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From: aong@mtu.edu (Peace - No War!)
Subject: What's wrong? (Virus related)
Keywords: Filler, Virus, Stacker, SCAN
Organization: Michigan Technological University
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 11:03:45 GMT

Hi everyone...

I was doing my first scan using McAfee's SCAN 8.9V97 on my computer
and this is what I found out :

1) Fresh from reboot, SCAN reported everything's fine with this
   message -

> Scanning memory for critical viruses.
> [Scanning 64K RAM - Scanning 1088K RAM]
> Scanning for known viruses.
>
> Scanning Volume: MS-DOS_5
> [Scanning partition table of disk C: ....]
....

2) Then I rerun SCAN for the second time and this is what I got -

> Scanning memory for critical viruses.
> [Scanning 64K RAM - Scanning 1088K RAM]
>  Found the Filler [Filler] Virus active in memory.
>
>  Power down the system immediately.
>  Reboot from a clean, write protected system diskette and then
>  re-run SCAN to determine extent of hard disk infection.

What's wrong?  I'm running Stacker 3.0 and using a Bernoulli Drive,
a sound card and a CDROM.

Here's the output of "mem /c" :

> Conventional Memory :
>
>  Name                Size in Decimal       Size in Hex
> -------------      ---------------------   -------------
>  MSDOS              16960      ( 16.6K)       4240
>  HIMEM               1072      (  1.0K)        430
>  EMM386              3232      (  3.2K)        CA0
>  VSAFE              21008      ( 20.5K)       5210
>  DD250              31824      ( 31.1K)       7C50
>  COMMAND             2624      (  2.6K)        A40
>  DOSKEY              4128      (  4.0K)       1020
>  MSCDEX             27952      ( 27.3K)       6D30
>  FREE                  64      (  0.1K)         40
>  FREE              546224      (533.4K)      855B0
>
> Total  FREE :       546288      (533.5K) 
>
> Upper Memory :
>
>  Name                Size in Decimal       Size in Hex
> -------------      ---------------------   -------------
>  SYSTEM            167472      (163.5K)      28E30
>  DOSOAD             17536      ( 17.1K)       4480
>  SETVER               400      (  0.4K)        190
>  STACKER            51040      ( 49.8K)       C760
>  MVSOUND            10784      ( 10.5K)       2A20
>  MOUSE               8816      (  8.6K)       2270
>  FREE                 272      (  0.3K)        110
>  FREE                5648      (  5.5K)       1610
>
> Total  FREE :         5920      (  5.8K) 
>
> Total bytes available to programs (Conventional+Upper) :      552208   (539.3K)
> Largest executable program size :                             545936   (533.1K)
> Largest available upper memory block :                          5648   (  5.5K)
> 
>    7340032 bytes total contiguous extended memory
>          0 bytes available contiguous extended memory
>    7053312 bytes available XMS memory
>            MS-DOS resident in High Memory Area

Any help or responses are much appreciated.  Thanks in advance.

Andy (aong@mtu.edu)
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From: morgan@dl5000.bc.edu (Morgan Stair)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.os.linux,comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32,comp.os.os2.programmer
Subject: Re: SCSI Transfer Rates ??
Date: 22 Jan 93 15:11:05 GMT
Article-I.D.: dl5000.MORGAN.93Jan22101105
	<1993Jan19.211953.26368@mksol.dseg.ti.com> <C16GHF.34r@unix.portal.com>
Distribution: all
Organization: Institute for Space Research, Boston College


>>Didn't he say it was a VL card?  That means that the CPU can't do
>>anything anyway, since when the disk controller has the local bus the
>>CPU can't talk to memory or anything anyway.  This is why I don't see
>>VL as a real win for anything except perhaps video; it will give you
>>great burst mode numbers, but it impacts overall system performance to
>>do that.  
>
>That doesn't make any sense. The only way to minimize the hit the CPU
>takes when doing DMA is to make the DMA go as fast as possible, which is
>what VLBus does. There's no free lunch. :)

  I'm on the verge of upgrading my 486DX-33 ISA machine to a 33MHz
VL-ISA motherboard that can handle a DX2 chip (To head off the
tangential questions now, there's a problem with my motherboard, and
the dealer's letting me swap up to what I think is a better
motherboard for a little more money).

