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From: tgao@cs.uiuc.edu (Tong Gao)
Subject: Difference between SCSI I and SCSI II?
Organization: University of Illinois, Dept. of Comp. Sci., Urbana, IL
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 16:04:34 GMT

Recently I am thinking about buying a SCSI card for my PC, and wondering what 
the difference between SCSI I and SCSI II is. I have a 486/33ISA, is there a
advanteage for me to buy a SCSI II card? Are the SCSI II cards the furture?
Do they cost considerably more? Thanks a lot.

Tong

Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: burleigh@ogre.cica.indiana.edu (Frank Burleigh)
Subject: Re: MAG 17
Organization: Indiana University
Date: Sun, 15 Nov 1992 20:50:59 GMT

In <1992Nov15.034621.21404@zooid.guild.org> Mark Kovarski <kovarski@zooid.guild.org> writes:

>msfuller@cc.utah.edu (MARC S. FULLER) writes:
>>
>>I've a Mag 17 that I bought with a system from standard computer.  Can't tell 
>>you anything about reliablility, since I've only had it three weeks.  But the 
>>image is excellent and the screen is flat.  You can adjust the monitor so the 
>>image takes up the whole screen.  Now if only the rest of the system were that 
>>good!

>Marc,
>I have this monitor for a few months and it's excellent. I would definetely
>recommend it to anyone who wants a good monitor. According to PC Magazine, it
>is better that the NEC, and it goes for a better price.

>I run it with a 486/50DX with 16 Megabyte RAM and OS/2 and I love it.

Me too.  And I agree.  But has anyone noticed this?

Whether the video card is in a graphics or text mode, the corners are
just a tad darker than the rest of the screen.  So for example if you
have a blue background, then the four corners will be just a tad
darker shade of blue.

I also notice that if I have a white background and dark text, there's
a bit of a shadow of the text to the right of the text.  I'm thinking
that I didn't see these shadows until I borrowed a friend's cheapo VGA
card (could a video card do that?  I hope so, else this post is one big
contradiction!;-)).


--
Frank Burleigh
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From: toddy@uni-paderborn.de (Thomas Rose)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Gigabyte Streamer Problem
Date: 22 Nov 1992 13:51:06 GMT
Organization: Uni-GH Paderborn, Germany
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: greco.uni-paderborn.de

Hi !

I've a problem. I like to use the Streamer GiGa 1200 (Giga Tape Corp) with
my Adaptec 1542 B. The Streamer should manage 1.2 GB Bakups onto a
120 min DAT Tape.

We only came up to 600 MB (Data Transfer Rate 6 MB/min). Where is the
Problem. Which Software could manage this ???

We tried NOVA, and Sytos. Are there better Programs ? Does anybody
know good parameters for NOVA Backup with such DAT Streamers ?              

We also have no manuals for the Streamer ! Is there anybody, who has worked
with it up to now ?


       Please answer via elm  toddy@uni-paderborn.de

                Thomas Rose
From: lawson@ecst.csuchico.edu (M. Todd Lawson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Project Help Please...
Date: 19 Nov 92 18:25:09 GMT
Organization: California State University, Chico
NNTP-Posting-Host: guzzler.ecst.csuchico.edu



   Hi!

     I am a student at Calif. State Univ. Chico studying computer engineering.
  I am currently looking forward to a career in the field of technical
  writing and documentation. Because of this, I have decided to start 
  a journal for the most frequently asked questions about computers. I
  intend for it to be a bi-monthly publication with the purpose of answering
  all the most often asked questions new and semi-experienced computer
  users have. It will not be for those of you with off the wall, obscure
  questions, because I will not be able to answer many of those.        
  
  Try to remember when you were a new computer user and some of the questions
  that you had.

    For me to get started, please send me any question that a new user is
  likely to ask; i.e. What is the speed of my computer? 386 or 33mhz?
  I know that seems simple, but you would be surprised to hear what
  new computer people will ask. 
  
