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Hello all.

A few questions:

1. Can I boot from an HPFS partition and have other partitions
on the machine be JFS?

1A. I presume one cannot boot a JFS drive; correct?

2. What are the negative effects (if any) of this combination?

3. I presume that JFS handles large (in excess of 64GB)
partitions.(?)

4. What happens during boot when the machine does an
auto-chkdsk? Does OS/2 also check the JFS drives?

5. Can an HPFS drive be converted to JFS with something like
DFSee? Or should I move all the data off and then convert it?

6. Where does if IFS statement go in the config.sys? Before or
after the HPFS statement?

Thanks in advance!!

On Sat, 23 Aug 2008 23:42:26 UTC, Dave Yeo gmail.com> wrote:

That is not correct. The JFS statement should go _before_ the HPFS
statement, otherwise the IBM locked file device driver (if ever used)
tends to blow up.

On 08/23/08 05:50 pm, Marc Lewis wrote:

Yes

eCS ver 2 (in beta) now has bootable JFS

Uses slightly more memory

Yes, also large (in excess of 2 GB) files.

Marc Lewis wrote:

Yes.

No. Some eCS Version can boot from JFS. I don't remember whether it is
eCS 2.0 or some earlier versions too.

You need more memory for the drivers and the cache. (The latter is a
real advantage unless you use HPFS386.)

It handles any size that the existing DASD drivers can handle.

That depends on your setting in the CONFIG.SYS.
I prefer to check only the boot drive automatically. All other volumes
are checked from the startup.cmd script in parallel by one task per
physical disk. This is many times faster, even with JFS.

Does anyone here recall about the number of MB needed for the boot drive to
convert from Warp 4 to MCP1? In this particular case it looks like I've got
about 350MB for sure, could work out more I'm pretty sure by shuffling things
out of the way, but just wanted a remember guess or so.

Thanks.

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Greetings, all.

Please give me some pointers/help on doing a fresh install of
4.52 on an unpartitioned 250G SATA drive. The standard install
disks made from the 4.52 CDRom don't seem to be able to negotiate
that drive structure. Booting from the Installation CDRom and
inserting the Warp 4.52 CD when called for results in an LVM
error.

Obviously I could use Daniela's most recent version drivers if I
knew the method of fooling the system into thinking it is
IBM1S506.add...

Any ideas?

Thanks in advance!

When I try to install it works. Almost! The computer boots all the way
up to the desktop. When it shall paint the screen it hangs. Just a
blue screen and a watch.
I tried to go back to vga no snapdriver. Same result.
I have dvd-rom and a zipdrive on the first idechannel, and a cd-burner
on the second, and then two SATA-drives on channel 2 and 3. It is a
athlon xp with 1GB memory and a radeon 9600 dvi.
Danis drivers don't use to fail and I don't think they do because it
works up to the end of the bootsequence.

Anders

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I'm interested in the Saitek Eclipse II keyboard which has a USB
interface. Are there any issues with using USB keyboards with OS/2? I
assume I'll have to ensure BASEDEV=usbhid.sys is in CONFIG.SYS, but is
there anything else I'll need to do?

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Hi all,

I'm looking for information on the structure/layout (fields, etc) of the
two files BACKUP.001 and CONTROL.001 which are generated by the OS/2
BACKUP command.

Any idea where to get this info?

TIA and best regards
Uwe