YA uP V2.4

[Randy Jarrett WA4MEI]

In article <349 at puck.UUCP> asp at puck.UUCP (Andy Puchrik) writes:
>In article <421 at zinn.MV.COM>, mem at zinn.MV.COM (Mark E. Mallett) writes:
>> In article <347 at puck.UUCP> asp at puck.UUCP (Andy Puchrik) writes:
>> >
>> >Has anyone added a second disk after installing V2.4?
>> 
>
>I can certainly make a unix filesystem on the 2nd disk, but it always
>wipes my dos partition.  If I then add the dos partition I lose the
>
>I couldn't handle taking a two minute siesta everytime I used control-S
>-- 


I installed my 2.4 upgrade about 2 months ago and as of this date havn't
had any of the above problems.  I am running on one of the clone
286 systems that use the NEAT chip set at 12.5 Mhz, with 2 CDC 85Mb 
drives on the standard WD controller (1002...???) don't remember the
exact model.  I have a 20Mb dos partition on both drives. I used the
fdisk that came with the uport system to create both filesystems. I have
not had the first disk error that about drove me crazy with 2.3.  

I am constantly using the ^S ^Q combo to controll scrolling and 
havn't experienced any problems there. I have a clone type (cheap)
herc. compatable video board.

The only problems that I did experience was first with the Archive
tape backup.  There is an error in the master file that I did not 
catch at first in which they are assigning the ev interface instead
of the ar for the drive.

After making that change the tape came up working properly but when
I tried to install the drivers for the Connect Tech intelligent
serial board (that had already been checked out with 2.4) in the same
kernal as the tape was in I could not get the system to boot.  The
fix for this problem was to link ifile.text4 to ifile instead of
ifile.text3 in the linkkit/cf directory.  When installing both sets
of drivers in the kernal it created 4 text segments.

I have been using this combination for about a month now without
any panics, or errors at all.

All in all I am quite happy with 2.4 now if I could only get
back the money that I wasted on a non-functional Dos Merg package
when I first bought the whole system.


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