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From: dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Installing an HD 3.5 on an XT.
Date: 11 Jan 93 23:22:26 GMT
Organization: New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, N.J.

In article <1isouoINNbr9@fido.asd.sgi.com> autry@magellan.stlouis.sgi.com (Larry Autry) writes:
>This install is not going well.  I have done the following:
>
>1. Successfully installed the board; the system "sees" the controller.
>    And the controller "sees" the drive.
>    (Attempted the alternate ROM address on the board also.)
>2. Installed the Toshiba drive and hoped that the factory chose the
>    default settings for the jumpers appropriate for the XT.
>3. Formatted 720K floppies successfully.
>
>In evening two:
>
>4. Added a config.sys entry for driveparms like:
>      driveparm=/f:7 /d:0 # for MSDOS v5.0
>
>5. Subsequently, I can no longer format 720K floppies, and
>	apparently the controller does not "see" the drive  but
>	I can't be sure.  If I back out the driveparm, the drive
>	would be totally useless. 
>
>All cables appear to be good and oriented correctly.
>I suspect either a jumper on the drive or a configuration
>line in the config.sys file.  I realize of course that an
>HD floppy drive has to be "crowbarred" into an XT (almost).
>I am now accepting suggestions as to what to else to look 
>for.  If any more data is needed I will suppy it via e-mail.

On an XT, HD floppies require ROM on the controller card to operate,
since the BIOS doesn't have the proper code for it.  I've never been
able to get driveparm= to do anything on any version of DOS, so ignore
it.

The Toshiba 1.44MB drive is the kind I used in my computer.  I've used
them in an XT, and later transferred them to an AT, and then to a 386
with no problems.  The problem is entirely with your floppy controller
card.  Get one meant for connect a HD floppy to an XT.  An AT (even an
8-bit one) won't have the necessary ROM onboard.

Mine is a no-name "UFDC-100 Universal Floppy Drive Controller".  It
allows you to connect up to four floppy drives (360K, 1.2M, 720K, or
1.44M) to an XT.  I use the card with my 386 as well, since I haven't
found a better controller for running three floppy drives at a time.
After setting the DIP switches to the drive types, and setting the
media-sense line to PS/2 mode (AT mode won't let me format 720K disks,
don't ask why), the drives work just fine.  I've used this setup on
every computer I've owned, the first of which was an XT.

What controller card are you using, and what switches/jumpers are
available?
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From: ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Iskandar Taib)
Subject: Re: What's the deal? My chip says "SX-25";
Organization: Indiana University
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 17:41:30 GMT

In article <1iesn6INNgrp@sdl.Warren.MENTORG.COM> garyg@warren.mentorg.com writes:

>The process of growing high quality silicon hasn't changed much.
>Basically a seed >of solid silicon is suspended in container of melted
>silicon.  The seed is turned >and raised VERY slowly, allowing the
>silicon to crystalize around the seed.  This >process produces very
>high quality crystalline structures, and by its nature >produces a
>salami shaped product. 


Hmm

Is it silicon or silica? I know there are places where they grow large
high purity silica (aka quartz) crystals for some kind of electronic 
use. I suspect its metallic silicon that goes into chips - the quartz 
is probably for piezoelectric devices.

What color are these wafers? (i.e. on the non-gold plated side).

(Still wondering if I could get a reject wafer somewhere.. better 
than trying to peel ceramic off an old chip to see whats inside..)





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From: c23st@kocrsv01.delcoelect.com (Spiros Triantafyllopoulos)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: no game port on Gateway 2k systems?
Date: 6 Jan 93 16:27:57 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Delco Electronics Corp.

In article <GERRY.93Jan6101905@onion.cmu.edu> gerry@cmu.edu (Gerry Roston) writes:
>I've been waiting for some one to post the correct answer, but alas,
>no one has yet, so I will.  Older G2000 systems had a card that served
>as disk controller, serial I/O, PIO and game port.  

