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From: askbill*AT*ibm.net                                17-Sep-99 20:37:02
  To: All                                               18-Sep-99 01:08:05
Subj: Re: "Drives" object - annoying behaviour.

From: askbill*AT*ibm.net

In <7rt78v$osk$1@news.ox.ac.uk>, on 09/17/99 
   at 11:05 AM, engs0011@sable.ox.ac.uk (Ian Johnston) said:

>When I click on the drives icon, it sometimes - but not always - insists
>on giving an error message from the FD drive or one of the CD-roms.
>"Drive not ready", it says. Well no, it's not, because there isn't a disk
>(CD) in it. This is beginning to get annoying: how can I stop it
>happening?

Seems to me that this behaviour went away in the "main" drives object
several fix-paks ago. It also seems to have lasted a while longer if one
used the Warpcenter toolbar icon instead, but htat has also been fixed,
IRRC.

In either case - it is not happening any longer on any of my machines, W4
FP9 is the oldest.

Bill Hacker
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From: satoru@candenext.lsa.berkeley.edu                 17-Sep-99 19:57:23
  To: All                                               18-Sep-99 01:08:05
Subj: Re: printing through SCSI

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

Wim Wauters (w.h.m.wauters.1998@cranfield.ac.uk) wrote:
: 
: 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].

Waoh, you are right, Apple indeed made a SCSI port printer.  Thank you for
correcting my mistake.  I've looked at the Apple Spec page and found that the
printer is a QuickDraw device which is the root of your problem.  You only can
use QuickDraw on Mac so all of your documents for printing have to be
converted
on your IIcx.  Remote printing will work if there is a software which converts
postscript or PCL (or something else) to QuickDraw automatically and output to
the printer.  I'm sorry but with my limited knowledge, I cannot help you with
this.  You may ask to Mac related news group for existence of such software.
If there is one, you can use Columbia CAP package on Unix/Linux environment,
at
least.

Thank you and have a nice day!

: 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.
: 

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

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From: askbill*AT*ibm.net                                18-Sep-99 10:37:06
  To: All                                               18-Sep-99 04:37:14
Subj: Re: "Drives" object - annoying behaviour.

From: askbill*AT*ibm.net

In <37E2B568.4BC03582@ibm.net>, on 09/17/99 
   at 04:40 PM, "Michael G. Slack" <slack@ibm.net> said:

>askbill*AT*ibm.net wrote:
>> In <7rt78v$osk$1@news.ox.ac.uk>, on 09/17/99
>>    at 11:05 AM, engs0011@sable.ox.ac.uk (Ian Johnston) said:
>> >When I click on the drives icon, it sometimes - but not always - insists
>> >on giving an error message from the FD drive or one of the CD-roms.
>> >"Drive not ready", it says. Well no, it's not, because there isn't a disk
>> >(CD) in it. This is beginning to get annoying: how can I stop it
>> >happening?
>> Seems to me that this behaviour went away in the "main" drives object
>> several fix-paks ago. It also seems to have lasted a while longer if one
>> used the Warpcenter toolbar icon instead, but htat has also been fixed,
>> IRRC.
>> 
>You could also add the line "AUTOFAIL=YES" to your config.sys file.  This
>causes the system to return the 'default' option in the error dialog to
>the calling program.

Sorry, folks.  I have had "AUTOFAIL=YES" in my CONFIG.SYS for years. Also
redirection of POPUPLOG.

....  But neither of these is in all of my current configurations, and the
problem is still no longer in evidence.  So I conclude that it was quietly
"fixed" in a fixpak prior to FP9, and was also absent from Aurora Beta.

Bill Hacker
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From: rsteiner@visi.com                                 17-Sep-99 23:53:29
  To: All                                               18-Sep-99 04:37:14
Subj: Re: Orb works under OS/2!

From: rsteiner@visi.com (Richard Steiner)

Here in comp.os.os2.misc, "Richard M. Dunham" <r.dunham@onsemi.com>
spake unto us, saying:

>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.

What do you think of the drive?  And has an internal SCSI model been
released yet?

-- 
   -Rich Steiner  >>>--->  rsteiner@visi.com  >>>---> Bloomington, MN
     OS/2 + Linux + BeOS + FreeBSD + Solaris + WinNT4 + Win95 + DOS
      + VMWare + Fusion + vMac + Executor = PC Hobbyist Heaven! :-)
               I'm flexible..just don't change anything.

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From: jay-lensgraf@ouhsc.edu                            18-Sep-99 03:12:27
  To: All                                               18-Sep-99 04:37:14
Subj: Re: IBM1S506 is spinning my drive down.

From: jay-lensgraf@ouhsc.edu (Jay Lensgraf)

On Fri, 17 Sep 1999 10:34:35, Knud <knud_ch@post1.tele.dk> wrote:

> Mark Klebanoff wrote:
> > 
> > On Fri, 17 Sep 1999 05:56:33, Knud <knud_ch@post1.tele.dk> wrote:
> > 
> > > Hi
> > >
> > > After updated the IDE driver IBM1S506.ADD the IDE drives are spinning
> > > down at "SHUT DOWN" time, when you not gone turning the power off but
> > > just reset for another reason it takes times to spin them up again.
> > > Does anybody knows to prevent that ?
> > >
> > 
> > basedev=ibm1s506.add /!shutdown
> 
> 
> Thanks !
> 
> It would be nice if the doc for the IBM1S506.ADD could be updated so
> that it explain all the features there had been added during time.
> 
> Knud
According to the "tips" section of the current edition of OS/2 VOICE:
( http://www.os2voice.org/VNL/past_issues/VNL0999H/vnewsft.htm )

We've located the problem with drives NOT coming up properly. 'New 
Feature' that went into IBM1S506.ADD to flush buffers
more reliably during shutdown using C-A-D. Seems to cause some disks 
to SPIN DOWN and stay there. We do have a
WORKAROUND (and we'll update the FP README.1ST file soon).

WORKAROUND: In CONFIG.SYS on the BASEDEV=IBM1S506.ADD line, please add
" /!SHUTDOWN". This is known to fix
the problem.

Feel FREE to post this anywhere, but I'd also like ANYONE who has to 
use this to send me a message (ispalten@us.ibm.com)
detailing the hard drive manufacture, size, and model please.

Regards,
Jay

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From: KNUD_CH@POST1.TELE.DK                             18-Sep-99 09:52:09
  To: All                                               18-Sep-99 06:00:28
Subj: Re: IBM1S506 is spinning my drive down.

From: Knud Christiansen <KNUD_CH@POST1.TELE.DK>

CUT
> According to the "tips" section of the current edition of OS/2 VOICE:
> ( http://www.os2voice.org/VNL/past_issues/VNL0999H/vnewsft.htm )
> 
> We've located the problem with drives NOT coming up properly. 'New
> Feature' that went into IBM1S506.ADD to flush buffers
> more reliably during shutdown using C-A-D. Seems to cause some disks
> to SPIN DOWN and stay there. We do have a
> WORKAROUND (and we'll update the FP README.1ST file soon).
> 
> WORKAROUND: In CONFIG.SYS on the BASEDEV=IBM1S506.ADD line, please add
> " /!SHUTDOWN". This is known to fix
> the problem.
> 
> Feel FREE to post this anywhere, but I'd also like ANYONE who has to
> use this to send me a message (ispalten@us.ibm.com)
> detailing the hard drive manufacture, size, and model please.
> 
> Regards,
> Jay


Have just reportet it to Ispalten

Knud

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From: ten@rumms.uni-mannheim.de                         17-Sep-99 17:38:04
  To: All                                               18-Sep-99 06:00:28
Subj: Re: IBM1S506 is spinning my drive down.

From: Andreas Grosche <ten@rumms.uni-mannheim.de>

Mark Klebanoff <maxikins@os2bbs.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 17 Sep 1999 05:56:33, Knud <knud_ch@post1.tele.dk> wrote:
>> After updated the IDE driver IBM1S506.ADD the IDE drives are spinning
>> down at "SHUT DOWN" time, when you not gone turning the power off but
>> just reset for another reason it takes times to spin them up again.
>> Does anybody knows to prevent that ?
> basedev=ibm1s506.add /!shutdown

Is there a way to set the spin-down timer's *value* from OS/2 as well ?

