--------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 260 OS/2 HARDWARE Ref: F5G00039 Date: 04/22/98 From: ROY J. TELLASON Time: 05:23pm \/To: WILL HONEA (Read 4 times) Subj: Install help Will Honea wrote in a message to James Byrnes: WH> From the been-there-done-that file, I would suggest that you WH> first kill ALL the partitions - wipe the table clean. Boot to WH> the BIOS setup and NOW select LBA - This seems to contradict the following, from the OS2 echo: Lawrence Garvin wrote in a message to Francois Thunus: LG> Also, do NOT enable LBA in the bios. OS/2 will handle the disk LG> mapping arrangements once the drivers load, but the boot tracks LG> and such need to be in a partition in the first 1024 cylinders LG> for -any- operating system to load. Or am I missing something here? WH> make a note of the 'cyl/hd/sec' numbers it gives. Older Bios's WH> had some funny notions about what LBA was! What would you call "older" in this context? FWIW I have an Award BIOS here with a date of 1/17/96. email: roy.j.tellason%tanstaaf@frackit.com --- * Origin: TANSTAAFL BBS 717-432-0764 (1:270/615) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 260 OS/2 HARDWARE Ref: F5G00040 Date: 04/22/98 From: ROY J. TELLASON Time: 05:27pm \/To: JAMES BYRNES (Read 4 times) Subj: Install help James Byrnes wrote in a message to Will Honea: JB> Now I will have to tell my daughter to haul her machine home JB> from school again. She is already grumbling that I should have JB> bought her a laptop. With the price difference between laptops and other machines, and with the typical earning power of students, a look at those prices might be in order for her, just to get her perspectives right! :-) (He says as he's getting his revenge by spoiling the grandkids...) email: roy.j.tellason%tanstaaf@frackit.com --- * Origin: TANSTAAFL BBS 717-432-0764 (1:270/615) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 260 OS/2 HARDWARE Ref: F5G00041 Date: 04/22/98 From: ROY J. TELLASON Time: 05:31pm \/To: DENIS TONN (Read 4 times) Subj: OS/2 LPT Port Configurat Denis Tonn wrote in a message to Don Woodall: DT> You can have all 3 ports, but the way it works is that 378 and DT> 278 will be IRQ driven (7 and 5) and 3BC will be interrupt DT> driven. Huh? Could you elaborate a bit please on what distinction you're making between "interrupt driven" and "IRQ driven"? I would have taken them to be synonymous... email: roy.j.tellason%tanstaaf@frackit.com --- * Origin: TANSTAAFL BBS 717-432-0764 (1:270/615) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 260 OS/2 HARDWARE Ref: F5G00042 Date: 04/22/98 From: MARK LEWIS Time: 06:25pm \/To: NICKY MORROW (Read 4 times) Subj: P-Pro/Mobo >> It seems Pentium pro is a good buy for OS/2. >> Do they fit in the same mobo as P-II or MMX? NM> No. Pentium Pro chips fit only on socket 8 mobos. FWIW: there are special Socket8->SLOT1 adapters available... i don't know where but i have heard about them and even read about them on one or two of the trade rags... )\/(ark * Origin: (1:3634/12) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 260 OS/2 HARDWARE Ref: F5G00043 Date: 04/21/98 From: BARRY BOGART Time: 01:18pm \/To: JAMES MCKENZIE (Read 4 times) Subj: Re: Error BB> Although, I did try to add another node yesterday and things started BB> to go wrong again, I believe its memory related. JM> I agree. You need to get more "physical" memory. Yeah, I dropped the EMS to 1024 for Nodes 1,2,4,5. Mainly, because I was on locally and the system trapped and re-booted while I was on the BBS typing a message. That gives me 4mb more than I had before. And according to system info, Os/2 is locking 9mb of Ram. BTW, can an overly large swapper.dat cause Trap errors? --- * Origin: The Sanatorium! Sanataria Springs NY 607 648 6789 (1:260/432) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 260 OS/2 HARDWARE Ref: F5G00044 Date: 04/20/98 From: KRIS STEENHAUT Time: 04:29pm \/To: WILL HONEA (Read 4 times) Subj: os/2 - Printer IRQ ? Hello Will, donderdag 16 april 1998 19.57, Will Honea wrote to Kris Steenhaut: WH> Kris Steenhaut wrote to Will Honea on 04-14-1998 KS>> I'm usint the original Big Blue's comdrivers, not Sio. WH> Immaterial in