True. 

>The new VLB system
>has the disk controller. SIO and PIO built into the motherboard.

But you can still buy non-VLB Gateways, right? Some of us (after
having been screwed by all propertiary components (my AT&T 6300 comes
to mind) on motherboard) have pledged NOT to buy anything that has
anything MORE than the motherboard on the notherboard. 

Is G2000 still selling the regular flavor ISA 486/33? I think they
do, and if so, does it use the old style multi-io card WITH a game
port?

>SInce the only other card in the system is the ATI, which certainly
>doesn't have a game port, the system doesn't have a game port.  

Even in systems with the built-in G2000 gameport, experiences of
many coworkers and friends who bought them seemed to vary. Some 
reported problems with some brands of joysticks (in high speed
machines like 486/33`s, or even 386/25's, and ended up getting a
card no matter what. I was lucky that the first joystick I plugged
in worked :-). It's a Gravis. It seemed that cheaper joysticks
would not work. 

> [Note: I do not have one, but I do know how to read and think.]
         ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Ooookay...

Spiros


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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: wonga@ee470.ee.mcgill.ca (Allen Wong )
Subject: NEED jumper settings for a 3.5" 1.44Meg Floppy Drive
Organization: EE Lab, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 16:12:05 GMT


I need the jumper settings for a Mitsubishi 3.5" 1.44Meg floppy drive
 especially the jumpers that enable and disable the terminating resistors.

Thanks

Allen Wong
wonga@ee470.ee.mcgill.ca
From: mperron@abacus.bates.edu (Michael Perron)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: IBM PC switch settings (for video)
Date: 4 Jan 93 14:30:23 GMT
Organization: Bates College, Lewiston, Maine


	Could someone give me the correct settings for running cga video
on an old IBM PC it was traded in running ega and I need cga settings.
We have no book!  

Thanks in Advance

Mike Perron
mperron@abacus.bates.edu

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From: edwong@acs.nntp-read.bu.edu (Edward Wong)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: adding a second IDE drive
Date: 12 Jan 93 14:31:14 GMT
Distribution: comp
Organization: Boston University Information Technology Boston, MA USA

is there anything I have to be aware of when adding another IDE drive to my
system?  any jumper to set?  
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From: khor@bnr.ca (Kyle Hor)
Subject: Re: What's the deal? My chip says "SX-25"; Norton says "SX-33"
Reply-To: khor@bnr.ca
Organization: Bell-Northern Research Ltd.
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 19:04:34 GMT

In article <1icegqINN7vl@savoy.cc.williams.edu>, 93gke@williams.edu (oldwanda) writes:
|> If this is true, then how can vendors push the 25Mhz chips to 33Mhz?
|> Wouldn't they fail at the higher speeds since they were slow in
|> testing?
|> 
1st there is a guard band.  I.e. a 25MHz grade are usually tested to pass
say 28MHz in all it's tests.  Since I do not work for Intel, I do not 
know what guard band they set.

2nd, there are numerous test on different parts of the chips switching
speed.  Again, not knowing the 486 intimately, let's assume there are
100 such tests.  Maybe 99 of them meet the 33MHz grade but one of them
do not. These would drop the chip the 25MHz grade.  What if that 1
test exercises a seldomly used instruction?  The failure of running
this chip at 33MHz would then be rare.
 
3rd, semiconductors are sensitive to temperature.  The chip is
probably tested at higher than normal operating temperature according
to the specs.  Some chips that just failed to make the 33MHz grade at
high temperature could actually run well with good ventilation.
 
Finally, if Intel has a huge order of 25MHz and have a huge stock of
33MHz, they would simply re-mark the chips as 25MHz and ship it.  This
is the most likely case as Intel seems to have controlled their
process to be able to have high yield of 33MHz.

