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From: esko.kauppinen@ibm.net                            11-Sep-99 01:01:16
  To: All                                               11-Sep-99 04:50:25
Subj: Re: Recommended PCMCIA modem and 10/100 ethernet?

From: "Esko Kauppinen" <esko.kauppinen@ibm.net>

On Fri, 10 Sep 1999 13:12:57 GMT, John Thompson wrote:

>Although my Home & Away card can also be removed and reinserted 
>and still have ethernet work, I find that the modem function is 
>lost if the machine (Compaq Contura Aero) goes into suspend mode. 
>When I resume the machine after a suspend, I must remove and 
>reinsert the card to get ethernet to work again, but modem will 
>only return after a reboot.  This is not the case if I hard-code 
>an IRQ for the modem to  use, but then ethernet does not work at 
>all.  So its nice, but could be better...

I had the same problem with my Xircom modem and Compaq LTE5400
but then I found from the bios a setting to keep the PCMCIA slot
powered during suspend.

After selecting that the modem wakes up with the computer OK.

Ciao / Esko 




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From: mmhj@rocketmail.com                               11-Sep-99 00:46:23
  To: All                                               11-Sep-99 04:50:26
Subj: Re: PCMCIA on a Dell Latitude CPi D233ST Laptop

From: mmhj@rocketmail.com

Much thanks for the advice. Tony.

The driver works great now on my Dell CPi 266XT. Actually the driver
page on Notebook/2 is a bit misleading which posted a URL pointed to a
SS2PCIC2.SYS other than 6-16-97. Only the one you mentioned works. No
need to use reserve.sys or apply FP. the PCMCIA.SYS comes with Warp 4
works just fine.

To save all others' time, you can get the SS2PCIC2.SYS dated 6-16-97
from here: ftp://ftp.uni-
leipzig.de/pub/os2/boulder/os2/os2ddpak/ss2pcic2.exe. Check out the
date before download.

BTW, the PSION DACOM 56K Modem is also a beauty.

Mark Jiang

In article <37D83AF6.41CF@eagletcs.com>,
  Tony.Saucedos@eagletcs.com wrote:
> Randy Petersen wrote:
> >
> > I'd like to add some URGENCY to this message!
> >
> > Within 1 month I'll have to give up my desktop system at work which
is
> > currently running Warp 3 Connect @ FP26.  This has been my system
since
> > OS/2 v2.1 was released.  I will either have to migrate all my stuff
over
> > to the Dell Laptop on Warp 4, or I will have to succumb to the
Corporate
> > STD-WIN '98.  To migate from Warp Connect on the desktop to Warp 4
on the
> > laptop, I MUST get PCMCIA Card & Socket services working to allow
me to
> > use the PCMCIA ethernet and PCMCIA modem cards.
> >
> > PCMCIA CARDS:
> >    1) Linksys Combo (not really) PCMCIA Ethernet Card (Model: EC2T)
> >    2) 3Com Megahertz 56K Global Modem PC Card (Model: 3CCM156)
> >    3) Adaptec SlimSCSI APA-1460A (Part#:997400)
> >
> >
========================================================================
=========
> > I've spent a couple weeks trying to get IBM Card & Socket services
going.
> > Warp 4 GA PCMCIA support, updated to FP9, then FP11.  Also tried
the much
> > touted IBM PC Card Director for the thinkpad 765 per Dr Martinus
NoteBook/2
> > Website below:
> >
> > <A HREF="http://www.os2ss.com/users/DrMartinus/">
> >
> > Does anyone have any PCMCIA cards running on Warp (4) on the "exact-
same" laptop?
> >  What is the name/date/size/version of your Card & Socket services
drivers?
> >  What's the magic incantation you use?  Do you use reserve.sys? and
if so, what?
> >
> > The laptop in question uses the TI PCI-1131 CardBus controller.  My
Dell Latitude
> > CPi D233ST laptop has Bios vA03 and I cannot find earlier/later
versions at Dell.
> >
> > I am considering the TouchStone driver, but there is CO$TLY support
attached
> > at US $1082/day or US $216/hr.
> >
> > <A
HREF="http://www.os2ss.com/users/DrMartinus/TouchStoneCardWareDriver.htm
">
> >
> > Thanks in advance for any help,
> > Randy Petersen <rpeterse@ix.netcom.com>
> > Warp 4 engaged.
> >
> > /*------------------------------------------------------------------
----*
> >   Posted with MR/2 ICE v1.51 (#10203) courtesy of In-Joy Pro on OS/2
> >   Please also email replies to: Randy Petersen
<rpeterse@ix.netcom.com>
> > *-------------------------------------------------------------------
---*/
>
> Not the exact same laptop, but according to
>  ( http://support.dell.com/oti/systems/pmojav/Specs.htm )
> ... they are about the same.
>
> I have a DELL CPi D266XT with TI PCI 1131 Cardbus controller
> and it's running OS/2 Warp V4 (No fixpaks).
>
> No "Reserve.sys" used.
>
> PCMCIA Socket Services Driver used is = "SS2PCIC2.SYS".
> "    "  "  Date is "6-16-97" (time stamp = 11:01a)
> "    "  "  Size is "19381 bytes"
> "    "  "  Rev. = 1.0 (Beta release)
>
> I have a 3COM Ethernet PC Card (Model 3C589D) installed and
> working perfectly fine.
>
>  	PC Card NIC: I/O=300, IRQ=10
>
> For my modem I used PSION DACOM 56K+Fax Gold Card Multi-function
> card. This also works great.
>
> My setup under PCMCIA "Auto Configurator Utility/2"
> is for "Selected Cards"
> 	Modem Card (3E8)
> 	  Edit settings look like: I/O=0x3E8 IRQ=4 Com#=0xff
> 	Modem Card (3F8)
> 	  Edit settings look like: I/O=0x3F8 IRQ=4 Com#=0xff
>
>  ...the modem gets COM Port 3. with I/O=2F8, IRQ=3
>
> Hope this helps.
> If you like I can send you the SS2PCIC2.SYS I have.
> Thanks.
>
> --
>
>                                       Tony,
>
> ******************************************************
> | Tony Saucedo                                       |
> | EAGLE Traffic Control Systems                      |
> | Austin, Texas                                      |
> |                                                    |
> | E-mail: Tony.Saucedos@eagletcs.com                 |
> |                                                    |
> | For E-mail Reply make the id singular (- the s)    |
> ******************************************************
>


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From: raymond.heath@pss.boeing.com                      11-Sep-99 00:39:17
  To: All                                               11-Sep-99 04:50:26
Subj: SoundBlaster-16 PNP, no sound in WARP4

From: Ray <raymond.heath@pss.boeing.com>

All,
Installed DOS6.22 and WIN3.1 with all drivers for system hardware. I
have sound, video, modem, CDROM, and IDE ZIP drive.

Installed WARP 4 on top of that and have everything but sound. I have
had it before, and when I reboot to DOS/WIN I still have it, just not in
WARP.

When to the hardware manager and made sure that the SB Vibra-16 PNP
driver was installed, still no sound. 

Hmmmmmm

Raymond

The frog is boiling, he just doesn't know it yet

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From: jdc0014@InfoNET.st-johns.nf.ca                    11-Sep-99 01:34:10
  To: All                                               11-Sep-99 04:50:26
Subj: Re: Astra 610P scanner, anyone using it in Warp?

From: jdc0014@InfoNET.st-johns.nf.ca (John Hong)

jbrush@aros.net wrote:

: Well, the software works, and it is a nice scanner, but no matter what I
: try, I cannot use an app to scan, and then print, without first quitting
: the scan application.

	What does your BASEDEV=PRINT01.SYS look like?  Is there a /IRQ 
switch on it?  Have you tried using the BIDI.EXE (IEEE-1284 printer 
driver) with it?

: PSP, the stuff that comes with the scanner, even the copier function
: requires that I shut down the copier app before it will print. The print
: window pops up, and shows the big red X and says the device is in use.

	Will probably be a common problem since you are using two PP 
devices.  No offense, but the PP should only be used for the printer and 
nothing else.  Have you tried upgrading the VistaScan stuff?  I know UMAX 
has the latest version available, even for the PP (VistaScan 3.5).

ftp://ftp.umax.com/



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From: jbrush@aros.net                                   10-Sep-99 19:51:01
  To: All                                               11-Sep-99 04:50:26
Subj: Re: Astra 610P scanner, anyone using it in Warp?

From: jbrush@aros.net

>: PSP, the stuff that comes with the scanner, even the copier function
>: requires that I shut down the copier app before it will print. The print
>: window pops up, and shows the big red X and says the device is in use.

>	Will probably be a common problem since you are using two PP  devices. 
>No offense, but the PP should only be used for the printer and  nothing

Non taken. I am soliciting any advice I can get :) 

The scanner is on its own port at LPT2, while the printer is on LPT1 
Makes no difference. I am stumped, to say the least.

>else.  Have you tried upgrading the VistaScan stuff?  I know UMAX  has
>the latest version available, even for the PP (VistaScan 3.5).

Can't hurt to try. Thanks.

John

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From: jejs@verinet.com                                  10-Sep-99 22:26:01
  To: All                                               11-Sep-99 04:50:26
Subj: FAT32 and OS/2

From: "John E. Jones" <jejs@verinet.com>

OK, I understand with OS/2 Ver 3, you would need to install a FAT 32 driver
to read FAT32. Here's another question though, say I do not want to use any
FAT32's with OS/2. Would OS/2 see them at all, if the driver is not
installed? If it did see them, would it scamble them? The reason that I ask
is because FAT16 and FAT32 will see each other, and promptly destroy one
another under certain conditions.

John
jejs@verinet.com



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From: jdb@juliand.com                                   10-Sep-99 23:26:19
  To: All                                               11-Sep-99 04:50:26
Subj: Re: Setting Up TCP/IP in WinOS2

From: Julian Dominic <jdb@juliand.com>


Dan Casey wrote:

>
>
> 4)   in your TCPIP\DOS\ETC directory there is a file called 'resolv' that
has the same info as in
>     \TCPIP\ETC\RESOLV
>

Everything else checks out except I do not have the  \TCPIP\ETC\RESOLV file. 
I do have the DOS version though.  It has
my domain name servers in it.  Should I go into the LAN TCPCONIG book and add
host entries?  I used to have this filled
out when I was using the DOS Box.

Thanks

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From: jejs@verinet.com                                  10-Sep-99 23:02:16
  To: All                                               11-Sep-99 04:50:26
Subj: Another newbie question

From: "John E. Jones" <jejs@verinet.com>

How do you know what FixPack you need?

John
jejs@verinet.com


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From: astro103@my-deja.com                              11-Sep-99 05:21:28
  To: All                                               11-Sep-99 04:50:26
Subj: sys 1475

From: astro103@my-deja.com

I'm getting two errors messages following the first phase of installing
Warp 4.I know that the boot manager is there on the c: disk but it fails
saying there's no boot manager.I'm using scsi drives.What's the problem


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From: donnelly@tampabay.rr.com                          11-Sep-99 05:24:16
  To: All                                               11-Sep-99 04:50:26
Subj: Re: Another newbie question

From: donnelly@tampabay.rr.com (Buddy Donnelly)

On Sat, 11 Sep 1999 05:02:33, "John E. Jones" <jejs@verinet.com> a crit 
dans un message:

> How do you know what FixPack you need?
> 

Just use the latest one, in your language. Each FP contains all the fixes 
that went before it.


Good luck,

Buddy

Buddy Donnelly
donnelly@tampabay.rr.com


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From: readan@ukonline.co.uk                             11-Sep-99 06:46:24
  To: All                                               11-Sep-99 04:50:26
Subj: LPT1

From: "readan" <readan@ukonline.co.uk>

cannot configure parallel port please help if you can.


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From: readan@ukonline.co.uk                             11-Sep-99 06:47:21
  To: All                                               11-Sep-99 04:50:26
Subj: LPT1

From: "readan" <readan@ukonline.co.uk>

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From: rdunham@inficad.com                               10-Sep-99 22:55:00
  To: All                                               11-Sep-99 04:50:27
Subj: Help Orb SCSI on TP385XD.....

From: "RDunham" <rdunham@inficad.com>

FYI:  I just bought an Orb external SCSI unit.  Plugged it in and the system
recognized the drive but will not read the disk.  

Performed a shutdown and then rebooted with the disk in and upto speed.

Same happened again.

The unit will eject the disk but will not recognize the disk to format.  It
thinks that it is a floppy with the format window that does finally open. 
The disk is Mac formatted.

Does anyone have any suggestions?

Regards:  Dick


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From: szrob@ns.net                                      10-Sep-99 22:37:16
  To: All                                               11-Sep-99 04:50:27
Subj: A Retunie Question

From: "John Roberts" <szrob@ns.net>

Greetings all:

 Having spent the last eighteen months learning Linux and win95, I have
returned to my first love, OS2.
I see some things have changed; for the better.  When I left netscape 404 had
just come out and was putting lines in the  *.gif's.  Not so now.
My question is, what order should be used when installing the following;
java
netscape
fix-packs.
Additionally, I am running Warp4 box stock.  I remember trying fix-pack 4 and
it not working well.  What fix-pack level would be the least damaging ?  Is
#3 still around?
TIA
John Roberts


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From: readan@ukonline.co.uk                             11-Sep-99 06:54:00
  To: All                                               11-Sep-99 04:50:27
Subj: Re: LPT1

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From: jdb@juliand.com                                   11-Sep-99 01:03:11
  To: All                                               11-Sep-99 04:50:27
Subj: I Got it Working!  Was Re: TCP/IP Not Working in WinOS2

From: Julian Dominic <jdb@juliand.com>

Thanks for all the tips.  They were clues that got me focused.  Here's what
I did.
First of all I did not copy the tcpip\dos\bin files to the winos2 directory
structure.
I did put tcpip\dos\bin at the beginning of the PATH statement, but this did
not change the situtation.
I noticed that I had another file in the tcpip\dos\etc directory called
RESOLV.ORG.  It had the following information

domain com
nameserver 199.182.120.203
nameserver 199.182.120.202

The nameservers were the same as the RESOLV file.  But there was no domain
com statement.  I added domain com to the RESOLV file.  Everything worked
fine after that.

The six point that Dan Casey are true.

I think the problem is that when TCP/IP installs it is confusing what it is
talking about when it asks you to configure the interfaces.  My
configuration thinks I'm attached to a LAN.  When TCP/IP was a separate
product, there was a configuration application that let you set up
nameservers and the like.  In WARP a similar application is there but it
seems to only apply to LANs.  The only things I put in there are the
nameservers and subnet mask on the first tab, which I believe is the
interface.  If you go into here be sure not to select anything other than
manual for interface enable.  If you do select enable automatically or
DHCP,  boot up will pause while config.sys is being parsed because the
network is not available.  I don't think it is necessary to use this
application to setup TCP/IP for dialup.  You probably have to manually edit
the RESOLV file, but the nameservers are in the setup of all the dialers
that I use in OS/2.

One other thing I discovered:  Test to see if TCP/IP is recognized by DOS.
I found that DOS thought there was a network even though WinOS2 applications
like Opera and Quicken didn't.  To test, ping someone you know like your
DNS.  Even though Quicken is able to use the connection, it is so Microsoft
IE centric that doesn't recognize that there are other internet connections
and that Opera is a browser.  This is the way Quicken 98 has always worked.
You of course do not want to let Quicken install IE 3.02.  It installs its
own winsock.dll.

I hope this helps.

Julian Dominic wrote:

> This used to work until I had to replace my system hard drive.  My first
>
> TCP/IP configuration was OS/2 2.1 with TCP/IP V2 + Dos Box.  As I
> upgraded
> over this TCP/IP worked fine in all environments.  When I installed a
> new
> hard drive and rebuilt the system to where it is today, Warp 4, Fixpak
> 11.
> TCP/IP in DOS WinOS2 is not recognized.  Everything seems to be set up
> correctly.
>
> My autoexec says:
> PATH=C:\OS2;C:\OS2\MDOS;C:\;C:\OS2\MDOS\WINOS2;c:\tcpip\dos\bin;
> SET ETC=c:\tcpip\dos\etc
>
> winsock.dll is in c:\tcpip\dos\bin.  It is the only one.
> The RESOLV files have entries for my DNS.
>
> What am I missing?
>
> Thanks



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From: jdb@juliand.com                                   11-Sep-99 01:20:05
  To: All                                               11-Sep-99 04:50:27
Subj: Re: A Retunie Question

From: Julian Dominic <jdb@juliand.com>

I reinstalled recently because I inadvertently converted my Warp partition to
FAT32 when I was trying to setup a Linux partition.  That hurt.  But it did
give
me a chance to correct an error and make my WARP partition HPFS.

Here's the order I installed things:

Warp base.
Java with Warp base.
I would go to Fixpak 5 or 10.  Y2K support is in 5 and I believe 5 is the
fixpak
that support removeable media and drives greater than 8 meg.  Fixpak 11 has a
small architectural purity glitch.  Apparently the archive bit gets turned on
directories when they are read.  Some applications can't handle this extra
information.  In my case it was WordPro and PostRoad Mailer.  PRM "loses"
folders
even though they are there.  WordPro quits saving files to these updated
directories.  IBM is going to put it back like it used to be in fixpak12 which 
is
due sometime next quarter.  There are two threads that discuss this:  fixpak11
and Postroad losing folders.
Next I installed Netscape.  Netscape won't work correctly on the Warp base.
Check the Netscape requirements for Fixpak.  I'm not sure if 5 is high enough.

Good luck

John Roberts wrote:

> Greetings all:
>
>  Having spent the last eighteen months learning Linux and win95, I have
> returned to my first love, OS2.
> I see some things have changed; for the better.  When I left netscape 404
had
> just come out and was putting lines in the  *.gif's.  Not so now.
> My question is, what order should be used when installing the following;
> java
> netscape
> fix-packs.
> Additionally, I am running Warp4 box stock.  I remember trying fix-pack 4
and
> it not working well.  What fix-pack level would be the least damaging ?  Is
> #3 still around?
> TIA
> John Roberts



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From: donnelly@tampabay.rr.com                          11-Sep-99 06:21:06
  To: All                                               11-Sep-99 04:50:27
Subj: Re: LPT1

From: donnelly@tampabay.rr.com (Buddy Donnelly)

On Sat, 11 Sep 1999 05:46:48, "readan" <readan@ukonline.co.uk> a crit dans
un message:

> cannot configure parallel port please help if you can.

You're leaving a bit too much to the imagination here. Why don't you 
describe what you're trying to end up doing?

And the messages where you've got MIME and HTML turned "Off" are the most 
comfortable for the rest of us to read and answer, by the way.


Good luck,

Buddy

Buddy Donnelly
donnelly@tampabay.rr.com


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From: rsteiner@visi.com                                 11-Sep-99 01:28:08
  To: All                                               11-Sep-99 10:18:22
Subj: Re: Another newbie question

From: rsteiner@visi.com (Richard Steiner)

Here in comp.os.os2.setup.misc, "John E. Jones" <jejs@verinet.com>
spake unto us, saying:

>How do you know what FixPack you need?

For the base OS/2?  Each FixPak for OS/2 contains all previous FixPaks,
so generally "the latest one that seems to work well for others" is the
one I tend to apply.

-- 
   -Rich Steiner  >>>--->  rsteiner@visi.com  >>>---> Bloomington, MN
     OS/2 + Linux + BeOS + FreeBSD + Solaris + WinNT4 + Win95 + DOS
      + VMWare + Fusion + vMac + Executor = PC Hobbyist Heaven! :-)
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From: fat_ox@hotmail.com                                11-Sep-99 11:54:01
  To: All                                               11-Sep-99 10:18:23
Subj: How to uninstall Netware?

From: "OS/2 Fan" <fat_ox@hotmail.com>

Hello all,
	Warp 4 FP9, TCPIP 4.1, Netware 2.12 and an SMC 8000 NIC to
connect to a Novell 3.x server at work.  Now I've brought the PC
home...  My system is no longer on a LAN, it's using a modem for PPP
instead.  I don't need the Netware Requester any more, but cannot
figure out how to cleanly get rid of it.  TCPCFG.exe says I don't
have NLS installed and then comes up completely blank, so I can't use
that, and REMming out all the lines in config.sys is tedious, plus I
might mess up the TCPIP stuff needed for my modem connection.  Any
advice?  TIA!  
XL
Regards,
Xtralarge OS/2 fan	
Opinions expressed are mine only.  Ignore them and
killfile me.  Leave the University alone, I don't speak for them,
they have nothing to do with it, and they probably have 
more lawyers than you anyway.



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From: rk@adis.at                                        11-Sep-99 11:18:29
  To: All                                               11-Sep-99 10:18:23
Subj: Re: Scroll mouse won't install

From: Richard Koestenberger <rk@adis.at>

You must unpack the file by calling
scrollms.exe -d


On Fri, 10 Sep 1999 15:06:16 +1100, David Zuidema
<David.Zuidema@sci.monash.edu.au> wrote:

>I downloaded the latest scrollms.exe and tried to install my new
>logitech scrollmouse. The readme file states that language directories
>are created (they're not). The install program complains about no
>language support and then that there are no resources available. On
>reboot the wps hangs. I have to boot to a command line reinstall the
>original mouse.sys and delete wpstkmou.dll from \os2\dll for everything
>to work again.
>Has anyone else experienced this ? Is it a buggy scrollms.exe archive ?

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From: fuzzies@ibm.net                                   11-Sep-99 09:40:06
  To: All                                               11-Sep-99 10:18:23
Subj: Java & missing class or something - what is the something?

From: fuzzies@ibm.net (T. Bartlett)

Am running OS/2 V4, FP 11, Java 118 (was 117 but I changed to try and fix this
problem).

To install the Citrix ICA client it is necessary to run setup.class. I have
been doing the following:

f:
cd \tmp\Citrix_ica
java setup

This returns the error message

'Can't find class setup or something it requires'

Dragging and dropping onto the run java prog icon returns the same error. In
fact dropping any of the .class files I tried returned the error message. I
regularly use three java progs (HotJava Browser, IRC client and ICQ), these
all run fine.

As far as I can establish the path has been correctly updated to point to the
\Java\bin directory and the libpath to the \Java\lib path (cases are correct).

What am I missing? 

Thanks in advance
Ted



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From: zayne@omen.com.au                                 11-Sep-99 09:21:02
  To: All                                               11-Sep-99 10:18:23
Subj: Re: Problem with installation of WSeB

From: zayne@omen.com.au (Mooo)

"Trevor Hemsley" <Trevor-Hemsley@dial.pipex.com> wrote:

>->I tried it with the original WSeB installation disks, but the system 
>->reboots before showing any driver information.
>
>First thing I'd do in this situation is to remake the diskettes using
>fresh shiny new ones from the CD using the CDINST.CMD that IBM usually
>place in the root directory.

I  had really queer problem recently that may or may not shed some
light.

During a software rebuild of a machine that has been stable and
working for over 12 months I found I could not boot off the install
diskettes.  It simply hung, but well -after- ibm1s506 was loaded.

After making multitudes of new diskettes, and trying to boot off known
good 'rescue' disks I had previously made I was nearly ready to tear
out my hair.

As a last ditch effort, I removed all the non essential cards from the
system and it booted fine.  I then replaced them one at a time till
the problem reoccured.  It turned out to be the sound card.  Its an
ISA PnP device (1868).  Now the really weird thing was that after a
bit more fiddling, the card turned out to be fine, but somehow the PnP
bios stuff has become confused and needed to be reset.

Luckily my bios allowed a reset of the PnP stuff, and now it all works
fine.

Its a long shot I know, but you might try a similar approach.  Plonk
in an old (known good) VGA controller, your SCSI controller, and not
much else, reset the PnP in your bios and see if things get better.

At the very least, with a stripped down system, you should be able to
boot from the install diskettes (choose 'go to command line') even if
yuo cannot in fact complete a full install.  If this works, its a
matter of finding the 'dud' hardware or bad driver for a particular
piece of hardware.

Best of luck,
Craig

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From: zayne@omen.com.au                                 11-Sep-99 09:36:07
  To: All                                               11-Sep-99 10:18:23
Subj: Re: printing through SCSI

From: zayne@omen.com.au (Mooo)

Stephen Eickhoff <eickhsr@jm-usa.com> wrote:

>> I got this trusty Apple LaserWriter. It works fine on this Apple IIcx I
>> got with it.
>> The IIcx did not come with a network card though ! So I want to run it
>> on a x86 system (OS/2 workstation or server, Linux , Windows95/98, NT
>> workstation or server).
>> The printer is SCSI and likes my SCSI controllers.

Are you sure its a SCSI printer?

I'm certainly no guru when it comes to Macs, but I dont think I've
ever heard of a printer hanging off a SCSI port.

Cheers,
Craig

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From: zayne@omen.com.au                                 11-Sep-99 09:40:02
  To: All                                               11-Sep-99 10:18:23
Subj: Re: Help Orb SCSI on TP385XD.....

From: zayne@omen.com.au (Mooo)

AFAIK the Orb wil lnot work with OS/2

The box and docos state that it will, but castlewood thenselves are
apprently having a problem with the drivers.

Cheers,
Craig

"RDunham" <rdunham@inficad.com> wrote:

>FYI:  I just bought an Orb external SCSI unit.  Plugged it in and the system
>recognized the drive but will not read the disk.  
>
>Performed a shutdown and then rebooted with the disk in and upto speed.
>
>Same happened again.
>
>The unit will eject the disk but will not recognize the disk to format.  It
>thinks that it is a floppy with the format window that does finally open. 
>The disk is Mac formatted.
>
>Does anyone have any suggestions?
>
>Regards:  Dick
>
>

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From: mc6530@mclink.it                                  11-Sep-99 13:29:14
  To: All                                               11-Sep-99 20:32:14
Subj: Re: Sound Blasters?

From: mc6530@mclink.it (Yuri Dario)

On Thu, 9 Sep 1999 07:53:19, "John E. Jones" <jejs@verinet.com> wrote:

> Will the newer Sound Blaster cards work with OS/2?


SB 64 works with the new ensoniq ES1371 driver. Maybe also 128 could 
work.

Bye,

	Yuri Dario

/*
 * member of TeamOS/2 - Italy
 * http://www.quasarbbs.com/yuri
 */

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From: bloggs@anonymous.nut                              11-Sep-99 15:00:05
  To: All                                               11-Sep-99 20:32:14
Subj: Uninstalling OS/2 Warp 3.0

From: "anonymous" <bloggs@anonymous.nut>

Can anyone provide suggestions for uninstalling OS/2 from a partition ??

Formatting it is not an option !!

Thanks in advance....  T.B.


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From: fat_ox@hotmail.com                                11-Sep-99 17:08:18
  To: All                                               11-Sep-99 20:32:14
Subj: Re: Uninstalling OS/2 Warp 3.0

From: "OS/2 Fan" <fat_ox@hotmail.com>

There is an executable or utility or command file (memories...  I've
no idea any more...) called OSDELETE.  Look for it on your boot
partition and also on the installation floppies.   Sorry I can't be
more specific but I've not worked with Warp 3 in 3 years.  It's there
somewhere though, and that's what you need.  It'll take out all the
OS files but should leave everything else on your partition intact. 
I recommend testing on another HD if at all possible; if not, back up
the partition and launch OSDELETE - if something goes wrong, you'll
still have your data.  Nothing should go wrong but I like being
cautious.  I hope this helps; if you don't have OSDELETE somewhere
(doubt it but...) post again on this ng and we'll go from there. 
Good luck!
XL

Regards,
Xtralarge OS/2 fan	
Opinions expressed are mine only.  Ignore them and
killfile me.  Leave the University alone, I don't speak for them,
they have nothing to do with it, and they probably have 
more lawyers than you anyway.



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From: dwparsons@t-online.de                             11-Sep-99 16:23:01
  To: All                                               11-Sep-99 20:32:14
Subj: Re: Recommended PCMCIA modem and 10/100 ethernet?

From: dwparsons@t-online.de (Dave Parsons)

On Fri, 10 Sep 1999 12:17:05, jknott@ibm.net (James Knott) wrote:

> 
> Xircom has a 100/10 ethernet & V.90 modem card, with OS/2 drivers.  It
> apparently also works with Linux.  The card takes two PCMCIA slots and
> has an RJ45 and two RJ11 jacks right on the card, so you don't need 
> any special adapters.  It's also available from IBM.
> 
> -- 
> E-mail jknott@ca.ibm.com
> _________________________________________________________________________
> The above opinions are my own and not those of ISM Corp., a subsidiary of
> IBM Canada Ltd.

I presume that you are referring to the Realport Ethernet 10/100+Modem 56.
A very tidy solution, and according to Xircom, it also supports ISDN with an
adapter.

I already have their CM33 modem card and it works well. I would now
like to upgrade to the Realport Ethernet 10/100+Modem 56, but I can not
find anyone selling them here in Germany.

Does anyone know of an end user supplier, preferably in Europe?

-- 
Dave

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From: silkt@ibm.net                                     11-Sep-99 14:53:06
  To: All                                               11-Sep-99 20:32:14
Subj: IBM T55D Digital flat panel Monitor

From: silkt@ibm.net

Anyone installed a IBM T55D monitor in OS/2? It comes with a modified
Matrox AGP G200 card that only has a VESA (P&D) digital output.

Machine has only VGA drivers installed. Bios screens come up then the 
os2logo screen then the screen goes black with a flashing green light.
Tried the bios update on the IBM site with no change. Drdos runs fine.

Thanks for any ideas

Todd Silk
silkt@ibm.net

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From: weismer@erols.com                                 11-Sep-99 11:53:04
  To: jdc0014@InfoNET.st-johns.nf.ca                    11-Sep-99 20:32:14
Subj: (1/2) Re: Backup & Defragmentation 3.1 (Sept. 7, 1999)

To: John Hong <jdc0014@InfoNET.st-johns.nf.ca>
From: Murray Weismer <weismer@erols.com>

I've made all of this painless with the DreckBak for OS/2 backup/restore
utility suite. It uses info-zip as the compression engine.
 I've yet to see any os2 file not backed up because of being "locked".
I've backed up from the booted partition, re-formatted and restored many
times without a problem. There are a few files from my DOS based
Wildcat4 BBS that are locked by wildcat to prevent another node from
accessing it while in use, and these are the only files that I've ever
seen that are not processed. (and only if there is a user online during
the backup) These files are reported by the extensive logging built into
DreckBak.

