10 Oct
2000
10 Oct
'00
6:21 p.m.
In <39DE5AE5.B6A03202(a)timharrison.com>om>, on 10/11/00
at 02:21 AM, Tim Harrison <harrison(a)timharrison.com> said:
I was more referring to the system stopping traps.
Those used to make my
heart stop, as they were very rare in my 5 years of OS/2 experience
(maybe I was a lucky one... I've heard others constantly having problems
-- although I usually found they were hardware problems).
Usually hardware. I remember ten or twelve in the last five years and most
were hardware or something stupid I did. That is a total for ten machines.
I think two or three of those traps were unexplainable.
I thought about calling an IBM tech support line one
day, and just
reading random information to them, to see if they even knew what I was
talking about. :)
I once did report via the web submission form. In one day, they called me
and said that the DualStore backup product driver I was running would not
work on a Networked Warp4 machine With a Floppytapedrive. Now that is
pretty cool. I wanted the program to run but had just upgraded from
Connect. They gave me the right answer even if it wasn't the one I wanted
to hear. It is the only time I have ever been forced to change software or
hardware on OS/2 in seven years. I've upgraded but that has been by
choice. :-)
> OS/2 has allways had a neato replacement (diagnostic) kernel which allows
> terminals to access the system even if it is crashed. I have never used
> it.
I feel remarkably stupid. I don't think I've
ever seen that...
It is the OS2KRNLD file. Don't recall if it ships with the system or is a
download, but it is freely available. The symbol file ships with the os
for the diagnostic kernel for sure. It is OS2KRNLD.SYM in the
\os2\pdpsi\pmdf\warp4 directory.
I doubt you are stupid or even remarkably so.
Regards,
Jeff
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