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From: rommel@lan.informatik.tu-muenchen.dbp.de (Kai-Uwe Rommel)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: OS/2 and floppy drive problems
Keywords: OS/2 Floppy PERSTOR 1.2 EE
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Date: 27 Oct 90 09:40:02 GMT
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In article <8955@pitt.UUCP> mattm@apollo.gl.pitt.edu (Matt Mossholder) writes:
>		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)

IBM OS/2 1.2 (I don't know about others) often has serious problems
accessing floppy drives. My drives also work well under DOS but I often
get "Drive not ready" even when a disk is in the drive. Retry often
solves the problem but sometimes it does NOT and the machine crashes
badly, and hitting three times Ctrl-Alt-NumLock is required to reboot
(Ctrl-Alt-Del does not work). This is always nice for the HPFS ...
When I boot OS/2 from a floppy, I also sometimes get "cannot access
country.sys" but not as often as you write. I couldn't yet figure it out
what the problem is (probably timing problems or interrrupts from the
controller) and there is no solution.

Kai Uwe Rommel

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