In <39DE5AE5.B6A03202_at_timharrison.com>, on 10/11/00
at 02:21 AM, Tim Harrison <harrison_at_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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