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From: sheldon@iastate.edu (Steve Sheldon)
Subject: Re: Comments on Adaptec 1522?
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames IA
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 18:09:27 GMT

In <1993Jan12.114843.26679@sei.cmu.edu> gjp@sei.cmu.edu (George Pandelios) writes:


>Folks,

>I'm considering an Adaptec 1522 SCSI controller and Western Digital (~213 MB)
>disk combination.  I'm interested in any comments or concerns from users of
>this controller.  It will be installed on a Myoda 386DX-33 (ISA motherboard).

>Some questions are:

>1.  How reliable is it?

 Oh, very reliable I'd say.  We beat on the thing here.  Have had it in
about 6 different machines, etc.

>2.  Can it handle a tape backup unit?  I don't know much about these critters.
>    QIC or DAT, any recommendations there that might affect the choice of 
>    controller?

 I would imagine that it should.  We use our 1522 with a removeable optical
disk system.  With the appropriate software it should support a tape drive.


 One caveat on the 1522 vs. the 1542.  The 1542 is better supported and
faster.  This is probably not a big problem for you unless you're planning
on running some form of Unix, or maybe OS/2, or other operating system
besides DOS.

 Otherwise, I think the 1522 works fairly well.  I've never tried it with a
harddisk, and our optical drives are not incredibly speedy to begin with.

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From: hielsche@aragorn.CSEE.Lehigh.Edu (Frank Hielscher)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Gateway2000 486DX-33 ??
Keywords: Gateway
Date: 8 Jan 93 04:11:43 GMT
Organization: Lehigh University

I ordered my Gateway 486-DX2-66 on Dec7. The shipping papers were dated
Dec. 22, and it arrived Dec. 28. Promised delivery date was 3 to 4 weeks.

The machine? Tower, 16 Megs (4 @ 4megs), 2Megs & RAMDAC on ATI board, CD-ROM.
No monitor (got my own).

The system started right up, but I had to reseat the floppy connectors on the
motherboard (no big deal).

It's been running like a charm for a week now. No glitches at all.

Re documentation: Everything was included: extra manuals for the ATI upgrade,
a manual for the CD-ROM, a 59-page manual for the Q/A Cool Tools Utilities,
and a 94-page manual for the Central Point Utilities.

The whole thing worked out just beautifully. My sympathies for those on the
net whose experience is quite different.
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From: rmccown@world.std.com (Bob McCown)
Subject: HP PaintJet
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 04:02:36 GMT

I just purchased a used HP PaintJet for short money, but it doesnt have a
manual and/or any disks.  It is a serial printer BTW.  I can output text
to it (copy file.ext com1) but when I try and access it through windows,
the color doesnt come out right.  instead of a sort-of-nice color bitmap,
I get the picture, but it is divided up into 1/8 inch blocks, and some
colors in the blocks, sort of a checker pattern, are darker than others. 
I've fiddled with all the settings in windows to no avail, and played a
little with the dips on the printer, but still cant get it to work.  any
help out there?
 

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Organization: University of Illinois at Chicago
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 14:26:51 CST
From: <U35805@uicvm.uic.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Best ET4000 base svga ??

     From reading the post. I leard that a svga card based
  on ET4000 chips can run almost Everything! What is the best
  one under $200?  I heard there is a ET4000 - W32 <--????
  And how does it measured up with S3 (**911, **805, etc..)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: srheintze@happy.colorado.edu
Subject: do SCSI drives revector?
Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder
Date: 8 Jan 93 18:28:21 MDT

In early December I received a new 660mb SCSI to replace my 80MB RLL
Micropolis.

Until recently, I had terrible problems.  Powerpoint would not run, Windows
would not (re) install, Borland C++ V3.1 would not install.  I could, however,
boot from this drive.

After experimenting with different sizes of partitions I finally ran PCTOOLS
pattern tester - a program that writes various bit patterns to each sector.  I
did not see any errors.  I reformatted (low-level and DOS (high) level),
restored from the disk and have not been able to make it fail since.

