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Date:	Mon, 17 Jun 2002 21:02:35 PST7
From:	Michael Rakijas <mrakijas@oco.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help <scoug-help@scoug.com >
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Trap inquiry (final note)

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** Reply to message from "Info2SYNass.NET" on Mon, 17 Jun
2002 08:35:42 PST7

> Hello
> Have you worked with some WIN tools on that disk ?

It's a Win-free machine.

> Did you try with DFSee ??
> Check with it !

Already did and had Steven looking over my shoulder. No apparent problems.

> Cheers, svobi

Thanks for the ideas anyway.

> mrakijas@oco.net on 17.06.2002 17.25.24
> Please respond to scoug-help@scoug.com
> To: scoug-help@scoug.com
> cc:
> Subject: SCOUG-Help: Trap inquiry (final note)
>
> Well, I went the whole nine yards. I booted to an old DOS disk
> and executed an FDISK /MBR (to disk 1 - OS/2's FDISK didn't seem
> to acknowledge the /MBR switch) to clear the master boot record
> and then deleted all existing partitions. I booted to OS/2
> floppies, recreated the partitions I needed and formatted HPFS.
> I reconnected drive 2, rebooted and copied all files back over
> from drive 2 to 1. No change! Drive 1 still traps on shutdown.
> I guess I have to chalk this one up to the (OS/2?) computer gods
> not liking the one drive. More likely, I guess that some timing
> or tolerance changed just enough to screw things up.
>
> Anyway, I'm still interested in ideas but I'm inclined to giving
> in to the swapped drive.
>
> -Rocky

-Rocky

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