SIL3112 based 
> card (with RAID chip as well, but not supported under OS/2), works with 
> the latest DANI driver (v 1.7.4) on IRQ 11, with the following 
> Config.sys command line:
> 
> BASEDEV=DANIS506.ADD /A:1 /BM /U:0 /ATAPI /RMV /U:1 /ATAPI /RMV /A:2 /U:0 /V
> 
> 
> captured configuration is as follows:
> 
> R1.7.4       /A:1 /BM /U:0 /ATAPI /RMV /U:1 /ATAPI /RMV /A:2 /U:0 /V
>              Daniela's Bus Master IDE Driver for OS/2 Version 1.7.4
> Controller:0  Port:01F0 IRQ:0E  Status:OK BusMaster Scatter/Gather
>    VIA 571 PATA host (1106:0571 rev:06) on PCI 0:17.1 {at}33MHz
>   Unit:0 Status:OK SMS:16 LBA NL:126 BusMaster UltraDMA6/PIO4 BPB
>    Model:Maxtor 6Y120P0                          YAR41BW0
>     OS2:log   phys   BPB/BIOS   IDE:log   phys     Total Sectors
>    C  14946  65535                65535  16383   Avail  240121728
>    H    255     16        255        16     16   OS2    240107490
>    S     63     63         63        63     63   % Used     99.99
> Controller:1  Port:0170 IRQ:0F  Status:OK BusMaster Scatter/Gather
>    VIA 571 PATA host (1106:0571 rev:06) on PCI 0:17.1 {at}33MHz
>   Unit:0 Status:OK ATAPI BusMaster UltraDMA2/PIO4
>    Model:PIONEER DVD-RW  DVR-105                 1.33
>   Unit:1 Status:OK ATAPI BusMaster UltraDMA4/PIO4
>    Model:Pioneer DVD-ROM ATAPIModel DVD-116  0122E1.22
> Controller:2  Port:ED101080 IRQ:0B  Status:OK BusMaster Scatter/Gather
>    SiI 3112 SATA host (1095:3112 rev:01) on PCI 0:11.0 {at}33MHz
>   Unit:0 Status:OK SMS:16 LBA NL:126 BusMaster UltraDMA6/PIO4 BPB
>    Model:HDS728080PLA380                         PF2OA60A
>     OS2:log   phys   BPB/BIOS   IDE:log   phys     Total Sectors
>    C  10011  65535                65535  16383   Avail  160836480
>    H    255     16        255        16     16   OS2    160826715
>    S     63     63         63        63     63   % Used     99.99
> 
> 
> I have partitioned the Hitachi 80GB SATA drive using LVMGUI and 
> formatted it with JFS, written data to and from the (external) drive 
> (I've mounted it in an external 3.5" drive case and run the cable out of 
> the system to the case - unfortunately I was unable to get a SATA card 
> with an external port - they do exist).
> 
> So that was one successful project today !
> 
> Cheers/2
> 
> Ed.
> 
> 
> Robert Traynor (BobT) wrote:
>> Hi Ed,
>>
>>
>> Does this SATA card REPLACE the inbuilt IDE controller on the 
>> motherboard.?   
>>
>> If it does, have you turned off the IDE motherboard support and have 
>> you assigned the PCI slot for the new SATA card as IRQ 14.?
>>
>> Just a thought.  
>>
>> HTH,
>> Regards,
>> Robert Traynor (BobT).
>> 27 November 2005   19:48
>>
>>
>> On Sun, 27 Nov 2005 17:07:52 +1100, Ed Durrant wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>>    I now have my additional SATA PCI card and drive. It uses a chipset 
>>> that is supported by DANIS506 driver, however I cannot get the
driver to 
>>> report the card or the attached drive - I have added the /A:1 parameter 
>>> but I'm sure there's still something else I need to do. Here is my 
>>> current driver line from config.sys:
>>>
>>> BASEDEV=DANIS506.ADD /A:1 /BM /U:0 /ATAPI /RMV /U:1 /ATAPI /RMV /A:2 
>>> /BAY /WL
>>>
>>>
>>> Any suggestions ??
>>>
>>> Cheers/2
>>>
>>> Ed.


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