Greetinx/2

Andreas Grosche <ten@rumms.uni-mannheim.de>

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From: dcasey@ibm.net                                    18-Sep-99 06:05:16
  To: All                                               18-Sep-99 11:03:06
Subj: Re: IBM1S506 is spinning my drive down.

From: dcasey@ibm.net (Dan Casey)

In article <9gflo1Cphsq0-pn2-mWZYzMVxv4fQ@localhost>,
jay-lensgraf@ouhsc.edu (Jay Lensgraf) wrote:


>According to the "tips" section of the current edition of OS/2 VOICE:
>( http://www.os2voice.org/VNL/past_issues/VNL0999H/vnewsft.htm )
>
>We've located the problem with drives NOT coming up properly. 'New
>Feature' that went into IBM1S506.ADD to flush buffers
>more reliably during shutdown using C-A-D. Seems to cause some disks
>to SPIN DOWN and stay there. We do have a
>WORKAROUND (and we'll update the FP README.1ST file soon).
>
>WORKAROUND: In CONFIG.SYS on the BASEDEV=IBM1S506.ADD line, please add
>" /!SHUTDOWN". This is known to fix
>the problem.
>
>Feel FREE to post this anywhere, but I'd also like ANYONE who has to
>use this to send me a message (ispalten@us.ibm.com)
>detailing the hard drive manufacture, size, and model please.

FYI ... this tip was pulled from this newsgroup less than a month ago.
Amazing what good information you can find amongst the clutter that is
usenet :-)

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From: maxikins@os2bbs.com                               18-Sep-99 11:12:08
  To: All                                               18-Sep-99 11:03:06
Subj: Re: IBM1S506 is spinning my drive down.

From: maxikins@os2bbs.com (Mark Klebanoff)

On Fri, 17 Sep 1999 15:38:09, Andreas Grosche 
<ten@rumms.uni-mannheim.de> wrote:

> Mark Klebanoff <maxikins@os2bbs.com> wrote:
> > On Fri, 17 Sep 1999 05:56:33, Knud <knud_ch@post1.tele.dk> wrote:
> >> After updated the IDE driver IBM1S506.ADD the IDE drives are spinning
> >> down at "SHUT DOWN" time, when you not gone turning the power off but
> >> just reset for another reason it takes times to spin them up again.
> >> Does anybody knows to prevent that ?
> > basedev=ibm1s506.add /!shutdown
> 
> Is there a way to set the spin-down timer's *value* from OS/2 as well ?
> 
> Greetinx/2
> 
> Andreas Grosche <ten@rumms.uni-mannheim.de>

I don't know

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From: Nullmudshark-505@worldnet.att.net                 18-Sep-99 14:11:00
  To: All                                               19-Sep-99 03:20:28
Subj: USB Zip

From: "Dave" <Nullmudshark-505@worldnet.att.net>

Anyone get one of these to work?  I get floppy icon *and* a HD icon in my
drives folder.  But both report erros when I try to open it,  The floppy one
complains drive isn't ready adn the HD one give a message of garbage.


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From: domi@kenavo.NOSPAM.fi                             18-Sep-99 12:22:09
  To: All                                               19-Sep-99 06:48:22
Subj: how to create new "Drives" object?

From: domi@kenavo.NOSPAM.fi (Dominique Pivard)

I have lost the "Drives" object on one of my OS/2 boxes. Is there a 
way to bring it back to the desktop? Probably a simple case for REXX 
gurus but a tough nut for me ;-).

Thanks, Dominique

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From: as@sci.fi                                         18-Sep-99 23:39:03
  To: All                                               19-Sep-99 06:48:22
Subj: 20G disk and only 1G bootable? Any workarounds?

From: Anssi Saari <as@sci.fi>

I've been trying to get my new 20G disk to work as a single drive,
after Asus surprised me by having released a BIOS update for the
venerable old T2P4 motherboard so that it now has > 8G drive
support. However, it seems that I still have to keep my 7.5G drive for
booting. The reason is that as the readme for the idedasd package
says, only partitions within the first logical 1024 cyls can be
bootable. Using the formula given in the readme, I get 32x63/2, which
is just 1016MB. Which is totally hopeless, since I need to have at
least four bootable partitions. The 7.5G disk, on the other hand, is
bootable anywhere.

So, is there some way around this ridiculous limitation? 

-- 
Anssi Saari - as@sci.fi

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From: Trevor-Hemsley@dial.pipex.com                     18-Sep-99 23:52:22
  To: All                                               19-Sep-99 06:48:22
Subj: Re: 20G disk and only 1G bootable? Any workarounds?

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

On 18 Sep 1999 23:39:06 +0300, Anssi Saari wrote:

->So, is there some way around this ridiculous limitation?

Check the drive mapping again. The limit is 1024 cylinders containing 255
heads of 63 sectors (or ~8GB).


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



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From: gbritton@!britton.dhs.org                         19-Sep-99 01:38:11
  To: All                                               19-Sep-99 06:48:23
Subj: Partition re-arranging

From: "Gerry Britton" <gbritton@!britton.dhs.org>

 have 3 physical drives:
1-SCSI Furball 2.1 G
	BM						   <--Primary
	C:[hidden] Warp4 FP whatever	500Meg   <--Primary
	C:Aurora				700Meg   <--Primary
	E: proggies				720Meg   <--Logical     
360Meg used
	F: Emergency/Maintenance Boot	  54Meg   <--Logical

2-SCSI Furball 2.1G
	D:All kinds of stuff			2100Meg <--Primary    
1300Meg used

3-WD 13G EIDE
	-Free Space-				2000Meg
	G:Big_Drive			         10000Meg  <--Logical     
1500Meg used

I'm looking for suggestions as to how to re-organize the partitions to allow
installation of other OS's, at least NT, Win98, RH6.0 etc. I've tried various
ways, all quite unsatisfactory, so I'm open to suggestions.



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From: hunters@thunder.indstate.edu                      19-Sep-99 04:30:13
  To: All                                               19-Sep-99 06:48:23
Subj: Re: USB Zip

From: hunters@thunder.indstate.edu

In article
<zhqfunexjbeyqargnggarg.fi9p6d0.pminews@netnews.worldnet.att.net>,
  "Dave" <Nullmudshark-505@worldnet.att.net> wrote:

> Anyone get one of these to work?  I get floppy icon *and* a HD icon
> in my drives folder.  But both report erros when I try to open it,
> The floppy one complains drive isn't ready adn the HD one give a
> message of garbage.

Yep, same deal here... The reason for the two icons, IMHO, is for
SuperDisk/LS120 drives. This is, after all, beta level device drivers.
Report your problems to IBM just in case they give a damn after all. :)

--
-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: bogus.due2UCE@atlantic.net                        19-Sep-99 01:28:08
  To: All                                               19-Sep-99 06:48:23
Subj: Re: Partition re-arranging

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

This is a multi-part message in MIME format.

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Gerry Britton wrote:

>  have 3 physical drives:
> 1-SCSI Furball 2.1 G
>         BM                                                 <--Primary
>         C:[hidden] Warp4 FP whatever    500Meg   <--Primary
>         C:Aurora                                700Meg   <--Primary
>         E: proggies                             720Meg   <--Logical
> 360Meg used
>         F: Emergency/Maintenance Boot     54Meg   <--Logical
 
> 2-SCSI Furball 2.1G
>         D:All kinds of stuff                    2100Meg <--Primary
> 1300Meg used
 
> 3-WD 13G EIDE
>         -Free Space-                            2000Meg
>         G:Big_Drive                              10000Meg  <--Logical
> 1500Meg used
 
> I'm looking for suggestions as to how to re-organize the partitions to allow
> installation of other OS's, at least NT, Win98, RH6.0 etc. I've tried
various
> ways, all quite unsatisfactory, so I'm open to suggestions.

What did you try that wasn't satisfactory?

Don't waste your primaries. OS/2 and Linux can boot from logicals. That
frees up your first two primaries for Virus9x and NT.

WIth both IDE and SCSI coexisting in a system, you can turn your IDE
controller on and off in the BIOS and/or also use the BIOS to switch
between boot from SCSI and boot from IDE. The former option alone would
permit no less than four bootable primaries, and as many as eight if you
forego boot manager and logical volumes on the boot devices and instead
use the various FDISKs to change the active primary as required.

