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From: orville%weyrich@uunet.uu.net (Orville R. Weyrich)
Subject: Re: SCSI HD and CD-ROM problem with Adaptec 1542B
Reply-To: uunet.uu.net!weyrich!orville
Organization: Weyrich Computer Consulting
Distribution: na
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 93 17:05:20 GMT

In article <1993Jan4.061147.17279@tron.bwi.wec.com> tiffany@tron.bwi.wec.com (Robert Tiffany) writes:
>Is anyone running 2 SCSI devices with an adaptec 1542B ?
>I'm trying to get an IBM 3510 <Toshiba> CD-ROM drive to co-exist
>with a MAXTOR 7120 SCSI HD, and I'm having NO luck.  I can get
>either of the devices to work, but not both.  The device with the SCSI
>ID closest to 0 wins.

If you boot DOS and use debug to g=dc00:6 you should be in the Adaptec
ROM BIOS. It should identify all devices properly and tell you what their
id's are [at least it does for my Maxtor drive and NEC CD-ROM].

Make sure that works before fooling with OS/2 drivers.

>
>The card has default jumper settings, except: floppy disabled, and bios
>disabled (I boot from an IDE drive).

Oh. Maybe above advice won't work for you.

>
>FILES:
>10-16-92   2:57a     36708           0  CDFS.IFS
>10-16-92   2:46a      6320           0  OS2ASPI.DMD
>10-16-92   2:41a     32978           0  OS2DASD.DMD
>10-16-92   2:44a     10844           0  OS2SCSI.DMD
> 3-30-92  12:00p     21556           0  CDROM.SYS
> 8-13-92   2:56p     16150           0  AHA154X.ADD

Are these the newest drivers (from os2cdrom.zip on Hobbes)?

>with the CD-ROM at 2 or 4, the HD at cd-rom id +1 (ie: 3 or 5),
>and the following in the config.sys:

Is there a reason why you don't make your Maxtor id 0?


>Can someone please email me some info telling me how to get both devices to
>work, and I'll post a summary of what I get.

Sorry, my e-mail is broken right now :-(.

orville

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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: stevem@newsbase.cs.yale.edu (Steve Morytko)
Subject: Occasional problem
Organization: University of Connecticut Computing Center
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 22:51:56 GMT

I am occasionally having a "window" (actually a folder that lists the 
programs with miniature icons - I can't remember the name for it) display 
absolutely nothing when I open it. If I close and reopen it the programs are 
listed correctly. It seems to happen when a lot of windows are open but 
other than that I haven't been able to tie it to any particular activity. I 
use an IBM VGA card (yes, they do exist) with 256K.  Any suggestions?
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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc,comp.os.os2.apps
From: jim@tct.com (Jim Kunzman)
Subject: OS/2 2.1 Beta bug
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 22:14:21 GMT
Organization: TC Telemanagement, Clearwater, FL

I believe I have discovered a fairly serious bug in OS/2 2.1 beta.
The problem occurred while trying to run a seamless Windows application
on a system with the Novell Netware Requester installed.  

When I tried to run the Windows application I got the following 
message in a window:

	The NewWare Shell has not been loaded.

	All network functions will be disabled.

  To use NetWare, load the NetWare Shell and restart Windows.

After clicking OK to continue, there were a few more disk accesses 
and then the machine hung.  Although the mouse was still active, I
could not activate any other windows, nor could I Alt-Esc or Ctrl-Esc.
The only alternative was the three finger salute.

Note: The problem occurs regardless of whether I am logged into the
netware drive.  I will be reporting this bug to IBM on CompuServe, 
but I'm wondering if anyone else has seen the problem...

Other observations:  

I installed 800x600x256 and was not overly impressed by the scrolling
speed.  It's almost enough to make me return to 640x480x256.

I noticed that WinOS2 3.1 window creations seem faster than OS/2 window
creation.  This should be fixed or Microsoft will ... 

There is still no HPFS support for large removable drives.  Just getting
a DIRectory listing of a 128MByte FAT drive is still very slow.  MY DOS
drivers for this drive are much faster.  HPFS should be extended to large
removable drives.

Apparently, there is still only one PM message queue!  This is a glaring
deficiency in an otherwise extremely well designed product.

