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From: nate@lcs.mit.edu                                  11-Dec-99 04:59:28
  To: All                                               11-Dec-99 03:29:26
Subj: Re: Sound Cards and OS/2 (Creative PCI 128?)

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

I have an AOpen 320 sound card with the CS4614 chipset working under 
OS/2.

	Nate Liskov

On Sat, 4 Dec 1999 18:29:58, sam.vanratt@gmx.net (Sam van Ratt) wrote:

> Are there any Crystal Soundcards under PCI running/known? Preferable with 
> the CS4614/24/30 Chipset? Desperately in search of one!
> Greetings
> Sam

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

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From: steve53_remove_this@earthlink.net                 10-Dec-99 23:37:24
  To: All                                               11-Dec-99 05:07:10
Subj: Re: Re-setting PCMCIA Cardbus after Suspend

From: steve53_remove_this@earthlink.net

In <rfxbxnhccvaravozarg.fmju3y0.pminews@news3.ibm.net>, on 12/10/99 
   at 06:47 PM, "Esko Kauppinen" <esko.kauppinen@ibm.net> said:

>Have you checked the BIOS if there is a option to keep the PCMCIA slot
>powered during hibernation?

>In my Compaq there is and it solved the problem.

Interesting.  How tough is this on the battery?

Steven

--
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Steven Levine <steve53removethis@earthlink.net>  MR2/ICE 2.02 #10183
Warp4/FP11
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From: scalisi@tin.it                                    11-Dec-99 11:59:07
  To: All                                               11-Dec-99 10:16:29
Subj: Re: BootOS2 "disk full" problem

From: scalisi@tin.it

I use the following procedure:

1- format two diskette using a dos program that format 82 tracks. 2- lxlite
the complete (C:\*.*) OS/2 boot partition.
3- start bootos2

If anyone is interested, I can put here the dir list of the two diskettes I
use for transfer files (using LPTOOL) between A WIN98 fat32 partition and the
WARP.

--
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Antonio(Nino) Scalisi           scalisi@tin.it
at 11:59(+0100, relative to GMT) on Saturday, 11 Dec 1999
Using MR/2 ICE v2.01  Reg: #20729.
Under ---> OS/2 WARP 4 rev.9.036 (fixpack 12)
Java ver.  1.1.8  build 19991026
ObjREXX 6.00   TCPIP 4.2 - MPTN 6.2007 (TCPIP 4.1 + W08620)
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From: doug.bissett"at"attglobal.net                     11-Dec-99 16:50:26
  To: All                                               11-Dec-99 14:33:26
Subj: Re: BootOS2 "disk full" problem

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

On Sat, 11 Dec 1999 10:59:14, scalisi@tin.it wrote:

> I use the following procedure:
> 
> 1- format two diskette using a dos program that format 82 tracks. 2- lxlite
> the complete (C:\*.*) OS/2 boot partition.
> 3- start bootos2
> 
> If anyone is interested, I can put here the dir list of the two diskettes I
> use for transfer files (using LPTOOL) between A WIN98 fat32 partition and
the
> WARP.
> 
> --
> -----------------------------------------------------------
> Antonio(Nino) Scalisi           scalisi@tin.it
> at 11:59(+0100, relative to GMT) on Saturday, 11 Dec 1999
> Using MR/2 ICE v2.01  Reg: #20729.
> Under ---> OS/2 WARP 4 rev.9.036 (fixpack 12)
> Java ver.  1.1.8  build 19991026
> ObjREXX 6.00   TCPIP 4.2 - MPTN 6.2007 (TCPIP 4.1 + W08620)
> -----------------------------------------------------------
> 

I would advise caution if you try this approach. 

Many floppy drives CANNOT use 82 tracks (there seems to be a physical 
reason for this on some drives).

If you compress the whole OS/2 boot partition, you do run the risk of 
compressing some program that does not compress properly. You also run
the risk of compressing a program that is already compressed (this is 
not supposed to happen, but the LxLite author does warn about the 
possibility). If either of these things happens (there are other 
possibilities, good, and bad), you could end up with a non functioning
system.

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

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From: pjclarke@bigpond.com                              12-Dec-99 08:35:25
  To: All                                               11-Dec-99 19:49:08
Subj: Test

From: Paul Clarke <pjclarke@bigpond.com>

I inow that there are test areas but I just want to try this



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From: esko.kauppinen@ibm.net                            12-Dec-99 00:32:07
  To: All                                               11-Dec-99 21:20:15
Subj: Re: Re-setting PCMCIA Cardbus after Suspend

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

On Fri, 10 Dec 1999 23:37:49 -0800, steve53_remove_this@earthlink.net wrote:

>In <rfxbxnhccvaravozarg.fmju3y0.pminews@news3.ibm.net>, on 12/10/99 
>   at 06:47 PM, "Esko Kauppinen" <esko.kauppinen@ibm.net> said:
>
>>Have you checked the BIOS if there is a option to keep the PCMCIA slot
>>powered during hibernation?
>
>>In my Compaq there is and it solved the problem.
>
>Interesting.  How tough is this on the battery?

Haven't done any comparisons but it doesn't seem to have a
big, if any, difference.

Esko



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From: stefanj@gte.net                                   12-Dec-99 13:53:24
  To: All                                               12-Dec-99 14:24:13
Subj: Joystick Device Driver Contest.....New Entries!!

From: stefanj@gte.net (Jason Stefanovich)

I have received a new entry from J Da Silva,
An enhanced version of the popular gameport.sys.



MAMERun Joystick Device Driver Contest.

What is it?

Write your own joystick device driver for OS/2 and you could win $290
plus valuable prizes and earn the respect and gratitude of OS/2
gamers around the world! With the many new games available and the
advance of game controllers there arises a need for a better 
joystick device driver than IBM's advanced joystick device driver. 
Support for new controller features, such as 8+ buttons or USB, will
greatly enhance the OS/2 gaming experience for gamers as well as 
developers.

For rules and other information check out:

  http://home1.gte.net/stefanj/contest.htm 

I am looking for additional sponsors for this contest. If you would
like to contribute please go to: 

  http://home1.gte.net/stefanj/sponsor.htm 

Any questions can be sent to me at Stefanj@gte.net

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From: mgreene@exis.net                                  12-Dec-99 13:30:24
  To: All                                               12-Dec-99 16:45:15
Subj: TRAPDUMP to a ZIP100 (SCSI)

From: "Michael K Greene" <mgreene@exis.net>

Ok, I understand the TRAPDUMP process but I can not get the dump to my ZIP100
(SCSI) drive. The command say that it can not find the drive. Something
wrong?

Michael K Greene <mgreene@exis.net>     |      OS/2 Warp / Linux / Win95-311



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From: falko.tesch@bigfoot.com                           13-Dec-99 09:33:27
  To: All                                               13-Dec-99 10:24:20
Subj: Re: Q: FaxWorks mit Faxmodem an Hagenuk PowerDragon

From: Falko Tesch <falko.tesch@bigfoot.com>

Hi,

nur kurz die Lsung fr Euch alle (nachdem ich Euch mit meinem 
Crossposting genervt habe):

Um ein FaxModem an einen Port von der Power/SpeedDragon mu das 
Westernkabel wie folgt verschaltet sein:

Port an Power(Power/SpeedDragon)

 1 2 3 4 5 6
   A     B

Port an FaxModem

 1 2 3 4 5 6
     B A

CU/2
Falko




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From: frank_mckenney@mindspring.com                     13-Dec-99 14:21:22
  To: All                                               13-Dec-99 14:27:00
Subj: Re: TRAPDUMP to a ZIP100 (SCSI)

From: frank_mckenney@mindspring.com (Frank McKenney)

Michael,

You left off a Followup-To:  newsgroup, so I've set it to
comp.os.os2.misc

In <zterrarrkvfarg.fmn4rd0.pminews@news.exis.net>, "Michael K Greene"
<mgreene@exis.net> writes:
>Ok, I understand the TRAPDUMP process but I can not get the dump to my ZIP100
>(SCSI) drive. The command say that it can not find the drive. Something
>wrong?

I assume you've already set up the ZIP cartridge as FAT and given it the
correct name.

Given that this is for a standalone system dump (e.g.  "dump as much as
we can without depending on anything that might have been tromped on and
without disturbing anything"), I'd expect it to be using BIOS Int13h
calls to write the data to disk(ette).

Is your ZIP drive BIOS-addressable?  Or is it only available once OS/2
drivers have been loaded (which the standalone dump code has to assume
_might_ have been mangled)?


