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- From: manaster@yu1.yu.edu (Chaim Manaster)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc,comp.periphs.scsi,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
- Subject: Can not delete files or partition volume name.
- Message-ID: <1318@alsys1.aecom.yu.edu>
- Date: 24 Jan 93 03:04:24 GMT
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- Organization: Yeshiva University
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- I have a strange problem relating to DOS, OS/2 and scsi.
- I have just added a scsi adapter (Bualogic 747s) to my EISA
- computer (AMI enterprise II, 486/33) motherboard). Previously I
- only had a WEstern Digital ESDI controller and one harddrive on it.
- So I now have two controllers with one hard drive each.
-
- I have several partitions on the original hard drive and one small
- OS/2 (FAT) partition that I am using to get used to OS/2. I also
- use stacker V. 2.0. Thus, on the ESDI drive I have the following:
- c: Primary dos partition.
- d:, e:, f: Logiacl drives on the extended DOS partit.
- g: Ramdrive
- h:-k: Stacker uncompressed partit. for c:-f:
-
- When I added the scsi drive I partitioned it so as to only create
- an extended partition. Thus this created g: and bumped all the
- other letters up by one. I then formatted the partition in DOS.
- It seemed like all was OK.
-
- THen I accessed the scsi drive from OS/2. The drive g: appeared as
- an Icon so I thought all was OK. Then I tried to double click on it
- and it replied with a sys00045 error. It gave the option to RETRY
- which I did, and it worked OK and accessed the tree for that scsi
- drive. However, when I tried again, it did the same thing, exactly,
- same error message and then worked on retry.
-
- I called IBM tech support and the entry level support told me to
- reformat using the IBM OS/2 format program which would also work
- for the DOS side of the computer. I tried that.
-
- In fact, I tried to repartition, using OS/2 fdisk (for the scsi
- drive only), and reformatting. WHen I got back to the DOS side of
- hte computer, the g: partition now had a VOLUME name: with 3
- characters that I can't reproduce. The first (and third) character
- is a degree symbol (a small circle) which I can reproduce by
- holding down alt and pressing 248 on the keypad. The middle
- character is an uparrow (which I can not reproduce at all! Some
- tables show this as 024 on the ascii table, but the alt 024 entry,
- just beeps at me, but does not produce a character.)
-
- In order to delete this partition in DOS, fdisk requires the name
- of the VOLUME, and I have no way of entering it!!
- I have tried to delete the partition in OS/2, but when Irecreate
- the partition (in OS/2 or DOS) that same 3 character VOLUME name is
- still there!
- The system (Idon't know wheter it is OS/2 or DOS) has also given me
- (at first one file, now up to three files) three files with wierd
- filenames (example: female symbol, up arrow, 0, and the like), with
- either zero length, short length, or 4,246,357,685 bytes being
- reported when you dor a DIR under DOS (this is near the addressing
- capability of the CPU)!
- I CAN NOT DELETE these files no matter how I tried both under DOS,
- and under OS/2.
- I tried using DOS delete
- Lotus Magellan - by highlighting the filenames, F3
- OS/2 dragging to shredder (got a sys00002 error
- that the files do not exist!)
- OS/2 delete object
-
- None of the above worked! The files still persist.
-
- I Then ran chkdsk g: /f on both the DOS and OS/2 sides of the
- system. There were some crosslinked files which the system took
- care of, but these file still persisted and were not eliminated,
- although the reported file sizes became 0, 0, 1,435,237 (THis was
- the file that perviously was 4 gig+).
-
- What is going on? How do I get rid of these bothersome files.
- How do I enter the wierd characters in the filenames and the VOLUME
- name of the partition?
- Is there something basic that is wrong.?
- I am using the btdosm.sys and btmdisk.sys supplied by Buslogic for
- the scsi driver, and using the generic OS/2 int 13 driver.
-
- Perhaps related to this is the fact that although the btmdisk.sys
- is loaded in the config.sys by a device= line, when I actually boot
- up, it reports that it was not loaded, without giving a reason as
- to why not. However, but for the above wierd problems, everything
- seems to work OK so far, (I just got it up, have not really worked
- it out to see if any other bugs.).
-
- Thank you very much for the help.
-
- Henry Manaster
- manaster@yu1.yu.edu
-
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