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From: amerritt@dante.nmsu.edu (Angela Merritt)
Subject: Need info on 'c' library for tape backup software
Organization: New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 23:00:29 GMT

I'm looking for some information about 8mm tape backup software,
and I'm hoping someone can help!  I have an 8mm tape system on
my 486 pc using a scsi (adaptec) interface.  We are writing
some custom software on the PC and would like to incorporate
the tape backup functions into our code.  My Wish List would
ideally include software that provides the following
functions:

1.  A 'C' library of tape functions so I can operate the
    tape drive directly from my code.

2.  Some sort of standard user interface so the operator
    can do tape functions when not using the custom software.

3.  This is the catch.  The tape formats of the two functions
    above should be interchangable.

I already have some NovaStor software that does the above but
the tape format that results from the 'c' callable routines is
different from their standard canned program.  We really need
just one tape format to worry about!  Since I'm kind of new
to the world of tape backup systems I don't even know if
what I'm looking for is available.  If anyone has any information
about this I would appreciate hearing from you!

Much Thanks
Angie
(Email: amerritt@dante.nmsu.edu)
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 11:50:00 CET
From: j.schreiber@cl-hh.comlink.de (Jan Schreiber)
Reply-To: j.schreiber@cl-hh.comlink.de
Distribution: world
X-Convert: ZConnect(r) -> Z-Netz
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi
Subject: Need help on Promise Host Adapter
Organization: Freies Telekommunikations-Zentrum Hamburg e.V.
Content-Length: 585     
X-Gateway: UC xclhh [UZERCP V3.99]


Hi,

what I do have is a "DC 2040 IDE-SCSI Caching Disk Controller" from
Promise Technology Inc, San Jose. It's a wonderful board with up to 16
MB on its SIMM banks. So what I really tried is to make it work in my
386 machine, but it wouldn't, cause I don't have the DOS-driver-disk for
installation.

Now my question is whether anyone of you does have this board running
and can tell me how to install it or is even able to send me these
files.

btw: Does anyone know whether there is a German sales office or a
hotline I could contact ?

Many thanx in advance.

---
jan aus hamburg
From: lee_b@sn4902.oldham.gpsemi.com (Lee Burley)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi
Subject: Adaptec 1542 an tape Drives
Date: 8 Jan 93 09:23:23 GMT
Organization: GEC Plessey Semiconductors

Hi all,

I have a problem with my tape drive!

Could someone explain the bus on and bus off times for the 1542 pertaining to
SCSI tapes?

The tape drive is from a Sun 3 system, driven via an Emulex MT02 tape board.

I have tried GTAK100, ASPIBIN and ASPITAPE with varying degrees of success,
but they all seem to intermittently bomb out with a write error. I have
the Adaptec set up in its default state. 

I seem to remember an article about bus on/off times but I cannot remember the
details. Could anyone enlighten me???

Cheers,    Lee.
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi
From: RAICER@LSTC2VM.stortek.com (Bob Raicer)
Subject: Re: UltraStor scsi with floptical disk
Organization: StorageTek SW Engineering
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 20:54:59 GMT

In article <7721@fury.BOEING.COM>
acd@sdc.boeing.com (Alan Deehr) writes:
 
>
>I have ordered a Gateway PC with an UltraStor 34F local bus
>SCSI controller. I plan to buy a CD-ROM drive soon, and later
>get an Insite floptical (20M floppy). I would prefer not to
>use a separate SCSI controller for each device.
>
>The Insite floptical is OEM'd by many vendors including PLI
>and GrassRoots. I have phone numbers for these two companies
>and I plan to call them, but I wanted to start with the
>SCSI controller manufacturer.
>
>If you have experience with UltraStor drivers, or have their
>phone number, please send me the information.
>
>Also, I would like to connect the floptical to a Sun SPARC system. I
>have heard that Delta Microsystems has written a Sun SCSI driver for
>SyQuest 88M drives for a company called Control Concepts. Anyone have
>more info on this?
>
>
>Thanks for your help,
>
>Alan Deehr
>deehr@boeing.com
 
I have Ultrastor SCSI host adapters (both ISA and EISA), and although the
hardware is built rather well, I would not recommend them.  I guess if you
plan to run DOS exclusively (including Windows) they work ok, but be
prepared for a lot of frustration if OS/2 is in your plans.  Ultrastor still
has not released drivers for OS/2 2.0; the beta versions of their drivers
are still rather buggy.  Technical support is mostly a joke.
 
I have switched to Adaptec and am very satisfied.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Bob Raicer  (raicer@lstc2vm.stortek.com)
Storage Technology Corporation
2270 South 88th Street
Louisville, Colorado 80028-6100
(303) 673-5087
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Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi
From: apeel@munta.cs.mu.OZ.AU (Andrew Peel)
Subject: (FAQ) Has the SCSI 2 draft been accepted?
Keywords: SCSI-2
Organization: Computer Science, University of Melbourne, Australia
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 23:23:32 GMT

Hello all.