My guess is that some vendors got wise to this and start pushing their
25MHz chips as 33MHz.  They'd most likely burn in the computer using
some software utilities for a couple of days.  And if nothing breaks,
it is sold as 33MHz.  Whatever the case, it is ethically wrong for
vendors to push 25MHz as 33MHz without the knowledge of their
customers.
 
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From: mark@physchem.ox.ac.uk (Mark)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Is it the trash-can for my Connor disk drive?
Date: 12 Jan 93 13:44:43 GMT
Organization: Physical Chemistry Laboratory, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3QZ
Originator: mark@joule.pcl


In article <1993Jan11.133418.19964@spider.co.uk>, michaelr@spider.co.uk (Michael S. A. Robb) writes:
> 
>   I have an IDE disk system with two Connor hard disk drives.
> (first drive:40 Mbytes and the second drive: 210Mbytes)
> Several days ago, the primary drive failed after 3.5 years 
> fault free service (always parking the drive heads before
> powering down, so no bad sectors). According to the system
> diagnostic utilities, the hard disk drive test returns the
> error message:
> 
> Error 710: Attachment failed to respond.
> 
> Since I hear the drive motor running and the drive heads
> align themselves upon startup, I suspect the problem may be
> the drive electronics rather than the drive itself (I tried
> replacing the IDE controller card - that made no difference).
> 
> My questions are as follows: Is it possible to get the disk 
> drive serviced, or will I just have to buy a replacement?
> 
> If I do buy a replacement, will the second drive (210Mb) have
> to be repartitioned/formatted?
> 
> And finally, are there more reliable drives than Connor for a
> similar price?
> 
> All E-mail Replies are welcome.
> (please use "michaelr@spider.co.uk")
> 
> -- Michael
> 
> 
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Cant help with the fault without seeing the drive.
You will NOT have to change the 210MB drive if you fit a new primary drive.
You may be able to get it serviced, but I dont think it is worth it.
As for reliability, you only get what you pay for, but even then you may buy one
from a bad batch.

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: omar@osf.org (Mark Marino)
Subject: HiColor Video Card Advice Sought 
Organization: Open Software Foundation
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 22:13:12 GMT

Hi,

  I'm looking for some advice on purchasing a new video card.  Right now I'm
using a 1MB ATI Graphics Ultra card, and though the card performs great
under Windows, it has a few incompatibility problems with some graphics
applications (mostly shareware).  Some of the programs that don't work with it 
100% correctly are: PLAY80, POV-Ray, XINGMPEG, VPIC, SHOWGIF.

  I've been doing a lot of work lately with TGA files (mostly created with
POV-Ray) and I've been thinking of getting a Hicolor card.  Can someone
please recommend a good card that displays TGA files at at least 800x600x32k
and provide a little technical info.

  Compatibility is a major issue for me, I'd like to get a card with a chipset
that's compatible with everything (though that's probably impossible).  I
had a card with a TSENG 4000 chipset previous to the ATI Graphics Ultra and it 
worked with EVERYTHING.  The ATI works with some stuff, and not with others. 

  What's the story with the new Diamond Speedstar cards?  What chipsets do they
use, do they support HiColor/Truecolor, are they compatible with most stuff?
Are there any alternative cards I should be looking at?

  Finally, the Windows co-processor is a nice addition.  Do any cards provide
this in addition to the features I mentioned above?  (This isn't as important
a feature to me as the others).

  Please send e-mail to omar@osf.org and I'll summarize.

  Thanks in advance,
  Mark



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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: tfoley@camaro.uucp (Tim Foley)
Subject: Parallel Port Joystick Adapter Wanted
Organization: camaro
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 01:32:02 GMT
Summary: Does one Exist?


I need a parallel port joystick adapter for my laptop, anyone know of one or 
plans to build one?
 


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From: rick_h@unkaphaed.gbdata.com (Richard Hamilton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: MPC Systems
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 93 06:38:52 GMT
Organization: Unka Phaed's UUCP Thingy, Houston, TX

What would I need to get to turn my 386sx into a MPC? I understand that 
just installing a CD rom is only the beginning. 

