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From: sridhar@cs.scarolina.edu (M. A. Sridhar)
Subject: Re: Adaptec 1542 and me: no joy
Organization: USC  Department of Computer Science
Date: 27 Jan 93 22:21:14 GMT

toy@crd.ge.com (Raymond L. Toy) writes:


>I borrowed an Adaptec 1542B to use in my machine for a while to see
>how things would go.  Sadly, they don't go very well.  

>I made a backup and then reformatted the disk using as suggested in
>the manual.  Restored from backup, and everything was just fine.
>Everything would work just as it used to.  Except when I pound on the
>disk reading and writing files.  Then, BOOM---internal processing error.

>It seems that under heavy disk activity, the whole system is flakey.
>It causes some program to halt with access violations.  When the disk
>activity stops, and I rerun the exact same program, everything goes
>just fine.  Other times the whole thing stops with an internal
>processing error.  Usually trap e at the same location.

>Some specifics:

>	AHA1542B, default settings, except 5MB/sec DMA.  Termination
>		resistors removed.
>	Mylex 386 motherboard
>	Conner internal harddrive, SCSI ID 0, terminated.
>	Archive tape drive, SCSI ID 4, external, terminated.

>	Beta aha154x.add from Adaptec BBS.  12/92 version

>The SP aha154x.add was really flakey.  The beta version was MUCH
>better---at least I can get some stuff done if I'm careful to
>single-task everything :-(.

>Does anyone have any suggestions and/or comments?  Since the 1542 is
>such a popular controller, I have to believe it MUST work better than
>this.  I'm doing something stupid I hope.

>Thanks for your help!

>Ray

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I have never had good success with getting the Adaptec to work. I have
precisely the same symptoms as you describe, and with a similer
environment -- only I have *two* IDE drives on my IDE controller, in
addition to the SCSI drive. And I have a Wangtek tape drive. I have
just about given up on getting the SCSI drive to work under OS/2 for
now; I'm hoping that the 2.1 beta will behave better.

Oh -- I do know this is not a hardware problem. The system works fine
under DOS and Dell Unix.

Sridhar
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From: ASI509@DJUKFA11.BITNET
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: OS/2 Wish List
Date: 25 Jan 93 11:46:31 GMT
 <enk2.83.727847427@po.cwru.edu> <1993Jan24.041403.27929@midway.uchicago.edu>
Organization: Forschungszentrum Juelich

Here's another thing I'd like to see in OS/2. It should be *very* easy to add
and would be quite useful.
Make a the BACKGROUND color of an icon text selectable. As it is now, many
bitmap backgrounds look fine but icon texts are unreadable on these bitmaps.
Take a look at Windows to see how to do it.

Michael Bode
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: brokow@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Mike Brokowski)
Subject: HELP:  Keyboard lockup!
Summary: keyboard locks up randomly (?)
Organization: Northwestern University, Evanston Illinois.
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 02:13:09 GMT

Hello all,

I posted about this before, but, other than a few people telling
me that they have the same problem, I'm still in the dark about
what to do.

The problem is that my keyboard will lock up at seemingly random
times.  That is, I can be typing in EPM one minute, mouse to
another part of the doc, click on it, have the cursor show up,
and bingo: nothing!  I can't type.  The keyboard is dead.  No
Ctrl-Esc or Alt-Esc.  Nada.  Now, everthing else still works:  
The mouse is fine and I can use it to switch windows, move stuff,
lauch applications, and shut down, but the keyboard doesn't come
back and if I launch a text mode app I'm dead.
 
I didn't mean to imply that EPM is the only app that starts this.
It seems to happen any time, though I don't recall it happening
*while* I'm typing or in a non-mouse-driven application.  Any
Win-OS/2 session is pretty much the worst offender - nearly 
instant lockup.

Here is my setup:

	OS/2 2.0 (GA+SP) level XR06055 (graphics engine XR02010)
	no-name (OPTimum 386WB motherboard) AMD386-40MHz, (+math)
	20MB RAM, 
	1MB ET4000 video (running 1024x768x8bit desktop),
	two (physical) ESDI hard drives.
	Logitech MouseMan Bus mouse (IRQ5)
	COM1 (9600 bps modem) (IRQ4)
	COM2 (IRQ3) and COM3 (IRQ9) unused
	LPT1 (IRQ7) (printer)

I'm really stuck here.  I can't reliably do much of anything 
while this persists.  Could this be a problem with the mouse?
I have it installed as a Bus Style Mouse and I'm using whatever
drivers OS/2 put in the CONFIG.SYS (MOUSE.SYS, VMOUSE.SYS, and
POINTDD.SYS I assume).  

