TITLE: 941207 WARP ERROR MESSAGE "DRIVE X NOT READY PRESS ANY KEY"

TITLE: 941207 WARP ERROR MESSAGE "DRIVE X NOT READY PRESS ANY KEY"

DESCRIPTION OF SYMPTOMS:

CUSTOMERS USING THE BOOT MANAGER FEATURE UNDER OS/2 WARP MAY GET THE ERROR MESSAGE "DRIVE 1 NOT READY PRESS ANY KEY" AND THE SYSTEM BOOTS NORMALLY. OTHER DRIVES NUMBERS MAY ALSO BE REPORTED AS NOT READY. THIS IS MOST PREVALENT ON COMPUTERS THAT UTILIZE A SCSI HOST ADAPTER.

SUMMARY OF RESOLUTION:

THE CUSTOMER SHOULD CHECK THE HARDWARE SETTINGS OF ALL THE DRIVES IN HIS SYSTEM. ON SYSTEMS WITH SCSI HOST ADAPTERS, BE   CERTAIN THAT ONLY BOOTABLE DRIVES HAVE A SCSI ID OF 0 OR 1. USING FDISK FROM A PREVIOUS VERSION OF OS/2 TO INSTALL THE BOOTMANAGER WILL CIRCUMVENT THE MESSAGE.

DETAILS OF RESOLUTION:

THE ERROR MESSAGE APPEARING IS THE RESULT OF ADDITIONAL MESSAGEING THAT WAS ADDED TO ALERT A USER THAT AN EXTERNAL DRIVE MAY NOT BE POWERED ON. ONE OF THE REASONS THAT IT APPEARS FOR WARP USERS WITHOUT EXTERNAL DRIVES MAY BE A NON STANDARD IMPLENTATION OF THE BIOS IN THE USERS SCSI CARD. USING THE FDISK PROGRAM FROM A PREVIOUS VERSION OF OS/2 WILL STOP THE ERROR MESSAGE FROM APPEARING. FDISK.COM IS LOCATED ON DISK 1 OF MOST VERSIONS OF OS/2 INSTALLATION DISKETTES, IT IS ALSO IN THE \OS2SE21\DISK_2 DIRECTORY OF MOST OS/2 CDROMS.