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From: wipeout+@CMU.EDU (Sean Michael Goller)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Pro Audio Spectrum 16/ Thoughts?
Date: 1 Jan 93 14:32:50 GMT
Article-I.D.: andrew.wfFC_ma00XQU4gkU94
Organization: Senior, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA

I'm considering purchasing a Pro Audio Spectrum 16 sound card and I've
got a couple of questions.


It's got a SCSI interface on it for connecting a CD-ROM drive. Is this
connection external, internal or does it have both? Can other SCSI
devices be connected to this as well? Could someone who has had
experience with this comment on it?

Also, are there any other TRUE 16-bit sound cards out there ith CD-ROM?
I've seen the Soundblaster pro with its "proprietary" interface (really
great selling point. NOT) but as far as I can tell it's just two
Soundblasters stuck together, and still 8-bit.

Any information would be much appreciated. 

Thanks,
    Sean.
wipeout+@cmu.edu
From: duncan@ravel.ati.com (Jim Duncan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Overextending a UPS
Date: 27 Dec 92 04:29:46 GMT
Reply-To: duncan@ravel.ati.com (Jim Duncan)
Organization: K-FOX 94.5 Classic Rock (KUFX, Gilroy-San Jose, CA)

In article <1992Dec24.162316.7109@cs.unca.edu> boyd@cs.unca.edu (Mark Boyd) writes:
>This (Jim Duncan - duncan@ravel.ati.com's post about burning BCxxx
>UPSs) seems a bit sensationalist to me, especialy the bit about the TV
>station.  Boy, I bet he was disapointed when his carefully contrived
>setup didn't actually go up in flames for the TV cameras!
>
The first of the three units (in August 1991) wouldn't stop running
self-destructively by itself. The power transformer ended up all dark
and wrinkled, and a number of parts plus the inside of the case showed
serious thermal injury.  I disconnected the battery stack and shipped
it back under warranty without seeing an ultimate conclusion.  

When the subsequent units failed, I seriously began to wonder what
would've happened if all the popping, hissing, smoke, and orange glows
were allowed to continue in our offices.  If the parking lot scene had
actually resulted in a fire, then I really thought other BC500 users
might want to know about the hazard.  As it happens, I was relieved to
see that there was lots of smoke but no fire.  In this case, there
wouldn't have been any damage except that the employees would have
surely called the fire department and caused a big scene.  

I was pleased to see that Tripplite had apparently updated the
subsequent units such that the smoky failure only goes on for a minute
or so and then just stops gracefully.  

> Perhaps Jim Duncan's problem is a manufacturing flaw
>with a particular batch? 

The 3 units appear to be from two different batches and as mentioned
above, the later two failed more gracefully than the first. 

Anyway, I find his post inflamatory ;-} and
>of questionable merit.
>
One hundred percent of a 3 unit sample failed with clouds of smoke.
Plus now I've gotten 'hey, that happened to me' e-mail.  I think
everyone just takes it for granted that they buy a UPS, and it will
silently and reliably be a white knight protecting their precious
computer and its data.  Well, reality sure hit me in the face with
clouds of smoke.

I have a Tripplite SB1000b at my feet here at home, and another at the
radio station plus two older BC750's.  I'm sure they'll be fine.
However, the new BC500 design may have a serious problem.  There isn't
a Consumer's Report UPS article yet, so all we can do is swap anecdotes
like this.  This is how the world finds out about inflamatory 1984
Pontiac Fieros, etc., etc..    

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From: saud@seas.gwu.edu (Temporary account (slc 11/19/92))
Subject: Has any one use Trouble SHouting kit by LandMark??
Organization: George Washington University
Distribution: usa
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 22:57:53 GMT


	Did any one use or have any experience with "Trouble Shouting Kit" by
Landmark?

	They advertise it as it can start any dead machine.

It sound good But the price is high ($500).