It's available on my site, below, and at many popular OS2 sites (BMT,
Hobbes)


John Hong wrote:
> 
>                   Backup & Defragmentation 3.1
> 
>      This is just a little primer drawn up in order to help OS/2
> users to use common compression utilities such as PkZip for
> backing up their OS/2 drives.
>      Another use for this is also to fight against fragmentation.
> OS/2's HPFS file system does not fragment like the way FAT drives
> do, but it does become susceptible to it when the drive is almost
> full.  So, the best remedy is to backup the data, format the
> partition, then unarchive the backup back to the original
> partition and you are back in business.
>      Prior to doing this, be sure to create boot disks in order
> to compress/uncompress the backup files.  You can use either the
> Create Utility Diskettes option in OS/2's System Folder or (a
> better option) use BootOS/2 in order to make them.  BootOS/2 in
> particular is more advantageous since it would only need two 3.5"
> 1.44 MB diskettes over the three needed by OS/2 Warp 3 & Connect
> and the four for OS/2 Warp 4.  Plus, one can also use LxLite
> compression with BootOS/2 in order to save that little extra bit
> of disk space necessary.  As well, you can probably use it for an
> LS-120 or ZIP disk whereas the Utility Diskettes option would not
> support it.  BootOS/2 can be found at the Hobbes OS/2 Archive
> (http://hobbes.nmsu.edu).  LxLite can be found at LEO
> (http://www.leo.org).
>      EXTRA: It is a good idea to make your backups booting
> through your bootdisks since there maybe locked files that won't
> be compressed.  Locked files are files that are currently in use
> by OS/2 and will not allow any kind of manipulation from the user
> to take place.
>      EXTRA EXTRA: Before making a backup, it maybe a good idea to
> run CHKDSK from the bootable floppies first.  Another thing, make
> sure you run CHKDSK (CHKDSK X: /F:2) twice in a row.  I picked up
> this little tidbit from the "OS/2 Warp Unleashed" book by SAMS
> Publishing (fine book, BTW).  It is found in Chapter 18, dealing
> with troubleshooting on page 941:
> 
>      "Note that if you running HPFS, then you should
>      periodically run CHKDSK C: /F:2 twice.  The first pass
>      checks and cleans the primary HPFS structures, and the
>      second pass checks and clears the secondary HPFS
>      structures."
> 
>      BTW: When I say it was tested personally under an OS/2
> system, it means that I had tested it under a bootable OS/2
> partition and not just a partition with data on it.
> 
>      Updates:
> 
>      * Warp for e-Business
>      * Windows 95 - FAT32
> 
>      To Do List:
> 
>      * Testing ARJ/2 2.6x once it gets out of beta
> 
> 
>       *NEW*UPDATE* Warp for e-Business *UPDATE*NEW*
> 
>      Okay, now that you've seent this, I have read of a user
> on Usenet trying to use RAR/2 2.50 in order to backup their
> Warp for e-Business partition.  It didn't work, apparently
> the EA's were trashed.  Possibly this may have something to
> do with the new LVM and JFS.  I don't know since I do not have
> Warp for e-Business, and thus have no way of verifying.  So at
> this point in time it is best not to try using any of these
> methods for backing up Warp for e-Business.
> 
> -----------------------------------------------------------------
> Overall
> -----------------------------------------------------------------
> Compression    | Disk Spanning | Requires PM |  Recovery | EA's |
> -----------------------------------------------------------------
> PkZip/2 2.50   |      Yes      |     Yes     |    Yes    |  Yes |
> Info-Zip 2.22  |       No      |      No     |    Yes    |  Yes |
> RAR/2 2.50     |      Yes      |      No     |    Yes    |  Yes |
> ARJ/2 2.62 Beta|      Yes      |      No     |    Yes    |   No |
> -----------------------------------------------------------------
> Disk Spanning: Ability to support multiple archives.  Basically
>      once the disk or cartridge is full, it can ask the user to
>      insert another disk or cartridge in order for it continue.
>      A Yes is good.
> Requires PM: Does the compression program require the PM,
>      Presentation Manager.  This is OS/2's GUI.  A no is a good
>      answer since it would be impossible to boot OS/2 up with
>      regular floppies with the PM (unless it was a ZIP/LS-120
>      booting with A: drive).
> Recovery: Ability to recover/fix a corrupt archive, ie. PkZipFix.
>      A yes here is a good answer.  If the file is corrupt you can
>      at least salvage something from it.
> EA's: Ability to save OS/2's Extended Attributes.  A yes here is
>      a must for OS/2.
> -----------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> Info-Zip for OS/2 (v2.22)
> http://www.cdrom.com/pub/infozip/
> 
>      Works very well under OS/2.  Use the following switches:
> 
> zip -rS$ (destination/name of backup) *
> 
> example:
> 
> zip -rS$ F:\BACKUP.ZIP *
> 
>      Stick unzip.exe onto your OS/2 bootdisks, to restore the
> drive simply:
> 
> unzip (name of backup)
> 
> example:
> 
> C: (being where I want it unzipped)
> unzip F:\BACKUP.ZIP
> 
>      Info-Zip is fine if you are just going to back it up to
> another partition or have a removable media drive large enough to
> fit it.  Currently, Info-Zip is not able to handle disk spanning.
> It is a future feature to be added according to their home
> webpage when 3.0 comes out.
> 
> Personally tested under a Warp 4 system (no FP's).
> 
> -----------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> PkZip for OS/2 (v2.50)
> http://www.pkware.com
> 
>      Another that works well under OS/2.  Perhaps a little better
> than Info-Zip since PkZip does handle disk spanning.  Use the
> following switch:
> 
> pkzip /add /attr=all /dir=full /rec /volume=(drive letter)
>      (destination/name of backup) *
> 
> example:
> 
> pkzip /add /attr=all /dir=full /rec /volume=C F:\BACKUP.ZIP *
> 
>      To enable disk spanning, add the /span switch before the
> /volume one.
>      Take note, use pkzip.exe, do not use pkzip2.cmd or else it
> will simply fail and just zip up the volume label in a file
> called "all.zip".
> 
>      Now to uncompress the archive, simply go:
> 
> pkzip /attr=all /dir=full /extract /mask=none /rec /volume=C
>      (destination/name of backup)
> 
> example:
> 
> pkzip /attr=all /dir=full /extract /mask=none /rec /volume=C
> F:\BACKUP.ZIP C:
> 
> Personally tested under a Warp 4 system (no FP's).
> 
>      Extra Note: Apparently the geniuses at PkWare designed PkZip
> for OS/2 needing the Presentation Manager.  So, using the boot
> disks from the Create Utility Disks function will not work.  The
> only way for BootOS/2 to get this to work is with the TYPE=PM
> option.  This of course will require a bootable device large
> enough to handle the extra data.  So really you are going to need
> a bootable ZIP or LS-120 device in order to get this working.
> With that said, you can use unzip.exe in order to uncompress the
> pkzipped files.  But, that has a problem too.  Currently UnZip
> 5.40 will not be able to unzip multiple archives (like Zip 2.22).
> This is slated for the next major release (UnZip 6.00).
> 
> -----------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> RAR for OS/2 (v2.50)
> http://www.rarsoft.com
> 
>      Easiest one to use due to its Norton Commander-like
> interface.  Go into RAR's configuration (press F9, it is the
> first item on the menu) and make sure the following are checked
> on:
> 
>      X - Always Solid Archiving
>      X - Put Recovery Record
> 
>      X - Read Only
>      X - Hidden
>      X - System
>      X - Archive
> 
>      X - Save extended attributes
> 
>      It could also be a good idea to check on multimedia
> compression in order to get better compression.  The rest is
> merely of choice, especially the compression (six methods to
> choose) whether to be for the best compression (slowest) or no
> compression at all in simply storing the files (fastest).
>      In order to backup your OS/2 drive, simply hit the "+" key
> and push enter in order to highlight all the directories (or
> select whichever one's you intend to backup).  Push F5 in order
> to compress onto a disk/cart and use Autodetect method in order
> to ensure spanning across disks/carts (or you can specify exactly
> what size you want).  Very easy.
> 
>      Take Note: Do not use "UNRAR.EXE" to restore!
>      Otherwise you will get a "Desktop can not be found in
>      OS2.INI file, attempting to create Temporary Desktop"
>      error message, where the Temperary Desktop will also
>      fail, leaving you sitting at the PM with one OS/2
>      Window session.
> 
>      In order to restore, place RAR.EXE onto the OS/2 bootable
> diskettes.  Start RAR.EXE up, now go to wherever you have the
> file backed up to, enter it, this will allow you view the files
> that are compressed inside the archived file.  Once that is done,
> hit the "+" key and press enter in order to highlight all the
> files.  Now, press ALT-F4 in order to restore by choosing the
> destination.  Simply put in "C:" or wherever your original boot
> partition was.  Once all of it extracted, there you go.  I think
> we have a winner.
> 
> Personally tested under a Warp 4 system (no FP's) and a Warp 3
> system (FP40 applied).
> 
> -----------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> ARJ/2 (v2.62)
> http://hobbes.nmsu.edu
> 
>      I confess that I have not yet tested ARJ/2, but I wouldn't
> recommend using it just yet since it is still in a beta stage,
> and does not save EA's.  But you could use EAUTIL in order to do
> this for you, but that is a bit of a chore especially since the
> other compression utilities here can do this automatically.  So
> what would be the point?
>      To enable disk spanning for ARJ/2, use:
> 
> arj a -vxxxx
> 
>      xxxx = denotes the specific size you want it to be
> 
> -----------------------------------------------------------------
> 
>      Note: I only intend to write about currently supported
>      compression utilities.  In otherwords, LHA and ZOO for
>      instance I simply will ignore.  Neither one has been
>      updated since 1989-1993, and are relatively old and
>      obsolete given the others listed here.
> 
> Windows 95 - FAT32 (http://www.microsoft.com) - *NEW*
> 
>      So, you want to just dump OS/2 forever and head off into
> merry merry Windows 95 land?  Well, I have not had the
> opportunity to try this using Windows 95 on a VFAT partition,
> but under FAT32, there is simply no way you can backup a
> Windows 95 partition using stuff like PkZip for Windows or
> WinRAR.  The problem is that there are certain locked files
> at play.  PkZip for Windows did complete, but now you have the
> even bigger problem of trying to restore it from a bootdisk.
> Won't happen, I'm afraid.  When I tried this booting off of a
> Windows 95 boot disk, running PkZip 2.50's PkUnZip utility, it
> would not work because it complained of a lack of memory
> (apparently the FAT32 support on the bootdisk takes up a lot
> of memory as I'm always stuck with 542k conventional RAM).
> The last hope was RAR for DOS, but that too also complained of
> a lack of memory.  So, what's the point of using a Windows
> compression utility in order to backup the entire Windows 95
> partition if there is absolutely *NO* way of restoring it?
>      Now, where exactly am I going with all this?  Simple,
> thanks to the great FAT32 driver written by Henk Kelder, one
> can actually follow the exact methods listed here with the
> various compression utilities in order for OS/2 to backup
> Windows 95 through OS/2!  Using RAR/2 in the identical manner
> listed earlier will allow you to backup a Windows 95 partition.
> Once backed up, you can boot up with the Windows 95 bootdisk
> and then format the partition, re-boot back into OS/2 and use
> RAR/2 in order to restore the Windows 95 partition back to
> its previous state.  Now when you look at the disk with Norton
> Speedisk or booting Windows 95 up with a bootdisk in order to
> use ScanDisk (to see the entire disk information) you will see
> all the clusters neatly arranged in perfect order.  No
> fragmentation!  The advantage to using this method over using
> programs like Microsoft Defrag or Norton Speedisk is that they
> are not always perfect and can in fact at some times break
> files.  My motivation in going to all of this trouble was
> because after using Defrag, I found that one of my .WAV files
> in my Multimedia Themes was broken and could not be accessible.
> Imagine what else could break.
>      I have not tried using Info-ZIP or PkZip for OS/2, but
> I figure they would work with the same restrictions applied
> (ie. Info-Zip no disk spanning, PkZip needing the Presentation
> Manager).  In order to install Henk's FAT32 driver, I simply
> followed the quicky instructions he had listed in the FAT32.TXT
> file, using PARTFLT.FLT and not the OS2DASD.DMD file he had
> modifyed (on my OS/2 box it trapped as a result).  On the
> IFS=FAT32 line I did not have /EAS on (enabling Extended
> Attribute support).
>      So, do you *really* want to dump OS/2?  Didn't think
> so.  A question...could this method work with Linux?  There
> is a ext2 driver available for OS/2, that I know of.  Perhaps
> that is something else for me to try and play with! ;-)
> 
> CONCLUSION
> 
>      The best compression program for backing up OS/2 with is
> RAR/2, hands down.  Not only does it support disk spanning,

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From: weismer@erols.com                                 11-Sep-99 11:53:04
  To: jdc0014@InfoNET.st-johns.nf.ca                    11-Sep-99 20:32:14
Subj: (2/2) Re: Backup & Defragmentation 3.1 (Sept. 7, 1999)

> EA's, doesn't require the Presentation Manager, and can recover
> from corrupt archives, but it is also easy to use due to the
> text-based Norton Commander-like interface, so no messy command
> line switches to are necessary.  A great piece of work, indeed!
> Capable of backing up OS/2 onto another partition or onto
> multiple disks/cartridges making it right now, the emergency
> disaster recovery solution of choice out of the current crop of
> common compression utilities.
>      There are a few more coming, the next major release of
> Info-Zip (Zip 3.00 & UnZip 6.00) are being planned to support
> multiple archives.  ARJ/2 2.6x, currently in beta, is another
> possible choice to look at since it doesn't need the PM and
> supports disk spanning and recovery from corrupt archives.
> 
> BOOTOS/2 Notes:
> http://hobbes.nmsu.edu - latest version is 9.17
> 
>      There seems to be a problem with Warp Connect & FP39 when
> trying to make a BootOS/2 TARGET=x TYPE=PM partition.  It creates
> it fine, but when I boot it up, it freezes at the "OS/2" box that
> appears on the top left-hand corner.  Weird.  I could not boot
> to a PM partition (BOOTOS2 TARGET=x TYPE=PM) even when I was back
> down in FP26!  Same symptom occurs, during bootup it just freezes
> at the "OS/2" box on the top left-hand corner.  The samething
> also occurs in FP40, BTW.
>      Even making just the floppies seems to cause a small error
> with Warp 3 & Connect.  Under FP40, for instance, upon making the
> two disk system (BOOTOS2 2DISK=A) after loading up the first disk
> it would give me a blank screen and stop dead in its tracks,
> going no further.  The solution, copy SESMGR.DLL from your
> x:\OS2\DLL onto your BOOTOS2 disk 1 (A:\OS2\DLL).  This also
> happened under FP39, BTW.  If you do run into any other kind of
> problem with the BOOTOS2 floppies, press ALT-F2 upon booting up
> the diskettes just to see what happens.  On this occasion for
> example, upon pressing ALT-F2, the screen said that SESMGR.DLL
> was not installed in any of the LIBPATH directory statements on
> the diskette.
>      Warp 4 seems to have absolutely no issues whatsoever, either
> a TYPE=PM or 2DISK=A under any of the FP's I have used (FP1, FP6,
> & FP10).

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From: doug.bissett"at"ibm.net                           11-Sep-99 17:48:17
  To: All                                               11-Sep-99 20:32:15
Subj: Re: Help Orb SCSI on TP385XD.....

From: doug.bissett"at"ibm.net (Doug Bissett)

On Sat, 11 Sep 1999 09:40:05, zayne@omen.com.au (Mooo) wrote:

> AFAIK the Orb wil lnot work with OS/2
>  
> The box and docos state that it will, but castlewood thenselves are
> apprently having a problem with the drivers.
>  
> Cheers,
> Craig
> 

FYI, the SCSI, and the ATAPI (EIDE)  drives DO work with OS/2. The 
other models (PP, USB) will not work without a driver, which is 
supposed to be under construction. I don't know the details about the 
SCSI, but the ATAPI (EIDE) drive needs the latest IDE driver 
(IDEDASD.EXE). Get, and READ, the README.RMS file, that comes with the
new Device Driver Fixpack (this also contains the latest <?> IDE 
driver). It has a lot of good information about using removable media 
(I don't know how much, if any, of this information applies to the 
SCSI drives).

Hope this helps...
******************************
From the PC of Doug Bissett
doug.bissett at ibm.net
The " at " must be changed to "@"
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From: doug.bissett"at"ibm.net                           11-Sep-99 17:48:18
  To: All                                               11-Sep-99 20:32:15
Subj: Re: Help Orb SCSI on TP385XD.....

From: doug.bissett"at"ibm.net (Doug Bissett)

On Sat, 11 Sep 1999 05:55:00, "RDunham" <rdunham@inficad.com> wrote:

> The disk is Mac formatted.
>  
> Does anyone have any suggestions?
>  
> Regards:  Dick
>  

You may need to use the Windows tools to get it formatted to something
that OS/2 can recognize. 

I know of, at least, one case where the disk needs to have a FAT16 
Primary  partition so that OS/2 FDISK can remove that partition, and 
then create a new partition (or multiple partitions, if you wish). The
default PC formatted disks come with an Extended partition, formatted 
to FAT16, but OS/2 FDISK complains about an invalid partition table 
(as near as I can tell, it IS an invalid partition), and it will not 
do anything with the disk. After getting it set to a FAT16 Primary 
partition (using the Win tools), OS/2 FDISK could recognize it, and 
work with it. A MAC formatted disk would, probably, be "invalid" as 
well.

Hope this helps...
******************************
From the PC of Doug Bissett
doug.bissett at ibm.net
The " at " must be changed to "@"
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From: yuklchan@netvigator.com                           12-Sep-99 01:52:28
  To: All                                               11-Sep-99 20:32:15
Subj: Re: How to install Warp 4 in logical drive

From: "Yuk Lun Chan" <yuklchan@netvigator.com>

Since Warp 4 force me to install Warp in drive C. But I really want to have
OS/2 installed in a logical drive other then drive C. I want to install
Win95, NT and Linux with OS/2 using bootmanager. With Warp 2.11, I could do
so because it allows to install to other logical drive. But how to do in
Warp 4??


Trevor Hemsley <Trevor-Hemsley@dial.pipex.com> wrote in message
news:geribeurzfyrlqvnycvcrkpbz.fhti292.pminews@news.dial.pipex.com...
> On Thu, 9 Sep 1999 23:48:02 +0800, Yuk Lun Chan wrote:
>
> ->In OS/2 2.11, I can install the OS in any drive. But in Warp 4, the
advance
> ->installation only allow to install to C drive and the fdisk only allow
the
> ->primary partition to installable. I wonder can I install Warp 4 into
other
> ->logical drive any more. If it can be, how to do it?
>
> You must have the OS/2 Boot Manager installed on the first physical disk
> to allow you to install to a drive other than C:.
>
> Any intended installation partition must reside completely within the
> first 1024 cylinders of the disk (after any translation mechanism like LBA
> has taken effect). This effectively limits you to partitions within the
> first 8GB of any disk.
>
> There's a bug in the Warp 4 IDE drivers that stops them working with IDE
> drives greater than 4GB. Get new drivers from
> ftp://service.boulder.ibm.com/ps/products/os2/os2ddpak/idedasd.exe
>
>
> Trevor Hemsley, London, UK
> (Trevor-Hemsley@dial.pipex.com or 75704.2477@compuserve.com)
>
>
>


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From: nospam_hkelder@capgemini.nl                       11-Sep-99 19:56:18
  To: All                                               11-Sep-99 20:32:15
Subj: Re: FAT32 and OS/2

From: Henk kelder <nospam_hkelder@capgemini.nl>

John E. Jones wrote:
> 
> OK, I understand with OS/2 Ver 3, you would need to install a FAT 32 driver
> to read FAT32. Here's another question though, say I do not want to use any
> FAT32's with OS/2. Would OS/2 see them at all, if the driver is not
> installed? 

If you do not install PARTFILT.FLT your FAT32 will be totaly invisible.

> If it did see them, would it scamble them? The reason that I ask
> is because FAT16 and FAT32 will see each other, and promptly destroy one
> another under certain conditions.

don't understand what you are asking. Why should FAT16 and FAT32 destroy
one another? Which operating system are you talking about?

Henk

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From: Trevor-Hemsley@dial.pipex.com                     11-Sep-99 19:33:27
  To: All                                               11-Sep-99 21:32:23
Subj: Re: How to install Warp 4 in logical drive

From: "Trevor Hemsley" <Trevor-Hemsley@dial.pipex.com>

On Sun, 12 Sep 1999 01:52:57 +0800, Yuk Lun Chan wrote:

->Since Warp 4 force me to install Warp in drive C. But I really want to have
->OS/2 installed in a logical drive other then drive C. I want to install
->Win95, NT and Linux with OS/2 using bootmanager. With Warp 2.11, I could do
->so because it allows to install to other logical drive. But how to do in
->Warp 4??

I just gave you the rules that it follows. Read them again. The rules are
exactly the same for Warp 4 as they are for OS/2 2.11. Nothing has
changed. If it's "forcing" you to install to C: then you haven't followed
the rules.

->Trevor Hemsley <Trevor-Hemsley@dial.pipex.com> wrote in message
->news:geribeurzfyrlqvnycvcrkpbz.fhti292.pminews@news.dial.pipex.com...
->> On Thu, 9 Sep 1999 23:48:02 +0800, Yuk Lun Chan wrote:
->>
->> ->In OS/2 2.11, I can install the OS in any drive. But in Warp 4, the
->advance
->> ->installation only allow to install to C drive and the fdisk only allow
->the
->> ->primary partition to installable. I wonder can I install Warp 4 into
->other
->> ->logical drive any more. If it can be, how to do it?
->>
->> You must have the OS/2 Boot Manager installed on the first physical disk
->> to allow you to install to a drive other than C:.
->>
->> Any intended installation partition must reside completely within the
->> first 1024 cylinders of the disk (after any translation mechanism like LBA
->> has taken effect). This effectively limits you to partitions within the
->> first 8GB of any disk.
->>
->> There's a bug in the Warp 4 IDE drivers that stops them working with IDE
->> drives greater than 4GB. Get new drivers from
->> ftp://service.boulder.ibm.com/ps/products/os2/os2ddpak/idedasd.exe


Trevor Hemsley, London, UK
(Trevor-Hemsley@dial.pipex.com or 75704.2477@compuserve.com)



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From: cheljuba@prodigy.net                              11-Sep-99 15:51:21
  To: All                                               12-Sep-99 03:14:18
Subj: Re: printing through SCSI

From: cjt&trefoil <cheljuba@prodigy.net>

Mooo wrote:
> <snip> I dont think I've
> ever heard of a printer hanging off a SCSI port.
><snip>

There are some that do.  They're not very common, though.

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From: szrob@ns.net                                      11-Sep-99 13:29:04
  To: All                                               12-Sep-99 03:14:19
Subj: Javas and OS2

From: "John Roberts" <szrob@ns.net>

Greetings all;
  I have recently installed Warp4 and just now fix pak5. I also installed
netscape 404.   I do not write code. I don't program.  (Wish I did; but
that's another story <g>).  I am wondering just what level of Java I need to
use the internet. 
I looked at java 1.18 and it is 32+ megs big.  Do I need this much program
just so  web pages work?  Or can I use a lower level?
TIA
  John Roberts


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From: martin.schaffoener@student.uni-m...               11-Sep-99 21:34:26
  To: All                                               12-Sep-99 03:14:19
Subj: Re: Javas and OS2

Message sender: martin.schaffoener@student.uni-magdeburg.de

From: martin.schaffoener@student.uni-magdeburg.de (Martin Schaffner)

On Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:29:09, "John Roberts" <szrob@ns.net> wrote:

> Greetings all;
>   I have recently installed Warp4 and just now fix pak5. I also installed
> netscape 404.   I do not write code. I don't program.  (Wish I did; but
> that's another story <g>).  I am wondering just what level of Java I need to
> use the internet. 
> I looked at java 1.18 and it is 32+ megs big.  Do I need this much program
> just so  web pages work?  Or can I use a lower level?

Well, once installed, the java11 directory takes up about 14mb of 
space.  The file you can download is so large because all of the 
different installation languages are contained in this file.  Also, 
the Unicode font is quite large (some 18 mb or so).  Well, I guess it 
makes for about 32 mb.  But my experience is that java 1.1.8 is a real
performer, and it does not need 32mb of ram.


Martin Schaffner

Suzuki GS650G Katana
OS/2 Warp 4 with FixPak 11
There are currently 32 processes
with 118 threads active.
This machine's uptime 0h 56min 27sec.

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From: jbrush@aros.net                                   11-Sep-99 15:35:11
  To: All                                               12-Sep-99 03:14:19
Subj: Re: Javas and OS2

From: jbrush@aros.net

In <ikyxhngssaou.pminews@pm04-07.sac.verio.net>, on 09/11/99 at 01:29 PM,
   "John Roberts" <szrob@ns.net> said:

>Greetings all;
>  I have recently installed Warp4 and just now fix pak5. I also installed
>netscape 404.   I do not write code. I don't program.  (Wish I did; but
>that's another story <g>).  I am wondering just what level of Java I need
>to use the internet. 
>I looked at java 1.18 and it is 32+ megs big.  Do I need this much
>program just so  web pages work?  Or can I use a lower level?

You don't need any Java to use the internet. Some pages require it, but
they are few and far. You can surf most anywhere Java free.

Any Java you download will be huge, so if you are gonna get it, you might
visit www.os2ss.com or www.indelibleblue.com as they offer CD's with
fixpaks and java, and other good stuff for a fair price.

Good luck,

John




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From: Geert.Stevens@ping.be                             10-Sep-99 19:59:01
  To: All                                               12-Sep-99 05:23:09
Subj: Re: Scroll mouse won't install

From: Geert Stevens <Geert.Stevens@ping.be>

David, don't forget the -d parameter !
SCROLLMS -d

Geert

David Zuidema schreef:

> I downloaded the latest scrollms.exe and tried to install my new
> logitech scrollmouse. The readme file states that language directories
> are created (they're not). The install program complains about no
> language support and then that there are no resources available. On
> reboot the wps hangs. I have to boot to a command line reinstall the
> original mouse.sys and delete wpstkmou.dll from \os2\dll for everything
> to work again.
> Has anyone else experienced this ? Is it a buggy scrollms.exe archive ?
> --
> _________________________________________
> David Zuidema, Computer Resources Manager
> Department of Physics, Monash University
> (OS/2, PS/2 and Windoze too!)
> http://www.physics.monash.edu.au/~davidz



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From: jejs@verinet.com                                  12-Sep-99 00:34:03
  To: All                                               12-Sep-99 10:18:25
Subj: Memory question

From: "John E. Jones" <jejs@verinet.com>

Does Warp 3.0 have any memory issues when it comes to systems with a alot? I
have 128MB, will this cause a problem?

John
jejs@verinet.com



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From: mohd.k.yusof@bohm.anu.edu.au                      12-Sep-99 16:55:06
  To: All                                               12-Sep-99 10:18:25
Subj: Re: Memory question

From: mohd.k.yusof@bohm.anu.edu.au (Khairil Yusof)

On Sun, 12 Sep 1999 06:34:07, "John E. Jones" <jejs@verinet.com> wrote:

> Does Warp 3.0 have any memory issues when it comes to systems with a alot? I
> have 128MB, will this cause a problem?

There's never enough memory!!! :) I envy you..

If I'm not wrong, you don't need to select the more then 64mbs for OS/2 switch 

with Warp 3.0 on your motherboard. You might want to check your motherboard on 

limitations of how much ram is cached.

Other than that, enjoy running Warp with 128mbs of ram. It'll fly.




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From: pelle@sci.fi                                      12-Sep-99 12:17:04
  To: All                                               12-Sep-99 10:18:25
Subj: Warp V3 "Startup Folder" problem

From: Ville Heinonen <pelle@sci.fi>

Keeping my fingers crossed to have some assistance rather soon, here's
my question:

By what logic does OS/2 Warp assign folders to become "Startup" folders,
i.e. folders the contents of which are opened each time the system is
booted? We've been running a BBS system on Warp for a couple of years
now, and it's been working fine apart from the fact that each time OS/2
 boots, it opens every single item of the C:\BBS folder on the desktop
(about 50 of them), and runs every EXE etc... Well, what we've been
doing is just closing all the windows to let the BBS run.

Until, that is, yesterday I tried to "fix" the problem, and now we've
got about 150 items popping up! The system thinks that folders E:\BACKUP
and F:\BACKUP (containing, unsurprisingly, a backup of the BBS files)
are also "Startup" folders.

So, how the hell do I fix this? I confess to being a newbie with OS/2,
but I'm rather familiar with OSes in general and PC hardware, so feel
free to give detailed technical answers...

Thanks,

Mikko Heinonen
Finland


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From: lsunley@mb.sympatico.ca                           12-Sep-99 12:03:09
  To: All                                               12-Sep-99 14:38:15
Subj: Re: Warp V3 "Startup Folder" problem

From: lsunley@mb.sympatico.ca (Lorne Sunley)

On Sun, 12 Sep 1999 09:17:08, Ville Heinonen <pelle@sci.fi> wrote:

> Keeping my fingers crossed to have some assistance rather soon, here's
> my question:
> 
> By what logic does OS/2 Warp assign folders to become "Startup" folders,
> i.e. folders the contents of which are opened each time the system is
> booted? We've been running a BBS system on Warp for a couple of years
> now, and it's been working fine apart from the fact that each time OS/2
>  boots, it opens every single item of the C:\BBS folder on the desktop
> (about 50 of them), and runs every EXE etc... Well, what we've been
> doing is just closing all the windows to let the BBS run.
> 
> Until, that is, yesterday I tried to "fix" the problem, and now we've
> got about 150 items popping up! The system thinks that folders E:\BACKUP
> and F:\BACKUP (containing, unsurprisingly, a backup of the BBS files)
> are also "Startup" folders.
> 
> So, how the hell do I fix this? I confess to being a newbie with OS/2,
> but I'm rather familiar with OSes in general and PC hardware, so feel
> free to give detailed technical answers...
> 

The Startup folders are a sub-class "WPStartup" of the class 
"WPFolder"
in the Work Place Shell objects structure. The object classes are
part of the desktop WPS.

It sounds like the desktop folder that was created for the BBS 
software
was either copied from one of the "WPStartup" folder templates or
registered that way by the BBS software install.

You could put a statement in the config.sys file that will
prevent the objects in ANY startup folders from starting
at system boot.

SET RESTARTOBJECTS=NO

This will also prevent the objects in the "Startup" folder
in "OS/2 System" from starting as well as any other
registered "WPStartup" folders. You should look in this
folder and see what's in it as any thing in it will have to
be started manually.

Lorne Sunley

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From: 3taegene@informatik.uni-hamburg.de                12-Sep-99 13:13:17
  To: All                                               12-Sep-99 14:38:15
Subj: Re: Problem with installation of WSeB ... solved!!!

From: 3taegene@informatik.uni-hamburg.de (Andreas Taegener)

Thanks to everybody for the help. Especially to Craig. Your tip 
regarding the VGA adapter did it. After I replaced it by an old one, 
everything was fine. I'm just at the moment installing the software 
:-)
I'm sorry that I wasted the time of all you kind people with this damn
thing.
Again, many many thanks to everybody for the support.

Regards,
Andreas

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From: dcasey@ibm.net                                    12-Sep-99 08:15:19
  To: All                                               12-Sep-99 14:38:15
Subj: Re: Memory question

From: dcasey@ibm.net (Dan Casey)

In article <DQHC3.784$Lo7.190135808@news.frii.net>,
"John E. Jones" <jejs@verinet.com> wrote:
>Does Warp 3.0 have any memory issues when it comes to systems with a alot? I
>have 128MB, will this cause a problem?

The only issue is how much RAM your Mainboard is capable of cacheing.
Socket 7 mainboards with Intel chipsets will only cache the 1st 64 Mb
of RAM. VIA, Ali and SiS chipsets are capable of cacheing more (up to
512Mb if there is enough cache on the MB).

OS/2 addresses all the memory in the system at once (no such thing as
expanded, extended, upper, etc), and uses it from the BOTTOM UP (not
the Top down). If the 1st 64Mb is all that's cached, you'll probably
see a noticeable performance hit by installing more than 64Mb.

What motherboard/chipset are you running?

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From: rk@adis.at                                        12-Sep-99 15:27:02
  To: All                                               12-Sep-99 14:38:15
Subj: Re: Javas and OS2

From: Richard Koestenberger <rk@adis.at>


it is sufficient to download the Java runtime
javainrt.exe (11,5 MB)
if that's too big, order a cd as someone else already posted

On Sat, 11 Sep 99 13:29:09 , "John Roberts" <szrob@ns.net> wrote:

>Greetings all;
>  I have recently installed Warp4 and just now fix pak5. I also installed
>netscape 404.   I do not write code. I don't program.  (Wish I did; but
>that's another story <g>).  I am wondering just what level of Java I need to
>use the internet. 
>I looked at java 1.18 and it is 32+ megs big.  Do I need this much program
>just so  web pages work?  Or can I use a lower level?
>TIA
>  John Roberts
>

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From: dcasey@ibm.net                                    12-Sep-99 09:23:14
  To: All                                               12-Sep-99 14:38:15
Subj: Re: Warp V3 "Startup Folder" problem

From: dcasey@ibm.net (Dan Casey)

Edit your config.sys file (plain ASCII text), and find the line that
starts:

SET AUTOSTART=

Change this to read:

SET AUTOSTART=TASKLIST,FOLDERS

And it will prevent programs and folders that were open when last
shutdown from opening again.

In article <37DB6F94.555CDE79@sci.fi>, Ville Heinonen <pelle@sci.fi> wrote:
>Keeping my fingers crossed to have some assistance rather soon, here's
>my question:
>
>By what logic does OS/2 Warp assign folders to become "Startup" folders,
>i.e. folders the contents of which are opened each time the system is
>booted? We've been running a BBS system on Warp for a couple of years
>now, and it's been working fine apart from the fact that each time OS/2
> boots, it opens every single item of the C:\BBS folder on the desktop
>(about 50 of them), and runs every EXE etc... Well, what we've been
>doing is just closing all the windows to let the BBS run.
>
>Until, that is, yesterday I tried to "fix" the problem, and now we've
>got about 150 items popping up! The system thinks that folders E:\BACKUP
>and F:\BACKUP (containing, unsurprisingly, a backup of the BBS files)
>are also "Startup" folders.
>
>So, how the hell do I fix this? I confess to being a newbie with OS/2,
>but I'm rather familiar with OSes in general and PC hardware, so feel
>free to give detailed technical answers...
>
>Thanks,
>
>Mikko Heinonen
>Finland
>
>

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From: jknott@ibm.net                                    12-Sep-99 08:34:14
  To: All                                               12-Sep-99 14:38:15
Subj: Re: Recommended PCMCIA modem and 10/100 ethernet?

From: jknott@ibm.net (James Knott)

In article <Ej0w7lFo08Zw-pn2-Hodk74dVHjUM@pluto.dwparsons.dialin.t-online.de>,
dwparsons@t-online.de (Dave Parsons) wrote:
>On Fri, 10 Sep 1999 12:17:05, jknott@ibm.net (James Knott) wrote:
>
>> 
>> Xircom has a 100/10 ethernet & V.90 modem card, with OS/2 drivers.  It
>> apparently also works with Linux.  The card takes two PCMCIA slots and
>> has an RJ45 and two RJ11 jacks right on the card, so you don't need 
>> any special adapters.  It's also available from IBM.

