--- "Don{ald} O. Woodall"  wrote:

> 
> In , on
> 01/12/2005 
>    at 09:09 PM, Franklin  said:
> 
> Hello Franklin
> 
> 
> >>          Logical Volume Management Tool - Physical View
> >> 
> >>
> ÚÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ¿
> >> ³ Physical Disk          Size (MB)  Free Space:  Total     
> Largest ³
> >>
> ÃÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ´
> >> ³1    DOS,DUMP,EMERGENCY      4353                1498        
> 1498 ³
> >> ³2    OPERATE SYSTEMS HD2    17500                6957        
> 6949 ³
> >> ³3    APPS & DATA     HD3    34726                   7           
> 7 ³
> >> ³4    M ATA BACKUP DRIVE      8032                8032        
> 8032 ³
> >> ³5    S ATA BACKUP DRIVE      8032                8032        
> 8032 ³
> >> ³                                                                 
>  ³
> >>
> ÀÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÙ
> >> 
> >>
> ÚÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ¿
> >> ³ Disk Partition    Size (MB)   Type   Status     Logical Volume  
>  ³
> >>
> ÃÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ´
> >> ³[ free space 1 ]        8032                                     
>  ³
> >>
> ÀÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÙ
> >>     F1=help   F3=exit   F5=Logical View    Enter=Options 
> Tab=Window
> >> 
> >>      Drive 5 and 6 are connected by a real piece of crap.
> 
> >What's drive 6?
> 
>      Sorry, my mistake.
> 
>       Drive 4 and 5 are connected by a real piece of crap.
> 
> >>      The name of this file is:  Rocket100bootscreen
> >> 
> >> HighPoint Technologies, Inc. Rocket100 BIOS Setting Utility v1.22
> >> (C)1999-2003,HighPoint Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved.
> >> 
> >> Press  to run BIOS Setting Utility
> >> Scan Devices.  Please wait ...
> >> 
> >> Primary Master    ST3200822A   [ Drive 4 ]
> >> Primary Slave     ST3200822A   [ Drive 5 ]
> >> Secondary Master  No Device
> >> Secondary Slave   No Device
> >>      The version 170 DANIS506.ADD was a slight improvement.
> >> instead of crashing when the driver tried to load; it simply
> >> locked up tight requiring the little RED RESET button to
> >> break free.
> 
> >I'm a little confused by the info you provided. Your lvm list shows
> ATA
> >drives at 8 gigs and you say you installed 200 gig drives.
> 
>      Well, without any ATAPI Device Drivers installed, I am surprised
> eCS
> sees these drives at all.
> 
>      I am trying to load the proper ATAPI Device Drivers so eCS will
> see
> them at their proper size of 200GB's.  However, when I add
> "DANIS506.ADD"
> to config.sys, the computer will not boot.
> 
> >Are these drives previously partitioned, maybe with a primary
> partition?
> 
>      No.  They are brand new.
> 
>      I am attempting to partition them for the first time.
> 
> >Normally this shouldn't matter to OS/2 but in the bios could you
> >manually set the ATA drives as LBA?
> 
>      Let's talk some more about this.
> 
>      These drives are on a IDE paddle card.  I have "assumed" that
> this
> means that they will not appear in the motherboard's BIOS.
> 
>      If I had them plugged into the motherboard, I would not
> be showing them (acknowledging their existance) in the
> motherboards BIOS because I will not be booting from them.
> 
> >Is your DANI driver before or after your SCSI driver?
> 
>      After.
> 
>      I boot from my SCSI drivers.  These ATA drives are not
> to be considered in the boot process.
> 
> >The disk drivers I don't have SCSI) come before the LVM driver in my
> >config.sys.
> 
>      The same here.
> 
> >Is it possible that the drive letters expected might be
> >changed and the boot partition is lost before LVM driver loaded?
> 
>      No, I don't think so.
Hard to tell when the computer's locked up.
> 
>      Thanks for help to clarify things.
Hey, answering this one makes me feel like I'm the little kid on the
AOL commercial beating the mouse with the hammer! Enough taps I might
accidently hit something right. :-) (or screw it up worse)
> 
If I remember, I think my maxtor came with some kind of preformat that
caused it to seem OK at first when I installed it in my system. I'd be
curious if it wasn't too much trouble for you to disconnect or turn off
the SCSI interface and just see what the ECS boot CD defines the ATA
drives first off. Maybe you could throw in a large logical partition on
each one then plug the SCSI back in, boot your usual way and see what
happens.
There must be an accessable bios somewhere to set the IDE HDDs. It
usually has a way to either auto detect IDE drives, or set their
parameters manually. There is standard which will show the drive
exactly as it is, say 43000 cylinders, 16 heads. Then LBA which would
list a multiple of x cylinders and 255 heads. Then large with something
else defined. (I haven't written down my bios results so no one tell me
my numbers are weird-I know they are). Without LBA win98 could not
figure out the 80 gig drive.

Franklin


		
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