    Below is a subscription form and question
  sheet.  All I ask is that you send me a question, and your name will go
  into the mailing list. However, as I am a student, I have limited funds.
  The journal will only be mailed to people without and email address.
  That obviously won't be anyone who reads this...
  

    Thanks for your participation, and I look forward to hearing from you.

    Todd Lawson.

    Lawson@cscihp.ecst.csuchico.edu

    1245 Esplanade Ave. #10
    Chico Ca. 95926

    Please send me your name, address, (including country, for all of you
                                        overseas people. )
    
    email address and a question or two or three..








    .......................................................


   Thanks again.

   Todd.
  
   
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California State University, Chico. Computer Engineering Dept.
It happens to the best.  It happens to the rest.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: beng@dorsai.com (ben ng)
Subject: boca svga card
Organization: The Dorsai Embassy, New York's Computer Consulate. +1.718.729.5018
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 00:05:29 GMT

Hi,
     Could those with the Boca SVGA or X-SVGA card mail me their
opinions on this card. Thanks.
 
Ben Ng
beng@dorsaid.com
uupsi!dorsaidm!beng
1:278/706
From: msimmons@ec.uwa.oz.au (Michael Simmons - mgmt_staff)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Speed of 486 external cache ram
Date: 19 Nov 1992 04:32:02 GMT
Organization: The University of Western Australia
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: decel.ecel.uwa.edu.au

I recently phoned a local clone manufacturer regarding the speed of the
SRAM's used on their motherboards. This is what I was told.

Processor 	CPU CLK		Tag SRAM	Cache SRAM	DRAM
486DX  		50MHZ		15ns		20ns		70ns
486DX		33MHZ		20ns		20ns		70ns
486SX		25MHz		25ns		25ns		70ns

Am I correct in saying that these board do not support the 486 fast Burst
mode as this would require access times (tag+cache) of 20ns,30ns and 40ns
for the 50mhz,33mhz and 25mhz boards.

Are these boards typical?
How many 486DX 50Mhz support a 20ns cache system???
How much of a difference do'es fast burst mode really make? Is it times 2?
From: n9110338@henson.cc.wwu.edu (dan jordan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Hidden Refresh (was Re: 3 chip vs 9 chip SIMMS)
Keywords: SIMMS, Hidden Refresh
Date: 22 Nov 92 11:06:34 GMT
Article-I.D.: henson.1992Nov22.110634.6805
Organization: Western Washington University



  I saw the passing reference to TellTale Parity Errors and was wondering
if you could elaborate on why they are TellTale and what causes them.
 Could you tell a Cure too?
thank you very much, i didn't see a FAQ however i think this is a FAQ 
so i understand any animosity about this post.
 E-mail would be a good way for anyone to respond to what TellTale Parity
Errors are about (other than what parity is *:) )
thanks,
-dan.
From: gerry@cmu.edu (Gerry Roston)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Printer, scanner, copier - All in one?
Date: 18 Nov 92 17:41:11 GMT
Reply-To: gerry@cmu.edu (Gerry Roston)
Organization: Field Robotics Center, CMU

Last night, while pondering an appropriate choice of laser printer, it
occurred to me that that is not a wise investment, since producing
quality documents may also require a scanner and a photocopier is also
a nice toy to have.  If you stop and think about it, a photocopier is
a scanner (printer) without a computer interface.  So, said I, I
should find a machine capable of all three functions.  Referring back
to the November issue of Byte, there was a review a such a beast, made
by OkiData, called Doc.It, but the puppy costs $4k.

So, net.world, are there any machines out there that combine all three
funcitons into a single package?  How much do they cost?  Are they
PostScript compatible?  How about print speed?  Etc.  

