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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: problem printing Postscript from PC to NTR
From: Marco Simionato <simion@iveuncc.unive.it>
Date: 21 Aug 92 12:51:42 +0100
Distribution: world
Organization: University of Venezia
X-UserAgent: Nuntius v1.1a2Lines: 22

Sorry for any cross-posting.

I have a 386 with DR DOS 6 connected to an Apple PLW NTR.
If I want to print Postscritp files with TYPE or COPY commands, I easily
get a "Not ready error while writing to device LPT1. Abort, Retry, Cancel"
(I translated back in English the Italian localized string). I think this
has
got something to do with port timeout. If I press R(etry) shortly after
the
message appears, the printing process proceeds normally. I can get
several
such messages, and I have to press R each time. If I don't, the printing
gets
aborted. Now, is this something I have to fix at DOS level or at the
printer
level? How can I set a longer timeout parameter? Or is this perhaps a
"native" 
NRT/DOS problem?

Please reply DIRECTLY to me. Thanks.

Marco Simionato
From: dlow@pollux.svale.hp.com (Danny Low)
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 19:23:16 GMT
Subject: Re: What's awful about PC Tools 7.1?
Organization: HP LOVECRAFT DIVISION
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware

>(Jeff Meyer) 
>When I mentioned an chance to get a free copy of PC Tools 7.1, several
>people blasted it on the net.  Knowing little about the application, I had a
>couple of quick questions:
>
>1)  What's the major beef?  Reliability?  Compatability with other
>    applications? 

I have no beef. It's an excellent program. It will not do as much
as Norton but covers 100% of what NORMAL users want. It's
not a power user tool although it is very versatile and powerful.

>2)  The only parts of PC Tools 7.1 I was really interested in were their
>    Windows backup program, and disk recovery/checking software.  

Disk recovery works best with their Mirror program running as a TSR
but that is not really needed for run of the mill file recovery and
disk checking. 

			   Danny Low
    "Question Authority and the Authorities will question You"
	   Valley of Hearts Delight, Silicon Valley
	     HP CPCD   dlow@pollux.svale.hp.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.periphs
From: eric@geoblue.gcn.uoknor.edu (Eric Pyle)
Subject: Help needed for 16bit Video Card
Organization: Geosciences Computing Network, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 22:48:36 GMT

	Hello world,

		About four years ago I got a NEC Powermate I
	    along with a SCSI 3 1/2" Seagate 48 megabyte hard
	    drive; Mitsubishi Diamond Scan 14 with a 16bit SVGA
	    video card. After running the hardware test recently
	    I found out that my 16bit SVGA card is running at
	    8bit. The reason it runs in 8bit is because part of
	    the system memory addresses between hex C0000
	    through DFFFF is being used by the SCSI drive at
	    around (CA000). The 16bit card needs all of the
	    addresses of RAM from C0000-DFFFF in able to run in
	    16bit mode. 

		I have tried to manually remove a jumper to
		force it in 16bit mode, but of course the hard
		drive froze up on me. 
		
	    Is there a possible way to get my card to run in
	    16bit mode? I don't want to have paid for a 16bit
	    card when it only runs in 8bit. 

					    Thanks,
						Eric
    


Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: reward@eos.ncsu.edu (Robert E. Ward)
Subject: HD Problems
Followup-To: poster
Originator: reward@c00100-100lez.eos.ncsu.edu
Reply-To: reward@eos.ncsu.edu (Robert E. Ward)
Organization: North Carolina State University, Project Eos
Distribution: usa
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 20:10:16 GMT



  I've been trying to low level format a ST-225 on my 386/40 using a WD1003
(generic 16 bit HD controller) for the past few days and never get past
cylinder 28.  I keep on getting a `device not responding' error.  I did get
it to low level format on my XT with a WD1004A (generic 8 bit controller),
but not on the 386.  Any ideas?  Should I have to reformat it to use on my
386 anyways?

  I don't have a manual for the WD1003 so I might have some jumpers set
wrong.  Anyone that has the jumper settings, gimme some mail.  I'm not
interested in calling WD for help.

-Rob (Taz ?!)

