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From: v206gb6c@ubvmsd.cc.buffalo.edu (IS AN ILLEGAL PERSONAL NAME)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: ESDI performance
Date: 9 Nov 92 04:40:00 GMT
Organization: University at Buffalo
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41

In article <smithbm.721263957@craft.camp.clarkson.edu>, smithbm@craft.camp.clarkson.edu (Azrak) writes...
>jra@law7.DaytonOH.NCR.COM (John Ackermann x 2966) writes:
> 
>>What kind of performance (throughput) is typical for ESDI drives?  I've
>>got an Adaptec track-caching controller (64k cache) and an older CDC
>>182MB drive, running on a 486SX-25 machine.
> 
>>The seek time is very good -- something like 16ms according to all my
>>benchmarks -- but the throughput isn't much better than my old MFM
>>controller and drive with 1:1 interleave.  The benchmarks say the ESDI
>>system is giving me about 550kb/sec transfer rate -- the MFM system
>>showed about 490kb/sec.
> 

Hmm...  I have a Western Digital 1007V-SE2 hooked to two EDSI drives, 
1 miniscribe @ 160 megs and 1 ??? at 320 megs.  I get a throughput of
approx. 950kb/sec on each drive (himem and emm386 alter the results
slightly, why?).  I'm running it on a AMD386-40.  Could you have the
card in an 8-bit slot?  Is it 8-bit?  Both of these will slow it down.
Possibly, if you have an 8-bit video card, the part of the bus that the
ESDI controller is operating on is also stuck at 8-bit (only MDA/Herc
compatible cards could cause this).  Do you have any specs on the drive or
controller?  What kind of transfer rates do they suggest?

>I also know people here at Clarkson with 286 8MHz machines and MFM
>controllers can get 450kb/sec, so no matter how you look at it, ESDI
>is going quite slow. If a 286-8 can get 450kb/sec, a 386DX-20 should be
>getting 800kb/sec and your machine should be getting 1000kb/sec.
> 

Not quite, but you should get some sort of improvment as the processor
speed increases (up to a max a little below 1000kb/sec).

>>Do these benchmarks understate the performance of my system, do I have
>>something wrong, or is there really no advantage to ESDI?
> 

    Somethings wrong or you have a no advantage ESDI set up.  Are you using
the Coretest benchmark?  or something else?  I'd recommend Coretest (avaliable
via FTP somewhere).

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From: newberry@delphinus.as.arizona.edu (Mike Newberry)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.benchmarks,comp.sys.intel
Subject: Re: ATI Ultra PRO 24-bit?
Date: 10 Nov 92 21:57:13 GMT
Organization: University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ

In article <smithbm.721320189@craft.camp.clarkson.edu> smithbm@craft.camp.clarkson.edu (Azrak) writes:
>drew@ladymacb.cs.colorado.edu (Drew Eckhardt) writes:
>
>>In article <smithbm.721264472@craft.camp.clarkson.edu> smithbm@craft.camp.clarkson.edu (Azrak) writes:
>>>David Eugene Dwiggins <dd2x@ANDREW.CMU.EDU> writes:
>[Stuff deleted]
>>>
>>>>DON'T BUY ATI PRODUCTS IF YOU WANT TO KNOW PROGRAMMING INFORMATION.
>>>
>>>>Gene
>>>
>>>Huh????
>>>
>>>You mean the manual you get with the ATI Graphics Ultra Pro doesn't
>>>tell you how to switch into 640x480x16.7M mode???
>>>
>>>My manual from the ATI VGAWonder 256k (yes, old) told me what HEX
>>>value to use to switch into any mode the card supported, and even
>>>told me how the bit planes were organized.
>
>>You feed that hex value to the BIOS.  When you need to program the board's 
>>registers from inside protected mode, such as in a Xserver running under unix,
>>you can't call BIOS, and that information is worthless.
>
>Ok, so it does tell you what value to feed the BIOS. Ok. That's good.
>I wasn't planning on writing anything sophisticated, just setting the
>mode with the BIOS, and directly writing to the Video Memory for simple
>image display purposes.
>
>>You need to know how to program the clock synthesizer among other things,
>>which most manufacturers will happily provide.  However, a few manufacturers
>>are using propriety clock synthesizer chips, and not providing programming
>>information without an NDA, etc.
>
>Well, my old ATI VGAWonder never told me that stuff either, so I guess
>ATI has never given out programming information. I stand corrected.
>(All the "programming info" I need (simple, I know) is mode # and memory
>organization)
>
>>Thus, without reverse engineering the BIOS you can't write a free Xserver
>>for the card.
>
>I'm sure someone will sooner or later, or ATI will fall off the face of
>the Earth for being so pig-headed. I hope that when someone does get the
>info they scan it and post it to the net. ;>
>
>>-- 
>>Microsoft is responsible for propogating the evils it calls DOS and Windows, 
>>IBM for AIX (appropriately called Aches by those having to administer it), but 
>>marketing's sins don't come close to those of legal departments.
>>Boycott AT&T for their absurd anti-BSDI lawsuit.
>
>- Brian (smithbm@craft.camp.clarkson.edu)

