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Date:	Mon, 17 Jun 2002 08:25:24 PST7
From:	"mrakijas" <mrakijas@oco.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	<scoug-help@scoug.com >
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Trap inquiry (final note)

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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

---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: Michael Rakijas
Reply-To: scoug-help@scoug.com
Date: Sat, 15 Jun 2002 20:13:19 PST7

>After trying all the non-invasive debug procedures I could think of, I broke
>down and opened the machine up. After reseating stuff and other fiddling with
>no behavior change, I attached a second hard drive as a slave to the original.
>Call the original drive disk 1 and the added, temporary drive disk two. After
>partitioning and formatting disk 2, I did the xcopy /h/o/t/s/e/r/v routine from
>1 to 2 after booting to floppy. To make sure that everything went as expected,
>I disconnected drive 1, reset drive 2 as master and rebooted (adjusting the BIOS
>in the process). Booting went perfectly and, even better, *NO TRAP AT
>SHUTDOWN*. Brilliant, I thought. Simply reformat disk1 and reverse the xcopy
>process and I should be good to go. So, after reconnecting disk 1 as master and
>disk 2 as slave and booting to floppy, I execute a FORMAT C: /FS:HPFS /L to make
>sure disk integrity is completely checked. I xcopy back to 1 from 2, disconnect
>2 to preserve one known good copy of the system and reboot. Although booting is
>fine, it again TRAPS AT SHUTDOWN! This is pretty screwy but fairly
>illuminating. It does seem to suggest that the rest of the hardware is okay.
>Maybe the drive is becoming flaky? I don't know - it seems to behave well
>otherwise.
>
>At this point, one has to consider just replacing drive 1 with drive 2 and
>leaving it at that. Although I will consider that, I'd like to leave it as a
>last resort since it was supposed to be a temporary solution and I had other
>plans for that drive. Is there nothing else I can try? Should I delete the
>partition on drive 1, repartition and try again or is this a waste of time? I
>know FDISK /MBR in DOS' FDISK resets the master boot record - will it do it with
>OS/2's? Would this have any value? Finally, would you say that the drive is
>faulty, maybe got a virus or is it just the combination of the drive/motherboard
>or some other drive interaction that is causing the problem?
>
>This should pretty much close it for me, though. I'll try a few more ideas
>that may come from this thread but I've got other things to do so I'll go for
>the fail safe if nothing else works. Thanks for all your suggestions and the
>help I've received with this problem.
>
>> Steven
>
>-Rocky

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