In a message dated 07-03-15, Sean Dennis said to Holger Granholm:

Hi Sean,

 HG> To swim in safe waters, I'd recommend eCS (eComStation) because then

SD> I disagree.  They have fooled around with eCS so much that it breaks
SD> more than it works on modern equipment for me.  I have used OS/2
SD> Warp 4.52 quite nicely over the past 20 years without problems.  The
SD> drivers for modern equipment are out there, you just have to know
SD> where to look.  eCS is terrible when trying to run a BBS under it
SD> from my experimentation.

Thank you for your advice. That prompted me to read again the texts in
the two XR_0021 and ...022 (Device driver fixpaks). According to an
earlier study I had a recollection that the DD-FP did require something
that I didn't have on the present computer. Whether it was LVM, JFS or
something else I don't recall and couldn't find now when reading AGN.

Next, I grabbed the diskette where I have stored the text and e-mail
messages I have exchanged with Mike b4 and after I received a set of
CD's containing upgrades for Warp 4 up to FP17. These txt files give
me full instructions for the upgrade. On the CD's there is everything
that I will need for the upgrade.

Since I do now have a more modern computer with W4 + FP12 intended to
replace this oldie I will now upgrade that to FP17 before setting it up
for the BBS. It's not an up-to-date machine but will do for the BBS.
It has now an USB v1 controller that I will replace with one that I
received from Australia. I suppose it's a v2 controller and it has three
USB ports while the old one has only one but I've got the time, hi.

SD> I'd recommend using JFS for any drive larger than 64GB...which is
SD> HPFS' limit.

No thanks, I still want to have some DOS programs available and for that
purpose also will limit partition size to 2Gb (at least some).

Actually I do already have a separate DOS (C:) at the beginning of the
first HD. The second HD is actually a mirror of the main one.


CU L8ER,

Holger

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