Any comments please

Thanks
Wanes


P.S. I do not read this group would be kind and send mail
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: gting@fraser.sfu.ca (Gabriel Sii Kuok Ting)
Subject: Re: The maxtor 213 meg drive is NOT 213 megs!
Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 20:37:34 GMT

s106275@ee.tut.fi (Anssi Saari) writes:


>In <lestrade.725128294@Ra.MsState.Edu> lestrade@Ra.MsState.Edu (John Patrick Lestrade) writes:

>>Well, am I he last person on earth to find this out?  My Maxtor 7213a
>>(which all of the adds list it as 213 meg drive) is only 202 megs!
>>213,000,000 is not 213 megs (213 megs=213*1024*1024)
>>Thank you, I feel better now.

>Neither is my Conner CP3204F a 212MB drive, but a 202.765625MB, even though
>Conner has advertized it as 212MB. Every drive manufacturer seems to 
>conveniently forget what a megabyte is... I guess someone started it and 
>everybody else had to follow, so people wouldn't think they get better deals
>for some drives (Wow, 10MB more for $5!!!).

I thought most manufacturers put down the UNformatted capacity of the drive?


>Is the Quantum 240LPS really a 240MB drive, by the way?

>Anssi
>-- 
>Anssi Saari s106275@ee.tut.fi                
>Tampere University of Technology 
>Finland, Europe                  
-- 
This is a sig. This is only a sig. What the heck did you think it was anyway?

Flames to /dev/null. Nonsense to gting@sfu.ca.
Merry Christmas!
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539)
Subject: Re: SCSI hard drive question
Organization: Texas Instruments Inc
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 21:08:36 GMT

In <1992Dec28.214705.9575@doug.cae.wisc.edu> keiths@cae.wisc.edu (Keith Scidmore) writes:

>In article <1992Dec28.230052.124433@zeus.calpoly.edu> jowalker@zeus.calpoly.edu (Jonathan Walker) writes:
>>Can anyone explain the advantages of a SCSI drive and controller over an
>>IDE drive and controller?
>>I have read that they actually perform worse than IDE drives. Is the
>>only advantage that you can link numerous SCSI devices together?
>>
>     There is no reason to use SCSI on your average stand-alone system.  If
>what you want is a file server or you have some special application then
>SCSI may make some sense.  The fact of the matter is that even a lowly ISA
>bus has more bandwidth than evn the fastest hard drives.  Unfortunately,
>many people confuse the external transfer rate of a hard drive (from its
>buffer or "cache" as some call it) with the internal transfer rate.  If you
>pay $50/MB for some additional memory and run a software cache you won't
>be constrained to the bus speeds, you'll save money, and have a system
>that will blow the doors of the bus bandwidth limited SCSI controllers you 
>can buy for hundreds more.  Bus mastering is only useful if you have more
>than one device that wants to do work while the other is master on the 
>bus. Few stand-alone systems can exploit this advantage.  	

Your commentary is correct, but I don't know that I'd call 33 MB/s
"bus bandwidth limited".  You have a drive that goes faster than that?
Even multiple drives running flat out (which can't happen with IDE -
one drive at a time with a maximum of 2 per controller) aren't going
to saturate a 33 MB/s bus.  

-- 
"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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From: ynecjac@cid.aes.doe.CA (Jacques Deslauriers)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Checkit / Rapid-Cad
Summary: Checkit 3.0 does not recognize Rapid-Cad chip set
Date: 28 Dec 92 14:36:46 GMT
Organization: Environment Canada (CID), Dorval, QC


   We have just upgraded a 386-33 pc using the Intel
   Rapid Cad chip set. We tested all our software and
   found no problems except with Checkit 3.0
   It hangs when executing the initial coprocessor test.
   We have tried older releases but the same thing occurs.
   Allthough this is not a major problem we would like to
   fix it since we used Checkit from time to time on that
   PC to compare it with results on other PCs.

   If anyone has a clue we would appreciate.

   Thanks

   Jacques Deslauriers
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: boyd@cs.unca.edu (Mark Boyd)
Subject: Re: Overextending a UPS
Organization: University of North Carolina at Asheville
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL3
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 16:23:16 GMT

This (Jim Duncan - duncan@ravel.ati.com's post about burning BCxxx
UPSs) seems a bit sensationalist to me, especialy the bit about the TV
station.  Boy, I bet he was disapointed when his carefully contrived
setup didn't actually go up in flames for the TV cameras!

