Using Merlin on an ASUS PPro 200 motherboard. PIIXIDE driver with Bus Mastering on.
When a floppy is read and then closed, and a new floppy inserted and opened,
the contents of the first is displayed and no amount of tweaking can get the
second disks contents to be displayed. Only a reboot will get the second
disk’s contents to be displayed.
What have I done?
Lon McPherson
Stephens City, VA
I can’t had programs with the "Add Programs" in the "System configuration"
folder in Warp 3. It always worked before and at my last update with the
normal way, the program add the icons of my lastest programs and removed some
icons of other. Since this time, when I try to add programs, it process
normaly and my icons appears but at the next boot my icons are not there,
"add programs" appear and ask me to add or choose which programs to add.
I tried to remake my INI files of the desktop with makeini but it didn’t work.
Can you help me please?
Patrick Plante
ppla…@quebectel.com
I decided to clean up my INI’s (which were big:os2.ini: 770KB, os2sys.ini:
1.3MB). I hadn’t cleaned them up in two years
and I was getting hints that maybe I should.
I tried chekini. To quietly process copies of the ini’s took about 20
minutes. Thats a lot of processing — I have a 6×86 P166+ with 64MB RAM.
Then I tried to correct the ini’s. I wasn’t ready to spend a whole weekend
answering checkini’s yes/no questions. So, I tried Object Desktop.
Its Object Package utility backed up the desktop just fine. Then, I tried
creating an ini.rc file because I figured that would be easiest. It caused
a system crash and made my system unusable until I restored copies of the
ini files taken before the ini.rc creation attempt.
So I tried a REXX file. Same trouble. So I did both again and again, until
I got a REXX script. The creation of an ini.rc now generates an unknown
exeption error.
I then rebooted, deleted the os2 and os2sys ini’s in the os2 directory
(keeping the backups, of course) and remade the ini’s with makeini. Next,
I rebooted and ran the REXX script. Apparently, telling it to replace
objects isn’t a good idea — system crash.
So I tried update instead. Not everything was created properly. I had to
run it 3 times, rebooting after the first, to make it create all the
objects. I know why — creating a shadow of an object before creating the
object generally doesn’t work terribly well.
Now, object desktop’s folder enhancements don’t work, any folder not on
the desktop defaults to the tree view (even though I set it to icon in the
system notebook and rebooted), and the occasional weird thing (folders
that refuse to close, ect…) has become common.
On the good side, the ini’s got a lot smaller … at least for a while.
Before I tried a few customizations (like scheme palete), the os2.ini was
96KB and the os2sys.ini was 64KB (or the other way around). Now, the
os2.ini is 512KB (grew in under half an hour — don’t know what I did to
cause that (maybe it wasn’t me)), and the os2sys.ini is 160KB.
I’d appreciate some help.
I’ll keep the original ini backups — they’re big, but they work.
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Jeff Jackowski http://ro.com/~jeffj
UAH-SEDS http://www.traveller.com/~seds
Team OS/2 http://www.teamos2.org
Hello,
I’m 14 years old and I think I may be a gay. I’m looking for some support and friendship
with a older male age 18-40. Please email if you can help.
I am connected to the Internet through an Ascend Pipeline 50. I have a NE2000
compatible PCI network installed in my Pentium system that is attached to the
hub with the Pipeline.
Since upgrading to WARP 4 I have noticed severe performance degradation when
transferring large files. Short transfers are Ok. I have been able to duplicate this
problem using FTP, NSNews, Free Agent, WebExplorer, and Netscape/2. During
transfers of large files, several Kbytes are transferred, then there is a wait of a
few seconds up to a few minutes. Then there will be another burst of data
followed by another wait. Ping reports normal responses while this is going on.
I can initiate other connections during the wait periods so I know the link is OK.
I have swapped out the ethernet card three times (each a differenct vendor and
driver). I also run NT 4.0 on this machine. While under NT, I do not see this problem.