  Is the VL bus an improvement or not?  I thought VL-ISA would be
superior to an EISA bus for my needs.  I mean, aside from video and
hard disks (2 VESA slots) what COMMON applications are there for DMA
transfers > 5MB/sec?  I suppose loading data into a soundcard's buffer
is one, but the industry is just starting to take advantage of the
16bit DMA channels (4-7) on the ISA bus (Gravis Ultrasound Card).

  I never put together that VL cards lock up the local bus to do their
transfers, whereas DMA transfers to/from an ISA card DON'T!!  Is this
true?  I know MS-DOS and MS-Winows (I think) aren't smart enough to
be impacted by this, but can anyone comment on whether any PC UNIX (Linux?),
Windows-NT, or OS/2 operating systems are intelligent enough to be
impacted, and how bad would it really be?

  Morgan
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: sharris@chopin.udel.edu (Scott A Harris)
Subject: Sony 1302 (not 1320) monitor for sale
Organization: University of Delaware
Distribution: usa
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 21:06:20 GMT


By an ordering freak of nature I have been given the Sony 1302 monitor
instead of the 1320 I ordered.  That's 1302, not 1320.  The specs on
these monitors are as follows:
SVGA
1024x768
14"
.25mm dot pitch
Interlaced
 
These monitors will come with the appropriate cable for your system
(if your system is a mac) and the stand.  Full warranty from the 
manufacture will also be included.  Will work with
most macs (not the classics) and most IBMs and compatibles.
The retail price is $995, I have seen them in most mail order
catalogs for $499, I need to get rid of them soooo I'm asking $450.
You pay shipping.  
 
Scott
sharris@chopin.udel.edu
-- 
Scott Harris
sharris@chopin.udel.edu
From: autry@sgi.com (Larry Autry)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: CGA on a monochrome monitor?
Date: 26 Jan 93 06:29:42 GMT
Organization: Silicon Graphics, St. Louis, MO
NNTP-Posting-Host: magellan.stlouis.sgi.com

In article <1k2073INNpuh@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> ah157@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Rob Henry) writes:
>I have a monochrome amber monitor and a cga emulator card right now,
>actually a mono graphics card.
You need to know whether you have a TTL monochrome monitor with
Hercules compatibility, or an RS-170 (aka NTSC)  monochrome monitor.

>Now,I have a program that needs true cga to run.
>Since cga cards have a 9 pin connector xlike my monitor has,can i plug
>it in and get cga on my mono monitor?
If your system "thinks" that you have a CGA monitor by virtue of the
fact that this board is emulating it, then no problem, right?

>I think cga has 2 colors right?
No, a CGA monitor has 16 colors.

>Also,would i set my bios to color instead of monochrome once i hook
>it up?
This question throws me off because above you state that you are doing
CGA emulation in which case I would think that you should already be
telling your BIOS that you have a color monitor.

There are a bunch of different CGA emulators for Hercules type
monitors at wuarchive.wustl.edu in the /mirrors/msdos/screen
directory.

By the way, I have a similar situation in reverse.  I have a TTL type
monitor that I am running off of an ATI Graphics Solution card.  This
card can run a CGA monitor directly and only in CGA mode.  It can
also run a TTL monitor in Hercules mode, IBM Monochrome Text mode or
in CGA emulation mode.  You can either configure with switches or in
software that is provided with the board.  The board comes with
configuration software as well as several software specific drivers
(i.e Lotus, Wordstar and Framework).  Even though I just got the
board six months ago, its an older product ( date of manual= Sept. 89).

I am posting instead to see if others can add to this.

--
Larry Autry
Silicon Graphics, St. Louis
autry@sgi.com 
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: fer@work.cern.ch (Fer de Jong)
Subject: IBM-AT with un-identified parts and features
Organization: CERN European Lab for Particle Physics
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 12:06:02 GMT


Hello,

after opening a original IBM AT that I received a while
ago I found a card that I would like to know more about
but of course I never received the manuals with the
computer.

The card is a full length AT card that drives the
floppy and the harddisks. It is marked AT-2000 and
has no others names on it. It has a number of jumpers
(about 9 I think). Can anybody tell me what this is, and
more important what the jumper settings mean, I need to hook
the harddrives up to another controller (RLL instead of
MFM) but can not get the system to boot if I just disconnect
the harddrives from the current controller.
Is one of the jumpers for turning drive B: off as shadow of
A: ???

