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From: msc@ssigate.ssinc.com (Michael S. Cross)
Subject: Re: TAPE BACKUP VIA PRINTER PORT-SPEED,ETC
Summary: Trantor
Keywords: SCSI
Organization: Systems and Synchronous Inc., Naperville, IL
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 15:20:43 GMT


In article <1992Oct2.094344.1709@falcon.aamrl.wpafb.af.mil> sfullenkamp@falcon.aamrl.wpafb.af.mil writes:
>Does anyone out there have any experience or comments on backup tape 
>devices that interface to the computer via the printer (parallel) port.
>I work in a lab that has multiple desktop computers and the portable
>nature of this approach appeals to me, at least from a budgetary point
>of view.  From a technical point of view (tranfer speed) I'm not quite
>sure if it is a reasonable approach.  It seems to me that units attached
>to the IDE controller or such might be faster, but then again, the tape
>might be the limiting factor, not the interface.
>Any and all responses welcome.

Well, I purchased one of those Trantor Parallel-SCSI convertors for $230
and I'm happy with it.  I can back up a 40Meg hard drive to another SCSI
drive with the DOS XCOPY in less than 15 minutes.  It took over 45 minutes
for me to back up the same 40Meg disk on 1/4" tape with a Wangtek drive.

I think the tape drive is the limiting factor here.

I tried to install an Adaptec 1542B card in my system, but the ROM conflicts
with my HardCard-XL so the PC won't even boot off floppy.  I would like to
find out how fast the Wangtek SCSI Tape Drive is ... but until I get a SCSI
disk >200Meg to use with the Adaptec Card ... I'm stuck with my present
system.  (40Meg IDE + 105Meg Hardcard)

Hope it helps (tm).

Mike

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From: kgermann@zeos.com (Ken Germann)
Subject: Media Vision - Thunder Board for Windows FAQ
Organization: Zeos International, Ltd
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 17:57:03 GMT

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From: a207734@mksol.dseg.ti.com (frank j banul)
Subject: Connecting two Hard Drives
Organization: Texas Instruments
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 14:12:17 GMT

Hi all:

  I am trying to connect two Seagate ST238R Hard Drives to a controller that
was originally in my computer controlling only one hard drive. I'm not sure
what type of controller it is although I think it is a Western Digital. The id
on the card is WD100 RAH. The main (largest) chip is a WD11C00C-JU. Some other
chips are WD5011-PL and WD10C2A-PH. There is also a sticker with:
61000205-00 3RAH
205-00P91   36B72
1165766 REV " X3"
There are 4 jumpers labeled W!,W2,W5,W6. The larger cable only has one connetor.

Finally, my questions are.

1) Is this controller capable of controlling two drives.
2) What modifications do I have to make to the cable. I can make a new cable if
   necessary.
3) What are the jumpers for? (on the controller)
4) How do I configure the hard drives?

I think I know the answer to 4 but I'm not sure. With a twisted cable, the drive 
id's are both set to one. With a straight cable, the id's are 1 and 2. I don't 
know the cables to twist though.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. I'll see E-mail or posted replys. I'll post
a summary if anyone is interested. Thanks in advance.

							Frank

E-mail a207734@mksol.dseg.ti.com or banul@ti.lobby.com or 207734@fss.dseg.ti.com
From: jclei@sage.cc.purdue.edu (Jason Lei)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Chipsets: OPTI or SIS ? Which would you prefer ?
Date: 9 Oct 92 02:16:19 GMT
Organization: Purdue University Computing Center

In article <1992Oct5.082254.22338@nuscc.nus.sg> isc10085@nusunix1.nus.sg (NG YENG YONG) writes:
>Ching Tai (ctt31684@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu) wrote:
>: <<discussion on various chipsets deleted>> 
>
>	FOREX is also manufactured in TAIWAN, is that right? Quite a
>long time ago, while I was hunting for a 386DX Motherboard, a vendor
>recommends FOREX to me as it was cheap. When I took a look at it, I feel
>that the board is not reliable because (1) it looks plain and simple
>that I wonder if it would stand up to intensive 386 applications and (2)

I don't have enough knowledge to comment how fast or compatible FOREX is,
but now I am using a 386-40 with this chipset to run OS/2 2.0.  Not any
problem I suspect is related to the motherboard.  