I would guess that SCSI drives revector the bad blocks themselves and running
the pattern testing caused it (finally) to revector after installing and
reinstalling a lot of software many times.

It appears to me that there was a large chunk of bad blocks that have now been
revectored.  I am now confident that this is not a software or floppy
media problem.

Since the drive is still under the 90 day warrenty, should I return the drive
for another?  I'm worried that I used up all my replacement blocks already. Is
there a way to get a list of revectored blocks?

	    Thanks,
		Sieg 		
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Iskandar Taib)
Subject: Re: Packard Bell Experiences?
Organization: Indiana University
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 18:32:03 GMT

In article <1993Jan1.190429.10497@news.acns.nwu.edu> delusion@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Albert Schmezer) writes:

>	The other major problem with P-Bells is that if you want to upgrade
>the motherboard, unless you buy a P-Bell motherboard, you have to get  new
>case, new parallel & serial ports, new FD & HD controller, and new power
>supply as well. If you don't get the new case, you'll have all those nasty
>holes where the serial & parallel (& game) ports that were built on to the
>motherboard stuck out. I have a Force I (286) P-Bell, that I really want to
>upgrade, and now I have this problem. Oh, well....

Hmmm

That sounds like the Leading Edge genre of clones: factory built
in Korea. 

Leading edges had proprietary motherboards, cases and power sup-
plies. No going out and buying a generic motherboard or PS for these
things.



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From: aa339@Freenet.carleton.ca (Etienne Tasse)
Subject: Questions: 286 VLSI Motherboard, Epson EqIII Floppy Ctrl
Reply-To: aa339@Freenet.carleton.ca (Etienne Tasse)
Organization: The National Capital Freenet
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 17:31:44 GMT



* I have a VLSI 286 Motherboard with AMI BIOS:

It's memory slots are Dips with Both 16 and 18 pins overlaying and there are 
four 20 pins Dips next to those.

What kind of mem chips do I need? 41256? ,4164 none of above ?

* I also have an Epson Equity III's floppy controller:

It's got a connector for floppies, one serial, one parrallel.

What are the jumper configurations?
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: sconway@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Sean P Conway)
Subject: HP LaserJet 4
Organization: The Ohio State University
Distribution: usa
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 18:44:26 GMT

I would like to get hold of the drivers for the LaserJet 4.  If
anyone could give me a ftp address where I could find it or even
email it to me, I would appreciate it greatly.
Secondly, I would like to know if non-HP simms work in the printer.
I have some 80 ns simms and I would like to use them.
Thanks
Sean Conway
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: pritchet@cs.scarolina.edu (Ronald W. Pritchett)
Subject: can't access (new) 2nd SCSI drive
Organization: USC  Department of Computer Science
Distribution: comp
Date:  3 Jan 93 06:08:47 GMT

I need a little SCSI help please...

here's my setup:

1st HD: 110 ESDI - Ulrastor controler, controls FDs too
2ns HD: 210 SCSI - Futute Domain cont.
3rd HD: 340 SCSI   ^^^^^

I can only access the 2nd SCSI drive thru SuperStor 6.0.3 (which I used to 
create DOS partitions). What gives?

I've tried most combinations of terminators vs no terminators. The current 
setup is:

  SCSI card - no term
  1st SCSI  - no term - ID 1
  2nd SCSI  - term    - ID 2

The card is set @ ID 7 and recognizes noth SCSI drives on boot-up. Which
ever drive is first in the ID chain is the only one accessible.

What now?