>I presume that you are referring to the Realport Ethernet
10/100+Modem 56.
>A very tidy solution, and according to Xircom, it also supports ISDN with an
>adapter.
>
>I already have their CM33 modem card and it works well. I would now
>like to upgrade to the Realport Ethernet 10/100+Modem 56, but I can not
>find anyone selling them here in Germany.
>
>Does anyone know of an end user supplier, preferably in Europe?

As I mentioned, IBM also sells that model.  You might try them.  I 
don't have the part number handy.


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_________________________________________________________________________
The above opinions are my own and not those of ISM Corp., a subsidiary of
IBM Canada Ltd.

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From: jpedone_no_spam@flash.net                         12-Sep-99 15:17:17
  To: All                                               12-Sep-99 14:38:16
Subj: Re: Warp V3 "Startup Folder" problem

From: jpedone_no_spam@flash.net

In <37DB6F94.555CDE79@sci.fi>, Ville Heinonen <pelle@sci.fi> writes:
>Keeping my fingers crossed to have some assistance rather soon, here's
>my question:
>
>By what logic does OS/2 Warp assign folders to become "Startup" folders,
>i.e. folders the contents of which are opened each time the system is
>booted? We've been running a BBS system on Warp for a couple of years
>now, and it's been working fine apart from the fact that each time OS/2
> boots, it opens every single item of the C:\BBS folder on the desktop
>(about 50 of them), and runs every EXE etc... Well, what we've been
>doing is just closing all the windows to let the BBS run.
>

After reading your post there appears that a couple of things that may 
be happening.  The first thing to check is in your config.sys file for
the "SET AUTOSTART" line and mke sure that "programs" is not listed.  It

should be something like:

SET AUTOSTART=TASKLIST,FOLDERS,CONNECTIONS

Next - check your folder settings for the folders in question.  Make 
sure that under the file tab the "workrea" check box is not checked. 
If they are actually normal folders, these two items should keep the 
programs from starting.

Now - to the crux of your question.  There should be only one start-up 
folder.  The folder name itself is immaterial, it's the class that makes
the folder special.  The start-up folder class is WPStartup and a normal
folder is WPFolder. AFAIK there is now way to tell the difference just 
by looking at the folder properties.  If you don't already have a copy 
of WPSTOOLS you should pick it up at Hobbes.  There is a cmd file in the
package called getobj.cmd you can use to find the class and rexx can be
used to change it if needed.  If you feel like playing with rexx, here's
an example of a normal directory (class WPFolder) and a start-up 
directory (class WPStartup) with some of the set-up stings you might 
use:

Title:       REXX
Class:       WPFolder
SetupString: ICONVIEW=NONFLOWED,VISIBLE,MINI;TREEVIEW=LINES,VISIBLE,MINI;
             DEFAULTSORT=-2;ALWAYSSORT=YES;MENUBAR=NO;SHOWALLINTREEVIEW=YES;
             TITLE=REXX;ICONVIEWPOS=16,6,43,90;NOPRINT=YES;MENUS=DEFAULT;
             HIDEBUTTON=DEFAULT;MINWIN=DEFAULT;CCVIEW=DEFAULT;
             DEFAULTVIEW=DEFAULT;
Location:    F:\
DirName:     F:\REXX

Title:       Startup
Class:       WPStartup
SetupString: ICONVIEW=FLOWED,VISIBLE,NORMAL;TREEVIEW=LINES,VISIBLE,MINI;
             DEFAULTSORT=-2;ALWAYSSORT=NO;MENUBAR=YES;TITLE=Startup;
             ICONVIEWPOS=15,26,51,45;NODELETE=YES;NOPRINT=YES;
             MENUS=DEFAULT;HELPPANEL=8002;HIDEBUTTON=DEFAULT;
             MINWIN=DEFAULT;CCVIEW=DEFAULT;DEFAULTVIEW=DEFAULT;
             OBJECTID=<WP_START>;
Location:    <WP_OS2SYS>
DirName:     E:\Desktop\OS!2 System\Startup

Another program in the package is called checkini.  Checkini should be 
able to find and correct any extra start-up folders you may have.

>Until, that is, yesterday I tried to "fix" the problem, and now we've
>got about 150 items popping up! The system thinks that folders E:\BACKUP
>and F:\BACKUP (containing, unsurprisingly, a backup of the BBS files)
>are also "Startup" folders.

If these directories are actually being seen as startup folders, go to a
command line and use the md, and copy commands to move the stuff over 
to a new directory.  Afterwards, delete the old directories and original
files. (don't use the GUI or move commands).  Just FYI - if your new to 
OS/2 you my not realize that the ren (rename) commnd works on 
directories as well as files.  Under some versions of DOS, this was not 
the case.



 
J. Pedone
jpedone@flash.net
http://www.flash.net/~jpedone
 
Windows NT: Vapourware of the desperate and scared.
Beware of Geeks bearing gifs.

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From: Trevor-Hemsley@dial.pipex.com                     12-Sep-99 16:40:05
  To: All                                               12-Sep-99 14:38:16
Subj: Re: Warp V3 "Startup Folder" problem

From: "Trevor Hemsley" <Trevor-Hemsley@dial.pipex.com>

On Sun, 12 Sep 1999 09:23:29 -0500, Dan Casey wrote:

->Edit your config.sys file (plain ASCII text), and find the line that
->starts:
->
->SET AUTOSTART=
->
->Change this to read:
->
->SET AUTOSTART=TASKLIST,FOLDERS
->
->And it will prevent programs and folders that were open when last
->shutdown from opening again.

I think he has the well known Warp 4 bug that adds random folders to the
startup folder list. CHECKINI will find this and fix it.


Trevor Hemsley, London, UK
(Trevor-Hemsley@dial.pipex.com or 75704.2477@compuserve.com)



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From: malkajef@orthohelp.com                            12-Sep-99 12:09:22
  To: All                                               12-Sep-99 16:39:11
Subj: Re: OS/2 Warp 3 re-install problems - using Partition Magic

From: "Jeff Malka" <malkajef@orthohelp.com>

With Bootmanager on the first HD will Warp 4 boot from the second HD or does
it have to be on the first HD?

--
Jeff Malka <malkajef@orthohelp.com>

> ->It'll boot from outside a 2 Gig boundry if you get the GT2GBW3.ZIP file
> ->from the Hobbes site and run it. This one's for W3 only. W4 requires a
> ->fixpak as I've been told.
>
> I think Warp 4 is OK out of the box which is why I didn't create and
> upload a GT2GBW4.ZIP to match it.
>
>
> Trevor Hemsley, London, UK
> (Trevor-Hemsley@dial.pipex.com or 75704.2477@compuserve.com)
>
>
>


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From: mintz@mnsinc.com                                  12-Sep-99 16:24:02
  To: All                                               12-Sep-99 16:39:11
Subj: Re: HELP, Install Warp 3.0 Connect

From: mintz@mnsinc.com (Larry Mintz)

Dan Casey (dcasey@ibm.net) wrote:
: In article <7qqpj8$ff2$1@duke.telepac.pt>,
: "Joao Pissarro" <pissaro@mail.telepac.pt> wrote:
: >Hello all,
: >
: >I am installing OS/2 3.0 Connect on a PC with a large disk. I have upgraded
: >the Disk 1 to the lage disk support driver, and the FDISK problem
disapeard.
: >
: >The installation process goes till the point when the PC should boot from
: >the hard disk (afer copying all the files from the disquettes and CD-ROM).
: >On this point the screen remain indefenitly with a blinking cursor on the
: >top left corner (it just does not boot).
: >
: >Any ideia to solve this problem?

: Sounds like you forgot to add the line:
: SET COPPYFROMFLOPPY=1

Just for the record, the above line should read

SET COPYFROMFLOPPY=1

The word 'copy' should only have one 'p' in it.

Larry

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From: Trevor-Hemsley@dial.pipex.com                     12-Sep-99 17:53:03
  To: All                                               12-Sep-99 20:01:29
Subj: Re: OS/2 Warp 3 re-install problems - using Partition Magic

From: "Trevor Hemsley" <Trevor-Hemsley@dial.pipex.com>

On Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:09:44 -0400, Jeff Malka wrote:

->With Bootmanager on the first HD will Warp 4 boot from the second HD or does
->it have to be on the first HD?

With Boot Manager on the first disk you can boot from any disk that is
supported by the BIOS INT 13 routine. This usually includes at least the
first two disks and sometimes more than that. INT 13 restricts you to the
first 1024 cylinders of each disk of course (after any translation
mechanism like LBA has taken effect).


Trevor Hemsley, London, UK
(Trevor-Hemsley@dial.pipex.com or 75704.2477@compuserve.com)



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From: mnieuw@zap.a2000.nl                               12-Sep-99 19:19:08
  To: All                                               12-Sep-99 20:01:29
Subj: Where is multimedia setup?

From: Mat Nieuwenhoven <mnieuw@zap.a2000.nl>

Hi,

I've installed an ESS1688P based sound card in a test system which
previously did not have any sound. Although OS/2 audio is fine, I cannot
get the CD player to work (for audio, data is fine). I presume this is
because the drive letter is wrong. The on-line help says (and I remember
using it) to use multimedia setup. But this program is nowhere to be
found. Not in the programs->multimedia folder, nothing in the \mmos2 or
os2 directories look like it. I'm running two machines both with Warp4
FP10. Both of them don't have the program. Should this program be there,
what is its executable name, and could I change the drive letter
manually somewhere?

Thanks, mat Nieuwenhoven

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From: mnieuw@zap.a2000.nl                               12-Sep-99 19:23:06
  To: All                                               12-Sep-99 20:01:29
Subj: How to locate WINOS2 sound error?

From: Mat Nieuwenhoven <mnieuw@zap.a2000.nl>

Hi,

after installing an ESS1688P sound card using the drivers from the ddpak
online (os21688.zip), The OS/2 side works fine, but the WINOS2 sounds
don't work. I get a small msg box when starting winos2, titled 'audio'
but otherwise empy. I presume an error message is supposed to show
there. Is there a way of logging the error msg somewhere, or make it
visible in any other way?
Apart from that, is there a know error with the installation routines
for the ESS drivers that could cause this? he machine is running Warp4
FP10 .

Thanks, Mat Nieuwenhoven

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From: esitea@inficad.com                                12-Sep-99 17:23:06
  To: All                                               12-Sep-99 20:01:29
Subj: Re: Warp 3 install from Hard Drive

From: Ezra Sitea <esitea@inficad.com>

If you just need Warp 3 and have a CDROM drive, pick up a copy on cd.  
Always on EBAY for about $5-$10.  Search under "os/2" and you'll find  
many opportunities.  My advise, Go for Blue Spine editions since these 
contain Win/Os2 code.  Even if you don't need it, these versions were 
less bugy then the Red Spine editions.

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Original Message <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<

On 9/6/99, 8:07:35 PM, nosecondchance@aol.com (No Second Chance) wrote 
regarding Warp 3 install from Hard Drive:


> Hello all,

> perhaps someone can help me with this problem.  I have Warp 3 on disks 
and I
> want to copy them to my hard drive so I can then install OS/2.  
Installing from
> the disks has worked fine, but to save time and ware and tear on my 
disks,  I
> would rather install Warp 3 from the hard drive.  Is this workable, 
and if so,
> will someone please tell me a step by step procedure to do this?




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From: jan.hartman@fil.lu.se                             12-Sep-99 10:32:18
  To: All                                               12-Sep-99 20:01:29
Subj: Trouble with ISDN adapter

From: "Jan Hartman" <jan.hartman@fil.lu.se>

Hi!

I have trouble gettin my external Eicon Diva T/A ISDN Modem to work
in Warp 4. It works fine in Win98. Does anyone have any idea what
could be wrong? I am using the standard dialer which comes with
os/2, and I have had other ISDN adapters to work just fine.

/ Jan Hartman



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From: jejs@verinet.com                                  12-Sep-99 11:55:19
  To: All                                               12-Sep-99 20:01:29
Subj: Re: Memory question

From: "John E. Jones" <jejs@verinet.com>

It is a Diamond C-400, with the Intel chipset. The CPU is a PII-400.

John


Dan Casey <dcasey@ibm.net> wrote in message
news:7d623kDg6pvE090yn@ibm.net...
> In article <DQHC3.784$Lo7.190135808@news.frii.net>,
> "John E. Jones" <jejs@verinet.com> wrote:
> >Does Warp 3.0 have any memory issues when it comes to systems with a
alot? I
> >have 128MB, will this cause a problem?
>
> The only issue is how much RAM your Mainboard is capable of cacheing.
> Socket 7 mainboards with Intel chipsets will only cache the 1st 64 Mb
> of RAM. VIA, Ali and SiS chipsets are capable of cacheing more (up to
> 512Mb if there is enough cache on the MB).
>
> OS/2 addresses all the memory in the system at once (no such thing as
> expanded, extended, upper, etc), and uses it from the BOTTOM UP (not
> the Top down). If the 1st 64Mb is all that's cached, you'll probably
> see a noticeable performance hit by installing more than 64Mb.
>
> What motherboard/chipset are you running?
>
> --
> **************************************************************
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> *  President                                                 *
> *  V.O.I.C.E. (Virtual OS/2 International Consumer Education *
> *  http://www.os2voice.org                                   *
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From: lsunley@mb.sympatico.ca                           12-Sep-99 18:07:28
  To: All                                               12-Sep-99 20:01:29
Subj: Re: Where is multimedia setup?

From: lsunley@mb.sympatico.ca (Lorne Sunley)

On Sun, 12 Sep 1999 17:19:17, Mat Nieuwenhoven <mnieuw@zap.a2000.nl> 
wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I've installed an ESS1688P based sound card in a test system which
> previously did not have any sound. Although OS/2 audio is fine, I cannot
> get the CD player to work (for audio, data is fine). I presume this is
> because the drive letter is wrong. The on-line help says (and I remember
> using it) to use multimedia setup. But this program is nowhere to be
> found. Not in the programs->multimedia folder, nothing in the \mmos2 or
> os2 directories look like it. I'm running two machines both with Warp4
> FP10. Both of them don't have the program. Should this program be there,
> what is its executable name, and could I change the drive letter
> manually somewhere?
> 
> Thanks, mat Nieuwenhoven

It lives in the "System Setup" folder inside the "OS/2 System" folder.

The program name is \MMOS2\STPM.EXE

Lorne Sunley

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From: rgibson@ix.netcom.com                             12-Sep-99 18:36:26
  To: All                                               12-Sep-99 20:02:00
Subj: Sound Card suggestions...

From: rgibson@ix.netcom.com (Ron Gibson)

I'm not big on games and I just installed W98 (ugh, I know) but anyway I
was thinking about trying one of the newer games (doom and heretic
fanatic here). 

Anyway, one box I looked at required a sound card capable of Direct X.

I hate to retire my old PAS 16 but what card would you'll suggest that
can do that and is also OS/2 compatible.  Maybe I'll keep it in and use
two cards.

Also, I'm a tight wad :)

                      email: rgibson@ix.netcom.com

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From: dr.fellXXX@alum.mit.edu                           12-Sep-99 14:50:00
  To: All                                               12-Sep-99 20:02:00
Subj: Re: Help Orb SCSI on TP385XD.....

From: "DrFell" <dr.fellXXX@alum.mit.edu>

On Fri, 10 Sep 1999 22:55:00 -0700 (MST), RDunham wrote:

>
>The unit will eject the disk but will not recognize the disk to format.  It
>thinks that it is a floppy with the format window that does finally open. 
>The disk is Mac formatted.
>
>Does anyone have any suggestions?
>
>Regards:  Dick
>
>
When confronted by similar problems with a MAC formatted ZIP
disk, all I needed to do was to fdisk it first (you lose a little
Capacity
but  WTF) then format it.

Dr. Fell



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From: rpeterse@ix.netcom.com                            12-Sep-99 12:06:07
  To: All                                               12-Sep-99 20:02:00
Subj: PCMCIA on a Dell Latitude CPi D233ST Laptop-WORKS!

From: Randy Petersen <rpeterse@ix.netcom.com>

I would like to thank everyone who offered help to get PCMCIA support 
working on my Dell CPi D233ST laptop.

I had assumed that the driver IBM2SS14.SYS was the correct one for my 
laptop since it loaded and showed cards inserted amd removed from the 
slots.  It turns out that it wasn't the correct driver since it never 
assigned resources to any cards inserted and the laptop would lockup 
cold whenever a card was to be enabled.

Thanks to Tony Saucedo who provided me the original Beta 1 version of 
the correct driver: SS2PCIC2.SYS  19,381 bytes.

======== HEX DUMP of working driver ======================================
000003C0  IBM OS/2 PCMCIA Socket Services Device Driver, Version 1.36P
00000400  CMCIA Socket Services Release 2.1Copyright 1993,1995 IBM Corp.
00000440  All rights reserved.IBM Socket Service for Intel 82365SL co
00000480  mpatible: Internal Revision 0.36.366
==========================================================================

It's working great here for all my cards.  I don't need to use reserve.sys, 
nor do I need any parameters on Card or Socket services drivers.


Randy Petersen <rpeterse@ix.netcom.com>

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From: stevem@execpc.com                                 12-Sep-99 14:51:19
  To: All                                               12-Sep-99 20:02:00
Subj: Re: Memory question

From: "Steve McCrystal" <stevem@execpc.com>

On Sun, 12 Sep 1999 08:15:39 -0500, Dan Casey wrote:

>OS/2 addresses all the memory in the system at once (no such thing as
>expanded, extended, upper, etc), and uses it from the BOTTOM UP (not
>the Top down).

Hmmm.  I was under the impression that DOS and that popular GUI DOS Shell were 
what loaded RAM 
from the bottom up, and OS/2 from the top down.  I *know* DOS loads from the
bottom up.

> If the 1st 64Mb is all that's cached, you'll probably see a noticeable
performance hit by installing more 
>than 64Mb.

Agreed, but isn't that due to the way OS/2 loads RAM... top down?  

Steve



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From: garymck@ozemail.com.au                            13-Sep-99 08:40:18
  To: All                                               13-Sep-99 03:45:01
Subj: warp install - help!

From: "Gary McKenzie" <garymck@ozemail.com.au>

Hi,
I'm trying to install warp on my new system but am unable to get it to
properly partition my 13 gig hard disk. Is a new set of install disks
available ? Any help appreciated - I've searched as many sites as I can find
to no avail (probably cos I'm not quite sure what I'm looking for)

cheers
Gary


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From: timurkz@saxz.mmbank.ru                            13-Sep-99 03:32:22
  To: All                                               13-Sep-99 03:45:01
Subj: Re: TCP/IP Not Working in WinOS2

From: "Timur Kazimirov" <timurkz@saxz.mmbank.ru>

On Fri, 10 Sep 1999 12:11:33 +0200, Carlos Mart?n-Rold?n wrote:

> I have same problem and tryed your sugestion. Copied :
>
>comtcp.exe
>tcpcntl.exe
>wftpapi.dll
>winsock.dll
>
>Still doesn't work. Need I copy something more ?  Any other idea ?

1) Be sure that there is RESOLV file (not RESOLV2) in the \tcpip\dos\etc dir
2) Check CONFIG.SYS for a loads of \MPTN\BIN\VDOSTCP.VDD, and
     \MPTN\BIN\VDOSCTL.EXE
3) Check session's settings (DRIVERS section) that \TCPIP\BIN\VDOSTCP.SYS
    is loaded for this session.



With best regards,

Timur Kazimirov
===================
@if you want to reply me delete all "z" from address



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From: Trevor-Hemsley@dial.pipex.com                     13-Sep-99 00:18:12
  To: All                                               13-Sep-99 03:45:01
Subj: Re: warp install - help!

From: "Trevor Hemsley" <Trevor-Hemsley@dial.pipex.com>

On Mon, 13 Sep 1999 08:40:37 +1000, Gary McKenzie wrote:

->Hi,
->I'm trying to install warp on my new system but am unable to get it to
->properly partition my 13 gig hard disk. Is a new set of install disks
->available ? Any help appreciated - I've searched as many sites as I can find
->to no avail (probably cos I'm not quite sure what I'm looking for)

ftp://service.boulder.ibm.com/ps/products/os2/os2ddpak/idedasd.exe

Run it to expand it, make a diskcopy copy of the second diskette and
delete IBM1S506.ADD from it. You will also need to delete at least one of
AIC7770.ADD (Adaptec EISA SCSI card support) or AIC7870.ADD (Adaptec PCI
2940 series SCSI support) in order to make room for the larger newer
driver. Copy the new IBM1S506.ADD onto the diskette. Edit CONFIG.SYS and
REM out the line for the AICxxxx.ADD driver that you deleted and add the
line

SET COPYFROMFLOPPY=1

to it.


 
Trevor Hemsley, London, UK
(Trevor-Hemsley@dial.pipex.com or 75704.2477@compuserve.com)



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From: rgibson@ix.netcom.com                             12-Sep-99 23:53:01
  To: All                                               13-Sep-99 03:45:01
Subj: Need Warp 3 to use h:\windows (red spline)

From: rgibson@ix.netcom.com (Ron Gibson)

I installed W98.  I've got Warp 3, FP40 Red spline (furnish your own
windows).
 
However, a while back I copied windows to a HPFS drive for use under
OS/2.  It works fine except whenever I do certain things that involve
windows (like video drivers and plug in packs for Netscape) it wants to
use c:\windows instead of the correct h:\windows.
 
In the past I'd just copy my H:\windows to c:\windows and rename
c:\windows to something else as a quick and dirty kludge.  Then if the
file was modified I'd copy it over h:\windows.
 
Is there anyway I can change this behavior so that the system looks to
h:\windows?
 
                      email: rgibson@ix.netcom.com
 

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From: arelyea@vt.edu                                    12-Sep-99 19:43:21
  To: All                                               13-Sep-99 03:45:01
Subj: Re: E.EXE

From: "Antonio Relyea" <arelyea@vt.edu>

>   There are still more OS/2 text and HTML editors that
>probably will do the same, either for free or low-cost.

Like EPM (Enhanced Editor).  Warp supplies a version, but a better version is
available on Hobbes.  It is one of my favorite multi-purpose editors.  It
allows multiple files, with rings.  Enourmous undo feature, html, rexx, c,
and many other syntax highlighting.  Configurable in almost every way.  Plus,
no appended ASCII characters.

Tony.



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From: jmiranda@ricochet.net                             12-Sep-99 17:56:14
  To: "comp.os.os2.setup.misc@list.deja..               13-Sep-99 03:45:01
Subj: Re:non responding MPTS command

To: "comp.os.os2.setup.misc@list.deja.com" 
From: Jose Miranda <jmiranda@ricochet.net>

Hi, folks

Maybe I can get some suggestions on what to do? I have Warp
4, tcpip 4.1 with
fixpack 8620.

When I try to get into the Adapters and protocol services
and go to the first
screen and try to "Configure" the computer keeps
shoe-shining, like trying to
get a corrupt file and get stuck in there.
I tried to reapply the latest fixpack I had (w08620) but it
does not copy all
the files because it is already supposedly at the latest
level.
I suspect the MPTS.exe is corrupt or in a bad sector.

Any suggestions?

TIA

Jos





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From: tegibson@globalserve.net                          12-Sep-99 21:40:00
  To: All                                               13-Sep-99 03:45:01
Subj: Crash on Setup

From: Thomas Gibson <tegibson@globalserve.net>

    I am having trouble setting up OS2 Warp4 to run on my machine.  I am
able to go through the setup screens and have the files install,
however, on reboot, a crash with register dump occurs after the
graphical startup screen appears.

    My machine:

    ASUS P2B with 300 Celeron
    MACH 64
    3.2 Quantum Fireball

    I have OS2 as a 501MB partition at the head of the disk and am
trying to use OS2 BootManager.  I experience this problem even with a
minimal install(no sound, etc)

    I am aware there are quit a few patches to OS2.  Where is the
definite source of these and is there any simple(free) way to determine
at least what patches are critical enough that they must be applied ?

    Is there a way to determine the exact release version ?

    Is there a way to bypass any unneccessary intialization which could
be problematic ?

    Any help greatly appreciated!!!

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From: tjb@starbase.neosoft.com                          13-Sep-99 01:52:07
  To: All                                               13-Sep-99 05:47:23
Subj: Re: Crash on Setup

From: tjb@starbase.neosoft.com (Timothy J. Bogart)

In article <37DC55F1.89600934@globalserve.net>,
Thomas Gibson  <tegibson@globalserve.net> wrote:
>    I am having trouble setting up OS2 Warp4 to run on my machine.  I am
>able to go through the setup screens and have the files install,
>however, on reboot, a crash with register dump occurs after the
>graphical startup screen appears.
>
>    My machine:
>
>    ASUS P2B with 300 Celeron
>    MACH 64
>    3.2 Quantum Fireball
>
>    I have OS2 as a 501MB partition at the head of the disk and am
>trying to use OS2 BootManager.  I experience this problem even with a
>minimal install(no sound, etc)
>
>    I am aware there are quit a few patches to OS2.  Where is the
>definite source of these and is there any simple(free) way to determine
>at least what patches are critical enough that they must be applied ?
>
>    Is there a way to determine the exact release version ?
>
>    Is there a way to bypass any unneccessary intialization which could
>be problematic ?
>
>    Any help greatly appreciated!!!
>

I vaguely recall that the ATI cards need to go thru their DOS setup
to make sure some settings are the proper default - I think that is in
the back of the OS/2 book (mine hasn't been seen in some time).

Hope that helps...

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From: raphaelt@netnews.worldnet.att.net                 12-Sep-99 14:47:14
  To: All                                               13-Sep-99 05:47:24
Subj: Re: How to uninstall Netware?

From: raphaelt@netnews.worldnet.att.net (Raphael Tennenbaum)

"OS/2 Fan" <fat_ox@hotmail.com> wrote:

>Hello all,
>	Warp 4 FP9, TCPIP 4.1, Netware 2.12 and an SMC 8000 NIC to
>connect to a Novell 3.x server at work.  Now I've brought the PC
>home...  My system is no longer on a LAN, it's using a modem for PPP
>instead.  I don't need the Netware Requester any more, but cannot
>figure out how to cleanly get rid of it.  TCPCFG.exe says I don't
>have NLS installed and then comes up completely blank, so I can't use
>that, and REMming out all the lines in config.sys is tedious, plus I
>might mess up the TCPIP stuff needed for my modem connection.  Any
>advice?  TIA!  
>

Might not help you much, but here's what the relevant part
of my config.sys look like (net access here is via modem): 

rem CALL=K:\IBMCOM\PROTOCOL\NETBIND.EXE
rem RUN=K:\IBMCOM\LANMSGEX.EXE
DEVICE=K:\MPTN\PROTOCOL\SOCKETS.SYS
rem DEVICE=K:\MPTN\PROTOCOL\AFOS2.SYS
DEVICE=K:\MPTN\PROTOCOL\AFINET.SYS
DEVICE=K:\MPTN\BIN\VDOSTCP.VDD
RUN=K:\MPTN\BIN\CNTRL.EXE
CALL=K:\OS2\CMD.EXE /Q /C K:\MPTN\BIN\MPTSTART.CMD >NUL
RUN=K:\IBMCOM\PROTOCOL\NBTCP.EXE
RUN=K:\MPTN\BIN\VDOSCTL.EXE
rem DEVICE=K:\IBMCOM\PROTOCOL\NETBEUI.OS2
rem DEVICE=K:\IBMCOM\PROTOCOL\TCPBEUI.OS2
rem DEVICE=K:\IBMCOM\PROTOCOL\NETBIOS.OS2
rem DEVICE=K:\IBMCOM\MACS\NULLNDIS.OS2
SET TCPLANG=en_US

-- 
Ray Tennenbaum        '99 YZF-R6
readme@ http://www.ray-field.com

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From: mystix1210@my-deja.com                            13-Sep-99 06:53:26
  To: All                                               13-Sep-99 05:47:24
Subj: Need to re-install Warp 4 but can't see!

From: mystix1210@my-deja.com

I've been re-arranging things and changing hard drives and am attempting
to re-install Warp 4, but only to run into a major problem. The VGA
setup screen is all scrambled! I can't see anything much less make any
selections on the screen. Here is my setup:

ASUS TX97-E Motherboard with Intel Pentium 233MMX
64MB EDO RAM 60ns
10GB Fujitsu hard drive (Primary Master)
1.6GB Western Digital hard drive (Primary Slave)
4.3GB Quantum Bigfoot (Secondary Master)
24X US Drives CD ROM (Secondary Slave)
ATI 3-D Graphics Expression + PC2TV (Rage II+DVD) 4MB
SB16 SCSI/2 ASP
Yamaha 4416S CDR/RW SCSI
NEC MultiSpin 4X SCSI
SyQuest 5110 88MB SCSI
Iomega ZipDrive 100MB SCSI
UMAX S-6E SCSI

Now in my previous setup I had an ATI Mach 64 based video card which at
some point in time I swapped it for the Graphics Expression. Since at
the time my system didn't complain I left it. But now I'm without and I
can't see to set up Warp. Help me someone. Is there some kind of driver
I need to swap out on the install disks?


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From: jejs@verinet.com                                  13-Sep-99 00:51:00
  To: All                                               13-Sep-99 05:47:24
Subj: Internal Zip

From: "John E. Jones" <jejs@verinet.com>

I have an internal Zip drive, is it possible to get it to work with OS/2
3.0?

John
jejs@verinet.com



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From: twelker@ibm.net                                   12-Sep-99 21:11:25
  To: All                                               13-Sep-99 05:47:24
Subj: Re: Crash on Setup

From: John Twelker <twelker@ibm.net>

Aloha from Maui,

On my Aptiva with ATI Rage 3d Pro,  I selected GENGRADD drivers during OS/2
install. They'll work fine for OS/2 but don't try WIN/OS2. After installing
the latest FixPak, I installed the "GRADD080 ATI" drivers. Be sure you have
a copy of loaddskf.exe in the GRADD080 directory and type in an OS/2 Window,
"loaddskf x:\gradd080.dsk a: " (without the quotation marks) then "setup.cmd
ATI a: c: ". After reboot, go to System Setup and select System and the
resolution you like. You can also check out SciTech's new ATI drivers based
on IBM's GRADD drivers ... I like them better than the GRADD080 ATI ... less
flicker due to higher 85hz vs 75hz. refresh rate. You can get them from
"http://www.scitechsoft.com/down_sdd_os2.html"

Hope this helps!

Aloha,

John Twelker

Thomas Gibson wrote:

>     I am having trouble setting up OS2 Warp4 to run on my machine.  I am
> able to go through the setup screens and have the files install,
> however, on reboot, a crash with register dump occurs after the
> graphical startup screen appears.
>
>     My machine:
>
>     ASUS P2B with 300 Celeron
>     MACH 64
>     3.2 Quantum Fireball
>
>     I have OS2 as a 501MB partition at the head of the disk and am
> trying to use OS2 BootManager.  I experience this problem even with a
> minimal install(no sound, etc)
>
>     I am aware there are quit a few patches to OS2.  Where is the
> definite source of these and is there any simple(free) way to determine
> at least what patches are critical enough that they must be applied ?
>
>     Is there a way to determine the exact release version ?
>
>     Is there a way to bypass any unneccessary intialization which could
> be problematic ?
>
>     Any help greatly appreciated!!!

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From: fat_ox@hotmail.com                                13-Sep-99 11:15:16
  To: All                                               13-Sep-99 10:36:28
Subj: Re: How to uninstall Netware?

From: "OS/2 Fan" <fat_ox@hotmail.com>

On Sun, 12 Sep 1999 14:47:28 -0400, Raphael Tennenbaum wrote:
Might not help you much, but here's what the relevant part
of my config.sys look like (net access here is via modem): 
{SNIP}

It *did* help a lot. I manually REMmed stuff in config.sys after all,
and with your info I knew what to keep.  I now don't load all the
Netware stuff and still have TCPIP and can dial in via modem.  I
appreciate the help - thanks very much!  
Regards,
Xtralarge OS/2 fan
	
Opinions expressed are mine only.  Ignore them and
killfile me.  Leave the University and/or my ISP alone, 
I don't speak for them, they have nothing to do with it, 
and they probably have more lawyers than you anyway.  


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From: fat_ox@hotmail.com                                13-Sep-99 11:17:10
  To: All                                               13-Sep-99 10:36:28
Subj: Re: How to uninstall Netware?

From: "OS/2 Fan" <fat_ox@hotmail.com>

On Mon, 13 Sep 1999 11:15:33 -0400 (EDT), OS/2 Fan wrote:

>On Sun, 12 Sep 1999 14:47:28 -0400, Raphael Tennenbaum wrote:
>Might not help you much, but here's what the relevant part
>of my config.sys look like (net access here is via modem): 
>{SNIP}

It *did* help a lot. I manually REMmed stuff in config.sys after all,
and with your info I knew what to keep.  I now don't load all the
Netware stuff and still have TCPIP and can dial in via modem.  I
appreciate the help - thanks very much!  
Regards,
Xtralarge OS/2 fan
	
Opinions expressed are mine only.  Ignore them and
killfile me.  Leave the University and/or my ISP alone, 
I don't speak for them, they have nothing to do with it, 
and they probably have more lawyers than you anyway.  


