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Date:	Sat, 15 Dec 2007 21:30:44 -0800
From:	Sheridan George <s-geo@usa.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Electronic Computer

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OK, some great progress today.

I got DFsee (v. 9.04) installed on a CF card and ran the three actions we discussed at SCOUG. The
results are:

Actions/Bad sector scan - read only: no errors
Actions/Bad sector scan - read/write: no errors
Display I/O speed - read only: 12.4 MiB/sec
Display I/O speed - read/write: 4.1 MiB/sec
Actions/Erase, wipe selected area/Erase, wipe current object: done with no diagnostic

Then I did:

FDisk/delete partition (which was the whole 975 MiB)
FDisk/Add boot manager
FDisk make installable
FDisk make partition (the whole rest of the disk)

Performed a standard install - didn't put in "own parameters" for Dani's switches. I wanted to see
what would happen. Didn't expect much but got surprised.

Selected the Easy Install - the installer saw the E: drive w/o going to the New Volume section!!
This never happened before.

Formatted E: (no choice for HPFS or fat but when the format was completed "975 MB HPFS Disk 1" was
reported)

Left Hardware & Peripherals at default

Left Multimedia Support at default (no Audio adapter). I have to look up what on-board audio the
Shuttle has.

Network configuration - deselected both direct connection and dial up. I'll have to look up what
"network card" is on the mother board.

Lo and behold it started the install. Went through the whole thing without any diagnostics.

At the first reboot all came to a halt with "Bad part-table".

I started the console from the CD and was able to read and write to the eCS 1.2R (E:) drive. No
diagnostic of any kind. Just no booting from the "hard disk" CF card.

Sheridan

Steven Levine wrote:
> In <47325B6E.5050505@usa.net>, on 11/11/07
> at 09:05 AM, Sheridan George said:
>
> Hi,
>
>> 2) The installer (LVM?) always reports "Disk 0 reports a corrupt
>> partition table".
>
> LVM is not designed to be flexible. What does dfsee have to say about the
> device and reading and/or writing from/to it.
>
>> 3) When the installation of Boot Manager is attempted one gets "Operation
>> is not allowed" even if the factory made FAT partition is deleted.
>
> BTW, did you use the required command line parameters for danis506.add?
>
>> 4) I was able to read and write to both the 1 gig and 128 meg CF cards
>> via command line operations.
>
> This was the case before, was it not?
>
>> What is the next test I should perform and document to continue?
>
> See if dfsee can install BM and create the volumes. IIRC, this was what
> we needed to do back when we could get the hardware to work for us.
>
> Steven
>

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