Frank McKenney, McKenney Associates
Richmond, Virginia / (804) 320-4887
E-mail: frank_mckenney@mindspring.com

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From: 1979j@usa.net                                     13-Dec-99 13:58:04
  To: All                                               13-Dec-99 14:27:00
Subj: OS/2 1.1

From: Nino <1979j@usa.net>

Hello All,

my name's Nino and I am a student at the 'La Sapienza' university in
Rome.I am preparing a research on the history of PC for my next exam.
OS/2
have a huge importance for the IBM PC compatible platform, I'd like to
quote it largely, but unfortunately I miss what maybe is the most
important
version: OS/2 1.1, the first operating system for PC with a GUI, the
first OS/2 with Presentation Manager.

I would like to write an original article on it and take some
screenshots of OS/2 1.1 with my camera.

If someone please can supply me that version (which is, I suppose, about

4 or 5 5.25 disks) I will be very grateful; I really want my teachers
give OS/2 the importance and the respect that it deserves. Thanks in
advance

I am sorry for any off-topic generated but I really need your help.

Best regards,
Nino Solazzo

P.S. Please, answer me only if you have the 1.1 version. I am not a
collector so I am not interested in any other 1.x versions. Thanks
again.






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From: Thomas.Kneisel@t-online.de                        13-Dec-99 21:59:02
  To: All                                               13-Dec-99 17:04:11
Subj: Re: Xcopy with re-start options

From: Thomas Kneisel <Thomas.Kneisel@t-online.de>


John Poltorak schrieb:

> Has anyone ever come across a utility which is equivalent to XCOPY but
> with option to do a re-start from a point of failure?
>

In a first step you can use the "archive"-attribute to mark all files
which were actually copied by xcopy (option /M). After a failure, "xcopy
/A" should copy only those files which were not copied in the first step.

Thomas Kneisel

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From: danielh@crosslink.net                             13-Dec-99 17:49:22
  To: All                                               13-Dec-99 19:44:00
Subj: Re: Xcopy with re-start options

From: danielh@crosslink.net

>John Poltorak schrieb:

>> Has anyone ever come across a utility which is equivalent to XCOPY but
>> with option to do a re-start from a point of failure?

You can try the CopyDir utility that's part of the DIRTOOLS package
(http://www.srehttp.org/apps/dirtools/ )

CopyDir will copy a directory tree, with several options. One of these options 
is
to "skip" bad files -- thus, one bad file (say, due to a bad sector on a
drive) does
not stop the process. So you can think of it as "automatically" restarting
(that is, errors
don't kill it).


BTW: with some minor provisos, it's free.

 
-----------------------------------------------------------
Daniel Hellerstein
danielh@crosslink.net
http://www.srehttp.org
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From: mgreene@exis.net                                  13-Dec-99 15:21:11
  To: All                                               13-Dec-99 19:44:00
Subj: Re: TRAPDUMP to a ZIP100 (SCSI)

From: "Michael K Greene" <mgreene@exis.net>

On 13 Dec 1999 14:21:44 GMT, Frank McKenney wrote:

>
>Michael,
>
>You left off a Followup-To:  newsgroup, so I've set it to
>comp.os.os2.misc
>
>In <zterrarrkvfarg.fmn4rd0.pminews@news.exis.net>, "Michael K Greene"
<mgreene@exis.net> writes:
>>Ok, I understand the TRAPDUMP process but I can not get the dump to my
ZIP100
>>(SCSI) drive. The command say that it can not find the drive. Something
>>wrong?
>
>I assume you've already set up the ZIP cartridge as FAT and given it the
>correct name.
>
>Given that this is for a standalone system dump (e.g.  "dump as much as
>we can without depending on anything that might have been tromped on and
>without disturbing anything"), I'd expect it to be using BIOS Int13h
>calls to write the data to disk(ette).
>
>Is your ZIP drive BIOS-addressable?  Or is it only available once OS/2
>drivers have been loaded (which the standalone dump code has to assume
>_might_ have been mangled)?

Frank,

The ZIP100 is running off an Adaptec 1505 and depends on the SCSI drivers.

>Frank McKenney, McKenney Associates
>Richmond, Virginia / (804) 320-4887
>E-mail: frank_mckenney@mindspring.com
>

Michael K Greene <mgreene@exis.net>     |      OS/2 Warp / Linux / Win95-311



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From: tbretz@physik.tu-muenchen.de                      14-Dec-99 10:45:07
  To: All                                               14-Dec-99 11:41:17
Subj: Backup

From: Thomas Bretz <tbretz@physik.tu-muenchen.de>

Hello,

does anybody knows how to make a backup of the complete HPFS-Partitions
from which I can restore a fully functional system after a HD crash.

Thx, 
Thomas

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From: pbaker@vivao.net                                  14-Dec-99 10:50:23
  To: All                                               14-Dec-99 11:41:17
Subj: HPFS Reader/Writer for DOS/WIN9x

From: "PB" <pbaker@vivao.net>

I'm looking for an HPFS file system reader/writer to allow me to boot from a
DOS or WIN98 network boot disk, connect to my server with various client
images (all HPFS) and copy either single files/directories or the whole
image onto the client machine. I have found various utilities, including
AMOS 3.20 by Allan Mertner (unfortunately read only), IHPFS 1.28 by Marcus
Better (again, read only) and HPFS Access 1.02 by Andreas Kinzler (this is
read and write but is limited to 16Mb of writing unless registered - I
cannot trace Mr.Kinzler in order to purchase a copy).

Anyone any ideas?

Thanks in anticipation.

Pete Baker.




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From: dmhills@attglobal.net                             14-Dec-99 23:49:07
  To: All                                               14-Dec-99 11:41:17
Subj: Re: Xcopy with re-start options

From: dmhills@attglobal.net (Don Hills)

In article <38555E18.74FE7D9C@t-online.de>,
Thomas Kneisel <Thomas.Kneisel@t-online.de> wrote:
>
>In a first step you can use the "archive"-attribute to mark all files
>which were actually copied by xcopy (option /M). After a failure, "xcopy
>/A" should copy only those files which were not copied in the first step.
You just need XCOPY /M.

1/. ATTRIB +A *.* /S to set all the archive bits in the tree to be copied.
2/. COPY *.* A: /M /S to copy files (in this case, until the floppy is full).
    The Archive bit will be turned off for all successfully copied files.
3/. Insert new floppy and repeat step 2.

--
Don Hills    (dmhills at attglobaldotnet)     Wellington, New Zealand

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From: jpolt@bradnet.legend.co.uk                        14-Dec-99 14:37:06
  To: All                                               14-Dec-99 14:35:14
Subj: ExaByte 8200 & tar

From: jpolt@bradnet.legend.co.uk (John Poltorak)

Has anyone managed to use tar (part of GTAK258) with an ExaByte 8200
tape drive?

--
John

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From: havkrog@post2.tele.dk                             14-Dec-99 14:46:08
  To: All                                               14-Dec-99 14:35:14
Subj: Tool to spot memory leak ?

From: "Jacob Havkrog" <havkrog@post2.tele.dk>

Hi

A PC running OS/2 Warp 3.0 is slowing down after approx 1 week running a
suite of applications.

The swap files grows very big, so I suspect there is a memory leak in one of
the applications. Is there a tool that can tell me how much memory each
running application is using ?

Available on the net ?

Thanks a lot !!!

Jacob


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From: sorry@no_spam.de                                  14-Dec-99 16:35:24
  To: All                                               14-Dec-99 14:35:15
Subj: Re: Tool to spot memory leak ?

From: Martin Heimes <sorry@no_spam.de>

Jacob Havkrog wrote:
> 
> Hi
> 
> A PC running OS/2 Warp 3.0 is slowing down after approx 1 week running a
> suite of applications.
> 
> The swap files grows very big, so I suspect there is a memory leak in one of
> the applications. Is there a tool that can tell me how much memory each
> running application is using ?
> 
> Available on the net ?
> 
> Thanks a lot !!!
> 
> Jacob

http://www.leo.org/pub/comp/os/os2/leo/systools/ look for thes3000.zip
-- 
Martin Heimes
correct this to reply via email
m.heimes at zv-irz dot de

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From: sorry@no_spam.de                                  14-Dec-99 17:03:23
  To: All                                               14-Dec-99 14:35:15
Subj: Re: HPFS Reader/Writer for DOS/WIN9x

From: Martin Heimes <sorry@no_spam.de>

PB wrote:
> 
> I'm looking for an HPFS file system reader/writer to allow me to boot from a
> DOS or WIN98 network boot disk, connect to my server with various client
> images (all HPFS) and copy either single files/directories or the whole
> image onto the client machine. I have found various utilities, including
> AMOS 3.20 by Allan Mertner (unfortunately read only), IHPFS 1.28 by Marcus
> Better (again, read only) and HPFS Access 1.02 by Andreas Kinzler (this is
> read and write but is limited to 16Mb of writing unless registered - I
> cannot trace Mr.Kinzler in order to purchase a copy).
> 
> Anyone any ideas?
> 
> Thanks in anticipation.
> 
> Pete Baker.

dfsee could suite your needs (OS/2 DOS and NT).
its a filesystem browser, but can do a lot more in recovery and copying
partition images even to or from network
http://www.fsys.demon.nl/
-- 
Martin Heimes
correct this to reply via email
m.heimes at zv-irz dot de

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From: sorry@no_spam.de                                  14-Dec-99 20:27:14
  To: All                                               14-Dec-99 19:59:12
Subj: Re: Backup

From: Martin Heimes <sorry@no_spam.de>

Thomas Bretz wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> does anybody knows how to make a backup of the complete HPFS-Partitions
> from which I can restore a fully functional system after a HD crash.
> 
> Thx,
> Thomas

to which medium?

