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- From: 5692330@mcimail.com (Robert Gammon)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: Who are "BillMc" resp. "MarkH" ????? Where to find ?
- Message-ID: <930107114050@rgam.sc.ti.com>
- Date: 7 Jan 93 16:40:49 GMT
- References: <93004.180747RONY@awiwuw11.wu-wien.ac.at>
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- In article <93004.180747RONY@awiwuw11.wu-wien.ac.at> FLATSCHER Rony <RONY@awiwuw11.wu-wien.ac.at> writes:
-
- >>
- >> What is the story ?
- >>
- >> Having installed OS/2 (various versions) on a brand-new IBM-PC
- >> with XGA-2 (ALF-type). Obviously something is wrong with it as
- >> it comes up with errors like "cannot demand-load segment * ->
- >> DOSCALL1.DLL", "application caused an illegal semaphore lock" etc.
- >>
- >> Sometimes it hangs hard and I have to cold-boot it.
- >>
- >> Now, the "funny" thing: All of a sudden, CHKDSK would not repair
- >> my F:-drive which is HPFS (and has tons of important data).
- >>
- >> This is what happens:
- >>
- >> CHKDSK F: /F
- >>
- >> ChkDsk warns me that data could be lost, I agree in order to
- >> proceed, immediately thereafter I get a message
- >>
- >> "********** ChkDsk attempting to write sector 0
- >> ********** Contact BillMc or MarkH to debug"
- >>
- >> Who is BillMc resp. MarkH ???
- >>
- >> How can I get in touch with them (am sitting in overseas, Europe/
- >> Austria) ? Any phone numbers ? Any instructions ?
- >>
- >> Has anyone any ideas ? I need access to that drive to move my stuff over
- >> to a new machine during the holidays.
- >>
- >> ---rony
- >> P.S.: If I say "CHKDSK F:" *without* specifying the fix-paramter "/F",
- >> then 2.00.1 German tells me, that there are "erroneous status
- >> information in the temporary assignment pool" (actually the
- >> original text is in German and reads: "Fehlerhafte Statusinformationen
- >> im temporaeren Zuordnungspool wurden von CHKDSK korrigiert.
- >> Die fehlerhafte Datei \ORACLE6\CGEN\MENUS\CGM3.SQL wurde von CHKDSK
- >> entfernt."
- >> Additionally I get some drive-infos:
- >>
- >> 308208 Kilobyte Gesamtgroesse (total amount)
- >> 157 Kilobyte in 125 Verzeichnissen (directories)
- >> 157968 Kilobyte in 2401 Benutzerdateien (files)
- >> 33 Kilobyte in erweiterten Attributen (extended attributes)
- >> 2048 Kilobyte sind fuer das System res..(reserved for system)
- >> 148001 Kilobyte verfuegbar (free)
- >>
- >> P.P.P.S.: Testing the drive with GammaTech finds no errors reading all of
- >> my 616.448 sectors.
- >>
-
- uh, don't know these guys, but shouldn't you be using "CHKDSK F: /F:3" for
- HPFS drives? I don't thinks that this is the source of your problem, just FYI.
- I suspect that these guys are IBMers somewhere in the depths of the OS/2
- development team.
-
- --
- Regards,
- Robert Gammon
- (713)-274-3299 (voice)
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