We have a number of the Tripplite BC series ( 500s and 750s ) as well
as one 2000 watt of another Tripplite series. We've had trouble with
the 2000 (and it just came back from being repaired by Tripplite with
a note saying not to test it by pulling the plug ;-}), but none with
the BC series. Perhaps Jim Duncan's problem is a manufacturing flaw
with a particular batch?  Anyway, I find his post inflamatory ;-} and
of questionable merit.


	Mark
From: ccasted@prism.gatech.EDU (Edward Deering Boykin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: answered my own damn quetion
Date: 22 Dec 92 23:24:18 GMT
Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology

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Subject: Re: Ultrastore 34f vesa scsi controller
Distribution: git

In <78734@hydra.gatech.EDU> ccasted@prism.gatech.EDU (Edward Deering Boykin) writes:

>I am looking to buy a vesa local bus scsi controller for my Gateway 200 486/66
>vl bus computer. I can't find any advertised. I have looked in several of the
>'shopper' magazines but have had no luck,
>Could someone tell about the ultrastore model and any other good local bus
>controllers out there. I would prefer one with a cache but it is not mandantory.

>Thanks for your help

>Ed Boykin
>ccasted@prism.gatech.edu

>-- 
>BOYKIN,EDWARD D    Wanna-be Experimental Aircraft Builder Extraordinare
>Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta Georgia, 30332
>Internet: ccasted@prism.gatech.edu
>	  gt5584e@prism.gatech.edu

Well I just got the answer to my own question. Gateway 2000 is selling the
ultrastore 34f scsi-1 scsi-2 local bus controller. It is sold for
215 dollars. I guess I'll get my NEC cdr84 cd-rom dirve now too......


---
BOYKIN,EDWARD D    Wanna-be Experimental Aircraft Builder Extraordinare
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta Georgia, 30332
Internet: ccasted@prism.gatech.edu
	  gt5584e@prism.gatech.edu

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Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta Georgia, 30332
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: weiping@eng2.eng.monash.edu.au (Weiping Hu Materials)
Subject: Interlaced vs Non-interlaced monitor
Organization: Faculty of Engineering, Monash University 
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 00:20:58 GMT

Hi, all.  Maybe this is a naive questions to you, but it is not to me.  But 
what is the difference between an interlaced and a non-interlaced monitor?  
Which is better and for what reason?  A quick answer would be appreciated.

Regards,

Weiping Hu
From: Jade@qube.OCUnix.On.Ca (Jade)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: my 3.5 drive
Date: 28 Dec 92 12:02:26 GMT
Organization: The QuBE BBS

Hi all!  Just wondering if you can help me out.  My 3.5 drive doesn't seem
to be working properly.  I'll do a directory on it and it is fine, but when
I try to copy files, format, etc.  it either says something to the effect
"sector not found in drive b:" or "cannot read drive b, abort, retry, fail"
what could be the problem, it was working fine 2 weeks ago.  Someone said
that the heads may need to be realigned.......

Thankyoumuchly


-- Via DLG Pro v0.992
From: yue@grebe.Stanford.EDU (Kenneth C. Yue)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Question about serial port speed
Date: 30 Dec 92 04:26:10 GMT
Organization: Computer Science Department, Stanford University, CA, USA

In article <1992Dec29.162442.3269@spectrum.xerox.com> damouth@wrc.xerox.com writes:
>In article 29137@CSD-NewsHost.Stanford.EDU, yue@flamingo.stanford.edu (Kenneth C. Yue) writes:
>>I have a no name clone 486 with a no name multi-I/O card that includes
>>two serial ports (COM1 and COM2), one parallel port and one game port.
>>A mouse is now connected to COM1.  How do I know if I can connect a
>>high speed modem (>9600bps) to COM2?  Does every PC serial card in
>>existence support speed higher than 9600bps (e.g. 57600bps)?  If not,
>>how do I tell if mine supports higher than 9600bps?  Thanks in advance.
>>
>>Ken
>
>You can pull the cover off the computer and look at the part number on
>the UART (8850, 16450, 16550).  For your multi-IO board this may not
>work, because the UART function may be emulated inside another
>multi-purpose chip.

