HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: jpoutre@shearson.com (Joe Poutre)
Subject: Model 90 memory problem
Summary: Error 00118
Reply-To: jpoutre@shearson.com
Organization: Lehman Brothers, Inc.
Distribution: na
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 17:48:03 GMT

All right, everybody. Here's a real challenge.

Model PS/2 XP486
16 Meg (Tried 8x2, 4x4 and (2x4)+4x2), Color Monitor Model 8515
Token Ring Card
OS/2 2.0, w/ Lan Manager and Extended Services w/ Database Server
installed, CSDs not yet installed
TCP/IP w/ NFS and X installed, CSDs not yet installed

On starting up, gives error 00118, a memory error. I have tried ignoring
the message and starting the system anyway. It comes up OK, runs TCP/IP
OK. I can do most of the stuff I need to, as far as I can tell. But when I
start the included Klondike Solitaire it freezes. Locked tighterthan a
drum. The cursor will move the mouse, but is shows the wait clock. No
disk activity, I am unable to 'ping' it from other machines on the network.
Not even Ctrl-Alt-Del does anything. On board system diagnostics
failed to find an error.

I know what you're saying - don't run Solitaire. Unfortunately, I haven't had
a chance to test most of the other apps we run, since the damn thing tries
to start Solitaire every time I reboot it.

Our local PC support group (I'm a Sun sys admin and only a part-time OS/2
sys admin) had tried replacing the memory, memory board, system board,
graphics card, and hard drive. They are as baffled as I am. I have had a
parade of their people in here over the last few weeks, and it still
doesn't work.

Any ideas? Will installing the CSDs cure this mystery disease? I was trying
to run them when the forking thing conked out for about the 10th time.

Please email me at the address below, and I will summarize if there is enough
interest and someone comes up with a cure.

---
Joseph Poutre, aka The Mad Mathematician	N2KOW
jpoutre@shearson.com
Anyone who cannot cope with mathematics is not fully human.  At best he
is a tolerable subhuman who has learned to wear shoes, bathe and not
make messes in the house.         -- Lazarus Long, "Time Enough for Love"

Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.ps2.hardware
From: jbrock@csfb1.fir.fbc.com (John Brock)
Subject: UNIX on a ThinkPad 700C?
Reply-To: uunet!csfb1!jbrock
Organization: First Boston Corporation
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 01:18:53 GMT

Has anyone done this yet?

The removable hard disk makes this very attractive; one disk for
DOS/WINDOWS or OS/2 (or both maybe), and another for UNIX.  But the MCA
architecture is a problem -- a lot of PC UNIXs don't support it.  Also
some people have referred to the hard disk as using some sort of IBM
proprietary IDE controller, so maybe this is a problem too.  I'm no PC
guru, so it would be reassuring to know that somebody else has actually
made it work.  (I'd be happiest if it worked with a big name
shrink-wrapped UNIX and no hacking)!

I did call IBM, and they told me AIX does not support the ThinkPad.  It
would probably work, but it hasn't been tested.  Anyway I am not sure I
can spend that kind of money!  I called various other vendors and got
various responses, but I'd really like to hear from someone who
actually has it running!

-- 
John Brock
uunet!csfb1!jbrock
jbrock@csfb1.fir.fbc.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.ps2.hardware
From: wenban@cs.cornell.edu (Alan Wenban)
Subject: For Sale:  Internal 120MB tape backup for PS/2
Keywords: tape backup
Organization: Cornell Univ. CS Dept, Ithaca NY 14853
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 04:26:50 GMT

FOR SALE:

Internal tape backup unit for PS/2's.  Will definitely
work in models 50, 60, 70, and 80.  I don't know about
newer PS/2 models.  Fits in the second floppy drive bay
and connects to the floppy controller.  Uses DC2000 or
DC2120 tapes to store up to 120MB.

Asking $225 + COD shipping.
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Alan Wenban            |         Cornell University
wenban@ee.cornell.edu  | Department of Electrical Engineering
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From: suhail@cs.man.ac.uk (Suhail Rahim)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.ps2.hardware
Subject: Looking for some .ADF files
Date: 11 Jan 93 11:51:27 GMT
Distribution: comp.sys.ibm.ps2.hardware
Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of Manchester

I have some MCA based cards for which I don't have the .ADF files. Is there
an internet site from which I can get these, or failing that could some
kind soul please send me them.

The cards are:

    3Com Etherlink/MC       - it has the following numbers on it:
         SYAC4151 MCA-II      4233-08

    Neotech Inc - Roalan International  Serial adapter type SS/1

    IBM monocard???(it has 9 pins!) s/n KINB106422
        70 110 - 74F9883 - 01/01


Thanks very much.

