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Date:	Sat, 5 Oct 2002 03:40:47 PST7
From:	"Info2SYNass.NET" <Info@SYNass.NET >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: New DaniS506 breaks IDE Secondary channel drive error reporting

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Hi Peter
Did you already inform Dani about your problems ?
If not, then you should do it !

She is very cooperative and prompt with her support ;-)
You may meet her at the US Warpstock 2002 if you are going there
;-))

I am also using Dani's drivers for a very long time and never had
some difficulties ...
... I am also using, you were mentioning it too, SmartMON !

Caution: With SmartMON I have gotten some system problems !!!
Drive 0 on IDE1 (my system HDD, a 7.5GB Quantum drive) shows
proper values
Drive 1 on IDE3/master (my executables HDD a 20GB WD drive) shows
some critical values)
Drive 2 on IDE3/slave (my data / library HDD a 75GB IBM DTLA
drive shows a RC but no values !!!)

At the moment I assume more that SmartMON is the troublemaker
than Dani's drivers
but your experience is in my ears too ! We'll have to get more
users with the same
difficulties and then report to Dani and also to the SmartMON
developer !?

I just faced some troubles with the OS/2 window showing the
SmartMON values:
It was impossible to copy these values to this e-mail ...
... and finally it was absolutely impossible to close the SmarMON
windows however !!!
C-A-D was the only chance to get the system back to normal ;-((

So my warning is more to SmartMON than to Dani's drivers !?

Have a nice weekend
svobi

pskye@peterskye.com on 05.10.2002 10.27.29
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Subject: SCOUG-Help: New DaniS506 breaks IDE Secondary channel
drive error reporting

After a dozen or so reboots to check various driver
configurations, I
have found that the new DaniS506 version 151 dated 30Sep2002
breaks the
two Secondary (but not the two Primary) IDE drives' error
reporting on
my main machine. I have a VIA 571 chipset on this machine; I
haven't
tested on any other machines thus don't know if it breaks on all
machines or only on this chipset.

I have no trouble *using* the two Secondary IDE drives, but the
error
reporting with \OS2\HDMON.EXE or the new SmartMon.exe does not
work.
(http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/os2/util/disk/smartmon.zip -- it's a
great
new utility and I have it running permanently on my desktop with a
six-hour update cycle.)

The solution is to backlevel to DaniS506 version 145 dated
18Jun2002.

I'd be *very* interested to hear from anyone using DaniS506
version 151
because I'd like to find out if the problem is unique to my VIA
571
chipset or if it happens on all machines: When you run
\OS2\HDMON.EXE
do your Secondary channel IDE drives show a "green" indication or
instead a "no color" indication? I'd also like to know your
chipset,
which you can get by running the DumpIDE utility that comes in the
DaniS506 package and looking at the non-hex lines of the output.

- Peter

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