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From: pv9955@albnyvms.bitnet
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: good 14" monitors ?
Date: 18 Aug 92 05:57:44 GMT
Reply-To: pv9955@albnyvms.bitnet
Organization: University of NY at Albany

I am buying a new computer to run OS2 2.0.  I have narrowed my decision to
one of two computer companies.  Both companies offer the Mag 15" monitor
which I would LOVE to get.  But if money is tight, that is thefirst thing 
to go.  One company uses the MAG Clearview 1460 14" monitor.  The other
uses the Viewsonic 5e 14" monitor.
Of course, I would love the Mag 15", but if I must get a 14" display, what
can people tell me of these two monitors?
Supposedly, both have flat screens; and both have vertical and horizontal
sizing controls, so the image can be sized for the entire screen.  If this
is so, then the image area is not significantly smaller than a 15" monitor.
What can people report on either or both of these 14" monitors ?

Thank you,
Peter
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: brad.thornborrow@rose.com (brad thornborrow)
Subject: Adaptec Probs...
Organization: Rose Media Inc, Toronto, Ontario.
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 09:32:56 GMT
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Date Entered: 08-21-92 04:26
Problem....

        I have an Adaptec 1542b controller (Dec '91 Roms) on an AMI 386-40
board & a Paradise 1024 VGA card.  With no other hardware on board, I will
get an error with any backup software that uses High Speed DMA.  (ie.
With Norton Backup, it say the Video & the Drive controller DMA are
conflicting).  I've tried all possible DMA's on the Adaptec card and still
get the error.  What could be causing this error???  Or is this normal
with SCSI cards?  Only software with High Speed DMA does this, what gives?

Thanks in Advance....

Brad T.
     

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From: mrosen@nyx.cs.du.edu (Michael Rosen)
Subject: Need help with hard drive problem
Organization: University of Denver, Dept. of Math & Comp. Sci.
Date: Sun, 16 Aug 92 05:34:27 GMT

Most of the time when booting up my IBM AT I get a "1780 Disk 0
Failure."  I say most of the time because other times (granted,
they're rare) the system boots fine with no hint of trouble.

What could be causing this flaky behavior?  One time, hitting the top
of the drive caused the machine to boot up, prompting someone to
suggest to me that the drive's motor may be bad.  Though tonight, I
turned it on once without doing anything special and it was fine - I
turned it off and tried again with the error occurring this time.

Could low levelling the drive to more than the AT can handle (I'm told
by IBM that this size is 40) be the cause of my problems?  I tried
running Disk Manager (one that's meant for Seagate drives, though this
is a Priam/Vertex drive) but this time it can't recognize the drive to
do anything.

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Also, if anyone can recommend a low levelling program that would be
more suit to the Priam/Vertex drive (btw, applicable model numbers are
Priam ID-40AT and Vertex V170, respectively [both company names are on
the drive]), that would also be very helpful.

Thank you very much,
Mike
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From: gag@nosc.mil (Gary A. Gilbreath)
Subject: Resetting a computer by phone
Keywords: reset, computer, phone, remote
Organization: Naval Ocean Systems Center, San Diego, CA
Distribution: usa
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 03:31:07 GMT

Has anyone seen a product that will allow you to remotely reset a
computer by using a phone?  I often use a program that allows me
to remotely access my computer from home, but sometimes the computer
hangs and I have no way of restarting it.

I would prefer to only have to use one phone line.  However, if there
is some very simple/cheap device that can do the job from a second line
that might be OK (it would have to be pretty cheap or easy to build).

The only way I can think to get a single phone line to work would
be to monitor the serial line between the computer and the modem.  The
device would look for a specific character sequence (possibly including
BREAK and/or critical timing to avoid inadvertently resetting the
computer with arbitrary binary data), and then either close a relay/
solid-state switch/FET to toggle the reset line, or actually cycle
the power to the computer using a S-S switch or relay.

I think this could be done without too much trouble with a simple
microcontroller and a few external components, but I wondered if
someone knew of a device I could just go out and buy.

