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- From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
- Subject: Re: Questions: HPFS/Paradise
- Message-ID: <1993Jan27.204306.20254@midway.uchicago.edu>
- Sender: news@uchinews.uchicago.edu (News System)
- Reply-To: sip1@midway.uchicago.edu
- Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
- References: <0096723F.3B730C20@vms.csd.mu.edu> <1993Jan25.223615.21403@midway.uchicago.edu> <00967358.A5701220@vms.csd.mu.edu>
- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 20:43:06 GMT
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- In article <00967358.A5701220@vms.csd.mu.edu> 2609cowend@vms.csd.mu.edu writes:
- >>Yes. The first two diskettes in your OS/2 set constitute a bootable
- >>pair (see the FAQ List for details). Just place an OS/2 text mode
- >>editor (like tedp090.zip, available via anonymous ftp from
- >>ftp-os2.nmsu.edu; check file /pub/os2/00Index for location) on a
- >>floppy disk, and use that in an emergency.
- >>(I'll try to cover this better in future releases of the FAQ List.)
- > I tried to do this (yes, I did consult your FAQ before posting), but the
- >two disks wouldn't list any files in the partition. I'd have my E: prompt,
- >do a DIR, nothing. The problem was definately in the SIO/VSIO drivers
- >(the system would freeze once it initialized my COM3 when it ran the drivers
- >in config.sys), why would I not be able to access the files?
-
- OS/2 locked out the hard disk -- it wants you to run CHKDSK on it
- first. (A bit of a fail safe mechanism, I suppose.) That's part of
- the FAQ, too.
-
- >>No, they shouldn't. Your SoundBlaster isn't sharing in interrupt
- >>(like IRQ 7), is it?
- > No, my SoundBlaster is on IRQ 2, well away from my mouse, modem and
- >printer...the reason I ask is that all sound support in OS/2 works fine except
- >for the applets specifically for OS/2...
- > I had similar problems with the WinOS231 beta that came with the 2.00.1
- >beta, but that works fine with 2.1...
-
- In the CONFIG.SYS make sure you are listing IRQ 9 in those device
- driver statements that apply to your SoundBlaster (if any). IRQ 2 is
- mapped into IRQ 9 on the AT bus. (Well, that's an oversimplification,
- but that explanation will serve well enough for now.)
-
- (I'm just getting up to speed on OS/2 multimedia, by the way, so, if
- I'm to be considered an expert in anything, leave that one aside for
- now. :-) Give me a couple days. :-))
-
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