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From: STUDENT@transport.tih.no (student ATL/TIH)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.ps2.hardware
Subject: Re: Non-IBM SCSI drives with IBM SCSI controllers
Date: 5 Jan 93 14:32:52 GMT
Organization: Transportteknikk og logistikk

In article <1992Dec29.162901.6525@sbcs.sunysb.edu> altman@cs.sunysb.edu (Jeff Altman) writes:
>I have an IBM SCSI controller with cache.
>I also have a Fujitsu SCSI drive.
n
qqq
>However, when I hook up the Fujitsu drive to the controller
>and then run the Reference disk I get an error stating
>that the reference disk is unable to write the configuration
>information.  What do I need to do to be able to get the
>IBM controller to recognize the Fujitsu drive.

>controller is ID 7
>drive is ID 6

>Thanks in advance.


>--
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Xref: sparky comp.sys.ibm.ps2.hardware:2332 comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware:35495
From: vijay@finapp11 (Vijay Bajwa)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.ps2.hardware,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: WANTED INFO on PS2 UPGRADES
Keywords: INFO PS/2 UPGRADES
Date: 11 Jan 93 21:19:05 GMT
Followup-To: comp.sys.ibm.ps2.hardware
Distribution: usa

I have one of the first PS/2 model 50 turkeys with a 20MB HD and
1 MB system ram. Recently, I have seen a spate of articles/ads
exhorting me to upgrade my system to a 386SX. Here is a halfway
decent configuration, and what it will cost:

1. Processor upgrade 	$250 - $300
2. 120MB SCSI HD 
   w/adapter			$575
3. 2-8m board w/4mb
   on board				$250
						-----------
Total					$1085

For this price, I can get a 486SX clone w/monitor. Why
should I upgrade? How can these upgrade vendors hope to
convince anybody.

Can anyone point me to lower priced upgrade provider with
acceptable quality?

vijay@finapp1.sbi.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.ps2.hardware,comp.os.msdos.misc,comp.os.msdos.apps
From: bill@bilver.uucp (Bill Vermillion)
Subject: Re: Catalog of Hard-to-Find PC Enhancements (Repost)
Organization: W. J. Vermillion - Winter Park, FL
Distribution: usa
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 16:07:17 GMT

In article <72906@cup.portal.com> jdoll@cup.portal.com (Joe - Doll) writes:
>"The Catalog of Personal Computing Tools for Engineers and Scien-
>tists" lists hardware cards and application software packages for 
>PC/XT/AT/PS/2 class machines.  Focus is on engineering and scien-
>tific applications of PCs, such as data acquisition/control, 
>design automation, and data analysis and presentation.  
>  
>If you would like a free copy, reply with your (U. S. Postal) 
>mailing address.

Your email address still bounces this from portal!

-- 
Bill Vermillion - bill@bilver.oau.org  bill@bilver.uucp
                - ..!{peora|tous|tarpit}!bilver!bill
From: d9mikael@dtek.chalmers.se (Mikael Wahlgren)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.ps2.hardware
Subject: SCSI bus termination
Date: 6 Jan 93 13:00:08 GMT
Organization: Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg Sweden
X-Newsreader: NN version 6.4.19

How does termination on the built in SCSI bus in the IBM PS/2 modell 56
486SLC2 (9556) work?  If I connect an external device to the SCSI port,
should it be terminated or not?  Are there any internal termination that
should be removed in that case?

Mikael Wahlgren
Xref: sparky comp.sys.ibm.ps2.hardware:2308 comp.os.msdos.misc:6836 comp.os.msdos.apps:5999
From: jdoll@cup.portal.com (Joe - Doll)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.ps2.hardware,comp.os.msdos.misc,comp.os.msdos.apps
Subject: Catalog of Hard-to-Find PC Enhancements (Repost)
Date: Mon,  4 Jan 93 21:47:32 PST
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
Distribution: usa

"The Catalog of Personal Computing Tools for Engineers and Scien-
tists" lists hardware cards and application software packages for 
PC/XT/AT/PS/2 class machines.  Focus is on engineering and scien-
tific applications of PCs, such as data acquisition/control, 
design automation, and data analysis and presentation.  
  
If you would like a free copy, reply with your (U. S. Postal) 
mailing address.
From: joker@diku.dk (Morten Christian Holmgreen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.ps2.hardware
Subject: Re: Device driver for PS/2 mouse on PS/ValuePoint?
Date: 12 Jan 93 19:57:19 GMT
Organization: Department of Computer Science, U of Copenhagen

sheldon@iastate.edu (Steve Sheldon) writes:

>I have a PS/Valuepoint.  Anyway, it has a PS/2 style mouse port and PS/2
>style mouse.  This setup works fine under OS/2, and configures fine under
>Windows.