Any idiot can write code which will drive a $600 ATI Graphics Ultra Pro
as a VGA card.  What we're talking about here is running the card in ways 
that justify its high price tag: in high resolution/high color modes using
the graphics acceleration hardware.  As anyone who's written hardware
acceleration code for the S3 processors knows, there is absolutely no
way to figure this stuff out unless you get the official programmer's
reference manual.  No way.  This is what ATI seems so reticent about
providing.

Mike Newberry
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: linstee@dutecaj.et.tudelft.nl (Erik van Linstee)
Subject: 586 is used in machines and sold commercially
Organization: Delft University of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering
Date: Sat, 07 Nov 1992 13:39:57 GMT


I just talked to a guy who claimed this. He also said it is
a 64-bit risc-like processor. In fact 64-bit machines have been
around for as much as 9 years now.

See what you think about it. If you have such a 586 machine
or know one who does, let me know.

Erik


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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: rash@access.digex.com (Wayne Rash)
Subject: Re: DisplayMate (was Gateway 2000 486 DX2/66E)
Keywords: gateway eisa
Organization: Express Access Online Communications, Greenbelt, Maryland USA
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 06:16:53 GMT

anderson@dseg.ti.com (John Anderson) writes:

>In article <rash.720589213@access.digex.com> rash@access.digex.com (Wayne Rash) writes:

>>The Nanao works beautifully.  I ran the complete suite of DisplayMate
>>tests, and it breezed through them all.  I was amazed that it even passed
>>all of the compatibility tests.  
>>

>What is DisplayMate and where can one get it?

>John Anderson

>>

The Displaymate Utilities is a package from Sonera Software that is
designed to test monitors and video cards for their performance
capabilities.  I originally saw them at comdex a year or two ago and was
one of the Byte editors that voted them one of our annual awards.  Since
then, I have used them in a comparitive monitor review.  There's a sidebar
in the May issue of Windows Magazine (CMP Publications) that describes the
software and how I used it in that review.  It's an effective test of a
monitor, and it canshow you some surprising things about your equipment. 
One of these days I'll get the office organized enough to find it again
and post the ordering information here.  Meanwhile, look at Windows Magazine.

Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: S_GUMHOLD@rzmain.rz.uni-ulm.de (Gumhold Martin)
Subject: ET4000 and DMODE, how works NI-setting ??
Organization: University of Ulm, Germany
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 12:42:11 GMT
X-News-Reader: VMS NEWS 1.24

Yeah, I know the article of Hamish Marson, but MAYBE can anyone help me
with my problem though...

I tried to debug my DMODE.EXE, but my capabillities ran out...

How does the program put the ET4000-card in Non-Interlaced-Mode ?

My card is capable of producing 64k colors, but in which mode ?
If s.o. got a MODE-Table for then ET4000-cards, could u please send me then
HICOLOR-Modes ?
My card is a cheap'n'nasty Taiwan-copy and the manual doesn't help too
much. ( No, I DON'T need software drivers... thanx!)

Ciao Martin
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From: jlarke@css.itd.umich.edu (Jason Larke)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: V-Com Experience
Date: 6 Nov 1992 22:01:42 GMT
Organization: Game:Guild
NNTP-Posting-Host: stimpy.css.itd.umich.edu

Having seen several posts on the Net asking about V-Com, I thought
I would relate my experience. I ordered a 486sx/25 machine with
local bus 24-bit video, Maxtor 105mb drive, 8 meg ram, Mag flicker
free monitor, and a tower case. Total cost $1674 + $105 shipping.

