[Discussion] eCS with Dell XPS 210

[Dale A Cook]

Chuck McKinnis wrote:
> 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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Hear's my 3/2 cents:
I have a Dell XPS T 450 with eCS 2.0 RC6,RC5,RC4,ETC & THE PREVIOUS 
beta(s),, Windows XP pro,XP Home & NO problems of any kind(sorry?)