Regards,
Xtralarge OS/2 fan
	
Opinions expressed are mine only.  Ignore them and
killfile me.  Leave the University and/or my ISP alone, 
I don't speak for them, they have nothing to do with it, 
and they probably have more lawyers than you anyway.  


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From: protch@irit.fr                                    13-Sep-99 10:41:20
  To: All                                               13-Sep-99 10:36:28
Subj: plug and play trouble ! (solution finally found !!)

From: Walter Protch <protch@irit.fr>




> I'm jumping into this a bit late, so feel free to ignore this post if
> it's redundant.
> 

Thank U Frank
After a week end fighting angainst the machine the solution appeared :


> Have you checked your System Setup to see which IRQs are assigned for
> PCI use and which are available for ISA adapters?  If, for example, IRQ9
> were assigned to the PCI bus, it would not be available to the OS/2
> driver for the AHA1520 (ISA) adapter.
> 
> Anway, it's an easy thing to check (if you can _find_ it (;-)).
> 
> Hope this helps move things along...
> 

What was wrong ?
* I had both of the cards in nearby slots so PCI/ISA pnp detection
wasn't easy for the Bios
so I separated them to another slot
** I finally decided to assign (again) IRQ 11 to AHA1520 (its default
IRQ)

So now, it works (should I say It's ALIVE )

======================================
Walter PROTCH
protch@irit.fr
______________________________________
Ainsi va la vie, ainsi va la FORCE !
======================================

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From: bogus.due2UCE@atlantic.net                        13-Sep-99 05:57:07
  To: All                                               13-Sep-99 10:36:28
Subj: Re: E.EXE

From: Felix Miata <bogus.due2UCE@atlantic.net>

Paul Ratcliffe wrote:

> Peter Moylan wrote:

> > Felix Miata <bogus.due2UCE@atlantic.net> wrote:

> > >Anyone know a way to make it stop appending ACSII 26 to the end of an
> > >HTML file?

> > I'm pretty sure you can't.  Luckily there are plenty of other
> > editors around.
 
> I know I looked at patching it to do this. I can't remember whether I
> succeeded or not now. Will look when I get home...

Any luck?
-- 
When pride comes, then comes disgrace, but with humility comes
wisdom.                Proverbs 11:2 NKJV

 Team OS/2

Felix Miata  ***  http://mrmazda.members.atlantic.net


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From: bogus.due2UCE@atlantic.net                        13-Sep-99 06:02:12
  To: All                                               13-Sep-99 10:36:28
Subj: Re: E.EXE

From: Felix Miata <bogus.due2UCE@atlantic.net>

DG wrote:
> 
> In message <slrn7tgvro.pd.peter@eepjm.newcastle.edu.au> -
> peter@seagoon.newcastle.edu.au (Peter Moylan) writes:
> 
>  <=Luckily there are plenty of other editors...=>
> 
>    ...such as SmallEditor, Boxer and Kon, all shareware...
> plus Mr Edit [prog name change?] and also the "WebWriter"
> HTML editor, which are both offered now as freeware. All 5
> editors will allow writing of an HTML text file w/o the
> end-of-file marker.
>    There are still more OS/2 text and HTML editors that
> probably will do the same, either for free or low-cost.

They're not free if installing them to take the place of E.EXE requires
hours of research to find WPS association objects to change and to
discover how to reconfigure to default to the replacement.

I like E. It's simple and has only the one bothersome flaw in that web
pages display the character as a box and validators object to it
following the HTML.
-- 
When pride comes, then comes disgrace, but with humility comes
wisdom.                Proverbs 11:2 NKJV

 Team OS/2  ***  Rotary ONLY since 1973

Felix Miata  ***  http://mrmazda.members.atlantic.net <- Not just a FAQ


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From: mat.nieuwenhoven@icl.nl                           10-Sep-99 09:51:02
  To: All                                               13-Sep-99 14:52:05
Subj: Re: Muti-boot problem

From: Mat Nieuwenhoven <mat.nieuwenhoven@icl.nl>

Gerry Britton wrote:
> 
> I have 2 SCSI & 1 IDE drives in the system, this is the breakdown:
> 
> SCSI #1:     Boot Manager
>              Bootable Warp4
>         C: Bootable Aurora HPFS
>         E:(as seen from Aurora F: when seen from Warp4) HPFS
>         F: Bootable Emergency partition(g: when seen from itself or
> Warp4) HPFS
> 
> SCSI #2
>         D: seen as D: by both Warp4 & Aurora HPFS
> 
> EIDE
>         1 meg freespace
>         E:Bootable NT4(not seen by Aurora E: as seen by Warp4) NTFS
>         G: NTFS(not seen by Aurora)
>         H:(seen as G: by Aurora & H: by Warp4) HPFS
> 
> I have managed to get NT to see the HPFS partitions(except for
> whichever partition on SCSI #` is hidden at that time).  so I can
> access all the visible HPFS partitions.
> 
> However, the only way I could get NT installed was to make the IDE
> partition boot before the SCSI partitions. I've added NT to Boot
> Manager, but it won't actually boot from there. I can't clone the NT
> partition to a SCSI #1 partition, as Partition Magic won't do it. I've
> even moved BM to the front of the IDE drive, but that made no
> difference. Neither FDISK or LVM's BM make a difference, BTW.
> 
> So how do I boot from all those different partitions without booting to
> a DOS diskette & changing the CMOS setup?

Booting NT while the first partition is not FAT or NTFS is very
difficult. Get kBootmanager (from leo I believe) and read the tech info.
I managed to get it to work once, by installing NT when there was a 20 M
primary FAT on the first driver, then move all NT boot stuff to the
third logical (FAT) partition where I installed most of NT, making the
20M parition invisible with PartitionMagic, and then fooled around with
kBootManager. kBootManager has to change the copy of the partition table
in memory it gives to NT because of the different way of defining
partition boundaries (it can do this). I got it to work once, then
wanted to clean it up, and never got it to work since. I really need a
week or so to figure it out again. FYI: this disk was paritioned as 20 M
FAT primary (normally hidden), a logical partition of 3.4 G with first a
2.5 G HPFS (OS/2 data) then then a 0.9G FAT 9for NT), then a 0.4 G HPFS
primary (OS/2 boot partition). At the very end, it has a boot manager
partition, needed to install OS/2 in a logical partition: fdisk knows a
BIOS will not boot from a logical partition, so it insists on a
bootmanager partition somewhere on the first disk even if it isn't being
used (I use kBootmanager).

Good luck, Mat Nieuwenhoven

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From: w.h.m.wauters.1998@cranfield.ac.uk                13-Sep-99 12:40:27
  To: All                                               13-Sep-99 14:52:05
Subj: Re: printing through SCSI

From: Wim Wauters <w.h.m.wauters.1998@cranfield.ac.uk>


cjt&trefoil wrote:

> Mooo wrote:
> > <snip> I dont think I've
> > ever heard of a printer hanging off a SCSI port.
> ><snip>
>
> There are some that do.  They're not very common, though.

And I thought all Apple Printers where SCSI !
Anyway, the printer is certainly a SCSI-1 device
(it shows up fine on my Adaptec 2940).
So nowadays, it seems only huge network printers are SCSI.
The cost of the spooling software for those printers is also huge :-(

I also looked at SCSI to LPT converters: no luck !
The only products I find are SCSI controllers which fit on the parallel
port
(but they are still SCSI controllers).
So the next option is to find an Apple NuBUS network card 10BaseT BNC.

Wish me luck !

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From: garymck@ozemail.com.au                            13-Sep-99 22:48:07
  To: All                                               13-Sep-99 14:52:06
Subj: epson scanner

From: "Gary McKenzie" <garymck@ozemail.com.au>

Hi,
I am currently setting up my system to use warp. Ihave an epson gt-7000 scsi
scanner. It does not come with any os2 software. Is ther some sort of twain
driver that I could use with it?? Any good scanning software around?

cheers
Gary


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From: horseman@ibm.net                                  13-Sep-99 11:36:24
  To: All                                               13-Sep-99 14:52:06
Subj: Re: Uninstalling OS/2 Warp 3.0

From: Tony Wright <horseman@ibm.net>

anonymous wrote:

> Can anyone provide suggestions for uninstalling OS/2 from a partition ??
>
> Formatting it is not an option !!
>
> Thanks in advance....  T.B.

Someone will undoubtedly (perhaps naively) simply suggest using the inbuilt
OSDELETE function.
If they do without any warning caveats.... be aware that if you(or an
install) have placed any common/critical files within any OS2 default
directories then this function will happily delete those as well.
Not accepting an option to format seems to also intimate that you don't have
a reliable backup possibly?    ...or probably just the limitation of not
having all Dos/Win install disks, wishing to re-install all their apps or
simply the tedium of selectively restoring from backup?
In this situation I would suggest (after booting to Dos or an alternative
partition), temporarily renaming the high level OS2 directories first and
exhaustively testing all Dos/Win apps first before renaming back and using
OSDELETE function(if you must).
A more granular and safer (yet tedious) approach that also assumes some
"OS/2 knowledge" is to do this manually. Thus assuming you have temp renamed
and diligently tested at least some obvious things first:
1. Selectively uninstall via System Setup as much as you can.
2. Reboot (and also ensure BOOT /DOS invoke prior to continuing if this is
also going to still be a bootable partition, so you can test incrementally
as you procede if you're that unconfident/paranoid or just very
thorough<vbg>)
3. Delete:  Unhide (ATTRIB os2*. -s -h -r  and others as required) and
delete OS2KRNL,
OS2LDR,OS2BOOT,OS2VER,OS2DUMP,MMUNI*, CONFIG.SYS,AUTOEXEC(remember which set
you need to keep/rename<g>), WP ROOT.  SF,  README,  +
SWAPPER.DAT, OS2???.ini (if moved from their default locations).
4. Delete directories (appropriating a suitable DELTREE type utility is left
as an excercise  for you<g>), \OS2, \SPOOL, \DELETE(if it exists),
\NOWHERE(unhide it), \PSFONTS (careful you may have fonts here that you need
to retain), \DESKTOP, \MMOS2.
depending on how OS2 was originally installed(and/or whether it was Connect
Red Pak) there may well be other TCP,network,CID directories and others I've
forgotten from times long ago<g>......
5. Optionally seperately backup and check/cleanup Win and SYTEM.ini (it may
well have now redundant pointers under [boot] eg superfluous fdisplay=
,sdisplay=  as well as the required display= ......line inter alia)

I also vaguely recall from years ago, that apart from the obvious "gotcha"
already mentioned OSDELETE   also attempts to delete a pre-Warp MMPM2
directory(left over from v2.x era) instead of correct Warp MMOS2!
I suspect that it also left Maintenance Desktop and Nowhere1 (Launchpad)
untouched.
Also the Desktop/Nowhere directories may be incremented with numeric suffix
if  you have remade your desktop ever in the past..... I can't remember if
OSDELETE has the "smarts" to "chain" back to identify these  or any other
files relocated from default location(I suspect it doesn't).
You'll also be left with the hidden EA file...... but DOS/Win ignores this.

As stated, whichever method you use, the greatest difficulty is confirming
what fonts/files etc the brain dead Dos/Win may have ferretted away into an
(arguably) inappropriate OS/2 related directory that the also partially dumb
OSDELETE will then purge.   :-(
Depending on your intimate knowledge of application mix
installed,Dos/Windows itself, and the "criticality" of the Dos/Win apps &
functionality after you have removed OS/2 then you may have to be extremely
methodical in both testing and backing up prior to (and during any manual)
deleting.

That is why a re-format is usually advised (generically in terms of both
expediency and minimising potential problems)......    but now after reading
the above you can presumably evaluate(a little better hopefully) the
"effort" and "risk" applicable to each alternative, commensurate with your
own working practises and specific requirements?

The obvious caveat is again laboriously re-emphasised:  Unless you specify
more details of your installed apps,configuration,directory structure it's
not really possible to definitively offer more than the "guidelines" above
to reduce the risk further..... and because of the infinite variations of
configuration/applications you could have deliberately (or indirectly)
applied there will be a finite residual risk even then. (so a reliable
backup methodology is still required)

Hope this helps a little without being too negative<g> - Good luck....
--
Rgds Tony W   Email: horseman@ibm.net

"humanum est errare: To err is human
.... and to fail is to be a Project Manager...
...but to foul things up completely needs a computer!"




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From: dwinters@redrose.net                              13-Sep-99 10:29:05
  To: All                                               13-Sep-99 14:52:06
Subj: ORB using "orin"

From: Dale Winters <dwinters@redrose.net>

Since 'castlewood" is draging their feet getting os/2 drivers out the
door for their parallel port model Im wondering if anybody tried using
orin code to get and orb parallel port drive working under Warp??? Any
help appreciated !!! Dale

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From: galberts@mediaport.org                            13-Sep-99 16:43:20
  To: All                                               13-Sep-99 14:52:06
Subj: Re: Sound Blasters?

From: Gooitzen Alberts <galberts@mediaport.org>

Hi,

I use a SB64 PCI with a 1371 chip so I might get it to work like yours.
I've been looking for this ES1371 driver, but not succesfull in finding
it.
Were did you get it from?

TIA,
Gooitzen Alberts

Yuri Dario wrote:

> On Thu, 9 Sep 1999 07:53:19, "John E. Jones" <jejs@verinet.com> wrote:
>
> > Will the newer Sound Blaster cards work with OS/2?
>
> SB 64 works with the new ensoniq ES1371 driver. Maybe also 128 could
> work.
>
> Bye,
>
>         Yuri Dario
>
> /*
>  * member of TeamOS/2 - Italy
>  * http://www.quasarbbs.com/yuri
>  */



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From: donnelly@tampabay.rr.com                          13-Sep-99 17:13:04
  To: All                                               13-Sep-99 16:50:03
Subj: Re: E.EXE

From: donnelly@tampabay.rr.com (Buddy Donnelly)

On Mon, 13 Sep 1999 10:02:24, Felix Miata <bogus.due2UCE@atlantic.net> a 
crit dans un message:
> > 
> >    ...such as SmallEditor, Boxer and Kon, all shareware...
> > plus Mr Edit [prog name change?] and also the "WebWriter"
> > HTML editor, which are both offered now as freeware. All 5
> > editors will allow writing of an HTML text file w/o the
> > end-of-file marker.
> >    There are still more OS/2 text and HTML editors that
> > probably will do the same, either for free or low-cost.
> 
> They're not free if installing them to take the place of E.EXE requires
> hours of research to find WPS association objects to change and to
> discover how to reconfigure to default to the replacement.

Hours? Seconds. Just copy the replacement directly on top of \OS2\E.EXE, 
and you'll swap in the replacement in all the old associations. This is 
what I routinely do with Mister ED when I do a new Warp Install.

> 
> I like E. It's simple and has only the one bothersome flaw in that web
> pages display the character as a box and validators object to it
> following the HTML.

Just one of E's most aggravating faults, in my opinion. With no saving 
graces at all. But to each his/her own.

Good luck,

Buddy

Buddy Donnelly
donnelly@tampabay.rr.com


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From: zayne@omen.com.au                                 13-Sep-99 16:59:15
  To: All                                               13-Sep-99 16:50:03
Subj: Re: Help Orb SCSI on TP385XD.....

From: zayne@omen.com.au (Mooo)

Oh right.  I learn something new every day :)


doug.bissett"at"ibm.net (Doug Bissett) wrote:

>FYI, the SCSI, and the ATAPI (EIDE)  drives DO work with OS/2. The 
>other models (PP, USB) will not work without a driver, which is 
>supposed to be under construction. I don't know the details about the 
>SCSI, but the ATAPI (EIDE) drive needs the latest IDE driver 
>(IDEDASD.EXE). Get, and READ, the README.RMS file, that comes with the
>new Device Driver Fixpack (this also contains the latest <?> IDE 
>driver). It has a lot of good information about using removable media 
>(I don't know how much, if any, of this information applies to the 
>SCSI drives).


Craig

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From: doug.bissett"at"ibm.net                           13-Sep-99 18:00:11
  To: All                                               13-Sep-99 16:50:03
Subj: Re: Internal Zip

From: doug.bissett"at"ibm.net (Doug Bissett)

On Mon, 13 Sep 1999 06:51:01, "John E. Jones" <jejs@verinet.com> 
wrote:

> I have an internal Zip drive, is it possible to get it to work with OS/2
> 3.0?
> 
> John
> jejs@verinet.com
> 

IF it is an ATAPI (EIDE) drive, it is supported by the later IDE 
drivers.  Go to  
http://service.software.ibm.com/os2ddpak/html/index.htm
and look for IDEDASD.EXE (you will find it in many places). Or, better
yet, install the latest Device driver fix pack. Go to 
ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/ps/products/os2/fixes/DDPak/ and istall 
that. It also has a file README.RMS that describes using removable 
media with the IDE driver.

If it is a SCSI drive, it should be supported by the driver for your 
SCSI card. Sorry, I can't help you with that one. Perhaps a little 
more information would get you more help.
******************************
From the PC of Doug Bissett
doug.bissett at ibm.net
The " at " must be changed to "@"
******************************

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From: doug.bissett"at"ibm.net                           13-Sep-99 18:00:12
  To: All                                               13-Sep-99 16:50:03
Subj: Re: Sound Card suggestions...

From: doug.bissett"at"ibm.net (Doug Bissett)

On Sun, 12 Sep 1999 18:36:52, rgibson@ix.netcom.com (Ron Gibson) 
wrote:

> I hate to retire my old PAS 16 but what card would you'll suggest that
> can do that and is also OS/2 compatible.  Maybe I'll keep it in and use
> two cards.
>  
> Also, I'm a tight wad :)
> 

Look for an AOpen AW37 card. It does windows (better than many much 
more expensive cards, IMO), AND it is a Crystal based (best OS/2 
driver support) card.

Oh yeah, it is CHEAP <g>.

Hope this helps...
******************************
From the PC of Doug Bissett
doug.bissett at ibm.net
The " at " must be changed to "@"
******************************

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From: Trevor-Hemsley@dial.pipex.com                     13-Sep-99 19:31:19
  To: All                                               13-Sep-99 16:50:03
Subj: Re: Internal Zip

From: "Trevor Hemsley" <Trevor-Hemsley@dial.pipex.com>

On Mon, 13 Sep 1999 00:51:01 -0600, John E. Jones wrote:

->I have an internal Zip drive, is it possible to get it to work with OS/2
->3.0?

Yes.

Download
ftp://service.boulder.ibm.com/ps/products/os2/os2ddpak/idedasd.exe and use
the drivers from that. Specifically you need IBMATAPI.FLT and you might as
well have the latest versions of IBM1S506.ADD and IBMIDECD.FLT while
you're there. You'll need a BASEDEV line in CONFIG.SYS for IBMATAPI.FLT. 

Since you're messing with the IDE drivers here it would be best if you
made sure that you have a set of bootable diskettes before you upgrade the
drivers. Make sure that they work and then backup the existing versions of
the affected files before you overwrite them.


Trevor Hemsley, London, UK
(Trevor-Hemsley@dial.pipex.com or 75704.2477@compuserve.com)



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From: Trevor-Hemsley@dial.pipex.com                     13-Sep-99 19:28:11
  To: All                                               13-Sep-99 16:50:03
Subj: Re: Crash on Setup

From: "Trevor Hemsley" <Trevor-Hemsley@dial.pipex.com>

On Sun, 12 Sep 1999 21:40:01 -0400, Thomas Gibson wrote:

->    I am having trouble setting up OS2 Warp4 to run on my machine.  I am
->able to go through the setup screens and have the files install,
->however, on reboot, a crash with register dump occurs after the
->graphical startup screen appears.
->
->    My machine:
->
->    ASUS P2B with 300 Celeron
->    MACH 64
->    3.2 Quantum Fireball

Do an install and select VGA support for the video and see if that helps
(if you haven't tried that already). 

If you're overclocking your Celeron 300 then don't. Do the install at the
rated processor speed, apply the latest fixpack and _then_ overclock.

Is it always the same crash? If so, where?


Trevor Hemsley, London, UK
(Trevor-Hemsley@dial.pipex.com or 75704.2477@compuserve.com)



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From: dkneuppe@swbell.net                               13-Sep-99 13:55:28
  To: All                                               13-Sep-99 16:50:03
Subj: Re: epson scanner

From: "Doug Kneupper" <dkneuppe@swbell.net>

There is a German firm that is writing TWAIN software for the Epson scanner.
I believe I found it by doing a search for TWAIN & OS/2 on YAHOO.


On Mon, 13 Sep 1999 22:48:14 +1000, Gary McKenzie wrote:

>Hi,
>I am currently setting up my system to use warp. Ihave an epson gt-7000 scsi
>scanner. It does not come with any os2 software. Is ther some sort of twain
>driver that I could use with it?? Any good scanning software around?
>
>cheers
>Gary
>
>

Doug Kneupper


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From: madodel@ptdprolog.net                             13-Sep-99 19:53:04
  To: All                                               13-Sep-99 19:48:26
Subj: Re: epson scanner

From: madodel@ptdprolog.net (Mark Dodel)

check out the 2 OS/2 twain developer sites for support of your scanner
model - http://www.cfm.de/products_twainos2.htm and 
http://www.stiscan.com  There is also the SANE freeware project that 
requires EMXRT - http://www.quasarbbs.com/yuri/sane2.html

As to applications that support it, PMView and Photo>Graphics Pro have
TWAIN support.

http://www.pmview.com  An excellent OS/2 image viewer/manipulator.  
Register it soon, as v2.0 is near final release and will be free 
upgrade to anyone that has registered version 1.0x.

You can find  a downloadable version of TrueSpectra's PhotoGraphics 
Pro 2.02S at their support site - 
http://www.truespectra.com/support.html  They have stopped development
on it but they will send you a free registration key for the asking - 
send a request to support@truespectra.com



On Mon, 13 Sep 1999 12:48:14, "Gary McKenzie" <garymck@ozemail.com.au>
wrote:

-)Hi,
-)I am currently setting up my system to use warp. Ihave an epson gt-7000 scsi
-)scanner. It does not come with any os2 software. Is ther some sort of twain
-)driver that I could use with it?? Any good scanning software around?
-)
-)cheers
-)Gary
-)
-)


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//             Healthcare Computer Consultant
//                   madodel@ptdprolog.net
//    http://home.ptd.net/~madodel
//
//  For a VOICE in the future of OS/2
//             http://www.os2voice.org/index.html
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From: barrowcl@flash.net                                13-Sep-99 20:00:17
  To: All                                               13-Sep-99 19:48:26
Subj: NT & OS/2

From: "George Barrowcliff" <barrowcl@flash.net>

Just received a pair of PIII 550MHz IBM processors with NT installed in a
2GB partition of a 13.5 GB drive.  The balance of the drive is unpartitioned
and unformatted.
  I want to keep NT in a primary partiton and install Warp in its own
primary 5GB partition with an extended dos partiton of 2 GB.  I thought
(reading the book) that the FDISK process would allow that but when I get to
fdisk, it doesn't recognize any of the existing NT partition, so I escaped
and F3'd out to reread the book.
  Installing Boot manager was not even an option with FDISK.  Is it the 13GB
size that is confusing FDISK?  It displayed the available space as 25,xxx00
megabytes, with the 25,xxx highlighted and the 00 just hung off the end.
Looked very wierd.

Any suggestions would be helpful.

TIA GWB


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From: osmo.vuorio@sonera.fi                             13-Sep-99 20:20:29
  To: All                                               13-Sep-99 19:48:26
Subj: Re: NT & OS/2

From: osmo.vuorio@sonera.fi (osmo vuorio)

In article <DJcD3.166$k64.328@news.flash.net>, "George Barrowcliff"
<barrowcl@flash.net> says:

>  Installing Boot manager was not even an option with FDISK.  Is it the 13GB
>size that is confusing FDISK?  It displayed the available space as 25,xxx00

Is the huge ide drive support already installed?

http://service.software.ibm.com/os2ddpak/html/miscellb/os_2warp/

Osmo

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From: stefand@lcam.u-psud.fr                            14-Sep-99 08:05:02
  To: All                                               14-Sep-99 18:43:06
Subj: Re: Recommended PCMCIA modem and 10/100 ethernet?

From: stefand@lcam.u-psud.fr (Stefan A. Deutscher)

On Fri, 10 Sep 1999 13:12:57 GMT, John Thompson
<nospam@savebandwidth.invalid> wrote:
>In <slrn7thja1.510.stefand@ferrari.lcam.u-psud.fr>,
>stefand@lcam.u-psud.fr (Stefan A. Deutscher) writes:
>
>>Hm. The IBM Home and Away 14.4kB modem 10Mbs ethernet combo card I can
>>pull / reinsert before boot, there after, during operation at will. It
>>just works. However, it installs its own com.sys copy to allow for
>>this magic of dynamic irq/com port/address assignment. Too bad stock
>>com.sys doesn't do that.
>
>Although my Home & Away card can also be removed and reinserted and
>still have ethernet work, I find that the modem function is lost if the
>machine (Compaq Contura Aero) goes into suspend mode. When I resume the
>machine after a suspend, I must remove and reinsert the card to get
>ethernet to work again, but modem will only return after a reboot.
>This is not the case if I hard-code an IRQ for the modem to  use, but
>then ethernet does not work at all.  So its nice, but could be
>better...


Next time, get a Thinkpad then :-) [Ducking and running ..]  Stefan


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From: OS2Guy@WarpCity.com                               13-Sep-99 19:18:09
  To: All                                               14-Sep-99 18:43:06
Subj: UPDATED GUIDE: OS/2 On Your Aptiva Machine!

From: Tim Martin <OS2Guy@WarpCity.com>

Updated today, Monday, September 13th, 1999:

Aloha!  John Twelker has updated his most excellent guide:
"PREPARING FOR AND INSTALLING OS/2 ON AN IBM APTIVA 
PRELOADED WITH WINDOWS 98."  Well written and easy to follow, 
this is the installation guide you can follow if you plan on buying or
already own an IBM Aptiva machine and want to install OS/2 on it!   

Bookmark the url!

Public url:  http://www.warpcity.com/os2aptiva.html

Tim Martin
http://warpcity.com
OS2Guy@WarpCity.com
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From: jmiranda@ricochet.net                             13-Sep-99 17:08:24
  To: comp.os.os2.setup.misc@list.deja...               14-Sep-99 18:43:06
Subj: Re: thinkpad 770

To: "comp.os.os2.setup.misc@list.deja.com"
<comp.os.os2.setup.misc@list.deja.com>
From: jose miranda <jmiranda@ricochet.net>


Hi, everybody


Does anybody know if we can install Warp 4 on a IBM thinkpad 770? It comes
with
NT preinstalled, pentium II 300, *.1 GB HD.

Any suggestion on how to do it, either by installing alone and getting rid of
NT (preferred method) or by installing alongside it, will be deeply
apprecciated.


TIA


Jos?



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From: hunters@thunder.indstate.edu                      14-Sep-99 01:26:24
  To: All                                               14-Sep-99 18:43:06
Subj: Re: ORB using "orin"

From: hunters@thunder.indstate.edu

In article <37DD0A37.4422F6E3@redrose.net>,
  Dale Winters <dwinters@redrose.net> wrote:

> Since 'castlewood" is draging their feet getting os/2 drivers out the
> door for their parallel port model Im wondering if anybody tried using
> orin code to get and orb parallel port drive working under Warp??? Any
> help appreciated !!! Dale

What the heck is "Orin"? Do you mean "Odin", aka Win32-OS/2?? If that's
what you meant, no dice. Win32-OS/2 only works on programs, not Device
Drivers.

--
-Steven Hunter               *OS/2 Warp 4 * |Warpstock '99 | Oct 16-17|
hunters@thunder.indstate.edu *AMD K6-2 400* |       Atlanta GA        |


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From: jscott@csolve.net                                 14-Sep-99 02:45:11
  To: All                                               14-Sep-99 18:43:06
Subj: Re: IDEDASD  and drive light ?

From: JohnS <jscott@csolve.net>


I'm currently using ibm1s506.add from 98-01.  After installing all the
files from IDEDASD 99-07 my drive light remains on all the time. 

I've back leveled to the 98-01 to turn off the light.  

Does anyone have a suggestion where I might look for the reason the
light remains on?

 3 IDE drives, 1 Atapi CD, 1 SCSI drive and 1 SCSi Jazz drive.

Thanks

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From: krodger@SPAMca.ibm.com                            13-Sep-99 23:10:16
  To: All                                               14-Sep-99 18:43:06
Subj: Re: thinkpad 770

From: "Kelly D. Rodger" <krodger@SPAMca.ibm.com>

Sure, I've done it.  I have a year-or-so old 770 that I'm running Warp 4
on right now.  It's been a while since I did an install, but mine works
just fine.

Mine also came with NT, which I first squished with Partition Magic to
make room for Boot Manager and OS/2.  Within a few months I just removed
NT entirely.  As I recall I first went to the OS/2 and Thinkpad support
pages and downloaded the necessary drivers and patches BEFORE I started
the install.  That came in very handy later.

kdr


jose miranda wrote:

> Does anybody know if we can install Warp 4 on a IBM thinkpad 770? It comes
with
> NT preinstalled, pentium II 300, *.1 GB HD.
> 
> Any suggestion on how to do it, either by installing alone and getting rid
of
> NT (preferred method) or by installing alongside it, will be deeply
> apprecciated.

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From: KendallB@scitechsoft.com                          14-Sep-99 08:29:22
  To: All                                               14-Sep-99 18:43:06
Subj: OS/2 developer position at SciTech!

From: KendallB@scitechsoft.com (Kendall Bennett)

Hi All,

SciTech is currently looking to fill a fulltime OS/2 developer position 
within the company. The responsibilities of the position would include 
development of SciTech Display Doctor for OS/2, wxWindows for OS/2 (a 
core component of the SDD 7.0 user interface) and SciTech MGL for OS/2. 
The position will require relocation to our offices in Chico, California 
(about 1.5 hours north of Sacramento).

If you are interested in this position, please mail/fax your resume to my 
attention at:

 Kendall Bennett
 505 Wall Street
 Chico, CA 95928
 Fax: (530) 894 9069

If you wish to email me resumes, make sure they are either word documents 
or acrobat files so that I can print them and add them to our files. I 
won't accept text file resumes.

If you are not interested in this position, please pass this message onto 
friends who may be interested in applying.

Regards,

-- 

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From: rlalla@stepnet.REMOVETHIS.de                      14-Sep-99 20:44:15
  To: All                                               14-Sep-99 20:40:17
Subj: Re: PCI USB I/O Card Can't Find Com Port

From: "Robert Lalla" <rlalla@stepnet.REMOVETHIS.de>

On Mon, 13 Sep 1999 11:29:36 -1000, John Twelker wrote:

>the ALi motherboard chipset supports only the early USB standard, OCHI 1.0a.

OpenHCI is not an "early" standard. It is simply a different hardware 
implementation of the USB standard that prevents the chipset manufacturers 
from reverse-engineering the Intel proprietary UHCI hardware.

>I've just installed a PCI USB I/O CARD with VIA chipset which supports
>the current UCHI Host Controller 1.1 standard in an effort to get around my
ALi
>motherboard chipset limitation. This time, the OS/2 USB BASIC and USB COM
drivers
>installed and loaded without error ... which of course, they wouldn't do
before. Also, the
>Hardware Manager sees all of the device drivers and reports the desired UCHI
Host
>Controller. That's the good news.
>
>However, neither of the two USB devices I've tried (AGFA e-Photo or 3COM USR
>External Modem 5605) can find the Com port or make a connection. That's the
bad news.
>
>Is there something I've forgotten to do?

Unfortunately I experienced the same behaviour, both with an external VIA PCI
card
or with an VIA equipped "socket7" mainboard. Although the UHCI hardware
is recognized properly, communication to any external usb devices is not
working.
The corresponding VIA data sheets (VT83C572, VT83C586) claim to be 100% 
UHCI register compatible.

I downloaded the OS/2 UHCI driver's source code. 
So I can try to find out what is going wrong.

--
RL


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From: rjfreem@ibm.net                                   14-Sep-99 13:17:26
  To: All                                               14-Sep-99 20:40:18
Subj: Re: epson scanner

From: rjfreem@ibm.net

In <bl6D3.13422$1E2.91789@ozemail.com.au>, on 09/13/99 
   at 10:48 PM, "Gary McKenzie" <garymck@ozemail.com.au> said:

Mark Dodel included Sane in his recommdations. I have both applause and
CFM, I prefer Sane for my 8500 and it is free. RJF


>Hi,
>I am currently setting up my system to use warp. Ihave an epson gt-7000
>scsi scanner. It does not come with any os2 software. Is ther some sort
>of twain driver that I could use with it?? Any good scanning software
>around?

>cheers
>Gary



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From: raphaelt@worldnet.att.net                         15-Sep-99 00:40:00
  To: All                                               15-Sep-99 03:00:26
Subj: dire need of HELP!