/* Also, I've installed the SIO.SYS/VSIO.SYS drivers hoping to
speed up TE/2's performance (I still get ~930cps though :-< ). 
Originally, under GA alone, I was having this same trouble
which I thought was caused by PMTerm so I switched to TE/2.
That seemed (I wish I had written exactly what I did) to work.
Since then, I reinstalled GA+SP on different hard drives.
Naturally, I suspected the V/SIO drivers here but I don't have
to use the modem at all to cause a lockup and switching back
to V/COM.SYS doesn't help either.  AARGH! */

  Desparately,
 
  - Mike Brokowski
From: dab6@po.CWRU.Edu (Douglas A. Bell)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Another weird 2.1b `feature'
Date: 26 Jan 93 14:45:30 GMT
Article-I.D.: usenet.1k3iqaINNpv9
Reply-To: dab6@po.CWRU.Edu (Douglas A. Bell)
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
NNTP-Posting-Host: thor.ins.cwru.edu


In a previous article, chall@geo.lsa.umich.edu (Chris Hall) says:

>Anyone with a trident 8900C seen this with 2.1 beta? When I
>print from winos2 (standard, enh, full screen whatever) I lose
>video sync for about 2 or 3 seconds when the spooler is finished.
>Screen comes back on its own. This happens both with 256 and 16
>colours. Did not happen with GA+SP. Weird. Print output is OK
>and system returns to normal. Any suggestions anyone?


I have seen a similar thing happen.  I was playing a shareware windows game
and the screen lost sync.  Moving the mouse brought the sync back, but 
whenever I scrolled a text box after that, static would appear on the screen.
Shutting down os/2 fixed this.

8 meg at clone with trident drivers, tcpip, netware requester running 2.1b
with 800x600x256 trident video.
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From: surshkmr@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Suresh V. Kumar)
Subject: Custom Icons
Originator: news@nimaster
Keywords: OS/
  I could not find the answer to this in the FAQ, so here goes;
Organization: Princeton University
Distribution: usa
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 16:31:29 GMT

       I have a number of custom icons for objects in the WPS, 
such as the OS/2 Window, etc. However, the icons for thse objects
revert back to the default ones when I minimize them to the viewer.
Also, they do not show up on the top left corner when the program
is running, but do show up on the settings notebook.

      What is going on? Is there any way to have the icons show up
in all hte places they are supposed to?

      E-mail please.

Suresh Kumar
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From: mortenk@dhhalden.no (MORTEN KNUDSEN)
Subject: Re: 2.1b bug and editorial comment on killing processes
Organization: Ostfold College
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 11:07:42 GMT

In article <1993Jan20.132853.4007@midway.uchicago.edu> pynq@quads.uchicago.edu (Jeremy Mathers) writes:
>
>Just as an aside, I'd like to say that I have *never* _had_ to reset OS/2.
>I have a couple of times, but it has then been shown that it was
>unnecessary.
>
>Patience is a virtue.  In particular, when those windows seem to be hung
>and can't be killed, just wait a few minutes.  Eventually, they do go
>away.
>
Well, I'd say you are luchy. I've tried waiting for half an hour when 
WPS has hung, and it still didn't go away. 
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From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
Subject: Re: MMPM/2 and PC speaker
Reply-To: sip1@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 23:11:36 GMT

In article <1993Jan21.201216.21162@njitgw.njit.edu> dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap) writes:
>There exists the DosBeep() function for simple beeping type sounds.  You
>can get a useable range of sounds with that (ask any Turbo Pascal 3.x
>programmer!).  As for digitized sound, the timings involved are too
>critical for any multitasker to handle properly.

You didn't mean that, did you?  :-)

To clarify, MMPM/2 is one darn good platform for multimedia.  It does
work beautifully while all kinds of background tasks are taking place.

