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From: rob@liciren.li.co.uk (Rob Clive)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Disk Controller Woes
Date: 4 Nov 92 08:57:25 GMT
Organization: Lucas Powertrain Systems, Electronic Control Group, UK

I have an Adaptec ACB2372B RLL disk controller which doesn't seem to
want to accept data.  I can get it to seek to tracks, restore and
diagnose (no faults found).  But any command involving a data transfer
(format, read or write) results in a 'Command Aborted' error.  In the
format case the docs I have suggest that this status results from a
Write Fault or Drive not ready.  Neither of these seem to occur.  So I
have two questions:

1.  Is there anywhere else I can look to see if the controller is
accepting the data transfer?  Looking at the sector buffer RAM I can see
address lines changing but still I get the error.

2.  Does anyone have / can point me in the direction of an OEM manual
for the controller?  In the UK is preferable but I'm desperate enough to
consider anywhere (before you ask the local Adaptec distributor cannot
help).

Thanks in advance for any help.  A reply by email would be nice since I
often suffer from 'information overload' on this group.
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From: fontenot@ravl.rice.edu (Dwayne Jacques Fontenot)
Subject: Re: ATI Ultra Pro, G200 DX266V resolution/NI?
Organization: Rice University
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 20:33:38 GMT

In article <17367@borg.cs.unc.edu> frederic@cs.unc.edu (Robin Fredericksen) writes:
>I recently received a Gatway 2000 DX2-66MHz system with their version of
>the ATI Ultra Pro video cards.  It was my understanding that the ATI UP
>would run 1280x1024 @ 60Hz NI, but after trying to get it to go interlaced
>(running the setup program, running the test programs) I finally called ATI.
>They said that the version of the card that I have does not go that hi, and
>that I would have to upgrade to a new (or additional? that was not clear)
>RAMDAC to get that performance.  I called Gateway tech support and they
>said that they did not have the upgrade available, and that I would have
>to pay for it.
>
>Has anyone else with the ATI UP, from Gateway or otherwise, run it at
>1280x1024 at 60Hz NI?  Is Gateway selling a stripped down card?  Was
>I expecting too much to be getting the product with specs that have been 
>advertised elsewhere?  Has anyone bought the Nanao 550i upgrade and run
>it at 1280x1024 @ 60Hz?  Does any one have any info on this at all? :-)
>
>After buying a Mag MX17F so that I can do the above mentioned resolution,
>I am bit dissapointed right now. (I still have a fiew calls to make to
>my sales rep, but I am not optimistic.)

AAAAARRRRGGG!!!!! I KNEW IT!!!! When people started saying (a couple of months
ago) that Gateway was selling an ATI Ultra *PRO* in their machines, I knew
this could not be right. Gateway is LYING. They are CHEATING. They are being
very dishonest. How can they can call this an Ultra Pro if it does not meet
Pro specs? What makes this board a Pro and not, say, an Ultra + ???

To reiterate: an ultra pro (according to ads) can do 1280x1024x256@74Hz NI !

>------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>Eric Fredericksen	: Insert amazingly funny or enlightening quote
>frederic@cs.unc.edu	: in this space here.
>I don't need a disclaimer, I'm a graduate student so no one cares what I say..

Dwayne Fontenot
(fontenot@comet.rice.edu)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: jnpotts@iastate.edu (James N. Potts)
Subject: settings for Maxtor 7213
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames IA
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 17:35:54 GMT

Can someone tell me the bios settings needed (ie, cyls, heads, sector size)
for a 7213?  The settings given to me by my dealer calculate to 203 megs of
data.  This seems a tad bit small.  If anyone is getting more space than this
from their drive, please send me the settings!

Thanks.

James

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From: trader@infopls.chi.il.us (Steve Kovack)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: tape drive / controll
Date: Sun, 08 Nov 92 01:16:53 CST
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 MDI> Can anybody tell me what software is required to use the following
 MDI> tape drive system ?

 MDI> Tape drive : Caliper CP60B
 MDI> Controller : Everex EV-831QIC-36

 Davei, with the Everex controller you need to use the Everex software.
 Version 4.08 is the latest and can be downloaded from the Everex BBS
 at (510)438-4650 (2400) or (510)226-9694 (v.32).  I'm not sure if the 
 software will work with the tape drive you have as Everex uses Wangtek
 (5099EN-24 and 5125EN-24) drives. Good luck!

 Steve Kovack
 trader@infopls.chi.il.us

PS Sorry I forgot the numbers in the first message.

... Illiterate?  Write for FREE HELP!
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.dcom.modems
From: jon_sree@world.std.com (Jon Sreekanth)
Subject: Re: fax/phone switch
Organization: The World
	<JON_SREE.92Nov11081440@world.std.com>
	<1992Nov12.185858.818@blurt.oswego.edu>
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 13:09:43 GMT

In article <1992Nov12.185858.818@blurt.oswego.edu> mulvey@blurt.oswego.edu (Allen Mulvey, SUNY, Oswego, NY) writes:


   > Don't think this is quite accurate. You can't get CNG (or any other
   > intelligence, except caller-id) until you go off hook. After going offhook,

   If you transmit your fax in auto mode the tones are sent between rings. Try 
   keeping the speaker on the next time you send a fax and you will hear them. 

It's not picked up at the far side ... after dialling the called party's
number, during ringback, you can put anything on the phone line but 
the audio path to the far side is not connected until they go offhook.

/ Jon Sreekanth

Assabet Valley Microsystems, Inc.           |  Fax and PC products
5 Walden St #3, Cambridge, MA 02140         |  (617) 876-8019
jon_sree@world.std.com                      |
From: berger@atropa (Mike Berger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Microlab is a rip-off!!! BEWARE!!!
Date: 13 Nov 92 18:37:42 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana

tvp@gibdo.engr.washington.edu writes:
>As a self-espoused COD orderer I like to follow up to these type posts.
>Okay, how is it an advantage in this case? If I'd ordered this video
>card COD this is what would have happened.

>1. Delivery guy arrives.
>2. I check the contents of the order
>3. I see that they sent a video card I don't want.
>4. I send the delivery guy away without giving him any money.
*----
I'd sure like to know what carrier you use.  Neither Federal Express,
UPS, the USPS, Airborne Express, or Emery will let ME open up a COD
package before I pay for it.
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: william@natimuk.acci.com.au (William Lo)
Subject: How do you obtain refresh rates? 
Organization: IBM Australia/ACCI 
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 00:16:36 GMT

	Just a question simple and quick:

	Given the spec's of your monitor(e.g. the V and H scanning
freq's, and the size of the screen, of course) How do you obtain
the exact refresh rates for different display resolutions?

---Thanks, 
	Bill
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.sys.laptops
From: ferdie@coyote.datalog.com (fred jarvis)
Subject: Experience with Kingston, Okidata, or Tote-a-lap memory?
Organization: Datalog Consulting, Tucson, AZ
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 92 01:18:14 GMT

Does anyone have any experience with Kingston, Okidata, or Tote-a-lap
memory?  (I am upgrading the memory of an AST laptop and those brands
are readily available to me.)  Any other recommendations?

Fred Jarvis     ferdie@coyote.datalog.com
From: general_user@uk.ac.uea.sys
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: How can I low-level format IDE drive ?
Date: 10 Nov 92 11:09:39 GMT
Organization: School of Information Systems

In article <GJAMES.174@HUSKY1.STMARYS.CA> GJAMES@HUSKY1.STMARYS.CA (GJames) writes:

>In article <1992Nov5.175934.3269@mksol.dseg.ti.com> mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539) writes:

>>In <tooraj.720955806@daneel.rdt.monash.edu.au> tooraj@daneel.rdt.monash.edu.au (Tooraj Enayati) writes:

>>><DXB132@psuvm.psu.edu> writes:

>>>>In article <1d4brjINNb6c@terminator.rs.itd.umich.edu>, pauls@css.itd.umich.edu
>>>>(Paul Southworth) says:

>>>>>In article <sauron.720737823@femto.engr.mun.ca> sauron@femto.engr.mun.ca
>>>>>(Patrick Ryan) writes:
>>>>>>wjin@cs.uh.edu (W. Woody Jin) writes:


>stuff deleted


>I once had a virus in a partition table that just wouldnt go away. I tried 
>dos format, fdisk, I even used norton sector edit to zero out the fat table.
>The virus was still there.

>I called our dealer and told him i was going to ll the drive and since it 
>was under warranty, if it was made useless I would return it. He gave me the 
>OK so I was covered.

>The way I LL'ed the drive was to use the disk utilities built into the 
>machines BIOS. I set the disk type to 47 and entered the heads, cylinder 
>etc. to the native (or was it translation, I cant remember) mode settings 
>and ran the BIOS LL routine. Then I ran fdisk and did a dos format. 
>Everything has worked fine ever since.
>Has anybody else tried this method?

I LL formatted my Fujitsu 2616ET (102Mb) drive using the AMI bios setup
program.  I left all the interleave settings to the bios setup (it attempts
to work out the best interleave).  The drive seems to still work fine...
except it seems to be a little slow in data transfer (Coretest reports 
630Kb/s or so).  Does anyone know whether LL formatting the drive could have 
slowed it down, does anyone have a 2616ET that achieves a higher transfer 
rate, and if I have slowed the drive down, can I do anything about it now?

I have a standard IDE (ISA) card and a 386/33.

Stephen Baxter

(U9118802 @ cpc780.uea.ac.uk (JANET) )
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.os.os2.misc,comp.os.msdos.misc
From: rnichols@cbnewsg.cb.att.com (robert.k.nichols)
Subject: Re: reading to end of tape
Summary: The full-width erase head hits all tracks at once.
Organization: AT&T
Date: Sun, 8 Nov 1992 22:18:24 GMT

In article <1992Nov8.010807.8693@cs.rochester.edu> joel@cs.rochester.edu writes:
>Does anyone have any suggestions for reading past the "end of recorded
>medium (eom)" or "logical end of tape" on a magnetic tape?  My tape is
>a 3M Magnus 1.0 (QIC-1000), my drive is a Tandberg 4120, my adapter is
>an Adaptec 1542B, and my operating system is OS/2 2.0.  Since I wrote
>the tar file I want, I rewound the tape (without erasing) and started
>writing from the beginning, but I think the file should still be
>there.
...

One problem with trying to recover data in this circumstance is the way
that QIC drives perform erasure.  There is one full-width erase head,
which is activated whenever the drive is writing on Track 0.  It erases
all of the tracks.  Thus, if your original file occupied multiple
tracks, there will be erased sections at the beginning of each
even-numbered track and the end of each odd-numbered track.

Bob Nichols
AT&T Bell Laboratories
rnichols@ihlpm.ih.att.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: flick@cwis.unomaha.edu (John Anderson)
Subject: GVC Modem trouble
Keywords: modem GVC
Organization: University of Nebraska at Omaha
Date: Sat, 7 Nov 1992 04:01:29 GMT

I have a GVC 9600 v32 v42 "Super"modem.  I recently upgraded to a 486-25
motherboard and since then have been getting alot of buzzing from the
modem.  It doesn't seem to hamper the abilities of the modem, but I can
truthfully say, the buzzing is driving me crazy!  I have tried turning 
off the speaker (ala ATM0), but it still comes back to haunt me.  I have 
been told that it is resonance, and have since moved it as far from the
computer as possible (btw, it is an external).  Does anyone have any
suggestions or the # to technical support of GVC?  Thanks in advance!
 
P.S. Does anyone know about a chip upgrade from GVC that will increase
     speed from 9600 to 14.4 w/ FAX???


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From: mcclure@sun1.is.battelle.org (Jim McClure)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: HP ScanJet IIc and Adaptec 1742
Date: 6 Nov 92 03:18:49 GMT
Organization: Battelle, Informations Systems; Columbus, Ohio

Has anyone hooked the HP ScanJet IIc to an Adaptec 1742B SCSI
controller.  I have a Gateway 486/33E with a 1742B and
a WD-7000 (for my Meridian Data CD Publisher).  I really don't want
to stick another SCSI card in the machine.  HP says that I
really shouldn't do this but I was just curious if anyone has
had any luck.  Words of caution are always appreciated!

Thanks!

Jim

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From: aron@archangel.ced.berkeley.edu (aron bonar)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: 24-bit Color
Date: 12 Nov 1992 01:03:41 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: archangel.ced.berkeley.edu

In article <1dl23cINNnnu@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>, kxj6@po.CWRU.Edu (Kijin Jung) writes:
|> 
|> I've always wondered why video card manufacturers would not allow more
|> memory on their video cards. Since the number of colors is a function of
|> the memory on board and not on the analog monitor, why couldn't ATI (or
|> any manufacturer) set a maximum of more than 2MB so 24-bit color can be
|> achieved at 1024x768?


|> 
|> Is the video chip itself a constraint? That is, a certain chip will only
|> allow X number of colors? With a non-accelerated card such as mine, there
|> will of course be a detrimental effect on speed performance if it was
|> allowed to go up to 16 million colors, but it would be nice to have the
|> option.

Its not a matter of the hardware...the hardware to do 24 bit color has been around a long
time...Its a matter of marketing and cost...making really high resolution 24 bit cards has,
until lately, been really expensive...and the speed of the systems (at least in the PC arena) hasn't hasn't been up to it.  The hardware manifacturers don't want to make a card that nobody 
will buy.  Memory prices have come down now...so its more affordable for companies to make nice
24 bit cards...And affordable for people to buy them.

If you wanted high resolution 24 bit color a couple of years ago you should have switched to a
Silicon Graphics platform...I've been at 1280x1024x24 bit for the a while now... really nice
stuff.
From: doug@cahuilla.ucsd.edu (Doug Peckham )
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Need Help with Monitor Selection
Date: 12 Nov 1992 16:17:09 GMT
Organization: IGPP,Scripps Institution of Oceanography, San Diego
Distribution: usa
NNTP-Posting-Host: cahuilla.ucsd.edu
Originator: doug@cahuilla

    Hi,

    Does anyone have any experience with a Viewsonic 8 20" SVGA monitor.  I
am purchasing a 486/50 system for electronics CAD use, and that is the monitor
that two seperate vendors have suggested.  The NEC 6FG appears to cost about
$900 more, and I'm curious what that really buys you besides a small increase 
in size (21").  Thanks for any direction that you can provide me.

    Doug



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From: wilken@plains.NoDak.edu (Scott Wilken)
Subject: Re: RFI: Seagate 3144A and AMI BIOS
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 22:25:15 GMT
Organization: North Dakota Higher Education Computing Network

In article <1992Nov10.123547.1@skyler.mavd.honeywell.com> mellum@skyler.mavd.honeywell.com writes:
>I apologize if this is the wrong place to post this, but I didn't know where
>else it should go. The question is this: what parameters do I use for a Seagate
>3144A 130MB drive for AMI BIOS setup? I know that it is user setup 47, but what
>I need to know is info for WPcom, LDzone, heads, Sectors, etc. Any info would


1001 : sectors
15   : heads
17   : sectors/trach

The rest doesnt matter, just put in 0 for the value (IE for landing zone,
write precompensation, etc).

Scott

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: matt@jarthur.claremont.edu (Matthew Hughes)
Subject: Re: Specs on ISA, EISA, and VESA busses.
Organization: Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, CA 91711
Date: Sat, 14 Nov 1992 02:57:31 GMT

Me too! Any pointers to such info or where to get it also greatly
appreciated.
						Matt Hughes
					matt@jarthur.claremont.edu

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From: cescsg@nmsu.edu (Jeff Cooper)
Subject: Re: 5150 memory question
Organization: NMSU Cooperative Extension
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 18:34:30 GMT

In article <1992Nov1.194259.10063@mydual.uucp> olson@mydual.uucp (Kirtland H. Olson) writes:

>Since the machines have 10 Meg drives, I believe they have a ROM upgrade.
 fwiw, I've never found any.  Most of those old "dogs" that had the 10M 
drives HAD a bios date of 10/27/82.  (Earlier ones would not support HD's). 
And since its got SixPak+ cards, hes probaly in good shape.

If the motherboard says 16-64K, they ARE pretty much junk.  (I don't 
think that will happen; see above.)  It'll probably be labeled 64-256K.

IF the fella with the original request hasn't gotten his info, email me, (my 
BITNET address is cescsg@NMSU).  I'll mail you an honest to goodness orginal 
IBM manual, and a copy of the 6pak+ manual.  Give me your post address.

Your were educational, weren't you?  New Mexico has a state law forbidding 
donation of state-funded resources to private parties.  (This is a good-old-
boy state, and they always pass laws aimed primarily at politcal rivals.  
But sometimes they screw-up and have beneficial results.!)

Did you ever notice on TV news, they frequently interview some clown, and 
behind them is a real-live XT?  And quite often you see the original 5151 
monitor.  We've still got 30 of those things around here.  They are only 
agravating if one is used to a 486.  Many of ours are running WordPerfect.  
Hey, I just help fix 'em; I'm not in charge of budgets or an officer of the 
hardware fashion police!

Quite obviously, these are my opinions, and do not represent those of the 
State of New Mexico, nor that of New Mexico State University, nor those of 
the NM Cooperative Extension Service.

jeff
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From: ins132g@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au (Mike Battersby)
Subject: 15/24 bit Color Questions...
Organization: Monash University
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 12:46:52 GMT

Greetings All,

	Lately I've noticed (and its hard not to thesedays) that people
are tending to move away from 256 color displays and into displays which
have more bits of color, and basically I I'm extremely interested in
such video cards.

	Now, I know about the Sierra Hi-Color DACs, and I can buy a
et4000 based clone card and plug in one of these DACs and get 15bit
colour with a minimum of fuss and cost. What I want to know is:

	Is there a VESA standard for Hi-Color modes, and if so is
there a program for the et4000 cards to provide compatability with
this? Also can Windows 3.1 use the Hi-Color modes?

	Mostly what I'm interested in finding out about though, is
the availability and type of 24 bit cards:

      *	Is there a DAC you can plug in for 24bit color as with Hi-Color?
      *	Considering I dont need a graphics accelerator, and am trying
      	to minimise cost (arent we all), what sort of 24 bit cards are
        around?
      *	Is there a VESA standard for 24bit color? Which boards support it?
      *	Is there windows 3.1 support for 24bit color?
      *	Is 24bit color worth the effort over Hi-Color, considering that
	I'm not using it for commercial purposes, but for my own amusement
	value and sense of aesthetics?

regards
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