From: Raphael Tennenbaum <raphaelt@worldnet.att.net>

Last week my sound card blew up -- I guess, though at this point
I'm not sure about anything.  Within a few days, my Warp4
partition started misbehaving, and things got worse, to the point
where I recreated it from tape archives.  Then it worked -- for
three or four days.
 
Yesterday I started getting unusual error messages from Netscape
when I'd start it: "Cannot load RESDLL.DLL," it would say, and
then abend.  Other times, it seemed to get further along in the
process, but would then ask me to fill out a profile.  
 
At that point I figured something in Netscape had been corrupted,
so I deleted (moved) the directory elsewhere, and tried to copy
it back from another tape archive.  Suddenly, things got worse:
my Warp4 desktop wouldn't boot (popuplog showed PMMERGE.DLL as
the suspect.)  I tried backing out to the pre-FixPack6
PMMERGE.DLL with even worse results.  
 
So, I started over once again, and reapplied a tape archive of my
Warp4 partition.  Same thing: the boot would stall right at the
point where my desktop should have appeared.
 
So, for the first time in a while, I tried booting my Warp3
partition.  The first few times it seemed to work ok -- I checked
my email, looked up a few things in Deja to see if I could get a
clue.  Then I started trying to reboot, and all hell broke loose:
suddenly NONE of my OS/2 partitions would come up -- all of them
would trap, occasionally even before the logo appeared.  Most
were Trap 000Ds, but then I started getting a few Trap 0003s'!.
 
It became fairly clear that I was up against some dire hardware
situation -- but what?  I'd long since pulled the sound card and
remmed out the drivers in the Warp4 install.  I hadn't remmed
them out in the Warp3 partition -- but I was also getting traps
in the BOOTOS2 partition which I'm sure has no multimedia
support.
 
Right now I haven't got a clue.  W95 boots fine -- yee hah.  And
I'm not set up to do any work on that partition anyway.  I have a
hard time believing my SCSI drives have screwed up.  Memory's a
bit more compelling possibility; so is a bad motherboard.  But I
don't really know where to start testing!  At this point the only
cards in there are a Sportster modem and an ISA Matrox card. 
I've switched keyboards to no avail.  
 
Completely stumped (and tired & on deadline too).  Any
suggestions would be very much welcomed -- but if I don't get
back right away, give me a few days, cause I'll be trying out
whatever folks suggest -- or, installing new hardware bit by bit
(ye gods....)

-- Ray Tennenbaum, wishing he was riding his YZF-R6 in the middle
of nowhere right about now....

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From: muses9@cyberus.ca                                 15-Sep-99 04:25:22
  To: All                                               15-Sep-99 03:00:26
Subj: ? possible to "format c: /s" with DOS from A:?

From: muses9@cyberus.ca (Marko)

Hi,

Is it possible to format C: /s from a DOS from A: instance? Or use Sys
c:?

--
Marko
Ottawa

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From: UCShavdTop@aol.com                                14-Sep-99 20:21:29
  To: All                                               15-Sep-99 03:00:27
Subj: Re: OK people lets kick this pcmcia problem

From: Steve SIR <UCShavdTop@aol.com>

Good luck! I have the same laptop. I have tried EVERYTHING conceivable to
try to make my 3Com PCMCIA modem work (and a tip of the chapeau to all of
those on the list who sent me their suggestions.) The only thing I haven't
tried is the TouchStone drivers.

Other than PCMCIA not working, its a great laptop for OS/2.

patrickstump@my-deja.com wrote:

> I have a dell inspirion 7000 with ti1220 chipset for pcmcia.  I have
> everything working except the ethernet card.  3com 3c589b. I have
> minimal understaning of how pcmcia works but I got the driver from
> touchstone, a company in germany who writes a driver to supprt most of
> the chipsets.
>
> We all need to form a pcmcia group to be done with this problem.
>
> Everybody interested post a message with ideas on how to collaberate,
> and or you problem, machine/chipset as well.
>
> I am tired of my nick card not working :)
>
> Patrick Stump
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Share what you know. Learn what you don't.

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From: adamrj@aol.com                                    14-Sep-99 22:18:14
  To: All                                               15-Sep-99 03:00:27
Subj: LOLITAS LOLITAS LOLITAS LOLITAS 22877

From: adamrj@aol.com

LOLITAS AND MORE FOR FREE:

http://207.240.225.250



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From: dcasey@ibm.net                                    15-Sep-99 07:12:06
  To: All                                               15-Sep-99 11:00:21
Subj: Re: TCP/IP & Netscape 2.02

From: dcasey@ibm.net (Dan Casey)

In article <FI2ouo.KBq.0.queen@torfree.net>,
cv436@torfree.net (Jeffery Thomas) wrote:
>I'm trying to get netscape 2.02 to work offline, but it doesn't want to
>run when I click on the icon.  Isn't there some way to make this run
>without installing TCP/IP?
>
>If I were to install TCP/IP, can I do it through what has come with the
>bonus pack, but in such a way as to only install the TCP/IP, and not the
>IBM web browser, and all the other client programs?

Check the desktop object settings for Netscape. It sounds like it's
calling LINKUP.EXE with the Netscape executable as a parameter. Change
this to call the netscape executable as the EXE (get rid of
LINKUP.EXE) and it should work just fine.



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From: d.s.darrow@nvinet.com                             14-Sep-99 23:54:11
  To: All                                               15-Sep-99 11:00:22
Subj: Re: E.EXE

From: "Doug Darrow" <d.s.darrow@nvinet.com>

On Mon, 13 Sep 1999 06:02:24 -0400, Felix Miata wrote:

>They're not free if installing them to take the place of E.EXE requires
>hours of research to find WPS association objects to change and to
>discover how to reconfigure to default to the replacement.

Well, SmallEd isn't free (it's shareware) but it's cheap. And replacing
E.EXE with it is simple. Just put smalled.exe and smalled.hlp in you're
/OS2 directory, then copy smalled.exe to e.exe. You're done. Leave
smalled.exe there too, cause every FP will reinstall a new (old?) E.EXE
over it so you'll need to repeat the copy smalled.exe e.exe afterwards.
SmallEd is fast, simple to configure, prints well, and has several
handy addins (for a small price) such as the html and unhtml add ins.
It also allows several predefined fromatting options that are quite
handy. The only thing it lacks is a spell checker. Eric was trying to
come up with that and syntax highlighting when I last corresponded with
him but I haven't heard anything about it since late 97 on those
issues. The highlighting would be a nice addition but not a real
necessity. Spell checking would be good, though.


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From: twelker@ibm.net                                   14-Sep-99 14:34:06
  To: All                                               15-Sep-99 11:00:22
Subj: Re: PCI USB I/O Card Can't Find Com Port

From: John Twelker <twelker@ibm.net>


Robert Lalla wrote:

> On Mon, 13 Sep 1999 11:29:36 -1000, John Twelker wrote:
>
> >the ALi motherboard chipset supports only the early USB standard, OCHI
1.0a.
>
> OpenHCI is not an "early" standard. It is simply a different hardware
> implementation of the USB standard that prevents the chipset manufacturers
> from reverse-engineering the Intel proprietary UHCI hardware.
>
> >I've just installed a PCI USB I/O CARD with VIA chipset which supports
> >the current UCHI Host Controller 1.1 standard in an effort to get around my 
ALi
> >motherboard chipset limitation. This time, the OS/2 USB BASIC and USB COM
drivers
> >installed and loaded without error ... which of course, they wouldn't do
before. Also, the
> >Hardware Manager sees all of the device drivers and reports the desired
UCHI Host
> >Controller. That's the good news.
> >
> >However, neither of the two USB devices I've tried (AGFA e-Photo or 3COM
USR
> >External Modem 5605) can find the Com port or make a connection. That's the 
bad news.
> >
> >Is there something I've forgotten to do?
>
> Unfortunately I experienced the same behaviour, both with an external VIA
PCI card
> or with an VIA equipped "socket7" mainboard. Although the UHCI hardware
> is recognized properly, communication to any external usb devices is not
working.
> The corresponding VIA data sheets (VT83C572, VT83C586) claim to be 100%
> UHCI register compatible.
>
> I downloaded the OS/2 UHCI driver's source code.
> So I can try to find out what is going wrong.
>
> --
> RL

Aloha,

I'll look forward to hearing what you've found out! When you post your
findings, I'd appreciate
a copy by e-mail!  Thanks!

Aloha from Maui,

John Twelker

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From: jdb@juliand.com                                   14-Sep-99 22:09:25
  To: All                                               15-Sep-99 11:00:22
Subj: Re: TCP/IP & Netscape 2.02

From: Julian Dominic <jdb@juliand.com>


Jeffery Thomas wrote:

> I'm trying to get netscape 2.02 to work offline, but it doesn't want to
> run when I click on the icon.  Isn't there some way to make this run
> without installing TCP/IP?
>
> If I were to install TCP/IP, can I do it through what has come with the
> bonus pack, but in such a way as to only install the TCP/IP, and not the
> IBM web browser, and all the other client programs?
>
> Thanks...

  I haven't tried what you want to do directly, but when Mosaic first came
out I installed it and it would not work without a tcp/ip stack available.
I suspect the same is true of any of the current browsers.  Even though you
can use the browser offline, it assumes that there is the possibility of
online.
TCP/IP is not on the BonusPak.  It's on the main cd.  IBM Webexplorer
installs as well as the utilities.  They don't take up much space and are
easily ignored.  If you make Netscape your default browser the only time you
see Webexplorer is if you Device Pak on cd.  There is no reason to do this
since it is out of date.  The current Device Pak is online.

Good luck!

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From: gchristo.getridofthispart@adobe.com               14-Sep-99 22:41:23
  To: All                                               15-Sep-99 11:00:22
Subj: Re: need help: can't boot with windows after os2boot was executed

From: Greg Christopher <gchristo.getridofthispart@adobe.com>


Harald Falkenberg wrote:

Harald,
    The os2\system directory is supposed to store the dos versions of those
critical files when OS/2 is active, and the OS/2 versions when DOS is active.
At some point, sounds like it made two copies of the OS/2 version.

    It should be easy to fix this with a dos boot disk. I don't have a dual
boot system around anymore, but look for *.dos in the os2\system directory.
See if the autoexec.bat, config.sys, and any other files (perhaps boot.dos)
are in there that don't have OS/2 paths to them. If not, just leave them in
there.

    Do a boot -dos.  If that leaves mostly garbage in your c:\directory,
fine.

    Now from a DOS boot disk (of the same exact DOS version that your win 31
system had), do a "sys c:" once you have booted from a system diskette. If
you don't have the sys command on the diskette, type "c:\dos\sys c:" FROM THE
A:\ DIRECTORY. That will transfer both command.com and msdos.sys over to the
c drive. the msdos.sys is the boot sector (can't remember for sure, but I
think it's that one. if not, it's the io.sys).

     Now your only task is to rebuild your autoexec.bat and config.sys files
for DOS, unfortunately. However, good chance that system commander has them
if you were using that utility.

     Once you have your DOS system back in health (you may have to run the
windows setup program to make it truly healthy again, including any of that
memmaker stuff)- THEN you can do a c:\os2\boot -os2. That will copy your dos
critical files back to the os2\system directory and the os2 files back to the
root directory for an os2 boot.

     Once you've done this and gotten everything back to normal, it would be
a great idea to backup *.dos from the os2\system directory so you never lose
them again.

     Email me (note the bogus email address) if you get stuck.

> Hi,
>
> on a PC with a windows 3.1 and os/2 3.0 I run into trouble after executing
> the os2boot programm within the program manager. Now after every system
> restart os/2 is getting started, but I like to prefer windows 3.1 as
> default start system. So I looked into the system and found the following:
>
> - c:command.com says wrong dos version
> - autoexec.bat and config.sys seem to have only pathes to os2 dirs
> - c: is the same by an os/2 start or start wis a dos boot disk
> - within os/2 session fdisk (in c:\os2) says a warning, that the
>    the partition table may be corrupted. Also there is only aboveground
>    dos (fat) partition, which is set to active.
> - partition magic dos not work and ends with a warning, that the partion
>   table may be corrupted.
> - it is not possible to boot with a partition magic disk -> it says
>   wrong command interpreter...
>
> I'm not familier with os/2 and the boot manager, but it looks like os/2
> is started on the same partition (no hpfs is shown in fdisk).
>
> So if anybody can help me to solve the problems, that would be very kind:
> a) start with windows 3.1 after reboot instead of os/2
> b) whats wrong with the partion table
>
> I know the system is old and dusty, but I need it seriously.
>
> regards
>         Harald

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From: gchristo.getridofthispart@adobe.com               14-Sep-99 22:52:25
  To: All                                               15-Sep-99 11:00:22
Subj: Fixing an HPFS partition to boot again....

From: Greg Christopher <gchristo.getridofthispart@adobe.com>

Well, I THOUGHT I knew what I was doing...

    Installed a 13 Gig drive because my IDE drive was hosed- one minute
it would boot OS/2, the next minute drive failure. Through luck and
perserverance, I was able to completely XCOPY the whole thing to a new
IDE drive (after creating partitions that may _still_ have problems due
to the old 8 gig limit). Boot manager in tact on the c drive. OS/2
booting from G drive.

     I made the xcopy also do system and hidden files, along with empty
subdirectories. This seemed to get everything over, including the
desktop folder.

     The problem is, the partition won't boot.

     I am fairly certain that the G drive is within cylinder 1024 for
the beginning of the partition. I was worried about that and kept making
the only other partition- the F drive- smaller and smaller. There is no
primary partition on this, the second IDE drive in the system.

     Here is where I guess memory has failed me in a false assumption: I
didn't think that HPFS boot volumes actually needed to have the boot
program in the first sector. I think that is wrong now, but I don't know
how to fix the problem.

    The whole volume is there and intact. I even applied the latest
fixpak to it. It didn't complain at all, just updating all the files.
However, the partition is still not bootable.

     I _vaguely_ remember a program that would set the partition
straight. What I really need is the OS/2 equivalent of the sys command,
but no such  thing exists, does it?

    I actually have working boot disks, so please tell me if it _does_
exist! Email is prefereable, but note the bogus part of the address!
THANKS!

-Greg

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From: horseman@ibm.net                                  14-Sep-99 13:20:27
  To: All                                               15-Sep-99 11:00:22
Subj: Re: IDEDASD  and drive light ?

From: Tony Wright <horseman@ibm.net>

JohnS wrote:

> I'm currently using ibm1s506.add from 98-01.  After installing all the
> files from IDEDASD 99-07 my drive light remains on all the time.
>
> I've back leveled to the 98-01 to turn off the light.
>
> Does anyone have a suggestion where I might look for the reason the
> light remains on?
>
>  3 IDE drives, 1 Atapi CD, 1 SCSI drive and 1 SCSi Jazz drive.
>
> Thanks

What SCSI adapter are you using?. If its a legacy Adaptec1542CF then check
IDEDASD
package README and ensure partition sizes  are less than 1Gb.
If not you may need to clarify:
1. Is this cosmetic ie HDD(or is it FDD you're referring to even) LED
stays on but everything boots/functions normally?
2. Output of FDISK /QUERY
3. Bios setup relating to LBA,Startup sequence and any other HDD parameter

4. Relative posisitions of appropriate basedevs for IDE(IBM1S506...or
Danis?), SCSI, OS2DASD,OS2SCSI, OS2(ATAPI)....IFS, IBMIDECD. whatever
5. Parameters on any of 4. above
6. OS2 + FP version.... and any other files backleveled or changed?

--
Rgds Tony W   Email: horseman@ibm.net

"humanum est errare: To err is human
.... and to fail is to be a Project Manager...
...but to foul things up completely needs a computer!"




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From: davek@clark.net                                   15-Sep-99 10:17:06
  To: All                                               15-Sep-99 11:00:22
Subj: Re: dire need of HELP!

From: davek@clark.net (David Kunz)

Raphael Tennenbaum (raphaelt@worldnet.att.net) wrote:                 

: Last week my sound card blew up -- I guess, though at this point 
: I'm not sure about anything.  Within a few days, my Warp4 partition 
: started misbehaving, and things got worse, to the point where I 
: recreated it from tape archives.  Then it worked -- for three or 
: four days.
...
                                                          
Have you checked system voltages?  What caused the sound card to blow?
I would distrust your entire system until it's been thoroughly checked
out.  Almost anything that has gone flakey could be causing this
problem: CPU, memory, controllers, disk drives...

BUT, win<yuk>95 is still a DOS shell and doesn't really "use" the
hardware.  OS/2 uses the HW and is probably the best HW tester that
I've found -- if there's a problem with the HW, OS/2'll find it.
Remember, everything was working ok and reliably before the sound card
problem.

--
David Kunz
Operator error.  Replace operator and strike any key to continue...

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From: baden@unixg.ubc.ca                                15-Sep-99 08:13:21
  To: All                                               15-Sep-99 11:00:22
Subj: Re: Fixing an HPFS partition to boot again....

From: baden@unixg.ubc.ca   (Baden Kudrenecky)

Hi Greg:

   What you probably need to do, is boot from OS/2 floppy, and
run d:\OS2\INSTALL\BOOTDISK\SYSINSTX.COM on your OS/2 boot
partitions.

baden

In <37DF3433.C31B32D@adobe.com>, Greg Christopher
<gchristo.getridofthispart@adobe.com> writes:
>Well, I THOUGHT I knew what I was doing...
>
>    Installed a 13 Gig drive because my IDE drive was hosed- one minute
>it would boot OS/2, the next minute drive failure. Through luck and
>perserverance, I was able to completely XCOPY the whole thing to a new
>IDE drive (after creating partitions that may _still_ have problems due
>to the old 8 gig limit). Boot manager in tact on the c drive. OS/2
>booting from G drive.
>
>     I made the xcopy also do system and hidden files, along with empty
>subdirectories. This seemed to get everything over, including the
>desktop folder.
>
>     The problem is, the partition won't boot.
>
>     I am fairly certain that the G drive is within cylinder 1024 for
>the beginning of the partition. I was worried about that and kept making
>the only other partition- the F drive- smaller and smaller. There is no
>primary partition on this, the second IDE drive in the system.
>
>     Here is where I guess memory has failed me in a false assumption: I
>didn't think that HPFS boot volumes actually needed to have the boot
>program in the first sector. I think that is wrong now, but I don't know
>how to fix the problem.
>
>    The whole volume is there and intact. I even applied the latest
>fixpak to it. It didn't complain at all, just updating all the files.
>However, the partition is still not bootable.
>
>     I _vaguely_ remember a program that would set the partition
>straight. What I really need is the OS/2 equivalent of the sys command,
>but no such  thing exists, does it?
>
>    I actually have working boot disks, so please tell me if it _does_
>exist! Email is prefereable, but note the bogus part of the address!
>THANKS!
>
>-Greg
>


baden

baden@unixg.ubc.ca
http://baden.nu/
OS/2, Solaris & Linux

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From: fat_ox@hotmail.com                                15-Sep-99 13:54:19
  To: All                                               15-Sep-99 11:00:22
Subj: Re: dire need of HELP!

From: "OS/2 Fan" <fat_ox@hotmail.com>

Have you checked *every* connection from anything to anything else? 
There's the off-chance it'sthe power supply or the mobo connections. 
I'd check the power supply too if you're set up for that, a bad
supply might give very strange symptoms, and like the previous poster
said I'd wonder why the sound card sunk.  Are you using the same slot
for another card successfully?  And are you certain it's not faulty
memory, at least at this point (if the sound card was damaged, maybe
SIMMS are too?)?  Post back if you can to let us know what's
happening and good luck!    

Regards,
Xtralarge OS/2 fan
	
Opinions expressed are mine only.  Ignore them and
killfile me.  Leave the University and/or my ISP alone, 
I don't speak for them, they have nothing to do with it, 
and they probably have more lawyers than you anyway.  


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From: letoured@sover.net                                15-Sep-99 12:00:10
  To: All                                               15-Sep-99 15:44:15
Subj: Re: Crash on Setup

From: letoured@sover.net

This is just a wild guess but there might be a confilict with the ATI
card. Try installing for VGA and not the ATI card.  

If it works, if it works there might be a conflict with the card. Use
review /irq to see what Irq's are free/used and the boot from a DOS floppy
and go through the set up for the ATI card to use a free IRQ.

Also if the ATI card is ISA (is it), then go into the MB bios and turn off
the PnP for the slot it is in.


>    I am having trouble setting up OS2 Warp4 to run on my machine.  I am
>able to go through the setup screens and have the files install, however,
>on reboot, a crash with register dump occurs after the graphical startup
>screen appears.

>    My machine:

>    ASUS P2B with 300 Celeron
>    MACH 64
>    3.2 Quantum Fireball

>    I have OS2 as a 501MB partition at the head of the disk and am trying
>to use OS2 BootManager.  I experience this problem even with a minimal
>install(no sound, etc)

>    I am aware there are quit a few patches to OS2.  Where is the
>definite source of these and is there any simple(free) way to determine
>at least what patches are critical enough that they must be applied ?

>    Is there a way to determine the exact release version ?

>    Is there a way to bypass any unneccessary intialization which could
>be problematic ?

>    Any help greatly appreciated!!!

_____________
Ed Letourneau <letoured@sover.net>

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From: horseman@ibm.net                                  15-Sep-99 18:28:17
  To: All                                               15-Sep-99 20:07:15
Subj: (1/2) Re: dire need of HELP!

From: Tony Wright <horseman@ibm.net>

Raphael Tennenbaum wrote:

> Last week my sound card blew up -- I guess, though at this point
> I'm not sure about anything.  Within a few days, my Warp4
> partition started misbehaving, and things got worse, to the point
> where I recreated it from tape archives.  Then it worked -- for
> three or four days.
>
> Yesterday I started getting unusual error messages from Netscape
> when I'd start it: "Cannot load RESDLL.DLL," it would say, and
> then abend.  Other times, it seemed to get further along in the
> process, but would then ask me to fill out a profile.
>
> At that point I figured something in Netscape had been corrupted,
> so I deleted (moved) the directory elsewhere, and tried to copy
> it back from another tape archive.  Suddenly, things got worse:
> my Warp4 desktop wouldn't boot (popuplog showed PMMERGE.DLL as
> the suspect.)  I tried backing out to the pre-FixPack6
> PMMERGE.DLL with even worse results.
>
> So, I started over once again, and reapplied a tape archive of my
> Warp4 partition.  Same thing: the boot would stall right at the
> point where my desktop should have appeared.
>
> So, for the first time in a while, I tried booting my Warp3
> partition.  The first few times it seemed to work ok -- I checked
> my email, looked up a few things in Deja to see if I could get a
> clue.  Then I started trying to reboot, and all hell broke loose:
> suddenly NONE of my OS/2 partitions would come up -- all of them
> would trap, occasionally even before the logo appeared.  Most
> were Trap 000Ds, but then I started getting a few Trap 0003s'!.
>
> It became fairly clear that I was up against some dire hardware
> situation -- but what?  I'd long since pulled the sound card and
> remmed out the drivers in the Warp4 install.  I hadn't remmed
> them out in the Warp3 partition -- but I was also getting traps
> in the BOOTOS2 partition which I'm sure has no multimedia
> support.
>
> Right now I haven't got a clue.  W95 boots fine -- yee hah.  And
> I'm not set up to do any work on that partition anyway.  I have a
> hard time believing my SCSI drives have screwed up.  Memory's a
> bit more compelling possibility; so is a bad motherboard.  But I
> don't really know where to start testing!  At this point the only
> cards in there are a Sportster modem and an ISA Matrox card.
> I've switched keyboards to no avail.
>
> Completely stumped (and tired & on deadline too).  Any
> suggestions would be very much welcomed -- but if I don't get
> back right away, give me a few days, cause I'll be trying out
> whatever folks suggest -- or, installing new hardware bit by bit
> (ye gods....)
>
> -- Ray Tennenbaum, wishing he was riding his YZF-R6 in the middle
> of nowhere right about now....

Oh dear me Ray..... tis difficult to offer credible words of consolation
filled with hope, confidence and calmly thought out rationale  when one
is not experiencing your actual circumstances at the same time with a
recalcitrant and unsympathetic technically illiterate boss impatiently
fuming nearby no doubt......
While your splashing around that alligator filled swamp..... a
condescending offering from an onlooker on dry land reminding you that
your objective was to drain the damn bog, probably does not elevate your
humour/disposition...  :-(

Speculatively the symptoms are indicative of progressive HDD failure
and/or MBR corrupt.
Although if W95 is not exhibiting any symptoms(but as it's on C primary
and probably physically contigous with MBR it may not for some time<g>)
and is presumably on same physical HDD and is relatively close/adjacent
to first failing OS/2 partition on what is (proportionately) a much
larger overall HDD size than these two partitions combined then I'd look
at RAM/L2/CPU in that order..... depending on the feasability of
available compatable swaps.

Unfortunately you need to expand a bit more on what diagnostics you have
tried?
Personally I would :
1. temp remove any adapter cards.... and to rack my brains as to when or
how long since I replaced my CMOS/BIOS backup battery (a relatively
cheap lithium cell or whatever is probably the cheapest pre-req to any
other hardware  change and time involved in repeating any/all of
following<g>).....   A failing battery can be preceded by random
obscure  and apparently unrelated errors such as yours way before a
specific 162/163/165 (or your mobo equivalent) POST bios error message
is posted....
2. Run self test diags for my system board(inc RAM/cache) + HDD,
assuming one still has ones original diskettes? or is this the problem?
3. Then any non destructive SCSI adapter tests, ensuring my
passive/active termination and SCSI ID's had not mysteriously changed or
ribbon cables become loose/damaged or in too close proximity to a
RF/power source.....
4. followed by something like PC Checkit to soak test the
HDD,adapter,mobo and memory for a few hours.....
5. Re-insert adapters and re-run basic mobo + HDD tests + any adapter
tests available(If this passed I'd be tempted to remove adapters and
only re-install after OS/2 was up and stable)
6. If we got this far successfully then I'd boot from OS2 diskettes and
CHKDSK (preferrably the 32bit later version) on OS/2 partitions. Noting
any errors I'd then rename any chkdsk.logs....
7. From boot diskettes run Partition Magic preferrably followed by your
GLU utils and/or at least FDISK /QUERY
8.Depending on results and what Bootmanager you had and any errors
pertaining to partition....  I might be tempted to do a FDISK /NEWMBR
and re-menu my boot partitions.

- - - - - - - break for coffee (pass on the decaf for once) - - - -
and to reflect on any results and the fact that an apparent fault that
affects more than one bootable partition can only be partition table
corruption or an external common cause that is unlikely to be resolved
by further re-installs into existing partitions!
One now has to evaluate the feasability of diagnosis by replacement
compared to the potentially wasted effort/elapsed time of continuing
thru 9 -13 below.  Potentially first moving HDD to equivalent PC
expediently resolves partiton table corruption and SCSI/HDD error.
Followed by RAM/L2/CPU...... and of course one still has to
check/compare all those Bios settings, disk data transfer rates etc even
if one has diligently backed up ones previous working settings<g>.
However if one does not have the luxury of this comparative technique
one may be forced to discard the remnants of ones now stone cold coffee
and continue....after further thought as to whether one did actually do
a LLF initially when presenting both HDD + SCSI adapter together for the
first time all those many moons ago....(but one was persuaded by the
"expert" that said it was uneccessary because he'd done it for years
thru all SCSI/HDD models except coincidentally your exact combination
perhaps) ....and besides it's been working ok for ages!(Ha! - servo data
drift mumble mumble.... servo writer on edge of it's calibration who
knows?) .......    :-(
- - - - - - -return to work via mens room - damn coffee - - - - - - -

9. If I got this far then I might find I now have to do a SYSTINSTX  cos
partition doesn't boot at all or have FORMAT /L /FS:HPFS   and reloaded
from backup if there was evidence of massive corruption or lengthy
chkdsk errors...
10. If the WPS/Desktop is up and I've bypassed(or remmed) the obvious
config errors for adapters I've removed.....then either I'm working and
ready to re-insert adapters individually or staring at a now familiar
Trap screen.   :-(
11. If I've trapped then I diligently note ALL the register details and
any hints to failing module.  If it's Trap 3 (breakpoint left by
developer in application code) then I'd be looking at specific
application(if I could tell) that possibly now has configuration file
out of synch.
If it's TrapD (pmmerge included) then I'd look again at what
diagnostics(if any) I'd run on my video adapter. I'd then revert to VGA
and retry...... along with toggling my H/W detection on bootup(ALT+F1 >
F5/6) if this is still failing. I'd look at reverting to my originall
Archive install desktop(this should be VGA anyway), and eventually I'd
be stripping my config to basics and methodically(but
tediously)re-enabling each device/group at a time....
12. Finally if I'm still stymied and my maintenance(BOOTOS/2) partition
is still exhibiting similar problems then I'd be tempted to re-install a
minimal OS2 from CD in my production partition to see what happens.....
after rechecking my BIOS settings to ensure that these are defaulted but
still commensurate with my hardware yet temporarily disabling
L1/L2/Video cache(and removing/exchanging all bar minimum RAM to load
OS/2) in case the diags missed the fault....while not forgetting that I
might have a PCI SCSI card and ISA Matrox that possibly requires
appropriate PnP and legacy resources modified in Bios....<g>
13. If I'm still totally disfunctional without any useful guiding
failure messages during all the above then I'd append EXPLICITLY here
all that I'd done(in exact sequence) with ALL pertinent details of my
system configuration(not just a few tantalising but unilaterally
useless  and arguably unstructured extracts Mr Tennenbaum!...<g>).

I only ever reached unlucky 13. once when I first had V3 RedPak on my
new TP755CE 4 years ago, whose fault appeared to defeat both IBM Boca(
OS2 S/W) and IBM Yamato(Thinkpad H/W) development labs despite several
iterations of 20 "dump" diskettes and after many futile h/w
changes(resulting in a new thinkpad less case....almost)...being
eventually resolved by upgrading to WarpV3 Full pack<g>.
Far too easy for me to state the obvious steps as I more intimately now
know how my system is bolted together, the size of HDD's partitions, the
version of diags and most personal gotcha's that I've painfully
endured....
...Including recent silly ones like not LLF my new SCSI for my old
Adaptec 1522A inbuilt adapter and wondering why I had partition
corruption several weeks down the line.... (yea yea I know you can
often/frequently/always avoid doing it but I used to do it religiously
and decided out of laziness/curiousity to try installing as is for
once... never again - certainly not worth ommitting several hours LLF
compared to predicted several years reliable use unless you have
existing data and only prior to backing it up first anyway!....besides
if it's going to cough as an ELF I'd rather maximise the chance of
finding out prior to placing data on it<g>).
Like the entirely non-intuitive problem on a colleaques PC resulting
from using the New Idedasd package with an old ADAPTEC 1542CF and having
the IDE(of all things!!!) partitions greater than 1Gb....(worked fine
w/o AHA drivers)....  go figure...
Like stupidly forgetting in the "heat of the desperate moment" that
resetting the Bios to factory defaults required me to subsequently turn
off PnP/disable IRQ legacy adapter resources on the customers PC.....or
removing my dead Sound card had dislodged the L2 cache,memory or
unplugged the CPU fan.....even the ATX style power connector  .......etc
etc

I know just barely enough(to get myself into and out of a lot of
trouble<g>) by modifying the above process as I go along dependent on
results and without unecessarily hosing existing configuration or
partitions..... I've also backed up my partition tables seperately and
dessiminated various alternative backups of desktop,configuration
files(inc Bios) across various media. Thus say if I've successfully
loaded Desktop from install archive (or even a destructive Makeini) I
can reload my desktop customisations from WPtools backup,Rexx script or
Unimaint portable backup etc onto this freshly seeded base.
To suggest or even infer you may not have prudently had the forsight(or
even opportunity) to do similiar would not be helpful at this
juncture..... <g>
(but I know you have had GT utils once but are now using GLU so I don't
suppose there was a GLU(or) equivalent of GTDisk utility to
backup/restore partition tables and a chance of having current backups
if that is eventually determined to be a more likely
cause/solution?....   and you have Henks WPS backup on an accessible
partition/diskette presumably if the eventual outcome also requires a
desktop rebuild? )

To write other than a generic(and thus unhelpful non-specific) procedure
requires a LOT MORE detail of your system<g>. Following the above
"parrot fashion" without adapting it for your configuration (or
understanding what its doing and interpreting results) could result in a
lot of unecessary work (and potential impacts if the integrity of your
backups is questionable/unknown!).