Overall, I like the new OS/2.  Things do seem faster and the
installation from CD-ROM was a breeze.
-- 
Jim Kunzman at Teltronics/TCT     <jim@tct.uucp>, <uunet!pdn!tct!jim>
-----
OS/2 2.0 - 1,600,000+ copies sold.  Sweet dreams Mr. Ballmy.
From: king@cs.uq.oz.au (Paul King)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Ready for Letters under OS/2
Date: 5 Jan 93 21:15:49 GMT
Reply-To: king@cs.uq.oz.au

In <lkje5rINNrqj@predator.cs.utexas.edu> marty@cs.utexas.edu (Marty J. Sirkin) writes:


>   I have a copy of "Ready for Letters" for my two small children.  I have
>it running under OS/2 (on a clone 486/33 with a SB Pro card on IRQ 5).
>The program starts and runs (with the music playing just fine).  The problem
>that I have is that if the program "moves" into certain areas (such as the 
>kitchen or the workshop), I get crackling noises, and the system slows down to
>a crawl.  I can switch out of the program and kill the task, but it takes on
>the order of 60 seconds to paint the WPS screen etc.

>   I suspect the problem is with the program and speech generation.
You are correct, I get the same problem.  I can overcome the problem
by using VMdisk (which effectively gives you a specific DOS 5.0
session) which fixes the voice problem, but then the mouse doesn't work!
I have tried all kinds of things with the COM_ settings, but it seems that
OS/2 reserves COM1 for its mouse use and doesn't let the DOS
session see COM1 at all.

So at the moment, I just boot DOS from drive A: and in the autoexec.bat
on that disk I swap over to drive C: and run rfl.bat.
Let me know if you have any more luck with the VMdisk option.

Paul
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From: ed@balrog.aecom.yu.edu (Ed Geraghty)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Running OS/2 in monochrome
Date: 10 Jan 93 18:44:31 GMT
Organization: Albert Einstein College of Medicine -- Dynamic Brain Imaging Lab

Greetings all,

     We are moving an OS/2 machine in a high magnetic field area(10 gauss). I
would like to figure a way to run OS/2 in monochrome 80x25 character mode. I
could go to DOS but I'd rather not. I have an old IBM PC monitor and display
printer port card that I would like to use. If I replase WPS with CMD.exe in
the config.sys I still might not work because there is statments loading
VGA and graphics specific stuff. In fact I can't even have the logo come
up. Any help would be greatly appreciated. 

                                         See Ya,

                                         Ed Geraghty

P.S. If your wondering why the 10 gauss field and why using a monochrome 
screen instead of color. A MRI magnet make a color screen bloom and warped 
and the mono screen will just be distorted.

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Systems Manager                     |   all the time..." - JP "Electric Eye"
Albert Einstein College of Medicine | 
Dynamic Brain Imaging Lab           |  "Whenever you dream, you're holding a 
Bronx, NYC 10461                    |   key. It opens a door to let you be 
email: geraghty@aecom.yu.edu        |   free" - Ronnie James Dio
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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: adhir@wam.umd.edu (Al Dhir)
Subject: Re: Mac Icons?
Organization: University of Maryland, College Park
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 05:14:25 GMT

>In short, unless you've a lot of icons to do, you're probably better
>off sitting in front of the mac with ResEdit (the resource editor) and
>a piece of graph paper and just copy the bitmap that way.  I did the
>system 7 trash and Mac icons like this.

Sheesh!!  Are you kidding?  Why didn't you just take a snapshot of the
Mac screen with the command-S (or something similar) keystroke and
take the snapshot file home to your OS/2 machine for processing??  I did
this with a TON of Mac AND NeXT icons and it worked great.  Just take what-
ever format picture you end up with (TIFF on NeXT and PICT on Mac) and
convert/view it - either using utils easily available on the Mac or using
utils on the PC (Hijaak).  Then CUT it and PASTE it into the icon editor.
Just the thought of sitting there with graph paper... oh god!
>
>BTW, I could be in serious legal trouble if I posted these icons,
>couldn't I?  I'd like to share them, but I don't like threats of
>lawsuits, either.

