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Can some kind soul please help me out with jumper settings for configuring
a Maxtor 7080AT as a master drive and a Quantum LPS 84AT as a slave?

I have the BIOS settings OK, and I have documentation for jumper settings
for two Quantums (Quanta?), but not for combination with a Maxtor, not do
I have any docs for the Maxtor (which is currently installed as the only
drive).

Any ideas ?

Thanks in advance,

Steve South.

ssouth@hpsid.sid.hp.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: ujlh@pool.info.sunyit.edu (James Henrickson)
Subject: Re: Gateway CS1024NI = (!=) Mag Monitor
Organization: State University of New York -- Institute of Technology
Distribution: usa
Date: Sun, 6 Sep 1992 04:52:43 GMT

In article <1992Sep3.182315.3579@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> mrosen@nyx.cs.du.edu (Michael Rosen) writes:
>ujlh@pool.info.sunyit.edu (James Henrickson) writes:
>
>>Nope, not always.  I have received mail from several people in the past
>>whose Crystal Scans were made by another company.  Gateway does a lot
>>of parts switching, like the 386DX-33 system that PC Magazine gave such
>>high praise a couple years ago.  The saleswoman bragged about the review,
>>then I found out that my 386DX-33 was a completely different system.
>>Different motherboard, different memory speed, different memory capacity,
>>different cache speed, different chip set, ......
>
>But they advertise their motherboard as a Micronics motherboard, is
>this not what you got?  I don't know about the review you refer to,
>but all the literature I reeived lists standard components that all of
>their systems come with.
>

I'm not complaining, just stating a fact.  Yes, I got the standard
Micronics 25/33 cache motherboard with 4 MB (max 16 MB with ASIC memory
card that wasn't cheap) of 80 ns RAM, 64K of 30 (or is it 35?) ns cache, 
and Phoenix BIOS.  The one that the sales rep bragged about had an AMI 
motherboard, 4 MB of 70 ns RAM (max 32 MB on motherboard, 64 MB with
memory card), 64K of 25 ns cache.  At the time, my mouth was watering
over the specs (I was a student that had long outgrown his 4.7 mhz
8088).  I got smart and asked to confirm the components, at which time
I was disappointed to find out it wasn't anything like I had anticipated.
It's just the idea that the company shipped out a review unit that
wasn't representative of their product line.  I know other companies
do the same, but it makes me question their honesty when they try to
trick consumers with good reviews.  Now that I think about it, though,
maybe they changed suppliers shortly after that.  Who knows?

It's a good thing I went with the Gateway, though.  The other choice
was Touche, and I don't see them advertising anymore.  :-)

The experience taught me a lot about mail order, and I have since gotten
pretty good with mail order purchasing (what questions to ask, what to
expect, current market prices, etc).  I usually recommend Gateway
computers to first-time buyers that need the security blanket that an
established company can offer, while I shop a few bargain-basement
companies (established ones) for my own stuff.

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From: leonglaw@hpsgm2.sgp.hp.com (Lawrence LEONG)
Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1992 15:05:05 GMT
Subject: Re: H-P Vectra RS/16 Memory Question
Organization: HP Singapore
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware

In comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware, rab@hal.cwru.edu (Roger Bielefeld) writes:

|I've just inherited responsibility for caring for two old H-P
|Vectra RS/16 machines.  Each contains one meg of memory in the
|form of four 256K SIMM's.  I'd like to upgrade each to four
|megs of memory right away and eventually to eight megs.
|
|I'd like to fill four of the sixteen SIMM sockets on each machine
|with 1M SIMM's and later add four more SIMM's to each.  However, I
|RTFM'ed and it specified sixteen 256K SIMM's to achieve four megs.
|I'd really rather not have to scrounge up that many 256K SIMM's and
|then have to get rid of them when I go to eight megs.  So, my question
|is whether anyone happens to know whether I can just install four 1M
|SIMM's instead of sixteen 256K SIMM's in these particular machines.
|
|Thanks!
|
|Roger
|--
|Roger Bielefeld     Case Western Reserve University
|rab@hal.cwru.edu    Cleveland, Ohio  USA

i once had this on my table (i've migrated to a unix machine).  my prev
machine was 1989 vintage, i stuffed all 8 simm slots with 1m simms, the
machine booted up, no problem.  ran win 3.0 etc.  ymmv.