Otherwise we'll be repeatedly inviting you to try(and/or comment on) the
obvious:
1. What's the specific mobo + h/w details etc
2. Partition and HDD type/structure viz FDISK /QUERY detailing any other
non/ working OS's(apart from W95/OSV3 already mentioned).
3. Type/location of applications wrt to 2.  Ordered by business
criticality..... (eg I must retain a WordProc and access to my network
server minimum.... followed by email....graphics with SVGA 1600x1200 res
at 16M colors.... my data on G: is also on a verified backup but I don't
have all my install disks/CD's for apps on F: and/or their
configs/customisations backed up....   my largest partition is 6Gb on G:
and takes 4 hours to totally restore via my Travan4  etc etc.... )
4. What diags/utils/chkdsk/partmagic do you have and results of what you
have tried over and above that already posted ..... apparently from your
Yamaha(or was it a Guzzi?) somewhere in the Mojave desert?<vbg>

We (the collective not the royal) can then no doubt fine tune/re-visit
the diagnostic path.....and supplement any missing diags/utilities with
appropriate reccomendations that hopefully won't subvert your bank
balance by requiring expensive software or purchases to enable heuristic
hardware swaps....or knee-jerk repetitive and ultimately futile total
re-installs....

....and if I subsequently found that my probem was caused by faulty RAM
that just happened to be non-parity memory then I would tend to become
quite sceptical about the claims that "parity" is now a uneccessary
expense given modern production yields/quality?
But then given my mobo supports it I wouldn't personally fit anything
but parity (or ECC if my PC was mission critical - discussions on double

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From: horseman@ibm.net                                  15-Sep-99 18:28:17
  To: All                                               15-Sep-99 20:07:15
Subj: (2/2) Re: dire need of HELP!

bit parity errors uneccessary thanks... or statistical MTBF for
non-parity EDO whatever Dimms <g>)
Unless of course I had access to be able to readily "swap" memory out
somewhere early in steps 1 - 8 above before expending more time than
extra cost of parity<g>. ....gotta spare K6-2 cpu.....L2 Cache...etc?
Can you swap SCSI/HDD to another similiar PC?
Trouble is these iterative diagnostic analysis by replacement methods
may well be more expedient if we were all in your place and knew the
resources you had available and no doubt if they were easily available
you would have already done it<g>.

Or are we facing some desperate time constraint...panic attack here...?
--
Rgds Tony W   Email: horseman@ibm.net

with fond memories of Bonny 650, Velocette 350(Venom or Viper?), BSA
Goldy 500, Aerial square4 and "sticking the boot" in the chromed side
panels of "mouthy", anoraked, Lambretta'rised GT200 "WildCat" converted,
mirror & lamp bedecked "Mods" posing on their over-revving "hair dryers"
<vbg>.......
.....In halcyon days decades ago when it was "expected" for one to be
"stereotyped" by the mode of two(sometimes 3<g>) wheeled transport you
chose and your riding apparel in the UK.....  when men were men, boys
were boys,Hippies were unsure(but all peace and love....man),
Rockers/Greasers were social outcasts unless your Chapter membership was
uptodate(Yes Officer I always carry a spare bike chain in my denim
pocket)  and Mods were failed Teddy boys with Army surplus full length
parka's.... and females were a chauvanistic  accessory that one sported
on the pillion.... or occasionally "despoiled" on same said seat in
moments of "Mod"-less boredom....."allegedly"....<g>

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From: derek.vance.steel@natureboy.dyn.tj                15-Sep-99 17:21:17
  To: All                                               15-Sep-99 20:07:15
Subj: driver needed - HP35480A DAT

From: derek.vance.steel@natureboy.dyn.tj

Hello etschmeisser@tasc.com.

14 Sep 99 07:25, etschmeisser@tasc.com wrote to All:

 e> From: elmar schmeisser <etschmeisser@tasc.com>

 e> Good morning - I have an hp surestore tape 5000 external (scsi)
 which
 e> identifies itself as an HP35480A (firmware T503).  While
 e> backagain/2-demo can access it, the $149 price tag is a bit steep
 for
 e> me, especially since their win98 version is only $49.00 (!!).  My
 e> guess is that is because win98 auotmatically recognized the tape
 drive
 e> (via its "backup" program - thus making ba/2 for win98
 unnecessary),
 e> and os/2 doesn't.  OS/2's backup program seems to be a lamentable
 port
 e> of the dos text mode program that will only see "lettered"
 resources
 e> in the drives folder.

The backup program inside 98 is actually a lite version of Seagate
 Backup Exec, or it used to be.

 e> Does anyone know of a device driver for this tape drive that will
 let
 e> it appear in the drives folder?  The various help entries seem to
 e> indicate that it should appear with the right drivers (e.g. help
 tape
 e> provides quite a few entries).  Many thanks in advance.


I have an HP 6000 scsi dat drive and it works with BackMaster,
 Seagate Backup Exec and back again.

I personally like BackMaster, but I use Seagate Backup Exec when I
 need to transport large amounts of data to windoze machine.
 Seagate's file type is the same on OS/2 as it is on its Windoze
 software.

I don't think that the concept of driver really applies here, the
 device is scsi and as long it recognized at boot time by your scsi
 card and your scsi driver intializes properly then its not a
 problem.

What is the problem is finding affordable backup software.



Derek


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From: noone@llondel.demon.co.uk                         15-Sep-99 18:57:11
  To: All                                               15-Sep-99 20:07:16
Subj: Re: driver needed - HP35480A DAT

From: "Dave {Reply Address in.sig}" <noone@llondel.demon.co.uk>

On Tue, 14 Sep 1999 07:25:52 -0500, elmar schmeisser wrote:

>Good morning - I have an hp surestore tape 5000 external (scsi) which
>identifies itself as an HP35480A (firmware T503).  While
>backagain/2-demo can access it, the $149 price tag is a bit steep for
>me, especially since their win98 version is only $49.00 (!!).  My guess
>is that is because win98 auotmatically recognized the tape drive (via
>its "backup" program - thus making ba/2 for win98 unnecessary), and os/2
>doesn't.  OS/2's backup program seems to be a lamentable port of the dos
>text mode program that will only see "lettered" resources in the drives
>folder.
>
>Does anyone know of a device driver for this tape drive that will let it
>appear in the drives folder?  The various help entries seem to indicate
>that it should appear with the right drivers (e.g. help tape provides
>quite a few entries).  Many thanks in advance.
>
I don't bother with things like that. Go find the GTAK/GTAR stuff on
Hobbes and use that. I've got an HP DAT drive that has been used with
this software for several years with no problem, including several
complete restores onto different disk drives and when rearranging
partitions (not owning Partition Magic at the time).

Unless you really want to have a drive letter assigned of course...


Dave
-- 
mail dav e@llondel.demon.co.uk
http://www.llondel.demon.co.uk
Cricket: old English traditional variant of the rain dance.


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From: davek@clark.net                                   15-Sep-99 19:06:02
  To: All                                               15-Sep-99 20:07:16
Subj: Re: dire need of HELP!

From: davek@clark.net (David Kunz)

Raphael Tennenbaum (raphaelt@worldnet.att.net) wrote:                 

: David Kunz wrote:                                                   
: > Raphael Tennenbaum (raphaelt@worldnet.att.net) wrote:
: > : Last week my sound card blew up -- I guess, though at this
: > : point I'm not sure about anything.  Within a few days, my Warp4 
: > : partition started misbehaving, and things got worse, to the 
: > : point where I recreated it from tape archives.  Then it worked 
: > : -- for three or four days.                                      
: > ...

: > Have you checked system voltages?                                 

: No, I hate electricity.  I mean I like it when it's behaving but it 
: confuses me.  How do I check system voltages?  I will do whatever 
: I'm told (within reason).

Ouch.  That'll make it harder for you to proceed on your own.  If it
were me, I'd pull out the manual for my MB to get the voltages on the
power supply connectors and use a voltmeter to measure them -- without
the MB, and with the MB.  If I couldn't find my manual, I'd search the
net (using one of my hand-me-down computers made of parts that I've
upgraded :)).

: > What caused the sound card to blow?                               

: I can't really remember.  One afternoon a week and a half ago I 
: rebooted, and the XFolder startup wave kept repeating and 
: repeating.  At the time I thought it was some sort of ini file 
: problem.  I went through what seemed like 20 reboots before I 
: decided it was the sound card.  Only then did I boot into Warp3 and 
: get an IRQ10 error message on bootup.  I remmd out the ESS drivers 
: in Warp4, and figured that would get me through for a while until I 
: bothered to pick up a new sound card.  Then as you see, things got 
: worse tho not exactly in a hurry.                                   

: There may have been a mild thunderstorm the night before, but 
: everything runs off a UPC.

No guarantee.  A lightning hit can go right through even a good surge
suppressor or UPS. Depends on the hit itself.

: > I would distrust your entire system until it's been thoroughly 
: > checked out.  Almost anything that has gone flakey could be 
: > causing this problem: CPU, memory, controllers, disk drives...    

: I can't really afford a hardware consultant, I'm pretty much it. 
: Any step-by-step advice would be greatly appreciated.

After checking system voltages, I would get one of my HW test programs
out and run it.  If my system passes, I'd try the other one :).  Both
my programs are commercial and pretty basic -- they've rarely found a
problem, but then again, I've been lucky enough to rarely have a
problem.

Remember that flakey memory is *very* difficult to detect.  I've had
to run a memory test program for 3 days to get it to finally find the
bad sim that was causing OS/2 to crash within 5 minutes of boot...

If the HW tests out, I'd reset my CMOS.  If you can get a program that
wipes the whole thing, that works better -- sometimes a glitch puts
something in a non-configurable area.  If my BIOS is flash, I'd reload
it.

If I was still having problems, I'd start swapping out cards.  If I
have multiple banks of memory, I'd remove one then the other.

If I still have problems, all that's left is the MB and the disk
drives themselves.  Time to upgrade...

--
David Kunz
Operator error.  Replace operator and strike any key to continue...

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From: raphaelt@netnews.worldnet.att.net                 15-Sep-99 17:46:04
  To: All                                               15-Sep-99 21:36:07
Subj: (1/2) Re: dire need of HELP!

From: raphaelt@netnews.worldnet.att.net (Raphael Tennenbaum)

In article <37DFD743.FE7F9382@ibm.net>, Tony Wright <horseman@ibm.net> wrote:
>Raphael Tennenbaum wrote:
>
.snip on tale of woe>> 
>Oh dear me Ray..... tis difficult to offer credible words of consolation
>filled with hope, confidence and calmly thought out rationale  when one
>is not experiencing your actual circumstances at the same time with a

YOU'RE NOT TRYING HARD ENOUGH !

>recalcitrant and unsympathetic technically illiterate boss impatiently
>fuming nearby no doubt......

Not yet she's not.  She's not my boss, she's my contractee
(fume she does, however, and funny thing, -- oh, forget it).

>While your splashing around that alligator filled swamp..... a
>condescending offering from an onlooker on dry land reminding you that
>your objective was to drain the damn bog, probably does not elevate your
>humour/disposition...  :-(
>
>Speculatively the symptoms are indicative of progressive HDD failure
>and/or MBR corrupt.
>Although if W95 is not exhibiting any symptoms(but as it's on C primary
>and probably physically contigous with MBR it may not for some time<g>)
>and is presumably on same physical HDD and is relatively close/adjacent
>to first failing OS/2 partition on what is (proportionately) a much
>larger overall HDD size than these two partitions combined then I'd look
>at RAM/L2/CPU in that order..... depending on the feasability of
>available compatable swaps.

I'm afraid this is a very cogent observation, I'm sorry to
say.  And now that I think of it (god, I'm a classic
computer dope) one recent chkdsk.log on the root of my warp4
partition looked so long to me -- *way* above the usual 24k
size -- that I actually dug up the IBM utility to read it. 
I thought it had indicated it had fixed things, but maybe I
was thinking wishfully. 

>
>Unfortunately you need to expand a bit more on what diagnostics you have
>tried?
>Personally I would :
>1. temp remove any adapter cards.... and to rack my brains as to when or
>how long since I replaced my CMOS/BIOS backup battery (a relatively
>cheap lithium cell or whatever is probably the cheapest pre-req to any
>other hardware  change and time involved in repeating any/all of
>following<g>).....   A failing battery can be preceded by random
>obscure  and apparently unrelated errors such as yours way before a
>specific 162/163/165 (or your mobo equivalent) POST bios error message
>is posted....

The box is but two years old, along with the ASUS P2L97. 
The battery *looks* okay, though I know this doesn't mean
all that much.

>2. Run self test diags for my system board(inc RAM/cache) + HDD,
>assuming one still has ones original diskettes? or is this the problem?

Don't think diagnotics that came with, but if there were
they're at the bottom of something, somewhere.  I've managed
to hang on to the Adaptec driver disks that came with it.

>3. Then any non destructive SCSI adapter tests, ensuring my
>passive/active termination and SCSI ID's had not mysteriously changed or
>ribbon cables become loose/damaged or in too close proximity to a
>RF/power source.....

I switched out my wide SCSI cable this afternoon just to
check -- no difference.  I doublechecked all the connections
as well.  I suppose if I can get this fixed easily (and
cheaply) enough I may resolved to get new cables.

>4. followed by something like PC Checkit to soak test the
>HDD,adapter,mobo and memory for a few hours.....

If anyone's got a pointer to a shareware source for this I'd
certainly appreciate it.

>5. Re-insert adapters and re-run basic mobo + HDD tests + any adapter
>tests available(If this passed I'd be tempted to remove adapters and
>only re-install after OS/2 was up and stable)

It's down to the video card and the modem at this point;
scsi adaptor is onboard.  Again right now I've only got time
to formulate a strategy, I'm not going to jump in right away
-- I'll check the HDs first, because they're looking the
most suspicious at this point, then I'll pull those cards.

>6. If we got this far successfully then I'd boot from OS2 diskettes and
>CHKDSK (preferrably the 32bit later version) on OS/2 partitions. Noting
>any errors I'd then rename any chkdsk.logs....

In fact I had renamed the one on my boot partition when I
first saw the alarmingly-sized ones, but then the whole
partition got wiped out.  At this point, chkdsk doesn't even
recognize the K: drive as a HPFS drive.

>7. From boot diskettes run Partition Magic preferrably followed by your
>GLU utils and/or at least FDISK /QUERY
>8.Depending on results and what Bootmanager you had and any errors
>pertaining to partition....  I might be tempted to do a FDISK /NEWMBR
>and re-menu my boot partitions.

This is starting to seem my next step.  Let me ask -- though
this is one of those things I ought to have known for a
long, long time: how destructive is FDISK /NEWMBR?  Will it
simply analyze my boot record and adjust the partitions
carefully, in a way that I won't have to recreate all the
data on each of them, or will I have to re-back up all my
HDs afterward?



>
>- - - - - - - break for coffee (pass on the decaf for once) - - - -
>and to reflect on any results and the fact that an apparent fault that
>affects more than one bootable partition can only be partition table
>corruption or an external common cause that is unlikely to be resolved
>by further re-installs into existing partitions!
>One now has to evaluate the feasability of diagnosis by replacement
>compared to the potentially wasted effort/elapsed time of continuing
>through 9 -13 below.  Potentially first moving HDD to equivalent PC
>expediently resolves partiton table corruption and SCSI/HDD error.

Alas, prior components are in a box in a basement 100 miles
away, but I may be able to get to them in a few days.

I don't suppose there's much chance, in case I do get my
partitions properly reconstituted, that whatever um, fudged
my HD might have just been a fleeting anomaly?

>Followed by RAM/L2/CPU...... and of course one still has to
>check/compare all those Bios settings, disk data transfer rates etc even
>if one has diligently backed up ones previous working settings<g>.
>However if one does not have the luxury of this comparative technique
>one may be forced to discard the remnants of ones now stone cold coffee
>and continue....after further thought as to whether one did actually do
>a LLF initially when presenting both HDD + SCSI adapter together for the
>first time all those many moons ago....(but one was persuaded by the
>"expert" that said it was uneccessary because he'd done it for years
>through all SCSI/HDD models except coincidentally your exact combination
>perhaps) ....and besides it's been working ok for ages!(Ha! - servo data
>drift mumble mumble.... servo writer on edge of it's calibration who
>knows?) .......    :-(

No, I did it all by the book -- and it's only five months
ago.  It's a big IBM somethingStar SCSI drive, bought new,
and I've been using it fairly carefully.  I suppose heat
buildup is a possibility.

>- - - - - - -return to work via mens room - damn coffee - - - - - - -
>
>9. If I got this far then I might find I now have to do a SYSTINSTX  cos
>partition doesn't boot at all or have FORMAT /L /FS:HPFS   and reloaded
>from backup if there was evidence of massive corruption or lengthy
>chkdsk errors...
>10. If the WPS/Desktop is up and I've bypassed(or remmed) the obvious
>config errors for adapters I've removed.....then either I'm working and
>ready to re-insert adapters individually or staring at a now familiar
>Trap screen.   :-(
>11. If I've trapped then I diligently note ALL the register details and
>any hints to failing module.  If it's Trap 3 (breakpoint left by
>developer in application code) then I'd be looking at specific
>application(if I could tell) that possibly now has configuration file
>out of synch.
>If it's TrapD (pmmerge included) then I'd look again at what
>diagnostics(if any) I'd run on my video adapter. I'd then revert to VGA

Was the first thing I tried, and the most alarming failure 
of all.

>and retry...... along with toggling my H/W detection on bootup(ALT+F1 >
>F5/6) if this is still failing. I'd look at reverting to my originall
>Archive install desktop(this should be VGA anyway), and eventually I'd
>be stripping my config to basics and methodically(but
>tediously)re-enabling each device/group at a time....
>12. Finally if I'm still stymied and my maintenance(BOOTOS/2) partition
>is still exhibiting similar problems then I'd be tempted to re-install a
>minimal OS2 from CD in my production partition to see what happens.....
>after rechecking my BIOS settings to ensure that these are defaulted but
>still commensurate with my hardware yet temporarily disabling
>L1/L2/Video cache(and removing/exchanging all bar minimum RAM to load
>OS/2) in case the diags missed the fault....while not forgetting that I
>might have a PCI SCSI card and ISA Matrox that possibly requires
>appropriate PnP and legacy resources modified in Bios....<g>
>13. If I'm still totally disfunctional without any useful guiding
>failure messages during all the above then I'd append EXPLICITLY here
>all that I'd done(in exact sequence) with ALL pertinent details of my
>system configuration(not just a few tantalising but unilaterally
>useless  and arguably unstructured extracts Mr Tennenbaum!...<g>).
>
>I only ever reached unlucky 13. once when I first had V3 RedPak on my
>new TP755CE 4 years ago, whose fault appeared to defeat both IBM Boca(
>OS2 S/W) and IBM Yamato(Thinkpad H/W) development labs despite several
>iterations of 20 "dump" diskettes and after many futile h/w
>changes(resulting in a new thinkpad less case....almost)...being
>eventually resolved by upgrading to WarpV3 Full pack<g>.
>Far too easy for me to state the obvious steps as I more intimately now
>know how my system is bolted together, the size of HDD's partitions, the
>version of diags and most personal gotcha's that I've painfully
>endured....
>...Including recent silly ones like not LLF my new SCSI for my old
>Adaptec 1522A inbuilt adapter and wondering why I had partition
>corruption several weeks down the line.... (yea yea I know you can
>often/frequently/always avoid doing it but I used to do it religiously
>and decided out of laziness/curiousity to try installing as is for
>once... never again - certainly not worth ommitting several hours LLF
>compared to predicted several years reliable use unless you have
>existing data and only prior to backing it up first anyway!....besides
>if it's going to cough as an ELF I'd rather maximise the chance of
>finding out prior to placing data on it<g>).
>Like the entirely non-intuitive problem on a colleaques PC resulting
>from using the New Idedasd package with an old ADAPTEC 1542CF and having
>the IDE(of all things!!!) partitions greater than 1Gb....(worked fine
>w/o AHA drivers)....  go figure...
>Like stupidly forgetting in the "heat of the desperate moment" that
>resetting the Bios to factory defaults required me to subsequently turn
>off PnP/disable IRQ legacy adapter resources on the customers PC.....or
>removing my dead Sound card had dislodged the L2 cache,memory or
>unplugged the CPU fan.....even the ATX style power connector  .......etc
>etc
>
>I know just barely enough(to get myself into and out of a lot of
>trouble<g>) by modifying the above process as I go along dependent on
>results and without unecessarily hosing existing configuration or
>partitions..... I've also backed up my partition tables seperately and
>dessiminated various alternative backups of desktop,configuration
>files(inc Bios) across various media. Thus say if I've successfully
>loaded Desktop from install archive (or even a destructive Makeini) I
>can reload my desktop customisations from WPtools backup,Rexx script or
>Unimaint portable backup etc onto this freshly seeded base.
>To suggest or even infer you may not have prudently had the forsight(or
>even opportunity) to do similar would not be helpful at this
>juncture..... <g>
>(but I know you have had GT utils once but are now using GLU so I don't
>suppose there was a GLU(or) equivalent of GTDisk utility to
>backup/restore partition tables and a chance of having current backups

My backups are fairly decent, but there's no telling whether
I'll be able to "worst-case" restore all my HD parts., since
some of them would have been made off of corrupted
partitions(??).  Shortly after I put in this new HD, I used
Chris Graham's "disaster recovery utility" to back up the
partition tables, but then again, I'm not quite certain how
I'd apply these without the ability to boot os/2 (hm, come
to think of it, maybe I remember a restpart.exe or something
similar).  For that matter, I may have used Partition Magic
to move some things around, though I'm generally prudent
enough to make sure to re-backup the partition tables (is
there a way to see the date when these were last changed? 
the date on my backup is on the diskette (4/28/99)).



>if that is eventually determined to be a more likely
>cause/solution?....   and you have Henks WPS backup on an accessible
>partition/diskette presumably if the eventual outcome also requires a
>desktop rebuild? )
>
>To write other than a generic(and thus unhelpful non-specific) procedure
>requires a LOT MORE detail of your system<g>. Following the above
>"parrot fashion" without adapting it for your configuration (or
>understanding what its doing and interpreting results) could result in a
>lot of unecessary work (and potential impacts if the integrity of your
>backups is questionable/unknown!).
>
>Otherwise we'll be repeatedly inviting you to try(and/or comment on) the
>obvious:
>1. What's the specific mobo + h/w details etc
>2. Partition and HDD type/structure viz FDISK /QUERY detailing any other
>non/ working OS's(apart from W95/OSV3 already mentioned).
>3. Type/location of applications wrt to 2.  Ordered by business
>criticality..... (eg I must retain a WordProc and access to my network
>server minimum.... followed by email....graphics with SVGA 1600x1200 res
>at 16M colors.... my data on G: is also on a verified backup but I don't
>have all my install disks/CD's for apps on F: and/or their
>configs/customisations backed up....   my largest partition is 6Gb on G:

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From: raphaelt@netnews.worldnet.att.net                 15-Sep-99 17:46:04
  To: All                                               15-Sep-99 21:36:07
Subj: (2/2) Re: dire need of HELP!

>and takes 4 hours to totally restore via my Travan4  etc etc.... )
>4. What diags/utils/chkdsk/partmagic do you have and results of what you
>have tried over and above that already posted ..... apparently from your
>Yamaha(or was it a Guzzi?) somewhere in the Mojave desert?<vbg>
>
>We (the collective not the royal) can then no doubt fine tune/re-visit
>the diagnostic path.....and supplement any missing diags/utilities with
>appropriate reccomendations that hopefully won't subvert your bank
>balance by requiring expensive software or purchases to enable heuristic
>hardware swaps....or knee-jerk repetitive and ultimately futile total
>re-installs....
>
>....and if I subsequently found that my probem was caused by faulty RAM
>that just happened to be non-parity memory then I would tend to become
>quite sceptical about the claims that "parity" is now a uneccessary
>expense given modern production yields/quality?
>But then given my mobo supports it I wouldn't personally fit anything
>but parity (or ECC if my PC was mission critical - discussions on double
>bit parity errors uneccessary thanks... or statistical MTBF for
>non-parity EDO whatever Dimms <g>)
>Unless of course I had access to be able to readily "swap" memory out
>somewhere early in steps 1 - 8 above before expending more time than
>extra cost of parity<g>. ....gotta spare K6-2 cpu.....L2 Cache...etc?
>Can you swap SCSI/HDD to another similar PC?
>Trouble is these iterative diagnostic analysis by replacement methods
>may well be more expedient if we were all in your place and knew the
>resources you had available and no doubt if they were easily available
>you would have already done it<g>.
>
>Or are we facing some desperate time constraint...panic attack here...?

No, patience I've learned (too well, perhaps, but that's
another story).  The ThinkPad can tide me over for at least
a week.  When I get a chance I'm going to see about the
drives, and then do some diagnosis.  

Your very generous and intelligent post is most charitable,
and it is received with due appreciation for all the battle-
scarred wisdom with which it was written.  There is a great
deal to digest here, and once I get this other w*rk out of
the way, I'll copy your post and it'll form the basis of my
strategy to work through.  I hope you won't mind if I come
back with a rephrased sort of outline.

Thanking you very indeed,

-Ray

>--
>Rgds Tony W   Email: horseman@ibm.net
>
>with fond memories of Bonny 650, Velocette 350(Venom or Viper?), BSA
>Goldy 500, Aerial square4 and "sticking the boot" in the chromed side
>panels of "mouthy", anoraked, Lambretta'rised GT200 "WildCat" converted,
>mirror & lamp bedecked "Mods" posing on their over-revving "hair dryers"
><vbg>.......

Me uncle's a big Single partisan -- with three Duc 350
singles, a GoldStar, even an old military-issue Goose that
weighs about 2000 pounds, made back before they went all-
twin -- so I was brought up respecting the britbike
tradition (we're all still trying to figure out if that new
8-cylinder Norton is a joke or not).  Great riders.  Though
to allude neither cryptically nor originally, I'm a mocker.


>.....In halcyon days decades ago when it was "expected" for one to be
>"stereotyped" by the mode of two(sometimes 3<g>) wheeled transport you
>chose and your riding apparel in the UK.....  when men were men, boys
>were boys,Hippies were unsure(but all peace and love....man),
>Rockers/Greasers were social outcasts unless your Chapter membership was
>uptodate(Yes Officer I always carry a spare bike chain in my denim
>pocket)  and Mods were failed Teddy boys with Army surplus full length
>parka's.... and females were a chauvanistic  accessory that one sported
>on the pillion.... or occasionally "despoiled" on same said seat in
>moments of "Mod"-less boredom....."allegedly"....<g>
>

-- 
Ray Tennenbaum
readme@ http://www.ray-field.com

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From: rsstan@ibm.net                                    15-Sep-99 18:18:27
  To: All                                               15-Sep-99 21:36:07
Subj: Re: Orb works under OS/2!

From: "Bob Stan" <rsstan@ibm.net>

On Wed, 15 Sep 1999 08:02:20 -0700, Richard M. Dunham wrote:

>Just wanted to let you know that I recently purchased an Orb SCSI
>external drive and it is working well under OS/2 using Fixpak 11 and the
>updated device drivers fixpak.
>
>Just plugged it into my Thinkpad 385XD's PCMCIA SCSI card slot.  Powered
>it up and FDISKed the MAC formatted cartridge.  I now have another 2.2GB
>of needed storage space.
I have also used the Orb in an EIDE model and was very pleased with it. 
Unfortunately, it failed after a month of use.  While it is being replaced
under warranty with no hassle, time will tell how reliable the Orb is.  


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From: raphaelt@netnews.worldnet.att.net                 15-Sep-99 18:39:21
  To: All                                               15-Sep-99 21:36:07
Subj: Re: dire need of HELP!

From: raphaelt@netnews.worldnet.att.net (Raphael Tennenbaum)

In article <w6SD3.12149$Sb.30879@dfw-read.news.verio.net>,
davek@clark.net (David Kunz) wrote:

>Raphael Tennenbaum (raphaelt@worldnet.att.net) wrote:                 
>snip>
>: No, I hate electricity.  I mean I like it when it's behaving but it 
>: confuses me.  How do I check system voltages?  I will do whatever 
>: I'm told (within reason).
>
>Ouch.  That'll make it harder for you to proceed on your own.  If it
>were me, I'd pull out the manual for my MB to get the voltages on the
>power supply connectors and use a voltmeter to measure them -- without
>the MB, and with the MB.  If I couldn't find my manual, I'd search the
>net (using one of my hand-me-down computers made of parts that I've
>upgraded :)).

I'm back from Radio Shack with a cheap multimeter.  I should
be able to figure out how to use it within a bit.  The
manual -- it's an ASUS P2L97 -- is pretty decent, however
I've never had to look up voltages in the past.

>
>: > What caused the sound card to blow?                               
>
>: I can't really remember.  One afternoon a week and a half ago I 
>: rebooted, and the XFolder startup wave kept repeating and 
>: repeating.  At the time I thought it was some sort of ini file 
>: problem.  I went through what seemed like 20 reboots before I 
>: decided it was the sound card.  Only then did I boot into Warp3 and 
>: get an IRQ10 error message on bootup.  I remmd out the ESS drivers 
>: in Warp4, and figured that would get me through for a while until I 
>: bothered to pick up a new sound card.  Then as you see, things got 
>: worse though not exactly in a hurry.                                   
>
>: There may have been a mild thunderstorm the night before, but 
>: everything runs off a UPC.
>
>No guarantee.  A lightning hit can go right through even a good surge
>suppressor or UPS. Depends on the hit itself.
>
>: > I would distrust your entire system until it's been thoroughly 
>: > checked out.  Almost anything that has gone flakey could be 
>: > causing this problem: CPU, memory, controllers, disk drives...    
>
>: I can't really afford a hardware consultant, I'm pretty much it. 
>: Any step-by-step advice would be greatly appreciated.
>
>After checking system voltages, I would get one of my HOW test programs
>out and run it.  If my system passes, I'd try the other one :).  Both
>my programs are commercial and pretty basic -- they've rarely found a
>problem, but then again, I've been lucky enough to rarely have a
>problem.

I've come to be skeptical about these, having read dozens if
not hundreds of posts by Wxx users posting how their systems
passed Checkit just fine, something must be the matter with
OS/2 if it won't boot, etc -- on top of that is the general
sense that these are so rudimentary they seem to do little
good whatsoever.  

Do any of the ones you use happen to be shareware?  And have
you perhaps got urls?


>Remember that flakey memory is *very* difficult to detect.  I've had
>to run a memory test program for 3 days to get it to finally find the
>bad sim that was causing OS/2 to crash within 5 minutes of boot...
>
>If the HOW tests out, I'd reset my CMOS.  If you can get a program that
>wipes the whole thing, that works better -- sometimes a glitch puts
>something in a non-configurable area.  If my BIOS is flash, I'd reload
>it.
>
>If I was still having problems, I'd start swapping out cards.  If I
>have multiple banks of memory, I'd remove one then the other.
>
>If I still have problems, all that's left is the MB and the disk
>drives themselves.  Time to upgrade...

I'm beginning to suspect the drives, actually, -- see my
response to Tony W -- but then again these depend so closely
on the other stuff in the computer I haven't ruled out some
kind of short or power supply problem.

Thanks for heeding my plea.  The Thinkpad is doing well --
fortunately diskette boot still allows me access to the
drives, and I can pull templates etc off them and move onto
this thing.  After I clear some other stuff out of the way I
will devote some more care and attention to this little
tragedy.

Regards, 

Ray

-- 
Ray Tennenbaum
readme@ http://www.ray-field.com

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From: satoru@candenext.lsa.berkeley.edu                 15-Sep-99 23:24:24
  To: All                                               15-Sep-99 21:36:07
Subj: Re: printing through SCSI

From: satoru@candenext.lsa.berkeley.edu (Satoru Uzawa)

Wim Wauters (w.h.m.wauters.1998@cranfield.ac.uk) wrote:
: 
: And I thought all Apple Printers where SCSI !
: Anyway, the printer is certainly a SCSI-1 device
: (it shows up fine on my Adaptec 2940).
: So nowadays, it seems only huge network printers are SCSI.
: The cost of the spooling software for those printers is also huge :-(

The SCSI port on Apple printers is for external hard drive to store more
fonts which won't fit into the RAM printer has (which will also be earsed
between printer resets).  There a couple of printer models which you can
connect to computers's SCSI port but none of Apple printer can do it.
Check your printer manual again.

: I also looked at SCSI to LPT converters: no luck !
: The only products I find are SCSI controllers which fit on the parallel
: port (but they are still SCSI controllers).

Certainly you don't have any luck here.

: So the next option is to find an Apple NuBUS network card 10BaseT BNC.

This should work fine for a printer with ethernet port (I forgot which
printer you have, which you wrote in the original post).

-- 
Satoru Uzawa, satoru@candenext.lsa.berkeley.edu (NeXTmail welcome)

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From: raphaelt@netnews.worldnet.att.net                 15-Sep-99 18:38:23
  To: All                                               16-Sep-99 04:30:09
Subj: Re: dire need of HELP!

From: raphaelt@netnews.worldnet.att.net (Raphael Tennenbaum)

In article <sngbkubgznvypbz.fi4ixc0.pminews@news.otenet.gr>,
"OS/2 Fan" <fat_ox@hotmail.com> wrote:
>When I built my first PC I read these pages and they were helpful:
>
>http://www.motherboards.org/build.html
>
>Have a look at Part II: Rolling Your Own.  It has a reasonable
>Troubleshooting section with a list of errors, and a section on
>electrical problems too.  This could be something fairly simple; if
>you have the time at some point, it may pay off to go through the
>guide step by step - you might find the culprit.  Good luck again...