- HPFS-Partition to HPFS-Partition:
  assume C: is Your bootdrive on HD 1, D: is partition on HD 2
  xcopy C:\ D:\ /S /E /T /H /R /V /O
  do this by first booting from diskettes (just to be shure, it works if
booted from C: to the Commandprompt too)
  for the meaning of the switches say help xcopy in the
OS/2-Commandprompt  (OS/2-Fenster)
  You can now mount D: as C: (by physically exchanging) and boot from it

- you can zip it and store away on network drive (not Your boot
partition as You need the network for unzip)

- go to http://www.fsys.demon.nl/ this guy has a good tool called dfsee
(in case You actual need recovery)

- if You own a SCSI streamer look for gtak/gtar

-- 
Martin Heimes
correct this to reply via email
m.heimes at zv-irz dot de

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From: jata@aepiax.net                                   14-Dec-99 20:12:21
  To: All                                               14-Dec-99 19:59:12
Subj: Re: Backup

From: jata@aepiax.net (Julian Thomas)

In <385611AA.4AF6D995@physik.tu-muenchen.de>, on 12/14/99 
   at 10:45 AM, Thomas Bretz <tbretz@physik.tu-muenchen.de> said:

>does anybody knows how to make a backup of the complete HPFS-Partitions
>from which I can restore a fully functional system after a HD crash.

You don't say what you are using for backup - either software or device.

But:

1.  You will need a backup program that includes a command line restore
program, and you will need this on a diskette.

2.  You will need to create boot diskettes that include the drivers for
whatever backup device you are using.

3.  With these in hand, do a backup of a secondary partition(not the boot
partition for the first test).  In fact, make 2.

4.  From diskette, remove everything on the partition you just backed up.

5.  Now test your restore process.

It is good practice to have 2 copies of each of the critical diskettes.

good luck.
 
-- 
 Julian Thomas: jt . epix @ net  http://home.epix.net/~jt
 remove letter a for email (or switch . and @)
 Boardmember of POSSI.org - Phoenix OS/2 Society, Inc  http://www.possi.org
 In the beautiful Finger Lakes Wine Country of New York State!
 -- --
 Madness takes its toll.  Please have exact change.



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From: ptuck@jpeace.freeserve.co.uk                      14-Dec-99 22:51:18
  To: All                                               14-Dec-99 19:59:13
Subj: Re: Xcopy with re-start options

From: "Phil Tuck" <ptuck@jpeace.freeserve.co.uk>

John Poltorak wrote in message <384fb842.0@katana.legend.co.uk>...
>Has anyone ever come across a utility which is equivalent to XCOPY but
>with option to do a re-start from a point of failure?
>
>ie something akin to wget -c -r for ftping.
>
>--
>John
>
>

Hi John, long time no see!

I'll write you one if you can't find anything suitable.  Just let me know
which
operating system (OS/2, Windows NT or both) and give me a spec.

Regards,

Phil Tuck.


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From: crh@physics.purdue.edu                            14-Dec-99 22:42:05
  To: All                                               14-Dec-99 19:59:13
Subj: Re: ExaByte 8200 & tar

From: crh@physics.purdue.edu (Charles Hunter)

jpolt@bradnet.legend.co.uk (John Poltorak) writes:

>Has anyone managed to use tar (part of GTAK258) with an ExaByte 8200
>tape drive?

I've used it fine for a long time on a 8100. I was even able to use
the "recommended" driver, which from my ( probably bad) memory was the ASPI
driver?

I couldn't ever use compression on it though. The archives would be corrupted
when I'd try to restore.


Charles

--
Charles R. Hunter                                        
Computer Systems Engineer        Physics Computer Network
Purdue University                crh@physics.purdue.edu

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From: sorry@no_spam.de                                  15-Dec-99 10:37:05
  To: All                                               15-Dec-99 10:26:21
Subj: Re: HPFS Reader/Writer for DOS/WIN9x

From: Martin Heimes <sorry@no_spam.de>

Dominique Pivard wrote:
> 
> Can you use dfsee to copy a file from an HPFS partition to a FAT
> partition (when in Windoze 9x)?
> 
Should work.

3 dfsee executables are available (DOS OS/2 and NT) all of them
textmode. The DOS or NT will work in Windoze9x DOS box (try).

dfsee is sectorlevel filesystem browser with knowledge of HPFS (pefect)
FAT (16 perfect, 32 I dont know actual status) NTFS (seems to be good, I
dont know actual status).

You can walk thru the pointers of your HPFS part to the file you want
and then use the dfsee command: saveto a: (or any other driveletter of
the os - or dos as dos or windoze is NO os anyway - you use) and the
file (including the complete path information and EA) will be written to
a:
I done it already from HPFS to diskette but I cant remember whats up
with 8.3

get it and read the docs, it has no easy to use type graphical interface
but you can do lot of things even in batchmode.

-- 
Martin Heimes
correct this to reply via email
m.heimes at zv-irz dot de

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From: tbretz@physik.tu-muenchen.de                      15-Dec-99 10:51:29
  To: All                                               15-Dec-99 10:26:21
Subj: Re: Which Backup Software to use?

From: Thomas Bretz <tbretz@physik.tu-muenchen.de>

Hello Brian,

> zip -$ -9 -r -S -v L:\CDRIVE_081299  c:\* >L:\CDRIVE_081299.TXT
> 
> Changing the output drive of course.
> Run it from a CRON at 02.00.
> The 9 is the compression factor if you want to make it quicker(9 is max).

Does this also do a backup of the EAs of emty DIRs (eg Desktop)?

Thomas.

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From: bnc@webone.com.au                                 15-Dec-99 22:37:13
  To: All                                               15-Dec-99 10:26:22
Subj: Re: Which Backup Software to use?

From: bnc@webone.com.au

In <385764BE.F4197EAA@physik.tu-muenchen.de>, Thomas Bretz
<tbretz@physik.tu-muenchen.de> writes:
>Hello Brian,
>
>> zip -$ -9 -r -S -v L:\CDRIVE_081299  c:\* >L:\CDRIVE_081299.TXT
>> 
>> Changing the output drive of course.
>> Run it from a CRON at 02.00.
>> The 9 is the compression factor if you want to make it quicker(9 is max).
>
>Does this also do a backup of the EAs of emty DIRs (eg Desktop)?
>
Thomas,
Hmmm, This machine is currently running, has been for weeks, on a C drive that 
has been
recovered this way. As far as I know it backs up everything as is.

The procedure I followed was
1) run my CDRIVE_BKP.CMD which contains the zip.
2) boot to a backup system/bootos2 if you have it.
3) This is the hard part, FORMAT C: /L
4) Copy my CDRIVE_RST.CMD to C: and run it.
5) Grab a coffee.
6) Reboot when done.

The only error I have seen come up is when you try back up the current swap
file, it doesnt.
Obviously not a problem

Brian 

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From: waugh@wcc.govt.nz                                 15-Dec-99 20:12:09
  To: All                                               15-Dec-99 16:48:08
Subj: Re: ExaByte 8200 & tar

From: "Kevin Waugh" <waugh@wcc.govt.nz>

I have used it on an EXB-8205 and it worked OK
I no longer have the 8205 (4mmDAT now) and cannot remember any details but I
did get it to work.

John Poltorak wrote in message <38565619.0@katana.legend.co.uk>...
>Has anyone managed to use tar (part of GTAK258) with an ExaByte 8200
>tape drive?
>
>--
>John


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From: bnc@webone.com.au                                 15-Dec-99 19:38:15
  To: All                                               15-Dec-99 16:48:08
Subj: Re: Which Backup Software to use?

