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Date:	Mon, 19 Jan 2004 20:56:24 PST8
From:	waynec@linkline.com
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Utility diskettes hanging up

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waynec@linkline.com writes:

> Steven Levine writes:
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>> In <20040120035731.14560.qmail@beth.linkline.com>, on 01/19/04 at
>> 07:57 PM, waynec@linkline.com said:
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>>> I have a problem with a FAT16 partition, and when I tried to address the
>>> issue by running chkdsk /f I got a message saying the partition is in
>>> use
>>> by another program (nothing running at the time).
>>
>> Something is running. You have OS/2 booted and it has the drive locked.

I tried it again. A ctrl-esc shows only these tasks running:

Desktop - Icon View
WarpCenter
Drives - Icon View
Toolbar = Palette

But I still get a "SYS0108: Disk is in use by another process" when I try to
do a chkdsk against the E: drive.

Regardless of that, I need to get the diskettes working.

>>
>>> Anyway, now the diskette boot hangs up on the third diskette (DISK2)
>>> after it displays the hard drive adapters info screen (IDE and SCSI,
>>> looks normal) and starts loading drivers. It hangs with this list of
>>> loads on the screen, using either the June or the December diskette
>>> sets:
>>
>>> HPFS.IFS
>>> \DOS.SYS
>>> \MOUSE.SYS
>>> \TESTCFG.SYS
>>> CDFS.IFS
>>> \OS2CDROM.DMD
>>
>> How did you get this to display? Did you use Alt-F2 or do you have an
>> AltF2on.$$$ file? If so, this tends to indicate something changed wish
>> respect to your CD-ROM drive.
>
> I used Alt-F2. Not sure what could have changed, I don't think I changed a
> thing since I last used the diskettes... but I guess something must have
> changed.

I have a dvd and a cdrom on the machine. I have never tried to use the dvd
as a dvd under OS/2 (I can also boot WinXP on this machine, and I haven't
used the dvd under it, either. Both drives have been on the machine since I
built it. I just checked, and I'm able to read cdroms from both drives under
OS/2.

I have been contemplating adding an HP scsi cdrw... anyone know if I'd be
able to get that working (writing) under OS/2?

>
>>
>> If you are using a sufficiently new kernel, you can use Alt-F4 to single
>> step through config.sys.
>
> I'll try that, but my kernel may not be new enough: 10/18/2001

OK, alt-F4 worked, with the same list of loads... it stops and asks me to
push a key before each load, putting out the same messages as I listed
previously, with the pause before each... \os2cdrom.dmd never comes back to
another pause message. The os2cdrom.dmd program on the diskette has the same
date and size as the one in use on my normal system: 10/18/02 and 40156
bytes.

Wayne

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