Ron


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From: David Mason <vid@zooid.guild.org>
Subject: Re: VLB Machines and Bus Mastering - AIR Motherboards
Organization: ZOOiD BBS
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 19:32:30 GMT

keiths@cae.wisc.edu (Keith Scidmore) writes:
>
>     A motherboard vendor told me that I should buy an AIR motherboard because
>it is the only one they carry that has true bus mastering VLB slots.  The 
>others, including the Micronics board used in the Gateway machines, don't
>do bus mastering.  The ATI graphics cards for local bus are, he said, bus
>mastering cards and can take advantage of the AIR board's bus mastering
>capability.  My questions to all you netlanders are:
>
>1) Is it true that the VESA VLB spec allows for non bus mastering cards?
>2) Is this guy giving me a line of bull?
>3) Does anyone out there know anything about AIR (Advanced Integrated Research)
>   motherboards, or has anyone benched one of theses AIR VLB boards.
>
>Thanks,
>
>Keith R. Scidmore


Hi,

If he's not giving you a line of bull, then you may buy one, in which case you
will be getting a new leading edge AIR board. In other words, instead of a
load of bull, you will get hot AIR.

Excuse me.

From what I have read the current VESA open standard for local bus does not
support bus mastering. The VESA II spec does support it but it is still under
revision. Intel is working on a standard for local bus that apparently does
support bus mastering but I don't think it's been released yet. I don't know
if this helps any, but at least it adds SOME useful content to a sad excuse
for a pun posting...



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From: al885@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Gerard Pinzone)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: atari joystick -> ibm gameport?
Date: 4 Jan 1993 21:06:38 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Reply-To: al885@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Gerard Pinzone)
NNTP-Posting-Host: hela.ins.cwru.edu


In a previous article, then@snakemail.hut.fi (Tomi  H Engdahl) says:

>In article <693@thunder.LakeheadU.Ca> dnwangus@flash.LakeheadU.Ca (Dave Angus) writes:
>
>>I'm not much good at drawing schematics in ASCII, but here's the
>>schematic (more or less) from the Computer Shopper article.
>>The article was written by George Toft.  Any errors or mistakes
>>are mine.
>
>Because the circuit uses relays and connects to the computer, there 
>is a danger that the high voltage spikes generated by relay coil
>can cause harm to the computer circuits. When the current in the
>relay coul is switched off, a high voltage spike is generated in 
>the coil. It would be a good idea to add a reverse-biased diode
>in parallel with the relay coil to avoid those spikes. The diode 
>can be any common type, for example 1N4148 or something like that.
>Some special relays have internal diodes for that purpose.

Here is an even easier circuit design.  Who needs a relay?
just use a normally closed switch instead of a normally
open one for the right movement control.  This actually might
work perfectly on one of those EPYX joysticks.  If I remember
correctly, the switches inside were the type that had three
terminals, NO, NC, and a common.  Even if the ones inside
didn't you could replace them (hey, this is getting
expensive!).  Say, how much is a Gravis Gamepad?! ;-)
 
 
          O-------o-----------
                  |           |
                  |           |
                  |           \
                  |           /
                  |           \
  Normally Open   o |         /
  SPST switch       |---      |
     (LEFT)       o |         o-------
                  |           |       |      Normally Closed
                  |           \      |o      SPST switch
                  |           /      |----      (RIGHT)
                  |           \      |o
                  |           /       |
                  |           |       |
          O-------o-----------o-------
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From: drudetb@infonode.ingr.com (Ted B. Drude)
Subject: Re: Comment on noise of Western Digital harddrives
Organization: Intergraph Corporation, Huntsville, AL.
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 23:59:19 GMT

In article <sheldon.726267242@vincent2.iastate.edu> sheldon@iastate.edu (Steve Sheldon) writes:
> There was some discussion on here a while back regarding the noise level of
>Western Digital harddrives. 
[...]
> In conclusion: I find from this that drive noise is directly related to
>case style, and location of the drive within the case.  Certain cases and
>drive positions will dampen the vibrations and noise made by a HD, others
>will reverberate with certain drives and make noise levels worse.
> Without testing different drives and different case styles it is going to
>be difficult to identify beforehand whether a drive/case combination is
>going to be "noisy" or "quiet".  Usually this experimentation can only
>affordably be performed by OEM's.
> On a side note we have one case where if the 3.5" drive is installed in one
>drive bay it's quiet, if installed in another drive bay it's very noisy.
>-- 
>sheldon@iastate.edu                Steve Sheldon

I'd have to agree with your conclusions. One smart solution I've seen on
some desktop models is to mount the hard disk at the rear of the enclosure
underneath the power supply.  The power supply still bolts onto the back
panel as usual, but it's made more compact than usual so there's enough room
underneath to mount a 3.5" hard disk. Dell uses this type of arrangement
on some of their desktops and they are unusually quiet (IMHO). Some
other desktop cases might also offer that mounting option.