Another question is: Is there a magic key to press during
boot time on a genuine IBM AT (8 Mhz / 512 KB) to get some
sort of installation menu?

Last: Is there a backup'ed clock on the motherboard, if so
I found the battery that goes with it but is dead, does
anyone know the properties of this battery????

All other basic information about an IBM AT or references
to documents are more than welcome...

--
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: hcp@csx.cciw.ca (H.C. Pulley)
Subject: how can I get 8 bit values for colors in 256 color modes?
Organization: Canada Centre for Inland Waters
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 14:59:39 GMT

I am sorry if this is a FAQ...  Please reply through email; I will post a 
summary if it is needed.

When I try to write 8 bit values to the VGA card for palette setup it seems 
that only the first 6 bits are set (when you read back what you wrote the
highest value I can find is 63).

Is there some special procedure I must follow?  Is my video card too old?  Are
there any books or code examples which do this from the port level?  I am not 
using DOS so I can't use the BIOS.

Thanks alot,
Harry

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: mhemy+@cs.cmu.edu (Michael Hemy)
Subject: Request for summary on IDE/SCSI controllers
Organization: School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 19:51:19 GMT

Fellow netters,
There seems to be some confusion on the issue of controllers. Some of
the questions which have popped out recently (and a few others) are:

	-- which is better IDE or SCSI ?
	-- is it better to have the cache on the controller or in
           memory ?
	-- is a local-bus controller faster then an ISA/EISA one ?
	-- is throughput limited by the controller or by the disk ? 
	-- what is a reliable benchmark for measuring throughput,
	   such that it is not affected (IDE) by the cylinder where 
	   data is read/written ?
	-- why do most OS prefer SCSI ?
	-- what types of cache are implemented on controllers and
           which is best ?
	-- is it better to have a local-bus SCSI controller which
           controls both a HDD and a CD-ROM or a local-bus IDE
           controller for the HDD and an ISA SCSI for the CD-ROM since
	   it is slow and there is no point hogging the bus with
	   long slow transfers? Or maybe some other combination is
           better? 


All answers to the above, and any other helpful information on the
issue will be greatly appreciated. When I have enough answers I will
post a summary.

	Thanks again,
	--Michael.
From: harvey@waikato.ac.nz
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: EISA, ISA compatible??
Date: 29 Jan 93 01:20:31 +1300
Organization: University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand

If this question is answered in a FAQ then please direct me there.

If I upgrade to an EISA machine will I be able to use all my ISA cards in it.
Bear in mind I am running OS/2 (I hope this makes no difference).

Secondly is local bus really any good (compared to EISA, ISA).

What kind of range of cards is available for EISA (how many $$$).

What benifits will EISA offer over ISA.

Thanks for any help

MArk Harvey
From: shaajdt@ucl.ac.uk (John Tovey)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Maxtor 1140 HD any experiences?
Summary: Need info on Hard Disk form users
Keywords: Maxtor HD
Date: 28 Jan 93 14:36:54 GMT
Organization: Bloomsbury Computing Consortium


 am considering the purchase of a second hand Maxtor 1140 HD 119 MB MFM format.
Any comments, experiences welcomed.
Organization: Penn State University
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 23:13:11 EST
From: Rich Pawlish <RXP10@psuvm.psu.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Parallel input Anyone?

Friends, if you happen to know how to input from a parallel port IN ANY
LANGUAGE , Please share this valueable information.  Thanx
                  The Ones Known as Rich Pawlish
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: wilson@schaefer.math.wisc.edu (Bob Wilson)
Subject: Re: HELP WITH A COLORADO
Organization: Univ. of Wisconsin Dept. of Mathematics
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 93 22:29:11 GMT

eln150f@mdw030.cc.monash.edu.au (TW Chua) writes:

>allen.edwards@spacebbs.com (Allen Edwards) writes:

>>-> >My problem is that I cannot even format a tape. Format, which takes
>>-> >two hours!, only gets 50% done and does seeks on the tape forever
>>-> after >that and past the time estimated.
>>->
>>-> That's normal !

