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TITLE: 941207 WARP ERROR MESSAGE "DRIVE X NOT READY PRESS ANY KEY"
DESCRIPTION OF SYMPTOMS:
CUSTOMERS USING THE BOOT MANAGER FEATURE UNDER OS/2 WARP MAY GET
THE ERROR MESSAGE "DRIVE 1 NOT READY PRESS ANY KEY" AND THE SYSTEM
BOOTS NORMALLY. OTHER DRIVES NUMBERS MAY ALSO BE REPORTED AS NOT
READY. THIS IS MOST PREVALENT ON COMPUTERS THAT UTILIZE A SCSI
HOST ADAPTER.
SUMMARY OF RESOLUTION:
THE CUSTOMER SHOULD CHECK THE HARDWARE SETTINGS OF ALL THE
DRIVES IN HIS SYSTEM. ON SYSTEMS WITH SCSI HOST ADAPTERS, BE
CERTAIN THAT ONLY BOOTABLE DRIVES HAVE A SCSI ID OF 0 OR 1.
USING FDISK FROM A PREVIOUS VERSION OF OS/2 TO INSTALL THE
BOOTMANAGER WILL CIRCUMVENT THE MESSAGE.
DETAILS OF RESOLUTION:
THE ERROR MESSAGE APPEARING IS THE RESULT OF ADDITIONAL
MESSAGEING THAT WAS ADDED TO ALERT A USER THAT AN EXTERNAL
DRIVE MAY NOT BE POWERED ON. ONE OF THE REASONS THAT IT APPEARS
FOR WARP USERS WITHOUT EXTERNAL DRIVES MAY BE A NON STANDARD
IMPLENTATION OF THE BIOS IN THE USERS SCSI CARD. USING
THE FDISK PROGRAM FROM A PREVIOUS VERSION OF OS/2 WILL STOP
THE ERROR MESSAGE FROM APPEARING. FDISK.COM IS LOCATED ON DISK 1
OF MOST VERSIONS OF OS/2 INSTALLATION DISKETTES, IT IS ALSO IN THE
\OS2SE21\DISK_2 DIRECTORY OF MOST OS/2 CDROMS.