>Just in case you don't have documentation, this call is simple:
>DosBeep(note, duration);
>Where note is the frequency in Hz, and duration is the length of the
>note in milliseconds.  So
>	DosBeep( 500,100); 
>	DosBeep(1000,300);
>makes a nice little "ta-da!" type sound effect.  Etc.

This call is available almost identically through REXX, by the way.

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From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
Subject: Re: MMPM/2 and PC speaker
Reply-To: sip1@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 22:23:43 GMT

In article <1993Jan22.190619.16600@wam.umd.edu> adhir@wam.umd.edu (Al Dhir) writes:
>>No go -- that will not function in Win-OS/2.  The speaker driver
>>requires total control of the machine.
>Uuh...I guess I was dreaming then, when I used to use it with the old 
>WinOS2 3.1 beta.  :) .  Actually, Tim, the PC Speaker driver works very
>nicely under WinOS/2.  Go ahead and install it.

As always, your mileage may vary.

It doesn't work on my system.  Sorry.

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From: aaa@hpuerca.atl.hp.com (Simon Fowler)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: New IBM1S506.ADD Problems???
Date: 27 Jan 93 19:48:38 GMT
Article-I.D.: hpuerca.C1J313.DC3
Distribution: na
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Company, Atlanta GA

In article <NPROSS.93Jan27010514@cantor.waterloo.edu>, npross@cantor.waterloo.edu (Norm Ross) writes:
> I recently installed the new IBM1S506.ADD 12-19-92.  I was happy that I could
> now see the remainder of my 630Mb ESDI Drive (>1024 cyl) but I now seem to
> be having some problems that I have never experienced.
> 
> 1) I am now experiencing TOTAL (I mean total) lock-up of OS/2 periodically
>    and they seem to be disk related. (Once after a cold boot I decided to 
>    reformat a DOS partition and before it started OS/2 locked up)

There is a later version (01-11-93). This fixes some other problems (I couldn't
get the 2.1 beta to run without this).

simon
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From: Edward.Holzwarth@launchpad.unc.edu (edward holzwarth)
Subject: Going back to 16 colors?
Organization: University of North Carolina Extended Bulletin Board Service
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 04:06:03 GMT

	I am currently using the 1024x768x256 TSENG SVGA drivers... They
are incredibly slow; is there an easy way to go back to 1024x768x16?  I
tried running the dspinst program, but it doesnt give me any options of
any 16 color video modes..   Any help would be appreciated..

Ed Holzwarth

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From: jcalvert@scorpio.ic.cmc.ca (John Calvert)
Subject: Re: Is hobbes logged on archie? (was Re: Problems with SIO_034)
Organization: Canadian Microelectronics Corporation
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 23:24:35 GMT

>>of this wonderful driver is listed with archie rutgers. I wonder if 
>>hobbes is being properly logged by archie sites.

I'd like to thank the readers for their kind responses. However, my
real question was, and still is, "Is hobbes being logged by archie?"

I didn't get any archie listings for files that I know are on hobbes.
From: hatton@socrates.ucsf.edu (Tom Hatton)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Is OS/2 a dead end?
Keywords: So quoth Bill Gates
Date: 23 Jan 93 02:14:51 GMT
Organization: UCSF Computer Graphics Lab

djg2@crux3.cit.cornell.edu (David J. Greenberger) writes:
>tcscs!zeta@src.honeywell.com (Gregory Youngblood) writes:
>>or so.  With OS/2, when it reboots, particularly after a crash or unexpected
>>shutdown, it takes upwards of 5 to 30 minutes depending on your hard drive
>>size and configuration.  One time of that happening and your average computer
>>user is going to be disoriented.

>Upwards of 5 to 30 minutes?!  How much RAM do you have?  I have 16 MB on a
>486/33, and it *never* takes more than one or two minutes for OS/2 to boot up.

It takes little time for an ordinary boot, but if you read his post, you'll
note he's talking about "after a crash or unexpected shutdown" and he's
absolutely right: if you have a crash, requiring a reset or cold boot, then
the system will see that on boot, and examine the disk with chkdsk (don't
remember what level, but I'll assume f3). 
 
If you have a BFD (big disk) then the chkdsk is going to take a long time
to go thoroughly through the partition(s). 
 
I disagree that it would "disorient" someone; alarm, potentially, and
annoy, certainly. But it does tell you what it's up to while it goes at it,
so I don't see anyone getting too confused. And it's nice to know that the
file system is intact before getting the system going. Just painful waiting
for that assurance.
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From: sagan@netcom.com (Mike May)
Subject: NEC P2200 Driver Needed.
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL8]
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 09:39:12 GMT


  I'm looking for a driver that will work my NEC Pinwriter 2200 printer.
I've tried the basic drivers: Epson 24pin, Epson LQ500, IBM Proprinter,
to no avail, and have look in Hobbes with out any success.  Do any 
net.people know which driver will work with this printer?  TIA.
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From: mig@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Meir I Green)
Subject: Re: converting GIF ---===> BMP
Reply-To: mig@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Meir I Green)
Organization: Columbia University, New York
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 20:52:17 GMT

No, IMSHOW does not work right....
2.1b
IMSHOW looks like someone scribbled with crayon in all the wrong colors.
Also, after exiting, the desktop colors don't switch back to the original!

In article <1993Jan28.164029.22888@midway.uchicago.edu> sip1@midway.uchicago.edu writes:
>In article <Xk32XB1w165w@ersys.edmonton.ab.ca> pcadoret@ersys.edmonton.ab.ca (Peter Cadoret) writes:
>>` >What I'm trying to do is make a BMP for the background of OS/2.
>>` >Does anyone have any suggestions?
>>` >If so, my E-Mail address is "Nsorathia@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu"
>>` Ditto.  Where does one pick up a program that does such a conversion? 
>>        Try WinJPEG..... it's slow, but it's the only one I've found
>>that converts the colours correctly........And I have yet to find a OS/2 
>>.GIF viewer which displays pictures correctly with my 256 colour 
>>drivers....The background screen displays them fine, so it ain't a 
>>problem with the drivers......Anyone have a suggestion?
>
>Does IMShow work for you?
>
>Stay tuned, though -- there's a terrific new GIF viewer now in beta
>testing.  Multithreaded, even.
>
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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: jlloyd@adapcal.UUCP (John Lloyd)
Subject: Re: CorelSCSI ...Help!
Organization: Adaptec Inc., California
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 16:57:00 GMT

In article <1jo5i1INNdjm@geraldo.cc.utexas.edu> futeh@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Futeh Kao) writes:
>I bought the CorelSCSI drivers. Obviously, I can't use the ASPILS_O.SYS
>ASPI manager since I have a AHA1742 card. I have the following lines
>	BASEDEV=AHA174X.ADD
>	BASEDEV=OS2ASPI.DMD
>	DEVICE=C:/CORELDRV/OS2/SMR_ASP.SYS
>
>Well, when I booted up my system, it whined about no ASPI manager
>(what about the os2aspi.dmd?) and the smr_asp.sys is not installed.
>After that I can't use any of the utilities because they all complained
>about no ASPI. The documnetation is so "undocumented" that I'm left
>clueless.  Can anyone help?
>Help Mr. Sipple
>
>Send reply to futeh@crocodile.cm.utexas.edu
>

What targets are attached to the 1742? If they are all SCSI type 0
(DASD) then OS2DASD.DMD will allocate all of them. OS2ASPI won't see any
targets and will uninstall. You need to use command line switches (VERY
CAREFULLY) to prevent OS2DASD from allocating the target you want to
access via ASPI.

For example (a MO drive at target 3)
BASEDEV=AHA174X.ADD /A:0 /!DM:3

Be careful not to deallocate the BOOT drive or the system will not boot!

jlloyd@adapcal.com
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: mdtaylor@utdallas.edu (Michael Taylor)
Subject: Emx/info and Emacs problems
Reply-To: $USER@utdallas.edu
Organization: The University of Texas at Dallas, ACC
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 18:18:51 GMT

Does anyone have info working from any directory that came with emx-0.8f?
It only works for me in the /emx/info directory, even though I've added
/emx/info to my path abd set the infopath in config.sys.  I get a can't
find top node in info directory unless I am in /emx/info.

I am also having problems with emacs.  C-z gives me a the command prompt,
but exit doesn't close the window.  It puts me back in emacs.