From: bnc@webone.com.au

In <945241556.211744@muldoon>, "Kevin Waugh" <waugh@wcc.govt.nz> writes:
>Networker from Legato systems will do what you want but it is not cheap!!
>servers for solaris,AIX,HP-UX,Digital UnixSGI IRIX, NT (intel and Allpha):
>plus clients for SunOS, VMS, SCO, Unixware, Netware, Win (95 and 3.1)
>
>Mike Colella wrote in message <82j5fm$pe5$1@news.monmouth.com>...
>>I need to install backup software on one machine running Windows NT Server.
>>The software will need to be able to backup multiple servers on the network
>>that are running both NT and Unix.  Can Verita's Backup Exec do this?  Any
>>suggestions on what software to use?
>>
You could always try

zip -$ -9 -r -S -v L:\CDRIVE_081299  c:\* >L:\CDRIVE_081299.TXT

Changing the output drive of course.
Run it from a CRON at 02.00.
The 9 is the compression factor if you want to make it quicker(9 is max).


To recover run this from the root of the disk you are recovering

unzip L:\CDRIVE.zip

Brian


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From: jpolt@bradnet.legend.co.uk                        15-Dec-99 15:21:24
  To: All                                               15-Dec-99 16:48:09
Subj: Re: Which Backup Software to use?

From: jpolt@bradnet.legend.co.uk (John Poltorak)

>Mike Colella wrote in message <82j5fm$pe5$1@news.monmouth.com>...
>>I need to install backup software on one machine running Windows NT Server.
>>The software will need to be able to backup multiple servers on the network
>>that are running both NT and Unix.  Can Verita's Backup Exec do this?  Any
>>suggestions on what software to use?
>>
>>Thanks,
>>Mike

Maybe you should look at ADSM from IBM. It provides an enterprise-wide
backup solution, with versions available for most OS's you can think of.

It may be a bit OTT for a small outfit though.

--
John

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From: wdlkhl@attglobal.net                              15-Dec-99 14:30:13
  To: All                                               16-Dec-99 00:43:21
Subj: Re: HPFS Reader/Writer for DOS/WIN9x

From: Wm D Loughman <wdlkhl@attglobal.net>

PB wrote:
> 
> I'm looking for an HPFS file system reader/writer to allow me to boot from a
> DOS or WIN98 network boot disk, connect to my server with various client
> images (all HPFS) and copy either single files/directories or the whole
> image onto the client machine. I have found various utilities, including
> AMOS 3.20 by Allan Mertner (unfortunately read only), IHPFS 1.28 by Marcus
> Better (again, read only) and HPFS Access 1.02 by Andreas Kinzler (this is
> read and write but is limited to 16Mb of writing unless registered - I
> cannot trace Mr.Kinzler in order to purchase a copy).

I put a lot of time and effort into finding Kinzler.  Finally managed to
contact him.  Pleaded my case for registration; pay _any_ reasonable
fee.  Was told pretty brusquely that it just wasn't going to happen.

It was this incident which sparked the extensive newsgroup discussions
_re_ 'orphan' programs, and situations like this.  Nothing's come of all
that, I guess.


WD "Bill" Loughman       "The problem with the gene pool: no lifeguard."
Berkeley, California  USA
wdlkhl@attglobal.net

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From: ccsten@usa.net                                    15-Dec-99 14:10:19
  To: All                                               16-Dec-99 02:11:08
Subj: Re: Program to Compare/Verify CD-R?

From: Terry Norton <ccsten@usa.net>

How about PMDMatch?  Compares directories including subs, plus it
can save snapshots as well.


Bob Eager wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 15 Dec 1999 06:22:31, tholenantispam@hawaii.edu (Dave Tholen)
> wrote:
> 
> > Why not use the COMP utility, which is part of the operating system?
> > I verify all my data CD-Rs using COMP before deleting the original
> > data from disk.
> 
> It's what I use....but a pain if there are lots of directories, and
> errors scroll off the screen.

-- 

Terry Norton
Warped with OS/2

    A sign of the '90s:
       Your supervisor doesn't have the ability to do your job.

This OS/2 system uptime is 1 days 19 hours 40 minutes (en).

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From: dd@dandrake.com                                   15-Dec-99 18:29:29
  To: All                                               16-Dec-99 02:11:08
Subj: Re: ExaByte 8200 & tar

From: dd@dandrake.com (Dan Drake)

On Tue, 14 Dec 1999 22:42:10, crh@physics.purdue.edu (Charles Hunter) 
wrote:

> jpolt@bradnet.legend.co.uk (John Poltorak) writes:
> 
> >Has anyone managed to use tar (part of GTAK258) with an ExaByte 8200
> >tape drive?
> 
> I've used it fine for a long time on a 8100. I was even able to use
> the "recommended" driver, which from my ( probably bad) memory was the ASPI
> driver?
>...

Using it regularly on an 8700, and have restored from it many times 
without problem.
Here are the settings in config.sys:

Rem drivers, using Adaptec SCSI
BASEDEV=OS2SCSI.DMD
BASEDEV=AIC7870.ADD
BASEDEV=OS2ASPI.DMD

Rem GTAK
device=g:\gtak\sys\aspitape.sys tape$2 3 S2
set tape=scsi:lb,tape$2

-- 
Dan Drake
dd@dandrake.com
http://www.dandrake.com/index.html

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From: newbury@io.org                                    15-Dec-99 18:49:09
  To: All                                               16-Dec-99 02:11:09
Subj: Re: Re-setting PCMCIA Cardbus after Suspend

From: newbury@io.org (R. G. Newbury)

On Fri, 10 Dec 1999 18:34:40, steve53_remove_this@earthlink.net wrote:

> In <thfgnstevcraoretuhgsv.fmizyj0.pminews@nntp.hut.fi>, on 12/10/99 
>    at 07:56 AM, "Gustaf Gripenberg" <gustaf.gripenberg@hut.fi> said:
> 
> >>HOWEVER, the connection is lost if I hibernate or suspend the system. 
> >>
> >>The only way to re-set the cardbus/realport card seems to be to 
> >>re-boot.
> >>
> 
> >I have had the same problem with a Toshiba and a 3Com card.
> >My solution is to take out the card and put it in again.

This does not work with the Xircom card.

 
> You are out of luck with the Xircom card.  It is point enabled rather than
> Card Services compliant.  Thus Socket Services can't tell the driver that
> it needs to reinitialize.

Interesting. I thought that the Xircom WAS Card Services compliant.. I
have no idea what 'point enabled' means. Can you please explain? When 
you boot (even if a warm boot) SOMETHING tells the card to re-set.... 
sooooo, what is it that happens and how can we do it again...?

> The 3COM card is Card Services compliant, so it can recover.  I've never
> figured out how to get it to recover automatically.  However, to save wear
> and tear on the card, you can cycle power using the PC Card Director
> object menu options.

I have taken out the PC Card Director stuff. It did nothing. I was 
never able to get it to find the Xircom card. I always got a 'slot 
empty'.
Moreover, the Director install wanted to add about 20 device drivers 
to my config.sys.


> Warp4/FP11


All generalities are false, including this one.

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From: kimwaicSpamGoToGarbage@deltanet.com               15-Dec-99 11:51:20
  To: All                                               16-Dec-99 02:11:09
Subj: Re: Program to Compare/Verify CD-R?

From: "Kim Cheung" <kimwaicSpamGoToGarbage@deltanet.com>

On Wed, 15 Dec 1999 14:10:38 -0500, Terry Norton wrote:

>How about PMDMatch?  Compares directories including subs, plus it
>can save snapshots as well.

Ha...it's following the exact same discussions....

No, you don't want to use comp and no you don't want to use ANY of the
directory comparision utility programs.

COMP does a file by file compare.   That part is true.  But each time you run
it, it's a command.com operation.    When you have to walk through 600M of
stuff, it takes FAR FAR too long.

Directory compare is not enough - you still don't know if the files are the
same.

Damn.   That one program I ran into did it perfectly.


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From: hrbaan@xs4all.nl                                  15-Dec-99 20:35:19
  To: All                                               16-Dec-99 02:11:09
Subj: Re: Backup

From: "Hayo Baan" <hrbaan@xs4all.nl>

On Tue, 14 Dec 1999 10:45:14 +0100, Thomas Bretz wrote:

>Hello,
>
>does anybody knows how to make a backup of the complete HPFS-Partitions
>from which I can restore a fully functional system after a HD crash.
>
>Thx, 
>Thomas

Personally I zip the whole thing using "zip -r -S -$" and then burn it onto a 
CDRW.  This allows easy recovery.  I just boot from floppy (bootos2 provides
you 
with only two disk, the (original) installation disks usually work fine
though).
Then (depending on the severity of the crash) you may need to repartition
and/or 
reformat the harddisk.  Then you just unzip the thing and you're ready to run 
again.  I've actually used this procedure a few times now and it works 
flawlesly)

Cheers,
	Hayo

--------------------------------------------------

In the Beginning

It was a nice day.