--
Gerry Roston (gerry@cmu.edu)    | Call to mind the sentiments which Nature
Field Robotics Center,          | has engraved in the heart of every citizen,
Carnegie Mellon University      | and which take a new force when they are
Pittsburgh, PA, 15213           | solemnly recognized by all: -For a nation
(412) 268-3856                  | to love liberty, it is sufficient that she
                                | knows it; and to be free, it is sufficient
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and do not reflect the official | 
position of CMU, FRC, RedZone,  | 
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: do-minh@suned.cs.yale.edu (Minh Do)
Subject: What good is memory in a IIIP?
Followup-To: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Organization: Yale University
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 20:41:50 GMT

Thanks to all the netters who responded to my question on PCL file dumps.
  The answer is to use "copy /b file prn"


Here is another question for y'all.  My friend has a Laser Jet IIIP which
he upgraded to 6 MB this summer.  He wants to know what he can do to take
advantage of this.  He is most interested in some kind of speed
improvements.  I told him that he could download fonts and macros, but I
haven't a clue on how to do this or even how to write PCL macros.

Any insights would be greatly appreciated.  Thanks.
From: gerry@cmu.edu (Gerry Roston)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Gateway 2000 and ATI Technologies - The scoop
Date: 17 Nov 92 23:10:05 GMT
Article-I.D.: onion.GERRY.92Nov17181005
Reply-To: gerry@cmu.edu (Gerry Roston)
Organization: Field Robotics Center, CMU

Here's what I have been able to piece together:

First the bad news:

Gateway 2000 has been shipping their computers with the ATI Ultra Pro
(local bus) with the ATI68830 RAMDAC and 1 MB VRAM.  This RAMDAC can
not produce 1280x1024 graphics.

Now the good news:

[From ATI Technologies, (416) 756-0718, Brett at x269]:
The ATI68830 RAMDAC can not handle 2 MB of VRAM.  For the higher
resolutions, you need the ATI68875 RAMDAC.  This will be available
from ATI for user upgrade starting in December.  The price is not yet
set, but it shouldn't exceed $100 US.  The 1 MB VRAM upgrade is
available now for $99 US.  Expect to pay an additional $10 US for
shipping and handling.

[From Gateway 2000, (800) 523-2000, Lane Johnson]:
Next week, Gateway will start shipping the ATI68875 RAMDAC in the
graphics card.  This will be the standard item and pricing is not
expected to change.

--
Gerry Roston (gerry@cmu.edu)    | The vanity and presumption of governing
Field Robotics Center,          | beyond the grave, is the most ridiculous
Carnegie Mellon University      | and insolent of all tyrannies.  Man has no
Pittsburgh, PA, 15213           | property in man; neither has any generation
(412) 268-3856                  | property in the generations that are to
                                | follow.  Thomas Paine
The opinions expressed are mine | 
and do not reflect the official | 
position of CMU, FRC, RedZone,  | 
or any other organization.      | 
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: majland@nork.auc.dk (Anders Majland Pedersen)
Subject: Re: QUANTUM IDE HD OWNERS, PLEASE READ...
Organization: Aalborg University (AUC)
Date: 23 Nov 92 19:03:48

In article <1992Nov23.113134.1@wharton.upenn.edu> poe@wharton.upenn.edu writes:
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   From: poe@wharton.upenn.edu
   Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
   Date: 23 Nov 92 16:31:34 GMT
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   Hello World.

   I have a Quantum 105-AT IDE Hard drive. You know, the one with
   755 Cylinders, 16 Heads, 17 Sectors/Track.
...
   drive, so I removed all jumpers, but it will be his primary drive.
 
I suppose youe drive is a LPS 105AT
If its gonna be the only HD on the controller (Master Only) : DS  only
If his got a slave too, then it's a multiple choice ! depending 
on the slave drive

Hope this helps
(mailed to)



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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: chans@cs.curtin.edu.au (Sean Chan)
Subject: Crystal speed info required...
Organization: Curtin University of Technology
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 17:56:45 GMT

Gidday all,

I'd just like to know about the speeds of crystals for required for
INTEL CPUs. A friend told me that the speed of the crystal should
*always* be twice the speed of the CPU (eg. 486DX-33 has a crystal
running at 66 MHz, 386DX-25 => 50 MHz). Is this true for *all*
motherboards??