>its price is so low that gives me a second thought. Since then, I have
>not heard of FOREX. Could Ching Tai please supply me more information on
>FOREX chipset as well as SIS and if possible PC-Chips too. Thanks in
>advance.

Jason

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From: kgermann@zeos.com (Ken Germann)
Subject: Re: QUESTION: Are IDE cacheing controllers better than Smartdrive?
Organization: Zeos International, Ltd
Date: Fri, 09 Oct 1992 03:26:05 GMT

In article <1b1n98INNcts@matt.ksu.ksu.edu> bewhite@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (MacroMan) writes:
>carl@Cayman.COM (Carl Heinzl) writes:
>
>
>>>bus rates.  For us ISA users that is a BIG difference.  True, when the actual
>>>movement of data occurs you will lose with the software cache, and you do have
>>>to dedicate more CPU cycles to software caches, but for the cost of SIMMs, you
>
>>So, when the local bus *xyz* (pick you favourite disk type and insert
>>here) cacheing controllers are available this won't be the issue!!!
>
>>So, with *3* local bus slots available I see video, disk ctlr and
>>network.  Now, *what* manufacturers actually make a motherboard with
>>*3* local bus slots???  The great majority of manufacturers only have
>>*1* local bus slot...
>
>   Most local bus systems I have seen have the Video and IDE controller
>on the same 32 bit local bus card.  The ones I have seen also seem to
>have an additional 16 bit local bus slot.  The new VESA boards have
>more than one slot as well.
>  Another thing to keep in mind in this debate is the algorithm used
>in software caches.  I read somewhere that there is no difference
>in speed between a hardware and a software cache.  Even on EISA.
>Even on a multitasking environment.  One of the reasons given is
>that the software caches use better algorithms to find and store
>the data.  I don't think they tested this on a local bus system
>though (I don't even know if there are any local bus caching
>controllers yet).

UltraStor has an IDE and SCSI VL-Bus Hard Disk controller. Not sure
on the Cache side how large it is or if one exists. 

The option does exist to integrate a VL-Bus SCSI or IDE controller on the
motherboard. Buffer the VL-Bus and still have two open VL-Bus sls. Based
on the information on the Specs. It would be beneficial to have the
device that you want to have the highest transfer rate on i.e. the largest
amount of bandwith surface mounted on the motherboard attached or integrated
into the VL-Bus directly. You have possible 66 MHz. transfer rate this way.


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From: carl@Cayman.COM (Carl Heinzl)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: ATI Graphics Ultra Plus
Date: 10 Oct 92 03:52:56 GMT
Organization: Cayman Systems Inc., Cambridge, MA
In-reply-to: I18BC@CUNYVM.BITNET's message of 9 Oct 92 22:56:06 GMT
bcc: carl


>   Street price (usually 40-45% off retail)
>   I would expect Plus $219-240; Ultra $329-360

Not for ATI products it isn't.  The ATI Ultra is still in this price
range.  I don't think you'll see the Ultra PRO in this range anytime
in the near future.

-Carl-
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From: greg@infopls.chi.il.us (Greg Clawson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Did Gateway File For Chapter 11?
Date: 13 Oct 92 13:04:31 GMT
Organization: INFOPLUS support, Wheeling, IL

kehcheng@netcom.com (Keh-Cheng Chu) writes:

> pjh@mccc.edu (P. J. Holsberg) writes:
> 
> >Subject says it all.
> 
> Yes, it did.  This was reported in September's Byte magazine.
> In the same issue you can also read about the following recent
> developments in the computing world:
> 
> a. Apple is coming out with its first IBM PC compatible machine
>    before Christmas.
> 
> b. IBM is considering dropping OS/2 completely and is negotiating
>    with Microsoft about Windows/NT licencing.
> 
> c. Unix is dead. 


IBM dropping OS/2?!  (Your nuts, it's not going to drop it).

And for your information; Unix is alive and well!  Window's maybe
popular but when compared to Unix I laugh at Windoze!