Personally, I think it's a heap easier just to use a separate box for
windoze and/or Linux, doing file transfer/sharing with removables or a
network. That way, Virus9x's ill behaviors won't get a chance to screw
up your IBM partition tables.
-- 
A man who lacks judgment derides his neighbor, but a man of
understanding holds his tongue.                Proverbs 11:12 NKJV

 Team OS/2

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

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Partition Information Program
Mar 20 1996 - OS/2 Version

==============================================================
Disk 0:  524 Cylinders, 255 Heads, 63 Sectors/Track.
Disk 0:  4110.4 Megabytes - Fireball SE SCSI
========================= Partition Information ========================
Volume        Partition                        Partition   Start   Total
Letter:Label  Type            Status   Size MB Sector  #  Sector Sectors
------------- --------------- -------- ------- ------- - ------- -------
C:QSE43S P1   FAT16B          Pri        251.0       0 0      63  514017
Bootable DOS
              Free Space      Pri        313.8    None -  514080  642600
              Extended        Pri       2651.4       0 3 1156680 5429970
              EPBR            Log        227.5    None - 1156680  465885
E:QSE43S P3   FAT16B          Log,Boot   227.5 1156680 0 1156743  465822
              Free Space      Log         23.5    None - 1622565   48195
              EPBR            Log        800.1 1156680 1 1670760 1638630
F:QSE43S P4   HPFS            Log,Boot   800.1 1670760 0 1670823 1638567
Bootable OS/2
              EPBR            Log       1541.5 1670760 1 3309390 3157040
G:QSE43S P5   HPFS            Log,Boot  1600.2 3309390 0 3309453 3277197
              Free Space      Pri        792.3    None - 6586650 1622565
*:QSE43S P9   Hidden HPFS     Pri         94.1       0 1 8209215  192780
Bootable OS/2 (maintenance C:)
              Boot Manager    Pri,Boot     7.8       0 2 8401995   16065

==============================================================
Disk 1:  1011 Cylinders, 67 Heads, 62 Sectors/Track.
Disk 1:  2050.6 Megabytes - Fireball SE SCSI
========================= Partition Information ========================
Volume        Partition                        Partition   Start   Total
Letter:Label  Type            Status   Size MB Sector  #  Sector Sectors
------------- --------------- -------- ------- ------- - ------- -------
D:QSE21S3 P1  FAT16B          Pri,Boot   509.1       0 0      62 1042592
              Extended        Pri       1541.5       0 1 1042654 3157040
              EPBR            Log       1541.5    None - 1042654 3157040
H:QSE21S3 P2  HPFS            Log,Boot  1541.5 1042654 0 1042716 3156978

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From: nospam@nospam.com                                 19-Sep-99 12:27:07
  To: All                                               19-Sep-99 18:48:06
Subj: USB and Storage...ORB in particular

From: nospam@nospam.com (Bruce LaZerte)

My scsi chain is getting pretty crowded, so I was thinking of trying a USB 
ORB instead of scsi. Do they work at all?

----------------------
Bruce LaZerte 	
Muskoka,Ontario,Canada
freshwat at muskoka dot com	

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From: engs0011@sable.ox.ac.uk                           19-Sep-99 09:12:01
  To: All                                               19-Sep-99 18:48:07
Subj: Re: "Drives" object - annoying behaviour.

From: engs0011@sable.ox.ac.uk (Ian Johnston)

askbill*AT*ibm.net wrote:

: Seems to me that this behaviour went away in the "main" drives object
: several fix-paks ago. It also seems to have lasted a while longer if one
: used the Warpcenter toolbar icon instead, but htat has also been fixed,
: IRRC.

Thanks. I'm on FP7, and I have noticed that the freqency of occurrence has
reduced of late. 

: In either case - it is not happening any longer on any of my machines, W4
: FP9 is the oldest.

Looks like fixin' time...

Ian

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From: baden@unixg.ubc.ca                                19-Sep-99 15:59:13
  To: All                                               19-Sep-99 18:48:07
Subj: Re: how to create new "Drives" object?

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

In <3Bd8PsIG3uxi-pn2-LZ7IGhvOkQ4v@octek>, domi@kenavo.NOSPAM.fi (Dominique
Pivard) writes:
>I have lost the "Drives" object on one of my OS/2 boxes. Is there a 
>way to bring it back to the desktop? Probably a simple case for REXX 
>gurus but a tough nut for me ;-).
>
>Thanks, Dominique

   For recreating Desktop objects, I use recreate.  I could not
find the file on Hobbes, so I'll include it here:

/* ReCreate.CMD - restore lost desktop objects              */
/* by Greg Czaja - July 29, 1992                            */
/*               - April 9, 1993  ver.2                     */
/*                 handle 2.1-style INI.RC                  */
/* the July 1992 REXXUTIL version is required for 2.0 GA    */
/* (look for REXX20 in Lib 17 in OS2SUPPORT)                */
/* no additional requirements for GA+SP or 2.1              */
Call RxFuncAdd 'SysLoadFuncs', 'RexxUtil', 'SysLoadFuncs'
Call SysLoadFuncs;
SysBootDrive=Filespec('Drive',Value('SYSTEM_INI',,'OS2ENVIRONMENT'));
file_name=SysBootDrive||'\OS2\INI.RC';
Say "The program will list all single standard objects from your desktop"
Say "Reply Y(es) if you want recreate the listed object - E(nd) to end the
program"
Say "N(o) is the default if you press ENTER:"
Do While Lines(file_name) > 0;
line=Linein(file_name);
If line='' Then Iterate;        /* skip blanks   */
Parse Var line '"PM_InstallObject"' line;
If line='' Then Iterate;        /* skip others   */
Parse Var line '"'head'" 'line; /* get header    */
Parse Var line '"'setup'"' .;   /* get setup string */
Parse Var head title';'object';'location';' . ;
Say title "- Yes/No/End ?";
Pull reply ;
If Left(reply,1) ='E' Then Leave;
If Left(reply,1) <> 'Y' Then Iterate;
If SysCreateObject(object,title,location,setup,'Update') = 0
   Then Say 'Error creating:' title;
   Else Say title 'created !';
End;
rc=Stream(file_name,'C','Close');
Return 0        /* enjoy your desktop! */
/*
Did you delete your Command Prompts ? Shredded your Shredder ?
This program restores the standard WPS desktop objects on 2.x.
It will preserve any current settings/objects you may have created and this
is its advantage over the Alt-F1 or MAKEINI method.
You will need the latest REXX fixes (REXX20 available in library 17) to make
it run correctly on 2.0 GA system, no fixes required on GA+SP or 2.1.
*/

baden

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

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From: as@sci.fi                                         19-Sep-99 19:01:03
  To: All                                               19-Sep-99 18:48:07
Subj: Re: 20G disk and only 1G bootable? Any workarounds?

From: Anssi Saari <as@sci.fi>

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

> Anssi Saari (as@sci.fi) wrote:
> 
> : I've been trying to get my new 20G disk to work as a single drive,
> : after Asus surprised me by having released a BIOS update for the
> : venerable old T2P4 motherboard so that it now has > 8G drive
> : support.
> 
> 	Is it set to LBA or Large?  LBA has a 8.4 GB limit...
 
LBA.

-- 
Anssi Saari - as@sci.fi

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From: mjoberl@ibm.net                                   19-Sep-99 17:15:23
  To: All                                               19-Sep-99 18:48:07
Subj: Slow Boot with CD-ROM on IDE.

From: mjoberl@ibm.net

Hello,
I have had this problem since intalling W4 over a W3 installation.  While the
blue Warp 4 logo is displaying, the boot waits approx. 60 seconds with the
disk light on, then proceeds normally.  The disk setup is IDE:
a:0 u:0   WDC 1gb FAT, with OS/2
a:0 u:1   Syquest 3270 with cartridge always inserted
a:1 u:0   IBM 16db disk with UDMA
a:1 u:1   CD-ROM, now a TEAC CD-532EK, formerly a Sony CDU-55E.

The problem is independent of which model CD-ROM is installed, and the
problem was present with the previous motherboard, an FIC PN-2000 and
now with an IWILL XA-100Plus motherboard.  It is also present with both
the IBM1s506 and the DANIS506 drivers, using the /!ATAPI argument has
made no difference.  I suspect there is something in the CD-ROM BASEDEV
or DEVICE level software that I should know about.

