My problem:
        Os/2 2.1 will not completely boot up when the cache on my
controller is enabled.  It will boot past the logos (Which go by REALLY
fast) and will make it to the grey pre-desktop screen with the mouse clock
icon.  It will then stop all access, and will stay there forever.  I have
checked and rechecked my hardware, and have found no problems there.  The
controller works properly under Dos, and tests out without failure.  When
the cache is disabled, Os/2 will then completely boot like normal.  I have
talked to IBM, and they hadn’t heard of this problem. Is there anyone else
out there with a caching controller? I would love to get this $300 dollar
part to work with my favorite o.s.!
        Any suggestions, post here or mail me!  Many Thanks.

i9456…@wsuaix.csc.wsu.edu
Stefan Yotz

I have installed OS/2 2.1 GA on my PC – Dell 450 DE with ATI Graphics
running 1024×768 under IBM 8514 Drivers – 16mb Ram.  My assessment is
that 2.1 is very good  - i don’t use the 1.3 partition anymore!

I have a object on my desktop that will not go away.  I created it by
dragging a progam template from the Templates Folder, filled in the
Path, working Dir etc.  That was fine until I needed to *CHANGE* the
path and working dir.  (It’s Lotus Notes – upgraded to Notes 3 – it’s
a mother of a program.)

I Delete the Object from the Desktop and do a shutdown. ( I am aware of
a shutdown bug – when the "it’s now safe to reboot – Ctrl-Alt-Del " does
*NOT* appear).  Even when I get this msg, the Lotus Notes Object re-appears
after I reboot.

The reason I want to delete it is that if I change it, then it reverts
back to the old settings after the next reboot, ( and I have shutdown
successfully).  I am fustrated and for once I cannot blame Notes for this
one,

Any Suggestions would gratefully acceppted.

yours, Niall.

Niall O Connell                  email:- nocon…@quay.ie
Quay Financial Software          Voice:- +353-1-661 2377
Dublin                           Fax  :- +353-1-660 7592          
Ireland                          Home of InVision.
It’s not a bug – it’s a feature!

 I have installed OS/2 2.1 GA on my  486DX50, 16 megs with ATI ULTRA 1MB,
running 1024×768 under IBM 8514 Drivers. For VGA-text mode I use the TARGA
WIN+ (ET4000 chip). Everything on the desktop runs fine – including dos window
and os/2 window.
However, when I switch to a fullscreen session  (Dos AND Os/2) the whole
screen is black. In fact, there is NO videosignal (my monitor recognizes
this). If I type exit I come back to the desktop and everything works as
usual.

Anybody experienced similar problems?
Any ideas?

Thomas

Well, they say all good things must come to an end.  My OS/2 system had been
up continuously since late July, and my process ID count was somewhere in the
50,000 range, so I had actually put off installing ServicePak 2 (obviously
still using 2.0), hoping to find out what happens when the process ID exceeds
65,535.  Unfortunately, it crashed on me yesterday with a Trap D.  Immediately
prior to the crash, I had encountered two hung sessions, both with BRIEF
running in them, one full screen, the other in a window.  Both had been
inactive for some time.  The clock colon in the lower right corner was still
blinking away, indicating that BRIEF was alive at some level, but neither
session was responding to any keystrokes.  Once the buffers were full,
additional keystrokes only produced beeps (actually two beeps, one for the
down press, one for the up press).  I switched to a third session, used PSTAT
to determine the process ID numbers for the two BRIEF sessions, sucessfully
killed the first one (using SLAY), and then issued the command to kill the
second one.  The crash (internal processing error) happened essentially
instantaneously after issuing the kill command.  I saved the location number
for what it’s worth.

Any ideas as to what the error might have been?

386/SX, IDE HD, 8MB, OS2/2.1

I added a partition on my hard drive to the boot manager menu, and then
went to DOS and formatted the partition with FORMAT /s.  The problem is
that when I select the DOS partition to boot with boot manager, the hd
spins for a second and then nothing happens.  Any ideas?  Does it have to
do with the fact that the partition is a logical one?  If so, can I somehow
get it to work without formatting all of my partitions again?  Thanks,

Elan

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There is a font problem with the Metadesign 4.0 program running under
WINOS2. Typing text results in symbols from  a kooky character set
being displayed. It seems that the Modern font and one other font are
switched. I don’t know whether the problem is in Metadesign or in
basic WINOS2 support.
—
Dave Feustel N9MYI <feus…@netcom.com>

A member of the unorganized militia fighting The War on The War on Drugs.

