home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Path: sparky!uunet!usc!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!decwrl!cache.crc.ricoh.com!crc.ricoh.com!wolff
- From: wolff@crc.ricoh.com (Gregory J. Wolff)
- Subject: OS/2 2.0 Dead End (Help needed)
- Message-ID: <1992Sep1.011014.21146@crc.ricoh.com>
- Keywords: hpfs, floppy, bugs
- Lines: 56
- Sender: news@crc.ricoh.com (USENET News System)
- Nntp-Posting-Host: neva.crc.ricoh.com
- Reply-To: wolff@crc.ricoh.com (Gregory J. Wolff)
- Organization: RICOH California Research Center
- Distribution: usa
- Date: Tue, 1 Sep 92 01:10:14 GMT
-
-
- After stumbling through several "challenging" difficulties over the past months,
- I finally found one I can't seem to get around. (I'll omit the full horror
- story, though it's better/worse than most of them...)
-
- The problem:
- OS/2 with HPFS installed fails to properly deal with floppies (3.5 inch)
- written by other systems (including the same machine before HPFS install).
- A directory listing shows only the first character in each filename
- and does not allow access to any of the files (File not Found error,
- even when double clicking the icon in the workspace). Also, files
- written by this system appear incorrectly on other systems (eg. only
- first character of file name shows up, directory table seems screwed up)
-
- The compound problem:
- After trying everything and making sure that all the documentation says that
- HPFS still uses FAT for floppies, I decide to try to boot with the FAT file
- system instead of HPFS (note: C partition is HPFS, D is FAT). Naively
- I remark out the IFS=HPFS line in my config.sys file. On Reboot OS2
- complains that there is no IFS line in my config file and stops the system.
- (Apparently it wants "IFS=" followed by nothing for FAT, why????)
- Attempting to boot from the OS2 installation disks seems to be going
- well until an error appears, the file A:\COUNTRY.SYS FILE NOT FOUND
- (or something close). I know that the file is there, and have
- not had this problem before in booting from installation disks.
- Also, I notice that the CONFIG.SYS file of disk #1 of the installation
- disks has a IFS=HPFS... line in it.
-
- The status:
- I'm totally stuck. I can't even get my computer to boot and even if I could
- get it to boot from a DOS disk, I doubt that I would be able to read/modify
- the CONFIG.SYS on the C: drive (HPFS partition).
-
- Please, if you have any suggestions please let me know, before my machine and
- OS2 go out the windows...
-
- Machine specs:
- 386 25 MHZ clone
- 12 Mbyte RAM
- 65 Mbyte RLL hard drive (2 30Mbyte partitions)
- 1.44 3.5in TEAC floppy
- 16 bit video card (Paradise?)
-
- Thanks in advance,
- -Greg
-
- PS. If anyone is collecting horror stories, and wants to hear mine, drop me a
- line.
- --
- Gregory J. Wolff
- Ricoh California Research Center
- 2882 SandHill Rd. Suite 115
- Menlo Park, CA 94025-7022
- wolff@crc.ricoh.com
- (415) 496-5718
- fax: (415) 854-8740
-