31 May
2008
31 May
'08
11:09 p.m.
Anybody happen to have disks for OS/2 2.1? I tried installing it today on my PS/2 65SX and
disk #8 is bad. not sure if anything past that is good or not.
Also I tried installing OS/2 1.1EE onto the same machine but fdisk could not find any
drives. Since that machine is SCSI does OS/2 expect ESDI drives?
TZ
31 May
31 May
11:38 p.m.
At 11:09 PM -0400 5/31/08, Teo Zenios wrote:
Anybody happen to have disks for OS/2 2.1? I tried
installing it
today on my PS/2 65SX and disk #8 is bad. not sure if anything past
that is good or not.
Also I tried installing OS/2 1.1EE onto the same machine but fdisk
could not find any drives. Since that machine is SCSI does OS/2
expect ESDI drives?
More likely MFM or IDE, I've never run 1.1EE, however, I ran 1.3 on
an IDE drive. Which is older, OS/2 1.1EE or the PS/2 65SX?
Zane
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11:55 p.m.
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Subject: Re: OS/2 problems
At 11:09 PM -0400 5/31/08, Teo Zenios wrote:
1.1EE is a year or two older then the 65SX. Just seems odd DOS FDISK had no
issues finding and formatting the drive but 1.1EE kept giving me errors.
Anybody happen to have disks for OS/2 2.1? I tried
installing it today on
my PS/2 65SX and disk #8 is bad. not sure if anything past that is good or
not.
Also I tried installing OS/2 1.1EE onto the same machine but fdisk could
not find any drives. Since that machine is SCSI does OS/2 expect ESDI
drives?
More likely MFM or IDE, I've never run 1.1EE, however, I ran 1.3 on an IDE
drive. Which is older, OS/2 1.1EE or the PS/2 65SX?
1 Jun
1 Jun
2:08 p.m.
2008/6/1 Teo Zenios <teoz at neo.rr.com>:
Just seems odd DOS FDISK had no
issues finding and formatting the drive but 1.1EE kept giving me errors.
No, not really. DOS uses the BIOS for disk access, so as long as the
controller is PC BIOS-compatible, DOS will see it and drive it.
Protect-mode OSs cannot use the BIOS, so they need to access the
hardware directly. This includes NT, Unix and OS/2.
Back in the day, DOS was a lot less fussy about hardware than any of
the protect-mode OSs. I still have some MCA hardware that only works
in DOS and Windows 3. :?(
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9:52 p.m.
Sorry, I don't have any v2 disks. Just 1.0, 1.3, 3 and 4.
You probably need for find a driver for your SCSI interface. Often
that means copying the boot disk (or the second disk, depending upon
the OS/2 version), freeing up some by getting rid of a driver you
don't need, adding your driver, and editing config.sys to add your
driver. What interface is it? I may have a driver in my
collection... Through 3.0 drivers were 16bit model, but not always
downward compatible, so if you can't find a 1.1 driver, you can try
the 2.1 driver.
Eric
On Sat, May 31, 2008 at 8:09 PM, Teo Zenios <teoz at neo.rr.com> wrote:
Anybody happen to have disks for OS/2 2.1? I tried
installing it today on my PS/2 65SX and disk #8 is bad. not sure if anything past that is
good or not.
Also I tried installing OS/2 1.1EE onto the same machine but fdisk could not find any
drives. Since that machine is SCSI does OS/2 expect ESDI drives?
TZ
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