> But I'd like to boot up MS-DOS at times and still be able to use the mouse
>with DOS programs, like say QBASIC(good example).

> No drivers came with the computer, other than the OS/2 stuff, and some
>video drivers for Windows 3.1.

> What can I use as a device driver for this mouse, and where do I find it?

I've not tried using a PS/VP yet (my girlfriends order has not yet
arrived ;-).  However with my PS/2 model 95 (and several other PS/2's 
I've had) came a reference disk, that contained a mouse driver, called
MOUSE.COM
If there's a reference disk with the system, there's probably a mouse-
driver on that.

Christian
-- 
M. Christian Holmgreen / joker@diku.dk / mochmch@uts.uni-c.dk
M.Sc. student, University of Copenhagen, Dept. of Computer Science
"Human errors can only be avoided if one can avoid the use of humans"
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.ps2.hardware
From: mtranle@IntelliCorp.COM (Minh Tran-Le)
Subject: What is the best mca scsi adaptor for ps/2 ?
Date: 9 Jan 93 17:59:23 GMT
Reply-To: tranle@intellicorp.com
Organization: IntelliCorp Inc.

Hi,
I am looking for a mca scsi adaptor for my ps/2 mod80 running aix 1.2.1.
Does any of you knows which one I should use ?  I expect to use it with
at some of the fast scsi-2 disks.

Thanks,
Minh Tran-Le.

Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.ps2.hardware
From: mike@donut.endicott.ibm.com ()
Subject: Re: HELP!!!  Error #113 on SB PRO MCV
Date: Fri, 08 Jan 93 15:34:30 GMT
Reply-To: kincer@owgvm6.vnet.ibm.com
Organization: IBM FSC Owego
Keywords: SBPRO MCV

In article <1993Jan7.162152.17273@ncsu.edu>, zareagan@eos.ncsu.edu (Zack
Reagan (zareagan@eos.ncsu.edu)) writes:
|> 
|> Someone please help...
|> 
|> I've got an Error #113 (Microchannel Arbitration Error) every time
|> I try to run certain games (Galactix 1.3a with SB PRO support for example)
|> 
|> I can run Links386 Pro with SB PRO support enabled and everything runs fine.
|> 
|> Current settings:  
|> Port 220h
|> IRQ  7
|> DMA  1
|> running QEMM 6.02
|> (by the way, if anyone has the new MCA.ADL file with the SB PRO
adapter info,
|> that would be great)
|> 
|> I have tried changing the IRQs and the DMA channel- but none of this
works...
|> 
|> Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!
|> 
|> Thanks 
|> 
|> Zack (zareagan@eos.ncsu.edu)

Sorry, I have the same problem and have been researching it for some time 
now.  It looks as if Creative Labs made mistake #10223 in designing the MCA
card.  THEY DIDN'T DECODE ALL 16-BITS OF ADDRESS!!!!!
Plus, the tech support phone is always busy!
I'm ready to send the damn thing back.  Quite annoying.
One thing I did find...
If you have enough RAM, then if you run some of these programs that
crash from VDISK or RAMDISK, then they will work.  
Just curious, do you have s SCSI adapter/disk?
I think this may be one problem, but not sure.

Mike                              __  __o         / "Everythin's IMHO,
Kincer@owgvm6.vnet.ibm.com       __   \<,        /    irrespective of my
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~    ______()/ ()______/      employer's"
From: as232@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Michael Lerner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.ps2.hardware
Subject: New IBM systems
Date: 12 Jan 1993 21:39:25 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio (USA)
NNTP-Posting-Host: hela.ins.cwru.edu


I read about IBM's new, improved, low price line of PC's.  Did this ever
actually happen?  If so, has anyone purchased one and how is it?  Are the
prices really that competitive?

Mike
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From: hhaas@mal-s2.gatech.edu (Harry Haas)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.ps2.hardware
Subject: Re: What is the best mca scsi adaptor for ps/2 ?
Date: 10 Jan 93 20:49:30 GMT
Organization: Georgia Tech Res. Inst., Modeling & Analysis Lab

In article <mtranle.726602363@theoden> tranle@intellicorp.com writes:
>Hi,
>I am looking for a mca scsi adaptor for my ps/2 mod80 running aix 1.2.1.

I used to run AIX on my model 80, with a Maxtor 660 MB SCSI disk.