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From: adhir@oberon.umd.edu (Alok Dhir)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Benchmarking Gateway machines (was Re: has anyone used the 486dx2 66mhz gateway)
Date: 16 Oct 92 19:25:29 GMT
Organization: /etc/organization

In article <rantapaa.719207722@s6.math.umn.edu> rantapaa@s6.math.umn.edu (Erik E. Rantapaa) writes:
>imbri_m@aesc.cs.odu.edu (Mark Imbriaco) writes:
>
>>Comparative to a 486/50DX what is the performance of the 66 Dx/2?  Faster?  
>>Slower?  Seems that I have heard that it is not quite as fast as a 50DX but
>>I am not sure on the reliability of that source.  Please elaborate.
>
>Here are some of Gateway's own benchmark numbers (from their latest brochure
>which I just got in the mail)
>
>			DX-33V	DX2-50V	DX2-66V	DX-33E	DX2-50E	DX2-66E
>Norton Sl v. 6.0	 72.20	107.20	141.90	 70.60	 92.00	122.80
>Landmark CPU 2.0	120.47	180.70	240.95	120.21	178.91	235.74
>PC Mag 5.6:
>  386 CPU inst mix	 1.06	 0.73	 0.55	 1.08	 0.81	 0.62
>  486 CPU inst mix	 1.08	 0.74	 0.56	 1.09	 0.83	 0.63
>  fp w/o coproc. 	 1.76	 1.26	 0.93	 1.81	 1.32	 0.99
>  Conv. Mem. Read	 0.22	 0.17	 0.16	 0.17	 0.17	 0.16
>  Conv. Mem. Write	 0.16	 0.11	 0.11	 0.17	 0.16	 0.11
>  Ext. Mem. Read	 0.65	 0.66	 0.55	 0.44	 0.39	 0.38
>  Ext. Mem. Write	 0.60	 0.61	 0.50	 0.44	 0.27	 0.22
>Cortest 2.92:
>  64K			 4357	 3566	 4714	16103	16352	16746
>  32K			 4252	 3490	 4573	12316	12504	12883
>Power Meter 1.8:
>  Whetstones		 3266	 4899	 6531	 3245	 4851	 1843
>  Dhrystones		 19.0	 27.5	 36.2	 18.7	 24.5	  5.4????
>  MIPS Test		 10.8	 15.5	 20.6	 10.7	 13.9	 18.8
>
>All CPUs are 486.  -V means local bus, -E EISA.
>

These number seem pretty fishy to me.  There is no reason why a VLbus would
result in any higher performance than an EISA (or ISA for that matter) bus
when your measuring Norton SI, Landmark CPU, Coretest, PC Mag, whatever.  None
of these make ANY bus accesses at all.  Gateway is apparently using a sorry
motherboard for their EISA machines.

Well, the only benchmark I have for my 486dx/50EISA is the Norton SI speed
index, which comes up at 108.1 consistently.  This, however, is not a very
good measure of real world performance since it only measures performance
internal to the CPU...memory accesses and other I/O are not measured.  I've
read that the dx50 and the dx2/66 end up being about equal in terms of
throughput since the increased I/O speed of the DX50 makes up for the 
increased CPU speed of the DX2/66.
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From: small@bcstec.ca.boeing.com (Peter Small)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: How to tell if a system is 100% IBM compatible?
Keywords: Corona PPC-400
Date: 12 Oct 92 17:15:11 GMT
Organization: Boeing Computer Services, Seattle

How is it possible to tell if a clone system is 100% IBM-PC
compatible?

The system that is being looked at is Corona PPC-400.
I have a copy of MS-DOS 3.3 for 100% IBM-PC compatible systems that I
would like to install.  Will this work OK on this system?

Thanks in advance.

PS

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From: gt4719b@prism.gatech.EDU (Dave Frascone)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Is my Monitor Toast
Keywords: monitor help
Date: 14 Oct 92 20:47:33 GMT
Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology


Today, my "CHEAP" VGA monitor started acting wierd.

I do not know the model number or even the brand.  (I bought it
3 years ago for 225.) It is 640x480 VGA.  It won't even do 800X600.

Anyway, today the screen started waving on text, then getting very
bright.

I tried running something in VGA, and it just would get really bright
(White) click, go dark, and repeat.  You could see the image (kind of)
but something is very wrong.

Now, text won't even come up when I turn it on, and VGA modes do 
black and white for a while, then switch to strange colors, then go
white...to black...etc.

