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- From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
- Subject: Re: Tape Drive Thru Parallel Port Troubles
- Message-ID: <1992Sep5.002457.24889@midway.uchicago.edu>
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- Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
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- Date: Sat, 5 Sep 1992 00:24:57 GMT
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- In article <16781@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu> freund@sakura.cs.ucdavis.edu (Jason Freund) writes:
- > Before installing OS/2, I backed up my HD with a Micro Solutions
- > Backpack tape drive, which operates thru the parallel port. Then I
- > installed DOS 5 in a FAT partition, and OS/2 in an HPFS logical
- > drive. Now I'd like to restore my backed-up files onto the HPFS
- > drive. But when I try to run the Micro Solutions backup software
- > (v 1.03.03), under OS/2, I get an "Unable to generate printer
- > interrupt error." Then the program freezes.
- > Solutions, suggestions welcome. (Wise thoughts also accepted, but
- > please stay on topic. No weirdos. :)
-
- Try REM'ming out the BASEDEV=PRINT01.SYS (?) line in your CONFIG.SYS,
- then rebooting. It might -- just might -- do the trick. Un-REM it to
- restore proper printing operation, of course.
-
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