I'd keep away from this as well.  Apple has demonstrated a remarkable
lust for suing people :)
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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: dkm2@ra.msstate.edu (David K. Magee)
Subject: Has anyone installed Boca SuperX drivers?
Organization: Mississippi State University
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 05:43:18 GMT


Has anyone had any luck in installing the Boca SuperX vga drivers they made
available for the Cirrus chipset?  I have not been able to install them.

Please mail responses.


Thanks!

David


-- 
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         MIS Graduate Student |  belt boy.  The Redcoats are coming! "
 Mississippi State University |
          dkm2@ra.msstate.edu |   -  General Jack Ripper, Dr. Strangelove
From: dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Running OS/2 in monochrome
Date: 11 Jan 93 21:05:41 GMT
Organization: New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, N.J.

In article <1276@alsys1.aecom.yu.edu> ed@balrog.aecom.yu.edu (Ed Geraghty) writes:
>Greetings all,
>
>     We are moving an OS/2 machine in a high magnetic field area(10 gauss). I
>would like to figure a way to run OS/2 in monochrome 80x25 character mode. I
>could go to DOS but I'd rather not. I have an old IBM PC monitor and display
>printer port card that I would like to use. If I replase WPS with CMD.exe in
>the config.sys I still might not work because there is statments loading
>VGA and graphics specific stuff. In fact I can't even have the logo come
>up. Any help would be greatly appreciated. 

OS/2 2.0 requires a graphics display of some sort.  The task switcher
won't work without PM loaded.  VGA-mono does exist, however.  You can
always use such a monitor with a VGA card.

>P.S. If your wondering why the 10 gauss field and why using a monochrome 
>screen instead of color. A MRI magnet make a color screen bloom and warped 
>and the mono screen will just be distorted.

You shouldn't be using an ordinary PC/monitor combination in such an
environment.  An "industrial strength" shielded system would be your
best solution.  Of course, they'll be expensive.  I know that IBM
makes a number of shilded computer/monitor setups that will give you
glorious color in a 10 gauss field.  Other vendors may also make such
systems.

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From: kitchin@lf.hp.com (Bruce Kitchin)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Reformat needed to install 2.1 over 2.1 beta?
Date: 4 Jan 1993 20:32:49 GMT
Organization: Hewlett Packard Santa Clara Site
NNTP-Posting-Host: eden.avo.hp.com
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1.2 PL7]

Yamanari (rsrodger@wam.umd.edu) wrote:
: In article <BAB.93Jan2144950@se39.wg2.waii.com> bab@se39.wg2.waii.com (Brian Button) writes:
: >Before I go ahead and order the 2.1 beta, I wanted to get this
: >question answered!
: >
: >Once 2.1 comes out, will we have to reformat our OS/2 partitions to
: >install it over the beta?
: 
: 
: 	If I may, as a general comment, suggest that is it *always*
: 	preferable to install fresh than to attempt to install over a 
: 	previous version. 
: 

I found it a real pain, but the recommended procedure from IBM appears to
continue to be to reformat when installing a beta version over anything 
(including a previous beta) and when installing a released version over a
beta.  In the past I've done that.  This time I learned that it was
necessary.  I had all kinds of problems when I tried to short circuit
the problem.  However, having said that, I'm still glad I have the
beta.  I already like it better.  There was a lot of customization to be
redone and files to be restored in my case.  Before GA, I kept the system
partition clean and a reformat was not a problem.  I have crept away from
that policy since GA.
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: olavt@ulrik.uio.no (Olav Torvund)
Subject: Re: Opinion:  What IBM should change in OS/2
Organization: University of Oslo, Norway
	<19930104.100300.334@almaden.ibm.com>
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 14:55:08 GMT

In article <19930104.100300.334@almaden.ibm.com> buckler@vnet.ibm.com (Jason Buckler) writes:

   >:  Actually the only thing I want is an OS/2 that doesn't turn off the
   >: NUM-LOCK.
   >:
   >I'm even willing for it to be an easy-to-set option since there are
    probably
   >still people who prefer it off.
   >

   I'm one of those folx who, upon any startup, turns off the numlock - I never
   use it.  Hate it, matter of fact.  I never have figured out why it gets
   turned on in the first place.

