NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #18/NN_1992_18.iso/spool/comp/sys/ibm/pc/misc/11713

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From: [e-mail] (Michael C. Smit)
Subject: Help: Floppy Address Overwritten
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Organization: University of Waterloo
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Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 06:04:31 GMT
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Tonight, I was messing around with the new internal modem installed
in my computer.  While in Kermit, I tried to set its address space
for COM3.  Unfortunately, I believe I gave it the wrong value (3f8
rather than 3e8) due to a slip up.  Now drive a: on my 386 will not
read data in from disk, though drive b: works.

A search of my modem, online Kermit, i/o board and MSDOS5 manuals
turned up nothing on how to reset those addresses to their proper
default values, which is what I would like to do.  I tried a cold
reset, but that didn't work.  A search through the simtel index
gave me no clues as to a program to either detect what was wrong,
or reset the addresses.  This wouldn't be so annoying, except that
I was restoring from a backup of a repartitioning of my hard drive,
and most of my backups are zipped on the 5 1/4" media, which only
a: can read.

Any help is greatly appreciated.  If their is an authoritative
answer, I'll be sure to post it as a summary and get it to archive
sites for future mishaps, like mine.  Thank you.
--
]\\ `/ ]<  (Michael C. Smit)\%\%\"When first I appear, I seem delirious,
_I'm_ responsible for all of it\%\ Once explained, I'm nothing serious."
[e-mail]\ The mysterious man, _Into the Woods_