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From: worley@a.cs.okstate.edu (WORLEY LAWRENCE JA)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: NO ROM BASIC, SYSTEM HALTED ???
Date: 9 Jan 93 06:43:01 GMT
Article-I.D.: a.1993Jan9.064301.3561
Organization: Oklahoma State University

From article <trung.726508956@sundance>, by trung@sundance.SJSU.EDU (Trung Tran):
>>> rubin@procon.jhuapl.edu (Don Rubin) writes:
>>>
>>> >I have been fooling around with a new motherboard
>>> >and some disks and get the following message when
>>> >I try to boot a 340mb IDE drive
>>>
>>> >NO ROM BASIC
>>> >SYSTEM HALTED
>>>
>>> You may not have the boot partition active.  Hookup the drive and run fdisk
>>> off
>>> floppy, and check the partition status.
> 
>>I had this message pop up regularly after about 3 years' of almost
>>round-the-clock usage of a Taiwanese clone computer.  My dealer said
>>indicated a motherboard problem.  I suspected my system was overheating from
>>too much use, and since I began turning it off a few hours a day to let it
>>cool, the problem has disappeared.  In any case, the problem certainly was
>>not related to anything having to do with my boot partition or hard disk, at
>>least not with my system.
> 
> Well, I just saw this on my 486-50 last night.  I'm not really sure about
> the heat-related theory.  It happened to me when I just got home from work.
> I turned on the PC and there it was.  After a cold reboot, it disappeared.
> I'm pretty sure this was the first time I saw it.  Even if it was
> heat-related, I installed a CPU cooler (a small fan mounted on a heat-sink)
> for my 486 to prevent it from getting fried.
> 
> Anyhow, anyone else has any comment?

Yes.  I have had a similar problem on my 386-40 before.  It has only happened
twice that I recall, and both times were upon a program losing it's cookies
running in the Windows 3.1 environment!  I have not been able to duplicate
the error, but it seems to be some catastrophic error (bad op-code or the
CPU gets confused/out of sync with some support circuitry) that causes
the entire system to come crashing to a halt.  Older computers used to have
a basic interpreter built into ROM (before everyone was assumed to have a 
disk drive installed), so when it can't find that to fall back in to, it just
halts.  Just one of those things, I guess.
:)

-Jason
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: remek@mamura.ee.mu.oz.au (Remek Lipinski)
Subject: SCSI and IDE coexistance information needed (URGENT!!)
Organization: Electrical and Electronic - University of Melbourne 
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 12:20:47 GMT

I have a question which requires a rather urgent answer, I have to set up
a system but need to know if an IDE hard disc can coexist with a SCSI hard
disk, and if so are there any limitations to how they have to be configured
or what type drives can work together. Any help will be grately appreciated,
and if you would be so kind please e-mail any suggestions as I do not get
the chance to read this news group often. Thanks,
							Remek.
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From: dmoyer@ccscola.Columbia.NCR.COM (Dan Moyer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: AMI Enterprise III Mother boards
Date: 12 Jan 93 17:30:17 GMT
Organization: NCR Corp, E&M-Columbia, Columbia, SC

In article <C0puFs.3B@news.rich.bnr.ca> thomas@bnr.ca (Thomas S. Pangborn) writes:
>Does anyone have any information on the new VESA/EISA motherboard being put out by AMI?  Its called the Enterprise III.
>
>Any input would be helpful.
>
>Thanks,
>
>Thomas S. Pangborn
>==================
>pangborn@bnr.ca
>------------------


I noticed a few nights ago a posting on CompuServe, I think under the
IBM Hardware forum, several postings made by Clyde Washburn describing
the AMI motherboard products.   You probably can get them directly from Washburn
Associates too, a AMI distributer.   See advertisement in the back of PC Week.
.  Washburn's phone number is:  716-248-3627  800-836-8026

