NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #18/NN_1992_18.iso/spool/comp/os/os2/misc/27650

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From: [e-mail] (Kyler Laird)
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Subject: Can't use A: drive with PM!
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Date: 18 Aug 92 21:41:16 GMT
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I think I'm going to lose it (again)!  I finally received LAN Server
2.0, so I cleaned off the server and tried to install OS/2 2.0.

Bzzz!  After reboot (during install), when I'm asked to disk 6, I'm
stopped.  I keep hitting [Enter], it keeps beeping and telling me to
put in disk 6.  (Yes, I did put it in, but the drive light doesn't
even come on.)

So...I decided to stick with good ol' 1.3 on the server.  The install
went fine.  Then I tried applying the CSD's.  No A: drive.  (Sector
not found error.)  So I finally swapped drives (B: was a 5.25") and
rebooted (and changed the CMOS).  Works (usually) o.k. as B:.  The
5.25" on A: doesn't, though.

My AMI BIOS is dated 04-09-90 - it checks out.

My drive cable _shouldn't_ be the problem since the A: drive is the
closer one to the controller card (on the cable).  Also, it works
just fine if I boot from a floppy.

I started to have this problem back when I was running MS LAN Manager,
but it was quite infrequent.  Now it's a major pain!

Any ideas?  (I'm still waiting on yet another call back from IBM.)

--kyler