I had to wait six weeks for the system, which I gather was not
uncommon for orders placed in September. The phones at V-Com are
often busy, the people who answer them are rude, and their personnel
did not return calls when I left messages. Tech support is busy,
but the people were able to correctly diagnose a flipped floppy disk
cable. 

The machine runs great- blazes through Wing Commander and
has had no trouble with OS/2 2.0. I'd recommend V-Com to anyone
with little money and the ability to deal with long waits.

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: gillani@fraser.sfu.ca (Karim Gillani)
Subject: Re: Unexpected-Interrupt-Test FAILED (Award)
Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 14:11:06 GMT

lmebold@csghsg5a.bitnet writes:

>Hi all

>I've got a 486DX/33-EISA-System with an AWARD-BIOS.
>When booting, the system is checked and several messages are written to
>screen. One of them is: "unexpected Interrupts" - this test can be failed
>or passed.
>When booting the system (power on or reset) the system fails the
>unexpected interrupts-test. When rebooting with ctrl-alt-del the
>system passes this test. What does it mean, when the system-check
>fails this test and why is it passed on a warm reboot?
>By the way: the system works properly - I've never had a problem
>(using a mouse, modem, soundblaster).

>Thanks in advance

>Luke

I also have the same motherboard (sort of)
And I also had the same problem, I resolved it by changing the DMA-default of
the controller card (EISA CARD) AND I have a suspicion that one of my cards were faulty (internal modem) I suggest taking all unecessary cards out and
testing the motherboard, then systematically put one card in at a time, a check if you get that error

I hope this helps

Karim
Karim

Xref: sparky comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware:29736 comp.dcom.modems:16788
From: rhughes@ucsd.edu (Richard J. Hughes)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Re: fax/phone switch
Date: 13 Nov 92 05:01:41 GMT
Article-I.D.: ucsd.rhughes.14.0
Organization: ucsd.edu
NNTP-Posting-Host: dial-slip24.ucsd.edu

In article <92317.170516KCHAN@ESOC.BITNET> <KCHAN@ESOC.BITNET> writes:
>Date: Thursday, 12 Nov 1992 17:05:16 CET
>From: <KCHAN@ESOC.BITNET>
>Subject: Re: fax/phone switch
>Here's my $0.02 worth.
>
>I have a Command Communications ASAP TF300+ switch which works fine. 
>
>The only disadvantage is lack of configurability, e.g. no. of rings,
>reassignment of tones to functions, but there is a more expensive version
>which has such features. I paid $79+tax for the switch at the local CompUSA,
>I have also seen it being sold at various office equipment superstores in the
>LA area for up to $89 or thereabouts.

I have the TF555, which costs about $110 but is highly configurable.  I 
cannot get the reverse modem detection to work but find that appending the 
string ",,,,22" to the telephone number forces the switch to route the call 
to the modem port.  It works very well but with the same consideration that 
every call costs.

Richard Hughes
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.dcom.modems
From: daigle@APOLLO.HP.COM (Joe Daigle)
Subject: Re: fax/phone switch
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 19:52:11 GMT
Reply-To: daigle@apollo.hp.com
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Company, Chelmsford, MA

In article <oqByTB1w165w@halcyon.com>, puma <puma@halcyon.com> writes:
|> ray@eecs.nwu.edu (Jim Ray) writes:
|> > I recently purchased, and subsequently returned, a faulty fax/phone
|> > switch.  It was supposed to automatically route fax calls to the
|> > fax/modem board in my PC.
|


This makes me think of something I would like for my PC.  I have (1)
FAX/MODEM board.  BUT, I would like to accept either FAX, MODEM or VOX
on that line.  Even while running Windows, I assume that I cannot do this
because I would have to run my fax software as well as my comm software, 
which of course are both going to want to sit and wait on the same COM
port, which is not allowed.  


any way around this short of buying a second board?


thanks, 

Joe


Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: jrf34318@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (John Fultz)
Subject: Info wanted: Everex EGA card
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 22:10:16 GMT

	I recently obtained an Everex EV 659A EGA card with no documentation,
and I am having difficulty getting it to work with my monitor.  My monitor is
a Sears LXI series TV which supports composite and RGB input.  Obviously, I
think one of the big problems here is that my monitor is a low-res monitor,
having only the resolution of a TV.  What I need to know is if, using DIP
switches and/or jumpers, I can kick the EGA card into low-res mode, or, if
worse comes to worse, CGA mode.  Incidentally, I have gotten CGA to run on
this monitor through the regular RGB input with no problems.  Oh, the ROM
version is V1.51.A1 if it makes a difference.  Also, there are 2 RCA type
jacks on the card...anybody have any idea what these are used for?  Thanks
in advance.

John Fultz
jrf34318@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: labovit@quip.eecs.umich.edu (Craig Labovitz)
Subject: Modem reccomendation?
Keywords: modem
Organization: University of Michigan EECS Dept., Ann Arbor, MI
Distribution: usa
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 16:40:33 GMT



We interested in getting a modem (1200 or 2400) for an old (circa 1985) IBM.
Looking for something relatively cheap and no-frills.  Any
reccomendations?

Thanks.

- Craig
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From: bell_sw@brutus.vought.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: [I]diots [B]uilt [M]e
Date: 6 Nov 92 18:12:43 GMT
Organization: Vought Aircraft Company

>>>>>>Idiots Built Me..
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>>>>>I'd Buy a Macintosh
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: wade@nb.rockwell.com (Wade Guthrie)
Subject: Re: CDROM opinions
Organization: Rockwell International
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 02:44:39 GMT


I just bought the Texel DM-3021 for my Adaptec 1542B and here's what I've
found.  

First of all, I expect that the Texel and the Adaptec will work well together
once I get my little problems ironed out.  I haven't yet and this is my tale
of woe.

The drive does NOT work well with the Adaptec ASW-410 driver, though
noone at Adaptec will tell you that (well, ok, the one guy I talked to wouldn't
tell me that :->).  When I called Texel, they said that I shouldn't have spent
the $ on the Adaptec software (the board is pretty good, but the software. . .)
and instead should have purchased Trantor's (sp?) ASPI driver.  I am in the 
process of trying to trade my Adaptec driver for Trantor's (I bought the drive
and the software from Dirt Cheap Drives; so far they have been quite helpful,
but I haven't told them of the driver incompatibility yet) -- wish me luck.

You need an underlying ASPI driver on top of which to install the CD-ROM ASPI
driver, by the way, for the Adaptec board to work.  Just thought I'd mention
that.

Wade
wade@nb.rockwell.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: ewadams@netcom.com (Ernest Adams)
Subject: Funny Quantum 240AT HD noise?
Keywords: quantum hard disk
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 20:30:49 GMT

This may be an FAQ; I hope not.

I just bought the Quantum 240 AT hard disk drive. It has an on-board
256K cache, supposedly, and is supposed to be blinding fast. I haven't
really gotten a chance to test its speed, but I have noticed that
even when nothing's going on, it seems to make a chukka-chukka-chukka
sound about every ten seconds.

Is this normal? Am I misinterpreting what I'm hearing? I didn't get
any docs with this drive (it came installed in a system I bought)
and I'd like to know what's going on. It's a little disconcerting
and I'm sure it's going to bother me when I'm trying to think.

What's the story here?

-- Ernest
From: sppp@hippo.ru.ac.za (Prof P Piacenza)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: IDE DRIVE REFORMAT
Summary: What procedure to follow for bad cylinder 0 on an IDE?
Keywords: IDE, formatting, software
Date: 5 Nov 92 09:36:11 GMT
Organization: Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa


Question: what does one do with an IDE drive that has developed low level
problems, specially cylinders 0-3?

I read somewhere in an article in NewsNet that software is available to
redo a low level format on an IDE drive (presumably the servo data is
correctly replaced!).  Can anyone let me have info on this as we have
several drives which have developed such problems.

If only the "factory" can carry out such a format then I believe that we
are being ripped off by the manufacturers.  I cannot imagine shipping my
drives from "darkest Africa" all the way to the USA or the Far East just
to have them reformatted.

