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Date:	Mon, 19 Jan 2004 21:19:23 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:
>>

>>>> 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.

waynec@linkline.com writes:

Took a look at config.sys and found a screensaver with a device and run
statement for the E: drive; rem'd them out. Only other references to e:
were on the libpath, path, and deldir statements. Likewise for deldir in
autoexec.bat and autoexec.mga.

Rebooted and still got the sys0108 error when I tried running chkdsk. There
was one program (tpmonitor) in the startup folder running off E:, but I shut
it down and still got the sys0108 error when I tried chkdsk again.

>
> 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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