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.

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