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- From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
- Subject: Re: Can I *PLEASE* get a fast COMM driver that &^$#* works!?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan24.172609.18386@midway.uchicago.edu>
- Sender: news@uchinews.uchicago.edu (News System)
- Reply-To: sip1@midway.uchicago.edu
- Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
- References: <kucTXB1w165w@vicuna.ocunix.on.ca>
- Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 17:26:09 GMT
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- In article <kucTXB1w165w@vicuna.ocunix.on.ca> frampton@vicuna.ocunix.on.ca writes:
- >Well, after my last posting about experiencing a severe system crash
- >using Ray Gwinn's SIO driver (version 0.31, I believe) somebody told
- >me that 0.34 is out and suggested I give it a try.
- >The result?
- >The system detected an internal processing
- >error at location ##0160:fffa3bb4 - 000d:00049bb4.
- >60000, 7016
- >038600d1
- >Internal revision 6.307, 92/03/01
- >The system is stopped. Record the location number
- >of the error and contact your service representative.
- >So, in essense, nothing has changed from the last time. Grrr -- this
- >is *really* beginning to piss me off. Of course, this did a number on
- >my D: drive that I had to repair with CHKDSK (which means a 10 minute
- >boot-up from the ^#$@! floppies!).
- >This time I'm going to include *all* pertinent information and hopefully
- >*somebody* out there can tell me what an idiot I've been and what to
- >change to get this to work.
- >First of all: I am running OS/2 2.0 GA, Syslevel XR02000 (by the way,
- >*why* does it take over 10 minutes for the "Syslevel" command to give out
- >that info!?)
-
- It may take a while because SYSLEVEL checks all drives, whether local
- or networked. It also checks all directories. (I think IBM should
- probably find a way to keep SYSLEVEL from checking networked drives.)
-
- Would you believe there's an sio040.zip now? This driver is being
- updated very rapidly. You can find sio040.zip in /pub/uploads (for
- the moment) on ftp-os2.nmsu.edu via anonymous ftp.
-
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