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Subject  :  usb 2.0 80gig hard drive
Author  :  cssw cssw@voicenet.com
Date  :  17 Dec, 2002 on 04:32
anybody out there have a multi gigabyte usb hard drive
working under ecs or os/2?

i have tried many scenarios
with basedev=usbmsd.add
but best I have done is get lvm to see it only as a 96meg removable device
with no way to create any volumes on it

cssw


Subject  :  Re:usb 2.0 80gig hard drive
Author  :  BigWarpGuy
Date  :  17 Dec, 2002 on 14:35
Have you checked the http://www.os2world.com/usb / http://www.os2world.com/os2usb site ?
OS/2 Warp-ed to the very end.

Subject  :  Re:usb 2.0 80gig hard drive
Author  :  Kim
Date  :  17 Dec, 2002 on 23:33
Never tried to connect a IDE disk via USB interface, but guess that the bios is involved as well so might be that your bios has a problem with drives over 80gb, or?

/Kim


Subject  :  Re:usb 2.0 80gig hard drive
Author  :  cssw cssw@voicenet.com
Date  :  18 Dec, 2002 on 00:12

Kim (Dec 18, 2002 00:33):
Never tried to connect a IDE disk via USB interface, but guess that the bios is involved as well so might be that your bios has a problem with drives over 80gb, or?

/Kim


I bought the drive this way, internals must be ide,
its a maxtor usb 2.0 80gig drive?

I'm going to probe my bios for settings
I have 2 ide drives besides this attached, may try pulling oneoff
for a test, but its doubtful this will help.

paul


Subject  :  Re:usb 2.0 80gig hard drive
Author  :  Kim
Date  :  18 Dec, 2002 on 00:43
How big are the internal drives?

Subject  :  Re:usb 2.0 80gig hard drive
Author  :  cssw cssw@voicenet.com
Date  :  18 Dec, 2002 on 01:01

Kim (Dec 18, 2002 01:43):
How big are the internal drives?

they're both 80gigs and both ide

i just check bios settings and I don't think taking one out is going to
help, I have the primary ide with just a master set ide drive
and the secondary ide with a master ide drive and a slave cdrw/dvd

maybe there's some parameter I need to set on idedasd stuff
to indicate usb device is ide?

paul


Subject  :  Re:usb 2.0 80gig hard drive
Author  :  Kim
Date  :  18 Dec, 2002 on 01:12
Ok, then it's not a bios problem then; what about smaller drivers connected via USB - would that work out?

Subject  :  Re:usb 2.0 80gig hard drive
Author  :  cssw cssw@voicenet.com
Date  :  18 Dec, 2002 on 01:17

Kim (Dec 18, 2002 02:12):
Ok, then it's not a bios problem then; what about smaller drivers connected via USB - would that work out?

don't have any available, I have managed to get
2 different kinds of multiformat including compact flash to work
1 is 64meg another is 160meg and simultaneously too.


Subject  :  Re:usb 2.0 80gig hard drive
Author  :  BigWarpGuy
Date  :  18 Dec, 2002 on 14:28
What is the version of USB on your computer? Do you have the most current version of USB drivers for OS/2? Could you be using 1.1 USB with a 2.0 USB device?
OS/2 Warp-ed to the very end.

Subject  :  Re:usb 2.0 80gig hard drive
Author  :  cssw cssw@voicenet.com
Date  :  18 Dec, 2002 on 14:43

tomleem (Dec 18, 2002 15:2:
What is the version of USB on your computer? Do you have the most current version of USB drivers for OS/2? Could you be using 1.1 USB with a 2.0 USB device?

i'm using the known lastest, have fixpak this machine up through dec 2,2002
pathces and usbstor.exe from dec 11,2002, all obtained from ecomstation.com

this machine has both 1.1 and 2.0 usb and I have tried both, further the
drive sttates it backward compatiable with 1.1 as well

if one looks at the usbmsd.txt it does not have any parameter for the driver
such as /FIXED_DISKS but others in newgroups talk about it.

if I set /FIXED_DISKS:1 lvm will not start, get Cannot open the lvm engine
if I lset /FIXED_DISKS:0 lvm will start but its says device has corruption
then looking at the device it only has 96meg and it is not alterable for
creating or deleting volumes


Subject  :  Re:usb 2.0 80gig hard drive
Author  :  CreatureBoy
Date  :  09 Jan, 2003 on 22:30
Which disk drivers are you using? IBMS506.ADD? DaniS506.ADD?

