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Date:	Thu, 4 Nov 2004 15:46:53 PST8
From:	GARY.WONG@sbcglobal.net
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Instaling eCS 1.2 on an SATA drive (was eCS 1.2 Group Buy Status as of 11/4/2004)

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I should have said the issue was: because the primary
IDE cable had only a CD-ROM (no ATA hard drive
attached), and the secondary IDE cable had a Plextor
CD/RW drive (again no ATA hard drive), eCS gave off a
beep and would not either boot, or in the case of
installing, it gave a message saying something to the
effect of "Please insert the eCS 1.2 CD-ROM in the
drive and then press a key", even though the CD WAS
in the drive.

What is the file name of the installation guide
manual? Is it INF or HTML?

Are you saying a diskette must have a volume label of
BOOT_UPDATE for the installer to pull off updated
drivers from the diskette? Is it case-sensitive?

--- Original Message ---
From: "Steven Levine"
To: SCOUG Help
Subject: SCOUG-Help: Instaling eCS 1.2 on an SATA
drive (was eCS 1.2 Group Buy Status as of 11/4/2004)

>In 88256F42.00716BE1@sce.com>, on
>11/04/04
> at 12:38 PM, Gary.Wong@sce.com said:
>
>
>>You saw my response to Larry about installing eCS
1.2 on a SATA drive,
>>right?
>
>Yes.
>
>>I guess had I stuck to an ATA/100 drive, the
installer wouldn't have
>>croaked as long as I had my CD-ROM & CD/RW drives
cabled and jumpered
>>correctly. I switched to a SATA drive because it
was a few dollars
>>cheaper for the same capacity, buffersize, and RPM.
>
>No the SATA drive had nothing to do with the drive
letter issue. I'm not
>entirely sure I understood your description of the
failure. If it was
>just a drive letter swap, you could have fixed this
from the preboot menu.
>
>If this is not intuitive from the menu prompts, the
installation guide
>manual is on your CD.
>
>It appears that your SATA drive was supported by the
version of Danis506
>that shipped with eCS 1.2. This will not always be
the case. SATA is a
>moving target.
>
>For unsupported SATA drives, one can use the
BOOT_UPDATE diskette feature
>to use a newer version of Dani's driver.
>
>Steven
>

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