Thanks,

Gary Gilbreath, NCCOSC, RDT&E Division, San Diego, CA
Internet: gag@manta.nosc.mil
uucp: {ihnp4,akgua,decvax,dcdwest,ucbvax}!sdcsvax!nosc!gag
From: mlord@imagine.matrox.com (Martin Lord)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: EISA DMA SPEED on vrious systems
Summary: EISA DMA C type is shit on most computers! !@$%@#$%^$&%^
Keywords: DMA EISA
Date: 21 Aug 92 17:17:18 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: Matrox Ltd.


   We are trying to design a C type HW DMA device.  Prior to do this,
we tested this kind on transfers on some machines.  Results should fly
around 30 Mb/s: here are the results:

ALR 486 33Mhz:  17Mb/s
INTEL 486 50MHz: 7Mb/s

   It works fine, but speed is quite LOW.  Does somebody
has experience with C typpe DMA on EISA buses?

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From: dman@netcom.com (Dallman Ross)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: What program tells HD interleave factor?
Date: 19 Aug 92 09:48:59 GMT
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest)
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SpinRite and Norton 5 or above will both do this.

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From: skl@wimsey.bc.ca (Samuel Lam)
Subject: Re: Lantastic 4.1 AI Low-Level Drivers
Reply-To: skl@wimsey.bc.ca (Samuel Lam)
Date: Sun, 16 Aug 1992 22:44:27 GMT

In article <1992Aug14.125534.6901@iiasa.ac.at>, stefan@iiasa.iiasa.ac.at
 (Stefan  BOSNJAKOVIC) wrote:
>... does any one of you know where I can get the low-level drivers
>for the Adapter-Independent version of Lantastic 4.1 for the following
>ethernet-cards:
>	.) Intel EtherExpress

Intel themselves have come out with such a driver recently.
Contact them directly for more details.

...Sam
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From: josephk@usc.edu (Joseph Kim)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Sudden Reboot Syndrome
Date: 14 Aug 1992 23:50:49 -0700
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: nunki.usc.edu

I am having a rather scary problem of my PC rebooting 
all by itself.  The system is:
	Zenon '486-33 w/ 4meg RAM
	2 Teac DD / 130meg Maxtor HD
	Trident VGA w/ ViewSonic 7
	True Mouse
	No name 2400b internal modem
	MSDOS 5 / MS Windows 3.1 / Stacker
It seems like it only occures while the modem is being
used.  Can the modem possibly cause such problem?

To test, I left the PC on for a while in windows. No reboot.
Then, I connected USC using modem.  It almost immediately
rebooted.  The second time I make a connection, everything
is fine again.  

Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Joseph Kim

From: darrylo@hpnmdla.sr.hp.com (Darryl Okahata)
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 08:57:35 GMT
Subject: Backup software for CMS Jumbo 250?
Organization: Hewlett-Packard, Santa Rosa, CA
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware

     Can anyone recommend some good (commercial) backup software for the
CMS Jumbo 250 tape drive?  The software that comes with the drive is not
exactly the world's best (although it does get the job done).  I know
about Central Point Backup and Fastback, but what do people recommend?

     Thanks,
     -- Darryl Okahata
	darrylo@sr.hp.com

Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.arch
From: glew@pdx007.intel.com (Andy Glew)
Subject: Re: 486DX light in a 486SX tunnel.
Organization: Intel Corp., Hillsboro, Oregon
	<1992Aug19.232105.2816@ncsu.edu>
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 07:58:45 GMT

>To get your 486sx you buy a chip which is a functional 486dx with the 
>co-pro disabled (yes more work than a regular 486dx - yet cheaper!).

In case y'all haven't heard, the original i486sx's were, indeed, just
the dx with FP disabled.

But the i486sx's now rolling out of the factory actually have the FP
*removed*.  This makes the die smaller, providing higher yield and
lower cost. And they are compatible with the original i486sx's.

Can you say "evolutionary strategy"?
--

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Intel Corp., M/S JF1-19, 5200 NE Elam Young Pkwy, 
Hillsboro, Oregon 97124-6497

This is a private posting; it does not indicate opinions or positions
of Intel Corp.

