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- From: 5692330@mcimail.com (Robert Gammon)
- Subject: Re: OS/2 Beta: Swapper.dat and Auto Chkdsk
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- Organization: Texas Instruments Materials and Controls Group
- References: <C09G4L.I4w@chinet.chi.il.us>
- Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 16:00:33 GMT
-
- In article <C09G4L.I4w@chinet.chi.il.us> orac@chinet.chi.il.us (Paul Giovacchini) writes:
-
- >>
- >> Two items I noticed. My system has been TRAP D'ng the whole
- >> day, forcing me to reset. While running a DOS window, I get an
- >> SWAPPER FULL message. I went and checked and it was 20 meg!!! After
- >> I closed the window, I did a proper shutdown and it returned to 1 meg
- >> in size. Bug??
- >>
-
- No, feature. Every time OS/2 boots, it re-creates swapper.dat according to the
- SWAPPATH= spec in config.sys. For example: SWAPPATH=D:\SWAP 4096 4096 will
- create a new swapper.dat of 4MB size EVERY time OS/2 boots, and it will limit
- growth of swapper.dat to preserve at least 4MB of space on D:. The SWAPPER
- FULL message will still appear, this way you have an opportunity to save files
- before shtting down.
-
- >> Also, IBM seemed to changed the way auto chkdsk is done. In 2.0GA,
- >> it was done before the drivers were installed from CONFIG.SYS. Now,
- >> it is after. How I noticed this is while my system was coming up,
- >> it could not find the SCSI drivers for my CDROM. After hitting ENTER
- >> to continue, it runs chkdsk and then it installes the CDROM IFS,
- >> and since there are no SCSI drivers loaded, no CDROM.
- >> Those with CDROMs, hit the reset key and see if its just me. :-)
- >>
-
- I just added a CD-ROM to my system, and I have had to do hard resets. No,
- chkdsk runs BEFORE CDROM IFS is installed. HPFS.IFS is the FIRST line in
- my config.sys, CDROM.IFS is on line 91, cdrom.sys is on line 27, and BASEDEV
- for my SCSI adapter is on line 42 (the CD-ROM is the only thing attached to
- SCSI).
- --
- Regards,
- Robert Gammon
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