Has the SCSI-2 draft been accepted by ANSI as a standard yet? If not, is
the draft going to change at all?

Thankyou

Andrew Peel.
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Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi
From: timhu@ico.isc.com (Timothy Hu)
Subject: Re: Is there a newer version of ASW-1410 drivers for AHA1542B?
Organization: Interactive Systems Corp., Boulder CO
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 06:28:50 GMT

There is a *free* upgrade from Adaptec. It *is* on their BBS. You may
want to contact their tech support.
-- 
Timothy Hu timhu@ico.isc.com	 | The intelligence (or lack of) expressed
Interactive Systems Corporation  | above does not necessarily reflect the
Resource Solutions International | that of anyone else.
From: harald@DIALix.oz.au (Harald Reiss)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi
Subject: OMTI5400 - 1542b comms problems
Date: 11 Jan 1993 23:20:23 +0800
Organization: DIALix Services, Perth, Western Australia
NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.dialix.oz.au
Keywords: OMTI5400
X-Newsreader: NN version 6.4.19 #1

I have tried to connect an OMTI 5400 controller to the Adaptec 1542b
SCSI host adapter. Using a Cipher 540 QIC-2 60MB cartridge tape drive everything
works fine for rewind, retension and erase commands.
Connecting this configuration to BSDI/386 beta allows some successful
reads, but for writes it totally blocks the SCSI bus (i.e. access to
my harddisk) until I physically disconnect the OMTI5400 (or reboot the
system).

All commands are working, if the OMTI is connected to a good old 
SASI/SCSI system.

The OMTI 5400 talks according the SCSI specification as per 
ANSC X3T9.2/82-2, Rev. 8. The manual says, the arbitration phase, re-selection
phase and message in or out phase are not supported by the OMTI controller.
My feeling is, this could cause the problems.

Does anybody have experience with the 1542 / 5x00 combination ?
Is there any chance to get it working?
Is it possible, to configure the 1542b for the limited OMTI protocol -
or to upgrade the OMTI?

Thanks,
Harald.
From: apn@Apple.COM (Alex Novickis)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs
Subject: Re: Can a Sun/Hitachi display run RGB-HV instead of RGB-S
Date: 7 Jan 93 19:39:14 GMT
Organization: Apple Computer Inc, Cupertino, CA

In article <1993Jan05.194803.6847@chinacat.unicom.com> chip@chinacat.unicom.com (Chip Rosenthal) writes:
>I have a Hitachi HM-4119-S-AA-0 20" monitor that came on a SPARCstation
>1.  We upgraded the monitor on that system, and I'm trying to recycle
>the Hitachi onto a peecee.
>
>Unfortunately, I cannot get the display to sync up.  Whether I'm in
>8514A graphics mode or dumb VGA text mode, I just get a screenful of
>jittery colors.
>
>My hypothesis is that the monitor is setup for a four-connector RGB-S
>(composite sync signal), and the peecee adapter uses seperate vertical
>and horizontal syncs (e.g. a five-connector RGB-HV cable).
>
>There are five BNCs on the back of the display, and I'm assuming that
>fifth BNC isn't just there for looks.  Hitachi dropped me like a ton
>of bricks as soon as I said the model number and sent me over to Sun.
>Sun told me that the monitor works just fine with their products, and
>would be perfectly happy to see me throw it in the dumpster.
>
>Can anybody help?  Does my theory on the sync signals sound correct?
>If so, does anybody know if it's possible to reconfigure the monitor?
>Alternately, are there any devices that will generate the appropriate
>signals from a peecee video adapter output?
>-- 
>Chip Rosenthal  512-482-8260 | Ergonomic (adj) - Designed to ensure
>Unicom Systems Development   | maximum discomfort in left-handed people.
><chip@chinacat.Unicom.COM>   |

4119's are not made to work with the kind of slow sync freq's that PC's use
they typically run in in the 55KHZ range. And - no, you can't get to the
PC range by just tweaking the pots. The best solution is to find a special
video card that uses a higher freq. sync (non-interlaced) _or_ change
the frequencies about on the video card you have driver source for....the
other thing I've found them quite useful for is on macs with the 8.24 card
they work fine for 1152x980

-- 
Alex P. Novickis, Real Time systems demi-guru.  (W)   408-862-4541
ALINK:alex.n                                    (H)   415-691-0657
UUCP:{amdahl,claris,pyramid,sun,decwrl,well,ubvax,ames}!apn@apple.com,apn@nonvon
"I think... I think it's in my basement. Let me go upstairs and check"-Escher.
Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386,comp.periphs
From: kats@netftp.austin.ibm.com (Katiresan Rengasamy(boca))
Subject: Help Reading Boot Sector
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 00:47:43 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: IBM, Austin


    I am trying to read the boot sector from 1.44Mb floppy using NEC 
floppy controller. ( To load unix on to an intel 386/486 machine ). 
I can't use BIOS.  Is there some one who has done this already or some 
pointers where I can get some help and baisc code. If the basic sequence 
to read the first sector is available - that would be very helpful.

