Subject: [os2genau_digest] No. 655
From: Digest <deadmail>
To: "OS/2GenAu Digest"<deadmail>
Date: Fri, 4 Jul 2003 00:02:01 EST-10EDT,10,-1,0,7200,3,-1,0,7200,3600

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Thursday 03 July 2003
 Number  655
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Subjects for today
 
1   OS/2 SIG Report for June 2003 : John Angelico" <talldad at kepl dot com dot au>
2   Unable to register : Peter L Allen" <allenpl at netspace dot net dot au>
3  Re:  Unable to register : Mike O'Connor" <mikeoc at dodo dot com dot au>
4  Re:  Unable to register : Paul Smedley" <paul at smedley.info>

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Date:  Thu, 03 Jul 2003 08:51:58 +1000 (AEST)
From:  "John Angelico" <talldad at kepl dot com dot au>
Subject:   OS/2 SIG Report for June 2003

Hello, everyone.

Copy of Melbourne OS/2 SIG report from our June meeting.

Best regards
John Angelico
OS/2 SIG
talldad at melbpc dot org dot au or talldad at kepl dot com dot au
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Melbourne PC SIG Meeting Report
To: G Taig Features Editor PC Update
Report Date: 27 June 2003
Meeting Date: 24 June 2003
Report by: John Angelico (03) 9544 8792

Winter has set in and our June meeting attendance was down to the faithful
few. However, we welcomed Paul Smedley from the SA OS/2 group who was in
Melbourne with his work. We all enjoyed the opportunity to meet someone who
was up till then only a signature on an email!

Following a pause for setup, we introduced our guest presenter Ian Manners
from the iPrimus Support Centre and ComKal Consulting, who took us through
the concept of a Journaling File System, plus some of the history of the
eCS JFS, and then demonstrated the latest beta but one of bootable JFS
partition code.

In response to questions, Ian explained the design of the JFS, how it
differed from other data integrity schemes such as transaction logging in a
database system, and some of the performance statistics comparing HPFS to
JFS. There are clear advantages in file reading/file serving situations as
well as in recovery of file integrity after a power loss. However, there is
no substitute for a UPS with orderly shutdown for actual data protection,
since any loss of power loses cached data. 

Tech-Talk in the second half of the meeting would have covered problems
members were having with eCS installations, but was deferred given the
small numbers.

Next meetings:
July 22nd
Aug 26th

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Date:  Thu, 03 Jul 2003 10:53:29 +1000 (EST)
From:  "Peter L Allen" <allenpl at netspace dot net dot au>
Subject:   Unable to register

One box pauses a few seconds before announcing the NIC driver and bleats
"Unable to register"
then carries on with boot - peer networking with netbios appears OK.
FP 12 	inetver 4.02y
Other box with same NIC (IBM/Intel PCI 10/100) boots normally.
What's "Unable to register" trying to tell me?
			
					Regards,
							allenpl

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Date:  Thu, 03 Jul 2003 14:25:06 +1000
From:  "Mike O'Connor" <mikeoc at dodo dot com dot au>
Subject:  Re:  Unable to register

Peter L Allen wrote:

>One box pauses a few seconds before announcing the NIC driver and bleats
>"Unable to register"
>then carries on with boot - peer networking with netbios appears OK.
>FP 12 	inetver 4.02y
>Other box with same NIC (IBM/Intel PCI 10/100) boots normally.
>What's "Unable to register" trying to tell me?
>  
>

Hi Peteri,
Maybe IRQ conflict with something else on the motherboard or in a slot 
[ISA/PCI]. Check your IRQ settings in the BIOS.
HTH

-- 
Regards,
Mike

Failed the exam for
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MCSE - Minesweeper Consultant and Solitaire Expert
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Date:  Thu, 03 Jul 2003 19:43:53 +0950 (CST)
From:  "Paul Smedley" <paul at smedley.info>
Subject:  Re:  Unable to register

Heya Mike & Peter,

On Thu, 03 Jul 2003 14:25:06 +1000, Mike O'Connor wrote:

>>What's "Unable to register" trying to tell me?
>
>Maybe IRQ conflict with something else on the motherboard or in a slot 
>[ISA/PCI]. Check your IRQ settings in the BIOS.

The message rang a bell but couldn't quite remember of first read - but I think Mike is right.  
I got a similar message with the Via 686 audio drivers - it basically means that the driver is 
unable to register the IRQ with Resource Manager - nothing major to worry about AFAIK.

Cheers,

Paul.

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