Re: USB mass storage - more trouble

Pete wrote: 
On Sun, 29 Jan 2006 21:10:02 UTC, Victor Bien <me@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


Pete wrote:

On Sat, 28 Jan 2006 22:29:32 UTC, Victor Bien <me@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

--snip-- 
Config.sys lines now look:

RUN=D:\OS2\SYSTEM\LVMALERT.EXE
RUN=D:\OS2\EXTENDFS.EXE *
BASEDEV=IBM1S506.ADD /A:2 /U:0 /ATAPI /FORCE
BASEDEV=IBMATAPI.FLT /A:2 /U:0 /TYPES:CLZ /V (This line is some way down with BackAgain 2000 stuff for readability. It doesn't seem to matter but I'll shift it up if that's important)


Is this a laptop with a swappable drive bay?

No the machine is a desktop. BTW I read your reply to Peter Brown with interest.



Pete


OK, I was just trying to figure out the /A:2 /U:0 /ATAPI /FORCE and /A:2
/U:0 /TYPES:CLZ business. These are almost identical to the parameters

You would have missed a question I asked Bill H as to whether these numbers are correct. As I wrote I could not work out for sure what my "adapter number" should be for a desktop - my posting 28.1.06 15:46.

in my Thinkpad 600E which are necessary for warm attaching/detaching the
external A: drive and warm swaping the ultrabay between an internal floppy, a CD/DVD reader, and a Zip drive (I don't use LS drives). They are completely absent from my desktop (I use Daniela's S506.add and atap.flt in both computers rather than IBM's versions).

I'll probably get around to trying that. I thought I read somewhere that IBM finally did incorporate her code in more recent releases of their drivers.

I recall from somewhere that /REMOVABLES:n on USBMSD has to be one greater than all the possibilities of what you're going to be attaching (this appears mainly to concern multiple slot card readers), and since I have an 8 funciton card reader and the external disk drives . . . The one thing which did suprise me is that this reader will read the SM cards from my camera. Prior to this, I had no luck at all reading these cards -- regardless, I plan to stick with cameras which use CF cards.

These are the the pertinent entries from my config.sys:

basedev=danis506_167.add 

  Version 167? noted.

.
BASEDEV=OS2DASD.DMD BASEDEV=OS2LVM.DMD /rf
..
basedev=daniatapi.flt /A:1 /U:1 /RSJ
.
BASEDEV=USBOHCD.SYS
BASEDEV=USBOHCD.SYS
BASEDEV=USBEHCD.SYS
BASEDEV=USBD.SYS /V
.
BASEDEV=USBHID.SYS /V
.
BASEDEV=USBMSD.ADD /FLOPPIES:0 /REMOVABLES:10

OS2DASD.DMD must immediately precede OS2LVM.DMD. 

  Checked that I have this - yes.

/A:1 /U:1 /RSJ enables
using the DVD R/W on IDE1-slave as a reader when not using RSJ (a special feature of Daneila's driver). Since I don't use USB cdroms, printers, mice, etc. all those lines are rem-ed. LVM will report a lot of 96mb drives with bad partitioning information for those which you haven't inserted media and refreshed removable drives. This is because the storage drivers (DASD, and USBMSD) work together to create a table of possibilities so that when you hot plug something and refresh removable media, the appropriate entry in the table is available for system to fill with the necessary information to access the card or HDD.
Without this table being created during boot-up, or an entry created in
it representing the possibility for the thing you will be using, the system won't be able to find it. You can completely ignore all the alledged partion/mbr errors reported for these drives. It also could be
that you have "mis-matched" versions of USBMSD.ADD and OS2DASD.DMD.

OK will check this: at present bldlevel of USBMSD.add is 10.58 and OS2DASD.dmd is 10.104.


HTH, 

  Yes we haven't run out of things to check yet!   :-)

Pete



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