[Discussion] eCS with Dell XPS 210

[Chuck McKinnis]

Don wrote:
> 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?

RC5 (1.8.2) and RC6 (1.8.4) both have SATA drivers that should work. 
The latest SATA driver from Daniela is 1.8.5.

> 
> 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.
>>
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