My choice was the IBM non-cache controller.  My experience with AIX is
that it is very particular about the hardware - wanting only IBM devices.
I played it safe, and was not disapointed.  THe controller was relatively
inexpensive, installed flawlessly, and seemded transparent to both DOS
and AIX. (i.e. looks just like any other drive: no ASPI4DOS.SYS, etc.)

I concluded there was no need for the caching controller, as UNIX does
it's own caching.

One thing though:  If you plan to use a SCSI disk greater than 512 MB
as your BOOT disk, beware.  There was a problem with AIX that limited
boot disk size to 512 MB.  Last I heard, they had a work-around out and
were working on a fix.  I believe the fix was nothing more than making
more than one partition with the boot partition less than 512MB.

Good luck.

hh
---
Harry Haas  GTRI/RIDL/SB    |    Georgia Tech Research Institute
Research Engineer II        |    225 North Ave.
harry.haas@gtri.gatech.edu  |    Atlanta Georgia, 30332
"I know engineers . . . . they *love* to change things"  - Bones
-- 
Harry Haas  GTRI/RAIL/TDD        "What makes it DO that!?" - Bones 
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta Georgia, 30332
uucp:	  ...!{decvax,hplabs,ncar,purdue,rutgers}!gatech!prism!hh2
Internet: hh2@prism.gatech.edu             HHaas@GTRI01.GATECH.EDU
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.ps2.hardware
From: mike@donut.endicott.ibm.com ()
Subject: Re: What is the best mca scsi adaptor for ps/2 ?
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 93 17:04:38 GMT
Reply-To: kincer@owgvm6.vnet.ibm.com
Organization: IBM FSC Owego

In article <79680@hydra.gatech.EDU>, hhaas@mal-s2.gatech.edu (Harry
Haas) writes:
|> In article <mtranle.726602363@theoden> tranle@intellicorp.com writes:
|> >Hi,
|> >I am looking for a mca scsi adaptor for my ps/2 mod80 running aix 1.2.1.
|> 
|> I used to run AIX on my model 80, with a Maxtor 660 MB SCSI disk.
|> 
|> My choice was the IBM non-cache controller.  My experience with AIX is
|> that it is very particular about the hardware - wanting only IBM devices.
|> I played it safe, and was not disapointed.  THe controller was relatively
|> inexpensive, installed flawlessly, and seemded transparent to both DOS
|> and AIX. (i.e. looks just like any other drive: no ASPI4DOS.SYS, etc.)
|> 
|> I concluded there was no need for the caching controller, as UNIX does
|> it's own caching.
|> 
|> One thing though:  If you plan to use a SCSI disk greater than 512 MB
|> as your BOOT disk, beware.  There was a problem with AIX that limited
|> boot disk size to 512 MB.  Last I heard, they had a work-around out and
|> were working on a fix.  I believe the fix was nothing more than making
|> more than one partition with the boot partition less than 512MB.
|> 
|> Good luck.
|> 
|> hh
|> ---
|> Harry Haas  GTRI/RIDL/SB    |    Georgia Tech Research Institute
|> Research Engineer II        |    225 North Ave.
|> harry.haas@gtri.gatech.edu  |    Atlanta Georgia, 30332
|> "I know engineers . . . . they *love* to change things"  - Bones
|> -- 
|> Harry Haas  GTRI/RAIL/TDD        "What makes it DO that!?" - Bones 
|> Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta Georgia, 30332
|> uucp:	  ...!{decvax,hplabs,ncar,purdue,rutgers}!gatech!prism!hh2
|> Internet: hh2@prism.gatech.edu             HHaas@GTRI01.GATECH.EDU

One thing to consider...the cache controller is a 32-bit MCA adapter
where the non-cache is only 16-bits.  I recommend the cache controller
for best SCSI performance.

Mike                              __  __o         / "Everythin's IMHO,
Kincer@owgvm6.vnet.ibm.com       __   \<,        /    irrespective of my
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~    ______()/ ()______/      employer's"
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.ps2.hardware
From: cys@netcom.com (Cy Shuster)
Subject: Re: 486slc2: benchmarks?
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 23:33:58 GMT

While this isn't precise, I rented one for a day just to check out
performance, etc., and ran Borland C++ and dBASE IV (that I'm very
familiar with). Performance seemed right up to par with the Northgate
486/33 that I've been using for more than a year.

I've ordered the 50 mhz doubler option for mine as well, betting that
there may not be many third party suppliers for such an item. Get your
8 mb memory from Tote-A-Lap, though: $332 vs. $900 from IBM.

