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- From: gagnon@aix1.uottawa.ca (Jean-Serge Gagnon 564-7183)
- Subject: Re: Is this abug in the SP ?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov5.175524.12891@csi.uottawa.ca>
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- Organization: Computing & Comm. Services, University of Ottawa
- References: <1992Nov2.233024@IASTATE.EDU> <3oHNTB2w165w@tcscs.UUCP>
- Date: Thu, 5 Nov 92 17:55:24 GMT
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- In article <3oHNTB2w165w@tcscs.UUCP> srcsip!tcscs!zeta writes:
- >amah@IASTATE.EDU () writes:
- >
- >> Today I tried get a dir list of the files on a diskette (A: drive). The
- >> diskette was apparently unformatted. My display went out of sync. Couldn't se
- >> anything legible on the screen. Tried switching to WPS but Ctrl+Esc didn't
- >> work.
- >> After a few minutes of trying different things, I removed the floppy and
- >> inserted a new formatted one and hit return. It gave me a dir listing of driv
- >> A: and everything went back to normal.
- >>
- >> I tried several times and found that if the diskette in drive A: is unformatt
- >> I can't even switch to A: without screwing up the display and no matter what
- >> try, the only way to get the screen back to normal is to remove the unformatt
- >> diskette and replace it with a formatted one. It doesn't matter if I have SVG
- >> ON or OFF.
- >>
- >> Any suggestions ?
- >>
- >Try doing a dir A: with no disk in the drive. If the same thing happens,
- >then your screen is losing sync when OS/2 goes to a text mode and tries
- >to inform you that the system has had a problem...and prompts you for
- >a reaction....
- >
- >If DIR A: without a disk in it does NOT duplicate your original problem,
- >then I don't have a clue..
- >
- >Greg
-
- I would agree. If you get any error from reading a disk in a full-screen
- session, OS/2 switches to 80X25 mode (maybe mono) and gives you an error
- message blahblahblah, and you must press enter for the default action without
- pressing any of the arrow keys which if retry.
- I would guess that the problem had to do with mode switching. Maybe your
- svgadata.pmi file? Try turning SVGA OFF and the a dir a:.
-
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