Subject  :  Re:usb 2.0 80gig hard drive
Author  :  Sebadoh sys3175@optonline.net
Date  :  24 Jan, 2003 on 05:41
You are going the wrong way with this, if there is any problem it is most likely with the USBMSD and not with the IDE drive, a USB MSD is exactly that, a USB MSD.. whatever is internally in the case is irrelevent, it works through USB through MSD and ONLY through MSD. The problem then must be with the MSD driver. If you have a software choice account then you have the ability to create a test case or problem report.. let ibm chew on it.. see what they spit back your way, maybe there is an undocumented feature... but changing any drivers other then the MSD driver or possibly something in the LVM./Drive interface won't matter. it never goes through IDE at all.. so DANI or IBM1s506 won't matter. But it could be like OS2DASD or something like that.. (can't remember the stack drivers off the top of my head)

Subject  :  Re:usb 2.0 80gig hard drive
Author  :  JonOS/2 jonas_buys@yahoo.com
Date  :  24 Jan, 2003 on 17:02
Try this link. Good information, and will probably solve troubles.
HDD via USB are possible with the regular IBM drivers, but I recommend you study the reame good; there is a listing of the options in config.sys; and there is stated which drivers are needed to get some drivers working. Possibly you've just forgotten to enable one or more.

So two things you can try.
Good luck!

Jonas Buys.

www.jonasbuys.easynet.be


Subject  :  Re:usb 2.0 80gig hard drive
Author  :  JonOS/2 jonas_buys@yahoo.com
Date  :  24 Jan, 2003 on 17:04
Sorry, forgot link

http://www.os2world.com/cdwriting/cwusbmsd/readme.htm

Jonas Buys
www.jonasbuys.easynet.be


Subject  :  Re:usb 2.0 80gig hard drive
Author  :  Kim
Date  :  06 Feb, 2003 on 09:34
What about the new driver update from IBM; would it solve the problem ?

Subject  :  Re:usb 2.0 80gig hard drive
Author  :  JonOS/2 jonas_buys@yahoo.com
Date  :  06 Feb, 2003 on 18:31
Don't know, why not try both?

Greetings, Jonas Buys.


Subject  :  Re:usb 2.0 80gig hard drive
Author  :  roberto roberto@zikonyl.com
Date  :  07 Sep, 2003 on 22:02

tomleem (Dec 17, 2002 15:35):
Have you checked the http://www.os2world.com/usb / http://www.os2world.com/os2usb site ?

I have a HD120GB iomega working ok but...the LVM don't work with it.

At begin install USB from Ecs or IBM, with the instrucctions for it,
and you have a similar CONFIG.SYS
BASEDEV=USBOHCD.SYS
BASEDEV=USBOHCD.SYS
BASEDEV=USBUHCD.SYS
BASEDEV=USBUHCD.SYS
BASEDEV=USBEHCD.SYS
BASEDEV=USBD.SYS /REQ:USBUHCD$,USBOHCD$,USBEHCD$
BASEDEV=USBHID.SYS
BASEDEV=USBMSD.ADD /V
BASEDEV=USBCDROM.ADD

In this page you can found this USB driver: (I use this driver)
http://cyberia.dnsalias.com/Gfd.Sys.Misc.Htm
Search this file CW-USB12.ZIP
or goto:
http://www.os2world.com/usb/files/cw-usbmsd-v1_2b.zip

Unzip the file and copy to c:\os2\boot\ only the files CWusbmsd.*
Modify the config.sys and rename
REM BASEDEV=USBMSD.ADD /V
and write this other, very IMPORTAN us it, or not work:
BASEDEV=CWUSBMSD.ADD /FIXED_DISKS:1 /FORCE_TO_REMOVABLE /V
reset and is ready.

But with this driver you can not use LVM.exe, and neither work the small usb keys 64mb, 128mb etc
But you can change config.sys, and start with the firts driver,I wait that this problem goto better.

Well, now you have not LVM.exe, by this you need the DFsee (hobbes), for clean the new disk, and create partitions more small that 64Gb.Because in this case you can format it us HPFS.

I can not create one partition with JFS, because I have not LVM

Format your partitions and ready, I create two more small partitions, because without it I don't see nothing. But I don't know why.Made your changes and test.

Saludos,
Roberto


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