Thanks for the good wishes & pointer, Grecque.  Right now
I'm slowly reading through pcguide.com to see what I can see
before I do anything rash.


-- 
Ray Tennenbaum
readme@ http://www.ray-field.com

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From: khalsa@ibm.net                                    15-Sep-99 20:51:14
  To: All                                               16-Sep-99 04:30:10
Subj: Installing Warp Connect

From: Satnam Singh <khalsa@ibm.net>

What components of Warp Connect do I need to install if all I need is
dial-up ISP connection with no network card?  Do I need MPTS installed?

I've been running Warp 3 red spine for years.  I need to do a reinstall
due to not severe desktop corruption (no backup).  I just came into a
copy of Warp Connect blue spine which I plan to install instead of my
old red spine (non Connect).  I figure I get TCPIP 3.0 rather than 2.0 I
ran with the IAK with non Connect.

I noticed some TCPIP 3.0/3.1 fixpaks require an MPTS fixpak installed as
prerequisite.  Hence my question re needing MPTS if I only intend to use
TCPIP for dial-up internet access.

Since I have no other experience with Warp Connect, any tips or comments
for a veteran Warp 3 user would be appreciated.



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From: matthew@blaise.psych.mcgill.ca                    16-Sep-99 01:36:09
  To: All                                               16-Sep-99 04:30:10
Subj: Re: Orb works under OS/2! 

From: "Matthew@psych" <matthew@blaise.psych.mcgill.ca>

Same experience here. The orb external scsi is great w/os/2 (linux too).

On Wed, 15 Sep 1999, Richard M. Dunham wrote:

> Just wanted to let you know that I recently purchased an Orb SCSI
> external drive and it is working well under OS/2 using Fixpak 11 and the
> updated device drivers fixpak.
> 
> Just plugged it into my Thinkpad 385XD's PCMCIA SCSI card slot.  Powered
> it up and FDISKed the MAC formatted cartridge.  I now have another 2.2GB
> of needed storage space.
> 
> You may want to let your customers know that this unit does work under
> OS/2.
> 
> Regards:  Dick
> 
> 
> 

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From: phillipcaine@hotmail.com                          15-Sep-99 19:21:09
  To: All                                               16-Sep-99 04:30:10
Subj: Warp 4 Won't Boot

From: "Phil Caine" <phillipcaine@hotmail.com>

I swapped out my C: drive WIN98 for a 18GB IBM SCSI and now my D: drive OS/2
Warp 4.0 freezes when loading OS2DASD with the following message:

"Adaptec AIC 78U2 OS/2 Warp Driver d4.11 (980908)

OS/2 is unable to operate your hard disk or diskette drive.  The system is
stopped (no kidding, frozen solid).  Correct the preceding error and restart
the system."

Any suggestion on how to get this BootIt computer going again?






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From: hamei@pacbell.net                                 16-Sep-99 02:43:05
  To: All                                               16-Sep-99 04:30:10
Subj: Re: dire need of HELP!

From: hamei@pacbell.net

In <uAC43oXf03ZR092yn@netnews.worldnet.att.net>,
raphaelt@netnews.worldnet.att.net (Raphael Tennenbaum) writes:
>
>In article <w6SD3.12149$Sb.30879@dfw-read.news.verio.net>,
>davek@clark.net (David Kunz) wrote:
>
>>Raphael Tennenbaum (raphaelt@worldnet.att.net) wrote:                 
>>snip>
>>: No, I hate electricity.  I mean I like it when it's behaving but it 
>>: confuses me.  How do I check system voltages?  I will do whatever 
>>: I'm told (within reason).
>>
>>Ouch.  That'll make it harder for you to proceed on your own.  If it
>>were me, I'd pull out the manual for my MB to get the voltages on the
>>power supply connectors and use a voltmeter to measure them -- without
>>the MB, and with the MB.  If I couldn't find my manual, I'd search the
>>net (using one of my hand-me-down computers made of parts that I've
>>upgraded :)).
>
>I'm back from Radio Shack with a cheap multimeter.  I should
>be able to figure out how to use it within a bit.  The
>manual -- it's an ASUS P2L97 -- is pretty decent, however
>I've never had to look up voltages in the past.

be aware that modern power supplies are all (?) 'switching' power
supplies - without a load they will not produce current, so if you
try to disconnect from the m-board, say, and test the power outputs 
you'll get a false reading of 0 volts. It's possible to use a pull-up 
resistor, but maybe unwise at this level in your tech career ! . . . 
anyway, test the voltages with the terminals attached or get a friend 
with some electronics experience to assist with that portion of yer 
trouble-shooting. In fact, you might be having a problem with noisy power 
output from the supply - you should see less than 1% ripple : you can 
check this best with an oscilloscope or (cheapo method) by using the AC 
scale on a digital meter. The digital meters are better - harder to blow 
the works by being in the wrong range ! 


>
>Regards, 
>
>Ray
>
>-- 
>Ray Tennenbaum
>readme@ http://www.ray-field.com


skl !

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Hrad ngravvrd
Windows NT - the Ornithopter of Operating Systems
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From: hamei@pacbell.net                                 16-Sep-99 02:52:13
  To: All                                               16-Sep-99 04:30:10
Subj: Re: dire need of HELP!

From: hamei@pacbell.net

In <uAC43oXf03ZR092yn@netnews.worldnet.att.net>,
raphaelt@netnews.worldnet.att.net (Raphael Tennenbaum) writes:
>Thanks for heeding my plea.  The Thinkpad is doing well --
>fortunately diskette boot still allows me access to the
>drives, and I can pull templates etc off them and move onto
>this thing. 

Ah Ha ! this is a big help. If you have another hard disk (SCSI, yes ?)
I'd pop it into the chain and do an xcopy while you still have files
available. Then you can play to your heart's content without worrying
about losing six month's of hard work. 

After I clear some other stuff out of the way I
>will devote some more care and attention to this little
>tragedy.
>
>Regards, 
>
>Ray
>

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Hrad ngravvrd
Windows NT - the Ornithopter of Operating Systems
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From: jdb@juliand.com                                   15-Sep-99 21:53:16
  To: All                                               16-Sep-99 04:30:10
Subj: Re: Left-handed mouse in DOS box.

From: Julian Dominic <jdb@juliand.com>


Thomas Hellsn wrote:

> Hello all!
>
> Does anybody out there know how I can get the mouse
> to function left-handed in a full-screen DOS box?
>
> Background: I usually use the mouse left-handed.
> That's easy to choose in the system configuration
> folder/mouse. The mouse is then left-handed in all
> seamless DOS boxes too. BUT: when I switch the
> session to full-screen, the mouse is suddenly
> right-handed again!
>
> I've tried the trick you use in PC-DOS 7: add the
> switch /kp2s1 at the end of the mouse driver line in
> config.sys. I.e. under PC-DOS,
> DEVICE=C:\DOS\MOUSE.SYS /kp2s1
> and i tried in OS/2's config.sys
> DEVIVE=C:\OS2\MDOS\VMOUSE.SYS /kp2s1
> but this didn't work.
>
> Can anyone explain why this is so, and suggest a fix?
> Or at least tell me that it's not possible...
>
>

I've used the mouse left-handed for ten years have always noticed this
feature.  Since my first exposure to a mouse was in a true DOS
environment, I assumed that the mouse worked the same way in full sreen
virtual DOS.  There is no mouse support at the c: prompt in DOS circa
5.02.  It was up to the application.  I didn't know about the switch you
used in DOS 7.  I really doubt that full screen DOS has been enhanced
since DOS circa 5.02, IMHO.  If there is a switch that would make this
work, I too would to happy to know it.

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From: jbrush@aros.net                                   15-Sep-99 21:23:03
  To: All                                               16-Sep-99 04:30:10
Subj: Re: Warp 4 Won't Boot

From: jbrush@aros.net

In <zuYD3.126$X5.13401@typhoon-sf.snfc21.pbi.net>, on 09/15/99 at 07:21
PM,
   "Phil Caine" <phillipcaine@hotmail.com> said:

>I swapped out my C: drive WIN98 for a 18GB IBM SCSI and now my D: drive
>OS/2 Warp 4.0 freezes when loading OS2DASD with the following message:

>"Adaptec AIC 78U2 OS/2 Warp Driver d4.11 (980908)

>OS/2 is unable to operate your hard disk or diskette drive.  The system
>is stopped (no kidding, frozen solid).  Correct the preceding error and
>restart the system."

You didn't say what the partition sizes are, but OS/2 will not boot if it
is beyond the first 2gigs. Also you may need the updated drivers from the
DD pak to allow Warp to see that big a drive.

John

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From: wbg@hevanet.com                                   16-Sep-99 03:02:14
  To: All                                               16-Sep-99 21:19:10
Subj: Re: DOS and OS/2 and boot issue

From: wbg@hevanet.com (wbg)

John E. Jones (jejs@verinet.com) wrote:
: Does OS/2 come with a version of IBM type DOS? or will I need to install DOS
: before installation?

At one time it was being sold two ways - red spine and blue spine. Blue is
the one that comes with both the IBM DOS and the Win-OS/2 - IBM's version
of Win3, included. You don't even want to think of using the red. Get Blue.

Bonus answer:

Run, do not walk, to the nearest retailer offering Partition Magic. It is
the best investment you will ever make in software. My recommendation:

		C:  FAT16	Win95/98
		C:  FAT16	Pure "old" DOS - preferably NovellDos 7
		D:  FAT16	Win & DOS apps & data
		E:  HPFS	Warp 4 blue spine - OS partition
		F:  HPFS	OS/2 applications (incl. DOS, Win3 apps
				running under OS/2)
		G:  HPFS	OS2/OS/2-DOS/OS2-Win3 data files
	      	H:  HPFS	OS2/OS/2-DOS/OS2-Win3 games

If you can set up the W95/98/pure DOS partitions as FAT16, then Warp can
read and write to them. FAT32 is problematical as I understand it - I've
never tried it, couldn't see the need. I only wake up The Virus maybe
once a week or so when someone calls with a question. Better yet, at
least W95 (dunno about 98) is completely and totally incable of even
recognizing that your HPFS partitions exist - so it can't muck about with
them as is its filthy habit. 

The lovely little Boot Manager makes it all work dandy. You can even
have Linux as a boot choice from it - BM just calls LILO which then
wakes up Linux. Now, I set mine up on a second spindle just to make
sure LILO wouldn't have any heartburn about its location on the drive -
I don't know how that would go if you had Linux on a far, far section
of, say, a 13Gb drive or something.

BTW it is absolutely true what they were saying back when; many Win3 apps 
actually run better under Win-OS/2 than under native 3.11. I have
experienced that very thing on more than one application.

: Also, here is the bonus question: If I install OS/2 on
: a partition outside of the first 2.1GB, and install the updated UHPFS.DLL,
: so OS/2 can boot, will DOS run OK?

AFAIK it should work - under the theory that if OS/2's happy, its
embedded DOS and Win3 code should be happy, too. But I bow to the
greater knowledge of others on the group - I've not actually tried
that specific situation.

--
*******************************************************************
" It is not the function of our government to keep the citizen from
  falling into error; it is the function of the citizen to keep the 
  government from falling into error. "
          U.S. Supreme Ct. Justice Robert H. Jackson, 1950
*******************************************************************
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From: dropThis.DenverD@ibm.net                          16-Sep-99 02:55:13
  To: All                                               16-Sep-99 21:19:10
Subj: Re: modem problems Warp 3

From: dropThis.DenverD@ibm.net (DenverD)

In message <37D75AF1.581580CF@uni-one.nl> - "J.B. Rem"
<jbrem.tempress@uni-one.nl>Thu, 09 Sep 1999 09:00:02 +0200 writes:
:>
:>Hi,
:>
:>I'm having irregular problems with my modem. W95 works fine with the
:>Best Data 28800 internal modem. Warp3, IBM network dialer sometimes
:>gives me a connection, usually however it just sits there with the
:>message "dialing". When I pick up the phone there is a continuous static
:>noise and nothing goes on. Trying to reset the modem with LiveWire does
:>not work, only resetting the PC releases the phone line.
:>I have the IBM dialer selected the modem, Generic type 1. Manually
:>selecting Best Data 28800 gives me sometimes a connection but with a
:>terrible speed (200 B/s).
:>Any clues? Maybe specific programs that kill the PPP/SLIP connection?

several things you can try:
go to the registry editor in w95 and do an export (I think that is the
right term, I not near a game machine right now)...then with a e.exe
or something go inside and search the file for the "modem" and after a
few hits you should see your modem named and will be able to find the
modem initialization string that w95 is using (I am assumming it is a
GOOd string, because it is working on in w95)

try that string in your warp app..
if there is no help, get SIO which is a shareware replacement for
IBM's com.sys....i think the latest is sio160d.zip the demo version
works so good that you will probably wanna purchase (its not so
much)..
if you still have problems you need to dump the ibm dialer too, and
get InJoy....that dialer and SIO (both configured correctly) solve
about 99% of all Warp connection problems..


--
DenverD AT ibm DOT net

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From: dropThis.DenverD@ibm.net                          16-Sep-99 02:55:19
  To: All                                               16-Sep-99 21:19:10
Subj: PCMCIA power

From: dropThis.DenverD@ibm.net (DenverD)

if my (Compaq LTE Elite 486/4x75) goes into standby mode due to
inactivity while running on internal battery, the PCMICA modem (IBM
33.6) will not "wake up" (i assume it is no longer getting power) when
the system is "awakened"..

a reboot re-powers the modem but I think it is a very expensive (in
terms of battery usage) way to regain the use of the modem

any tips? 

--
DenverD AT ibm DOT net

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From: nospamless@home.com                               16-Sep-99 06:33:27
  To: All                                               16-Sep-99 21:19:10
Subj: Re: Orb works under OS/2!

From: "gH" <nospamless@home.com>

In <Pine.SUN.3.91.990915213449.4679B-100000@blaise.psych.mcgill.ca>, on
09/16/99 
   at 01:36 AM, "Matthew@psych" <matthew@blaise.psych.mcgill.ca> said:

>Same experience here. The orb external scsi is great w/os/2 (linux too).

Can you swap the cart while you are using OS/2? Just wanna make the
removable ability was retained... :)

-- 
===Team OS/2, Team OS/2 at Taiwan, ICE News Beta Tester. Bovine Team===
======Warped Key Crucher, And OS/2 ISP CD Project Member. TBA  #3======

     Owner of PC End User Web Site       http://www.pcenduser.com/

      Java 1.1.7 - MR/2 ICE REG#:10510 - OS/2 T-Warp Connect 4.0
                            ICQ# = 8943567

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From: verysoft@wr.com.au                                16-Sep-99 05:36:04
  To: All                                               16-Sep-99 21:19:10
Subj: Re: dire need of HELP!

From: verysoft@wr.com.au (Max)

Raphael Tennenbaum <raphaelt@worldnet.att.net> wrote:

I had some similar trouble on a similar setup.
What I found, was some flaky cache memory..
If you run HPFS, it sorts its structure on startup, naturally via ram
and cache, this is quiet easy to check, just disable the ext cache in
your bios and see how you go, hope i didn't duplicate anything here,
but I didn't have time to go through all the responses..

		good luck Max


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From: nospam@savebandwidth.invalid                      15-Sep-99 13:13:19
  To: All                                               16-Sep-99 21:19:10
Subj: Re: ? possible to "format c: /s" with DOS from A:?

From: nospam@savebandwidth.invalid      (John Thompson)

In <QLLC0h0LvdvF-pn2-GG8CuDgTRhNK@localhost>, muses9@cyberus.ca (Marko)
writes:

>Is it possible to format C: /s from a DOS from A: instance? 
>Or use Sys c:?

I don't think so.  I haven't tried it on the C: device, but it 
fails if you try to SYS A: a floppy, even with the image file 
remapped to another letter so you can use the floppy device.

-John (John.Thompson@ibm.net)

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From: baden@unixg.ubc.ca                                16-Sep-99 06:42:25
  To: All                                               16-Sep-99 21:19:10
Subj: Re: Installing Warp Connect

From: baden@unixg.ubc.ca   (Baden Kudrenecky)

In <37E03F10.1DD1FACB@ibm.net>, Satnam Singh <khalsa@ibm.net> writes:
>What components of Warp Connect do I need to install if all I need is
>dial-up ISP connection with no network card?  Do I need MPTS installed?

   I am not so sure that you can only install PPP support, as I
believe the whole Internet package is integrated.  However, you
would not need MPTS, or the other networking stuff, if you can
deselect it.

>I've been running Warp 3 red spine for years.  I need to do a reinstall
>due to not severe desktop corruption (no backup).  I just came into a
>copy of Warp Connect blue spine which I plan to install instead of my
>old red spine (non Connect).  I figure I get TCPIP 3.0 rather than 2.0 I
>ran with the IAK with non Connect.
>
>I noticed some TCPIP 3.0/3.1 fixpaks require an MPTS fixpak installed as
>prerequisite.  Hence my question re needing MPTS if I only intend to use
>TCPIP for dial-up internet access.
>
>Since I have no other experience with Warp Connect, any tips or comments
>for a veteran Warp 3 user would be appreciated.
>
>
>


baden

baden@unixg.ubc.ca
http://baden.nu/
OS/2, Solaris & Linux

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From: baden@unixg.ubc.ca                                16-Sep-99 06:45:23
  To: All                                               16-Sep-99 21:19:10
Subj: Re: PCMCIA power

From: baden@unixg.ubc.ca   (Baden Kudrenecky)

In <37e04e1a@news2.prserv.net>, dropThis.DenverD@ibm.net (DenverD) writes:
>if my (Compaq LTE Elite 486/4x75) goes into standby mode due to
>inactivity while running on internal battery, the PCMICA modem (IBM
>33.6) will not "wake up" (i assume it is no longer getting power) when
>the system is "awakened"..
>
>a reboot re-powers the modem but I think it is a very expensive (in
>terms of battery usage) way to regain the use of the modem
>
>any tips? 

   Have you tried removing and reinserting the PCMCIA card.
Also, go into your "Plug and Play for PCMCIA" object, and select
the slot.  Sometimes that wakes up my modem.


baden

baden@unixg.ubc.ca
http://baden.nu/
OS/2, Solaris & Linux

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From: sperber@airmail.net                               16-Sep-99 00:00:00
  To: All                                               16-Sep-99 21:19:10
Subj: Re: Installing Warp Connect

From: Darryl Sperber <sperber@airmail.net>

On Wed, 15 Sep 1999 20:51:28 -0400, Satnam Singh <khalsa@ibm.net> wrote:

>  What components of Warp Connect do I need to install if all I need is
>  dial-up ISP connection with no network card?  Do I need MPTS installed?

MPTS is already part of Warp Connect... network card or not.

But you should also install MPTS upgrades (fix/csd... whatever you call it)
WR08423 and WR08424.  This will bring MPTS up to the latest version 4.0...
equivalent to what is in Warp 4.

You should also install UN00959 which will add DHCP support (part of Warp 4,
but not in Warp 3/Connect).  This will be necessary if you ever get a cable
modem and become part of their LAN.

You also need to install IC17248, and DOSBOX, and the LATEST40 (TCP/IP stack,
getting you up to version 4.02w).

Then you'll be right up to the minute... and your dial-up ISP connection
should work just great.


And naturally you should install Warp 3 fixpack 40 (I think 41 is probably
soon to come out).


--
//
//   Darryl Sperber  (sperber@airmail.net)
//

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From: sperber@airmail.net                               16-Sep-99 00:08:17
  To: All                                               16-Sep-99 21:19:10
Subj: Re: Installing Warp Connect

From: Darryl Sperber <sperber@airmail.net>

On Wed, 15 Sep 1999 20:51:28 -0400, Satnam Singh <khalsa@ibm.net> wrote:

>  What components of Warp Connect do I need to install if all I need is
>  dial-up ISP connection with no network card?  Do I need MPTS installed?

Actually, I think you're asking about what to specify at the install of Warp
Connect... and you only need to specify TCP/IP.  That will, in turn,
automatically install MPTS (which is required for any of the protocols).


--
//
//   Darryl Sperber  (sperber@airmail.net)
//

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From: muses9@cyberus.ca                                 16-Sep-99 08:26:07
  To: All                                               16-Sep-99 21:19:10
Subj: Re: ? possible to "format c: /s" with DOS from A:?

From: muses9@cyberus.ca (Marko)

On Wed, 15 Sep 1999 13:50:34, Jack Wise 
<"jwise@hal-pc.org"@hal-pc.org> made history by saying:

-> Is it possible - Yes.  The Floppy must be bootable and have
-> format.com/format.exe present.

I've tried it, which is why I asked. The format command dies on trying
to write the boot sector to C:. If you have actually succeeded in 
doing this, I'd sure like to know what you did.

I am however able to Sys b: (5.25 floppy).


-> You will end up with a bootable hard disk formatted for DOS and all
-> previous data removed.

That's what I want.


--
Marko
Ottawa

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From: verysoft@wr.com.au                                16-Sep-99 09:05:15
  To: All                                               16-Sep-99 21:19:10
Subj: Re: dire need of HELP!

From: verysoft@wr.com.au (Max)

Raphael Tennenbaum <raphaelt@worldnet.att.net> wrote:

I forgot to mention, I have had quiet some trouble with caches in
general, which mostly affects the HPFS partitions, WIN and DOS are not
affected because of their FAT-struct, they just crash every now and
than.
After blowing two MB's (i live in Sydney and it only happend in
summer) I bought a total motherfucker of a fan and put that in.
My computer sounds a bit like a vacuum cleaner now, but never missed
again.
Do not waste time and money on little suckers that fit into a slot or
run on 12V. they put more load on your powersupply and overheat that
one, get one with main voltage! 
these overheating problem could have hosed your soundcard as well.

but than again you may live in Alska and i never know, I just thought
because of thunderstorm etc, it may be a warm area you live in?
Definetely trust me on the cache memory, it wrecks havoc on your OS2,
and these cheap chip surface mounted on the board aren't worth their
silicon.

		all the best: Max

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From: aubergine@my-deja.com                             16-Sep-99 09:44:25
  To: All                                               16-Sep-99 21:19:10
Subj: Lexmark Z51: optimizing under Warp

From: aubergine@my-deja.com

I've had a Lexmark Z51 now for several months, and am
quite happy with this printer. However, I am having
difficulty optimizing its performance under Warp.

Under the setting

  BASEDEV=PRINT01.SYS

my system grinds to a total halt while the printer is
printing, and is essentially unusable, but the print
job is dispatched quickly.

With

  BASEDEV=PRINT01.SYS /IRQ

overall system performance is much better, but the
printer now prints at a GLACIAL place.

Adjusting Idle Priority under Print Queue options
doesn't seem to make much difference in either
scenario.

Anyone figured out the Golden Middle Way with this
printer?



Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Share what you know. Learn what you don't.

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From: w.h.m.wauters.1998@cranfield.ac.uk                16-Sep-99 11:36:16
  To: All                                               16-Sep-99 21:19:11
Subj: Re: printing through SCSI

From: Wim Wauters <w.h.m.wauters.1998@cranfield.ac.uk>


Satoru Uzawa wrote:

> The SCSI port on Apple printers is for external hard drive to store more
> fonts which won't fit into the RAM printer has (which will also be earsed
> between printer resets).  There a couple of printer models which you can
> connect to computers's SCSI port but none of Apple printer can do it.
> Check your printer manual again.

Don't have the original manual, but both the original invoice and the
backplate of the printer say: "Apple Personal Laserwriter SC".
Using this info on Apple's support pages gives the full spec:
Interface: SCSI
RAM: 1MB
AND the fact that te printer works fine on a SCSI bus removes all doubts.
Problem is that x86 operating systems do not handle printing on a SCSI
device, although printing is covered in the ASPI language [Advanced SCSI
Protocol Interface by Adapatec, commonly used in DOS/Win/OS/2].

> : So the next option is to find an Apple NuBUS network card 10BaseT BNC.
>
> This should work fine for a printer with ethernet port (I forgot which
> printer you have, which you wrote in the original post).

Sorry, I didn't make myself clear:
the idea is to use the Apple IIcx to share the Apple Printer on our network.
Problem being: this lovely old Apple has Nubus busses ( Apple's alternative
to ISA and predecessor to PCI ?), the operating systems is 'System 7.5'.
After that, the challenge will be to make the Apple 'talk' to our
Linux/Unix/NT/OS/2 network. We only need a printer qeueu though, should be
all right (LPDdeamon running on TCP/IP ?).

Fun and Games !
I'll be back when I laid my pawns on a Nubus netcard ;-)

Thankx for all your interest.

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From: "jwise@hal-pc.org"@hal-pc.org                     16-Sep-99 08:10:17
  To: All                                               16-Sep-99 21:19:11
Subj: Re: ? possible to "format c: /s" with DOS from A:?

From: Jack Wise <"jwise@hal-pc.org"@hal-pc.org>

Sorry, I re-read your original post.  I had assumed you had booted from
the floppy disk.

Jack Wise

Marko wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 15 Sep 1999 13:50:34, Jack Wise
> <"jwise@hal-pc.org"@hal-pc.org> made history by saying:
> 
> -> Is it possible - Yes.  The Floppy must be bootable and have
> -> format.com/format.exe present.
> 
> I've tried it, which is why I asked. The format command dies on trying
> to write the boot sector to C:. If you have actually succeeded in
> doing this, I'd sure like to know what you did.
> 
> I am however able to Sys b: (5.25 floppy).
> 
> -> You will end up with a bootable hard disk formatted for DOS and all
> -> previous data removed.
> 
> That's what I want.
> 
> --
> Marko
> Ottawa

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From: bobg.REMOVEME.@pics.com                           16-Sep-99 09:23:09
  To: All                                               16-Sep-99 21:19:11
Subj: Re: ? possible to "format c: /s" with DOS from A:?

From: Bob Germer <bobg.REMOVEME.@pics.com>

On <QLLC0h0LvdvF-pn2-IJdYuzLcBkSL@localhost>, on 09/16/99 at 08:26 AM,
   muses9@cyberus.ca (Marko) said:

> On Wed, 15 Sep 1999 13:50:34, Jack Wise 
> <"jwise@hal-pc.org"@hal-pc.org> made history by saying:

> -> Is it possible - Yes.  The Floppy must be bootable and have ->
> format.com/format.exe present.

> I've tried it, which is why I asked. The format command dies on trying
> to write the boot sector to C:. If you have actually succeeded in  doing
> this, I'd sure like to know what you did.

> I am however able to Sys b: (5.25 floppy).

I have found that only IBM's PC-DOS 7 can do this with large partitions.
MS-DOS 6.x and PC-DOS 6.x cannot handle partitions larger than 2 MB. Also,
if the partitioning was done with Windoze 9x, NT, or some flavors of Unix,
you will need to delete all the partitions and repartition it with FDISK.
Only PC-DOS 7 FDISK seems able to remove non-DOS paritions, BTW. 


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Proudly running OS/2 Warp 4.0 w/ FixPack 8
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From: davek@clark.net                                   16-Sep-99 10:31:20
  To: All                                               16-Sep-99 21:19:11
Subj: Re: dire need of HELP!

From: davek@clark.net (David Kunz)

Raphael Tennenbaum (raphaelt@netnews.worldnet.att.net) wrote:         

: >After checking system voltages, I would get one of my HW test 
: >programs out and run it.  If my system passes, I'd try the other 
: >one :).  Both my programs are commercial and pretty basic -- 
: >they've rarely found a problem, but then again, I've been lucky 
: >enough to rarely have a problem.                                   

: I've come to be skeptical about these, having read dozens if not 
: hundreds of posts by Wxx users posting how their systems passed 
: Checkit just fine, something must be the matter with OS/2 if it 
: won't boot, etc -- on top of that is the general sense that these 
: are so rudimentary they seem to do little good whatsoever.

: Do any of the ones you use happen to be shareware?  And have you
: perhaps got urls?                                                   

They'll find basic problems, but not some of the tougher ones.  I
don't have any URLs for shareware ones.  I've never looked since I
already have a couple.

: >Remember that flakey memory is *very* difficult to detect.  I've 
: >had to run a memory test program for 3 days to get it to finally 
: >find the bad sim that was causing OS/2 to crash within 5 minutes 
: >of boot...                                                         

: >If the HW tests out, I'd reset my CMOS.  If you can get a program 
: >that wipes the whole thing, that works better -- sometimes a 
: >glitch puts something in a non-configurable area.  If my BIOS is 
: >flash, I'd reload it.

I remcommed this again.  I've had errant programs change the dynamic
RAM refresh rate setting -- causing the weaker bits to corrupt --
eventually.  This was not settable via the CMOS setup program...

: I'm beginning to suspect the drives, actually, -- see my response 
: to Tony W -- but then again these depend so closely on the other 
: stuff in the computer I haven't ruled out some kind of short or 
: power supply problem.

Drives (multiple) failing simultaneously is rare.  They'd be the one
of the last things that I check.  If only one failed, then I'd be more
suspicious of them.  Multiple drives is more likely a controller,
cable, or memory (including, as others have pointed out, cache).

--
David Kunz
Operator error.  Replace operator and strike any key to continue...

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From: davek@clark.net                                   16-Sep-99 10:49:03
  To: All                                               16-Sep-99 21:19:11
Subj: Re: Warp 4 Won't Boot

From: davek@clark.net (David Kunz)

jbrush@aros.net wrote:                                                

: In <zuYD3.126$X5.13401@typhoon-sf.snfc21.pbi.net>, on 09/15/99 at 
: 07:21 PM,                                                           

:    "Phil Caine" <phillipcaine@hotmail.com> said:                    

: >I swapped out my C: drive WIN98 for a 18GB IBM SCSI and now my D: 
: >drive OS/2 Warp 4.0 freezes when loading OS2DASD with the 
: >following message:                                                 

: >"Adaptec AIC 78U2 OS/2 Warp Driver d4.11 (980908)                  

: >OS/2 is unable to operate your hard disk or diskette drive.  The 
: >system is stopped (no kidding, frozen solid).  Correct the 
: >preceding error and restart the system."                           

: You didn't say what the partition sizes are, but OS/2 will not boot 
: if it is beyond the first 2gigs. Also you may need the updated 
: drivers from the DD pak to allow Warp to see that big a drive.

If the Adaptec U2W's built into your motherboard or is plug-n-play...
I've had W95 remap the 7980 on my motherboard to IRQ 15 (not in use on
my system).  The OS/2 driver won't find the controller up there and
gives the response that you got.  When that happens, I have to use the
DOS plug-n-play utility for my MB to put it back on 10 or 11. You can
see where it's mapped during boot by looking at the assignments screen
-- towards the bottom (goes by quick unless you're booting from
floppy).

--
David Kunz
Operator error.  Replace operator and strike any key to continue...

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From: zayne@omen.com.au                                 16-Sep-99 14:04:07
  To: All                                               16-Sep-99 21:19:11
Subj: Re: driver needed - HP35480A DAT

From: zayne@omen.com.au (Mooo)

"Dave {Reply Address in.sig}" <noone@llondel.demon.co.uk> wrote:

>I don't bother with things like that. Go find the GTAK/GTAR stuff on
>Hobbes and use that. I've got an HP DAT drive that has been used with
>this software for several years with no problem, including several
>complete restores onto different disk drives and when rearranging
>partitions (not owning Partition Magic at the time).

Make very sure you read -all- the docos that come with gtar.  There
are unclear potential problems talked about breifly in the docs that
have to do with corruption at media end with ACL's and EA's.

Regards,
Craig

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From: matthew@nope.psych.mcgill.ca                      16-Sep-99 17:30:24
  To: All                                               16-Sep-99 22:38:00
Subj: Re: PCMCIA on a Dell laptops

From: Matthew Shapiro <matthew@nope.psych.mcgill.ca>

From 3Com regarding the 3CCM156 card, after both 3com and dell refusing to
support customers who use os/2:

" OS/2 Warp has Card and Socket Services (C&SS) drivers included with the
 operating system. The PCMCIA drivers are built-in. The advantage of the
 built in drivers is that to install them you only need to know how to open
 your OS/2 System folder. "

"Yeah, right.  The drivers for this pcmcia modem card on the dell inspiron
233 are not built in to os/2.  I finally solved the problem, thanks to the
news groups,
which I hope you will file for future customers. I will also post this in
the
appropriate news groups.

The *only* driver that I found to enable the 3com card in my inspiron 233
is an older beta version of an ibm driver, SS2PCIC2.SYS dated 6-16-97.
No other driver works, including newer versions of ss2pcic2.sys or the
ezplay
updated 1999 pcmcia drivers.  This driver is not available on the os2
device driver page (the newer one that is useless is there), but is
available at

ftp://ftp.uni-leipzig.de/pub/os2/boulder/os2/os2ddpak/ss2pcic2.exe

If another customer needs this driver, they can find it there or email me.
Or, if DELL and 3COM want to support their customers who don't ride the
DOS train, you could post the driver on your web sites."