The UART on the I/O card has part number 82450.

>Since you have a quite new machine, you probably have at least a 16450,

It is a 25MHz 486.  I bought it in May 1991.  I wouldn't call it a new
machine. :-)  When I bought the computer, I just asked for two serial
ports, one parallel port and one game port, but didn't specify how
fast the serial ports should be.

Ken
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,comp.os.os2.advocacy,comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy
From: fox@rei.com (Fuzzy Fox)
Subject: Re: RFD: how about comp.sys.ibm.pc.advocacy?
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 21:10:55 GMT
Organization: Recognition Equipment, Inc.

sheldon@iastate.edu (Steve Sheldon) writes:

> Bah! These advocacy groups do absolutely no good.  You still get just as
>many flame wars in the regular .misc groups as ever, the only difference
>is that they're increased in size by the stupid:

> 'Take this to advocacy you bonehead'

This tactic actually does work, although perhaps not as often as you
might like.  The large number of posts in *.advocacy groups suggests
that there is some sort of need for people to talk about the subject,
and I for one would rather they talk about it there than here.

Actually a very good tactic is to post a scathing rebuttal to a post on
the subject, and be sure to insert a Followup-To: header into the
message so that the followups which are sure to follow will be directed
to the proper place, away from the useful discussion.

-- 
#ifdef TRUE        | Fuzzy Fox (a.k.a. David DeSimone)       fuzzy@netcom.com
#define  TRUE   0  |
#define  FALSE  1  |  "You have been recruited by the Star League to defend
#endif             |     the Frontier against Xur and the Kodan Armada."
From: aoki@risk.stanford.edu (ikuro aoki)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: EISA/VL-Bus combination MBs #2
Date: 21 Dec 92 17:00:32
Organization: Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA.
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: risk.stanford.edu
In-reply-to: aoki@risk.stanford.edu's message of 18 Dec 92 22:41:15

An additional information,

Hawk computers
2050 Bering Drive, San Jose, CA 95131
phone:(408)436-8999, facsimile:(408)436-9137

--
Ikuro
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: miller@cs.uiuc.edu
Subject: Info needed on HD
Keywords: type E70
Organization: Dept. of Computer Sci - University of Illinois
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 19:46:58 GMT


I'm trying to use a old disk drive out of an IBM RT. The marking on the drive
are that of IBM. The only info I have on the drive is that it is a model type
E70. What I need is all the tech info such as number of heads, number of
platters, number of sect, number of cycl, rpm, and any other info some one can 
give me.


Thanks in advance.

---Darwin Miller---
U of I  Dept of Computer Science
miller@cs.uiuc.edu

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: h8915726@hkuxb.hku.hk (Medusa)
Subject: Cirrus Logic Card Datasheet wanted
Reply-To: h8915726@hkuxa.hku.hk
Organization: University of Hong Kong
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 14:01:03 GMT

Hi,

	I'm using Cirrus logic card and wish to obtain the datasheet
	of it. i.e., which register and value to set mode, especailly
	in Hi-Color and 24 bit color mode. Thanks in advanced.

--
Medusa
University of Hong Kong
H8915726@hkuxa.hku.hk

Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: keiths@cae.wisc.edu (Keith Scidmore)
Subject: VLB Machines and Bus Mastering - AIR Motherboards
Organization: U of Wisconsin-Madison College of Engineering
Date: 2 Jan 93 08:51:52 CST

     A motherboard vendor told me that I should buy an AIR motherboard because
it is the only one they carry that has true bus mastering VLB slots.  The 
others, including the Micronics board used in the Gateway machines, don't
do bus mastering.  The ATI graphics cards for local bus are, he said, bus
mastering cards and can take advantage of the AIR board's bus mastering
capability.  My questions to all you netlanders are:

1) Is it true that the VESA VLB spec allows for non bus mastering cards?
2) Is this guy giving me a line of bull?
3) Does anyone out there know anything about AIR (Advanced Integrated Research)
   motherboards, or has anyone benched one of theses AIR VLB boards.

Thanks,

Keith R. Scidmore
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: wshu@ingrid.actel.sunnyvale.us.ca (Bill Shu)
Subject: SB-16 vs Ultra Sound
Organization: Actel Corporation
Distribution: na
Date: Sun, 27 Dec 1992 02:23:38 GMT

Hi all!! I am in the process of selecting a sound board for
my 486/33. Do someone has any information (or recommendation)
among SB-16, Gravis Ultra Sound and/or PAS-16?? I am interested
in their relative performance, software compatability and any
potential problems that are known of (eg, SCSI connections)

Thanks in advance!!

Bill
wshu@actel.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: rob@sound.demon.co.uk (Robert J Barth)
Subject: Weird server box + 18 ports ?!
Reply-To: rob@sound.demon.co.uk
Distribution: world
X-Mailer: cppnews $Revision: 1.20 $
Organization: Sound & Vision BBS (UK) 0932 252323
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 23:46:36 +0000

A THING WITH 18 PORTS IN THE BACK OF IT !!

I have a very odd machine indeed.... any ideas what it is & what it can do ?
Rough description :
Appears to be 'Genroco GE1121' but has 'BusinessTelecommunicationsServicesLtd'
stickered on it
PC-Desktop case, with:
  On the back there are 16 ports marked 0-15, these are 25-way female
  Ports 7 & 15 are blocked off with some sort of terminator.
  There are 16 LEDs, one for each port.
  Also 2 other ports, also 25-way female, one is 'Local Shutdown' one is 'Run'.
  5.25" floppy
  1/2 height hard disk, Fujitsu (the M2227D2 I just mentioned)
  Huge & loud fan, with a 2.5 amp fuse next to it.
  On the front, 2 buttons : Run/Halt, and Boot
Inside it's also quite odd -
  3 boards behind the ports, 'General Robotics Corp 1987'
  A stack-type case (25cmx30cm), with 4 slots, which have:
    floppy card,
    hard disk card,
    2mb out of 4mb (I think),
    other odd cards

I have a VT220 terminal with it, which has 2 ports:
 MAIN -> server
 AUX -> serial
   I've managed to connect a modem to this one, and call up the BBS,
   so that works !

Any ideas on how to connect the 2 things together, what comms protocols etc
greatly appreciated... or source for a manual ?

cheers
-rob-

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: mtichy@fraser.sfu.ca (Martin Tichy)
Subject: Re: VLB Machines and Bus Mastering - AIR Motherboards
Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 18:43:13 GMT

>      A motherboard vendor told me that I should buy an AIR
> motherboard because it is the only one they carry that has true bus
> mastering VLB slots.  The  others, including the Micronics board
> used in the Gateway machines, don't do bus mastering.  The ATI
> graphics cards for local bus are, he said, bus mastering cards and
> can take advantage of the AIR board's bus mastering capability.  My
> questions to all you netlanders are:
> 
> 1) Is it true that the VESA VLB spec allows for non bus mastering
> cards? 2) Is this guy giving me a line of bull?
> 3) Does anyone out there know anything about AIR (Advanced
> Integrated Research)
>    motherboards, or has anyone benched one of theses AIR VLB
> boards.
 
Sounds like a humongus pile of bull to me.  I have the 
proposed standardization goals in front of me and it says:
 
  - Full support of XGA and any other bus mastering device
  - Support for a maximum of three devices, either planar or 
    board-level, and multiple bus masters
 
Also in the Micronics VL-BUS spec sheets it says that the 
motherboard supports add-on-cards that can assume control of 
the bus.
 
I have both the ATI Ultra Pro and the UltraStor 34 installed 
in my Micronics VL-BUS motherboard.  They're both bus 
mastering devices and work fine.