this case. Main point is regardless of jumpers, your WH> printers DO NOT USE IRQ 7 - or any other IRQ! You are absolutely right about that. So, I'd say, it's better not to use the /IRQ switch, is it? Groeten uit Gent, Regards/2 Kris --- GoldED/2 3.00.Beta3+ FMail/2 1.42/g+ * Origin: From Flanders Fields (2:292/8125.11) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 260 OS/2 HARDWARE Ref: F5G00045 Date: 04/28/98 From: DERRICK NEVE Time: 08:04am \/To: ALL (Read 4 times) Subj: Speedeasy MB with AMD Is anyone using this combo? Speedeasy motherboard and an AMD 200 MMX CPU. It automatically detects a 166 whereas it *is* a 200 MHz chip. If I set it to 200 manually my boot on CONFIG.SYS will hang just after installing the network card. Can't go any further. So I reset it to 166 and all is happy. Any explanations? Derrick --- FMail 0.96 * Origin: Canada Dry BBS - France * 3 lines on 02.4729.3385 (2:321/1) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 260 OS/2 HARDWARE Ref: F5G00046 Date: 04/23/98 From: JAMES MCKENZIE Time: 11:14am \/To: NEIL MARCUS (Read 4 times) Subj: 6+ gig HD's??? Hello Neil! 20 Apr 98 20:43, Neil Marcus wrote to All: NM> Looking to go over 6 gig. Presently running warp 3 but am considering NM> 4 soon. Is there any known problems with going over 6 gig in either 3 NM> or 4? NM> Any special considerations? You will need to upgrade your IBM1S506.ADD file if the hard drive is an EIDE drive. SCSI, no problem.... James ... Windows gives you Windows. OS/2 Gives you the whole house. --- 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: F5G00047 Date: 04/23/98 From: JAMES MCKENZIE Time: 11:15am \/To: BARRY BOGART (Read 4 times) Subj: Error Hello Barry! 21 Apr 98 13:18, Barry Bogart wrote to James Mckenzie: BB>> Although, I did try to add another node yesterday and things BB>> started to go wrong again, I believe its memory related. JM>> I agree. You need to get more "physical" memory. BB> Yeah, I dropped the EMS to 1024 for Nodes 1,2,4,5. Mainly, because I BB> was on locally and the system trapped and re-booted while I was on the BB> BBS typing a message. BB> That gives me 4mb more than I had before. And according to system BB> info, Os/2 is locking 9mb of Ram. This is typical. BB> BTW, can an overly large swapper.dat cause Trap errors? Not that I've encountered. However, some programs cannot be "swapped" and crash when they are. This might be the cause of your problem. Bet the Trap message is a 000D.(Software Page Fault.) James ... Windows '95 disks make great coasters --- 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: F5G00048 Date: 04/22/98 From: CHRISTER JACOBSSON Time: 10:55pm \/To: THORBJOERN RAVN ANDERSEN (Read 4 times) Subj: Nec cdr-463 & audio grabb Saturday April 18 1998, Thorbjoern Ravn Andersen writes to Christer cobsson: TRA> Hello Christer, TRA> Wednesday April 15 1998, Christer Jacobsson wrote to Lynn Nash: CJ>> So I can only draw one conclusion in light of the fact that digital CJ>> transfer IS POSSIBLE from straight DOS using Adaptec's ASPI8DOS.SYS CJ>> and ASPICD.SYS drivers; that the AIC7870.ADD, OS2SCSI.DMD or CJ>> OS2ASPI.DMD are shitty, buggy or incomplete. TRA> This is with the latest fixpack? A lot of things have been fixed since TRA> Warp 3 came out. Yep, Warp Server v4 (but the base OS in this product is Warp3, NOT warp4!) SMP with fp#35 applied. TRA> Additionally it is possible that your particular drive uses a method TRA> which simply was not defined when the OS/2 drivers was written, and which TRA> the DOS (or is it Win95 in DOS-mode?) drivers knows about. No Win95 junk here, just plain ole DOS, namely Caldera OpenDOS 7.01, and for those program that won't run in plain DOS, Win 3.1. TRA> My OS/2 Warp 4 works very well indeed with Digital Transfer from a 24x TRA> Toshiba, so _something_ do work. Yep, but as I said, my drive is a NEC 16X SCSI-2 CDROM (internal) which was quite new on the market when I bought it for my new Linux/Warp Server racer in the beginning of August last year (1997). /GAIA (Insulin User - 2nd Anniversary & 17th Wedding Anniversary :-) ) Team OS/2 E-mail: cribo.jacobsson@gaea.se --- GoldED/2 2.50+ 16SW2 * Origin: I'll Never Be Nobody's Wife! (2:205/104)