    -- (Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman, Good Omens)

--------------------------------------------------

Hayo Baan                       (hrbaan@xs4all.nl)


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From: tbretz@physik.tu-muenchen.de                      16-Dec-99 10:40:28
  To: All                                               16-Dec-99 10:28:06
Subj: Re: Backup

From: Thomas Bretz <tbretz@physik.tu-muenchen.de>

Hello,

which version of zip.exe are you using therefor?

Thomas.


Hayo Baan wrote:
> Personally I zip the whole thing using "zip -r -S -$" and then burn it onto
a
> CDRW.  This allows easy recovery.  I just boot from floppy (bootos2 provides 
you
> with only two disk, the (original) installation disks usually work fine
though).
> Then (depending on the severity of the crash) you may need to repartition
and/or
> reformat the harddisk.  Then you just unzip the thing and you're ready to
run
> again.  I've actually used this procedure a few times now and it works
> flawlesly)
> 
> Cheers,
>         Hayo
> 
> --------------------------------------------------
> 
> In the Beginning
> 
> It was a nice day.
> 
>     -- (Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman, Good Omens)
> 
> --------------------------------------------------
> 
> Hayo Baan                       (hrbaan@xs4all.nl)

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From: jpolt@bradnet.legend.co.uk                        16-Dec-99 14:10:05
  To: All                                               16-Dec-99 10:57:20
Subj: Re: MO Disk & HPFS

From: jpolt@bradnet.legend.co.uk (John Poltorak)

In <noynvevozarg.fmt8rm0.pminews@news-s01.ny.us.ibm.net>, "Alex Blair"
<aablair@ibm.net> writes:
>I am trying again to get HPFS support for a Fujitsu Dynamo 640 SE drive with
>the n512dasd.flt file as suggested by others. All is well when using the
>Fujitsu driver (modisk.sys) except that it supports only FAT drives.
>
>I have tried this on 2 systems but cannot get either to function properly.
>The last attempts on both systems show that a removable device is virtualized
>at boot time. However, the device is recognized as an ATAPI CD ROM drive, not
>an MO drive (or is the n512dasd.flt virtualizing the CDROM drive a second
>time?). What might I be doing wrong?
>
>Here are the pertinent config.sys lines from the home office system in
>(relative) order of appearance in the config.sys file :
>
>REM ** Optical Drive **
>rem BASEDEV=OS2ASPI.DMD /SHARE
>BASEDEV=OS2ASPI.DMD /ALL
>
>REM ** For HPFS support on Optical Drives **
>BASEDEV=N512DASD.FLT /v
>
>REM /rf Switch for Removeable Media
>REM BASEDEV=OS2DASD.DMD /rf
>
>REM /of Switch for Optical Media
>BASEDEV=OS2DASD.DMD /of /rf
>REM ** I have tried also the /of swith alone **

Where did you see these switches for OS2DASD.DMD documented?

According to my command reference (WSeB):-

 'This device driver has no parameters'

>REM ** SCSI Card **
>BASEDEV=SIGSCSI.ADD
>BASEDEV=OS2SCSI.DMD
>
>REM ** Fujitsu 3.5" SCSI MO Disk Device Driver (ver 2.1 US) **
>rem DEVICE=\OS2\MODISK.SYS /R1
>
>Any help is greatly appreciated.
>
>Alex Blair
>ablair@ibm.net
>
>
>

There is another basedev - OPTICAL.DMD. See if that offers you anything...

Also, I've had some 128MB disks for many years and some of those used
HPOFS.IFS - HPFS for optical disks. This is no longer supported, but in
desperation might be worth trying. Not sure where you would find it, though...

--
John

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From: bd83h@bedford.waii.com                            16-Dec-99 14:16:17
  To: All                                               16-Dec-99 10:57:20
Subj: Re: Program to Compare/Verify CD-R?

From: Steve Drewell <bd83h@bedford.waii.com>

On Wed, 15 Dec 1999, Kim Cheung wrote:

 No, you don't want to use comp and no you don't want to use ANY of the
 directory comparision utility programs.
 
 COMP does a file by file compare.   That part is true.  But each time you
run
 it, it's a command.com operation.    When you have to walk through 600M of
 stuff, it takes FAR FAR too long.
 
 Directory compare is not enough - you still don't know if the files are the
 same.
 
 Damn.   That one program I ran into did it perfectly.

I have to agree that the GNU diff command (diff -rq dir1 dir2), suggested
by John Poltorak in another reply, is a quick and easy method listing only
the files which are different. Testing the diff command here at work, it's
very fast, but then almost everything is fast on an SGI Origin 2000 :-)

Cheers,
Steve

Western Geophysical, Bedford, UK
Tel: +44 (0) 1234 224404
Fax: +44 (0) 1234 224517



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From: jpolt@bradnet.legend.co.uk                        16-Dec-99 14:28:29
  To: All                                               16-Dec-99 10:57:20
Subj: Re: Program to Compare/Verify CD-R?

From: jpolt@bradnet.legend.co.uk (John Poltorak)

In <991216140439.42520I-100000@bisv3.bedford.waii.com>, Steve Drewell
<bd83h@bedford.waii.com> writes:
>On Wed, 15 Dec 1999, Kim Cheung wrote:
>
>=AF No, you don't want to use comp and no you don't want to use ANY of the
>=AF directory comparision utility programs.
>=AF=20
>=AF COMP does a file by file compare.   That part is true.  But each time y=
>ou run
>=AF it, it's a command.com operation.    When you have to walk through 600M=
> of
>=AF stuff, it takes FAR FAR too long.
>=AF=20
>=AF Directory compare is not enough - you still don't know if the files are=
> the
>=AF same.
>=AF=20
>=AF Damn.   That one program I ran into did it perfectly.
>
>I have to agree that the GNU diff command (diff -rq dir1 dir2), suggested
>by John Poltorak in another reply, is a quick and easy method listing only
>the files which are different. Testing the diff command here at work, it's
>very fast, but then almost everything is fast on an SGI Origin 2000 :-)

Thanks for that vote of confidence :-).

Diff is actually a superb utility although its syntax is a little arcane.

I was trying to find a combination of switches to ignore specific directories
using -x or -X but couldn't stumble across it, so don't know whether such
a feature works.

If anyone finds a way of doing this, please let me know.

>Cheers,
>Steve
>
>Western Geophysical, Bedford, UK
>Tel: +44 (0) 1234 224404
>Fax: +44 (0) 1234 224517
>
>

--
John

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From: bd83h@bedford.waii.com                            16-Dec-99 16:48:14
  To: All                                               16-Dec-99 13:28:01
Subj: Re: Program to Compare/Verify CD-R?

From: Steve Drewell <bd83h@bedford.waii.com>

On 16 Dec 1999, John Poltorak wrote:

 I was trying to find a combination of switches to ignore specific
directories
 using -x or -X but couldn't stumble across it, so don't know whether such
 a feature works.
 
 If anyone finds a way of doing this, please let me know.

When you say "specific directories", do you mean something along the lines
of ignore x:\mydir but don't ignore x:\myapp\mydir?

With the -x option, it looks like you can't specify the path so if you
ask to ingore "mydir" then both x:\mydir and x:\myapp\mydir will be
ignored.

Cheers,
Steve

Western Geophysical, Bedford, UK
Tel: +44 (0) 1234 224404
Fax: +44 (0) 1234 224517


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From: jpolt@bradnet.legend.co.uk                        16-Dec-99 17:39:27
  To: All                                               16-Dec-99 16:52:15
Subj: Re: Program to Compare/Verify CD-R?

From: jpolt@bradnet.legend.co.uk (John Poltorak)

In <991216162128.42520K-100000@bisv3.bedford.waii.com>, Steve Drewell
<bd83h@bedford.waii.com> writes:
>On 16 Dec 1999, John Poltorak wrote:
>
>=AF I was trying to find a combination of switches to ignore specific direc=
>tories
>=AF using -x or -X but couldn't stumble across it, so don't know whether su=
>ch
>=AF a feature works.
>=AF=20
>=AF If anyone finds a way of doing this, please let me know.
>
>When you say "specific directories", do you mean something along the lines
>of ignore x:\mydir but don't ignore x:\myapp\mydir?

I mean a specific directory tree, such as \abc\xyz, so that everything from
xyz
onwards is ignored.