- Ted D.
From: jbatka@desire.wright.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Micronics 1-800 number?
Date: 7 Jan 93 14:32:05 EST
Organization:  Wright State University 

I have a Micronics memory board and need the users manual.

Does anyone have their Email, snail mail, and/or 1-800 number?

Thanks,
-- 

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From: gaia@carson.u.washington.edu (I/We are Gaia)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,uw.forsale,seattle.forsale,misc.forsale,misc.forsale.computers,pnw.forsale
Subject: 1200 Baud modem for sale...
Date: 12 Jan 93 10:22:22 GMT
Article-I.D.: shelley.1iu64uINNjfq
Distribution: usa
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle
NNTP-Posting-Host: carson.u.washington.edu

Datatronics Challenger 1200 Baud modem

Hayes compatible
RS-232 Standard
Full/Half Duplex
Bell 212A/103

$15 obo

Interested??  Gaia@carson.u.washington.edu
From: phil@tgf.tc.faa.gov (Phil Willows)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: What is VESA??
Date: 7 Jan 1993 23:51:52 GMT
Organization: FAA Technical Center, Pomona, NJ	
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: offserv2.faa.gov

Shane:

VESA is short for Video Electronics Standards Association.  Created in 1988
through the efforts of NEC to develop standards for initially hardware
problems; (timing differences and off-center images).

Eventually, VESA set software standards for 800x600 and 1024x768 video
resolutions.

Among their accomplishments(?) is the VESA Local Bus (VL Bus) standard.
Unfortunately, this standard was not approved until June of 1992.  As a
result, there are a number of motherboards destined for the "orphan"
market; in particular those chosing the OPTi design (proposed) and the
other by Intel, termed Peripheral Component Interconnect (PCI), unless
they come in line with the VL Bus standard (a VERY real possibility).

They have also developed a standard called the VESA Feature Connector.


Hope this helps...

                                      -Phil
From: ccasted@prism.gatech.EDU (Edward Deering Boykin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: new ATI ULTRA PRO drivers (build 53)
Date: 9 Jan 93 19:24:04 GMT
Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology

I have just installed the build 53 dirvers for the ati ultra pro local bus
card in my Gateway 2000 486/66.
Anyway I tested it in all modes from 640x480 to 1280x1025 and from 16 to 256
colors(I have 2 megs of vram but don't have the new ramdac :() Anyway
from Winbech 3.1 I got 13,648,661 winmarks on the build 50 drivers and with the
same test I got 15,274,584 winmarks with the build 53. I ahev experienced no
error yet and some of my stuff that ran buggy(Start Trekk After Dark) now
run without errors in the animation. I understand the new winbench (3.1)
version uses a new testing scheme which is why the winmark  results are lower
than normal. Oh well the new drivers give me almost 2 million more winmarks
so I am not complaining. (wish I had a buck for each mark :))

Ed Boykin
ccasted@prism.gatech.edu

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From: stan@ddbeano.Dundee.NCR.COM
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Run a 486/33MHz CPU at 40 or 50MHz?
Date: 10 Jan 93 12:05:06 GMT

In article <1993Jan8.100550.9995@ac.dal.ca>
francis@ac.dal.ca writes:

> I have a 486DX/33MHz system, and I have been told by the manufacturer 
that
> the motherboard is upgradeable to 50MHz by plugging in a new crystal and 
CPU.
> 
> Question:       Is it possible to plug in (say) a 40MHz or even a 50MHz 
crystal
>                 into the board *without* replacing the old (33MHz) CPU? 
> If so, is there a performance improvement or will the 486DX 33MHz chip 
just
> burn itself out, ie, has it been internally hardwired for the specified 
clock
> frequency of 33MHz?  I would like to hear from anyone who has attempted 
this
> (with/without success).
> 
I increased a 486sx25 to 40Mhz by adding a heatsink and fan. No problems.