lawrence
From: aliu@aludra.usc.edu (Alex Liu)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Old SUN-scsi disk on a PC?
Date: 8 Sep 1992 14:05:28 -0700
Organization: None to Speak of
NNTP-Posting-Host: aludra.usc.edu

berger@atropa (Mike Berger) writes:

>etxstfr@helix.ericsson.se (Stefan Frick) writes:
>1542B controller.  I doubt you will have any success with older
>shoeboxes using the Adaptec ACB-4000 adapter, and a 50% chance

A bit of trivia. The adaptec ACB-4000 is a SCSI to MFM converter
(last I checked) So if you got one of those and a PC with a MFM
controller, you can just remove the ACB4000 and put the MFM HD
directly connected to your MFM controller.



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From: lachlan@dmp.csiro.au (Lachlan Cranswick)
Subject: Re: PROBLEM - adding HD to old 286
Keywords: sperry, config, controller card
Organization: CSIRO Division of Mineral Products, Melbourne, AUSTRALIA
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 13:15:28 GMT

etxjws@eua.ericsson.se (Johan Wildros) writes:

>Yo !
>This is the deal, a few weeks ago I bought my father an old 286
>without a harddisk. I also got him a HD and controller card but ....
>I've tried to install, configure, or what you call it, but it refuses
>to work. The HD is OK (checked), the controller card is OK (not checked)
> The 286 is a SPERRY and it's a kind of funny pc. 
>It will only boot on a special dos 3.3 from commodore.
>Anyway, the HD is a miniscribe model 3425, the card is an adaptec ACB2002
>and the pc is thus a SPERRY 286. When I try to configure it it
>gives me the message - ERROR READING FIXED DISK.
>Is there anyone that have any ideas ?
>It would be greatly appreciated !

Have you been in the CMOS to setup the hard-disk
configuration?  Some old 286's need a CMOS setup program
to change the setup.  
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From: quraeshi@gw.wmich.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Gateway 480-66DX2-Has anyone got one
Date: 11 Sep 92 18:35:58 EST
Organization: Western Michigan University

Has anyone out there purchased and received the Gateway48066Dx2.If so 
how is it? would like to hear about your experiences.

Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.os.ms-windows.misc
From: kellys@holonet.net (Kelly Schwarzhoff)
Subject: What type of mouse to buy (for windows)
Organization: HoloNet (BBS: 510-704-1058)
Date: Sun, 6 Sep 1992 06:12:02 GMT

A friend of mine has a 386 and wants to run Windows but has no mouse.  I've heard
that one should get the Microsoft mouse because other mice have compatibility
problems with Windows.  However, I personally do not like the MS Mouse and
think it's overpriced.  Does anyone have any suggestions as to other good mice
and where I might find them?
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From: pprior@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Paul A Prior)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Gateway 480-66DX2-Has anyone got one
Date: 12 Sep 92 13:54:06 GMT
Organization: The Ohio State University

In article <1992Sep11.183558.5207@gw.wmich.edu> quraeshi@gw.wmich.edu writes:
>Has anyone out there purchased and received the Gateway48066Dx2.If so 
>how is it? would like to hear about your experiences.
>

I have ordered one, but have not received it yet.  I was told "6 weeks"
and so I patiently (NOT!) wait...  I would very much like to hear
from others about this system so I could cancel my order if they turn 
out to be junk... ;(




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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: iikkap@mits.mdata.fi (Iikka Paavolainen)
Subject: Re: SCANNER: Need number of ScanPlus manufacturer (PlusTek?)
Keywords: scanner
Organization: Microdata Oy, Helsinki, Finland
Date: Sun, 13 Sep 1992 10:44:54 GMT