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From: jorourke@ocf.berkeley.edu (Jason O'Rourke)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Help: Zenith keyboard clicks
Date: 13 Aug 1992 11:07:12 GMT
Organization: U. C. Berkeley Open Computing Facility
Distribution: usa
NNTP-Posting-Host: monsoon.berkeley.edu

My Zenith 386 has a keyboard board that makes a click for every
keystroke...a hideous feature to me.  I have not figured out 
how to turn this feature off...anyone know?  No mention is made
of it in the manual or the setup-monitor program.  Do I have
to yank the speaker out of the keyboard?

Jason O'Rourke
jor@cea.berkeley.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.arch
From: sef@kithrup.COM (Sean Eric Fagan)
Subject: Re: 486DX light in a 486SX tunnel.
Organization: Kithrup Enterprises, Ltd.
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 20:42:36 GMT

In article <1992Aug20.155309.17065@eng.umd.edu> sysmgr@king.eng.umd.edu writes:
>Can you say competition from AMD & Cyrix? :-)

Not Cyrix:  they decided to not get into the 486 business.

Or was it C&T who pulled out?  Gah.  Brain rot.

-- 
Sean Eric Fagan  | "You can't get lost in in one room, no matter how
sef@kithrup.COM  |  little effort you make to learn your way around."
-----------------+    -- William E Davidsen (william@crd.GE.COM)
Any opinions expressed are my own, and generally unpopular with others.
From: varmint@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Samir Varma)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Specs for Conner 100 Meg and Maxtor 7213A 213 Meg
Date: 19 Aug 92 21:44:39 GMT
Reply-To: varmint@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Samir Varma)
Organization: Center for Particle Physics, University of Texas
Originator: varmint@happy.cc.utexas.edu

I currently have a 100 Meg Conner and I'm going to install the new
213 Meg Maxtor 7213A IDE drive as the second one.  Could someone fill
me in on the specs for the second drive (precomp, landing zone etc.) and
also tell me which jumpers to set for the Conner as master and the 
Maxtor as slave?

Thanks,
Samir Varma
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: lgg@cs.brown.edu (Lloyd G. Greenwald)
Subject: Getting 130MB out of Maxtor 7120A IDE
Organization: Brown University Department of Computer Science
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 02:34:56 GMT


I recall some discussion six months or so ago about changing the setup so
that the Maxtor 7120A 130MB hard drive is set for 130MB instead of the default
124MB.  Can anyone provide me the details for accomplishing this?

Thanks,

Lloyd Greenwald
lgg@cs.brown.edu

Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: msc@ssigate.ssinc.com (Michael S. Cross)
Subject: Re: Does Seagate ST-02 goes along with MAXTOR 7213S?
Summary: Couldn't get non-Seagate to work
Organization: Systems and Synchronous Inc., Naperville, IL
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 17:51:33 GMT

In article <1992Aug14.171816.22475@njitgw.njit.edu> shang@irss.uucp (shang wen-chung) writes:
>Info. wanted. The subject says it.
>
>I'm considering purchasing a Maxtor 7213S SCSI Hard disk.
>But I like to know whether my Seagate ST-02 card accepts it.
>No enough $$$ to have a real SCSI controller card :-( 
>Does anybody have similar setup?
>

I tried to hook up a non-Seagate drive to a ST-02 and didn't have much
success.  The ST-02 installation book mentions that the Seagate drives
have software pre-loaded on the drive that the controller expects to see.
I was using a program called Drive Pro which was able to look at the
drive and read the number of heads/cylinders, but it would not format
the disk.  Oh well, I only paid $40 for the controller card.

>My current setup is
>AMD 386/33
>64K cache
>8M memory
>AMI bios
>Forex chipset
>Seagate 1096N SCSI HD 
>
>Any feedback is welcomed. Thanks. 
>

I was trying to use the controller/drive in an AT&T 6312 (12Mhz '286) that
currently had an RLL drive in it.  I wanted to upgrade from 20M to an 80M
Seagate 1096N drive that had already been used in an Apple II GS.

I don't know what would happen if you tried to use a second SCSI drive on
the ST-02.

(I'm going to buy an Adaptec 1742B, mainly because I would like to use it
 for OS/2 2.0)

Hope it helps (tm).

Mike

-- 
Michael S. Cross         Work: msc@ssihub.ssinc.com               708-505-4508
      Home: 73750.1363@CompuServe.com  (but not exactly *proud* of it)
Systems and Synchronous Inc., 900 E. Diehl Rd, Suite 110, Naperville, IL 60563
__________________________To Live is to risk Dying____________________________
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From: jheath@CERIS.Purdue.EDU (Jim Heath)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.periphs
Subject: "Best" laptop < $2500????
Date: 18 Aug 92 16:16:08 GMT
Organization: Center for Environmental and Regulatory Information Systems, Purdue University


I am in the market for a laptop computer.  What is available in
the < $2500 range?  Is there a "best"?  Is there a "worst"?
-- 
"Land of song, said the warrior bard,           Jim Heath
Though all the world betrays thee.
One sword, at least, thy rights shall guard, (The Minstrel Boy)
One faithful harp will praise thee."         (Thomas Moore)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: hyeom@cs.tamu.edu (Heon Y. YEOM)
Subject: Help : Segate ST-4766E 
Organization: Computer Science Department, Texas A&M University
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 02:54:53 GMT

I have a segate ST-4766E which has 1632 cyls, 15 heads, 53 sectors.
However, it is currently being used as 1024-16-63 (512MB).
How can I low level format it so that I can use the full capacity
of the disk (664MB according to segate spec.) ?

Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539)
Subject: Re: Can I use IRQ2??
Organization: Texas Instruments Inc
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 20:31:29 GMT

In <1992Aug17.153404.18408@aplcen.apl.jhu.edu> rubin@visual1.jhuapl.edu (Don Rubin) writes:

>I just got a CD drive for my 386/33 ISA bus
>and have run out of IRQs. Can I use IRQ 2?
>The installation manual says something about
>that it can only be used on IBM XT (who uses
>that anymore :). I don't have a 2nd printer
>but am using IRQ 5 for my FAX card under
>windows. Thanks...

If you are using an ISA card to drive your CD (likely), you can use
IRQ2.  This will be automagically remapped to IRQ9 on an AT-bus
machine (IRQ2 is the Cascade interrupt).

-- 
"Insisting on perfect safety is for people who don't have the balls to live
 in the real world."   -- Mary Shafer, NASA Ames Dryden
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.unix.sysv386
From: pdc@lunch.wpd.sgi.com (Paul Close)
Subject: Re: SpeedSTAR 24X performance?
Originator: pdc@lunch.wpd.sgi.com
Reply-To: pdc@sgi.com (Paul Close)
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc., Mountain View, CA
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 17:32:00 GMT

Paul Close (pdc@sgi.com) writes:
>david.e.wexelblat (dwex@cbnewsj.cb.att.com) writes:
>>
>>My advise to you is to trade in your SpeedStar 24 on an Orchid ProDesigner
>>IIs.  I can't give any time tables on when X386 1.2E will support the
>>24 and 24X, because we have not yet been able to obtain the information
>>we need from Diamond.
>
>The SpeedSTAR 24 and Orchid ProDesigner IIs both use the Tseng ET4000 chip.
>Trading one in for the other is silly.

Open foot, insert mouth.  I didn't read the second paragraph about the
frequency selection mechanism for the 24 being the same as the 24X.  This
means that people who want to use X386 should indeed heed David's advice.

I had just read one two many posts asking about what chipset the Stealth,
24, 24X, etc. use, and a genuine, technically correct posting threw me :-)

So, let me amend my statement to simply say that for DOS, Windows, and OS/2
users, the SpeedSTAR 24 is the same as the Orchid ProDesigner IIs (except
maybe a little better :-)
-- 
Paul Close	     pdc@sgi.com	   ...!{ames, decwrl, uunet}!sgi!pdc

			No fate but that we make
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: tlin@yoda.eecs.wsu.edu (generic)
Subject: Re: SpeedStar 24 and 24X
Keywords: Speedstar Diamond 24 24X
Organization: Washington State University!
Date: Sat, 15 Aug 92 09:14:16 GMT

In article <1992Aug14.133242.4706@infonode.ingr.com> bbrown@infonode.ingr.com (Bailey Brown) writes:
>tlin@yoda.eecs.wsu.edu (generic) writes:
>
>>seeing it. All 1024x768 modes gave me vertical blue strips and hang
>
>>Help!... Did I miss something in setup or is there any new driver
>>to download? Any idea?
>
>Have you tried disabling 0 wait state?  I was having problems until
.....
>------------
>Bailey Brown                               "Above all else, confusion reigns."
>Intergraph Corporation                                  
>bbrown@casca.b11.ingr.com                              Procol Harum

I tried every possible combination, but that was not the problem. When I
remove QEMM 6.02 and use MS emm386.exe everything runs properly. Then, I
put qemm back and exclude a000-c7ff but no luck. Today, my new EPS 486-50DX
finally arrived and I moved the DSS24X to the new machine. Guess what happened?
The card works great with emm386.exe. When switch back to qemm, windows 3.1
behaved badly. So, I changed the win vga driver. The paradise 800x600x256
driver works ( well, partially.). So I was able to run windows and have
found that if I remove the SoundBlaster(1.0) and the sound driver, then
QEMM can be used and DSS24X drivers WORKS GREAT. The WinTach for 1024x768
x256 is 17.91/C8. WOW!! Now, I can use a windows editor, and the screen
scroll like DOS editor on my old machine. Yes, with a DSS24X and a 486, you
can use a windows editor!
From: miken.bbs@cybernet.cse.fau.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: MR. BIOS, Has anybody heard about this BIOS??
Date: 13 Aug 92 03:47:55 GMT
Organization: Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton

dchiu@ravel.udel.edu (David Da-Wei Chiu) writes:

> In article <13998@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au> gtj@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au (Glenn T Jay
> >Has anybody heard about 'MR. BIOS'  ?  How is it??  Is it fully compatible
> >with something like AMI or Award bios??
> >
> >thank you
> >GLenn Jayaputera
> 
> I installed MR BIOS on a 386-33 PC I put together last year. I'm really happy
> with it. Basically, it sped up my boot time by 2x. It goes through POST tests
> very quickly. Supposedly, it supports Windows 386 Enhanced mode better and 
> *slightly* speeds up the PC. There are other features which someone has 
> already mentioned in another message, but I'm satisfied with it's performance
> 
> 						Treasurer of UD ACM,
> 						David Chiu

I have MR BIOS in my 386-33 also. I had to upgrade to make Windows 3.0 
work with the floppy in enhanced mode but other than that it's great.
From: davidto@fxgrp.fx.com (David M To)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Everex notebook questions
Date: 20 Aug 92 17:31:20 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: FXD/Telerate, Mountain View, CA


Dear PC netters,

I'll be grateful if somebody can help me out in reversing the video
on my Everex Tempo LX.  Its background is currently white and the
foreground is black.  Someone mentioned that this will burn out the
screen faster, is it true?  If so is there a way to reverse the video?

I'll appreciate if anyone can give me the Everex hot-line phone number
so I can re-order the manual.

Thanks,

David.
From: co@bildsun1.mednet.gu.se (Christer Olsson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: 2" Floppy Disks wanted
Date: 17 Aug 92 13:56:15 GMT
Reply-To: co@bildsun1.mednet.gu.se (Christer Olsson)
Organization: MedNet, University of Gothenburg

In article <1992Aug11.222935.7869@csc.ti.com>, samg@dadd.ti.com (Sam Goins) writes:
|> In article 22011@cbnewsc.cb.att.com, psfales@cbnewsc.cb.att.com (Peter Fales) writes:
|> >I may have made a mistake...  I purchased a Zenith notebook computer
|> >for a bargain price at a hamfest.  The main drawback is that it requires
|> >2" (yes two inch!) floppy disks.   Now I am looking for a source for 
|> >the things.  If anyone has any ideas - a source for new, used, or 
|> >anything else, please let me know!
|> >
|> >Thanks,
|> >-- 
|> >Peter Fales			 AT&T, Room 9C-242
|> >N9IYJ            		 2000 N. Naperville Rd.
|> >UUCP:	...att!ihlpb!psfales	 Naperville, IL 60566
|> >Domain: psfales@ihlpb.ih.att.com work:	(708) 979-8031
|> 
|> You might try Canon and/or Kodak. I know Canon uses the two inch floppies
|> to store video images on their still video system.

Canons 2" floppies is different and cannot be used in these Zenith 2" drives.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: rmintz@ecst.csuchico.edu (Rich Mintz)
Subject: Re: How to degauss color monitor with no degauss button?
Organization: California State University, Chico
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 14:14:37 GMT

Just thought I'd throw this in on the off chance it might 
be useful. My new tv got some annoying lines on the 
bottom and right of the screen when I accidently sat it 
screen down for a few minutes after using it.
 
I ended up fixing it by using the magnetic field from 
from a normal 8 ohm audio speaker out of my junk box and 
rubbing the affected areas. It worked like a charm...
 
Maybe using a weaker field like that that takes longer to 
work but doesn't send out as powerful a blast as a bulk 
eraser would work?
 
        Rich

Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: cyrus@virusdd.gun.de (Ulrich Cyrus)
Subject: Re: Problems with Irwin Streamer HW-9982 (forma
Organization: alchemist's research kitchen
Date: Sun, 16 Aug 1992 06:33:13 GMT

.....
I do have a similar problem, but with reading the tapes (not just with only 
formatting).
when I try to read any tape I will get the msg: "tape not servoed"
And this ist nonsense, because I can use the tapes with a friends streamer.
I disassembled the tapedrive to remove any alien things like dust,...
nothing works, since I have no technical experience in repairing tapedrives
WITHOUT THE MANUAL (it`s been "second hand").

So: Is this problem known to someone - or does someone knows the
german distributor for IRWIN 285 Floppy-based-tapedrives or at least a good
service station?

thanks in advance, Ulrich

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From: Jim_Johnson@abcd.Houghton.MI.US (Jim Johnson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Parallel Cable Info Needed
Distribution: world
Date: 20 Aug 92 00:16:05 EST
Organization: Amiga BitSwap Central Dispatch

In a message dated Wed 19 Aug 92 16:22, C23st@kocrsv01.delcoelect.com (spir
wrote:

 C> I need to know how much of an extension cable can I get away with
 C> on a Centronics parallel printer. I'm looking towards, say, 15 feet, 
 C> maybe 18. Would that work if it's shielded?

 C> The printer is an Epson FX85 (old), and the PC is an AT&T 6300 (even
 C> older :-)). 

 C> Thanks,

 C> Spiros



 C> -- 
 C> Spiros Triantafyllopoulos                    c23st@kocrsv01.delcoelect.
 C> com
 C> Software Technology, Delco Electronics       striantafyll@kosds1.gm.hac
 C> .com
 C> GM Hughes Electronics, Kokomo, IN 46904      [A Different Kind of
 C> Disclaimer]

The absolute answer is a solid *maybe* :-)
If you use a very good shielded cable you might be able to make the run
without a problem - however if you have any capacitance or resistance in
some of the wires and not the others, it may fail -- ten feet is the
typical limit, but I have seen parallel runs done without a hitch at twenty
feet.

-- Via DLG Pro v0.995

Jim Johnson-
*** Remember, they're only tools - Not a way of life! ***
From: bewhite@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (MacroMan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: G-Host ET4000 Local Bus - Problems??
Date: 13 Aug 92 16:36:57 GMT
Organization: Kansas State University
NNTP-Posting-Host: matt.ksu.ksu.edu


    G-Host ET4000
  I read a recent article where someone had given this Local Bus
video/ide card a bad rap.  Has anyone had problems with this card?
I'm considering buying a 486 local bus with either this card
or the S3 based card, and I want to know what bugs exist if any.
  Thanks,
-- 
  Bruce White(bewhite@matt.ksu.ksu.edu)
  "I live like I type - Fast, and with a lot of mistakes"
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: wity@iastate.edu (Wity Ganda)
Subject: Re: Graves vs SB Pro V2
Keywords: Sound Cards
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, IA
Date: Sat, 15 Aug 1992 08:19:54 GMT

In article <529@sadis01.sa.aflc.af.mil> rkorczyk@sadis05.sa.aflc.af.mil (RICK KORCZYK - SCDR (AI LAB)) writes:
>Which is the better sound card - Graves or SB Pro V2.
>
>Thanx,
>
>Rick

The answer is Gravis!
The problem is no one really knows when it will be out, 'cause the company
keeps delaying the card!

-Wity-

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: unruh@physics.ubc.ca (William Unruh)
Subject: Re: Can I use IRQ2??
Organization: University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., Canada
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 04:27:09 GMT

forest@soda.berkeley.edu (Forest Edward Wilkinson) writes:

>What's the cascade interrupt?  (How is it different from the others, and
>why is it there?)

On an XT there are only 8 interrupts because the interrupt controler has
only 8 entries. On an AT, to get more interrupts, they tied the top 8 to
interrupt 2, so that the computer would look at the lower interrupt
controller, see that 2 went and go to the top 8 to see which one went.