SCOUG-HELP Mailing List Archives

<< Previous Message << >> Next Message >>

Date:	Fri, 19 Sep 2003 11:59:37 PDT7
From:	"J. R. Fox" <jr_fox@pacbell.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: some progress, finally

Content Type: text/plain

=====================================================
If you are responding to someone asking for help who
may not be a member of this list, be sure to use the
REPLY TO ALL feature of your email program.
=====================================================

> >No doubt. I guess my research was not all it should have been. Probably
> >would have done better with a small mini-tower equipped with decent
> >cooling. Too late for that now -- I guess 7200 IDE will have to suffice.

Steven replied:

> This is the cost of education. :-)

The hardware stuff (just for starters) may be strictly routine and not much of a challenge to you, but for
some of us it can be a long, tough slog, with only frustration as our guide. Although I subsequently got
some reply from Shuttle about this, which I will explore when I have the time, I have thrown in the towell
on SCSI for this system. The IDE drive I put in instead had some early issues of a connection and
configuration nature, but I've gotten past that and now seem to be making progress. The dvd reader that is
in there temporarily was another matter. Umpteen combinations and permutations of hardware settings and
drivers failed to get me past the 'No drives are attached, or drives are powered down' non-recognition
phase. As you suggested, I went on the Net and managed to find a copy of the missing documentation. (This
was a bare dvd drive, from the Pomona show.) Could only find one source for this .PDF, and, according to
GhostView, it was missing or had fatal errors for two of the 17 pages -- hopefully nothing of great
importance. There were only three possible jumper settings, none of which made a difference. I ultimately
realized that ASPI8DOS and ASPICD were SCSI leftovers, and dropped them. So, was there an ASPI layer for
DOS, beyond the Atapi driver I downloaded for this drive, that I had overlooked ? It would be
near-impossible to get anything besides DOS onto the h/d without CDs.

I was starting to think about the drive PIO Mode setting in the BIOS, even though 'Auto' should probably
have been fine. The drive connections looked exactly right, but I decided to re-cable and connect anyway.
There are a couple of clips on the side of the chassis that are there to retain and guide some of the CD
cable, according to the installation booklet. I also wondered if they might be pinching the cable too
tightly. So I freed the cable and let it hang loose instead, after the reconnect. Whaddaya know, suddenly
the dvd-reader is coming online.

If that's the end of the hardware hassles for awhile, so much the better. On to the various OS install,
setup and driver stuff !

Jordan

=====================================================

To unsubscribe from this list, send an email message
to "steward@scoug.com". In the body of the message,
put the command "unsubscribe scoug-help".

For problems, contact the list owner at
"rollin@scoug.com".

=====================================================

Return to [ 19 | September | 2003 ]

SCOUG, Warp Expo West, and Warpfest are trademarks of the Southern California OS/2 User Group. OS/2, Workplace Shell, and IBM are registered trademarks of International Business Machines Corporation. All other trademarks remain the property of their respective owners.