--------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 260 OS/2 HARDWARE Ref: F5G00001 Date: 04/11/98 From: JAMES MCKENZIE Time: 04:18pm \/To: MARK BIRENBAUM (Read 4 times) Subj: Mem Hello Mark! 09 Apr 98 15:41, Mark Birenbaum wrote to Roy J. Tellason: MB>> I've got my system set to just log trap errors and reset, so it MB>> did just that and things were happy. RJT>> How do you set things up to do that? MB> In your config.sys you need to add the following lines: MB> SET RESTARTOBJECTS=startupfoldersonly MB> suppresspopups=c: MB> reipl=on That's the way I have it here. A bad program will not "hang" the system when it automatically restarts and I get a wonderful record of what went wrong. James ... Computers are irrelevant- Windows has been assimilated. --- GoldED/2 2.50+ * Origin: OS/2 Support * Your place for OS/2 information and Files (1:309/63) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 260 OS/2 HARDWARE Ref: F5G00002 Date: 04/10/98 From: RICHIE MOLINELLI Time: 05:56pm \/To: ALL (Read 4 times) Subj: Cannon C2500 Does anyone know where I can get the TWAIN driver for the Cannon C2500 MultiPass Printer/Scanner/Fax/Copier? Also, is there a printer driver available for it? Thanks in advance. --- MsgToss 2.0c * Origin: The Small Time BBS * (516) 579-7929 * [ Team OS/2 ] * (1:2619/172) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 260 OS/2 HARDWARE Ref: F5G00003 Date: 04/11/98 From: BARRY BOGART Time: 07:48pm \/To: ALL (Read 4 times) Subj: Error 04-11-1998 19:40:44 SYS3175 PID 0005 TID 000f Slot 001d C:\OS2\PMSHELL.EXE c0000005 1ffd01b9 P1=00000008 P2=0000a43c P3=XXXXXXXX P4=XXXXXXXX EAX=00001dfc EBX=00001111 ECX=00001e32 EDX=c098040f ESI=00031e38 EDI=de771e02 DS=bfe7 DSACC=00f3 DSLIM=0000152b ES=040f ESACC=00f3 ESLIM=00001f9b FS=a427 FSACC=00f3 FSLIM=00002fff GS=bff7 GSACC=00f3 GSLIM=0000efff CS:EIP=ffef:000001b9 CSACC=00ff CSLIM=00006005 SS:ESP=040f:00001dcc SSACC=00f3 SSLIM=00001f9b EBP=00031e04 FLG=00012246 BVHSVGA.DLL 0002:000001b9 --- * Origin: The Sanatorium! Sanataria Springs NY 607 648 6789 (1:260/432) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 260 OS/2 HARDWARE Ref: F5G00004 Date: 04/11/98 From: LYNN NASH Time: 09:48pm \/To: ROGER PROVINS (Read 4 times) Subj: Promise ls120 RP>I have installed a Promise LS120 drive. RP>It works fine when the machine is booted to dos but when I boot to OS/2 RP>Warp 4 it is not recognised and I cannot access it at all. It RP>is connected as the primary slave. What else do I need to do ? RP>Can you help please ? For Warp 4 install fixpack 6; for Warp 3 install fixpack 35. LS120 support is very recent, less than two months old. --Lynn * SLMR 2.1a * Sleep? Did you run out of coffee or something? --- DB 1.39/004485 * Origin: The Diamond Bar BBS, San Dimas CA, 909-599-2088 (1:218/1001) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 260 OS/2 HARDWARE Ref: F5G00005 Date: 04/11/98 From: GRAEME TAYLOR Time: 02:35am \/To: JONATHAN MICHAELS (Read 4 times) Subj: stb 4 port serial card Jonathon you might try PC Cables "R" Us if you are not successful in getting one from Alpha Computers as advised by Bat Lang. I quote from their flyer P.O. Box 5442 Retail, Wollongong Gateway, NSW, 2500. Ph (042) 970337, Fax (042) 283164 or email address pccables@pccables.com.au or visit them at www.pccables.com.au I bought some SCSI cables from them at a recent computer market, very good prices I thought. I don't see the specific cable you want on the flyer but I suggest it would be a possible source. From Graeme Taylor in an autumn Canberra. --- GEcho 1.12/beta+ * Origin: The InterACTive BBS - Canberra ACT - (02) 6253-4933 (3:620/243) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 260 OS/2 HARDWARE Ref: F5G00006 Date: 04/11/98 From: LEE ARONER Time: 09:19am \/To: JONATHAN MICHAELS (Read 4 times) Subj: motherboards and os/2 LA >>> NT on the same box just runs like a dog. JM>>> i have my old nt v3.51 cd's, will they make good frisbies JM>>> ? LA >> Nah. Some lemming will pay for them. LA >> If you don't want em, send em to me... JM>> do i hear a better than $USD200 offer ? JM>> its only to cover shipping costs, you know. LA > Uh, yeah, shipping costs, sure. JM> really, go ask your local fedex depot what 35 air kilograms (priority, > security) will cost to ship from the qantas airfreight depot in sydeny then > add some $USD50 for the courier fees from my door to the qantas terminal. JM> excuse me, but, i didn't say it was/would be cheaper than you could pick it up > locally at a barns and noble. LA > No thanks, already got more copies than we need around here. JM> o well looks like i'll keep them as drink coasters, or a reminder for things > long past and times not all that bad. JM> sorry for being short, its the wrong time of week, and i may have missread your > responce. Hey, no problem. What about via just plain regular mail? I know of a church group that could use em, and I would pay you for the postage? LRA -- SPEED 2.00 #2720: type DEL *.