I am now at FP6 with the latest newdasd package and DANIS506.

Does anyone have some ideas about this?.

Regards,
Mark
mjoberl@ibm.net

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From: as@sci.fi                                         19-Sep-99 08:51:20
  To: All                                               20-Sep-99 00:54:19
Subj: Re: 20G disk and only 1G bootable? Any workarounds?

From: Anssi Saari <as@sci.fi>

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

> On 18 Sep 1999 23:39:06 +0300, Anssi Saari wrote:
> 
> ->So, is there some way around this ridiculous limitation?
> 
> Check the drive mapping again. The limit is 1024 cylinders containing 255
> heads of 63 sectors (or ~8GB).

Well, no hard drive elf fixed it during the night. ibm1s506.add still
reports 32 heads and 63 sectors, which gives me ~1G to boot from.

-- 
Anssi Saari - as@sci.fi

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From: hunters@thunder.indstate.edu                      19-Sep-99 21:11:04
  To: All                                               20-Sep-99 00:54:19
Subj: Re: USB and Storage...ORB in particular

From: hunters@thunder.indstate.edu

In article <bsV3ehsibPZd-pn2-JXdd1XDdPu4s@ASUSP2333>,
  nospam@nospam.com (Bruce LaZerte) wrote:
> My scsi chain is getting pretty crowded, so I was thinking of trying
> a USB ORB instead of scsi. Do they work at all?

Find a store with a liberal return policy, and find out for us all! :)
Try the new removable media (beta) USB drivers... Also be sure to email
or call Castlewood to let them know you want to use Orb USB under OS/2.

Personally, I'd rather buy the SCSI or ATAPI version since USB is
limited to 12MBits/sec max while SCSI and IDE can do 15MB/sec sust.,
according to Orb specs.

Good luck!

--
-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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  To: All                                               20-Sep-99 03:38:11
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From: nospam@nospam.com                                 20-Sep-99 11:57:21
  To: All                                               20-Sep-99 14:52:05
Subj: Re: USB and Storage...ORB in particular

From: nospam@nospam.com (Bruce LaZerte)

On Sun, 19 Sep 1999 21:11:08, hunters@thunder.indstate.edu wrote:

> Personally, I'd rather buy the SCSI or ATAPI version since USB is
> limited to 12MBits/sec max while SCSI and IDE can do 15MB/sec sust.,
> according to Orb specs.

Hmmm, wasn't aware of that.

Maybe I'll go ATAPI instead. (Now that I think about it, there may be a 
free slave slot on the second channel ... )

Thanks!

----------------------
Bruce LaZerte 	
Muskoka,Ontario,Canada
freshwat at muskoka dot com	

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From: frank.vgn@inter.nl.net                            20-Sep-99 19:32:01
  To: All                                               20-Sep-99 20:06:16
Subj: MO drive no auto spindown

From: frank.vgn@inter.nl.net (ProNews/2 User)

My Fujitsu SCSI MCB3064 MO drive does not spin down automatically 
after about 30 minutes, although I jumpered it to do so.

According to docs sending a START/STOP UNIT command should also stop 
(or start) the spindle motor.

Anybody got a suggestion how to send this command to the drive?

I use a Symbios 8750 controller on a Warp 4 FP8 machine.

Greetings,
           Frank.

Fidonet:  Frank van Groen 2:500/143.10
Internet: frank.vgnNOSPAM@inter.nl.net
To asnwer, remove NOSPAM from my address.

Standard disclaimer: The views of this user are strictly her/his own.

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From: buzzcut@ninehundred.net                           20-Sep-99 07:42:18
  To: All                                               20-Sep-99 21:25:21
Subj: Re: Installed a larger HD, now desktop hangs at boot time

From: buzzcut@ninehundred.net

Just my 2 cents worth....

How far did you get in the boot process?  Past the OS2LOGO?  If not I have
a similar problem.  I can boot from floppy but not from harddisk.  I HAVE
loaded the new support for large drives, but if ibm1s506.add is loaded
from the hard disk nothing happens after.  I am trying to install to a new
8.1GB drive on a Toshiba laptop.  I can install and boot Windoze95 and
linux, which does boot fine from the hard disk after installation.  I
belive that there is still a problem in ibm1s506 with certain
machine/drive combinations.  I have tried all the documented options as
well. 

I have put the 8.1GB hard drive in another machine, used the same install
disks, and successfully booted os2 from the hard disk following the phase
1 of the installation.  It is only in the toshiba that there is a hang on
boot following phase 1 of the install....

Mark


In <37B9B667.CB2@airwire.com>, on 08/17/99 at 07:16 PM,
   Jeff Hildebrand <jeff@airwire.com> said:

>I replaced two smaller HDs (1.2GB and 256MB) with a much larger 4GB
>drive. Here's what I had originally:

>1.2GB:
>	 200MB DR-DOS FAT Primary
>	~300MB OS/2 Warp 4 HPFS Boot Extended
>	~700MB OS/2 data HPFS Extended (remainder of drive)
>256MB:
>	 120MB OS/2 HPFS Extended
>	~136MB FAT Extended

>These were on the same IDE cable (yes, I know the small drive was killing
>performance on the large one). When I switched to the new drive, I copied
>the two boot partitions over verbatim (with
>DriveCopy), or at least, I thought I did. As it turned out, the drive
>geometry was slightly different, and so DC had to do a little work on
>those partitions. As a result of this, the OS/2 boot partition may extend
>a cylinder or two beyond 1024 (I am in LBA mode, so it may not matter,
>but from a CHS perspective, I could have crossed that boundary).

>I copied over the third partition without attempting to resize it, copied
>the FAT partition from the second drive and made it a little larger. The
>OS/2 partition on the second drive was effectively empty.

>Now, I had quite a bit of disk space left over, slightly over 2GB in
>fact, and I created one huge HPFS partition. FDISK didn't complain, nor
>did format. So now I have a drive that looks something like this:

>	 200MB DR-DOS FAT Primary
>	~300MB OS/2 Warp 4 HPFS Boot Extended
>	~700MB OS/2 data HPFS Extended (remainder of drive)
>	~400MB FAT Extended (not sure of this size)
>	~2.4GB? HPFS Extended (again, not sure of the exact size)

>Oh yeah, the system: it's an AMD 486DX2/80, 32MB of RAM, AMI WinBIOS (or
>whatever it was called). Warp 4 is installed, and Fixpak 5.

>Here's the problem: when I boot the system I get a bunch of
>drivers spitting out messages (as I expect), the screen clears, I hear
>the monitor switch modes and the screen is painted gray (still okay).
>After a bit, the original Warp 4 desktop bitmap comes up, and then the
>drive light goes out. And it sits there. The cursor is the clock, the
>WarpCenter isn't there, nor are any of the icons. Nothing in the Startup
>Folder runs. I can reboot with Ctrl-Alt-Del and the system shuts down
>nicely, and rebooting *may* bring the system back.

>However, last night, after several reboots I still  couldn't get the boot
>process to complete. (The wife almost took my head off ask she wanted to
>type up a letter.) I booted from floppies and edited my config.sys and
>removed WARPCENTER from the
>AUTOSTART line (I *think* it's autostart). I rebooted the system and OS/2
>came up just fine. I even started the WarpCenter
>manually and my desktop was pretty much back to normal.

>So it looks like the WarpCenter is the problem, but why? Is
>that last HPFS partition too large? Netscape 2.02 is always
>complaining about a lack of space every time I try to download files to
>that partition. But then why can I start the
>WarpCenter manually? Has an important file been moved above
>the 1024 cyl threshold? That would mean that editing the config didn't
>really solve the problem (unless it was the config.sys itself that has
>partially over the 1024 cyl boundary).

>Has anyone else seen this? Is this a known problem that a
>Fixpak after #5 fixes?

>Thanks.

>Jeff


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--------------------------------------------------------------
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needed until they try to take it." 
                                          --Thomas Jefferson

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From: buzzcut@ninehundred.net                           20-Sep-99 08:07:19
  To: All                                               20-Sep-99 21:25:21
Subj: Re: Installed a larger HD, now desktop hangs at boot time

From: buzzcut@ninehundred.net

Just my 2 cents worth....