--Cy--

--
Cy Shuster                 Will Code For Food      cys@netcom.com

-- 
Cy Shuster               Will Code For Food             cys@netcom.com

Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.ps2.hardware
From: doc@uiuc.edu
Subject: The dreaded 111 error
Originator: jvmg9796@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu
Reply-To: doc@uiuc.edu
Organization: A temporary reversal of entropy
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 16:41:31 GMT

My PS/2 has been very ill lately.  It hangs about every 10-20 minutes,
sometimes requiring a cold boot.  Sometimes it just hangs "dead", in 
other words, stops cold in its tracks, but other times it gives the
dreaded "111" error.  The screen goes black and the following:
 111
?????
appears in the upper left-hand corner of the screen.  Now, I know from
past experience that this means system board I/O parity error, but I would
like to know how I can specifically narrow it down.  If I bring it to a
computer repair shop they're going to want to replace the motherboard,
which is very likely NOT the source of the problem.  It is far more likely
to be either a SIMM or a memory card.  But, diagnostics can't seem to find
the bad chip/card.  I thought microchannel was supposed to be good at
fault detection and isolation.  Hmmm.....
I would really appreciate any feedback.  I know I'm going to have to replace
some hardware, but I don't want some moron in a repair shop replacing
everything in sight (and charging me thousands of dollars) because he
doesn't know how to find the problem.  Thanks.

jm

-- 
Jim Marco
doc@uiuc.edu
From: joker@diku.dk (Morten Christian Holmgreen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.ps2.hardware
Subject: Re: For Sale: Internal 120MB tape backup for PS/2
Keywords: tape backup
Date: 7 Jan 93 12:45:07 GMT
Organization: Department of Computer Science, U of Copenhagen

wenban@cs.cornell.edu (Alan Wenban) writes:

>FOR SALE:

>Internal tape backup unit for PS/2's.  Will definitely
>work in models 50, 60, 70, and 80.  I don't know about
>newer PS/2 models.  Fits in the second floppy drive bay

Just for the record: It should work in model-range 40-95,
except laptops and models 55 and P70/75.

Doesn't work in PS/VP either, don't know about PS/1's, though...

Christian
-- 
M. Christian Holmgreen / joker@diku.dk / mochmch@uts.uni-c.dk
M.Sc. student, University of Copenhagen, Dept. of Computer Science
"Human errors can only be avoided if one can avoid the use of humans"
From: johnboyd@ocdis01.UUCP (John Boyd)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att
Subject: Re: EGA/VGA cards for ATT6300
Keywords: EGA VGA 6300
Date: 8 Jan 93 14:53:52 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: Tinker Air Force Base, Oklahoma

In article <1993Jan8.033334.20024@cbnewsl.cb.att.com> rl@cbnewsl.cb.att.com (roger.h.levy) writes:
[deleted]
>Note - The best source of 6300 information was, until about 8 months
>ago, the BBS run by AT&T from Plainfield, NJ.  When NCR took it over,
>it was decimated and although it still exists it has no discussion
>groups which were its lifeblood.  I wonder if anyone running the AT&T/
>NCR computer operation had any idea that the BBS provided the last
>remaining thread of good feeling people had toward the original AT&T
>PC.  There actually are quite a number still out there as became
>obvious just a year ago when this group and a few others were flooded
>with requests asking how to revive the machine's timekeeping, which
>by design oversight, failed exactly 8 years after January 1, 1984.

Yes, they have some idea.  Right after that changeover, I called in to the
BBS, and discovered the 'decimation' you described.  Well, noting that the
machine echoed its name at login, I sent a message to 'root' at that
location.  I told them basically the same sort of things that you said, and
I also mentioned that a lot of people got a lot of information from there
that kept the machine useful, and that a lot of the help came from AT&T
employees who _didn't_ work in tech support, which for AT&T is an oxymoron.
What I was not so politely told was that most of the traffic seemed to be
pushing non-AT&T products, so evidently there wasn't that much good being
gotten from it.  When I asked about and address to which I might correspond
to express my opinions and concerns, he told me I just did!  So much for
*any* useful computer products out of AT&T.  Further, I tried to call the
local NCR tech service number, and they didn't even know what a 6300 was.
When I asked for the number for tech service in New Jersey, I was again,
not so politely told that "You can't just call them up and chat like you
used to.  Any technical assistance is billed @ $170/hr".  I then told the
arrogant ass that I guess I'd have to sell off all of my AT&T equipment and
buy something where the company felt compelled to support its customers.
I've had better response out of Xerox when talking to them about their
clone of the same machine!  Basically AT&T has said 'go pound salt'.  So we
probably ought to tell those arrogant asses the same thing.. MHO..

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