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Date:	Wed, 21 Jan 2004 12:06:04 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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Steven, I sent an email containing the config.sys files to your personal
email sunday night, as I thought that's where you wanted it sent. Did you
get the email?

Wayne

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Steven Levine writes:

> In <20040120045649.97484.qmail@miho.linkline.com>, on 01/19/04
> at 08:56 PM, waynec@linkline.com said:
>
>>I tried it again. A ctrl-esc shows only these tasks running:
>
> As I said, something is running. Is locking the driver because something
> is referencing it. You probably have Desktop objects referencing files on
> the partition. It really does not matter what it is. You are unlikely to
> be able to change this.
>
>>Regardless of that, I need to get the diskettes working.
>
> True, since you don't have a maintenance partition.
>
>>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.
>
> Hard to say what's causing the hang since the diskettes used to work.
> Make sure you have CDs in both drives. It might be hung trying to access
> the driver. Make sure the driver versions on the diskette match what you
> are using on the hard drive.
>
>>I have been contemplating adding an HP scsi cdrw... anyone know if I'd be
>> able to get that working (writing) under OS/2?
>
> I use a Yamaha SCSI CDRW. Works fine.
>
>>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.
>
> That confirms that CD ROM access is the problem. E-mail me a copy of the
> config.sys for the normal boot and for the diskettes. Maybe I'll see
> something.
>
> You can always disconnect the CD drives at the cable and see if that is
> sufficient to allow you to boot.
>
> Regards,
>
> Steven
>
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