* for higher access --- Platinum Xpress/Win/Wildcat5! v2.0 * Origin: Memory Alpha - (253) 859-6200 (1:343/311) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 260 OS/2 HARDWARE Ref: F5G00007 Date: 04/12/98 From: MIKE RUSKAI Time: 06:51am \/To: JONATHAN MICHAELS (Read 4 times) Subj: Motherboards and os/2 Some senseless babbling from Jonathan Michaels to Mike Ruskai on 08 Apr 98 12:08:48 about Motherboards and os/2... [snip] MR > well with both. Furthermore, DOS has never been 8-bit. It was MR > first written for the Intel 8086 16-bit processor by Seattle MR > Computer Products. JM> the intel 8086 was a competitor for the much bettter and costly 68b09e JM> that was a 16 bit internal and 8 bit EXTERNAL data path, this being the JM> liniting factor of its usefullness and processing ability. the intel JM> chip is also a 16 bit chip internally abd a 8 bit The 8088 had the 8-bit external datapath. The 8086, for which DOS was first written, has a 16-bit external datapath. Regardless, an external datapath doesn't affect the internal nature of the CPU. It's a performance issue, not a code issue. Mike Ruskai SA/AG #1106 thanny@home.com ... But how do we know your the REAL Angel of Death? --- Renegade v05-11 Exp * Origin: The Licking Factory, OS/2 in NJ! (732)815-3146 (1:107/634) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 260 OS/2 HARDWARE Ref: F5G00008 Date: 04/13/98 From: JONATHAN MICHAELS Time: 12:14am \/To: MODERATORS, ET AL (Read 4 times) Subj: jonathan michaels Hello moderators,, i donno how to start this one, its sort of an apology sort of an explanation sort of a lot of things and mostly nothing. i was participating in a couple of 'touchie feelie' echoes when things got out of hand and i managed to get my behind tanned, well they thought that that is what they were doing .. i withdrew when the foul mouths got motorised and even the female participant started to use vile language in netmail and some even in the public echo. i'm still not sure what happened. so whats it got to do with os2hw .. thier was one thread that i was following and i sorta got 'carried away' i tried to extracate myself by making an excuse more for (actually to) myself and about my technical also ran information. i've never been a good documenter, relying on my own notes and several very good secretaties i used to have. like a lot of things in my life, skills, abilities, posessions, position and authority .. etc. loosing any one of these is pretty devestating, loosing all in the space of a week or so was crippling .. then thier was the illness and its damably slow coovery. i do have an aquired brain injury, i am vuage at best and i do sometimes get really short with people, especailly when i start to remember who life used to be and how i didn't have to worry about what most of all of you and me took for granted .. now i am on a very restricted budget, i have to watch howmany fidonet polls i do an all the other kinda stuff that goes with my new position in life .. it is different and it has its own unique requirements, which at th moment i am not handling too well. sorry for any offence i may have caused, please accept that it was not intended. also in futuer i will try to keep to the concrete facts and on those things that i am dead to rights certain about. it was nice talking about processor philosophy, but that is not what os2hw is about. i wandered off topic and i started to get personal and all bent out of shape because of some severe external presures. this should never hanve happend, in the forst place and i will do my best to see that it does not happen again. as i said, beofre, i live alone and my illness has made me even more aware of how isolated as a person i am, really. this is also the major contributing factor to the length of my posts .. well, sort off, i have allways been long winded in my writing .. as it is i write moe descriptively rather than objectively, english in not my forst language. this is also what now make it so difficult as i have effectively returned (in my minds eye, as my drs say) to a stage in my life where i was strugling with coming to terms with not just english but the whole concept of language as a means of communication. anyway i've done it again .. overstayed my welcome, sorry. cheers and thank you for being so tolerant of me. regards ... jonathan EMail: jon@mpx.com.au ... i do all i can, with what i have, are you able to say the same ? --- * Origin: Fire&Ice CBCS +61 2 9-317-2184 - USR Courier v34+&hst (3:712/808) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 260 OS/2 HARDWARE Ref: F5G00009 Date: 04/12/98 From: DAVID NOON Time: 05:54pm \/To: GREGORY URBAN (Read 4 times) Subj: Arcada Backup? In a message dated 04-10-98, Gregory Urban said to All about Arcada Backup? Hi Gregory, GU>Anyone have any experience with using Arcada Backup 2.0 for Warp with GU>an SCSI QIC tape drive? My SCSI tape drive is a DAT, not a QIC. I use an Exabyte 4200ce external DAT drive. I also have a Colorado T1000 Travan-1 tape drive on my floppy daisy chain. I use Seagate Backup Exec for OS/2 Warp, which is what Arcada Backup Exec is now called. It works just fine with either tape drive. Regards Dave ___ * MR/2 2.25 #353 * And now, the latest score from Redmond: DOS 7, Windows 95, Users 0. --- Maximus/2 3.01 * Origin: DoNoR/2,Woking UK (44-1483-717905) (2:440/4) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 260 OS/2 HARDWARE Ref: F5G00010 Date: 04/12/98 From: JAMES MCKENZIE Time: 09:34am \/To: BARRY BOGART (Read 4 times) Subj: Error Hello Barry! 11 Apr 98 19:48, Barry Bogart wrote to All: What video drivers are you using? This is a critical error in the base system. BB> 04-11-1998 19:40:44 SYS3175 PID 0005 TID 000f Slot 001d BB> C:\OS2\PMSHELL.EXE BB> c0000005 [stuff deleted] BB> BVHSVGA.DLL 0002:000001b9 SVGA driver for OS/2. I've never seen this error before. James ... DOS ViruScan initiated -- Windows found: Delete? (Y/y) --- GoldED/2 2.50+ * Origin: OS/2 Support * Your place for OS/2 information and Files (1:309/63)