What's the cheapest/easiest way to upgrade a 386sx/16 to a, say, 386dx/33?
Change the motherboard? Chip?
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From: jan@aristo.tau.ac.il (Jan Kalo)
Subject: Help:Mylex boards configuration utilities.
Organization: Tel-Aviv University Computation Center
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 11:15:03 GMT


	Who knows?
	If available a ftp server which holds the Mylex boards configuration utilities?
If any please mail to jan@aristo.tau.ac.il
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: kan@bugs-bunny.rtp.dg.com (Victor Kan)
Subject: dead spot with Stealth + Mag 15"
Date: 12 Sep 92 12:20:35
Distribution: comp
Reply-To: kan@dg-rtp.dg.com
Organization: Program Development Environments, Data General Corp., RTP, NC

Has anyone experienced this?

When I run my Stealth at 1024x768 and above, I get a few missing,
contiguous pixels on the right end of the last line on the screen.
Sometimes there's an extra bunch of contiguous pixels on the right end
above the first line.

Actually, I don't know if it is the last line that has pixels missing
since there could be several lines missing.  I don't have any
programming tools to write programs for those high res modes so I
can't check that for sure.

Any clues anyone?  My vendor's tech support is clueless as usual and
I'd rather not send back both my monitor and video card.  I'm going to
try both on a friend's PC soon, but clues would be appreciated.

Thanks!


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From: pdp@ariel.its.unimelb.EDU.AU (Paul Douglas Page)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: MLI drivers
Date: 15 Sep 92 05:18:52 GMT
Organization: University of Melbourne

I am trying to get hold of MLI drivers for a Western Digital 8013W Ethernet 
card. It comes with ODI & NDIS drivers but I need to put the PC on to a network of Macs that are running Appleshare.

Thanks in advance.

Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: cab6944@usl.edu (Brasseaux Carl A)
Subject: EISA vs. ISA.  Seeking advice.
Organization: University of Southwestern Louisiana
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 01:56:56 GMT

I am presently shopping for a new 486 machine and have narrowed my choices
to comparably equipped EISA and ISA systems.  The ISA system offers the 
advantage of an Overdrive socket which will eventually allow me to increase
the processing speed of my system.  Does this long-term upgradability offset
the better short-term performance of the EISA system?  Please e-mail answers
to cab6944@usl.edu.  Thanks in advance.
Carl Brasseaux
From: normanw@cs.concordia.ca (WOO norman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Problem with installing 3.5" 1.44Meg floppy as B drive
Date: 7 Sep 92 02:07:19 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: Computer Science, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec

Hi All

I finally took the plunge and am replacing my 360K 5.25 drive with a
1.44 Meg 3.5" drive.  I have a 1.2Meg 5.25 drive as the A drive.  I have
a problem when trying to make the system recognize the 1.44Meg drive as the
B drive.  The CMOS ( I have a AMI BIOS dated April 9th, 1990 ) keep insisting
that the B drive is "Not Installed".  I do set it to 1.44 Meg 3.5".  But after
the reboot each time, it refuses to acknowledge the B drive.

Here are some more info:

[1] - During the booting process, the A drive's light would come on and it
      would grind for a few seconds in an attempt to read a diskette.  Then
      the B drive's light would come on, but no motor movements.  Then the
      the hard disk completes the boot process.

[2] - The drive is a Panasonic model JU-257A814P.

[3] - When I attempt to do a "dir b:" it keep asking to place the diskette in
      drive b and then press return.  Upon doing so, the A drive is read.

[4] - The switch settings are as follows:
   
      Switch 1: DC
                RY   <- This is set

      Switch 2: IN
                OUT
                NC   <- This is set

      Switch 3: DS0
                DS1  <- This is set
                DS2
                DS3

      Switch 4: Can't find it

      Switch 5: SE   <- This is set
                AT
                P2

      Switch 6: MO   <- This is set
                MS    

Are they correct?   Am I missing something or is there something wrong with
the unit?

Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks in advance.

Norman Woo
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From: jgl7@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Andrew T. Kim)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Hard Disk Failure???
Date: 16 Sep 92 01:43:07 GMT
Reply-To: jgl7@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Andrew T. Kim)
Organization: Columbia University

I don't have a clue what's going on with my PC.  Someone help me PLEEZE?

Here is what's happening:

When I start-up, it says;
"Hard Disk Failure.
 Press F1 to continue, F2 to run Setup Program"

Of course, F1 doesn't work, so I go ahead with F2 and I am now in the
ROM Setup Screen.

It displays all the right information, including VGA Card, and Hard Disk
Type (In this case Type 48).  It would say;

"Esc to reboot, F1 to help, F10 to continue"

Having nothing better to do, I press F10 and it works!!!  It starts up
and everything is fine!!!  Well, almost.  At some point, it HANGS.

This happens everytime and it drives me NUTS!!!

My PC is ACMA 386/25MHz, with Phoenix ROM BIOS version 1.10.00 1985-1989,
ATI VGA Wonder card, Seagate RLL 120MB Hard Drive.

I can always take it to the repair shop, but I didn't want to miss my work
to carry this (heavy) sucker all the way and listens to the BS'ing salesman.

Anything is appreciated.

Andrew Kim
From: gsa@alcor.concordia.ca ( CON U GRADUATE STUDENTS' ASSOC )
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: PowerBar vs Switch.
Date: 8 Sep 92 00:40:35 GMT
Distribution: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Organization: Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec


Does it damage the computer to turn it on by the power bar
instead of the switch??  

---
Dan
From: raisink@nucleus.cuc.ab.ca (Raymond Emsley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: 4 meg simms, in a 386 SX?
Date: 10 Sep 92 20:27:06 GMT
Organization: The Nucleus 16 Lines 403-531-9353 -CNet Amiga-

hI:

I have a couple of questions to ask about simms...
I have a KP 386sx motherboard with MORSE chipset 91A300, and AMI Bios.
 
It has room for 8 1 meg simms, or 8 slots... I want to know if it is possiable
to use 8 4 meg simms, or do I have to change the bios or what?
 
Is there such a thing as 2 meg simms?
 
I am very courios about this..
thanks for any information you can give me...
 
I do not monitor this group much so please leave me E-Mail thanks.
 
raisink@nucleus.cuc.ab.ca
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: css0860@rigel.tamu.edu (CSS)
Subject: Help Identify an ethernet lan card!!!?????
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Reply-To: css0860@zeus.tamu.edu
Organization: Texas A&M University, Academic Computing Services
Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1992 20:46:00 GMT


My roomy and I have been given cards to use if we can figure out
what they are and get software for them.  The top of the card
says "ethernet lan controller  univation inc. milpitas, CA (C) 1986"

There is a socketed chip with IBMENET3 sticker on it.  The card has
a circular ethernet wire connection and a 15 pin connection.  There
are jumpers labeld mem addr and port addr and irq.  

The back of the card says part no.1010795-000 REV h

Does anybody have any documentation for these?  Would really be nice.
We are running OS/2 2.0 and would like to set up a peer to peer.

-Steven

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From: kent@exodus.reuters.com.sg (kent)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Graphics Accelerator for X386
Date: 7 Sep 92 05:09:17 GMT
Organization: Reuters Singapore



I need a graphics accelerator card for my INTEL PC (Panther) 486/33 EISA bus to
run Destiny (SVR4.2) or any favours of SVR4. Does the vendor comes with the Xservers
for the card. ( I want something better than 800x600 256 colors.)
From: Rick.Schryvers@psycho.fidonet.org (Rick Schryvers)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: ISA cards in an EISA
Date: Tue, 08 Sep 92 22:41:04 EDT
Organization: Psycho: The Usenet<->Fidonet Gateway of St. Pete Florida

To: adam@microware.com (Adam Goldberg) 
 On 09-07-92 Adam Goldberg wrote to All... 
 
 AG> dab@ubitrex.mb.ca (Daniel Boulet) writes: 
 AG> >I'm about to purchase an EISA bus system.  I've heard that there are 
 AG> some 
 AG> >problems that one can encounter if ISA cards are used in an EISA 
 AG> system. 
 AG>  
 AG> >What sort of problems could I run into?  I'm definitely intending to 
 AG> purchase 
 AG> >an EISA disk controller.  I was planning on getting ISA cards for the 
 AG> rest 
 AG> >(video, serial ports, floppies). 
 AG>  
 AG> Here's the rub:  (Someone correct me if I'm wrong...) 
 AG>  
 AG> An EISA bus runs at 16MHz, but an ISA bus runs (usually) at 8 or 10 
 AG> MHz. 
 AG> When you plug an ISA card into an EISA bus, the EISA bus sees the ISA 
 AG> card and lowers it's speed to 8MHz.  Thereby decreasing throughput 
 AG> because of the lower clock speed. 
 AG>  
 AG> The solution is to buy a EISA machine that has floppy & parallel & 
 AG> serial ports on the MB (or on an EISA card). 
 AG>  
 AG> Can someone in the know confirm/deny this? 
 AG>  
        I can neither confirm nor deny this, however, let me state this, at my  
 place of employment we currently have 2 eisa fileservers with both isa and eisa  
 ethernet cards in them.  We have both eisa and ISA cards in them.  When I built  
 these machines, I tested them with and without ISA cards in them.  (The mother- 
 boards have onboard video, parallel and serial support).  I say no noticable 
 difference in effective thoughput in any of my tests.  By this I mean that under 
 normal dos tests utilizing checkit, degredation was less than 2% overall through 
 put.  Under network tests utilizing Perform as well as INFOPLUS and Checkit, the 
 degredation was less than 5%.  However, let me explain that the only isa cards  
 being used were network cards.  The only EISA cards were also network cards. 
 These were the NE2000 and NE3200 respectivly.   
 Also, let me introduce another question, that maybe someone else might have the 
 answer to, I'm not sure that all ISA cards run at 8 or 10 mhz.  The ones that 
 I am not sure of are the busmastering cards.  We tried an isa busmastering card 
 and an EISA busmastering card.  While there was considerable difference as the eisa 
 card is a 32bit card and the isa busmaster is only 16bit, I really don't know if 
 it attributed to actual system degradation other than the slowness of the bus on the 
 ISA area.  I don't believe that the entire bus slows down for the isa card.   
 
 
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From: exuptr@exu.ericsson.se (exuptr@exu.ericsson.se)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: BI-DIRECTIONAL PRINTER CARD FOR PC?
Date: 9 Sep 92 17:28:11 GMT
Organization: Ericsson Network Systems, Inc.

In article <1992Sep09.103227.24636@hplb.hpl.hp.com> tmo@hplb.hpl.hp.com (Tim Ottley) writes:
>From: tmo@hplb.hpl.hp.com (Tim Ottley)
>Subject: BI-DIRECTIONAL PRINTER CARD FOR PC?
>Date: 9 Sep 92 10:32:27 GMT



>Does anyone know of a supplier or manufacturer of bi-directional
>printer port cards for the PC (ISA bus)?  I need a couple to
>interface to some prototype communications hardware that I am
>building.

>If not, does anyone know of any standard (currently available)
>printer cards that can be modified to run bi-directionally, (I like
>a nice hardware hack!!).


>        Deep joy (in advance)
>                                Tim Ottley.


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Correct me if I'm worng, someone, but aren't all parallel perts bi-
directional?  Otherwise how would these tape backup units that connect to 
your parallel port work?
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: massoud@chemteca.sdsu.edu (Massoud Ajami)
Subject: read  Subject line
Organization: San Diego State University
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 18:23:29 GMT


I got creamed for my responce. Sorry guys, I lost your e-mail address before 
responding.

It was DX, SX things. For the nice one and his mail, thank so much for 
pointing out my mistake, I presumed it was 386's. I just read the article, 
not the "Subject line".

And for the other gentleman, yes, I hate it too! But in college, we are 
thought all related materials should be contained in the body of the 
article, and with all due respects to the originator, ignorance comes in 
different fashions.

Peace and Prosperity!
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