Intel Inside (tm)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: skb@ide.hk-r.se (Bengt-Arne Skoog)
Subject: where do i find 16550-specs?
Organization: Hgskolan Karlskrona/Ronneby (HK/R)
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 11:47:53 GMT

Where can I find the spec for the 16550 UART?
###
Email : Bengt-Arne.Skoog@ide.hk-r.se
Phone : 46-457-71850
Fax   : 46-457-27481
Post  : Soft Center
        372 25 Ronneby
From: colemant@yvax.byu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Modem won't respond, Help!
Date: 14 Aug 92 16:51:45 -0700
Organization: Brigham Young University

My modem will not respond to an atz or atdt etc.  I have tried changing the com
port the software uses to no avail.  

Please help me with this... pointers, things to research.
Are there things in Dos 5.0 that can check the interrupts?

What should I probe into?  

Thanks, Tom
From: REE700A@MAINE.MAINE.EDU
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: SCSI CACHING CONTROLLER
Date: 14 Aug 92 15:44:41 GMT
Organization: University of Maine System


   The AMI Fast Disk II (aroung 600 dollars street price w/4MB) holds 4 simms
of either 1MB total, 4MB total or 16MB total.  It is based on a 386SX 16 MHz
as a controller (hey, they finally found a use for the 386SX) and is adaptec
driver compatible.
It requires double_buffered Smartdrv 4.o under Win 3.1, if you are so
inclined.  Has Unix drivers available, and is SCSI-II.

   The Mylex DCE-376 is similar & I have also seen it run on another friend's
system.  It used the i80387 (an 80386SX derivative intended as a controller)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: george@lloyd.Camex.COM (George Pagan)
Subject: Help with WD HD card
Organization: Camex Inc., Boston MA
Distribution: us
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 10:37:12 EDT

Can anyone give me the specs on the following HD/Floppy card.

Model Western Digital WD1003V-MM2
MFM? RLL? IDE? Jumpers settings?

Thank you.
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From: skcgoh@tartarus.uwa.edu.au (Shaw Goh)
Subject: Microsoft everything don't work!!
Organization: University of Western Australia
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 03:33:58 GMT

I have Microfsoft of the following...

Mouse
MNouse driver 8.2
Windows 3.1
Dos 5.0

Problem...

The mouse gets very jumpy after I've been running Windows for a while.
Is the problem with Microsoft, or something else?  I have 4 comms port
and is afraid that it might cause a conflict, but when I run dos
programs the mouse works fine.

Any help would be appreciated via email

skcgoh@tartarus.uwa.edu.au

CYa!!
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: kgermann@zeos.com (Ken Germann)
Subject: Re: WD2200
Organization: Zeos International, Ltd
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 17:14:17 GMT

In article <klliou.714192931@milton> klliou@milton.u.washington.edu (Kan-Lee Liou) writes:
>I got a WD2200 HD.  What numbers should I put in WPCom and Lzone of the CMOS
>setup?
>Thank you.
>
>klliou@u.washington.edu


WD2200 - 989 heads, 12 Cylinders, 35 Sectors, Land Zone 989, Precomp of 0.
User definable drive type 48 on Award, Phoenix, and Mylex BIOS.


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From: msingh@copper.ucs.indiana.edu (The Supreme Commander)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.periphs
Subject: Re: Are Seagate drives any good ?
Date: 18 Aug 92 15:32:20 GMT
Organization: Indiana University

>You've been lucky - and so have I.
>
>Typical MTBF for the older seagates - 4038,4051,4096 was a non-impressive
>20k-40k hours, under idea conditions.

I guess I have been lucky as well. I've got a *very* old Segate ST225,
that has been running for 7 years now. Granted not 24 hours a day but
about 15-18 a day. And even though I got spurious sector errors some
years ago, which cleared up after a low-level reformat, I have had no
problems!


				...Manu
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From: kanakis@hsi.com (Tony Kanakis)
Subject: DOS 150MB Tape driver for Emerald LAN 150-9100 Tape Drive
Summary: Needed ASAP!!! Please Help!!
Organization: 3M Health Information Systems, Wallingford CT
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 19:32:07 GMT

I have a dos driver for an Emerald LAN 150-9100 Tape Drive and will not handle
over 40MB.  An ftp site would be best but a bbs or other source will do just
fine.

Thanks in advance,

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From: ggg@kepler.unh.edu (Gregory G Greene)
Subject: Iomega PC Powered PRO
Organization: University of New Hampshire  -  Durham, NH
Date: Sat, 15 Aug 1992 02:01:58 GMT

	Does anybody have any experience with Iomega's PC Powered PRO 90 meg
   removeable HD?  I'm thinking about getting one and would like to hear some
   comments.  They released OS2 drivers for it, which is a bonus for me. 

							G.Greene
                                                        ggg@kepler.unh.edu

Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.sys.mac.hardware,comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: gsroka@leland.Stanford.EDU (Gregory Sroka)
Subject: Re: Sony CPD 1302 Monitor Emits High Pitched Noise
Keywords: clue: "scream" >> typical high pitch monitor noise
Organization: DSG, Stanford University, CA 94305, USA
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 92 04:16:07 GMT

In article <1992Aug12.180500.15822@microsoft.com> shaase@microsoft.com (Stephen Haase) writes:
>>Yup, it's a gonna blow ;-). The high pitched "scream" you hear from some 
>>monitors is being emitted from the flyback transformer. I have a
>>27" sony tv and It's been noisy for quite some time. You should be
>>able to take it to a tv repair place and have them order a new
>>flyback for it or fix it.
>
>You can't be serious.  I hear this "scream" from just about every monitor and TV  ...
>
>steve

Come on, give the original poster some credit. When he said "scream" he might
have said put all the monitors in your local comp. store in a circle and sit 
in the middle with a hearing aid in both ears! ;^(
Two Sony 1302's is my office developed a very loud high pitch noise after a 
couple of years. One guy took his to the regional Sony repair dept. (San Jose)
and they repaired it (replaced the xfmr) for @$100.  
The other is unrepaired and still quite offensive (although my boss couldn't 
hear it). I tried it for a while (looks great, even with VGA Windows driver) 
but couldn't stand the sound, so I bought an NEC 4D!! 
Question: A previous post mentioned revarnishing transformer laminations
to quiet the "screaming".  What type of do I need to do it myself? 

___
greg sroka
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: bush@cae.prds.cdx.mot.com (Michael Bush)
Subject: Re: Floptical (21Mb 3.5" disks)
Organization: none
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 12:58:19 GMT

There was a vendor selling these drives at a recent computer
show here in Massachusetts.  They were pricing the drive and
a SCSI controller card at $599.  Sorry, don't know what the
exchange rate is these days...
-- 
Mike Bush
Motorola Codex - Mansfield, MA
bush@cae.prds.cdx.mot.com or bush_m@msm.cdx.mot.com
No, make that bush@merlin.dev.cdx.mot.com (Thanks Motorola)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,sci.electronics
From: rla@netcom.com (Robert Armstrong)
Subject: Geometry information for old Tandon drive needed!
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 92 07:57:52 GMT
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
Followup-To: poster
Keywords: geometry tandon

  This is a longshot, but here goes:  I have an old Tandon
hard disk.  It's a 5" form factor, full height, MFM, 30Mb
(actually formats out to about 33Mb, I believe) capacity.
It would have been manufactured around the mid to late 1980s.

  Unfortunately, there's no model number on the drive.  I
only know it's a Tandon because their name is silk screened
on the PCB!

  Does anyone recognize this drive ?  Can you tell me the
geometry ?

Thanks very much,
Bob Armstrong
rla@netcom.com
Organization: Mythos/Xcalbrin Inc.
X-School: Penn State University
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 10:02:26 EDT
From: Mythos / Xcalbrin <JKK103@psuvm.psu.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Help for hard disk boot sector problems

Hello, I need help with an st-251 -1 MFM drive.  Seagate disk manager has
problems saving the partition table when I define one, so there may be some
problem with its boot sector/partition table area of the disk.  What I need
is any info (as technical as you are inclinced to get as long as it is
explicit in describing what you mean) regarding the use of some program
preferably one avail by ftp, or using norton ver 4.5, as to how I can
re-partition this drive.
  I did look at wuarchive in the file trk0bad.zip and the re-partitioning of
the drive with CP/M (i think this is what it referred to) would be acceptible
if I had some directions and the files needed (ie the cp/m ones) to do the job.
Buying a new drive is a very last resort and will not be done if I can get some
solution to work on this one.
  Ftp sites referring to the files needed to do what I described, or files
that anyone knows will do what they think I described along with a note about
the files would be most appreciated.  Detailed instructions on how to use
norton to fix it would also be appreciated. [Note: always remember to bring
the manuals with you to college for things like norton and not just the disks,
even if you are not sure if you will need them :( , this much I learned]
  Please help me with this, email would be best.

                                            Thanks,
                                                    Joe Krug
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: buccb@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (butler carlos dion)
Subject: IBM PC AT HD errors (again)
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 19:56:39 GMT

	Forget my last message. That's what you get when you let 
a Mac expert explain an IBM problem to you. The error I'm getting
on boot up (POST) is 1790 and 1791 (one for each drive). I need a 
source to interpret the error codes (or someone could tell me :)).
Any solutions or things to check would be appreciated as well. 

-- 
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(217) 359-3959 Home			University of Illinois
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From: ejdeal@terri.austin.ibm.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.periphs
Subject: Re: Are Seagate drives any good ?
Date: 19 Aug 92 20:19:25 GMT
Reply-To: ...@cs.utexas.edu:ibmchs!auschs!terri.austin.ibm.com!ejdeal
Organization: IBM Advanced Workstation Division


In article <1992Aug12.134817.27714@ariel.ec.usf.edu>
fevrier@sunburn.ec.usf.edu. (Ian Fevrier (EE)) writes:
>
>
>Recently I had a local computer dealer  try to convince me that Seagate
>drives are not worth the metal they're built with.
>
>Have any of you lived through personal experiences that substantiates
>this dealers claim ?
> 

I bought a 85 MB Seagate 296N (or 1096N, I can't remember) SCSI drive 
about a year and a half ago.  After about 3 months, I began getting
errors and drive failures.  (I could boot up on a floppy and access
the hard disk for a few minutes, then reboot and start over.)
I promptly removed any data that I could and exchanged it with the
dealer for an identical drive.  

This drive is still going great and I have had no additional problems.
 
Eric Deal

P.S.  My next drive will probably be a Maxtor...
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From: tbc@netcom.com (Mike Garvey)
Subject: Re: gateway 15" monitor, vertical bar problem ?
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 92 05:21:59 GMT
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)

If you're using an ATI Graphics Ultra video card, you can configure your
card to handle unusual monitor settings in software and write this
configuration to the card's EEPROM. Even though it was supported by a
default setting, I reconfigured a client's CrystalScan 15 as a custom
monitor, and after a little tweaking, it works great -- aspects are very
good, and the image shifts very little, in ALL modes. It's well worth the
15 or so minutes it takes.

(Wanders off mumbling something about don't be scared too much by that
voice of doom message you see when you try this)

Be seeing you...
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From: rawn@manduca..neurobio.arizona.edu (Rawn Shah)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.periphs
Subject: Re: Are Seagate drives any good ?
Date: 18 Aug 92 18:06:58 GMT
Organization: University of Arizona UNIX Users Group

From article <1992Aug12.134817.27714@ariel.ec.usf.edu>, by fevrier@sunburn.ec.usf.edu. (Ian Fevrier (EE)):
> 
> 
> Recently I had a local computer dealer  try to convince me that Seagate
> drives are not worth the metal they're built with.
> 
> To this date I would have sworn on a Seagate so I'd like to know if I
> have just been lucky. 
> 
> Have any of you lived through personal experiences that substantiates
> this dealers claim ?

    Took me a few postings to understand what you were talking about. The
ones he must have meant are MFM type drives. Not SCSI, as I thought.
    Yes. Plain words. Bury them along with your Timex Sinclair.

Rawn
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