Thanks in advance.

Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: jcmorris@mwunix.mitre.org (Joe Morris)
Subject: Re: HELP! OS/2 no-go after board upgrade
Organization: The MITRE Corporation
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 16:32:22 GMT

rm113@cus.cam.ac.uk (R. Moss-Eccardt) writes:

>In article <1993Jan26.170130.25555@midway.uchicago.edu> sip1@midway.uchicago.edu writes:

>>It's in the FAQ List (of course).  :-)  "TRAP 0002" means bad RAM --
>>the RAM is probably too slow for your system.  Increase the wait
>>states in the setup, precharge cycles, etc., and see if that clears up
>>the problem.

>To be rather pedantic, it doesn't just mean 'bad RAM'.  We get TRAP 0002s
>on PS/2 70-121s because they have a slightly older processor module.  IBM
>have an Engineering Change available for such machines.  

Can you tell us how to identify the 70-121 units which are in need of the
EC?  I'm running an evaluation of OS/2 using a -121, although most of its
use is under DOS (via dual boot).  I haven't run into a 0002 and would
prefer to avoid it if possible.

(I don't even know the vintage of the motherboard.  The box got a new
(or more properly, refurbished) system board a few years ago after
the onboard async adapter died.)

Joe Morris
From: lmp8913@zeus.tamu.edu (PRESTON, LISA M)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: PSPM2 under 2.1 Beta
Date: 24 Jan 1993 11:36 CST
Organization: Texas A&M University, Academic Computing Services
Distribution: world
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News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    


Hi Folks!
	Under the 2.1 Beta, PSPM reports any running DOS Programs 
with the name "-zombie-".
	
	Also, I tried killing off pmshell and my screen resolution
changed from 1024x768 to 640x480!  I haven't yet been able to reproduce
it -I think it must involve previously running CSHOW in a DOS full-screen.
It was back to normal after reboot.

LISA
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: rgundech@cayley.uwaterloo.ca ()
Subject: OS/2 and the Gravis Ultrasound
Organization: University of Waterloo
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 02:21:39 GMT

I am considering purchasing a Gravis Ultrasound sound card, but would like to
get one major compatibility issue straight before I go ahead. I realize that
there probably aren't any OS/2 drivers for this card out yet, but will the
OS/2 SoundBlaster driver work for this card (the Ultrasound is SoundBlaster
compatible). If not, does anyone know of any plans for an OS/2 driver for the
card ?



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From: kanet@fraser.sfu.ca (Kane Tan)
Subject: SIO_034 and OS2SPEED
Summary: What?
Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 04:19:45 GMT

I've heard about these two programs and about how they
are supposed to optimize DOS comm programs (or at least
that's what I got the gist of). What exactly are these
two programs and where can I get them? Are there any others
I should consider? BTW, I'm using telemate 4.0 and it's 
giving me buggy performance when I'm in the WPS and it's
in a window. I seem to be getting my data streams interrupted.
Characters go missing and downloading becomes unbearable.

Input please :)

K.
From: dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Why am I getting a startup.cmd window?
Date: 22 Jan 93 20:41:30 GMT
Organization: New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, N.J.

In article <93021.122713DGRAHAM@HARPERVM.BITNET> DGRAHAM@HARPERVM.BITNET writes:
>When I enter OS/2 upon starting the computer the first thing that pops up
>is a window titled startup.cmd. OS/2 is obviously running startup.cmd and
>opening a window for it, and I have no idea why. I have the clock in the
>startup.cmd folder so that the clock comes up all the time, but when I close
>this new window the clock doesn't show up. Any way to get OS/2 to just run
>the applications that are in the startup.cmd folder like it use to for me
>instaed of having this window open? I am not sure what I did to change it to
>make this happen, but something did.

You have a startup.cmd file in the root directory of your boot drive.
The system will run this as an ordinary command file.  If you want to
eliminate it, erase the file.  If you want the window to go away when
it's done, place an "exit" statement at the bottom of the file.  You
imply in your document that you've a directory called startup.cmd - I
don't know what this will do.  I'd rename it if I were you.  The
normal startup folder that the system uses is a bit more than just a
folder, so you can't just replace it with one.

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