Installation Woes
- From: "Nathan Liskov" <nate@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 09 Dec 2005 13:59:40 -0600
have an os/2 system with 3 os/2 operating system partitions, only one
of which is currently working. The good system has gotten flakey
lately
so I have been trying to reinstall new 4.5.2 systems in the backup
partitions but with no success. I probably have a hardware problem
but have
not been able to determine what it is.
I first tried using new installation disks that I got from Passport
Advantage perhaps 6 or 8 months ago. At first I got a Trap E upon
inserting the second disk. After making new install floppies and
adding
my SCSI driver (TMSCSIW.ADD for a Techram DC-390U2B/W controller) to
the
second disk, modifying config.sys to add this driver and REM out all
other SCSI drivers(all on the second disk) , I got past the trap E,
but
my SCSI driver would not load. (I monitored the drivers that loaded
by
hitting ALT-F2 at the blob - also ALT-F4 allows bypassing various
drivers for experimentation). I added SET COPYFROMFLOPPY=1 to
config.sys (1st line, last line or in between) to no avail (SCSI
driver does not load).
Upon insertion of the last disk, I get a message that neither my hard
drive
nor my floppy can be operated. I also experimented with commenting
out
various .SNP driver search files form SNOOP.LST, especially those of
SCSI drivers I know are not needed.
I also tried installation disks from an earlier version of 4.5.2. At
first OS2CDROM.DMD was not loaded - but then I found that that driver
was simply missing from the second disk. Then either I get a message
indicating that the SCSI CDROM is no functioning or if it is I get a
message that sysinst2.exe failed to return the target drive.
I also have an IDE DVD/CDROM reader/writer (LITE-ON), but have not yet
fully experimented with using that for installation with the
appropriate
DANI drivers.
What makes this so painful is that the reboots often go through a
CHKDSK
on every partition. With two 36 Gb SCSI drives and a 250 GB SATA
drive this can take a long time, particularly when errors are
corrected.
It is possible that my SCSI controller is having problems in that
sometimes it does not see the second SCSI hard drive or the Plextor
SCSI
CDORM, but a reboot usually fixes that and they then work fine. The
SCSI drives are IBM DRVS18V drives that have been working continuously
for about 10 years. They make a bit of high pitched noise, but I
think
that is characteristic of those drives. However, I did have to change
the
transfer rate from 40 to 20 mbps.
My motherboard is an ASUS A7V8X-X with 1 gB of RAM and a 3.2 GHz or so
equivalent AMD socket 462 processor. This MB was selected by
experimentation about a year ago when my last MB died - it booted up
to
the existing working partition, while some faster 64 bit processor
boards did not.
When booting up to my good partition, everything works pretty well,
but
I do get hangs sometimes within hours but perhaps not for a week or
two.
Previously, with my old MB I would be up for weeks to months.
I'd be happy to replace any hardware, but really don't have a clue
what
is at fault. Any suggestions for a better MB or controller with os/2
installation will be appreciated.
I now have a windows XP machine as well as my OS/2 box (with an AB KVM
switch) but much prefer to use OS/2 as I am comfortable using it and
have all my various utilities etc.
Thanks in advance for any suggestions.
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