How far did you get in the boot process?  Past the OS2LOGO?  If not I have
a similar problem.  I can boot from floppy but not from harddisk.  I HAVE
loaded the new support for large drives, but if ibm1s506.add is loaded
from the hard disk nothing happens after.  I am trying to install to a new
8.1GB drive on a Toshiba laptop.  I can install and boot Windoze95 and
linux, which does boot fine from the hard disk after installation.  I
belive that there is still a problem in ibm1s506 with certain
machine/drive combinations.  I have tried all the documented options as
well. 

I have put the 8.1GB hard drive in another machine, used the same install
disks, and successfully booted os2 from the hard disk following the phase
1 of the installation.  It is only in the toshiba that there is a hang on
boot following phase 1 of the install....

Mark




In <37B9B667.CB2@airwire.com>, on 08/17/99 at 07:16 PM,
   Jeff Hildebrand <jeff@airwire.com> said:

>I replaced two smaller HDs (1.2GB and 256MB) with a much larger 4GB
>drive. Here's what I had originally:

>1.2GB:
>	 200MB DR-DOS FAT Primary
>	~300MB OS/2 Warp 4 HPFS Boot Extended
>	~700MB OS/2 data HPFS Extended (remainder of drive)
>256MB:
>	 120MB OS/2 HPFS Extended
>	~136MB FAT Extended

>These were on the same IDE cable (yes, I know the small drive was killing
>performance on the large one). When I switched to the new drive, I copied
>the two boot partitions over verbatim (with
>DriveCopy), or at least, I thought I did. As it turned out, the drive
>geometry was slightly different, and so DC had to do a little work on
>those partitions. As a result of this, the OS/2 boot partition may extend
>a cylinder or two beyond 1024 (I am in LBA mode, so it may not matter,
>but from a CHS perspective, I could have crossed that boundary).

>I copied over the third partition without attempting to resize it, copied
>the FAT partition from the second drive and made it a little larger. The
>OS/2 partition on the second drive was effectively empty.

>Now, I had quite a bit of disk space left over, slightly over 2GB in
>fact, and I created one huge HPFS partition. FDISK didn't complain, nor
>did format. So now I have a drive that looks something like this:

>	 200MB DR-DOS FAT Primary
>	~300MB OS/2 Warp 4 HPFS Boot Extended
>	~700MB OS/2 data HPFS Extended (remainder of drive)
>	~400MB FAT Extended (not sure of this size)
>	~2.4GB? HPFS Extended (again, not sure of the exact size)

>Oh yeah, the system: it's an AMD 486DX2/80, 32MB of RAM, AMI WinBIOS (or
>whatever it was called). Warp 4 is installed, and Fixpak 5.

>Here's the problem: when I boot the system I get a bunch of
>drivers spitting out messages (as I expect), the screen clears, I hear
>the monitor switch modes and the screen is painted gray (still okay).
>After a bit, the original Warp 4 desktop bitmap comes up, and then the
>drive light goes out. And it sits there. The cursor is the clock, the
>WarpCenter isn't there, nor are any of the icons. Nothing in the Startup
>Folder runs. I can reboot with Ctrl-Alt-Del and the system shuts down
>nicely, and rebooting *may* bring the system back.

>However, last night, after several reboots I still  couldn't get the boot
>process to complete. (The wife almost took my head off ask she wanted to
>type up a letter.) I booted from floppies and edited my config.sys and
>removed WARPCENTER from the
>AUTOSTART line (I *think* it's autostart). I rebooted the system and OS/2
>came up just fine. I even started the WarpCenter
>manually and my desktop was pretty much back to normal.

>So it looks like the WarpCenter is the problem, but why? Is
>that last HPFS partition too large? Netscape 2.02 is always
>complaining about a lack of space every time I try to download files to
>that partition. But then why can I start the
>WarpCenter manually? Has an important file been moved above
>the 1024 cyl threshold? That would mean that editing the config didn't
>really solve the problem (unless it was the config.sys itself that has
>partially over the 1024 cyl boundary).

>Has anyone else seen this? Is this a known problem that a
>Fixpak after #5 fixes?

>Thanks.

>Jeff


-- 
--------------------------------------------------------------
buzzcut@ninehundred.net

"The beauty of the second amendment is that it will not be 
needed until they try to take it." 
                                          --Thomas Jefferson

Protect your rights: www.vetothegovernor.org
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From: lewiscm@wfu.edu                                   20-Sep-99 22:54:00
  To: All                                               21-Sep-99 02:02:04
Subj: Large Drives and OS/2 Warp 4.0

From: lewiscm@wfu.edu (Charles M Lewis)

I have four Ultra-SCSI hard drives (one 6.4 GB, one 8.4, one 4.3 and one 4.5). 
 I also have a
Compaq SCSI controller (it is made by Adaptec and is the equivalent of the
2940U).  I tried
making my 8.4 GB hard dirve my boot device, and tried to install OS/2 Boot
manager that came
with Warp 4.0, but I could not even install it (either at the beginning or the 
end of free
space).  I eventually had to use the 6.4 as my boot  drive and Boot Manager
had no problems.
I have been told that there is an updated installation diskette (or set of
diskettes) for Warp
4.0.  The file name indicated that it was for EIDE drives and not for SCSI. 
Is there a SCSI
version that allows bootmanager to be used with drives > 8.4 GB?  In addition, 
could the
problem stem from a BIOS issue on my "Compaq" SCSI Adaptor card?

TIA.

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From: jdc0014@InfoNET.st-johns.nf.ca                    20-Sep-99 23:24:23
  To: All                                               21-Sep-99 02:02:04
Subj: Re: 20G disk and only 1G bootable? Any workarounds?

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

Anssi Saari (as@sci.fi) wrote:
: jdc0014@InfoNET.st-johns.nf.ca (John Hong) writes:

: > Anssi Saari (as@sci.fi) wrote:
: > 
: > : I've been trying to get my new 20G disk to work as a single drive,
: > : after Asus surprised me by having released a BIOS update for the
: > : venerable old T2P4 motherboard so that it now has > 8G drive
: > : support.
: > 
: > 	Is it set to LBA or Large?  LBA has a 8.4 GB limit...
:  
: LBA.

	Have you tried it with Large then?


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From: djeffrey@uwo.ca                                   20-Sep-99 23:49:27
  To: All                                               21-Sep-99 02:02:04
Subj: TP600E problems

From: David Jeffrey <djeffrey@uwo.ca>

I am installing warp4 on a TP600E with 10Gb drive.
I used the new install disks and the install went OK.
However, the boot up is slow and only one partition is seen.
Using alt/f2 I find that IBM1S506.ADD takes 56 secs to load and
IBMIDECD.FLT takes 5mins 20 secs.
After the boot is finished, only the primary partion is visible.
I used partition magic to create a primary partition in the first 2 Gb
and an HPFS partition in an extended partition just over the 2Gb limit.
A Win 98 primary partition shares the first 2 Gb.

Any ideas?

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From: as@sci.fi                                         21-Sep-99 20:10:03
  To: All                                               21-Sep-99 17:28:13
Subj: Re: 20G disk and only 1G bootable? Any workarounds?

From: Anssi Saari <as@sci.fi>

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

> Anssi Saari (as@sci.fi) wrote:
> : jdc0014@InfoNET.st-johns.nf.ca (John Hong) writes:
> 
> : > Anssi Saari (as@sci.fi) wrote:
> : > 
> : > : I've been trying to get my new 20G disk to work as a single drive,
> : > : after Asus surprised me by having released a BIOS update for the
> : > : venerable old T2P4 motherboard so that it now has > 8G drive
> : > : support.
> : > 
> : > 	Is it set to LBA or Large?  LBA has a 8.4 GB limit...
> :  
> : LBA.
> 
> 	Have you tried it with Large then?

Yes, didn't help. Removing all partitions and letting the BIOS
autodetect the empty drive in LBA mode fixed the problem,
though. Thanks to Melvin Klassen for this gem.

-- 
Anssi Saari - as@sci.fi

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From: as@sci.fi                                         21-Sep-99 20:11:27
  To: All                                               21-Sep-99 17:28:13
Subj: Re: Large Drives and OS/2 Warp 4.0

From: Anssi Saari <as@sci.fi>

lewiscm@wfu.edu (Charles M Lewis) writes:

> In addition, could the problem stem from a BIOS issue on my "Compaq"
> SCSI Adaptor card?

