14 Nov 99 14:52, Dave Davidson wrote to All:

 DD> AMD K6/2-350 10.3GB Seagate, all OS/2, with 96MB memory.  OS/2 only 
 DD> see's 8.3GB of the drive so the other 2GB is wasted.

Have you grabbed the latest IDE drivers? IIRC, they corrected that
problem so you can now use upwards (and beyond?) 36GiB drives or so.

 DD> (1) When I open the DRIVE Icon to see the list of available drives, 
 DD> how can I prevent the error message regarding DRIVE A not ready, 
 DD> simply because there isn't a disk in the drive?

I'm looking for a similar answer myself. Mainly, when I boot and there's
an audio CD in the drive, I get an error about no file system on the
drive, or drive unreadable, or some other such nonsense.

When I open the drives icon, though, I don't get that error. It
automagically figures out that there is no floppy in my drive A:, and no
ZIP disk in my I:

 DD> (2) I have two Internal USR/3Com Sportster 56k modems on COM3 and 
 DD> COM4, neither of which, is a "WINModem". SIO only registers COM1 and 
 DD> COM2 when OS/2 is loaded and as a result, neither modem is available 
 DD> under OS/2. I _did_ add the line  
 DD> to the DEVICE=SIO line in the config.sys file. Is there anything else 
 DD> I need to do?

Have you tried adding the IRQ to the entries?

 

 DD> (3) With FP9, my Internal ATAPI ZIP Drive _IS_ recognized and used by 
 DD> OS/2 however, the ONLY way I can eject a ZIP disk is to exit OS/2!

Open the Drives icon, right click the ZIP drive and select "Eject Disk".
Works every time!

Otherwise - there's a command-line utility (EJECT.EXE) that you can use.
Here, I use "eject I:" and out pops the disk.

 DD> (4) Is there any way to get rid of the Blue background with the OS/2 
 DD> WARP Logo on the desktop? I would prefer a totally black background 
 DD> with just the Icon's and tool bar, etc., displayed. Is this possible 
 DD> and if so, how?

Right-click your desktop, select "Properties" (should be the second one
from the top, unlike at the bottom in that 'other' OS), and click the
"Background" tab. Within the Background configuration, you'll see "Color
Only" (damn US English!) and "Select Color". Both should be pretty self
explanatory, so I won't insult you :>

 DD> (5) I haven't tried it yet, but the question still remains.... Will 
 DD> DOS Communications programs bomb under OS/2 with a ScreenSaver active 
 DD> as they do with WIN9x? Keep in mine I've been using WIN9x for a few 
 DD> years and it may take a while to get over the "WIN think" as well. 

Heh.. Luckily, I got over that rather quickly :> Especially after
starting to use Linux - I had to lose a) the DOS think, and b) the
single user think! What a transition that was...

Anyways, I'm not sure about the DOS comm program thing, because I use
neither a DOS comm program or a screen saver.

Stewart Honsberger,
  blackdeath@tinys.oix.com

... The city is not a concrete jungle.  It is a human zoo.
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