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I'm sending this message to Ben Rietbroek who is working on some OS2AHCI points.

One thing that keeps coming up in some cases is that on systems with an Intel disc controller you need the /R option specified. In some cases the system is able to boot with from the CD but it does not recognize the hard disc. Using the /R option fixes.

In the documentation this is written: /r Reset ports during initialization (default = off

unless the [Intel] AHCI controller was found to

be

initialized by the BIOS in SATA mode)

My question what would the result be to do this by default (to always initialize) the controller. Or will this just "fix" some systems (no user action needed) and make other systems hang ?

Normally an OS/2 driver can be loaded with a /V option so it outputs information. We have an option in our preboot menu of eComStation that switches it on. For example the Danis506.add shows disc output (what controllers are found and what discs are found).

If we specify the /V with the driver it mentioned as an illegal switch and the driver does not load.

Maybe its also more convenient that if a switch is illegal the driver still loads. Instead of not loading. Otherwise you need to boot from to alter the config.sys.

Bug opened in the eComStation bugtracker. Customer pointed to this bug to follow it.

Running at:

• VxT capable machine i3 with Windows 7 64bits
• VirtualBox? 4.0.6 (Windows 7 Host)

When changing the settings on the Virtual Machine Storage (Screenshot 1) to use AHCI HDD and CDROM the boot procedure hangs on OS2CDROM.DMD This bug was reported the eComStation bugtracker

The Boot settings get change to Virtual Machine (Screenshot 2) and turn AHCI mode (Screenshot 3).

• It hangs at OS2CDROM.DMD (Screenshot 4)
• It hangs at JJCDROM.DMD (Screenshot 5)
• It hangs at old OS2CDROM.DMD (Screenshot 6)

The workarround is to do not use AHCI SATA DRIVERS on VirtualBox?, but this bug report can be usefull to fix OS2AHCI and OS2CDROM.