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From: minow@apple.com (Martin Minow)
Subject: Re: information about DECtalk
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 01:26:51 GMT
Organization: Macintosh Developer Services
Followup-To: comp.speech

In article <13566@ecs.soton.ac.uk>, rid@ecs.soton.ac.uk (Bob Damper) wrote:
> 
> In <minow-101192102931@minow.apple.com> minow@apple.com (Martin Minow) writes:
> 
> >-- The letter-to-phoneme rules used in the original DECtalk were based on
> >   Chomsky & Halle, Sound Pattern of English. 
> 
> Not quite.  The *formalism* (i.e.~context-dependent rewrite rules)
> comes from Chomsky and Halle (1968) but not their specific content.
> This formalism was first used for text-to-phoneme conversion by Bill
> Ainsworth back in 1973.  Since then, it has become very popular.

Well, some more history: Sherri Hunnicutt's implementation of the rules
followed Chomsky & Halle fairly closely, although Sherri, Dennis Klatt,
Tony Vitale, and I made some changes here and there based on our testing.
Since I don't have the sources any more, I can only guess that about 75%
of the DECtalk-1 rules closely follow rules in Sound Pattern of English.
Her rules were published in the AJCL microfiche.

Computer-based text-to-phoneme software was also written at the University
of Michigan in 1971 or 1972 (a large Fortran program), but I forgot the
researcher's name; Joyce Freeman, perhaps.

Also, I did my Master's thesis in 1966 on generating surface structure
from deep syntactic structure. That program was written in Snobol-4, ran
rather slowly on an IBM-7090, and was loosly based on some work done
previously at Mitre corporation. It supported both context-sensitive and
transformational re-writing rules. My thesis might be available from the
University of Illinois Department of Computer Science, but I doubt that
it's still interesting.

Regarding text-to-speech testing: we did preliminary testing of DECtalk
using a large (over 100,000 words) dictionary that had been
hand-phonemicized.
A program ran the dictionary words through the DECtalk rule-set then
compared them against the dictionary definition (ignoring uninteresting
differences such as unstressed-i versus shwa). Adjusting the rules changed
the set of erroneous words and, eventually, the remaining words were put
into the dictionary.

After DECtalk was reasonably complete, and during the development of
DECtalk-III (the small-circuit board version), we made extensive use
of a user-based testing lab at the University of Indiana under Prof.
Pisoni. Testing using "live" subjects proved extremely useful to
guage understandability -- something that is not identical to phonemic
correctness, of course.

Martin Minow
minow@apple.com
Newsgroups: comp.periphs
From: zaks@solaria.mil.wi.us (Zak Smith)
Subject: Unknown IBMAT board?
Organization: Solaria Public Access UNIX - Milwaukee, WI
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 03:28:35 GMT

I recently got the guts of an original IBM AT (286) computer, and included
in this mess of stuff was a board that I cannot figure out.   I think it
might be an ethernet board, but I am not sure.  Here is what it says:

 (white sticker along edge opposite bracket): 22722-01
 There are 3 big socketed chips: MB8795B  8848  Y20  U-B  (square)
			       : (stickered) 477890
                               : MB502A  8828  E88 U-B

And finally on the end, it has the number 9093, 477890, and a 15 pin male
connector.  (it is an 8 bit board, obviously.(

 I appreciate any help you can offer!  Please reply by mail, 

  zak.smith@xanadu.mil.wi.us
                                	
                                 
Newsgroups: comp.periphs,comp.periphs.scsi
From: seymour@stein.u.washington.edu (Richard Seymour)
Subject: Super High Datarate Tape drives... info wanted
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 00:45:42 GMT

Hi -
 We have an application which requires VERY high data rate -capable
 tape drives... on the order of 12 megabytes per second or better.
 (yes: Twelve... continuous)
We expect the interfacing will be VME, SCSI-2 or better.

I am aware of the Ampex DST600, Sony DIR1000M and Schlumberger DV6210.

I would appreciate vendor and user contact about any of the above, or from
 any other sources i'm not yet aware of.

We expect to need two drives by next summer, with an eventual installation
 of eight or more over the next few years.

Thanks-
--dick seymour   206-543-4298     university of washington Nuclear Physics Lab
Xref: sparky comp.periphs:1536 comp.periphs.scsi:5581
From: alawa@gna.axis-design.fr (Allaoua Bouabdallah)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs,comp.periphs.scsi
Subject: Toshiba MK 56FB-I (?)
Date: 19 Nov 92 12:50:16 GMT
Organization: GNA c/o Axis Design 119 rue de Flandre, 75019 Paris, France


	Does anyone know something about the HD Toshiba MK56FB-I ?

	ESDI ? ST506 ?  100Mb ? 200 Mb ? ...

	Thank's.

-Alawa
Newsgroups: comp.periphs
From: pen@lysator.liu.se (Peter Eriksson)
Subject: Fujitsu M2322 - what does the status LEDs mean?
Organization: Lysator Academic Computer Society, Linkoping University, Sweden
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 19:58:18 GMT

We have a Fujitsu M2322 (130MB SMD drive) that the following red status
LEDs light up when I power it up:

	STS4
	STTG1
	STTG2

(I think thats the names, I don't have the drive at hand right now).
Ah, and the green RDY LED light up too after a while. I can't seem to
talk to the drive though.

(It is connected to a Xy450 SMD controller in a Sun2/120 running SunOS 4.0.3)

I tried to look it up in the manual we have for the M2284 drive and although
it isn't exactly the same it said something about "SEEK Errors" and something
about "Over track" problems.

Is this a fatal condition for the drive or is there anything I can do
(without heavy hardware debugging) to fix it easily?

/Peter

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Lysator Academic Computer Society                 ...!uunet!lysator.liu.se!pen
University of Linkoping, Sweden                I'm still bored. Flame me again.
Newsgroups: comp.periphs
From: tamir@lanai.cs.ucla.edu (Yuval Tamir)
Subject: Setting the SCSI ID on a Seagate ST1480N disk
Organization: UCLA, Computer Science Department
Date: Sun, 22 Nov 92 05:38:51 GMT

I am trying to set the SCSI ID of a 400MB Seagate ST1480N disk to 1.
Currently, it appears to be set to 3.  Unfortunately
I don't have the manual and I have not been able to locate the
set of DIP switches or connectors where the SCSI ID is set.


			   Yuval Tamir

Internet: tamir@cs.ucla.edu
    UUCP: ...!{uunet,ucbvax,rutgers}!cs.ucla.edu!tamir
Newsgroups: comp.periphs
From: pizzi@nervous.com (Riccardo Pizzi)
Subject: looking for specifications on Fujitsu M2311K/M2312K 8'' disk drives
Followup-To: poster
Reply-To: pizzi@nervous.com (Riccardo Pizzi)
Organization: The Nervous XTC Public Access Unix System, Rimini, ITALY
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 92 21:33:12 GMT

I have an obsolete computer (1986) that has two Fujitsu 8'' hard disk drives
in it.
I would like to find some specifications on the drives, in order to utilize
them on other hardware (maybe on an Intel box)... unfortunately there is
no documentation on the drives.
They have their own power supply (one per disk drive) and have transparent
case (i.e. I can see the disk platters inside). On the front they have
a control panel with two leds ("fault" and "ready").

I would like to know at least what interface is used by the drives (ST506?),
but a source for a more complete documentation would be great.

Any hint appreciated.... please email to pizzi@nervous.com, as I do not read
this group on a regular basis.

Thanks!!

Rick
-- 
Riccardo Pizzi @ the Nervous XTC Public Access Unix System, Rimini, ITALY
E-Mail -> pizzi@nervous.com        <*>      Bang-path -> uunet!nervous!pizzi
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From: olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs
Subject: Re: Setting the SCSI ID on a Seagate ST1480N disk
Date: 22 Nov 92 21:39:37 GMT
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.  Mountain View, CA

In <1992Nov22.053851.1849@cs.ucla.edu> tamir@lanai.cs.ucla.edu (Yuval Tamir) writes:
| I am trying to set the SCSI ID of a 400MB Seagate ST1480N disk to 1.
| Currently, it appears to be set to 3.  Unfortunately
| I don't have the manual and I have not been able to locate the
| set of DIP switches or connectors where the SCSI ID is set.

No DIP switchs.  It is set by a set of small jumpers on the right
side of the drive near the front (as you face the drive).
--
Let no one tell me that silence gives consent,  |   Dave Olson
because whoever is silent dissents.             |   Silicon Graphics, Inc.
    Maria Isabel Barreno                        |   olson@sgi.com
Newsgroups: comp.periphs
Subject: What is a Hardcard?/ Cheap HDs needed
From: dreuben@eagle.wesleyan.edu
Date: 23 Nov 92 19:26:54 EST
Organization: Wesleyan University

Hi-

I'm looking to find a product (or class of products?) which go by the name
of "Hardcard". 

I asked a local distributor about good sources for cheap hard drives
(like 20 - 40 megs or storage) and he mentioned the "Hardcard" to me but
that's about all he knew about it.

Has anyone heard of this? Or even any good source of cheap (not necessarily
fast) hard drives? Prices, etc?

I'd be interested in getting large numbers of them, so wholesalers
are OK, etc. 

Thanks in advance for anyu info/advice/help!

-Doug

dreuben@eagle.wesleyan.edu (dreuben@129.133.10.10)
dreuben@wesleyan.bitnet
From: rtstoney@memstvx1.memst.edu
Newsgroups: comp.periphs
Subject: HD HELP
Date: 23 Nov 92 20:33:43 -0600
Organization: Memphis State University

I NEED SOME TECHNICAL INFORMATION ON A COUPLE OF HARD DRIVES.
I NEED THE TRACKS PER CYLINDER, TRACK CAPACITY IN BYTES, AND THE
DEVICE OVERHEAD FOR THE FOLLOWING:
WESTERN DIGITAL AC2200 200MB HD
SEAGATE ST1239A 200MB HD.
THANKS IN ADVANCE.
K. TONEY
From: vb@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM (John Van Boxtel)
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 22:57:33 GMT
Subject: Re: Bad Block Reassignment
Organization: Hewlett-Packard, Fort Collins, CO, USA
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi

In comp.periphs.scsi, neese@adaptx1.UUCP (Roy Neese) writes:

>          The option exists for reads as well, but user data will almost
> always be lost if you enable this.

Data will not be lost unless the drive firmware does not adhere to the
SCSI standard.  Auto reallocation on read error (ARRE) should only succeed if
the original data can be recovered through retry or ECC AND any data
that must be moved as the result of the sparing technique can also be 
successfully moved.

            John A. Van Boxtel vb@fc.hp.com
            Member of Technical Staff
            Hewlett Packard
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi
From: chris@132.236.236.12.tn.cornell.edu (Christopher A. Wolf)
Subject: Archive 525MB QIC drives - stats?
Reply-To: chris@alchemy.tn.cornell.edu
Organization: none
X-Newssoftware: GRn-beta 1.16g (11.15.92) by Michael B. Smith & Mike Schwartz
Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 09:25:37 GMT

   I'm looking for some basic information about the Archive 2525 QIC tape
drives capable of storing 525mb on a cartridge.  I have found a good price
on them and am considering purchasing one.

   First, I know that these drives can also _read_ QIC-150 and QIC-250
tapes (right?) but can they write these tapes in thos formats too?

   Second, what kind of transfer rates could I expect with this drive?  I am
interested in knowing real-world sustained transfer-rates to tape not just
figures which are inflated by any on-drive buffers the drive may have.  I
have seen advertisements quote rates of 12-14mb/minute... are these rates
actually achievable/sustainable?

   Aany other general opinions as to the reliability and performance of
these drives would be greatly appreciated.

   Thanks in advance for your help.

                                                         - Chris

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From: jalsop@seachg.uucp (John Alsop)
Subject: Re: Cheating of Low Level Format by AHA-1542B
Reply-To: jalsop@seachg.UUCP (John Alsop)
Organization: Sea Change Corporation, Mississauga, Ontario, Canada
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 92 02:18:48 GMT

In article <guest.1.721505160@ncucs> guest@ncucs writes:
>
>   I have a Quantum LP105S connected to AHA-1542B.  When it comes with DOS
>v5.0. they live a happy life, but once I install a 386BSD unix system and
>now I will return to DOS, the disk still start the UNIX booting even I have
>using the BIOS offset 0x0006 initialize the HD(it told me that it's a LOW-
>LEVEL format!!!), fdisk and dos format.  That's to say the disklabel written
>by UNIX still attatch in the disk!  
>
The LP105S (and possibly other Quantum drives) does not by default do a full
low-level format when you send the SCSI format command.  To get the drive
really formatted, you have to set one of the fields in one of the mode
pages.  Not having the manual handy, that's all I can tell you for now.


-- 
John Alsop

Sea Change Corporation
6695 Millcreek Drive, Unit 8
Mississauga, Ontario, Canada L5N 5R8
Tel: 416-542-9484 Fax: 416-542-9479
UUCP: ...!uunet!uunet.ca!seachg!jalsop  jalsop@seachg.com
From: ulrich@galki.toppoint.de (Ulrich Gall)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi
Subject: SCSI - single to differential (WANTED)
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 92 20:40:32 GMT
Distribution: world               
Organization: private UUCP site, Kiel, Germany

Hi,

I am looking for a board to converts single-ended SCSI to differential-ended
SCSI and vice versa.

If anyone knows a manufacturer, please mail me their adress and FAX number.
Please reply via EMAIL, I promise I'll summarize.

Thanks in advance,

Ulrich





--
Ulrich C. Gall, Seebrooksberg 2, W-2300 Klausdorf, Germany
Tel.: +49-431-790292, EMail: ulrich@galki.toppoint.de
From: jimb@db.erau.edu (James Burwell)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi
Subject: Wangtek 5150ES mode select info reqested
Date: 16 Nov 1992 17:24:28 -0500
Organization: Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach, FL USA
NNTP-Posting-Host: alpha.db.erau.edu
Keywords: SCSI wangtek QIC-150 QIC-11 QIC-24

Hi...

I'd like to know what the various mode-select commands for the Wangtek 5150ES 
are.

I'm trying to figure out what mode-select command to give this drive to put
it into read-qic-11 and read-qic-24 modes.  

As far as I know, it's possible for this drive to read those formats, but it 
can't write them.  Am I mistaken ?

C'ya,
Jim

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From: sbeland@nrao.edu (Stephane Beland,,,)
Subject: Sun SCSI device driver is crap!
Reply-To: sbeland@nrao.edu
Organization: National Radio Astronomy Observatory
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 92 22:27:41 GMT


I'm using an HP 1/2 inch 88780 tape drive on a Sun. The major problem 
i've seen so far is the inability to read a tape past a bad spot.

Some of the tapes i need to read are OLD and have bad spots on them. When
the drive sees those it fails after a number of retries. The next command
sent to the drive causes it to rewind the tape and start over again. This
makes it impossible for me to read past that bad spot.

My feeling is that this is due to the Sun SCSI device driver. Is there a 
solution to this problem?

Any suggestion would be very appreciated.

Stephane Beland
NRAO-AOC-VLA
Socorro, NM 87801
(505) 835-7335
From: sjb5@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (STACY JOHN BEHRENS)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi
Subject: NEC CDR-83 CD-ROM Drive Probs
Date: 22 Nov 92 20:26:15 GMT
Organization: Lehigh University

I just purchased an NEC CDR-83 CD-ROM drive.  I am having several problems.

1.  The disks do not go in all the way.  Is this normal?  I haven't seen any
drives which do this before.  The drive seems to catch them a little, but they
still hang outside a little.
2.  The OS/2 drivers I have do not seem to work properly.  I have what I am
sure are the only ones that work, but are there any special flags that I might
need to set to get it to work with my Future Domain 1680 SCSI card?  OS/2
seems to think that the drive is a floppy.
3.  Any attempts at disk access seem to result in the disk being spit out.
(Not that it went in very far to begin with)  Also the disk will be spit out
within 10 seconds under any conditions.  The disks do not spin up at all.
4.  There are no external terminators.  Is the drive automatically terminated?
I would guess so, but there is *nothing* in the manual about it and I would
like to be sure.

FYI I have:
386/40 w/20mb RAM & 64k cache
Future Domain 1680 SCSI card
Quantum PD170 SCSI drive  (ID 0)
NEC Intersect CDR-83 CD-ROM drive  (ID 3)
Paradise Pro VGA card
OS/2 2.0

Any help would be appreciated.

-- 
Stacy John Behrens
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From: landis@sugs.tware.com (Hale Landis)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi
Subject: Seagate Tech Support 
Distribution: world
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 92 20:34:38 GMT
Organization: SUGS

Here are the numbers for Seagate's Technical Support.

SeaBOARD - Bulletin Board System available 24 hours.  Use 8 data
           bits, no parity, 1 stop bit (8-N-1).

   USA/Canada  408-438-8771    9600 baud*

   England     44-62-847-8011  9600 baud*

   Germany     49-89-140-9331  2400 baud*

   Singapore   65-292-6973     9600 baud*

   Australia   61-2-756-2359   9600 baud*

   * - Maximum baud rate supported.

SeaFAX 408-438-2620

   Use a touch-tone phone to have information returned to you via
   FAX.  Available 24 hours.

Technical Support Fax 408-438-8137

   FAX your questions or comments 24 hours.  Responses are sent
   between 8:00AM and 5:00PM PST Monday through Friday.

SeaFONE 408-438-8222

   Provides recorded information 24 hours or talk to a technical
   specialist between 8:00AM to 5:00PM PST Monday through Friday.

SeaTDD 408-438-5382

   Using a Telecommunications Device for the Deaf, you can send
   questions or comments 24 hours or have a dialog with a
   technical support specialist between 8:00AM and 5:00PM PST
   Monday through Friday.

AND, soon you will be able to reach Seagate Technical Support
via email, right here, on your favorite net!

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Hale Landis                              Ph 408-423-4017
landis@sugs.tware.com -or- hale_landis@notes.seagate.com
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Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: neese@adaptx1.UUCP (Roy Neese)
Subject: Re: DMA Speed For Adaptec 1542B SCSI
Organization: Adaptec Inc., Texas
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 16:34:42 GMT

In article <BxL4rr.Grp@sti.com> westes@sti.com (Will Estes) writes:
> According to my 1542B manual, you can set the default DMA transfer speed
> between 5 and 8 MB/s.  What's the fastest that you can safely set this
> to on an ISA machine?  In an AMI BIOS, what are the clock/timer settings
> that affect DMA speeds?

There is no way to know what the fastest DMA setting can be for an ISA
bus based machine.  You have to try out the different DMA settings to
find out what the machine will reliably support.
Try moving the jumper to 5.7 and then 6.7 and so on and so forth until
the machine either locaks up or starts acting flaky.  You best have a
backup of the data on the hard disk before starting this preocedure.
You can also try using the ROM BIOS test routine located at dc00:9.  It
will not be 100%, but it will show catastrophic problems with various
DMA speeds.
This is not a limitation of the 154x adapter, it is a limitation of the
ISA bus, where there is no real control logic for bus masters.
---

			Roy Neese
			Adaptec Senior UNIX/SCSI Software Engineer
			UUCP:	convex!egsner!adaptex!neese
			Inet:	neese%adaptex@cirr.com
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi,comp.periphs.printers
From: zardoz!neil@ics.uci.edu (Neil Gorsuch)
Subject: Re: SCSI Printers
Keywords: SCSI printers
Organization: Uninet Peripherals, Inc.
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 23:41:55 GMT

In article <BxsI3M.2FC@research.canon.oz.au> andy@research.canon.oz.au (Andy Newman) writes:
>I'm interested in finding out about how printers operate over the SCSI
>bus. I'm not talking about the use of SCSI for a printer's own use
> ...

Both Uninet and Central Data sell SCSI to Centronics parallel boxes.
Uninet's number should be in my signature below, and I believe that
Central Data's is (217)359-8010.
--
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MAIL: 17981 Sky Park Blvd., Suite O, Irvine, CA, 92714  PHONE: +1 714 263 4222
Uninet Peripherals, Inc.                                FAX: +1 714 263 4299
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: shawr@netcom.com (rich shaw)
Subject: Help. Problem getting adaptec 1542B to work with Orchid ProIIS
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
Date: Tue, 24 Nov 1992 01:15:52 GMT

I have problem getting the adaptec 1542B to work with Orchid ProIIs. During
the boot time the adaptec's bios is not loaded. (ie. I didn't see any adaptec
copyright message on screen) However, if I replace the Orchid with a Video 7's
1024i with 512K memory, everything went fine. 

I did try different interrupt and bios base address for the adaptec. So, what
should I do to make them work together? 

Any information will help me greatly. Thanks in advance.

-- rich
-- shawr@netcom.com

ps. The drive that connected to the 1542B is a CDC Wren IV.
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi
From: rvinluan@cs.cornell.edu (Rolando Vinluan)
Subject: I'm confused! Is there a SCSI FAQ (or ANYTHING)!
Organization: Cornell University, CS Dept., Ithaca, NY
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 15:25:15 GMT


	I know the terminology, but all these different
SCSI products still bewilder me. While I know most PC hardware pretty well,
SCSI is one area I'm still trying to learn.

	Is there a document or magazine article somewhere that
will let me know what products support what standards, and such?

	This is a topic which really needs a FAQ...


	Thanks in advance.


	-- Randy
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi
From: mwprange@vela.acs.oakland.edu (Manfred W. Prange)
Subject: New Adaptec ROMS?
Organization: Oakland University, Rochester MI.
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 09:15:41 GMT

I've seen new firmware for the 1542's mentioned here. I have both a 
1542A (bios ver 3.07) and a 1542B (bios ver 3.10). Do new ROMs 
actually exist for these, and if so, how may I obtain them? I do
not have access to a ROM burner.

-Manfred
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi