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From: sasjrm@beatle.unx.sas.com (Jeff McDermott)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.ps2.hardware,comp.os.os2,comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: c: drive fails, pc won't boot
Date: 2 Sep 92 18:10:55 GMT
Organization: SAS Institute Inc.
Originator: sasjrm@beatle.unx.sas.com


hello,

we have a c: hpfs drive that does not completely
boot up os/2 2.0 (it crashes after the os/2 logos appear) 
and booting from a: using the os/2 2.0 install diskette does not 
allow us to access the c: drive either.
before i switch c: out for a new hard drive i was hoping that
someone could tell me whether it is truly a disk problem
or whether it is a controller problem or something related...

thanx for any help!

below are the messages i get under each booting sequence.

1)  when i boot from a: i get Internal identification error when
    i try to dir the c:


2)  when i try to boot from c: i get a system dump 

##0160:fff6453f - 000d:a53f.
60000, 9084
038600d1
Internal revision 6.307  90/03/01

any ideas?
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.ps2.hardware
From: saud@seas.gwu.edu
Subject: Help with PS/2 Model 50Z Harddisk????
Originator: saud@seas.gwu.edu
Organization: George Washington University
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 15:57:36 GMT

Hi all:

Friend of mine bought a PS/2 model 50Z from an action for about $250.00

It turns out there is no hard disk:


I am trying to helps him get (since he does not know much about the pc)

Now I called IBM and other dealers, BUT the price is very high.

Is it possible to get a third part HD that goes with this beast

Does any one have a use one that he wants to sell 

Thanks

Wane
From: bob@ashanti.austin.ibm.com (Robert Reynolds)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.ps2.hardware
Subject: PS/2 Mod 80 hardware error
Keywords: error 110
Date: 26 Aug 92 21:48:10 GMT
Organization: IBM Austin
Originator: bob@cosmic.austin.ibm.com


   I've been getting an intermitten error on my PS/2 model
   80.  I keep getting the following message in the upper
   left hand corner of the display and the machine locks.

        110
        40000 (S)

   Sometimes the 40000 is 50000 or 90000.  I'm fairly sure
   that it is a memory error but I can't find a manual that
   tells me what a 110 error is.  If anyone knows please let
   me know.  You can either post or email me.  

     Thanks.

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From: kurt@pnet51.orb.mn.org (Kurt Sletterdahl)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.ps2.hardware
Subject: Re: HELP PS2 30 ERROR MESSAGES when booting
Date: 29 Aug 92 17:25:05 GMT
Organization: People-Net [pnet51], Minneapolis, MN.

The original PS/2 Model 30 is an 8086-8Mhz machine. Later, the Model 30-286
was released.

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From: khoo@husc3.harvard.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.ps2.hardware
Subject: Re: 486DX2 upgrade for Model 70 A21's?
Date: 27 Aug 92 18:17:21 GMT
Organization: Harvard University Science Center

> 
>>  Also, I spoke with Cyrix two weeks ago, they will have their 386/486
>>combination chip (I forget it's name, 486DLC?) some time fourth quarter.
>>I was told it's completely pin-compatible with the 386, just plug-and-play.
>>And, should list for < $300!  This is an end-user upgrade package so when
>>it comes out it may be well worth the price of admission!
> 
>  Wouldn't the above paragraph obsolete all daughterboards and mca processor
> upgrade cards? The simplicity and elegance of pulling out the 386 and putting
> in a Cyrix 486DLC? sounds like the way to go barring any major disadvantages
> in performance.

That would be great.  But, the Cyrix chip is not a pull, plug and play
proposition.  I has some timing differences with the 386 chip, and I don't
think it will work in an unmodified 386 machine.
(BTW, it's called the 486SLC chip)

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khoo@husc9.harvard.edu      (617) 496-8992    Econ. Dept, Harvard U.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.ps2.hardware
From: buchignani@hg.uleth.ca
Subject: Re: 486DX2 upgrade for Model 70 A21's?
Reply-To: buchignani@hg.uleth.ca
Organization: University of Lethbridge
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 20:04:08 GMT

re: quasi-486 replacements for the 386. Now I am confused. I thought
cyrix intended to create a chip that would address the timing
and other issues so that the chip in question would be

a pull, plug and play proposition.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.ps2.hardware
From: jeff@ryhope.del.dec.com (Jeff Finkelstein)
Subject: Problems with IBM Laptop and serial ports
Reply-To: jeff@ryhope.del.dec.com (Jeff Finkelstein)
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 13:35:49 GMT


I have some programs that I have written that contain their own serial 
port interrupt routines. The code works fine on every system I have
tried it on except for the IBM PS/2 Model L40X (I got the model number 
from a customer.) Can anyone shed some light on why this particular system 
may be a problem? Further information: The cable I use is home-grown and 
only uses TX,RX,and GND, I do not currenty have CTS and RTS wired. Could 
this be the problem? 

All suggestions welcome.
--
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.ps2.hardware
Subject: Re: 486DX2 upgrade for Model 70 A21's?
From: khoo@husc3.harvard.edu
Date: 26 Aug 92 13:23:18 EDT
Organization: Harvard University Science Center


I have heard of 486 boards that plug into the 386 chip sockets, but what I had
in mind when I wrote the original posting, were replacements for the
daughterboard which holds the CPU in the PS/2 Model 70 A21's and B21's.

BTW, the A21 uses a 25MHz 386 and the B21 uses a 25Mhz 486.  You can upgrade a
Model 70 A21 to a Model 70 B21 by just replacing the daughterboard in the
machine.  (IBM charges about $2500 I think).  

So IBM, we were promised upgradability when we bought these machines,
how about delivering and coming out with a 486DX2 daughterboard for the 
Model 70 A21's?   (or should we have bought Compaq's?)

-- 
khoo@husc3.harvard.edu      Lawrence Khoo       Computer Consultant
khoo@husc9.harvard.edu      (617) 496-8992    Econ. Dept, Harvard U.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.ps2.hardware
From: terence@tanru.tti.com ( Terry)
Subject: Re: 486DX2 upgrade for Model 70 A21's?
Organization: Transaction Technology Inc.
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 16:44:38 GMT

  About 6 weeks ago I saw a post regarding 486/33 upgrade boards for the
model 70.  I called the company (Sigma Data) and there is indeed a board
with a 486/33 for the 16 and 20 MHz model 70.  It costs $995 (I think).
At that time there was no A21 board but one was in development and should
be ready some time fourth quarter.  It will be a bit more expensive (still
less than IBM's power platform for more horses) but based on the literature
I have it should provide a SUBSTANTIAL performance gain.  I do not know if
the DX2's could be placed on these boards but it would be really nifty
if you could.  Also, IBM Australia, I was told, is using these boards
internally with no compatibility problems.

  Also, I spoke with Cyrix two weeks ago, they will have their 386/486
combination chip (I forget it's name, 486DLC?) some time fourth quarter.
I was told it's completely pin-compatible with the 386, just plug-and-play.
And, should list for < $300!  This is an end-user upgrade package so when
it comes out it may be well worth the price of admission!

  The 486 upgrade sold by Sigma Data is built by a company called Hypertech.
Sigma Data's number is:  1-800-446-4525.  Sigma Data was real nice when I
spoke with them.  They sent me some information right away and even called
back to see if I got the literature and what my plans were.

  The price of these boards is roughly equivalent to some other 486
motherboards, but then you have to worry about compatibility (I run OS/2 2.0
so I need quality HW).  In addition, you'd still have to purchase memory,
hard disk, controller, etc for a new motherboard while my A21 is a 
complete working sturdy machine which could just use a speed-up.  I'm
glad to see these kind of upgrade products appearing.

Just my ramblings,

Terry (terence@soldev.tti.com)


Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.ps2.hardware
From: paul@panix.com (Paul Gatker)
Subject: Re: 486DX2 upgrade for Model 70 A21's?
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 23:06:06 GMT
Organization: PANIX Public Access Unix, NYC

In <1992Aug26.132318.15122@husc3.harvard.edu> khoo@husc3.harvard.edu writes:

>BTW, the A21 uses a 25MHz 386 and the B21 uses a 25Mhz 486.  You can upgrade a
>Model 70 A21 to a Model 70 B21 by just replacing the daughterboard in the
>machine.  (IBM charges about $2500 I think).  

 This would be great because slots are very valuable real estate on these 
machines and that's what the second party upgrades use as far as I know.
 Replacing the 386 chip with a 486 daughterboard would be great especially
if a second party manufacturer would do it at 1/2 to 1/3 the price ibm
would charge us.

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.ps2.hardware,comp.os.os2,comp.os.os2.misc
From: MLONG@isucard.card.iastate.edu
Subject: Re: c: drive fails, pc won't boot
Organization: CARD
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 22:12:39 GMT

In article <tadr.715520984@mccoy>                                                                                                                     
tadr@doe.carleton.ca (Tom A. D. Riley) writes:                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                                                      
>In <02SEP92.25768572.0030@vmxa.polymtl.ca> $$$0@polytec1.polymtl.ca (Christian obert) writes:                                                        
>                                                                                                                                                     
>                                                                                                                                                     
>>After booting from drive A: insert diskette 2 and issue the following:                                                                              
>>A> chkdsk c: /f                                                                                                                                     
>                                                                                                                                                     
>Isn't that chkdsk c:/f:3 for hpfs ?                                                                                                                  
>I may be wrong (I'm at work now; os2 is at home)                                                                                                     
>                                                                                                                                                     
>>Poly.                                                                                                                                               
>                                                                                                                                                     
CHKDSK will default to severity 2 or CHKDSK C: /F:2 = CHKDSK C: /F with HPFS.                                                                         
Mike Long                                                                                                                                             
Iowa State University
From: dcarlson@eagle.wesleyan.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.ps2.hardware
Subject: HELP PS2 30 ERROR MESSAGES when booting
Date: 27 Aug 92 13:31:37 GMT
Organization: Wesleyan University



	A friend of mine has a IBM Model 30 with a problem.
When booting up it only counts up to 512 and than reports a memory error. 
Then it reports a Time And Date error. This is an xt type machine does it 
use an IBM reference disk for setup? Is there an actual hardware failure 
causing this? 
		Thanks for any help
		Reply EMAIL
		DCARLSON@EAGLE.WESLEYAN.EDU
	
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From: azzarito@cse.fau.edu (Doug Azzarito)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.ps2.hardware,comp.os.os2,comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re:  c: drive fails, pc won't boot
Date: 2 Sep 92 22:04:45 GMT
Organization: Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL, USA

In article <BtyqI7.6M6@unx.sas.com> sasjrm@beatle.unx.sas.com (Jeff McDermott) writes:>
>we have a c: hpfs drive that does not completely
>boot up os/2 2.0 (it crashes after the os/2 logos appear) 
>and booting from a: using the os/2 2.0 install diskette does not 
>allow us to access the c: drive either.

Have you tried booting from diskette, and using CHKDSK without trying to
access the drive first?  CHKDSK is on diskette 2.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.ps2.hardware
From: robert@triton.jpl.nasa.gov (Robert Angelino)
Subject: XGA boards in PS/2s?????
Reply-To: robert@triton.Jpl.Nasa.Gov
Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena CA
Date: Sun, 30 Aug 1992 19:27:06 GMT


pc gurus,
	Has antone out there had any luck with installing an XGA
graphics card in a PS/2.  How do you tell the PS/2 to use
the graphics card instead of the built-in VGA???

-robert

Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.ps2.hardware
From: plm@reggae.plm (Paul L. Mowatt)
Subject: Re: XGA boards in PS/2s?????
Organization: /bdfs/users/plm/.organization
Date: 31 Aug 92 09:16:59

In article <1992Aug30.192706.5198@mahendo.jpl.nasa.gov> robert@triton.jpl.nasa.gov (Robert Angelino) writes:

>   pc gurus,
>	   Has antone out there had any luck with installing an XGA
>   graphics card in a PS/2.  How do you tell the PS/2 to use
>   the graphics card instead of the built-in VGA???

If it works like the 8514/a adapter I just installed in my PS/2, then all you 
have to do is plug your XGA monitor into the XGA board.  Both the built-in VGA
and the XGA will be active until you run a program that uses XGA. I'm assuming 
you're using an IBM XGA card.

>   -robert

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Organization: University of Maine System
Date: Tuesday, 1 Sep 1992 22:12:34 EDT
From: Andrew T. Robinson <ANDY@MAINE.MAINE.EDU>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.ps2.hardware
Subject: Wanted: hard disk, tape drive for PS/2 55SX

I have a PS/2 55SX (manufactured circa June 1989) with 4m onboard
memory (2x2m SIMMs) and 16mb on 2 80286 2-8mb expansion options, 8514/a,
60mb ESDI HD, 1 3.5" 1.44mb floppy.

I'd like to get a larger and faster disk drive (the 60mb is slow,
with average seek in the 30s or 40s I suspect), and an external
tape backup system which would hopefully either attach through
a serial/parallel port or be able to share the disk controller.
My backplane is fully populated (2 memory expansion cards and 1
8514/a) so I don't have any slots free.

What are my options?  Are there any vendors other than IBM which
supply hard disks that can be used with the ESDI controller that
comes with the 55SX?

Please reply to me directly at ANDY@MAINE.EDU since I don't
monitor this list regularly.

Andy
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.ps2.hardware
From: MLONG@isucard.card.iastate.edu
Subject: Re: MCA bus problem
Organization: CARD
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 23:06:03 GMT

In article <5233@blue.cis.pitt.edu.UUCP>                                        
prpst2+@pitt.edu (Paul R Perdeus) writes:                                       
                                                                                
>Hello all,                                                                     
>                                                                               
>      I'm sorry for the cross posts, but I can't remember where I got the      
>      answer from the first time!  A month or so ago I wrote in about a        
>      problem with Win3.1 and WFW 2.0.  One of the problems I was having       
>      was that any time I would run the dos prompt or any dos application      
>      I would get the following message:                                       
>                                                                               
>                                  System Error                                 
>                                                                               
>                   Microchannel bus timeout error detected.                    
>                   System halted...                                            
>                                                                               
>      I posted this (along with other problems) to these newsgroups and one    
>      of the responses I got told me to put a line in my win.ini or system.ini 
>      files that said something about MCAxxxxx=off or something like that.     
>      From what I remember (my system crashed shortly after that due to an     
>      unrelated problem and I lost everything!) it seemed to have done the     
>      trick.  I think it got rid of the error.  I am hoping to get someone to  
>      fill in the 'x' 's above.  I'm using a PS/2 model 55.  I would greatly   
>      appreciate it if someone could help me.  Any other suggestions on this   
>      problem would also be appreciated.                                       
>                                                                               
>                                                thanks a lot!                  
>                                                                               
>                                                       Paul                    
>                                                                               
>      p.s. A reply to this group is fine or email at:                          
>                                                                               
>                                    prpst2@unix.cis.pitt.edu                   
>                                                                               
How about MCADMA=off in ~386enh
Mike Long                                                                       
Iowa State University
From: prpst2+@pitt.edu (Paul R Perdeus)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.ps2.hardware
Subject: MCA bus problem
Date: 27 Aug 92 20:30:15 GMT
Organization: University of Pittsburgh
Originator: prpst2@pmax1.cis.pitt.edu

Hello all,

      I'm sorry for the cross posts, but I can't remember where I got the
      answer from the first time!  A month or so ago I wrote in about a
      problem with Win3.1 and WFW 2.0.  One of the problems I was having
      was that any time I would run the dos prompt or any dos application
      I would get the following message:

                                  System Error

                   Microchannel bus timeout error detected.
                   System halted...

      I posted this (along with other problems) to these newsgroups and one
      of the responses I got told me to put a line in my win.ini or system.ini
      files that said something about MCAxxxxx=off or something like that.
      From what I remember (my system crashed shortly after that due to an
      unrelated problem and I lost everything!) it seemed to have done the
      trick.  I think it got rid of the error.  I am hoping to get someone to
      fill in the 'x' 's above.  I'm using a PS/2 model 55.  I would greatly
      appreciate it if someone could help me.  Any other suggestions on this
      problem would also be appreciated.

                                                thanks a lot!

                                                       Paul

      p.s. A reply to this group is fine or email at:

                                    prpst2@unix.cis.pitt.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.hardware,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,misc.wanted
From: joet@dcatlas.dot.gov (Joe Trott)
Subject: Re: Wanted: handheld data entry device, download data to PC
Organization: U.S Dept. of Transportation
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 19:34:54 GMT

youngqd@atlantis.CS.ORST.EDU (Dean Youngquist) writes:

>I have a friend who, not having a notebook computer, needs some sort of
>handheld portable data entry device.  The idea is to carry it around and
>enter inventory, text and numeric values.  Later he would take the unit
>back to the desk-top pc and download data through an infra-red link or 
>through the serial port.

>It would also be great if the device could accept data both by manual keypad
>entry and by bar-code input.

>I think there may be such thing already on the market.  Please email to
>me if you know of any.

There are loads of these things on the market; dang but I cannot remember a
single name.  The Yellow Pages can probably help, under "Bar Coding", 
"Industrial Controls", "Computer...", etc.

You may have to dispense with the bar coding (or do they have an attachment?),
but something like the Casio BOSS or Sharp Wizard can be used for the rest of
it.  They have a PC interface.

-JTT
From: len@netsys.NETSYS.COM (Len Rose)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att
Subject: telnet causing 3B2/600 and 3B2/400 to crash
Keywords: telnet 3B2 crash
Date: 30 Aug 92 22:06:07 GMT
Organization: Netsys Inc.
Status: Free

Has anyone experienced incoming telnet's causing system panics? Believe it or
not, mine does.. I just proved it a few minutes ago, and am now starting the
search for answers. Oh, and it's only from certain sites, like everything in
the 128 domain :-) (oh, and it's not one machine that does it, but two.., which
are a 3B2/600 and a 3B2/400) both using the same release of WIN TCP/IP (3.0.1)

Len

 
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.att,comp.unix.solaris,comp.unix.sysv386
From: brian@ilinx.wimsey.bc.ca (Brian J. Murrell")
Subject: Re: SVR4 - initializing TERM
Organization: InterLinx Support Services Inc.
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 92 18:38:22 GMT

stanonik@nprdc.navy.mil (Ron Stanonik) writes:

>We'd like to initialize the TERM environment variable based on
>the tty port.  In bsd and sunos this can be set in /etc/ttys
>and /etc/ttytab, respectively.  In SVR4, however, ttymon
>doesn't seem to provide a way to do this.  The per-service
>config file didn't work; ie, pmadm -g -p porttag -s svctag -z conffile,
>where confile contains "assign TERM=vt100".  Any suggestions?

there is a "ttymon script" file which gets executed upon startup of the 
service for a port.  There is a separtate file for each tty in the ttymon.

on our DG system the file is /etc/saf/<your ttymon>/<tty>.

ie /etc/saf/terminals/tty02

and contains the following line

assign TERM=wy60


brian
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