>>What do you mean by "That's mormal !"  I amhaving the same problem
>>listed and cannot get it going.  I have turned off the dual DMA mode and
>>still it will not work.  I was looking over all the messages and saw
>>yours and wondered what you were trying to say?  Thanks for the reply.
>>Allen
>>                 
>>----
>>SPACE BBS - Menlo Park, CA - 10 Lines - BoardWatch Top Ten BBS
>>415-323-4193 (v.32bis) - 4gB (50,000 files) + Wx, UPI News, etc.

>	I am having the same problem. I found out that during the first 50%
>it is doinf formatting and the second 50% it is actually doing verifying.
>My drive used to work perfectly and only recently this problem appeared.
>Does anybody know what is wrong with the drive? I tried different settings
>of the tape software and even cleaning the head and edge connectors.
>	Any help will be much appreciated. If I can't solve this problem,
>my confidence towards CMS product will be greately affected.

>YP
Has either of you called CMS tech help toll-free line? I have found
them to be the best support organization I have ever encountered!
Bob Wilson
wilson@math.wisc.edu
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From: wayne@amtower.spacecoast.org (Wayne Summer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,news.groups
Subject: Re: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Distribution: world
Reply-To: wayne@amtower.spacecoast.orgX-NewsSoftware: GRn 1.16f (10.17.92) by Mike Schwartz & Michael B. Smith
Date: 24 Jan 93 11:30:06 EST
Organization: Wayne's Machine; Palm Bay, Florida

In article <1993Jan23.230607.28570@nmsu.edu> bgrubb@dante.nmsu.edu (GRUBB) writes:

> These groups hierachies started long BEFORE 'PC' started to include non-IBM
> machines like the Mac, Lisa, Apple IIGS, etc, but I get your point.
> The problem is that 'PC' by itself has STOPPED being a synimum(sp) for IBM.
> How many products are labeled 'PC compatable' as opposed to 'IBM compatable'.
> Very few.  PC means a personal computer; computer designed to be used
> by one person (Dictionary of Computer Terms 3rd edition) it does NOT mean
> IBM compatable.

  Thank you, I could not agree with you more.

> I am worried that JUST pc will result in a small influx of Amiga and AppleII
> people since those machinces are ALSO called 'PCs' and a latter influx of
> the PowerPC crowd.

  A polite redirection to the appropriate newsgroup should suffice.  However,
  do not forget a lot of Amiga owners have IBM compatibles on a card inside
  their machines with an ISA buss.  We do, sometimes, have hardware problems
  that are appropriate for this newsgroup.

> I personly believe that a group should clearly and
> consisely state what it is about {epesially if the FAQ on the groups is
> somewhat irregular in posting.}  May be .pc.clone. would be better then
> .ibm.pc.  though JUST .pc. is NOT a good idea.

AGREED
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From: dcm@iris.mincom.oz.au (Doug Merrett)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Memory expansion and AMI BIOS
Date: 21 Jan 93 05:24:15 GMT
Organization: Mincom, Brisbane, Australia
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL8]

etxansk@garbo.ericsson.se wrote:
: dcm@iris.mincom.oz.au (Doug Merrett) writes:

: >klooster@mswe.dnet.ms.philips.nl wrote:
: >: I installed recently 4MB of RAM in my 386-33 Mhz computer.
: >: When I switch the computer on it only says "3968 Kb OK".
: >: Why doesn't it say 4096 Kb OK, which is what I installed?
: >: Does this mean there is something wrong with the memory?
: >: I have an AMI BIOS from 1990.
: >:
: >: Richard

: >The short answer is:
: >The RAM is used for BIOS and VGA BIOS shadow RAM.  It copies the
: >slow BIOS from an EPROM into RAM to make it run faster.
: >There is a newer BIOS than you have (the latest I've seen is 12/12/91),
: >but this has nothing to do with the above.  The RAM will always
: >be smaller.

:  I've put the line DEVICE=FASTBIOS.SYS or something similar to it in my 
: system's
: CONFIG.SYS file. Does the computer copy the ROM BIOS to shadow RAM
: initially, and then it replaces it with the FASTBIOS file's contents,
: or what?

:  Thanks in advance for any information on this.
:  Anders Skelander

Anders,
You don't need the DEVICE... bit as your BIOS will do it automagically!
Doug.