>With the -x option, it looks like you can't specify the path so if you
>ask to ingore "mydir" then both x:\mydir and x:\myapp\mydir will be
>ignored.
>
>Cheers,
>Steve
>
>Western Geophysical, Bedford, UK
>Tel: +44 (0) 1234 224404
>Fax: +44 (0) 1234 224517
>
>

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From: kimwaicSpamGoToGarbage@deltanet.com               16-Dec-99 10:12:12
  To: All                                               16-Dec-99 16:52:16
Subj: Re: Program to Compare/Verify CD-R?

From: "Kim Cheung" <kimwaicSpamGoToGarbage@deltanet.com>

On Thu, 16 Dec 1999 14:16:35 +0000, Steve Drewell wrote:

>I have to agree that the GNU diff command (diff -rq dir1 dir2), suggested
>by John Poltorak in another reply, is a quick and easy method listing only
>the files which are different. Testing the diff command here at work, it's
>very fast, but then almost everything is fast on an SGI Origin 2000 :-)

When it does the "compare", is it doing a byte level compare of the file, or
just the directories?   Notice that we are not interested in whether certain
file is different (from a size, date time stamp point of view) - we're
interested in knowing if the CD-R is an exact replicate of the original.



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From: merlins@ibm.net                                   16-Dec-99 05:03:24
  To: All                                               16-Dec-99 16:52:16
Subj: Re: Program to Compare/Verify CD-R?

From: Meinolf Sondermann <merlins@ibm.net>


Kim Cheung wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 15 Dec 1999 14:10:38 -0500, Terry Norton wrote:
> 
> >How about PMDMatch?  Compares directories including subs, plus it
> >can save snapshots as well.
> 
> Ha...it's following the exact same discussions....
> 
> No, you don't want to use comp and no you don't want to use ANY of the
> directory comparision utility programs.
> 
> COMP does a file by file compare.   That part is true.  But each time you
run
> it, it's a command.com operation.    When you have to walk through 600M of
> stuff, it takes FAR FAR too long.
> 
> Directory compare is not enough - you still don't know if the files are the
> same.
> 
> Damn.   That one program I ran into did it perfectly.

Hello Kim,

I don't know which program you ran in, but about two years ago I had exactly
the same problem of verifying CDRs. I used an MD5 package found on hobbes or
leo to create fingerprints of each file and redirected the output to file.
Did that for both source and CDR. Now I could easyly compare the two
report files. To make it more comfortable in usage, I built some REXX around
it.

Sorry I can't tell more details, as I can't access my archives right now
(MO drive temporarily out of order).

Bye/2
Meinolf

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From: kimwaicSpamGoToGarbage@deltanet.com               16-Dec-99 12:17:21
  To: All                                               16-Dec-99 16:52:16
Subj: Re: Program to Compare/Verify CD-R?

From: "Kim Cheung" <kimwaicSpamGoToGarbage@deltanet.com>

On Thu, 16 Dec 1999 05:03:49 +0100, Meinolf Sondermann wrote:

>Hello Kim,
>
>I don't know which program you ran in, but about two years ago I had exactly
>the same problem of verifying CDRs. I used an MD5 package found on hobbes or
>leo to create fingerprints of each file and redirected the output to file.

That must be IT!!!!   MD5!!!!    I am going to go look....   thanks.




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From: sjaniska@inet.hr                                  16-Dec-99 21:43:22
  To: All                                               16-Dec-99 16:52:16
Subj: Re: MO Disk & HPFS

From: "Sasa Janiska" <sjaniska@inet.hr>

On Wed, 15 Dec 1999 20:42:58 -0500 (EST), Alex Blair wrote:

>I am trying again to get HPFS support for a Fujitsu Dynamo 640 SE drive with
>the n512dasd.flt file as suggested by others. All is well when using the
>Fujitsu driver (modisk.sys) except that it supports only FAT drives.
>

Here is that what works perfectly in my setup (both FAT and HPFS).
...
BASEDEV=XDFLOPPY.FLT
BASEDEV=N512DASD.FLT /v
BASEDEV=OS2DASD.DMD /of /rf
...
BASEDEV=OS2SCSI.DMD
BASEDEV=AHA152X.ADD 
REM (I'm using Fujitsu drive connected to Adaptec 1460 PCMCIA adapter)
...
BASEDEV=PCMCIA.SYS /P
BASEDEV=SS2PCIC2.SYS

>Any help is greatly appreciated.
>
>REM ** SCSI Card **
>BASEDEV=SIGSCSI.ADD
>BASEDEV=OS2SCSI.DMD
Have you tried to change this into 
BASEDEV=OS2SCSI.DMD
BASEDEV=SIGSCSI.ADD ?

I assume you have proper OS2DASD?
SIncerely,
Sasa



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From: wadsack@ibm.net                                   16-Dec-99 11:52:06
  To: All                                               16-Dec-99 16:52:16
Subj: Re: MO Disk & HPFS

From: "Peter Wadsack" <wadsack@ibm.net>

From the readme that came with Sam Detwiler's newDASD2,

"
------------------------------------
Parameters supported by OS2DASD.DMD
------------------------------------

/RF - "treat Removable media as a Fixed disk"
  This parameter will treat removable media as a fixed disk allowing
   it to be formatted as either FAT or HPFS and allowing removable
   disks to be partitioned.  See application notes above for a
   description of drive letter ordering.

/OF - "treat Optical disks as Fixed Disks"
   This parameter will cause all optical drives found to be treated as
   fixed disks. This will allow the media to be formatted as FAT or
   HPFS. Low level formatting of optical media is not supported at
   this time.  Media formatted previously by OPTICAL.SYS or
   OPTICAL.DMD will not be accessible (as described above in IMPORTANT
   NOTES #2). Media must be FDISK'd in order to be usable.

"

AFAIK, these are still true, despite the current 'no parameters' description.


On 16 Dec 1999 14:10:11 GMT, John Poltorak wrote:

:>  >
:>  >REM /rf Switch for Removeable Media
:>  >REM BASEDEV=OS2DASD.DMD /rf
:>  >
:>  >REM /of Switch for Optical Media
:>  >BASEDEV=OS2DASD.DMD /of /rf
:>  >REM ** I have tried also the /of swith alone **
:>  
:>  Where did you see these switches for OS2DASD.DMD documented?
:>  
:>  According to my command reference (WSeB):-
:>  
:>   'This device driver has no parameters'

Peter

*/------------------------------------------------------
Peter Wadsack <wadsack@ibm.net>
Wadsack Management; Madison WI USA
------------------------------------------------------*/


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From: steve53_remove_this@earthlink.net                 16-Dec-99 12:22:10
  To: All                                               16-Dec-99 16:52:16
Subj: Re: Re-setting PCMCIA Cardbus after Suspend

From: steve53_remove_this@earthlink.net

In <m3qfolIL0dod-pn2-G8REdd6QwtUw@localhost>, on 12/15/99 
   at 06:49 PM, newbury@io.org (R. G. Newbury) said:

>Interesting. I thought that the Xircom WAS Card Services compliant.. I
>have no idea what 'point enabled' means. Can you please explain? When 
>you boot (even if a warm boot) SOMETHING tells the card to re-set.... 
>sooooo, what is it that happens and how can we do it again...?

It's not.  I bought one, years ago, on the promise that Resource Manager
support would be available shortly.  It never happened, with all the usual
excuses.  Something does reset the card.  The driver does it.  Point
enabled means the driver takes all responsibility for the card and does
not communicate with Card Services (via Socket Services).  This works fine
on initial boot up, but not so great after a suspend.  The driver does not
know the suspend happened, so I does not reset the card and, at best, the
card will not work until the next reboot.  At worst, the system hangs.

>I have taken out the PC Card Director stuff. It did nothing. I was  never
>able to get it to find the Xircom card. I always got a 'slot  empty'.
>Moreover, the Director install wanted to add about 20 device drivers  to
>my config.sys.

It does plenty.  Just not for you. :)

You can tell many Socket Services drivers to ignore the slot with the
Point Enabled card.  For example, I have used:

  BASEDEV=SS2PCIC1.SYS /IG0=2

This does not work for SSVLSI.SYS because it's too old, I guess.

You can always REM out the drivers that you are not currently using. 
Could come in handy if you ever need the driver and forgot how it was
installed.

Steven

--
-------------------------------------------------------------------
Steven Levine <steve53removethis@earthlink.net>  MR2/ICE 2.02 #10183
Warp4/FP11
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From: jpolt@bradnet.legend.co.uk                        16-Dec-99 21:48:28
  To: All                                               16-Dec-99 19:47:15
Subj: Re: Program to Compare/Verify CD-R?