The question arose when we were trying to figure out why the speed of my
floppy disk access slowed down after I changed my motherboard (from a
386DX-33 to 486DX2-50). Currently, it'll take about 10 seconds to access
drive A: (Yup, a simple A: takes 10 seconds); in contrast to my 386DX-33
which took about 1 second (3 seconds for a dir/w A:).

Could someone shed some light here please??

Sean
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: cs011177@cs.brown.edu (Kwun Han)
Subject: Re: How to INCREASE PROCESSOR SPEED (recommended?)
Organization: Brown Computer Science Dept.
Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 19:44:30 GMT

Year, I have a friend back in Hong Kong who has done that, but then he also put a cooling fan
on top of the chip to keep it cool.
:) Kwun Han
Email: st002255@brownvm.brown.edu
From: smoot@gumby.cs.Berkeley.EDU (Stephen R Smoot)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Any Info on Dynamic Scan?
Followup-To: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Date: 20 Nov 1992 20:12:13 GMT
Organization: UC Berkeley
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: gumby.cs.berkeley.edu

I'm shopping for a 486DX/50, and a place
called Dynamic Scan seems to have the best price.
Any good or bad stories about them?
Anyone ever even heard of them?

-s
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: orville%weyrich@uunet.uu.net (Orville R. Weyrich)
Subject: Re: Shadow ROM, What is it?
Reply-To: uunet.uu.net!weyrich!orville
Organization: Weyrich Computer Consulting
Date: Sun, 22 Nov 92 07:53:37 GMT

In article <26610@optima.cs.arizona.edu> jin@cs.arizona.edu (Yu Jin Thio) writes:
>Some of my computers have been set up with Shadow ROM enables, some without.
>Can someone please tell me what this does? Is it meant to enhance performance?

Access to the ROM bios is faster if it is copied into 32-bit RAM. This is
useful for DOS machines that rely on the BIOS [and Windoz too?].

It is NOT a good thing for UNIX -- once the system boots, UNIX ignores the
ROM bios, which was designed to support DOS and is not re-entrant.

I am pretty sure that OS/2 also ignores ROM bios after it boots, or else
that it does its own shadowing for the benefit of dos boxes.

So at best using shadow ROM will make your programs run faster, while at
worst it will reduce the amount of RAM available for general purpose use.

If you are using hardware that does DMA, you need to be sure that you
don't shadow that address range.

orville

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Newsgroups: isu.cc.general,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: sheldon@iastate.edu (Steve Sheldon)
Subject: Heatsinks in 486DX-50 based PC's
Summary: Does a 486DX50 require extra cooling?
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames IA
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 16:09:20 GMT

We're having a slight disagreement with one of our suppliers regarding
the cooling of a 486DX50 computer.

These machines were sent to us using a cheap baby AT case, with only
one small fan in the power supply, and no heatsink on the CPU.

I personally do not feel that the fan in the power supply is pulling enough
air thru the chassis to sufficiently cool the CPU.

The supplier does not feel that a heatsink is needed, and claims that
they have 100's of computers out there without them.  They're willing
to put one in, for a fee.

I'm looking for sources of information regarding this.  Perhaps where I
might find a copy of any Intel literature regarding this, or any studies,
tests, etc.

 I'm interested in something fairly scientific, if possible.

I'm just rather tired of arguing with these people.

-- 
sheldon@iastate.edu                Steve Sheldon
This space left intentionally      ICSS Resource Facility
blank.                             Iowa State University

Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: majland@nork.auc.dk (Anders Majland Pedersen)
Subject: Re: (3) SIPPs and (1) SIMM in one machine?
Organization: Aalborg University (AUC)
Date: 19 Nov 92 17:29:19

In article <1992Nov19.012253.5440@williams.edu> K Wayne Thomas <K.Wayne.Thomas@williams.edu> writes:

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   Another strange question:

   Can anyone tell me if it is possible to use 3 one-M SIPPs and one 1-M
   SIMM in the same machine?