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From: forkd4nisse@dtek.chalmers.se                      16-Sep-99 21:58:19
  To: All                                               17-Sep-99 03:54:29
Subj: Re: ? possible to "format c: /s" with DOS from A:?

From: Martin Nisshagen <forkd4nisse@dtek.chalmers.se>

Bob Germer [] -> comp.os.os2.misc:

 Only PC-DOS 7 FDISK seems able to remove non-DOS paritions, BTW. 

Tip (for they who don't have access to DOS-7):

A good utility that so far has been able to remove all type of partitions for
me has been the DOS tool delpart.exe from MS (try FTP search on the file name
or get it from my badly updated http://home2.sbbs2.com/mn/start page).

Has zapped everything I tried in a second!

Best regards,

m a r t i n | n

-- 
Martin Nisshagen                 PGP 6.0: 0x45D423AC      K R A F T W E R K
:-)
CS/CE, Chalmers, Sweden          ICQ UIN: 689662          2 x 300A @ 450 MHz
d4nisse-at-dtek-chalmers-se      home2.sbbs2.com/mn      
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From: rgibson@ix.netcom.com                             16-Sep-99 20:55:18
  To: All                                               17-Sep-99 03:54:29
Subj: Re: DOS and OS/2 and boot issue

From: rgibson@ix.netcom.com (Ron Gibson)

On Thu, 16 Sep 1999 03:02:28, wbg@hevanet.com (wbg) wrote:
 
> 		C:  FAT16	Win95/98
> 		C:  FAT16	Pure "old" DOS - preferably NovellDos 7
> 		D:  FAT16	Win & DOS apps & data
> 		E:  HPFS	Warp 4 blue spine - OS partition
> 		F:  HPFS	OS/2 applications (incl. DOS, Win3 apps
> 				running under OS/2)
> 		G:  HPFS	OS2/OS/2-DOS/OS2-Win3 data files
> 	      	H:  HPFS	OS2/OS/2-DOS/OS2-Win3 games
 
> The lovely little Boot Manager makes it all work dandy. You can even
> have Linux as a boot choice from it - BM just calls LILO which then
> wakes up Linux. Now, I set mine up on a second spindle just to make
> sure LILO wouldn't have any heartburn about its location on the drive -
> I don't know how that would go if you had Linux on a far, far section
> of, say, a 13Gb drive or something.

I see that you have two C drives listed here so I'm assuming there's a
way to boot so that only one is active otherwise drive letters are gonna
get screwed up. Can you elaborate on this point?

I was considering system Commander which consisted of 1 disk and a 100
page manual and backed out seeing the way it was going to kludge the
same type of problem.

                      email: rgibson@ix.netcom.com

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From: jbrush@aros.net                                   16-Sep-99 16:55:15
  To: All                                               17-Sep-99 03:55:00
Subj: Re: Warp 4 Won't Boot

From: jbrush@aros.net

In <geribeurzfyrlqvnycvcrkpbz.fi6has3.pminews@news.dial.pipex.com>, on
09/16/99 at 08:28 PM,
   "Trevor Hemsley" <Trevor-Hemsley@dial.pipex.com> said:

>On Wed, 15 Sep 1999 21:23:07 -0600, jbrush@aros.net wrote:

>->You didn't say what the partition sizes are, but OS/2 will not boot if
>it ->is beyond the first 2gigs.

>This is incorrect. Warp 4 has no difficulty with booting from anywhere
>within the first 8Gb of a disk. Warp 3 requires that you update UHPFS.DLL
>and re-run SYSINSTX.COM against the target partition to allow it to work.

Glad it works for you, it never works on any system I have used or
installed. 

Guess I should know better than to pass on my experiences :)

John


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From: raphaelt@netnews.worldnet.att.net                 16-Sep-99 18:32:19
  To: All                                               17-Sep-99 03:55:00
Subj: Re: dire need of HELP!

From: raphaelt@netnews.worldnet.att.net (Raphael Tennenbaum)

In article <geribeurzfyrlqvnycvcrkpbz.fi6gzf1.pminews@news.dial.pipex.com>,
"Trevor Hemsley" <Trevor-Hemsley@dial.pipex.com> wrote:
>On Wed, 15 Sep 1999 00:40:00 -0400, Raphael Tennenbaum wrote:
>
>->It became fairly clear that I was up against some dire hardware
>->situation -- but what?
>
>Grab my memos2.zip file from http://hobbes.nmsu.edu and unzip it. Boot to
>an OS/2 command prompt only and run
>
>memos2 9999

I went over to Hobbes pretty quickly.  

Unfortunately my system's at a point -- happened around
yesterday morning -- where I can no longer boot of any of
the three OS/2 parts. on the HD (3, 4, maint).  I had hoped
I might be able to run memos off a diskette boot: the first
time I tried it said it couldn't find NLS, so I tried again
off the diskette I use to run FC/2 in diskette-boot mode,
which has three or four dlls -- moucalls, viocall, et al. 
When I tried running memos2 I got 

SYS0318: Message file OSO001.MSG cannot be found for message
3175.

Likewise when I tried running it off the last disk of the
"create utility diskettes" bunch.  I guess it's a long way
of saying it's a (minimal) PM prog.  

Trying to eliminate the smallest things first: I guess I'll
run this dos-ish utility called TESTMEM.EXE, but it doesn't
seem to test the cache.  Of course it's also nice to have
testing while I'm doing other things.

All this help and suggestions are appreciated.  Should be
getting down to fixing things in earnest tomorrow (gulp).

>
>then leave it alone. If it passes through all 9999 runs of the test then
>the basic hardware, processor, memory and cache RAM is _probably_ OK and
>you need to look deeper.
>
>
>Trevor Hemsley, London, UK
>(Trevor-Hemsley@dial.pipex.com or 75704.2477@compuserve.com)
>

-Ray

-- 
Ray Tennenbaum
readme@ http://www.ray-field.com

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From: mnieuw@zap.a2000.nl                               17-Sep-99 02:23:23
  To: All                                               17-Sep-99 03:55:00
Subj: Re: dire need of HELP!

From: Mat Nieuwenhoven <mnieuw@zap.a2000.nl>

> 
> Raphael Tennenbaum (raphaelt@worldnet.att.net) wrote:
> 
> Last week my sound card blew up -- I guess, though at this point
> I'm not sure about anything.  Within a few days, my Warp4 partition
> started misbehaving, and things got worse, to the point where I
> recreated it from tape archives.  Then it worked -- for three or
> four days.
> 
> 

Seeing that your problems seem to getting worse in time, have you
checked for viruses?

Good luck, Mat Nieuwenhoven

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From: Trevor-Hemsley@dial.pipex.com                     17-Sep-99 00:08:02
  To: All                                               17-Sep-99 03:55:00
Subj: Re: Warp 4 Won't Boot

From: "Trevor Hemsley" <Trevor-Hemsley@dial.pipex.com>

On Thu, 16 Sep 1999 14:10:08 -0700, Phil Caine wrote:

->Darn it, I misled you.  The C: drive and the D: drive are separate physical
->drives.  The C: is 18 GB only 6GB is used the remained is free space.  The
->D: drive is 2GB with 1GB free space.  I'm using Warp 4 with FP 11.  The SCSI
->is a PnP card.
->
->Everything worked fine before I replaced the failed C: drive with the large
->IBM.  I used to boot under PQBoot but it wouldn't work after the IBM install
->so I 'I'm using BootIt.

Can you boot up with OS/2 diskettes and run FDISK /QUERY and post the
output? One thing that does occur to me is that you may have changed the
OS/2 boot drive letter. If you've defined any new partitions on the new
drive then, if your OS/2 was installed in a logical drive inside an
extended partition on the second drive, the drive letter of OS/2 will have
changed. Similarly, if you have defined an extended partition on the first
drive that contains logical drives that are entirely outside the INT 13
support area of the disk (usually 8GB) then these drives may be completely
invisible to OS/2 and/or its boot manager.

Post the FDISK /QUERY output if this doesn't help.

 
Trevor Hemsley, London, UK
(Trevor-Hemsley@dial.pipex.com or 75704.2477@compuserve.com)



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From: ecmille@ibm.net                                   17-Sep-99 00:22:22
  To: All                                               17-Sep-99 03:55:00
Subj: Re: Lexmark Z51: optimizing under Warp

From: ecmille@ibm.net (Ted Miller)

In message <7rqe6g$18s$1@nnrp1.deja.com> - aubergine@my-deja.comThu, 16 Sep
1999 09:44:50 GMT writes:
:>
:>I've had a Lexmark Z51 now for several months, and am
:>quite happy with this printer. However, I am having
:>difficulty optimizing its performance under Warp.
:>
:>Under the setting
:>
:>  BASEDEV=PRINT01.SYS
:>
:>my system grinds to a total halt while the printer is
:>printing, and is essentially unusable, but the print
:>job is dispatched quickly.
:>
:>With
:>
:>  BASEDEV=PRINT01.SYS /IRQ
:>
:>overall system performance is much better, but the
:>printer now prints at a GLACIAL place.
:>
:>Adjusting Idle Priority under Print Queue options
:>doesn't seem to make much difference in either
:>scenario.
:>
:>Anyone figured out the Golden Middle Way with this
:>printer?
:>
:>
:>
:>Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
:>Share what you know. Learn what you don't.


I think the only way you will improve the performance is to install the
bi-directional printer driver. It is a package called bidi.exe found in IBM's
device driver pak on-line. Be aware that this driver requires that irq 7 be
free.

I have a Lexmark 3200 and this is the only way I could get printer performance
to be even barely adequate. I believe that the Z51, along with the 5700 and
3200 are all similarily designed. They are basically win printers and require
your cpu to do all the print processing which has a large impact on system
performance.

I am currently in the market fo another printer and am hoping to find a
Lexmark optra 40 which is postscript based and has come down in price
dramatically recently.

If you decide to stick with the print01.sys driver make sure you turn off
print while spooling in the printer properties and you could play around with
the priority in the spooler. You could also turn spooling off completely and
see if that makes a difference.

Hope this provides some help.

Ted Miller

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From: verysoft@wr.com.au                                17-Sep-99 02:37:17
  To: All                                               17-Sep-99 03:55:00
Subj: Re: dire need of HELP!

From: verysoft@wr.com.au (Max)


I don't see the problem of memory checking, you probably have multiple
SIMMS, just throw some out and have it running on one, just check your
MB-manual for possible configs ( you might want to buy anew one
anyway, if it isn't that you upgrade your machine this way), and just
switch all the bloody Cache of in your BIOS.
If that doesn't help borrow or buy some CPU and try that.
I realise that not everybody throws his box out and buys a new one,
but before I try to get into the board with a multimeter, I spend some
$ on chips and check that out one by one!
If the system voltage for your CPU is out, thats blown for good now,
if the power supply is wacky most peripherials wouldn't function
either..
Since you run SCSI, I can't see any connection between your blown
soundcard and your stuffed partition. Is your WIN still OK?
If not you might have a termination problem with your scsi, did you
mix some old resistor terminated scsi with some new model that has
active termination? that wipes entire partions at startup. Or did you
add some new SCSI device? You said you checked cables already..
Another point may be the PCI-bus, did you swap some cards around ?
You probably know that your PCI Slots have different priorities, if
your sound card was PCI, you might have mixed up some cards?

		good luck: Max

		......no fuzzin' for nuzzin'


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From: wbg@hevanet.com                                   17-Sep-99 03:43:28
  To: All                                               17-Sep-99 03:55:00
Subj: Re: DOS and OS/2 and boot issue

From: wbg@hevanet.com (wbg)

Ron Gibson (rgibson@ix.netcom.com) wrote:

: I see that you have two C drives listed here so I'm assuming there's a
: way to boot so that only one is active otherwise drive letters are gonna
: get screwed up. Can you elaborate on this point?

: I was considering system Commander which consisted of 1 disk and a 100
: page manual and backed out seeing the way it was going to kludge the
: same type of problem.
:                       email: rgibson@ix.netcom.com

From the Boot Manager menu, you control which one is active, and all other
C: partitions (no reason you couldn't have 5 or 6 AFAIK) are considered
"hidden". It echoes all this in the appropriate column on the
Boot Manager menu.

I frankly don't know how System Commander has survived, given the presence
of IBM's superb Boot Manager as a free ridealong on both Warp and
Partition Magic (who liked it so well they licensed it from Big Blue.

If you have Warp 4 you already have BM. It is so widely capable I
can't imagine needing anything more (except of course for Partition
Magic, which is a whole 'nother set of tangentially related functions).

Maybe some True Believer in SC can set me straight as to the perceived
deficiencies of BM versus SC - I've sure never heard of any such.

Brewster
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   the poor or 'social justice' but is about the political careers and
   moral exaltation of liberals themselves. The actual consequences of 
   liberal policies on the poor or others seldom receives anything like 
   the amount of attention given to promoting these policies and 
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From: r.dunham@onsemi.com                               16-Sep-99 08:55:24
  To: jaygib@usa.net                                    17-Sep-99 03:55:00
Subj: Re: Orb works under OS/2!

To: dcasey@ibm.net, Jay Gibberman <jaygib@usa.net>
From: "Richard M. Dunham" <r.dunham@onsemi.com>

Dan, Jay and All:  I was reluctant last Friday to purchase the Mac external
SCSI unit when my son and I were at a local electronics shop but he convinced
me.  I guess I should listen to him more often!

As for the setup:

I have a Thinkpad 385XD running FP11 with DDKs xr_d001.1dk & xr_d001.2dk
which were installed prior to this purchase.  These are available at:

ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/ps/products/os2/fixes/DDPak/xr_d001/

My SCSI unit is an Adaptec SlimSCSI 1460C with 50 pin to PCMCIA card cable.
SCSI IDs are switch selectable on the side of the unit.  My setting is 4.

The only problem encountered was that the system initially would not
recognize it.  I put out a posting and Lenard responded with the same
problem.  He fixed this by running FDisk, deleting the partition and then
setup the partition and reformatted.  I did this and it worked.

I've tested the unit in the following manner with good results:

1.  FDiskPM with multiple partitions i.e.; H, I,...,
2.  FDiskPM with one large primary partition,
3.  FDiskPM with 2 primary partitions-this was done to test with my NT system
so I had an HPFS and a FAT partition.  (BTW, NT will NOT recognize this
drive.  No built in support like OS/2.  Only drivers presently available from
the manufacturer is support for their EIDE device.  A readme file in their
ZIP'd file does mention an ADD driver but it is not in this package),
4.  I have copied whole directories, files, made backups using BA2Pro and all
work,
5.  Ejected disk and retried, etc.

The drive was recognized and very usable in all tests.  No shutdown was
performed during the testing.  I'm not sure what other tests I could do at
this time but it appears to be working fine.

The owners manual which does not come with the unit but is available at:

ftp://209.185.119.20/manual/scsi_owners_manual.pdf

In fact I just downloaded it and am looking at it right now for the first
time!

If you have any other questions please let me know.

Regards:  Dick

************

Dan Casey wrote:

> In article <37DFB4FB.C4A0D6B7@onsemi.com>, you wrote:
> >Just wanted to let you know that I recently purchased an Orb SCSI
> >external drive and it is working well under OS/2 using Fixpak 11 and the
> >updated device drivers fixpak.
> >
> >Just plugged it into my Thinkpad 385XD's PCMCIA SCSI card slot.  Powered
> >it up and FDISKed the MAC formatted cartridge.  I now have another 2.2GB
> >of needed storage space.
> >
> >You may want to let your customers know that this unit does work under
> >OS/2.
>
> We've been discussing you success on the Hardware mailing list, and I
> was asked to get this information from you:
>
> Can anyone find out what solution and or problems he had connecting to
> OS/2  (cabling, terminator and Controller?
>
> --
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From: esko.kauppinen@ibm.net                            16-Sep-99 21:42:14
  To: All                                               17-Sep-99 03:55:00
Subj: Re: How to locate WINOS2 sound error?

From: "Esko Kauppinen" <esko.kauppinen@ibm.net>

On Sun, 12 Sep 1999 19:23:12 +0200, Mat Nieuwenhoven wrote:

>Hi,
>
>after installing an ESS1688P sound card using the drivers from the ddpak
>online (os21688.zip), The OS/2 side works fine, but the WINOS2 sounds
>don't work. I get a small msg box when starting winos2, titled 'audio'
>but otherwise empy. I presume an error message is supposed to show
>there. Is there a way of logging the error msg somewhere, or make it
>visible in any other way?
>Apart from that, is there a know error with the installation routines
>for the ESS drivers that could cause this? he machine is running Warp4
>FP10 .
>
>Thanks, Mat Nieuwenhoven

Can't tell about the logging but I also have not been able to get the
ESS1688 drivers to work on the WinOS side.

I can get sound from WinOS by using the Sound Blaster drivers but
they are a bit unreliable.

Esko


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From: quickdraw@thinnin'.net                            17-Sep-99 05:26:00
  To: All                                               17-Sep-99 03:55:00
Subj: increasing & moving swap file?

From: quickdraw@thinnin'.net (El Kabong)

I just re-installed Warp4 AS over Warp4 client. It runs like a slug
now, & it didn't before. The cpu usage stays pegged at 100%.

config.sys says:
diskcache=64,LW,16
memman=swap,protect
swappath=d:\os2\system 2048 2048
( I'm running 'cache386.exe' )

I THINK I want to put a big swap file on a different spindle (I've got
room on E:, HPFS different disk) but haven't the foggiest notion how.

Any tips or pointer's to doc's?

	Thanks,
		E.K.


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From: htravis@ibm.net                                   17-Sep-99 00:31:17
  To: All                                               17-Sep-99 03:55:00
Subj: Re: Lexmark Z51: optimizing under Warp

From: htravis@ibm.net (Harry Travis)

In <37e189d4@news3.prserv.net>, on 09/17/99 
   at 12:22 AM, ecmille@ibm.net (Ted Miller) said:

>In message <7rqe6g$18s$1@nnrp1.deja.com> - aubergine@my-deja.comThu, 16
>Sep 1999 09:44:50 GMT writes:
>:>
>:>I've had a Lexmark Z51 now for several months, and am
>:>quite happy with this printer. However, I am having
>:>difficulty optimizing its performance under Warp.
>:>
>:>Under the setting
>:>
>:>  BASEDEV=PRINT01.SYS
>:>
>:>my system grinds to a total halt while the printer is
>:>printing, and is essentially unusable, but the print
>:>job is dispatched quickly.
>:>
>:>With
>:>
>:>  BASEDEV=PRINT01.SYS /IRQ
>:>
>:>overall system performance is much better, but the
>:>printer now prints at a GLACIAL place.
>:>
>:>Adjusting Idle Priority under Print Queue options
>:>doesn't seem to make much difference in either
>:>scenario.
>:>
>:>Anyone figured out the Golden Middle Way with this
>:>printer?
>:>
>:>
>:>
>:>Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
>:>Share what you know. Learn what you don't.


>I think the only way you will improve the performance is to install the
>bi-directional printer driver. It is a package called bidi.exe found in
>IBM's device driver pak on-line. Be aware that this driver requires
>that irq 7 be free.

>I have a Lexmark 3200 and this is the only way I could get printer
>performance to be even barely adequate. I believe that the Z51, along
>with the 5700 and 3200 are all similarily designed. They are basically
>win printers and require your cpu to do all the print processing which
>has a large impact on system performance.

>I am currently in the market fo another printer and am hoping to find a
>Lexmark optra 40 which is postscript based and has come down in price
>dramatically recently.

>If you decide to stick with the print01.sys driver make sure you turn
>off print while spooling in the printer properties and you could play
>around with the priority in the spooler. You could also turn spooling
>off completely and see if that makes a difference.

>Hope this provides some help.

>Ted Miller

http://www.buy.com/surplus/product.asp?sku=70000013

How's $220 + $20 for shippiing? 

Remarkable to me, or a sign of how peripheral some newsgroups are is
that less than 10 of these are reported to have been sold since Tim
Sipples cited this page as an example of bargains one week ago. (And if
that is because they've been selling out elswhere, elsewhere is a
well-hidden location. I couldn't find it.)



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From: donnelly@tampabay.rr.com                          17-Sep-99 05:29:07
  To: All                                               17-Sep-99 11:01:03
Subj: Re: Lexmark Z51: optimizing under Warp

From: donnelly@tampabay.rr.com (Buddy Donnelly)

On Fri, 17 Sep 1999 04:31:34, htravis@ibm.net (Harry Travis) a crit dans 
un message:
> 
> >I am currently in the market fo another printer and am hoping to find a
> >Lexmark optra 40 which is postscript based and has come down in price
> >dramatically recently.
> 
> http://www.buy.com/surplus/product.asp?sku=70000013
> 
> How's $220 + $20 for shippiing? 
> 
> Remarkable to me, or a sign of how peripheral some newsgroups are is
> that less than 10 of these are reported to have been sold since Tim
> Sipples cited this page as an example of bargains one week ago. (And if
> that is because they've been selling out elswhere, elsewhere is a
> well-hidden location. I couldn't find it.)

Well, that printer goes for a nominal $195 (+unknown for shipping) at 
firesale.com, according to a search at http://www.pricewatch.com but I 
can't learn anything further at the firesale.com site. It's common to jack 
up the shipping to get a competitive price listing at places like this.


Good luck,

Buddy

Buddy Donnelly
donnelly@tampabay.rr.com


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From: news@fenrir.demon.co.uk                           16-Sep-99 23:23:00
  To: All                                               17-Sep-99 11:01:03
Subj: Re: Lexmark Z51: optimizing under Warp

From: "Brian Morrison" <news@fenrir.demon.co.uk>

On Thu, 16 Sep 1999 09:44:50 GMT, aubergine@my-deja.com wrote:

>I've had a Lexmark Z51 now for several months, and am
>quite happy with this printer. However, I am having
>difficulty optimizing its performance under Warp.
>
>Under the setting
>
>  BASEDEV=PRINT01.SYS
>
>my system grinds to a total halt while the printer is
>printing, and is essentially unusable, but the print
>job is dispatched quickly.
>
>With
>
>  BASEDEV=PRINT01.SYS /IRQ
>
>overall system performance is much better, but the
>printer now prints at a GLACIAL place.
>
>Adjusting Idle Priority under Print Queue options
>doesn't seem to make much difference in either
>scenario.
>
>Anyone figured out the Golden Middle Way with this
>printer?
>

You need the bidirectional printer driver, get it from the DD Pak site.
You need to update the port driver too, under the port properties page
of the printer object settings.

This worked for my Lexmark 5770, without bidi it was a waste of time.


-- 
Brian Morrison                                       news@fenrir.demon.co.uk

               to reply, change address from 'news' to 'bdm'

 ...Grim faced, cold as fishwife's fingers, he snatched from the wall
 the sickle-sharp boar tusks he used for defacing Readers' Digest....


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From: mystix1210@my-deja.com                            17-Sep-99 06:37:13
  To: All                                               17-Sep-99 11:01:03
Subj: Re: Need to re-install Warp 4 but can't see!

From: mystix1210@my-deja.com

In article <wvhD3.1619$S5.173976@ptah.visi.com>,
  Phillip Davenport <phillipd@antares.cloudnet.com>
wrote:

> > ATI 3-D Graphics Expression + PC2TV (Rage II+DVD)
> > 4MB
>
> Use the DOS utility to reset the ATI 640x480
> refresh to 60Hz

What I eventually did was bring my computer to a
friend's place who had a multi sync monitor and
finished installing Warp there.

Afterwards when I went home I discovered some other
things I had to do so after some re-aranging I had to
yet re-install Warp again,but before I did I followed
your advice but to no avail. Still the signal didn't
sync to my monitor. I can't figure out for the life
of me why though. My old ATI card never had this
problem, but of course it's gone now.



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From: thomashellsen@my-deja.com                         17-Sep-99 07:12:13
  To: All                                               17-Sep-99 11:01:03
Subj: Install problem, Warp 4 TCP/IP

From: Thomas Hellsn <thomashellsen@my-deja.com>

Hi all,

I've tried to install Warp 4 on my ol' trusty AST
Ascentia 910 (486 DX/25, 16Mb). I already have Warp 3
on the D: partition of the 2.1Gb HD (PCDOS7 on C:)
and I have two more partitions: E: (500M) and F:
(900Mb). F: is my "applications" drive. I want Warp 4
on the E: drive.
Now, I don't have a CD-ROM drive, so I copied the
Warp 4 install CD via ZIP disks to the F: drive,
everything except the \DISKIMGS directory (I assume
it is used exclusively for diskette installation -
correct me if I'm wrong). Then I made the three
installation disks for "Diskette" installation and
changed the line in CONFIG.SYS on diskette 1:
SET OS2_SHELL=SYSINST2.EXE   to
SET OS2_SHELL=SYSINST2.EXE F:
Then I ran from these diskettes. All worked fine,
OS/2 installed with BonusPak, Java and whatnot (I
always use selective install so I know what I get).

BUT: I never got to the TCP/IP installation! I
naturally want to install the IAK. Since it didn't
start by itself, I manually started the program
F:\IBMINST\NPCONFIG.EXE, which is named towards the
end of CONFIG.SYS on the CD-ROM diskette (NOT in the
CONFIG.SYS on the "Diskette Install" diskette 1).
This gave me the TCP/IP install that I'm familiar
with from installation on another machine.

HOWEVER, I couldn't complete the TCP/IP installation!
The last selective install item, where you install
the Network Interface Card (NIC) comes up blank. This
may be because I don't have any NIC in that machine.
It prevents me from completing the installation.
The "simple install" fails with an error message
"unexpected error" or something like that.

I just want Internet access via modem, I don't care
about LAN access since I have no LAN.

What do I do now? Please help.
Thomas Hellsn, Sweden


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From: News@The-Net-4U.com                               17-Sep-99 08:35:21
  To: All                                               17-Sep-99 11:01:03
Subj: Re: Help!!! with Warp 4 install on K6-2 400!

From: News@The-Net-4U.com (M.P. van Dobben de Bruijn)

> blonketyblonk@yahoo.com (blonketyblonk) wrote:
 
> I'm trying to install Warp 4 on a machine here, I've got:
> K6-2 400
> Matrox G200
> 64 MB PC100 RAM
> SB32AWE
> NE2000 Compatable NIC
> 
> I've used the SB and NIC in my old machine, so I know
> they work. I also have Win98 working 100% ok on this
> system.
> 
> The problem I'm having is intermitent lock-ups at just any-ol-time...
> It's so bad that I can't even complete an install of the base OS
> without the machine locking up at some random point.

Did install a K6-2 400 Mhz board recently on my own machine.
Pushed the old disk, NIC, modem and soundcard onto it booted
without a flaw. he, try doing that with Win, a new motherboard with-
out having to re-install OS/2, the old disk boots at once.

That does not help you of course, sorry but I could not resist.

Let's see. You have problems installing. Do you specify standard
VGA during the install. Could think that the Matrox-card introduces
problems at some point in the install, when not forced to standard VGA.

If that does not work I would take the other boards (NIC and Sound
out) do an install with a barebones system as barebones as possible
(also no optimized BIOS-settings) and then if that worked out add the
additional facilities from the other cards one-by-one. Success!

Regards from Leeuwarden
Peter van Dobben de Bruijn
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From: w.h.m.wauters.1998@cranfield.ac.uk                17-Sep-99 12:13:16
  To: All                                               17-Sep-99 11:01:03
Subj: Make sure powersaving is disabled in BIOS (n/t)

From: Wim Wauters <w.h.m.wauters.1998@cranfield.ac.uk>

n/t

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From: engs0011@sable.ox.ac.uk                           17-Sep-99 18:29:03
  To: All                                               17-Sep-99 20:04:19
Subj: Adding LAN support and Peer-to-peer?

From: engs0011@sable.ox.ac.uk (Ian Johnston)

When I installed Warp 4 I had no network adaptor. Now I have, and I want to
use my machine as a peer server. At install, I chose not to have the relevant
bits ... now I can't see how to install them. Help!

Ian

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From: phillipcaine@hotmail.com                          16-Sep-99 14:10:04
  To: All                                               17-Sep-99 20:04:19
Subj: Re: Warp 4 Won't Boot

From: "Phil Caine" <phillipcaine@hotmail.com>

Darn it, I misled you.  The C: drive and the D: drive are separate physical
drives.  The C: is 18 GB only 6GB is used the remained is free space.  The
D: drive is 2GB with 1GB free space.  I'm using Warp 4 with FP 11.  The SCSI
is a PnP card.

Everything worked fine before I replaced the failed C: drive with the large
IBM.  I used to boot under PQBoot but it wouldn't work after the IBM install
so I 'I'm using BootIt.

Where in the device driver FTP would I find the upgraded drivers?

Phil

<jbrush@aros.net> wrote in message
news:37e062fe$1$woehfu$mr2ice@news.aros.net...
> In <zuYD3.126$X5.13401@typhoon-sf.snfc21.pbi.net>, on 09/15/99 at 07:21
> PM,
>    "Phil Caine" <phillipcaine@hotmail.com> said:
>
> >I swapped out my C: drive WIN98 for a 18GB IBM SCSI and now my D: drive
> >OS/2 Warp 4.0 freezes when loading OS2DASD with the following message:
>
> >"Adaptec AIC 78U2 OS/2 Warp Driver d4.11 (980908)
>
> >OS/2 is unable to operate your hard disk or diskette drive.  The system
> >is stopped (no kidding, frozen solid).  Correct the preceding error and
> >restart the system."
>
> You didn't say what the partition sizes are, but OS/2 will not boot if it
> is beyond the first 2gigs. Also you may need the updated drivers from the
> DD pak to allow Warp to see that big a drive.
>
> John


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From: rgibson@ix.netcom.com                             17-Sep-99 22:09:27
  To: All                                               17-Sep-99 20:04:19
Subj: Re: DOS and OS/2 and boot issue

From: rgibson@ix.netcom.com (Ron Gibson)

On Fri, 17 Sep 1999 03:43:56, wbg@hevanet.com (wbg) wrote:

> : I see that you have two C drives listed here so I'm assuming there's a
> : way to boot so that only one is active otherwise drive letters are gonna
> : get screwed up. Can you elaborate on this point?
 
> From the Boot Manager menu, you control which one is active, and all other
> C: partitions (no reason you couldn't have 5 or 6 AFAIK) are considered
> "hidden". It echoes all this in the appropriate column on the
> Boot Manager menu.

Well kiss my grits.  All this time I've been using boot manager and I
never noticed this.  So, I upgraded W31 to W98 and I'd like to keep
DOS/Win3.1 around for just a little while longer.  But I'd have to split
a partition out around the 4 gig mark or so and make a primary
partition.  Doing that I could set it as active and install my old
DOS/Win3.1 right?
 
> I frankly don't know how System Commander has survived, given the presence
> of IBM's superb Boot Manager as a free ridealong on both Warp and
> Partition Magic (who liked it so well they licensed it from Big Blue.
 
> If you have Warp 4 you already have BM. It is so widely capable I
> can't imagine needing anything more (except of course for Partition
> Magic, which is a whole 'nother set of tangentially related functions).

Well I have Warp 3 and used BM a long time.  Done a lot of tricks with
it and FDISK.

                      email: rgibson@ix.netcom.com

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From: mchasson@ibm.net                                  17-Sep-99 19:01:05
  To: All                                               17-Sep-99 21:30:15
Subj: Re: Canon BJC-5000

From: mchasson@ibm.net

In <YrvE3.542$F3.188469760@news.frii.net>, on 09/17/99 at 12:06 PM,
   "John E. Jones" <jejs@verinet.com> said:

>Has any found a driver that will work with this printer?

>John

Add to previous post:

Go to the Canon pages and get the compatibility list.  Many of the BJC 
series of printers are compatible and will run on other model no. drivers. 



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From: mchasson@ibm.net                                  17-Sep-99 18:51:21
  To: All                                               17-Sep-99 21:30:15
Subj: Re: Canon BJC-5000

From: mchasson@ibm.net

In <YrvE3.542$F3.188469760@news.frii.net>, on 09/17/99 at 12:06 PM,
   "John E. Jones" <jejs@verinet.com> said:

>Has any found a driver that will work with this printer?

>John

I thought I noticed a driver for this printer on the ddpak.  Sometimes the
index is confusing.  Alternately you might try the Canon ccsi.com pages.


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From: gdfitzpat@smartt.com                              18-Sep-99 00:09:19
  To: All                                               17-Sep-99 21:30:15
Subj: Re: DOS and OS/2 and boot issue

From: gdfitzpat@smartt.com (Doug Fitzpatrick)

In message <7rsdds$lg1$3@glisan.hevanet.com> - wbg@hevanet.com (wbg)
writes:
:>I frankly don't know how System Commander has survived, given the presence
:>of IBM's superb Boot Manager as a free ridealong on both Warp and
:>Partition Magic (who liked it so well they licensed it from Big Blue.

For version 3.0, but it looks like PowerQuest dropped it for something
else for version 4.0.

Regards,
Doug

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