From: jpolt@bradnet.legend.co.uk (John Poltorak)

In <xvzjnvpfcnztbgbtneontrqrygnargpbz.fmua8p4.pminews@news.pacbell.net>, "Kim
Cheung" <kimwaicSpamGoToGarbage@deltanet.com> writes:
>On Thu, 16 Dec 1999 14:16:35 +0000, Steve Drewell wrote:
>
>>I have to agree that the GNU diff command (diff -rq dir1 dir2), suggested
>>by John Poltorak in another reply, is a quick and easy method listing only
>>the files which are different. Testing the diff command here at work, it's
>>very fast, but then almost everything is fast on an SGI Origin 2000 :-)
>
>When it does the "compare", is it doing a byte level compare of the file, or
>just the directories?   Notice that we are not interested in whether certain
>file is different (from a size, date time stamp point of view) - we're
>interested in knowing if the CD-R is an exact replicate of the original.

Diff has many options and can do either of the above. The -q flag mentioned
is for a quick compare - basically size and date. The default is a binary
comparison.

>
>

--
John

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From: srd@x.mcmail.com                                  17-Dec-99 01:12:22
  To: All                                               17-Dec-99 03:47:21
Subj: Re: Program to Compare/Verify CD-R?

From: Steve Drewell <srd@x.mcmail.com>

On Thu, 16 Dec 1999 at 21:48 GMT, jpolt@bradnet.legend.co.uk (John
Poltorak) wrote:


>>When it does the "compare", is it doing a byte level compare of the
>>file, or just the directories? Notice that we are not interested in
>>whether certain file is different (from a size, date time stamp point of
>>view) - we're interested in knowing if the CD-R is an exact replicate of
>>the original.

>Diff has many options and can do either of the above. The -q flag
>mentioned is for a quick compare - basically size and date. The default
>is a binary comparison.

Actually, when I did a small test, I had two files exactly the same size
and date but the contents were different. When I used the -q option, the
files were shown as being different which indicates that a byte by byte
comparison is done even with the -q option.

Cheers,
Steve
-- 
Steve Drewell             (Remove x. from address to reply)
_____________________________________________________________
Using IBM OS/2 Warp 4 running 26 processes with 136 threads.
Machine uptime is 0 days, 0 hours, 10 mins and 46 secs.
_____________________________________________________________


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From: jpolt@bradnet.legend.co.uk                        17-Dec-99 01:52:09
  To: All                                               17-Dec-99 03:47:22
Subj: Re: Program to Compare/Verify CD-R?

From: jpolt@bradnet.legend.co.uk (John Poltorak)

In <38598f47$1$feq$mr2ice@news.cwcom.net>, Steve Drewell <srd@x.mcmail.com>
writes:
>On Thu, 16 Dec 1999 at 21:48 GMT, jpolt@bradnet.legend.co.uk (John
>Poltorak) wrote:
>
>
>>>When it does the "compare", is it doing a byte level compare of the
>>>file, or just the directories? Notice that we are not interested in
>>>whether certain file is different (from a size, date time stamp point of
>>>view) - we're interested in knowing if the CD-R is an exact replicate of
>>>the original.
>
>>Diff has many options and can do either of the above. The -q flag
>>mentioned is for a quick compare - basically size and date. The default
>>is a binary comparison.
>
>Actually, when I did a small test, I had two files exactly the same size
>and date but the contents were different. When I used the -q option, the
>files were shown as being different which indicates that a byte by byte
>comparison is done even with the -q option.

Oops...

In that case I don't understand the function of the '-q' option...

Maybe it stops after finding the first difference.

>Cheers,
>Steve
>-- 
>Steve Drewell             (Remove x. from address to reply)
>_____________________________________________________________
>Using IBM OS/2 Warp 4 running 26 processes with 136 threads.
>Machine uptime is 0 days, 0 hours, 10 mins and 46 secs.
>_____________________________________________________________
>
>

--
John

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From: jr_fox@earthlink.net                              16-Dec-99 17:57:20
  To: All                                               17-Dec-99 03:47:22
Subj: Re: Tool to spot memory leak ?

From: "J. R. Fox" <jr_fox@earthlink.net>

Jacob Havkrog wrote:

> Hi
>
> A PC running OS/2 Warp 3.0 is slowing down after approx 1 week running a
> suite of applications.
>
> The swap files grows very big, so I suspect there is a memory leak in one of
> the applications. Is there a tool that can tell me how much memory each
> running application is using ?
>
> Available on the net ?
>
> Thanks a lot !!!
>
> Jacob

Not sure about this, but I think the THESEUS utility may have something to do
with finding
memory leaks.  Seem to recall an announcement about a new version of it too.
Whether this
is the right utility, or whether it is intended for W3 or W4 I don't know, but
try a search for it
on Hobbes, LEO, or the OS2 Supersite.

<jfox>



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From: bd83h@bedford.waii.com                            17-Dec-99 11:36:13
  To: All                                               17-Dec-99 10:29:26
Subj: Re: Program to Compare/Verify CD-R?

From: Steve Drewell <bd83h@bedford.waii.com>

On 17 Dec 1999, John Poltorak wrote:

 >Actually, when I did a small test, I had two files exactly the same size
 >and date but the contents were different. When I used the -q option, the
 >files were shown as being different which indicates that a byte by byte
 >comparison is done even with the -q option.
 
 Oops...
 
 In that case I don't understand the function of the '-q' option...
 
 Maybe it stops after finding the first difference.

This is what the "man" says:

     -q       Report only whether the files differ, not the details of the
              differences.

So, here's two examples (2 files, both called "my_file", one in "my_dir"
and one in "my_dir_copy". Both files have the same size and date. One
contains "my_text" whilst the other contains "txet_ym" (due to some
glitch in copying, for example)):

Example 1: diff -r my_dir my_dir_copy

     diff -r my_dir/my_file my_dir_copy/my_file
     1c1
     < my_text
     ---
     > txet_ym

Example 2: diff -rq my_dir my_dir_copy

     Files my_dir/my_file and my_dir_copy/my_file differ


For verifying a backup or any other form of copy, the -q option is ideal
as the report produced is short and sweet. If nothing is reported, then
there are no differences.

Cheers,
Steve

Western Geophysical, Bedford, UK
Tel: +44 (0) 1234 224404
Fax: +44 (0) 1234 224517



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From: kimwaicSpamGoToGarbage@deltanet.com               17-Dec-99 07:26:20
  To: All                                               17-Dec-99 20:07:15
Subj: Re: Program to Compare/Verify CD-R?

From: "Kim Cheung" <kimwaicSpamGoToGarbage@deltanet.com>

On 17 Dec 1999 14:05:22 GMT, doug@hotrocks.msfc.nasa.gov wrote:

>600MB of CD in a couple of minutes.  The diff command used is 

Okay, I can say for sure now XCOMP was the program I used.    It's extremely
fast.


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From: jpolt@bradnet.legend.co.uk                        17-Dec-99 17:03:20
  To: All                                               17-Dec-99 20:07:15
Subj: Re: Program to Compare/Verify CD-R?

From: jpolt@bradnet.legend.co.uk (John Poltorak)

In <xvzjnvpfcnztbgbtneontrqrygnargpbz.fmvx8h2.pminews@news.pacbell.net>, "Kim
Cheung" <kimwaicSpamGoToGarbage@deltanet.com> writes:
>On 17 Dec 1999 14:05:22 GMT, doug@hotrocks.msfc.nasa.gov wrote:
>
>>600MB of CD in a couple of minutes.  The diff command used is 
>
>Okay, I can say for sure now XCOMP was the program I used.    It's extremely
>fast.
>
>

just searched Hobbes for xcomp....

No files found

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From: nospam_timur@tabi.org                             17-Dec-99 17:37:22
  To: All                                               17-Dec-99 20:07:15
Subj: Re: Sound Cards and OS/2 (Creative PCI 128?)

From: Timur Tabi <nospam_timur@tabi.org>

In article <GmI%3.6937$VA6.33549@news-server.bigpond.net.au>,
  "Kerwin" <kerwinlu@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> I saw an article in Taiwan's OS/2 newsgroup as few weeks ago,
> they said that because Creative&Aureal released their driver source
code,
> one company called Theta Band Software decided
> that they are going to write OS/2 drivers for Creative&Aureal's chips.
> But they are not going to release the source code.
> And, if there are any other companies who want to write OS/2 drivers
for
> these chips,
> Thera Band Software will never write the OS/2 drivers again
anymore.....
>
> Does anybody know it's ture or not?

It is, kinda.  TBS said they would look into writing a driver, but time
constraints from other projects would be an issue.  Everything else is
true, though.  Theta Band Software has a "no-compete" business model.
They don't release software that competes with other software.  In the
OS/2 market, releasing a product that competes with another product is
suicide.

