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- You may have the following files after decompressing:
-
- IOMEGA.EXE (= SYQUEST.EXE)
- IOMEGA.FLT (= SYQUEST.'FLT)
- SYQUEST.EXE
- SYQUEST.FLT
- README.OS2 (This file)
-
- In case you are missing something, the complete package is availible at
- rheooptik.fmf.uni-freiburg.de//pub/os2/drivers/disk+scsi/syquest-hpfs.zip
- or iomega-hpfs.zip (contains the same files).
-
- 1. Was these drivers are doing:
- These drivers allow you HPFS on any removable SCSI-Devices. Note: IDE-Devices are NOT supported!
- The medias can be changed while OS/2 is running, even when they are HPFS formatted. These drivers don't
- work with MOD's who have 1024 Bytes/Sector or any other size than 512 B/S, sorry!
- The set contains a filter driver who look any partitioned removable media like a hard disk to the
- operating system. It must be installed in your config.sys file. The other part is a little executable file for
- mount/unmount your removables. You should copy it into a directory contained in the path statement.
-
- 2. Installation
- You need a SCSI-Drive correctly connected at the host-bus. There must be a physical OS/2-ADD installed!
- Enter following in your config.sys file:
- basedev=syquest.flt /unit=0,..,.. where unit means the number of the drive(s) to support. Note: Unit doesn∩t mean the
- device LUN or SCSI - ID. The devices (removables only) are numbered starting with the first found removable unit.
- i.e. 1 SyQuest-drive => /unit=0
- 1 Syquest- and 1 Zip drive => /unit=0,1 .
- 1 SyQuest, 1 Zip, 1MO and 1Jazz => unit=0,1,2,3
- Copy the *.flt drivers in the \os2\boot (OS/2-Warp) or \os2 (OS/2 V 2.x) and the *.exe files into your \os2 directory.
- Restart the system. The removable drive will now be recognized as hard disk!
-
- 3. Use and limitations
- Your media must now be partitioned. An OS2-Superfloppy is not longer recognized. Use FDISK and FORMAT to
- prepare your removable drives. Note: In case you used superfloppys only there may be no drive letter now. Call
- FDISK, partition your media and restart again. Now there will be one. You can only change the medias when they
- are partitioned in the SAME WAY, that means the same numbers of cylinders,heads etc. This MUST be, because
- OS/2 doesn't accept any changes on hard disks while running. So when using FDISK: Take care to prepare in the
- same way, neither primary or secondary and allways the same size! In case you are using removables medias with
- different geometry you have to restart your system! Note: The geometry of a media is given by your SCSI-host adapter
- So use always the same hardware configuration for FDISK on your removable medias. If possible, choose the mapping
- used by adaptec because it commonly recognized on all host adapters.
-
- 4. How to perform a media exchange
- You must take care, that there are no open files or running programs on the drive. Enter at the OS2-CMD-prompt for un-
- mounting your disk:
- "syquest drive:" or "iomega drive:" where 'drive:' is the letter of your drive given by OS/2.
- i.e. syquest h: or iomega g:
- Change now the media. After the changes you have to remount the drive by retyping the same again at the prompt.
- Now you can continue to work. A change between FAT- and HPFS-filesystem under the running system is supported.
- In case you get the error:
- DosDevIOCtl LOCK error: return code = 108
- DosDevIOCtl FSD error: return code = 033
- there are open files or running programs on your removable. Close and retry again. Don∩t never use a removable drive
- as swapdisk, because any change becomes impossible!
-
- 5. Troubleshooting
- If there are open files you may have something like "DosDevIOCtL ...error...".So close the programs
- and retry. If you can't acces to a disk after you have changed, it may be differently partitioned!
- Be carefull when using primary partitioned drives. When OS2 is installed on a sec. partition, then you
- may have trouble while booting. The best is to use only secondary partitions for removable cartidges.
- We are working for more than a year with these drivers on different OS2-machines without problems.
- But:
- There is no warranty for nothing !!!!!
-
-
- 6. Commercial remarks
- These drivers are freeware and dedicated to all OS/2 users having problems with removable media.
- The only condition to use is a little e-mail to back to us. Please not your drive type, problems etc inside
- so that we can give your experience to other users. Mail to clabo@fmf.uni-freiburg.de
-
- Freiburg, sept. 1996