Hello Will!

Wednesday May 12 1999 00:05, Will Honea wrote to Preston Smith:

 WH> I've gone to Texas and got sent right back again, so I'm still here.
 WH> We just don't have and BBS's left that carry a decent echo list so I
 WH> use Pete Norloff's OS2BBS vis telnet anymore.

That is really sad to hear


 WH> I don't see any reason that your swaps would have fouled up the drive
 WH> letter for the OS/2 partition, so that shoots that idea.  If you are
 WH> still have problems by the weekend, drop me an email and I'll swap the
 WH> drives about on one of the clunkers here and see what happens.  BTW,
 WH> you may be SOL getting busmastering unless both drives on the one
 WH> channel support it - seems that's what I saw when using the verbose
 WH> parm on the IBM1S506.ADD line, but it didn't crash, just forced both
 WH> drives to PIO.  I'll see if I can find the right drives to look at
 WH> that, too.

That is why I want to put the 1.2 and 6.4 gig drives on the same channel.
Since the swap of the drives did not affect booting from the OS/2 utility
diskettes and from Windows, could it be that there is something in the OS/2
partitions config.sys that is not in the correct order?  ie are their any
BASEDEV, DEVICE, etc and like statements that must be in a specific order in
the config.sys?

Also is there a possibility that the SCSI CD (which is in the W98 config but
not the Utility disk config) has some impact on the problem?  Similarly could
the SCSI tape drive which is only in the main partition's config play a role?

Preston (prsmith@navnet.net)

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