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Date:	Tue, 28 Feb 2006 15:31:11 PST8
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Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Round 3 with 1.2R: frustrating weekend

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Hi Jordan
I am also planning to change my systems to Seagates 120MB HDD's.
At the time changing to the WD 40GB HDD I ran into problems but =

cannot remember the exact error description ;-|

I copied all my data with DFsee and finally needed Jan's help to =

overcome it !

Since then it works ;-)

In your long-ish post I notice important conflicting aspects:

eCS with LVM & Partition Magic !!!

As far I learnt and understood:
Partition Magig shall NOT be used in a LVM installation !!

LVM sets a special fingerprint to each partition and =

Partition Magic shall destroy these needed fingerprints, =

needed for the partitions identification !

OK, as long there is NO works on the HDD one can play and =

use PM but at the moment LVM is used ...
=2E.. PM shall be TABU !?!

You may face your probs because of this ???

Wish you success & hope you overcome it soon ;-)

Cheers, svob=EF

PS: My very late experiments with eCS 1.2R and also 2.0 Beta =

were very disappointing too. Look and technic do not fit my taste =

and therefor I keep on OS/2 Warp !!

=

=

jr_fox@pacbell.net on 01.03.2006 04.16.43
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Subject: SCOUG-Help: Round 3 with 1.2R: frustrating weekend

{Long-ish Post}

[snip]

This is a freshly opened Seagate 120G HDD, whereas the
existing, working, multi-OS drive has been a WD 80G
model. I'm thinking of Ray's statements that once you
have a successful eCS install, you can readily copy it
elsewhere (as long as the drive letter assignments
match up), and both Ray's and Steven's repeated
mention that OS/2 -- unlike that prevalent *other* OS
-- can basically care less when relocated to other
hardware. Fine. So I set out to try for a base ...

[snip]

I partitioned only out to E. Had to try this several
times, using either DFSEE or Partition Magic (v. 6). =

Each time, I could not get past the same (early) error
message from the eCS installer: "Disk 0 Reports
Partition Table is Corrupt." This seems to be an
absolute barrier to doing *anything* further with the
installer CD.

[snip]

The bad news is that something is still seriously
messed up HDD-wise. C: is a 2G HPFS partition, and
shows as such in LVM and DFSEE, yet DIR or CHKDSK show
it has 526M worth of contents with only about 44M of
freespace remaining ! There is some surrounding
gobbledygook I wrote down from one of the DFSEE
reports, but the parts that look meaningful *to me*
are: =

Total Errors / Warnings Detected: 2
-- Incorrect Checksum Value (HPFS SpareBlock)
-- Filesize in Fnode Smaller than in Dir Entry

Can I fix this, and if so How ? I'd like to get it
fixed before trying any further installs to later
Partitions / Drive Letters, because I don't want to
build a hotel on top of a sand dune, if you know what
I mean. Steven, I'm hoping you can offer a specific
"Do A, B, C, then D," rather than tell me to look up
something on Google. Otherwise, I am likely to haunt
you for the next several Help Desks.

Jordan

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