That's exactly what it is. When Boot Manager runs, only stuff that the
BIOS sees is available.

-- 
Anssi Saari - as@sci.fi

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From: yyyc186.illegaltospam@ibm.net                     16-Sep-99 22:22:24
  To: All                                               22-Sep-99 04:29:01
Subj: Re: Backup Software for OS/2

From: yyyc186.illegaltospam@ibm.net

In <zs9B3.123648$5r2.182021@tor-nn1.netcom.ca>, on 09/07/99 
   at 10:43 AM, "Duane Hay" <dhay@tcscan.com> said:

>Up until now, we have been using ArcSolo, a quick and easy product from
>Cheyenne that has long since been discontinued.  I'm wondering what other
>backup software exists for OS/2.

>For any and all help I thank you in advance...

After an indepth test sequence I settled on BackupWiz from PCX.  All the
other products I tested (BA/2, etc.) came up way short on being
relieable...pretty yes, reliable no.

Roland


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From: stinky@ameritech.net                              22-Sep-99 00:55:28
  To: All                                               22-Sep-99 04:29:01
Subj: Re: swapper.dat - hint to improve performance

From: stinky@ameritech.net

Agreed.  The swapper.dat file rarely grows beyond 2.0 MB (according to System
View).  Having 256MB helps a lot;-)

In <37a47e1d@news1.us.ibm.net>, pcguido@ibm.net writes:
>Only half way joking here... The MVS development team long ago
>determined that the only 'good' I/O was the one you do not do!
>
>In that spirit, the best way to handle your swapper.dat file is
>to stuff all the RAM in your system it can hold and/or you can
>afford! With 256 MB RAM in my latest system, my swapfile is at
>0% usage the vast majority of the time... BTW, that 256 MB cost
>a whopping $250 US, not much more than I paid for the optional
>16kb of RAM on my PC1...
>
>
>Guido
>


jdserra at ameritech dot net

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From: letoured@nospam.net                               21-Sep-99 23:14:21
  To: All                                               22-Sep-99 04:29:02
Subj: Re: TP600E problems

From: letoured@nospam.net

My 366mhz 600E takes a good minute boot up. The IBMIDWCD.FLT is a separate
issue. Make sure you have the most current version.

I also found that the machine generally felt faster after FP 11 and DP11
were installed.  -- Unfortunately, it still is not much faster then a
266mhz AMD clone. (So much for Intel CPUs).



>->I am installing warp4 on a TP600E with 10Gb drive.
>->I used the new install disks and the install went OK.
>->However, the boot up is slow and only one partition is seen. ->Using
>alt/f2 I find that IBM1S506.ADD takes 56 secs to load and ->IBMIDECD.FLT
>takes 5mins 20 secs.
>->After the boot is finished, only the primary partion is visible. ->I
>used partition magic to create a primary partition in the first 2 Gb
>->and an HPFS partition in an extended partition just over the 2Gb limit.
>->A Win 98 primary partition shares the first 2 Gb.
>->
>->Any ideas?

>Partition Magic V4 has a stupid bug that creates the extended partition
>on a disk as the MS specific type 0x0F instead of the universally
>acceptable 0x05. OS/2 doesn't understand 0x0F so anything within that
>extended partition is invisible to it. Delete the extended partition and
>all its drives (and data!) and redefine it using OS/2's FDISK and you'll
>be OK. 

>IBMIDECD.FLT taking 5 minutes to load sounds like a separate issue and
>the usual solution is to make sure that you have no "slave only" devices
>attached to IDE controllers containing no master device.


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



_____________
Ed Letourneau <letoured@sover.net>

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From: csaba.raduly@sophos.com                           22-Sep-99 10:08:09
  To: All                                               22-Sep-99 10:37:23
Subj: Re: TP600E problems

From: Csaba Raduly <csaba.raduly@sophos.com>

Trevor Hemsley wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 20 Sep 1999 23:49:54 -0400, David Jeffrey wrote:
> 
> ->I am installing warp4 on a TP600E with 10Gb drive.
[snip]
> 
> Partition Magic V4 has a stupid bug that creates the extended partition on
> a disk as the MS specific type 0x0F instead of the universally acceptable
> 0x05. OS/2 doesn't understand 0x0F so anything within that extended
> partition is invisible to it. Delete the extended partition and all its
> drives (and data!) and redefine it using OS/2's FDISK and you'll be OK.
> 

Or, if you have a Linux boot disk (I've done things like this with
a pair of Slackware disks) , boot Linux and use that fdisk to change the
partition type from 0x0F to 0x05. This way you don't lose your data.

Csaba

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From: ten@rumms.uni-mannheim.de                         22-Sep-99 17:27:16
  To: All                                               23-Sep-99 04:15:25
Subj: Re: MO drive no auto spindown

From: Andreas Grosche <ten@rumms.uni-mannheim.de>

Andreas Grosche <ten@rumms.uni-mannheim.de> wrote:
> Another place to download this file (1997-12-11) from is Leo.org,
> ftp://ftp.leo.org/pub/comp/os/os2/leo/drivers/dasd/dsksl096.zip
  (sorry, forgot to specify this file name in my previous message)

> They also have a similar tool for EIDE (1998-01-12), which is at
> ftp://ftp.leo.org/pub/comp/os/os2/leo/drivers/dasd/powersv.zip
> but according to the documentation it still needs some improvement.

Does anyone know further power-down tools, especially for EIDE ?

Thanks in advance for the info !

Greetinx/2

Andreas Grosche <ten@rumms.uni-mannheim.de>

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From: ten@rumms.uni-mannheim.de                         22-Sep-99 16:59:21
  To: All                                               23-Sep-99 04:15:25
Subj: Re: MO drive no auto spindown

From: Andreas Grosche <ten@rumms.uni-mannheim.de>

Trevor Hemsley <Trevor-Hemsley@dial.pipex.com> wrote:
> ->My Fujitsu SCSI MCB3064 MO drive does not spin down automatically 
> ->after about 30 minutes, although I jumpered it to do so.
> ->According to docs sending a START/STOP UNIT command should also stop 
> ->(or start) the spindle motor.
> Search http://hobbes.nmsu.edu for disk sleep (dsksl196.zip ?). I don't
> know if it'll work with MO drives nor have I ever used it for its intended
> purpose (HD's) so I can't vouch for its reliability personally.

Another place (URL) to download this file (1997-12-11) from is Leo.org,
ftp://ftp.leo.org/pub/comp/os/os2/leo/drivers/dasd/powersv.zip

They also have a similar tool for EIDE (1998-01-12), which is at
ftp://ftp.leo.org/pub/comp/os/os2/leo/drivers/dasd/powersv.zip
but according to the documentation it still needs some improvement.

Does anyone know further power-down tools, especially for EIDE ?

Thanks in advance for the info !

Greetinx/2

Andreas Grosche <ten@rumms.uni-mannheim.de>

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From: jdparker@erols.com                                22-Sep-99 20:13:10
  To: All                                               23-Sep-99 04:15:25
Subj: Re: Installed a larger HD, now desktop hangs at boot time

From: Jim Parker <jdparker@erols.com>

See imbedded comment below

Jim
buzzcut@ninehundred.net wrote:

> Just my 2 cents worth....
>
> How far did you get in the boot process?  Past the OS2LOGO?  If not I have
> a similar problem.  I can boot from floppy but not from harddisk.  I HAVE
> loaded the new support for large drives, but if ibm1s506.add is loaded
> from the hard disk nothing happens after.  I am trying to install to a new
> 8.1GB drive on a Toshiba laptop.  I can install and boot Windoze95 and
> linux, which does boot fine from the hard disk after installation.  I
> belive that there is still a problem in ibm1s506 with certain
> machine/drive combinations.  I have tried all the documented options as
> well.
>
> I have put the 8.1GB hard drive in another machine, used the same install
> disks, and successfully booted os2 from the hard disk following the phase
> 1 of the installation.  It is only in the toshiba that there is a hang on
> boot following phase 1 of the install....
>
> Mark
>
> In <37B9B667.CB2@airwire.com>, on 08/17/99 at 07:16 PM,
>    Jeff Hildebrand <jeff@airwire.com> said:
>
> >I replaced two smaller HDs (1.2GB and 256MB) with a much larger 4GB
> >drive. Here's what I had originally:
>
> >1.2GB:
> >        200MB DR-DOS FAT Primary
> >       ~300MB OS/2 Warp 4 HPFS Boot Extended
> >       ~700MB OS/2 data HPFS Extended (remainder of drive)
> >256MB:
> >        120MB OS/2 HPFS Extended
> >       ~136MB FAT Extended
>
> >These were on the same IDE cable (yes, I know the small drive was killing
> >performance on the large one). When I switched to the new drive, I copied
> >the two boot partitions over verbatim (with
> >DriveCopy), or at least, I thought I did. As it turned out, the drive
> >geometry was slightly different, and so DC had to do a little work on
> >those partitions. As a result of this, the OS/2 boot partition may extend
> >a cylinder or two beyond 1024 (I am in LBA mode, so it may not matter,
> >but from a CHS perspective, I could have crossed that boundary).
>
> >I copied over the third partition without attempting to resize it, copied
> >the FAT partition from the second drive and made it a little larger. The
> >OS/2 partition on the second drive was effectively empty.
>
> >Now, I had quite a bit of disk space left over, slightly over 2GB in
> >fact, and I created one huge HPFS partition. FDISK didn't complain, nor
> >did format. So now I have a drive that looks something like this:
>
> >        200MB DR-DOS FAT Primary
> >       ~300MB OS/2 Warp 4 HPFS Boot Extended
> >       ~700MB OS/2 data HPFS Extended (remainder of drive)
> >       ~400MB FAT Extended (not sure of this size)
> >       ~2.4GB? HPFS Extended (again, not sure of the exact size)
>
> >Oh yeah, the system: it's an AMD 486DX2/80, 32MB of RAM, AMI WinBIOS (or
> >whatever it was called). Warp 4 is installed, and Fixpak 5.
>
> >Here's the problem: when I boot the system I get a bunch of
> >drivers spitting out messages (as I expect), the screen clears, I hear
> >the monitor switch modes and the screen is painted gray (still okay).
> >After a bit, the original Warp 4 desktop bitmap comes up, and then the
> >drive light goes out. And it sits there. The cursor is the clock, the
> >WarpCenter isn't there, nor are any of the icons. Nothing in the Startup
> >Folder runs. I can reboot with Ctrl-Alt-Del and the system shuts down
> >nicely, and rebooting *may* bring the system back.
>
> >However, last night, after several reboots I still  couldn't get the boot
> >process to complete. (The wife almost took my head off ask she wanted to
> >type up a letter.) I booted from floppies and edited my config.sys and
> >removed WARPCENTER from the
> >AUTOSTART line (I *think* it's autostart). I rebooted the system and OS/2
> >came up just fine. I even started the WarpCenter
> >manually and my desktop was pretty much back to normal.
>
> >So it looks like the WarpCenter is the problem, but why? Is
> >that last HPFS partition too large? Netscape 2.02 is always
> >complaining about a lack of space every time I try to download files to
> >that partition.

Perhaps Netscape 2.02 can't handle a number greater than 2G (2 raised to the
31 st power - 1) which is the largest number that can be held in a 32-bit
signed integer. Try allocating some dummy files to get the space available
less than 2G. Later you can delete these files when your partition fills up
more.

> But then why can I start the
> >WarpCenter manually? Has an important file been moved above
> >the 1024 cyl threshold? That would mean that editing the config didn't
> >really solve the problem (unless it was the config.sys itself that has
> >partially over the 1024 cyl boundary).
>
> >Has anyone else seen this? Is this a known problem that a
> >Fixpak after #5 fixes?
>
> >Thanks.
>
> >Jeff
>
> --
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>
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> needed until they try to take it."
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From: Trevor-Hemsley@dial.pipex.com                     22-Sep-99 22:09:12
  To: All                                               23-Sep-99 04:15:26
Subj: Toshiba Libretto PCMCIA floppy disk and USB port

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

I picked up a cheap secondhand Toshiba Libretto 100CT over the weekend.
This is a laptop about the same size as a VHS video cassette with a 7.1"
screen, 32Mb, 2GB HD. It came with Win98 installed. I backed up its
install files and blew away the contents of the HD, installed the HD into
one of my other machines and copied OS/2 onto it then reinstalled it in
the laptop. OS/2 works fine on here. I have drivers for the video card
(Neomagic), PCMCIA sockets (SSPCIC1.SYS), soundcard, the 3Com 3c589
ethernet card and just about everything else that it has.

Now, I'd really like to try to get the floppy drive to work. This is a
special unit that's made by someone called Y-E Data (www.yedata.com.jp I
think) and appears to have drivers for Win9x, and Win NT only. It's
detected by "Plug and Play for PCMCIA" and shows up as an I/O card. It's
not assigned any resources and is not accessible though.

Has anyone found drivers for this beast or for anything similar?

It also has a docking station that contains a USB socket. This reports
itself as

NEC - USB Open Host Controller (Serial Bus - USB)

which is a PCI device from vendor NEC (1033) with Device id 0035. Is this
one that's likely to be supported by the OS/2 USB drivers? I tried loading
the drivers but they immediately unloaded themselves and I don't know if
this is because there's nothing attached or because the chipset isn't
supported.


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



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From: seansmith@racemark.com                            22-Sep-99 15:12:18
  To: All                                               23-Sep-99 04:15:26
Subj: SCSI/IDE combo system problem solved, sort of...

From: "Sean Smith" <seansmith@racemark.com>

Hey all,

    I had posted a plea for help a bit back asking for help getting access
to my SCSI drives.  I did a few things that were suggested and managed to
check a few things.  I booted with a Linux Slackware boot and root disk,
(I'm DEFINITELY installing slack on my machine!  I liked it from even what I
saw just booting and using it's FDISK.)  Well, that reported something about
the drive not ending on a certain range or something.  OK, so I manager to
get a copy of the latest Partition Magic on a boot disk and it tells me what
the problem REALLY was.  The IDE drives are/were the problem.  Not sure why
they're showing errors but basically, the partitions were reported as BAD by
PM with something like a #111 and a #108 error.  PM Showed me that my SCSI
drives were fully intact and all of the partitions in place.  So, I
unplugged the IDE drives and managed to reboot, too bad I already screwed up
my desktop or I would have been all set.  Oh well.  At least I can fully
access the drives and get to all of my data.

    *&% IDE.  I've already managed to trade that 6 Gig IDE for a 4 Gig SCSI,
so I'm happy.  Now if I can only work a deal with the same guy to get that
SCSI DAT tape backup he has...

    Sean



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From: rmcder@nospam.banet.net                           23-Sep-99 11:14:18
  To: All                                               23-Sep-99 20:16:00
Subj: Re: Toshiba Libretto PCMCIA floppy disk and USB port

From: rmcder@nospam.banet.net (Ron McDermott)

On Wed, 22 Sep 1999 21:09:25, "Trevor Hemsley" 
<Trevor-Hemsley@dial.pipex.com> wrote:

> I picked up a cheap secondhand Toshiba Libretto 100CT over the weekend.
> This is a laptop about the same size as a VHS video cassette with a 7.1"
> screen, 32Mb, 2GB HD. It came with Win98 installed. I backed up its
> install files and blew away the contents of the HD, installed the HD into
> one of my other machines and copied OS/2 onto it then reinstalled it in
> the laptop. OS/2 works fine on here. I have drivers for the video card
> (Neomagic), PCMCIA sockets (SSPCIC1.SYS), soundcard, the 3Com 3c589
> ethernet card and just about everything else that it has.
> 
> Now, I'd really like to try to get the floppy drive to work. This is a
> special unit that's made by someone called Y-E Data (www.yedata.com.jp I
> think) and appears to have drivers for Win9x, and Win NT only. It's
> detected by "Plug and Play for PCMCIA" and shows up as an I/O card. It's
> not assigned any resources and is not accessible though.

I'm using a 70CT and haven't tried using OS/2 on it.  Just wanted to 
mention that someone made up Linux drivers for it as well, but I 
haven't seen anything for OS/2 either.  

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From: cocke@ibm.net                                     23-Sep-99 17:01:11
  To: All                                               24-Sep-99 04:26:03
Subj: 20 Gb ATA6 IDE drive and Warp 4?

From: Michael W. Cocke <cocke@ibm.net>

Apologies if this has been covered elsewhere - I just purchased a 20 Gb 
WD EIDE drive and am trying to make it work in Warp 4 (or 4.5, either).