Do I have to spend more money?

Please reply by e-mail


Dave
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From: kgermann@zeos.com (Ken Germann)
Subject: Re: Need to find 53ns ZEOS ram!
Organization: Zeos International, Ltd
Date: Thu, 08 Oct 1992 13:37:02 GMT

In article <92282.014403U35832@uicvm.uic.edu> Shawn T. Segur <U35832@uicvm.uic.edu> writes:
>Where in the world would I find some 53ns ram (besides ZEOS)? I am stuck
>with this proprietary scheme and I want out!  Agghhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!
>
>Looking for 4mb simms to be exact! :-)
>
>Thanks,
>Shawn
>
>
>Ps- Who manufactures Zeos's Ram? Is Zeos the only company that uses 53ns?

There are several sources for our "proprietary scheme" of SIMMS. In the 
back of PC Magazine in the RED section, there are several manufacturers
offering 53 and 60 ns 4MBX9 SIMMS. If you are using our new motherboard that
uses the 36 bit SIMMS, you are going to be limited on the number of places
that sell these.
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From: bbrown@infonode.ingr.com (Bailey Brown)
Subject: Re: 34020 graphics boards?
Organization: Intergraph Corporation, Huntsville, AL.
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 22:25:30 GMT

<DXB132@psuvm.psu.edu> writes:

>I'd like to know if there are any reasonably priced ($500 or less) graphics
>cards based on the TI 34020. Or has the market potential been killed by the
>"accelerated SVGA" class of cards? (How depressing...)

There was a cheap 34010 card out a while back.  IT was around $350
if I rember correctly.  Also, Hercules has dropped the prices on
the low end versions of the GraphicsStation, and I think the prices
are lower than $500.  I'm not sure if they use the '020 or the '010.

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From: skinner@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Skinner Tom)
Subject: Hard drive table PLEASE READ!!!!
Summary: read me please
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 19:38:10 GMT
Keywords: read

Would someone please email me a list of current hard drive specs.. like
number of sectors,cylinders,bios # etc.. if there is one out.. also is 
there a database or something that someone has of this info.. or could 
someone tell me how to get one.. 

		thanks alot!!

		 Tom

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From: kenny@osf.org (Kenneth Crudup)
Subject: Re: Tech advice.. on a BIG BOOM.
Organization: Open Software Foundation
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1992 22:27:29 GMT

In article <92279.224034MAL112@psuvm.psu.edu>
Mitch Lewars <MAL112@psuvm.psu.edu> writes:
>Approximately 3 weeks ago the power supply (200watt) in my
>mini-tower went boom, since then I've bought a new power supply
>and now my entire VGA output comes up on "one line".

I bet that whatever caused your PS to die also took the power supply in
the monitor with it. I would almost put money on the monitor, not the VGA
board. Usually failures cause complete HV loss (ie, no pix at all), but you
could have just lost an intermediate supply (most monitor supplies put out
3-4 voltages).

	-Kenny
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From: russest@ampex.com (Steve Russell)
Subject: Re: What does "tag RAM" do, anyway?
Organization: Ampex Corporation, Redwood City CA
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1992 02:10:03 GMT

In article <1367@bridge2.NSD.3Com.COM> camerons@NAD.3Com.COM writes:
>The tag keeps track of what's in the cache.
>For each line (block, if you prefer) of data in your cache,
>the associated tag location holds the high order address bits
>needed to remember where that line of data came from.
>If your motherboard has 16 MB main and 64 KB cache, for
>example, your tag contains address bits 23-16.
>Some cache designs also have status flags which say the
>line is valid, or dirty (must be copied to main before
>replacing).  Tags for tightly coupled multiprocessor caches
>can have more complex state information, but as far as
>I know these do not occur on PC motherboards.  Caches with
>more than one set of data storage need a tag memory for each set,
>which is why PCs only have one set.  A one set cache is called
>"direct-mapped."
>
>If your motherboard is working, with no tag RAMs installed,
>then your cache is disabled.
>
>Cameron
>

Not always. I've installed several 386/486 mb with varying amounts of
cache. Seems to depend on the amount of cache installed as to whether or
not all of the tag sockets are filled. This also varies by vendor.

