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In article <00967358.A5701220@vms.csd.mu.edu> 2609cowend@vms.csd.mu.edu writes:
>>Yes.  The first two diskettes in your OS/2 set constitute a bootable
>>pair (see the FAQ List for details).  Just place an OS/2 text mode
>>editor (like tedp090.zip, available via anonymous ftp from
>>ftp-os2.nmsu.edu; check file /pub/os2/00Index for location) on a
>>floppy disk, and use that in an emergency.
>>(I'll try to cover this better in future releases of the FAQ List.)
>     I tried to do this (yes, I did consult your FAQ before posting), but the
>two disks wouldn't list any files in the partition.  I'd have my E: prompt,
>do a DIR, nothing.  The problem was definately in the SIO/VSIO drivers 
>(the system would freeze once it initialized my COM3 when it ran the drivers
>in config.sys), why would I not be able to access the files?

OS/2 locked out the hard disk -- it wants you to run CHKDSK on it
first.  (A bit of a fail safe mechanism, I suppose.)  That's part of
the FAQ, too.

>>No, they shouldn't.  Your SoundBlaster isn't sharing in interrupt
>>(like IRQ 7), is it?
>     No, my SoundBlaster is on IRQ 2, well away from my mouse, modem and
>printer...the reason I ask is that all sound support in OS/2 works fine except
>for the applets specifically for OS/2...
>     I had similar problems with the WinOS231 beta that came with the 2.00.1
>beta, but that works fine with 2.1...

In the CONFIG.SYS make sure you are listing IRQ 9 in those device
driver statements that apply to your SoundBlaster (if any).  IRQ 2 is
mapped into IRQ 9 on the AT bus.  (Well, that's an oversimplification,
but that explanation will serve well enough for now.)

(I'm just getting up to speed on OS/2 multimedia, by the way, so, if
I'm to be considered an expert in anything, leave that one aside for
now.  :-)  Give me a couple days.  :-))

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