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Date:	Sat, 15 Jan 2005 14:46:05 PST8
From:	sshapiro@ucsd.edu (Sandy Shapiro)
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: USB Hard Drive

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In , on 01/14/05
at 05:54 PM, "Steven Levine" said:

>Let's see if this gets though...

>This should be:

> BASEDEV=USBUHCD.SYS
> BASEDEV=USBD.SYS
> BASEDEV=USBHID.SYS

>At a minimum, add the following:

> BASEDEV=USBMSD.ADD
> DEVICE=\OS2\BOOT\USBRESMG.SYS

Hi Steven,

I did get it running with the following:

BASEDEV=USBOHCD.SYS
BASEDEV=USBOHCD.SYS
BASEDEV=USBEHCD.SYS
BASEDEV=USBD.SYS /REQ:USBUHCD$,USBOHCD$,USBEHCD$
BASEDEV=USBHID.SYS

BASEDEV=USBMSD.ADD
BASEDEV=USBCDROM.ADD

I sent another posting that didn't get through -- but while waiting for
help I somehow stumbled on a fix!

The problem:

I first installed a 6 GB USB drive. I used LVM to create a new volume
(entire disk), and I then went into Windows and formatted the drive as Fat
32. That way I could read to and write from the drive under both Windows
and OS/2.

Then I replaced the 6 GB drive with an 80 GB USB drive. That's when the
fun began.

LVM (under OS/2 Warp) said that the partition table may be corrupt. It
would not let me create any kind of new volume. It also said the free
space was only 11807 MB.

I then switched into eCS: LVM there gave the same partition table warning
and would not let me create a new volume. But LVM said the free space was
32255 MB.

I went back to OS/2 Warp and ran FDISKPM. (FDISKPM will not run under
eCS). FDISKPM saw the drive as having 78 MB until I removed the partition.
After I removed the partition, it said I had 118097 MB Free. At this
point, LVM would allow the creation of a new volume.

But instead I switched back to eCS where it said I had 78 GB free. Then I
created a new volume using all the free space.

Now I went to Windows and formatted the partition as FAT 32.

The result:

Back in OS/2 Warp I have a 78 MB hard drive visible -- both in the Drives
Icon and in Dfsee. I can read to and write from the drive. But if I look
at LVM, it says the partition table may be corrupt and it will not show
the new volume. Under physical view it shows the space as 11807 MB.

So for all practical purposes my problem is solved -- thank god for
FDISKPM. I had tried using Dfsee to remove the partition but had no luck.

There may have been an easier way to do this, but that was the best I
could figure out on my own.

Regards,
Sandy

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