-steve


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From: suvac@susan.cs.andrews.edu (Radivoj Suvacarov)
Subject: Bus mastering on ISA architecture
Summary: Any advantage?
Organization: Andrews University
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 19:24:07 GMT


Someone told me that SCSI bus mastering controlers such as Adaptec 1542b 
and Ultrastor 14f could take advantage of EISA bus only? Does bus mastering 
work on ISA architecture and how? Please, respond to suvac@andrews.edu.


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From: wlf@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Susie C. Legaspi)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: AT&T 6386 WGS and video card upgrade and other system problems
Date: 15 Oct 92 00:27:57 GMT
Article-I.D.: mentor.Bw4zyM.77G
Organization: Purdue University Computing Center

Hi,
	I have an AT&T 6386 WGS (2nd Hand) and it came with what appears
to be something called an AT&T VDC 600 with a big chip on it that says
Paradise'88 and is copyrighted (1988) by WDC.  It is a crummy card and
will do 640x400 but not 640x480 (it is a copper and yellow board instead of
green and dark green.)  It is similar in appearance to the Western Digital
Floppy/HD controller.  I don't happen to have the documentation on this card.

Anyway, I purchased an STB PowerGraph as a replacement for this card.  However
when I make the switch I have problems with the machine crashing and rebooting
itself and getting garbage on the screen (sometimes frequently, sometimes
infrequently.)  I have tried it under both QEMM 6.03 and the standard MS-DOS
Himem.sys and EMM386 and have even taken everything else out of the machine
and not loaded in any drivers or TSRs and still have the same problem.

The AT&T card has a two jumpers and a block of four toggle switches that
would be accessible through the back of the slot when the machine is closed.

QUESTIONS:
What do the jumpers and switches do?
Is this more than just a video card but somehow integral to the functioning of
        the machine?  
Do I need to put both cards in and disable the AT&T card (and why/how)?
Will the STB card not work properly here, or am I doing something very wrong?
Alos, the STB does not want to work in my 386SX magnavox machine, it has even
        crummier built-in video but I can get the AT&T card to work in it,
        so I was hoping I could clear this up and "upgrade" both of them.

Note:  I am posting through frineds account, so please no e-mail.  Sorry.

***Note for those who are interested:
I updated the Olivetti BIOS from version 1.13 to 1.14 today (Whoever
it was that had asked about this upgrade a few days ago, it is available.
I contacted NCR and got the number of a local (NYC) place that had them
available.  I have a page full of phone numbers that I went though to get a
hold of it by I think 1-800-543-9935 is the number of the NCR info line that
pointed my to a number in NY 212-349-0953 who got ahold of the Parts department
here which happened to be a few blocks from my office so I went and picked
one up for < $70.  Part number 1056142000.  Comes with the hi and lo ROMS and
two PAL chips.)  I think I got the phone numbers right.
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From: AMM@westfd.msk.su (Andrew M. Merenkoff)
Subject: Help! Color decoder ROM in EGA monitor destroyed.
Date: Sun, 11 Oct 1992 12:09:23 GMT
Reply-To: AMM@westfd.msk.su
Organization: Moscow Stock-Exchange House

        HELP, PLEASE!

    My ITT EGA monitor (XTRA Business Systems,
division of Alcatel Information System, Inc) is
out of order: color decoder ROM (TBP28S42) destroyed!
Can anybody help me to find information,
recorded in this color decoder ROM, or to find E-mail
address of any expert in XTRA Business Systems
company.

        Thanks!
 Andrew M. Merenkoff, E-mail: AMM@westfd.msk.su


Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Date: Fri,  9 Oct 1992 16:33:49 -0400 
From: Ke-Wei Ma <km4c+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: Re: ATI Graphics Ultra Plus

Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware: 9-Oct-92 Re: ATI
Graphics Ultra Plus by Paul S Secinaro@kepler.u 
> Will the EISA/MCA versions cost the same as the ISA version?  Also, do
> they support all the best features of these buses (i.e. software
> configuration, burst transfer, etc.)?
If you check out the most recent version of PC Mag where they reviewd
several video boards (local bus, ISA and EISA), I noticed that there was
a chart with the ATI prototypes.  They were generally fast scores but
the local bus version edged out the EISA version :(.  I would assume
that there will be a price difference depending on the board.

Ke-Wei
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