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Date:	Tue, 6 Nov 2001 17:59:08 PDT
From:	sshapiro@ucsd.edu (Sandy Shapiro)
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Re: IDE problem

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Wow-- learn something new every day.
No, for all the years I've been using OS/2 (from the 2.1 beta), I never
new about hardware manager!

I've been through about 6 motherboards, and this is the first time I've
had a problem.

But next time I will be prepared.

Thanks very much for the tip.

Best,
Sandy

>Yeah, stuff like that happens to me too!

>When you first installed the new motherboard and booted to OS/2 did you
>first, at the previous shutdown of OS/2, configure it to accept the new
>hardware? You should have set the Hardware Manager to "Full Hardware
>Detection" in its properties notebook (the Hardware Manager is in the
>"System Setup" folder, which is in the "OS/2 System" folder on the
>desktop). That way you can (should be able to) put your PCI cards in any
>slot and it won't matter!

>HCM
>_______________________________________________________________________________________________

>Sandy Shapiro wrote:
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>> Ok -- I think I have it figured it out.
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>> When I changed motherboards, I didn't use the same PCI slots as before,
>> and that caused a conflict with DANIATAP.FLT and the RSJ drivers. I could
>> attach the CD-RW, but I couldn't access the CD Rom drive.
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>> I moved a PCI card from Slot 2 to Slot 3, and everything became OK.
>>
>> Sorry for the confusion about IDE connections. I have two hard drives,
>> both on the primary IDE connector, one master and one slave.
>>
>> I have one CD-RW drive always on the secondary IDE connector (first as
>> slave, now as master -- that didn't seem to make any difference.
>>
>> The new motherboard has two sets of IDE connectors: Ultra DMA 100, and
>> regular.
>>
>> So -- I have the two hard drives on the ULTRA DMA 100 PRIMARY connector,
>> and I have the CD-RW drive on the the Regular IDE SECONDARY connector.
>>
>> The Dani driver lets me use one CD-RW drive as either a CD Rom drive or as
>> a CD Burner (if anyone wants to know the drive parameters I use, let me
>> know).
>>
>> Now OS/2 is happy and Windows is happy, and I can even boot from the CD
>> Rom drive.
>>
>> I haven't done a thorough testing yet, but I don't anticipate any more
>> problems. I find this DMA business and IRQ stuff very confusing.
>>
>> Thanks for all the help.
>> Sometimes after I post a question, I will wake up in the middle of the
>> night and think, "Maybe its the PCI slots!" Then I have to wait all day
>> until I get a chance to play around and see what happens.
>>
>> Sandy

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