Questions:

Do I need a special controller?  (The ATA6 comment on the box has me a 
bit nervous)

I know I need the updated 'large IDE drivers' from the fixpack site - 
anything else?

Also, I've heard that LBA has a size limitation - should I set this 
drive up as LBA, or perhaps 'LARGE'?

Thanks!

Mike-


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From: bogus.due2UCE@atlantic.net                        23-Sep-99 10:49:18
  To: All                                               24-Sep-99 04:26:03
Subj: Re: preventing freeze with ATAPI ZIP-100 and XCOPY

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

James Owens wrote:
 
> With hard drive C: and internal Zip drive D: as the example:
 
> I've noticed that if I change to drive D: at the prompt and try a big
> XCOPY, my system can freeze. If I change to drive C: at the prompt and
> perform the same XCOPY function, the system doesn't freeze.
 
> I don't yet know if this is just a fluke. . .

What video card & driver? If Tseng ET6x00, you need the July/August 1997
drivers for prompt sessions to work anywhere besides the boot drive.
-- 
A man who lacks judgment derides his neighbor, but a man of
understanding holds his tongue.                Proverbs 11:12 NKJV

 Team OS/2

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


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From: jdc0014@InfoNET.st-johns.nf.ca                    23-Sep-99 23:24:04
  To: All                                               24-Sep-99 04:26:03
Subj: Re: 20 Gb ATA6 IDE drive and Warp 4?

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

Michael W. Cocke (cocke@ibm.net) wrote:

: Also, I've heard that LBA has a size limitation - should I set this 
: drive up as LBA, or perhaps 'LARGE'?

	Set it for Large.  Your motherboard's documentation should have 
had a little description of the different modes, LBA has a 8.4 GB limit.

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From: suprdave@aol.comAolsucks                          24-Sep-99 01:21:16
  To: All                                               24-Sep-99 04:26:04
Subj: IBM 4mm tape backup setup questions

From: suprdave@aol.comAolsucks (SUPRDAVE)

I have an IBM 4G SCSI tape drive installed on my PS/2 server 95. It's set up
ok, but need to know of an affordable backup program that can use it. I have
an
older program that only works with qic80 drives, so that won't work. I also
discovered an an older text-based version of novaback, but it cannot locate
the
drive. Is a driver required in config.sys for the tape drive or will any
modern
backup program locate the tape drive?




D.B. Young.      Team OS/2!
-->this message printed on recycled disk space<--
visit the computers of yesteryear at
http://members.aol.com/suprdave/classiccmp/museum.htm
ICQ #29427634
Delete the obvious (Aolsucks) to reply. 

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From: nate@lcs.mit.edu                                  24-Sep-99 03:18:09
  To: All                                               24-Sep-99 04:26:04
Subj: Support for new 1.3 Gb Fujitsu MO drive??

From: nate@lcs.mit.edu (Nathan Liskov)

I am a fan of MO drives as they provide robust compact storage on 3 
1/2 inch media.  I am using a Fujitsu 640 mb MO drive in my os2 system
via the following lines in my config.sys:

basedev=n512dasd.flt /v           
BASEDEV=OS2DASD.DMD /rf /of       

The new Fujitsu internal 1.3 Gb drive (model MCD3130SS) is now 
available (http:buyfcpa.com).  Does anyone know if this drive will 
work under os/2 with these drivers.

Thanks,

	Nathan Liskov

p.s.  Fujitsu has also announced an external 1.3 gb MO, but with 
firewire (ieee-1394) interface.  Does anyone know the status of 
firewire support under os/2.

nate@lcs.mit.edu   http://nateliskov.ne.mediaone.net

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From: rickdb@mc.net                                     24-Sep-99 07:58:19
  To: All                                               24-Sep-99 10:53:13
Subj: Smartmedia/PCMCIA problem

From: "Rick Blankenbaker" <rickdb@mc.net>

I've installed an SCM Swapbox ISA PCMCIA reader in my Warp 4 FP11 FIC PA-2013
machine to let me read Smartmedia cards (using a PCMCIA adapter).  Everything
appeared to install correctly; both card slots are recognized and a drive
letter is assigned when I use the PCMCIA Plug 'n Play utility in my System
Setup folder.  However, when I try to read the card, I get "Drive is not
formatted correctly".  This card works fine in my Olympus D220L camera--as do
my other cards which return the same error.  Has anyone seen this, and, if
so, how did you resolve it?

Rick Blankenbaker
rick at blankenbaker.net
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From: tick@cs.nyu.edu                                   24-Sep-99 08:27:27
  To: All                                               24-Sep-99 10:53:13
Subj: ultra/2 scsi

From: leo tick <tick@cs.nyu.edu>

Need a little reassurance before I buy. will an ultra/2  disk work on an
ultra
controoller if there is such a thing. Specically I have a  symbios
controller with
ultra wide disks. If I add an ultra/2 wide am I ok
Thanks


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From: zayne@omen.com.au                                 24-Sep-99 14:13:26
  To: All                                               24-Sep-99 13:22:29
Subj: Re: ultra/2 scsi

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

leo tick <tick@cs.nyu.edu> wrote:

>Need a little reassurance before I buy. will an ultra/2  disk work on an
>ultra
>controoller if there is such a thing. Specically I have a  symbios
>controller with
>ultra wide disks. If I add an ultra/2 wide am I ok

Theres a ton of consusion when it comes to U2SCSI.

My understanding is this (based in part upon documents on the Adaptec
page).

U2 is not 'wide'.  It is narrow differential.  16 data lines carrying
8 bits of data differentially.  Its fast because of higher clock rate
on the SCSI bus.

If you have any non U2SCSI devices, be they wide or otherwise on the
U2SCSI bus, the U2 device will drop back to U mode (Ultra narrow) or
narrow Single ended.

So, in answer to your question - the drive must be capable of being
set, or autosetting to Ultra or 'Single ended mode'.  Almost all
drives should do this automatically.

This being the case your U2 drive will act as a narrow USCSI drive on
your UWSCSI bus (20MB / Sec).

Be aware that if you have a U2SCSI controller, a U2 drive and a FSCSI
(narrow SE) say ... tape drive on the same bus, your U2SCSI drive will
drop back to USCSI mode.

Craig

PS - Putting a UW terminator on a U2SCSI chain will make it drop to
USCSI also.  Get a U2SCSI terminator, or an autosensing one at least.


Cheers,
Craig

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From: jhrom@ibm.net                                     24-Sep-99 16:34:14
  To: All                                               24-Sep-99 15:24:08
Subj: Re: IBM 4mm tape backup setup questions

From: jhrom@ibm.net   (Hannes Hromadka)

In <19990923212132.28522.00000691@ng-ca1.aol.com>, suprdave@aol.comAolsucks
(SUPRDAVE) writes:
>I have an IBM 4G SCSI tape drive installed on my PS/2 server 95. It's set up
>ok, but need to know of an affordable backup program that can use it. I have
an
>older program that only works with qic80 drives, so that won't work. I also
>discovered an an older text-based version of novaback, but it cannot locate
the
>drive. Is a driver required in config.sys for the tape drive or will any
modern
>backup program locate the tape drive?

The old text based novaback for OS/2 has an installation programm and should
install 
the necessary scsi tape drivers into your system.

In my 8595 I have an Exabyte 8200SX 8mm tape. In another machine I use a HP
4mm Dat drive.

   Hannes


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From: Trevor-Hemsley@dial.pipex.com                     24-Sep-99 22:04:13
  To: All                                               24-Sep-99 20:01:11
Subj: Re: ultra/2 scsi

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

On Fri, 24 Sep 1999 08:27:54 -0400, leo tick wrote:

->Need a little reassurance before I buy. will an ultra/2  disk work on an
->ultra
->controoller if there is such a thing. Specically I have a  symbios
->controller with
->ultra wide disks. If I add an ultra/2 wide am I ok

Yes.

Most drives autosense UW vs U2W and switch to SE mode instead of Ultra2
giving you a maximum bus throughput of 40MB/sec instead of 80Mb/sec. Some
drives have a jumper to switch them to SE mode.

I'm running 2 x IBM 9LZX U2W drives on a DPT UW RAID controller and they
work perfectly.


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



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