--
Remove "nospam_" from my email address when replying
Timur "too sexy for my code" Tabi, timur@tabi.org


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From: hrbaan@xs4all.nl                                  17-Dec-99 19:08:06
  To: All                                               17-Dec-99 20:07:16
Subj: Re: Backup

From: "Hayo Baan" <hrbaan@xs4all.nl>

On Thu, 16 Dec 1999 10:40:56 +0100, Thomas Bretz wrote:

>Hello,
>
>which version of zip.exe are you using therefor?
>

Zip 2.1

>Thomas.
>
>
>Hayo Baan wrote:
>> Personally I zip the whole thing using "zip -r -S -$" and then burn it onto 
a
>> CDRW.  This allows easy recovery.  I just boot from floppy (bootos2
provides 
you
>> with only two disk, the (original) installation disks usually work fine 
though).
>> Then (depending on the severity of the crash) you may need to repartition 
and/or
>> reformat the harddisk.  Then you just unzip the thing and you're ready to
run
>> again.  I've actually used this procedure a few times now and it works
>> flawlesly)
>> 

--------------------------------------------------

In the Beginning

It was a nice day.

    -- (Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman, Good Omens)

--------------------------------------------------

Hayo Baan                       (hrbaan@xs4all.nl)


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From: ewilson@usa.net                                   17-Dec-99 13:28:26
  To: All                                               17-Dec-99 20:07:16
Subj: Re: MO Disk & HPFS

From: work <ewilson@usa.net>

I have been successfully using the Fujitsu 640SE drive for quite some
time on OS/2. The disks are partitioned (1 partition) and formatted for
HPFS. I have a mixture or 128, 230, and 540 disks. All working great and
very reliable. So what you are attempting is very possible!

You need to disable by rem'ing out all OEM drivers for this device.  
Only use the drivers from Sam Detwiler's package NEWDASD2. I think these
drivers have now been incorporated into the fixpacks (Driver fixpacks).
Here are the pertinent statements from my config.sys:

BASEDEV=OS2DASD.DMD /rf /of               (these switches came from
                                           Sam's package) 
rem DEVICE=C:\OS2\BOOT\OPTICAL.DMD /V
BASEDEV=OS2SCSI.DMD
BASEDEV=AHA152X.ADD                       (running on PCMCIA card in
                                           thinkpad)  

 

Alex Blair wrote:
> 
> I am trying again to get HPFS support for a Fujitsu Dynamo 640 SE drive with
> the n512dasd.flt file as suggested by others. All is well when using the
> Fujitsu driver (modisk.sys) except that it supports only FAT drives.
> 
> I have tried this on 2 systems but cannot get either to function properly.
> The last attempts on both systems show that a removable device is
virtualized
> at boot time. However, the device is recognized as an ATAPI CD ROM drive,
not
> an MO drive (or is the n512dasd.flt virtualizing the CDROM drive a second
> time?). What might I be doing wrong?
> 
> Here are the pertinent config.sys lines from the home office system in
> (relative) order of appearance in the config.sys file :
> 
> REM ** Optical Drive **
> rem BASEDEV=OS2ASPI.DMD /SHARE
> BASEDEV=OS2ASPI.DMD /ALL
> 
> REM ** For HPFS support on Optical Drives **
> BASEDEV=N512DASD.FLT /v
> 
> REM /rf Switch for Removeable Media
> REM BASEDEV=OS2DASD.DMD /rf
> 
> REM /of Switch for Optical Media
> BASEDEV=OS2DASD.DMD /of /rf
> REM ** I have tried also the /of swith alone **
> 
> REM ** SCSI Card **
> BASEDEV=SIGSCSI.ADD
> BASEDEV=OS2SCSI.DMD
> 
> REM ** Fujitsu 3.5" SCSI MO Disk Device Driver (ver 2.1 US) **
> rem DEVICE=\OS2\MODISK.SYS /R1
> 
> Any help is greatly appreciated.
> 
> Alex Blair
> ablair@ibm.net

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From: ewilson@usa.net                                   17-Dec-99 13:35:09
  To: All                                               17-Dec-99 20:07:16
Subj: Re: MO Disk & HPFS

From: work <ewilson@usa.net>

Forgot to add. Also in the NEWDASD package were:

BASEDEV=IBMIDECD.FLT
BASEDEV=IBM1S506.ADD


 

work wrote:
> 
> I have been successfully using the Fujitsu 640SE drive for quite some
> time on OS/2. The disks are partitioned (1 partition) and formatted for
> HPFS. I have a mixture or 128, 230, and 540 disks. All working great and
> very reliable. So what you are attempting is very possible!
> 
> You need to disable by rem'ing out all OEM drivers for this device.
> Only use the drivers from Sam Detwiler's package NEWDASD2. I think these
> drivers have now been incorporated into the fixpacks (Driver fixpacks).
> Here are the pertinent statements from my config.sys:
> 
> BASEDEV=OS2DASD.DMD /rf /of               (these switches came from
>                                            Sam's package)
> rem DEVICE=C:\OS2\BOOT\OPTICAL.DMD /V
> BASEDEV=OS2SCSI.DMD
> BASEDEV=AHA152X.ADD                       (running on PCMCIA card in
>                                            thinkpad)
> 
> 
> 
> Alex Blair wrote:
> >
> > I am trying again to get HPFS support for a Fujitsu Dynamo 640 SE drive
with
> > the n512dasd.flt file as suggested by others. All is well when using the
> > Fujitsu driver (modisk.sys) except that it supports only FAT drives.
> >
> > I have tried this on 2 systems but cannot get either to function properly.
> > The last attempts on both systems show that a removable device is
virtualized
> > at boot time. However, the device is recognized as an ATAPI CD ROM drive,
not
> > an MO drive (or is the n512dasd.flt virtualizing the CDROM drive a second
> > time?). What might I be doing wrong?
> >
> > Here are the pertinent config.sys lines from the home office system in
> > (relative) order of appearance in the config.sys file :
> >
> > REM ** Optical Drive **
> > rem BASEDEV=OS2ASPI.DMD /SHARE
> > BASEDEV=OS2ASPI.DMD /ALL
> >
> > REM ** For HPFS support on Optical Drives **
> > BASEDEV=N512DASD.FLT /v
> >
> > REM /rf Switch for Removeable Media
> > REM BASEDEV=OS2DASD.DMD /rf
> >
> > REM /of Switch for Optical Media
> > BASEDEV=OS2DASD.DMD /of /rf
> > REM ** I have tried also the /of swith alone **
> >
> > REM ** SCSI Card **
> > BASEDEV=SIGSCSI.ADD
> > BASEDEV=OS2SCSI.DMD
> >
> > REM ** Fujitsu 3.5" SCSI MO Disk Device Driver (ver 2.1 US) **
> > rem DEVICE=\OS2\MODISK.SYS /R1
> >
> > Any help is greatly appreciated.
> >
> > Alex Blair
> > ablair@ibm.net

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From: as@sci.fi                                         16-Dec-99 20:14:13
  To: All                                               17-Dec-99 20:07:16
Subj: Re: ExaByte 8200 & tar

From: Anssi Saari <as@sci.fi>

jpolt@bradnet.legend.co.uk (John Poltorak) writes:

> Has anyone managed to use tar (part of GTAK258) with an ExaByte 8200
> tape drive?

Yes. Works fine here. Free backup software for a free tape drive :)

However, I thought tar is not part of GTAK? I at least have downloaded
a separate tar package.

-- 
Anssi Saari - as@sci.fi

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From: jpolt@bradnet.legend.co.uk                        17-Dec-99 22:02:08
  To: All                                               17-Dec-99 20:07:16
Subj: Re: ExaByte 8200 & tar

From: jpolt@bradnet.legend.co.uk (John Poltorak)

In <aszovapxbx.fsf@sci.fi>, Anssi Saari <as@sci.fi> writes:
>jpolt@bradnet.legend.co.uk (John Poltorak) writes:
>
>> Has anyone managed to use tar (part of GTAK258) with an ExaByte 8200
>> tape drive?
>
>Yes. Works fine here. Free backup software for a free tape drive :)

It just won't work here... :-(  Maybe it just doesn't like my IBM SCSI
controller,
although PSNS from WSeB works fine, but I would like to be able to share
tapes between OS/2 and AIX.

Some of the 'TAPE' functions work - rew, st, unload. But read and write don't.

>However, I thought tar is not part of GTAK? I at least have downloaded
>a separate tar package.

GTAR contains the tar program, and GTAK has the device drivers for tape
devices.

>
>-- 
>Anssi Saari - as@sci.fi
>

--
John

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