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Date:	Fri, 18 Apr 2008 15:09:47 -0700
From:	Ray Davison <raydav@charter.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: eCS 2.0 Didn't Last Long.

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J R FOX wrote:
>
> At present, I think all you can do is call attention
> to it on the newsgroups or Google Groups (or is it
> Yahoo Groups ? -- I forget), and maybe file the odd
> problem ticket at Serenity. This may not avail you
> anything, but at least you will have done what you
> could do about it.

I have given up on that. That is an eCS centric world. And if all you
have is eCS then things work differently. My complaint has always been;
does not play nice with others. By both necessity and choice I don't
have the option of running only eCS.

>> All HDDs are front panel plug-in.
>
> Are you sure there is nothing hincky that could be
> going on there ? Signal integrity, bent pins, or
>
> I've heard of some OS issues (not just for OS/2) with
> plug-in drives before, and this does concern me, since
> I was leaning towards trying out such a setup in my
> next tower rebuild.

I have fourteen bays that are "permanent", plus whatever is on the build
bench, and about twenty five trays, ranging from 1-500G. I have no
internal HDDs.

Once in a while it will take a MB a couple boots to recognize a new HDD.
That makes no sense to me because it implies a learning process and I
didn't think a MB could learn anything on it's own.

I have no problem with anything but eCS. I have had machines with three
versions of DOS, two W9X, W2K and W4 all playing nice together. Every
drive that has eCS also has W4. eCS may decide not to boot, W4 never.
Same drive, signal integrity, bent pins or whatever.

W4 always installs. There is one consistent glitch that requires poking
the same button three times to proceed.

And I am still looking for what eCS will do that W4 will not. Perhaps
my life is just to simple to notice.

Ray

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