And I am one of those who always turns Num Lock on. I have never
figured out why it is turned off in the first place. The answer is
simple: Let the user decide. Let us have one global setting under
installation, and a possibility to set it individually for each
program session.

Olav Torvund
University of Oslo
Norway
Olavt@jus.uio.no
From: d9mikael@dtek.chalmers.se (Mikael Wahlgren)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Ultimotion Matinee Software Motion Video
Date: 6 Jan 93 21:39:28 GMT
Organization: Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg Sweden
X-Newsreader: NN version 6.4.19

I have a PS/2 9556 (modell 56 486SLC2) with XGA-2 built in.  I have
installed MultiMedia for PM (MMPM/2) version 1.1 with the Ultimotion
Matinee software video motion.  I can't get this to work though.  The
player says something like "Can not load file MOVIE.UMB.  Run the
MMPM/2 Setup to ensure that there is a device associated with the file".
UMB is associated with the DV (Digital Video) device.

Anyone that has this running?

Mikael Wahlgren
From: kitchin@lf.hp.com (Bruce Kitchin)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Video Driver Change
Date: 4 Jan 1993 20:48:53 GMT
Organization: Hewlett Packard Santa Clara Site
NNTP-Posting-Host: eden.avo.hp.com
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1.2 PL7]

William Heiser (heiser@acs.bu.edu) wrote:
: I had my system set up (OS/2 2.0 without SP) with an ATI Graphics Ultra,
: but moved the card to another machine.  Now of course when I start OS/2
: on that machine, it complains with an error about the video ... it now
: has an ATI VGA 1024 (VGA Wonder) so of course it can't do the 8514/a that
: the Ultra (and OS/2) were configured for.
: 
: How can I get OS/2 to a bootable state again?  I've tried booting from
: the installation floppy but don't see anything there that would help
: (but i don't really know what I'm looking for).  I assume there is a 
: video driver file I can just copy over to C:\os2\system or something.
: 
: Thanks in advance,
: Bill
: 

This is a very good question that I hope will get some constructive answers.
During installing of the latest beta 2.1, after installing I did a selective
install to install the proper video driver.  When it gave me a choice of
resolutions I thought (erroneously) "Well my card is fully populated in
memory so I'll choose the 1MB version".  However my card fully expanded
only has 0.5MB!  It was a disaster, the system came up but when the
desktop appeared it was really a complete unusable mess.  There was no way
I could do anything (like run selective install over again).  All I could
think to do was reinstall which I did.  That is NOT the way to correct
such a problem.  I'm glad it happened on the system the with CDROM and 
not the system I had to use 3.5" floppies to install.

Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: pynq@quads.uchicago.edu (Jeremy Mathers)
Subject: ftp-os2.nmsu.edu and Francisco Franco
Summary: (I don't know if this is the right place to post this, but...)
Reply-To: pynq@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: D. J. Dougherty & Associates
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 19:33:52 GMT

... both are still dead.

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Past performance is no guarantee of future results.

	- pynq@quads.uchicago.edu, who is still costing the net
	  hundreds, if not thousands, of dollars, every time he posts -
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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: llamas@itd.itd.nrl.navy.mil (Winston Llamas)
Subject: PDK, 2.1 beta
Reply-To: llamas@itd.nrl.navy.mil
Organization: Naval Research Lab, Washington, DC
Distribution: usa
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 21:13:46 GMT

I am interested in the beta version of the C++ Toolkit as well as the latest
2.1 beta.  Do I have to buy the 11/92 PDK and the latest 2.1 beta (2 $15
cd roms)?  Also, is the AT&T class library disk a worthwhile addition?  
Thanks for any info.

Winston

(P.S.  How stable is the new 2.1 beta?)

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From: x90wardell@gw.wmich.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: INI problem cured yet?
Date: 4 Jan 93 23:38:58 EST
Organization: Western Michigan University


	Is there a patch out there yet to fix the growing INI files
in the post Service Pack era.  I am getting a bit tired of having
to use cpyini every week to bring my 4 meg os2sys.ini file back to 70k.

						-Brad

email please but I will read this conference for replies.

