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From: mattm@apollo.cs.pittsburgh.edu (Matt Mossholder)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: OS/2 and floppy drive problems
Summary: Prblems installing OS/2 1.2 EE
Keywords: OS/2 Floppy PERSTOR 1.2 EE
Message-ID: <8955@pitt.UUCP>
Date: 25 Oct 90 14:18:48 GMT
Sender: news@pitt.UUCP
Reply-To: mattm@apollo.gl.pitt.edu (Matt Mossholder)
Organization: Computing and Information Services, Univ. of Pittsburgh
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	Hi all, seems like I'm having some problems installing IBM OS/2 1.2 EE
of late. I am using:
		
		C&T chipset, AMI BIOS 386/33 motherboard
		PERSTOR PS180-16FN HD/FD Controller
		TEAC 1.44 MB Floppy Drive (A:)
		TEAC 1.2 MB Floppy Drive (B:)
		ST251-1 HD

The symptoms are:

		Half of the time it will start to boot, showing the IBM
		copyright, etc. Then bomb out on a line in the config.sys
		(usually COUNTRY.SYS, but I have also seen the DOSCALL1 DLL,
		the MSG DLL, and clock01.sys)

		The other half of the time, it will go anywhere from just past
		the copyright message to just after it asks me to insert 
		installation disk #1 before it issuse a Trap error 000C
		followed by Trap error 000D. It states the 000C trap is 
		a floppy device error (A:).

	Could this be the floppy controller on the Perstor? I don't think it is the drive, because it seems to work fine under MS-DOS 3.3 and Zenith MS-DOS
3.31. Is it the fact that I am try to run IBM's OS/2? Would CompuAdd OS/2 1.2
possibly solve the problem?

	I guess for now I'm going to have to stick to DOS/Windows 3.0 on this
machine and save OS/2 for the (yech) CGA 286 2 MB laptop. (sigh)

						Matt Mossholder
						mattm@apollo.gl.pitt.edu
						mattm@unix.cis.pitt.edu
						mattm@vms.cis.pitt.edu