All this leads me to the conclusion it is either the software or setup.
Any help would be appreciated.
After installing OS/2 Warp 4, I’m left with an icon for a
phantom drive B.
How can I remove this.
All thoughts welcome.
I have a funny problem… looks like time is running
faster under OS/2 
I wrote a Windows program which does some serial communication
with a measurement machine. When I tell the machine to start
a measurement I have to wait some time before the machine
is ready with that and does report me the new values….
However, I use the gettime(&ti) routine to scan for the time
and refer to the ti.ti_hund. Whenever the ti.ti_hund changes,
I do some graphic output (not really true, I only do it after
the ti.ti_hund changed three times) and increase a counter.
The problem is, the counter grows about two times faster
than when running under native Windows (or Windows 95).
More funny, after installing fixpack 22 the problem was gone
for a few weeks, but then suddenly it was there again although
I cannot remember changing anything in my program or system:-(
I installed fixpack 26, but my problem is still there…
Does someone have compareable problems or can explain me
why time is running faster under WINOS/2 and how to fix it ?
Thomas Bruss br…@uni-duesseldorf.de
Hi all!
Can anyone help with the following trap message I get after I have
successfully installed Warp 4.0 on bootup…….Warp loaded with no
problem….I had my internal and external cache enabled……like I
said load went without a hitch, however upon a reboot or shutdown
where Warp is loaded up….I get a "Trap 000e" message….it always
comes up on boot up….therefore making Warp 4 useless because I
cannot bypass it……the only way I can bypass it is to diable my
external cache in BIOS…..if I don’t, I might as well move back to
Windoze……I prefer not too!!…….Here is the error msg:
Trap 000e ERRCD=0000 ERACC=**** ERLIM=********
EAX=feed000c EBX=fdecd000 ECX=fff1a938 EDX=fff1a938
ESI=fdf84a88 EDI=00f4b584 EBP=00004c7c FLG=00013246
CS:EIP=0160:fff66ed0 CSACC=c09b CSLIM=ffffffff
SS:ESP=0030:00004c58 SSACC=1097 SSLIM=00003fff
DS=0158 DSACC=c0f3 DSLIM=ffffffff CR0=a001001b
ES=0158 ESACC=c0f3 ESLIM=ffffffff CR2=feed000c
FS=03b8 FSACC=00f3 FSLIM=00000023
GS=0000 GSACC=**** GSLIM=********
The system detected an internal processing error at location
##0160:fff54c70 – ac70. 6000, 9084
06860013
Internal revision 9.023, 95/11/07
The System is stopped. Record all of the above information and
contact your Service representative.
Any help would be appreciated …thanks
Hello,
Has anyone experienced a "noisy cursor" in a full screen OS/2 or VDOS
command prompt session running a Matrox Mill set at true colour, 75Hz,
1024×768? The problem is not there when I run a colour 8 bit colour
depth. Nor is there a problem when running the WPS.
I would appreciate some e-mail on this as the messages are cleared from
the newsgroup faster than I can keep up.
Many thanks in advance!
Mark Heseltine
hesel…@freenet.calgary.ab.ca
I am trying to upgrade from warp 3 for windows (red) to Warp 4.
The system is a Compaq Presario 972 CDS with 3.2 GB disk and 40M
DRAM. It has a CMD controller, and I am seeing the system lock
up just like Warp 3 did before the CMD fix. The hard disk light
tays on, but with no disk access. CRTL-ALT-Deldoesn’t work,
though sometimes I get the "System is re-booting…" message. I
can CTRL-ALT-NumLock twice to get the dump then CTRL-ALT-Del to
re-boot. In all cases, I then get "Disk controller failure" from
POST. I have to turn off the ‘puter to re-boot successfully.
Can anyone confirm whether the CMD chip fix is included in Warp 4?
Is there anything I need to do in CONFIG.SYS to support the CMD?
Thank you for any help you can offer.
Tom Marchant
t…@tmarchant.cc.wayne.edu