Thanks.
From: kitchin@lf.hp.com (Bruce Kitchin)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Niggling little problems
Date: 4 Jan 1993 17:26:16 GMT
Organization: Hewlett Packard Santa Clara Site
NNTP-Posting-Host: eden.avo.hp.com
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1.2 PL7]

There is another niggling problem I have with the arrow keys.  It is really
the application writer's problem.  There is a utility I picked up somewhere
called HexEdit.  In many ways, it is real nice.  However, one problem it
has is that it doesn't recognized the 'new' arrow keys (the ones between
the regular keyboard and the keypad).  The codes returned from the Kbd
calls are different for the two and the programmer either doesn't have or never
uses the non-keypad arrows.  Anyway it is rather annoying since I never use
the keypad for arrows except in this case.  It is too bad there isn't a way
to force the keyboard to return the same codes for both.  It would have to
be a toggle like caps lock, num lock, etc, since there are applications
that depend on the difference.  Anyway, I wanted a place to record this
'complaint' in the hopes that programmers will see and avoid doing this
to us users in the future.
From: jyouells@cup.portal.com (John A Youells)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: avga and co-processor
Date: Mon,  4 Jan 93 20:39:20 PST
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
  <1993Jan3.225612.1990@midway.uchicago.edu>
  <1993Jan4.025957.3200@random.ccs.northeastern.edu>
  <1993Jan04.190942.24089@zds-oem.zds.com>

 I have an AVGA3 card with a Cirrus Logic GD5422 1mb and a quatel bios. 
I have been running the 800x600x16 driver in os2 2.0 + SP and 800x600x256
in winos231. I haven't tried it with the 2.1 beta yet but it works with the 
GA+SP well. I have been able to load 24 bit .tga files in a vdm with no t3.e 

 The Cirrus BBS number is 407 241-1601. I haven't seen 256 color os2 drivers 
yet but I am going to check with CirrusLogic directly.

-john
From: unruh@physics.ubc.ca (William Unruh)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Hobbes Down??
Date: 12 Jan 1993 20:54:56 GMT
Organization: The University of British Columbia
Distribution: na
NNTP-Posting-Host: physics.ubc.ca

lmp8913@zeus.tamu.edu (PRESTON, LISA M) writes:
] 	Is Hobbes down, or just clogged with Beta Seekers?

Still no response to ping. It seems dead. Any autopsy reports?
From: cvetp009@vmsa.is.csupomona.edu (The Far Side)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Starting REAL DOS from command line
Date: 12 Jan 93 16:00:00 GMT
Organization: California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41

>I would like to be able to start a DOS session from a disk image
>file by invoking it from the OS/2 command line somehow. Is this
>possible, or am I living a pipe dream?

It's possible!  There is a program called STARTD that allows you
to start DOS sessions with specific settings that are put in a file.
So, all you have to do is to put DOS_STARTUP_DRIVE=C:\OS2\MYIMAGE.IMG
in that file and your image will be started.  STARTD is available at
ftp-os2.  Or,  you could just get the latest release of 4OS/2 (1.1
32-bit) that has this feature built into the START command.

Srikanth
Friend's account
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: smbrush@lims01.lerc.nasa.gov (Andy Brush @Sverdrup)
Subject: End of IN-2000 ... Thanks!
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Organization: NASA Lewis Research Center
Date:  6 Jan 1993 14:49 EST  

Thanks to everyone who provided advice and experience with respect to the 
Always Technology IN-2000 SCSI adapter.

I have gotten our purchaser to have Compudyne substitute a Future Domain 
FD-1660, for a slight increase in cost.

Thanks again.

Andrew S. Brush             | SMBRUSH@LIMS01.lerc.nasa.gov
Sverdrup Technology         | 2001 Aerospace Parkway
NASA LeRC Group             | Brook Park, OH 44142
"Opinions are Mine, Only"   | (216) 826-6770
From: kap@po.CWRU.Edu (Kermit A. Pollari)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: DaVinci eMail
Date: 6 Jan 1993 15:33:23 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Reply-To: kap@po.CWRU.Edu (Kermit A. Pollari)
NNTP-Posting-Host: slc5.ins.cwru.edu



Quick question, has anybody successfully used DaVinci eMail
for DOS in an OS/2 DOS Session.  If so could you please
post or eMail me your setup.  I'm wondering if either my
DOS settings are incorrect or my Novell Netware is not
up to date.

Kermit

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