adnan@flammulated.rice.edu (Sarmad Adnan) (06/24/91)
I have installed OS2 on a 386 clone pc with 2 toshiba IDE drives and
have been having a strange problem. After booting up, OS2 locks up solid
within a couple of minutes. Even the mouse cursor remains frozen.
CRTL-ALT-DEL has no effect and the harddrive lights remain on until the
machine is reset. Is there a known problem with IDE drives (All or some ?).
I would appreciate any info.
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Sarmad Adnan (adnan@rice.edu)
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~feustel@netcom.COM (David Feustel) (06/24/91)
You didn't mention which version of OS/2 you're running. I suspect OS/2 more than the IDE drives, but then I have no experience with the Toshiba drives. I've had no problems with Conner and Maxstore drives. -- David Feustel, 1930 Curdes Ave, Fort Wayne, IN 46805, (219) 482-9631 EMAIL: feustel@netcom.com or feustel@cvax.ipfw.indiana.edu I voted for Bush once. As it's turning out, once was once too often.
wbonner@yoda.eecs.wsu.edu (Wim Bonner) (06/24/91)
In article <1991Jun24.003205.29353@rice.edu> adnan@flammulated.rice.edu (Sarmad Adnan) writes: > > >I have installed OS2 on a 386 clone pc with 2 toshiba IDE drives and >have been having a strange problem. After booting up, OS2 locks up solid >within a couple of minutes. Even the mouse cursor remains frozen. >CRTL-ALT-DEL has no effect and the harddrive lights remain on until the >machine is reset. Is there a known problem with IDE drives (All or some ?). >I would appreciate any info. It sounds almost like you might be having an interrupt problem. Is your IDE controller built in on the motherboard? If it is on a card, does it have a selectable interrupt? Wim -- Wim Bonner wbonner@yoda.eecs.wsu.edu 27313853@wsuvm1.csc.wsu.edu
adnan@flammulated.rice.edu (Sarmad Adnan) (06/24/91)
>>machine is reset. Is there a known problem with IDE drives (All or some ?). >>I would appreciate any info. >It sounds almost like you might be having an interrupt problem. Is your IDE >controller built in on the motherboard? If it is on a card, does it have a >selectable interrupt? >Wim I am using ibm os2 1.3, on a 386 clone. The IDE controller is on a seperate board and does not have selectable interupts. The system works fine with DOS, FASTBACK, and even windows in enhanced mode. -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Sarmad Adnan (adnan@rice.edu) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
kwb@betasvm2.vnet.ibm.com (Ken Borgendale) (06/25/91)
OS/2 1.3 was known to have problems with non-IBM IDE drives. The normal solution was to use the BASEDD01.SYS from OS/2 1.2. In the current CSD (WR05015) there is a fix reported for problem JR02978 which was caused by certain controllers giving back errors for commands to control the power down status of drives. Thus you might want to try the BASEDD01.SYS for OS/2 1.3.1. Ken Borgendale