[Discussion] eCS with Dell XPS 210

[Don]

Thanks Chuck,
Back in October I reported a similar situation when I moved my OS/2 
drive to a Dell box. I had boot manager and a 1.2R and a 2.0 RC5 partitions.
Somewhere along the way I believe the partition tables got messed up as 
neither partition would function via boot manager. After numerous 
attempts at installing RC5, I moved the drive back first to an old 
Compaq Deskpro and recently to an IBM mainboard. I am not going to waste 
any more time on the Dell board as it has only an on board video port, 
that even for OS/2, is absolutely terrible.

What you didn't share is what level of Dani driver we need to be at? Is 
the SATA driver Ira needs in the RC5 setup?

Thanks again.

Don Burch

Chuck McKinnis wrote:
>
> Ira N. Saxe wrote:
>> Neither eCS 1.2 or 2.0 RC5 will load from CD on my Dell. The problem 
>> seems to be that the PC's BIOS is configured in AHCI mode, which is 
>> not supported by eCS. The AHCI is required by Vista, not by Wincows 
>> XP, which I'm using. But, Dell is unwilling to change it. I've asked 
>> eCS to support AHCI but am not optimistic that they will.
>> I'm posting this warning so others who plan to use eCS will check for 
>> this before buying a new Dell. Regards, Ira Saxe
>
> Just thought I would throw in my experience. I happened to be into the 
> BIOS of my T61 today. The SATA support is set to AHCI (Advanced Host 
> Contoller Interface). I have Windows XP, Kubuntu, eCS 2.0RC6, and eCS 
> 1.2R running on this machine. The eCS 1.2R installation required 
> adding the current drivers (mainly Dani's SATA driver) from diskette.
>