I have just installed the PAS scsi drivers. When OS/2 boots it seems
to see the cdrom drive and assign it a drive letter. When an
application tries to access the drive I get a "sector not found error"
if a cd is in the drive. If thers is not a cd in the drive I get a
"drive not ready" which seems correct. If anyone has any idea why the
drive is giving me these errors I would be indected to hear a
resolution.

The drive is a Texel 3024 with a firmware revision of 1.09.

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cv…@netcom.com                 |  bayonet except sit on it"
                                 |                     Napoleon
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BL> Originally_From: bla…@rainbow.sosi.com

BL> Daniel Harrison (h…@uhura.cc.rochester.edu) wrote:
BL> : ‘m about to OK the purchase of a 486sx25 8MB from Gateway and
BL> : will be using OS/2 2.1 exclusively, maybe evein with HPFS. In
BL> : the installation manuals, there appear to be all manner of
provisos
BL> : about 2.1 with Gateway computers. Do these still hold? Does
anyone
BL> : have experience with OS/2 on Gateway computers?

BL> I would recommend that you not get the ATI Graphics ultra cards.
They
BL> are nothing but a big pain in the ass under OS/2. If they are
willing
BL> to knock off >$200 for not taking the card, I would ask that it be
left
BL> out.

I disagree on your statement re: the ATI under OS/2.  While not speedy
yet (drivers are very wimpy) mine has been absolutely trouble free,
and
will run at 1024×768 under 8514/a or ATI drivers.

*However* there is a Viper option w/Gateway now, and I believe I’d
take
it if I had the chance.  Darn – If I’d only waited 8 more months
before buying, what a deal I’d have gotten . . .  :)

 – SPEED 1.30 [NR]: SPEED READ does everything but think up new
taglines!

— Maximus/2 2.01wb
 * Origin: OS/2 Desktop @ 619-743-2511 (1:202/344)

     Help, I finally got OS/2 2.1 to recognize my SB-PRO and new
Creative Labs OMNI cdrom drive to  install, but right before the options
screen shold come up I get the error
SPL1B file not found in line 5 of config.sys ( this is protman line)
I had to add the file sbcd2.add to get my drive to work, and I even readded
it to the config.sys on my c: drive, but I get the same error.
Is this a library file or something for my SB-PRO or cd-rom drive? And if
so where can I get it?
Thanks,
evok…@ais.org

In  <CDI46L….@news.iastate.edu>  zoll…@iastate.edu writes:
| Could you tell us the name of this fix / these fixes, please.          Thanks !
|  
| In  <27bnuk$…@manuel.anu.edu.au>  j…@trustpc6.anu.edu.au writes:
| | In  <CDEDpJ….@news.iastate.edu>  zoll…@iastate.edu writes:
| | | I was on the phone with level 2 IBM support while I had a TRAP E. The guy as
| | | me for my address, and it turns out that 30 (thirty) other people have had t
| | | same trap since June, but development has not fixed it. I am not sure whethe
| | | they will ever fix it. If you have a trap, call IBM and bitch about it (that
| | | means open a PMR). Remember to write down the address values and fill out
| | | PROBLM.TXT at FTP.CDROM.COM.
| | |  
| | | In  <147V0B1w1…@logsdon.atl.ga.us>  e…@logsdon.atl.ga.us (Eric Logsdon)
| | | | OS/2 2.1ga
| | | | I get periodic TRAP 000e’s.  They appear to happen after I end a WIN-OS/2
| | | | session (seamless) and try to start a PM app.  Anybody having similar
| | | | problems.  
| | | |  
| | | | (I am new to this group, so pardon if this has been discussed lately).
| | | |  
| | | | ——————————————————–
| | | | Eric L. Logsdon             |    Witty tag line goes here
| | | | e…@logsdon.atl.ga.us      |    usenet
| | | | All of the opinions expressed herein are my own.
| | |  
| |  
| | I have been getting Trap000e and Trap000d for some time now. I have just
| | installed four APARs onto my system which has help with the trap000e.
| | The apars are
| |    PJ08996
| |    PJ08734
| |    PJ09122
| |    PJ09201
| |  
| | They fix problems with random hangs, winos2 and mdos. If you are having
| | problems with your system, they should be downloadable from the IBM BBSs,
| | thats where I got them from. However I did have to raise a problem report
| | for it to be told of one of the fixes. I found the others whilst on the BBS.
| | The trap000d is currently being worked on by IBM as I have just sent
| | them two dumps, on their request.
| | Regards
| | —
| | Jon Gough
| | TRUST Project
| | Australian National University
|  
|  

These Apars are available as zip files from the BBS, at least in Australia
they are. I found them in the fixes section, they are called pj08996.zip,
pj008634.zip, pj09122.zip and pj09291.zip. They all contain installation
instructions, which worked first time!
—
Jon Gough
TRUST Project
Australian National University