Please email at one of the two addresses below if possible.  Thank you.

	chpp@unitrix.utr.ac.za	or	sppp@hippo.ru.ac.za

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From: bob1@cos.com (Bob Blackshaw)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Monitor screen damaged by Magnet
Date: 10 Nov 92 14:41:24 GMT
Distribution: world,local
Organization: Corporation for Open Systems

In <1992Nov10.011019.28281@ucsu.Colorado.EDU> kotsines@ucsu.Colorado.EDU (KOTSINES  THOMAS ANT) writes:

>>>My five year old son decided to see what would happen if he placed
>>>a magnet on my SVGA CTX monitor.  Well, he found out.  The two areas
>>>where the magnet were placed now have 'shadows' associated with them
>>>(ie: darker areas).  This is especially noticeable if the background
>>>is light in color.
>>
>>>Does anyone know if there is a fix for this sort of problem.  If so,
>>>what type of equipment would I need?
>>
>>   Go to a local tv repair store and get it degauzed (sp). I had the same
>>thing happen to my tv.  You might be able to borrow the degauzer and 
>>do it at home. (I was)

>Won't the "DEGAUSS" button on your monitor do this as well? (assuming
>you have this button on your monitor.)

Every CTX monitor (and most others) that I've been under the cover of
have a degaussing coil, but no switch. The degauss is controlled by
a time/temp device that runs the degauss coil for n seconds when the
monitor is powered on. Power it down overnight, let it cool, then
power it on. If the magnetization of the shadow mask is too extreme
for the built-in degausser, I would suggest that you try a tape deck
head demagnetizer over the two areas that are affected. You can get
these at Radio Shack quite reasonably.

Bob.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: ag735@yfn.ysu.edu (Etienne Tasse)
Subject: Wanted: Trident 8800 DIP Switch setup help
Reply-To: ag735@yfn.ysu.edu (Etienne Tasse)
Organization: St. Elizabeth Hospital, Youngstown, OH
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 19:34:57 GMT


I would like the DIP Switch Setup listing from a Trident 8800 D manual.

It's the one with a DB9 and DB15 connectors.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: mem28103@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Marc E. Munoz-"Ren" )
Subject: CONTAQ Motherboard Chipsets?
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Sun, 8 Nov 1992 05:20:36 GMT

I was wondering if anyone had any experience (good or bad) with CONTAQ
chipsets?  A local Computer dealer is selling a 486SX/25 using this set
and I was wondering if they had any problems.  BTW, I'll be using the 
computer for MS-DOS and Win3.1.

Marc

Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: esova@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Edward R Sova)
Subject: need info: EVEREX EV923 modem
Organization: The Ohio State University
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 20:46:57 GMT


Does anyone know the what the DIP switches on an EVEREX EV923 
do?  I have a junk modem with no dox, someone please tell me 
what this modem is all about.  I most need to know what this 
internal modem's switch settings configure it for the 
different com ports.  Thanx

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: paul@tct.com (Paul Levin)
Subject: Re: NEED HELP REPLACING BATTERY ON MB!
Organization: TC Telemanagement, Clearwater, FL
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 22:15:34 GMT
Keywords: motherboard

According to sjm1@ra.msstate.edu (Sarah J. McKinley):
>HELP!!  I keep booting up to find that my clock has reset!
>I can only assume this is a bad battery problem and would like to replace
>it.  I have a motherboard that was just removed on which sits a good
>battery.  However, it seems that it would take a crowbar to get the damn
>thing out!!!  Are they stuck in there really tight or is there something
>else holding them in?  Any tricks/suggestions are welcome!
>
>sjm1@Ra.MsState.Edu
>.

Is it soldered in ??!!
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Compaq DESKPRO 386 and Sector Translation
From: jennen@eeyore.stcloud.msus.edu (Steve Jennen)
Date: 11 Nov 92 09:20:27 -0600
Organization: St. Cloud State Univ., MN

I have a Compaq DESKPRO 386 that's having some boot problems.  I think
that I just need to low-level format the hard drive, but all the
software I've tried to use (Norton, PC TOOLS) all say that they can't
format the drive because it's using sector translation.  I read in the
documentation for Spinrite II that you could disable the sector
translation by using the setup disk.  I got a new setup disk from my
dealer, but there is no option to disable the sector translation on it.

Anyone have any clues on how I can disable it?

Please reply via email.

-=steve jennen	jennen@eeyore.stcloud.msus.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware