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From: nshah@acs.bu.edu (Nimesh Shah)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: GW2000 , ATI ULTRA PRO and Autocad
Date: 28 Jan 93 02:29:21 GMT
Organization: Boston University, Boston, MA, USA
Originator: nshah@acs.bu.edu

I have a Gateway 2000 486/dx33 local bus.  I have the ATI Graphics Ultra Pro
card and Autocad.  I am trying to load the DLX Autocad drivers.  After I do, and then configure the display in ACAD, it says 'display driver' not found at interrupt 07.  I have contacted GW, ATI, and DLX tech supports, all of whom blame each other.  I am frustrated because I just blew $600 for a graphics card that won't do ACAD (which is why i bought it)!!! 
If anyone has any suggestions, PLEASE help me.  email @ nshah@acs.bu.edu.
Also, I have a sounblaster pro at int. 2.  The computer has 4MB of ram, and am using EMM386 with noems set on for windows.     Thanks.  Nimesh Shah

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From: morgan@dl5000.bc.edu (Morgan Stair)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy,comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32,comp.os.os2.advocacy,comp.os.os2.programmer,comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: local bus hard disk
Date: 25 Jan 93 21:41:29 GMT
Distribution: all
Organization: Institute for Space Research, Boston College


>First of all, bus master DMA on the ISA bus (which is a local bus, just
>for the 286 instead of the 486) _will_ prevent the CPU from accessing
>main memory. The big deal about having a faster bus is that on a hard
>drive transfer (for example) instead of the CPU grinding to a halt
>(because the bus is being used to capacity) it may still run at
>80% of peak performance. This is a big deal if you're using a
>multitasking OS like OS/2 or whatever.
>
>Dan

  This message has been cross-posted to some of the comp.os... groups
because I'd like to know whether or not they are multitasking when it
comes to disk I/O.

  Okay, have I got this right?!?!?!

(1)
  VL stands for VESA LOCAL right?

(2)
  If an MS-DOS system has a very fast hard drive it still won't notice
that much speedup, if any, because the ISA bus (at 5MB/sec) outruns
just about every available drive's ability to read its media, and
MS-DOS is going to sit around and do nothing until the file has been
read anyway.

  All a VESA system will really do here is improve the performance of
the cache on a caching controller.

(3)
  The real impact of having a VL hard drive controller will be in a
multitasking operating system, but not because disk transfers will be
sped up.  When a DMA transfer is happening on an ISA (and EISA?) bus,
the CPU can't do ANY processing (even from it's cache?) because the
bus is locked.

  A VL card will help a multitasking operating system because there
are processes which are NOT waiting for disk I/O which WOULD get held
up during the slow DMA transfer from an ISA I/O card to memory.

(4)
  Windows 3.1 enhanced mode doesn't count as a REAL multitasking
operating system in this case because it will still sit around doing
nothing while it waits for its disk I/O request to finish up (?).

  Does OS/2, does Linux, does MS-Windows 32 / MS-Windows NT count as
REAL in this sense (no I'm not trying to get flamed)?

Morgan
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From: fuad@madrone.eecs.ucdavis.edu (Turnando Fuad)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: CorelSCSI
Date: 28 Jan 93 01:22:10 GMT
Reply-To: fuad@madrone.eecs.ucdavis.edu (Turnando Fuad)
Organization: CIPIC

Does anyone know of any mail order house that have a good price on CorelSCSI?

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: tsai@evax12.eng.fsu.edu
Subject: ROM for hard disk
Organization: Famu/Fsu College of Engineering
Date: 26 Jan 93 14:40:20 EST

My hard drive is Microscience H1090 (MFM).
My ROM is AMI 1986 or 1987 for NEAT (New AT then).
They are not 100% compatible.  I need a ROM for 80286-16 and
it can recognize a 7-head, 1320-cylinder, 17-sector hard disk.

Please let me know your offer.
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From: dab6@po.CWRU.Edu (Douglas A. Bell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard,news.groups
Subject: Re: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Date: 22 Jan 1993 17:19:25 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Reply-To: dab6@po.CWRU.Edu (Douglas A. Bell)
NNTP-Posting-Host: slc12.ins.cwru.edu


In a previous article, wlsmith@valve.heart.rri.uwo.ca (Wayne Smith) says:

>In article <ANKI.93Jan21212738@stekt3.oulu.fi> suopanki@phoenix.oulu.fi writes:
>>> I very much agree with you that the term "x86", does not lend it nicely to
>>> suit the description that we are looking for.  Further, as a previous poster
>>> had pointed out its a little technical in nature, and it _could_ be obscure
>>> to people, especially those who are new to the area of interest.
>>
>>> but, I somehow feel that just keeping "pc" instead of "ibm.pc" is too
>>> generic, and can be very confusing to people.
>>
>>How about "pc-clone"?  
>>There are already comp.unix.pc-clone.32bit and
>>comp.unix.pc-clone.16bit groups.
>
>I wasn't aware of those groups.  Do they focus on operating system
>discussions, or specific unix-related pc hardware?
>
>Is the "clone" in .pc-clone really needed?
>
>The existance of these .unix.pc-clone groups makes me wonder if we shouldn't
>have:
>
>comp.sys.pc.unix
>comp.sys.pc.dos
>comp.sys.pc.os/2 (?)
>comp.sys.pc.video
>comp.sys.pc.drives
>comp.sys.pc.sound

I think comp.os.msdos and comp.os.os2 take care of the dos and os2 needs.
Unix has it's own areas.


comp.sys.pc.video
comp.sys.pc.audio
comp.sys.pc.drives
comp.sys.pc.systems   <- to discuss PC vendors 
comp.sys.pc.misc
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From: scst74@csc.liv.ac.uk (Mr. D.W.F. Liu)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Thanks for the UNIX info.
Date: 22 Jan 93 09:57:11 GMT
Organization: Computer Science, Liverpool University

Hi,
	Just like to say thanks for all the info. I got from the netters.

				Seeya.

++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
+                        From The Dude called Denby.                       +
+          In an infinite universe there are infinite possibilities        +
+                 scst74@uk.ac.liverpool.compsci is just one.              +
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.os.linux,comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32,comp.os.os2.programmer
From: mtichy@fraser.sfu.ca (Martin Tichy)
Subject: Re: SCSI Transfer Rates ??
Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
Distribution: all
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 18:38:57 GMT

>   I never put together that VL cards lock up the local bus to do
> their transfers, whereas DMA transfers to/from an ISA card DON'T!!
> Is this
 
I don't totally get this either.  If one of your peripherals 
on an ISA bus is doing a DMA transfer, what is CPU going to do 
anyways?  I could probably talk to another peripheral but I 
don't see it talking with the memory because of the DMA 
transfer?  And as far as I know, ISA doesn't support 
multi-plexing.  Other than that the only thing I can imagine 
the CPU doing is working from it's RAM cache.
 
Now, what's to stop the CPU from talking to it's cache or 
another peripheral on the bus while a VL-BUS is doing a DMA 
transfer?

I'm assuming we're all using pre-emptive, multi-thread, multi-tasking
os' of course.


Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: tdbear@dvorak.amd.com (Thomas D. Barrett)
Subject: Re: What is a P23T processor?
Organization: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.; Austin, Texas
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 93 19:22:52 GMT

In article <C1BL4o.HBD@n3dmc.svr.md.us> johnl@n3dmc.svr.md.us (John Limpert) writes:
>Thomas D. Barrett (tdbear@dvorak.amd.com) wrote:
>My 486DX-33 motherboard has jumpers for 486, P23N and P23.  Any idea what
>the P23N might be?

Hmmm... I'm (almost) willing to bet that the P23N is the 486sx and the
P23 is the 487 (or visa versa).  Anyone else know?

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From: mcdermj@leela.CS.ORST.EDU (Jeremy Mcdermond)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Request for Commentary:  486DX50 system
Date: 27 Jan 1993 06:10:53 -0800
Organization: OSU CS Outreach Services, Corvallis, Oregon
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: leela.cs.orst.edu

	I am getting ready to purchase a new PC clone system that I intend to
put together from component parts.  I would just like to throw my ideas out to
the net for comments on the luck that other users have had with some of these
components.  This system will be used with UNIX, MS-DOS, and MS Windows.  I
thank all of you in advance for any replies I might receive.

	- 486DX-50 EISA Motherboard with at least 16 Mb memory (256Kb cache)
	- Diamond Stealth VRAM
	- American Megatrends Caching EISA SCSI Controller
	- Nanao T660i Monitor
	- WREN ~600 Mb SCSI Hard Drive
	- NEC MultiSpin SCSI CD-ROM Drive
	- 5.25/3.5 Floppy, MultiFunction card for Floppy/Serial/Parallel/Game
	- Some sort of Video Editing card (open for comment)
	- SoundBlaster Pro
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: kotsines@ucsu.Colorado.EDU (Tom Kotsines)
Subject: Re: Diamond Stealth VRAM.  VESA?
Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 06:22:46 GMT

In article <1k49hqINNsj0@hpscit.sc.hp.com> matthias@nsr.hp.com (Matthias Kamm) writes:
>I purchased the Diamond Stealth VRAM windows accelerator
>card before local buses became so popular.
>
>I can't find any mention in the documentation referring to
>VESA compatibility, but when I run the 'msd' program that
>comes with windows, the s/w lists the video card as VESA
>compatible.
>
>Is this detectable in software?
>

Yes.  The Stealth is 100% VESA compatible.  Thus you don't need any drivers
at all for things such as Links 386 Pro, which require VESA cards for
enhanced displays.

For the person who was confused about the "VESA" name itself....VESA has
standards for MANY things.   The VESA local bus is only one of many different
standards bearing the VESA name.

[/]
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: nmp@mfltd.co.uk (Nic Percival (x5336))
Subject: Re: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Reply-To: nmp@mfltd.co.uk
Organization: Micro Focus Ltd, Newbury, England
Distribution: mf
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 13:48:59 GMT


In article <1993Jan21.131523.10196@spider.co.uk>, michaelr@spider.co.uk (Michael S. A. Robb) writes:
> References: <1993Jan8.214658.18711@julian.uwo.ca> <1993Jan15.145024@axion.bt.co.uk>
> 
> In article <185809.1@ssr101.slac.stanford.edu>, haggart@ssr101.slac.stanford.edu writes:
> >> How about:
> >> comp.sys.x86.video
> >> comp.sys.x86.drive
> >> comp.sys.x86.hardware   (motherboard, memory, mouse, sound, keyboards,etc)
> >> 
> >> and get rid of comp.sys.ibm.pc.*
> >
> >
> >Great idea! How about one more division:    comp.sys.x86.software
> 
> Definitely a good idea! Could we add: comp.sys.x86.audio
> 
> -- 
> | Michael S. A. Robb     | Tel: +44 31 554 9424  | "..The problem with bolt-on
> | Software Engineer      | Fax: +44 31 554 0649  |  software is making sure the
> | Spider Systems Limited | E-mail:               |  bolts are the right size.."
> | Edinburgh, EH6 5NG     | michaelr@spider.co.uk |             - Anonymous

Yeah! And how about 'comp.sys.x86.jimi.hendrix.fans'.

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: megbrown@world.std.com (Meg S Brown)
Subject: Re: Need Help with Seagate Hard Drive
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1993 01:52:43 GMT

In article <C1DJBx.D2B@world.std.com> megbrown@world.std.com (Meg S Brown) writes:
>
>My computer's battery died and my computer has lost all it's CMOS information
>on my Seagate ST3120A.  I need all the specs for CMOS and I have no
>documentation.  Can anyone help me?

I received a number of e-mails giving me either the information I needed
or where I could find it.  Thank you all very much!

PS I bought a new computer and had someone else configure everything
for me including the Seagate, but I have written down the information
and put it in a safe place - just in case.

Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: rsilver@exa.cs.umn.edu (Roy M. Silvernail)
Subject: Re: Help with a Colorado Jumbo 250
Organization: University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, CSci dept.
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 05:46:21 GMT

In article <1jhdpdINNqfo@morrow.stanford.edu> salem@pangea.Stanford.EDU (Bruce Salem) writes:
>My problem is that I cannot even format a tape. Format, which takes
>two hours!, only gets 50% done and does seeks on the tape forever after
>that and past the time estimated.

I just got a Jumbo 120 this past weekend.  The software is deadly slow.

>I have a Mycom Computer with a 20 mHz 386, 387, and 4 mb ram runing DOS 3.30
>and Windows 3.1 . 

Try running with turbo off.  I have to do that or drive communication
fails.  On the other hand, the backup restored smoothly onto newly
formatted hard drives.  (I lost a controller card at the same time, and
the tape drive was a real help in the transition)

I've formatted 2 tapes so far, and neither went on the first try.  I'm
hoping there is something better in driver software available.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: kueng_j@roggwil.be.tech.ascom.ch (Jakob Kueng)
Subject: Trident VGA 8800 and Xfree86
Keywords: X, TVGA8800, Windows
Organization: Ascom Tech Ltd., CH-3018 Berne, Switzerland
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 07:13:37 GMT

Hello

is there anybody out here running Xfree86 with a Trident VGA-card ?
If there is somebody please e-mail me your Xconfig file and/or the
trick(s) you used to make it running.

Please send me a mail too if you know WHY it doesant work !!!!!!

A desesperated X-er 

Jack

e-mail : kueng_j@tech.ascom.ch
         kueng@di.epfl.ch
         kung@eurecom.cica.fr

Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: nmp@mfltd.co.uk (Nic Percival (x5336))
Subject: Dynamic RAM
Reply-To: nmp@mfltd.co.uk
Organization: Micro Focus Ltd, Newbury, England
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 11:45:41 GMT


There's been a lot of stuff on this newsgroup recently about clock cycles
etc required by 33MHz or whatever processor accessing say 70ns memory.
The assumption in all of these is that a processor with say a 20ns (50MHz)
clock will have to wait 4 clock cycles to access 70ns memory. If this
is correct then I guess PCs must employ page mode access of dynamic memory.
When I were a lad, back in the mid-80s, the access time specified on a
dynamic memory chip (lets say 150ns) was the RAS (row address select) time.
The address was (and I'm certain still is)clocked into the chip in two
halves, by RAS and CAS (column address select). The data (in a read )
would only appear on data lines some time after the CAS signal became
active. Now what I'm getting at thru all of this was the old 150ns 64K
DRAM chips actually had a full access time of about 260ns. The only way
this could be improved was if accessing a bit in the same row as the last
bit accessed, RAS could be left active, CAS made inactive, column address
changed, CAS made active. This I believe is page mode access. However
it can't be used all the time 'cos you sometimes want to use a different
row in the chip.
Is all this stuff now dealt with by memory management hardware? i.e if
row address changes during CPU execution of a program, does the MMU slap
waits on the CPU until it can get data required?? Or are all of those guys
saying '70ns memory with 20ns cpu cycle will take 4 clock cycles' talking
bollocks?.
One further point. As I said memory access time specified on a chip used
to be RAS time, and I think probably still is. As I recall (and if
I'm remembering a TI data sheet I haven't seen in 4 years correctly)
page mode memory access time is somewhat less than RAS time, so perhaps
a 70ns chip being page mode accessed could be run at 3 cycles per access?

Cheers,
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From: ecn644e@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: pc mag benchmark 7.0 is at...
Date: 28 Jan 93 00:54:49 +1100
Organization: Computer Centre, Monash University, Australia

Dear folks,

PC Mag benchmark 7.0 is at:

sony.com
/bench/dos/bench70.zip

Hope this help.

Simpson.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: harp@martha.utcc.utk.edu (harp)
Subject: Iomega Tape250 and CPbackup for windows 
Organization: University of Tennessee Computing Center
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 18:10:24 GMT


Hello all,
	I have an Iomega Tape250 drive and have been using CPbackup for windows
version 7.  With the release of PCtools version 8, I figured there would be
an update of CPbackup for windows.  Has there been one?  Who should I annoy
for upgrades?  Iomega (they bundled it with the drive) or Central Point?

Sean Harp
University of Tennessee
From: ahummel@ems.cdc.com (H. Austin Hummel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: GW2000 software upgrades
Date: 25 Jan 93 13:46:01 GMT
Reply-To: ahummel@ems.cdc.com
Organization: Empros Systems International, a division of CDC

In article <1993Jan22.210240.5937@VFL.Paramax.COM>, pastor@prc.unisys.com (Jon Pastor) writes:
|> I am talking to GW2000's add-ons people (really -- I'm on hold at the moment,
|> and listening to Roy Orbison...) about software upgrades.  They are apparently
|> ready to ship WinFax Pro 3.0 and a new version of Crosstalk, for those of you
|> who ordered the TelePath FAX/modem.  Since my system is so new, the upgrades
|> are *free*!
|> 
|> In general, we are responsible for keeping tabs on upgrades for S/W we got
|> through GW2000, so keep your noses in the Computer Mags and maybe even post
|> when you notice an upgrade announcement...  I know that this is questionable,
|> since this is comp.sys.ibm.pc.HARDWARE, but it is software that our HARDWARE
|> vendor is supplying -- maybe.  Yes, maybe.  I just got off the phone, and the
|> rep I was talking to said that she'd just been told that GW2000 carries
|> upgrades AT THEIR DISCRETION -- i.e., they're under no obligation to do so --
|> and gives free upgrades on the same basis.  I'll have to wait 5-6 WEEKS for
|> the free WinFax and Crosstalk upgrades (unless I successfully sweet-talked
|> the add-on rep), but they will be free.  
|> 
|> For S/W that GW2000 chooses not to supply, you contact the vendor, and tell
|> them that your S/W is licensed to GW2000, and they should treat you like a
|> registered user (i.e., not charge you through the nose).
|> 
|> I think that I saw someone mention CMS tape S/W verion 3.03?  The one I got
|> was 2.0.  Also, I believe that I saw mention of DOS 6.0 due in 1Q93?

This is correct, I just received my update to Crosstalk for windows from
DCA, The manufacturer. This was the standard upgrade cost for any user
of early versions. Just tell the DCA order desk that you are upgrading
from version x.x from gateway 2000 and answer any questions.
Xref: sparky comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware:37178 comp.sys.ibm.ps2.hardware:2423
From: jc7o+@andrew.cmu.edu (Joo C. Chung)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.sys.ibm.ps2.hardware
Subject: Re: PS/2 harddrive upgrade
Date: 25 Jan 93 15:07:31 GMT
Article-I.D.: unix12.728010451.13813.0
	<1993Jan24.195937.10569@odin.diku.dk>
Organization: Junior, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA


In message <1993Jan24.195937.10569@odin.diku.dk>, 
 joker@diku.dk (Morten Christian Holmgreen) writes:
>grickett@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Gregory A Ricketts) writes:
>
>
>>My Uncle has a veterinary clinic in Waverly, Ohio.  He presently runs
>>VBOSS on a PS/2 Model 55 SX, and needs to upgrade from his present 60MB
>>harddrive to ~120MB harddrive.  I know very little about PS/2s, I don't even
>>know if this is a 286, or 386.  I have *heard* that it can be difficult to
>>upgrade a PS/2 harddrive.  My question, can this be done, and what
>>harddrives are compatible with this make of PS/2?  Thanks for any
>>information.  Greg.
>
>According to my info, this is a 16Mhz 80386XS with and IDE controller and
>2 disk-drive bays in the machine. In that case, you can buy almost any
>drive. I think the cheapest will be to buy a non-IBM drive (IBM usually
>uses Maxtor!) . It should be possible to use the existing 60
>meg drive together with a larger drive...
>
>Christian
>-- 
>M. Christian Holmgreen / joker@diku.dk / mochmch@uts.uni-c.dk
>M.Sc. student, University of Copenhagen, Dept. of Computer Science
>"Human errors can only be avoided if one can avoid the use of humans"
This is not entirely true. The hard drive controller in some of the 55sx (
(if not all) are a modified ESDI. You can't take any IDE or ESDI drive and
just stick it in. Not to mention...if you want to stick in a second drive
then you need to remove your floppy disk drive. You can replace your internal
60 MB hard disk though. There are companies that advertise internal hard disks
for PS/2s. Just flipping through some of my magazines, here are some...



	General Technics 1-800-GT-SALE-8

ok...well..couldn't find that many just browsing but there are more. Just look
in Computer Shopper.

Joo.
From: johnl@iecc.cambridge.ma.us (John R. Levine)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Can I adapt a serial mouse to a PS/2 mouse port?
Date: 25 Jan 93 22:55:51 GMT
Article-I.D.: iecc.1993Jan25.225551.3809
Organization: I.E.C.C.

I have a Logitech serial three button mouse that plugs into a serial port.
But I'd like to use the serial port for something else and there's a perfectly
good PS/2 mouse port on the motherboard.

Is it possible to adapt a serial mouse to a PS/2 port?  The voltage levels
look to be the same.  It's not clear to be whether the clocking is compatible.
Advice sought, TIA.

(I'd buy a PS/2 mouse, but none of them have three buttons.)

-- 
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