On Mon, 4 Jun 2018 at 09:40, Dave Wade via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:
> Just to say I now have a bootable copy of the OS on SD card. Well done! > I got caught out because OS2 wildcarding works like UNIX wild carding, not > MSDOS wild carding. > So in order to back up the "C" drive you need "XCOPY C:\* ...". I > instinctively used "*.*" which misses out a whole bunch of files, especially > those used by the code page conversion routines. I did not know that. O_o Getting a Thinkpad running OS/2 is still on my to-do list... > Whilst it boots cleanly (and quietly). The machine is noticeably slower on SD > card so I think I might have to try a RAID or other fast/wide SCSI solution > once I have good backups of the other drives. That's very surprising. Might CF be quicker than SD? CF is a PATA bus, SD is a multiplexed serial (or nearly) bus, AIUI. Failing that, there are 2 real-SSD options: either: [1] PATA SSD -- they still exist but they're relatively expensive. [2] an MSATA SSD in a PATA convertor. Small MSATA drives are cheap -- I bought 64GB for ~£30 last autumn -- and the convertor cradles are about a tenner. That only leaves the problem of getting a PS/2 to talk to IDE... ;-) -- Liam Proven - Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk - Google Mail/Hangouts/Plus: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/Facebook/Flickr: lproven - Skype/LinkedIn: liamproven UK: +44 7939-087884 - ČR (+ WhatsApp/Telegram/Signal): +420 702 829 053