--

Doug Merrett
Internet: dcm@mincom.oz.au
Xref: sparky comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware:37395 comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc:17175 comp.unix.aix:13784
From: james@george.UUCP (james shoemaker)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: Tandberg SCSI drive on PC?
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 93 20:42:39 CST
Organization: Organization for creative time-wasting

zaphod@src4src.linet.org (Steve Wechsler) writes:

> 
> Hi, netfolks...
> 
> I recently came across a source of some Tandberg TD-360 (or TC-3600,
> or something like that) tape drives at a decent price ($100).  They
> are bare, no instructions, no software, no cables.  They look exactly
> like the tape drive otherwise known as the 7207-001 in the RS/6000
> world (sans external case), which is a half-height, 150mb, QIC-150
> SCSI drive.  A label on the drive says "Made by Tandberg for IBM".
> 
> Does anyone know if it is possible to use this drive on a PC clone
> running Unix (Linux, probably, but possibly Interactive SVR3.2)?  Are
> drivers available, and does it use standard cabling?  I didn't notice
> if it has a SCSI address selector (my RS/6000's 7207-001 has a
> selector on the back of its case, which obviously isn't part of the
> drive itself).  Or do SCSI tape drives all conform to the same
> standard (yeah, right :-)?

        I use one of these on my PC and it works just fine.  I use it 
under DOS and OS/2 with GTAR.  My SCSI card is a 1542b, but I have also 
used it with an always IN-2000.

                                        JWS
Organization: University of Illinois at Chicago
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 01:27:49 CST
From: STUDENT 433,327-74-2273,84920,MEI LEE YU <U54530@uicvm.uic.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Win3.1Drv Need for CirrusLogicGD5422

     I have a STB Evolution card which use Cirrus Logic (GD5422 chips)
  does anyone have the most recent driver.  The one I have is come w/
  the card which is (Release 1.0) for Windows 3.1.  I found some
  window drivers with the name STB#*?. on some ftp site but they
  are for STB Power Graph. I don't have a access to STB BBS.
  Thanks for any help!
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: mdroid@world.std.com (WRM)
Subject: EISA info
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
Distribution: usa
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 23:33:05 GMT


I'm having problems getting some information reguarding bios 
shadowing and config files from my vendor. The two questions
pertain to a Micronics dx2/66 EISA motherboard. They are:

  1) in the Micronics dx2/66 ISA motherboard bios shadowing
     can only be selected if you have 16meg ram or less. Does
     this restriction exist with EISA?

  2) are the config files for ISA cards truly generic or do
     you need specific files for each. For example, are there 
     config files for the ATI Ultra and PAS 16 or
     a generic video card file and generic sound card file?

Any help will help.

-m
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: ejh@khonshu.colorado.edu (Edward J. Hartnett)
Subject: turning full-height drive bay into two half-heights, can I?
Organization: CIRES, University of Colorado
Date: 28 Jan 93 11:14:10

Hi all!

I have an old 286 machine with two full-height drive bays. I also have
two half-height drives. Any way I can turn one of the bays (or both)
into two half-height bays?

I've got the money in the bank and I'm ready to go, so if you know a
company that sells the hardware for this job, send the phone number if
you can.

Thanks.
--
	Don't blame me, I voted against Amendment 2!

Edward Hartnett				ejh@khonshu.colorado.edu
From: ebosco@oracle.com (Eric Bosco)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Info needed on Paradise Windows accelerator
Date: 25 Jan 93 20:27:20 GMT
Organization: Oracle Corp
X-Disclaimer: This message was written by an unauthenticated user
              at Oracle Corporation.  The opinions expressed are those
              of the user and not necessarily those of Oracle.


I recently saw a paradise svga card at the Price Club for $155. It claims faster
windows performance than ATI. Is it any good? Please let me know.

-Eric
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: mgolden@cwis.unomaha.edu (Brian Golden)
Subject: Alloy slave card
Organization: University of Nebraska at Omaha
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 09:53:03 GMT

I recently got a Alloy PC slave card cheap used, but it did not come with
any software or docs.  I hear that Alloy charges an arm and a leg for these.
Anybody got some that I can copy?  Thanks.

Mike Golden - mgolden@cwis.unomaha.edu

Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware