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Subject  :  USB Multimedia Card Reader and eCS?
Author  :  BigWarpGuy
Date  :  25 Oct, 2004 on 14:40
I have an USB multimedia card reader. Would the mass storage drivers for USB for OS/2-eCS work with it? I intended to use it with the WinXP notebook computer but there aren't any drivers for that version of WinXP from the Sandisk site (latest is Win2k drivers that might wokr with - according to the site [I tried it and it did not work]). It would be great
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Subject  :  Re:USB Multimedia Card Reader and eCS?
Author  :  Stuart srtgray@clara.net
Date  :  25 Oct, 2004 on 16:17
Often only one of the slots is recognised by OS/2. If the latest Mass storage drivers don't work, you could try Chris Wohlgemuth's

Stuart


Subject  :  Re:USB Multimedia Card Reader and eCS?
Author  :  BigWarpGuy
Date  :  25 Oct, 2004 on 16:19
I will give it a try. Thanks for the information.

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Subject  :  Re:USB Multimedia Card Reader and eCS?
Author  :  BigWarpGuy
Date  :  30 Oct, 2004 on 14:59
The multimedia card reader only has one slot and it is for multimedia cards. Scandisk does not have drivers for it for WinXP (which is what is on my notebook computer).

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Subject  :  Re:USB Multimedia Card Reader and eCS?
Author  :  warpcafe warpcafe@yahoo.de
Date  :  31 Oct, 2004 on 14:09
Hi,


BigWarpGuy (30 Oct, 2004 14:59):
Scandisk does not have drivers for it for WinXP (which is what is on my notebook computer).

...AFAIK WinXP supports any type of USB card reader right out of the box: With XP running (and the reader attached), simply insert a card into the reader. XP should assign it a (new) drive icon in "My computer".

For eCS, I found that it's necessary to...
a) have either eCS 1.2 or the latest os kernel and os loader updates
b) use the latest IBM USB MSD drivers or Chris MSD drivers
c) if you have USB 2.0 compliant ports, make sure they do NOT run WITHOUT interrupts (which is possible with some BIOSes)
d) if you have any other kind of USB MSD device (e.g. x-in-1 card reader) attached, make sure you assign the driver enough "reserved drive letters" (to put it that way).

In my case here, I first was unable to use my 6-in-1 card reader at all.
Then, I tried to run the USB onboard ports with "use IRQ for USB = YES" set in the machines BIOS. That made eCS discover the USB 2.0 finally - before, it simply found the UHCI ports (= USB 1.x) only.
Then with the latest kernel and loader updates, I was able to use it but only the CF-carf slot.
I then found out (with the help of that other so-called OS from Redmond) that the CF slot was the "first" drive letter "F:" and the other slots (like SD, MS, SM) were assigned the following drive letters G, H, I and so on.
I then "told" the USB MSD drivers from eCS to "be prepared to support" up to SIX removable devices by using the following parms in config.sys:

BASEDEV=USBMSD.ADD /FLOPPIES:0 /REMOVABLES:6 /FIXED_DISKS:0 /FORCE_TO_REMOVABLE

...and that solved my problems! Now I'm able to plug whatever card type into the corresponding slots of the 6-in-1 reader and use them without trouble... sometimes given an initial "refresh removable drives" from the wps drive folder - but at least: It works.

Keepings fingers crossed. Good luck.
Thomas


Subject  :  Re:USB Multimedia Card Reader and eCS?
Author  :  warpcafe warpcafe@yahoo.de
Date  :  31 Oct, 2004 on 14:13
And - oh, yes - one more thing:

If your notebook has USB 2.0 "ports" (controllers to be exact - but who cares) then you MUST HAVE WinXP SP 1 installed at least for XP to be able to recognize and use them. XP GA out-of-the-box doesn't know about the USB 2.0 stuff.
Sorry if you already knew and had the sp1 installed...

Greetings
Thomas


Subject  :  Re:USB Multimedia Card Reader and eCS?
Author  :  BigWarpGuy
Date  :  01 Nov, 2004 on 14:38
Thanks for the information. I did not know about the sp1 for WinXP. I think it was installed after I had tried the USB multimedia card reader.

Thanks for the information on the eCS config.sys and other related material. I have no doubt it will be useful.

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