Regards,
Dan Moyer
dmoyer@columbia.ncr.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: leo@rulhp2.leidenuniv.nl (L. Mekenkamp)
Subject: ###          Looking for NEC harddisk & Adaptec contrlr info
Keywords: NEC-harddisk Adaptec-controller
Organization:  Dept. of Mathematics and Computer Science ; Univ. of Leiden ; the Netherlands
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 93 19:01:41 GMT

A friend of mine is having some difficulties with a machine he bought at
an auction (is that the right spelling?) (Epson 286) It has a NEC D3661
harddisk and an Adaptec ACB 2320 ESDI controller. There is *presumably*
something wrong with the jumpers on either one or both.

If someone could provide me with some more information (original DOC's
anyone?) I would be much obliged.


Leo Mekenkamp
Leiden University, The Netherlands
Mekenkamp@RulWinWST.Leidenuniv.NL
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No link with MS, believe me...

Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: msbendts@walker2.hu.mtu.edu (Mike Bendtsen)
Subject: Stacker powers down my harddrive????!!
Reply-To: msbendts@mtu.edu
Organization: CCLI, Michigan Technological University
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 08:17:59 GMT

HELP!!  I need some ideas on this one....

I just purchased a new Western Digital 212Meg (Caviar series) harddrive,
and I'm having problems with it and stacker.  I have used stacker (V2.0)
to make a 100Meg partition and a 70Meg partition, no problems on the 
install.  I was installed Windows and some "space hungry" Windows 
applications...still no problem.  The error occurs when I run the
Stac 'scheck' utility, which I have in the autoexec.bat file to make
sure everything is kosher on my stacker drives...no better way to be
checking for lost clusters, and that stacker still has ITS allocations 
correct.  

Well, about half way through the 'scheck' routine, the drive makes a 
loud "click" and I get 'unable to read drive' errors.  If I wait for
about 10 to 15 seconds, the drive will make a whirling noise and then
a low level chatter...very, very similiar to when it is first powered
up.  I also get this problem when I run the 'sdefrag' utility or even
when I run Norton DiskDoctor on the stacker drive.  Finally, it occurs
on BOTH stacker partitions of the drive, but never once on the non-stacked
portion of the drive.  (oh, it is an IDE drive, and I never had a problem
with stacker on my old 40Meg Western Digital)

Does anyone out there have an idea as to WHAT is going on?  Better yet, 
how about WHAT would make the drive POWER down?  

Any help would save my sanity....and what's left of my hair!

Thanks.

Mike

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: J024330@LMSC5.IS.LMSC.LOCKHEED.COM
Subject: Scanner vs. PAS 16 Sound Card
Organization: Lockheed Missiles & Space Company, Inc.
Date: Wed, 06 Jan 93 11:35:19 PST

Has anyone attempted to install a Mouse Systems hand scanner in the same
system as the PAS16 Board?  I'm running a 386dx system with the PAS16 on
DMA3 and IRQ7.  I installed the scanner on different addresses, I get the
green scanner light which indicates it's scanning, it writes temp files
(although not very large ones), and then fails to display the image.

In speaking with the Tech Support people at Mouse Systems, they state that
the multi-media portion of the sound board which allows installation of
multiple boards in the same system allows variable addressing of the DMA/IRQs
which is set in the sound board BIOS, therefore causing a conflict with
the scanner card.

Has anyone encountered this problem, and discovered a fix for it?  I downloaded
a driver (mscan.sys) from the Mouse Systems BBS, and installed it in the
config.sys file before the device= line for the sound board.  It just locks
up my system.

Anyway, any help would be appreciated.  Physically removing the sound board
allows the scanner to work, and I have been toying with the idea of making
a mechanical toggle switch I can use to disconnect the sound board so I don't
have to physically remove it.  Prior to doing that however, it would be nice
to find out if someone has discovered a software solution.



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