Stan
From: marvin.carroll%theweb@meaddata.com (Marvin Carroll) 
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Home automation & program
Date: 5 Jan 93 18:28:00 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: The Web BBS 1-513-436-9011 6 Lines 1200 News groups 50,000 files!
Reply-To: marvin.carroll%theweb@meaddata.com (Marvin Carroll) 

To: alpha@vpnet.chi.il.us (Randy Sales)

RS..If you are interested in home automation and/or know of the x10 system of
  ..control, I have information on two pc programmable controllers that work
  ..with the x10 system of control.  The information is emailable.  Once progra
  ..ed they run without the pc.

Yes, please send me info.  All help appreciated.

CarrollMD

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From: mingmar@cs.mcgill.ca (Ming MAR)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: NO ROM BASIC, SYSTEM HALTED ???
Date: 9 Jan 93 09:15:36 GMT
Organization: SOCS - Mcgill University, Montreal, Canada

trung@sundance.SJSU.EDU (Trung Tran) writes:
>Richard_Robb@mindlink.bc.ca (Richard Robb) writes:
>
>>> The Golden Gryphon writes:
>>>
>>> >NO ROM BASIC
>>> >SYSTEM HALTED
>>>
>>> You may not have the boot partition active. 
>
>>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.
>
>I turned on the PC and there it was.  After a cold reboot, it disappeared.

This occurs when you run an old IBM program.  Only IBM puts BASIC in
ROM.  It was their way of forcing people to buy true blue instead of a
compatible.  It was an unsuccessful strategy.
From: ken@sugra.uucp (Kenneth Ng)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: tape formatting
Date: 8 Jan 93 12:22:39 GMT
Organization: Private Computer, Totowa, NJ

In article <1993Jan6.190218.27492@gvl.unisys.com: pastor@prc.unisys.com (Jon Pastor) writes:
:I formatted a tape in my CMS Jumbo 250 for the first time last night, using
:CMS-supplied software.  When the 1:00:00 appeared in the "time remaining"
:field, I assumed that that meant 1 MINUTE (even though that should have been
:represented as 1:00.00).  It really took an hour.
:My question is: what the Hell is it doing for that hour?  [edit]
:  What is there about formatting a tape that makes it take that long? 

The CMS drives really use the floppy drive controller to do all the work, that
is why it is so cheap (I know, I have one).  I would say that it takes at least
a minute to format a 1 meg floppy.  The drive appears to write format marks
onto the tape.  Considering that the tape is 125 meg long, it really does not
surprise me that it takes an hour.  Actually, for me, it takes darn close to
two hours.  Perhaps you have the accelerator board?

-- 
Kenneth Ng
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From: hh7r@galen.med.Virginia.EDU (Hsiang-Hsin  Hsiung)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Is there a program to test BUS CLOCK SPEED?
Date: 7 Jan 93 19:43:52 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: University of Virginia


 	One of my AMI bios settings called "AT BUS CLOCK SELECTION".
The options are CLKI/6, CLKI/4, CLKI/3, and CLK2I/5 (not a typo). As usual,
no explanation about the options. I would like to increase my 486/DX50's bus
clock to 10 Mhz, nevertheless I am puzzled by this CLK2I/5. Does anybody has
an idea about this option? Or, is there a program to test the bus speed?
Thanks in advance.
From: lauusitalo@tnclus.tele.nokia.fi
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Archive 5945L-2 info wanted and needed!!
Date: 4 Jan 93 13:43:25 GMT
Organization: Nokia Telecommunications.


        Tell me more about tape drive made by Archive and model
        number 5945L-2. I assume scsi? Tell me all you know.

        Thanks,
        Lauri


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