If the sim and sipp have the same spec. there should'nt be any problems
Are you thinking of putting simms ('cause they are cheaper) in special
sockets to fit in a sipp's place on the motherboard ?
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From: spcberto@cicero.spc.uchicago.edu (Robert Osterlund)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Adding a 3rd (and 4th...) hard drive
Keywords: hard drive
Date: 17 Nov 92 15:49:14 GMT
Article-I.D.: midway.1992Nov17.154914.27189
Organization: U of Chicago, SSPPCC

In article <1992Oct30.225037.28396@midway.uchicago.edu> spcberto@psyche.spc.uchicago.edu (Robert Osterlund) writes:
>I have two hard drives.  Recently I moved DOS & Windows stuff off my D:
>drive onto my C: drive, then installed Linux on my second (formerly D:)
>drive.  It's getting awfully crowded on my primary (Stacked) drive, and
>I can see already that my Linux drive is not going to be big enough.
>
>I'd like to add a 3rd drive to my system.  What are the issues surrounding
>this?  In particular,
>

[stuff deleted]

>--Is the Plus Hardcard guaranteed to coexist with any other drives you
>  might have in your system?

I called the tech department of the Quantum Corp., and they confirmed that
their HardCard series will indeed work with any existing drive, and any
number of existing drives, in one's system.  I can do without the hassles
of SCSI, so I will probably be adding a Quantum HardCard as my 3rd drive.

Bob Osterlund
berto@clio.spc.uchicago.edu
SSPPCC--University of Chicago
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: umkirk07@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Kirk)
Subject: BOCA 14.4K Modem
Keywords: BOCA
Organization: University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 07:04:11 GMT

I have a BOCA v.32bis 14.4K internal modem.  I was curious whether it had
the UART 16550 Chip in it.  Someone told me that it didn't, but judging
from the performance, it doesn't seem to effect it.

The modem does work flawlessly (with the exception of the rare CRC error)
and I would recomment it as a low cost 14.4K modem (Some group purchases
on misc.forsale.computers.pc-clone have found a price of 
only  $219.00 plus $7 shipping.  That is amazing!

Anyways, if anyone knows which UART the BOCA modem has, please reply.
(I looked all through the manual, but no mention of anything..)

Thanks,

Dale Kirk
umkirk07@ccu.umanitoba.ca

Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: ghn@keps.kodak.com (Gary Newman x6668)
Subject: Jumpers on Western Digital 1003 ATbus disk CTRLR
Summary: Need meaning of jumpers, anyone have them?
Keywords: disk ISA bus
Organization: KEPS
Date: Tue, 24 Nov 1992 04:01:58 GMT

I inherited a western digital 1003 AT bus (ISA) disk controller and
didn't get a manual.  I'm having a conflict with the floppy port on
it and need to know how to set the jumpers in order to use it.

I'd much appreciate it if anyone out there with info on meaning of the
jumper settings (say, from a manual...) could e-mail that info to me.
There are only a few, so it should be easy.

Thanks in advance.
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From: caross@acsu.buffalo.edu (Christian A. Ross)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Seagate IDE Jumper Settings Needed
Date: 20 Nov 92 03:54:31 GMT
Organization: UB

To all the people who replied, thanks for your help. I found the info I
needed at garbo.uwasa.fi in the hardware documents directory. Thanks again.

-- 
Christian A. Ross       
caross@acsu.buffalo.edu 
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: eduard@htsa.aha.nl (Eduard Beijnes)
Subject: Re: Format 3.5 DD floppy as a HD, is it reliable?
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 09:19:33 GMT
Organization: Algemene Hogeschool Amsterdam, Polytechnic Institute

I used 3.5 DD as HD (NASHUA) and 3.5 HD as HD (TDK) and my 3.5 dd survived

(the 3.5hd screwed up)

I have several 3.5 DD disks (1.44 mb) for over 2 years and no problems
(I can still read them )

Now I do not make holes anymore and buy HD disks (1.6 Mb formatted)

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