    I am tyring to read to the first sector in under ms-dos ( using port
io) using the BIOS logic but the floppy interrupt does not occur. Any
thoughts?

  Thanks in advance for any info.

kats

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From: davel@comtch.spk.wa.us (Dave Laird)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs
Subject: Re: Still have hard drive woes.
Date: 4 Jan 93 18:54:59 GMT
Organization: Waffle BBS at CompuTech Spokane, Washington

ah157@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Rob Henry) writes:

> 
> 
> I still get a post error when i turn on my computer and i have mmy 
> bios configured to no hard drive installed.
> Is this because the cards bios is still enabled?

Most likely. It would help, not having read any prior posts, to know 
the full scope of the problem. Will the hard drive work without the card 
BIOS enabled? What kind of a card is it? 8/16 bit? I have a fair amount 
of experience with this sort of problem, and will give you the benefit of 
my knowledge, but I need to understand the full problem.


--
davel@comtch.spk.wa.us (Dave Laird)
IEAx for lack of a better name... (509) 624-0744
Newsgroups: comp.periphs
From: ghg@en.ecn.purdue.edu (George Goble)
Subject: Re: Exabyte 8500 tape drive
Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network
Date: Sat, 9 Jan 93 13:45:59 GMT

In article <1764@airgun.wg.waii.com> denham@hmsp04.wg3.waii.com (Scott Denham X7117) writes:
>In article <2B4B2A30.13984@news.service.uci.edu> rcaslis@hydra.acs.uci.edu (Russell Caslis) writes:
>
>(text deleted) 
>>I've heard that there is a jumper inside the unit that changes which
>>mode it defaults to.  Can anyone help me find that jumper?
>
>I was told both by our in house technicians and someone who works on 8500's
>for a living that there is no such jumper. I also have the preliminary
>user's manual for the 8500 (pub 510201-000) and it makes no mention of 
>such a jumper. The information on mode select implies but does not 
>explicitly state that the mode can only be set with the SCSI MODE SELECT
>command. 
>
>

The 8500 has a serial port on it, upper right when viewed from the back.
Exabyte gives out a program, "ctsmon" or something like that, which
lets a PC talk to this port (9600 baud).  It can load/exam drive
memory, registers, load/dump its firmware and default OPTION settings.
The F/W and options are stored in EErom.  Some of the mode selects
can be defaulted on powerup.  It is also to make a "option setting"
tape, either you can make it (via above PC), or probably get one
from Exabyte.  The tape can be loaded to set new options, without a PC,
and serial cable.  For more info Contact Jim Werder @ Exabyte,
303-447-7269.
--ghg
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.printers
From: ramreddy@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Ram Reddy)
Subject: Printing to HPIIIDs on an ETHERNET LAN, with UNIX SYSV release 4.0
Keywords:  Ethernet LAN, DIRECT PRINTING, UNIX SYSV R4.0
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 22:01:23 GMT

I have a widely dispersed LAN with my servers running AT&T UNIX SYSV REL 4.0.
I want the ability to locate my HP IIId printers anywhere on the LAN and 
have the ability to print directly to it.  In the past I used parallel port
extenders - they are very flaky and unreliable to maintain.  I was excited
when I saw a product announcement from HP for a card called LAN DIRECT.  This
card is supposed to fit into the HP IIId optional slot and plug directly into
the LAN.  Unfortunately, this product did not work with UNIX.  

Does any "netter" know of any cards that fit into HP IIIds and work with UNIX
maybe via TCP/IP or something like that ? I researched this to death and
drew a blank when it came to UNIX SYSV R4.0, ethernet, and HP IIIds.
Thanks in advance for your help.
Ram Reddy.


Newsgroups: comp.periphs.printers,comp.sys.mac.wanted,misc.forsale.computers.mac,misc.forsale.computers
From: tao3144@ritvax.isc.rit.edu
Subject: LaserWriter for sale
Reply-To: tao3144@ritvax.isc.rit.edu
Organization: Rochester Institute of Technology
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 21:17:30 GMT

LaserWriter IIf for sale
Excellent condition with only 3500 pages printed
Upgraded to 8mb of memory for photograde
Fineprint image enhancement technology

Asking $1700 for printer
or 
$2000 for printer with 40mb quantum LPS scsi external font hard drive with typefaces.

Newsgroups: comp.periphs.printers
From: dave@Cigna.COM (Dave Good)
Subject: Re: HP Laserjet 4 on Sun network
Organization: Cigna FIRST - Irvine, CA
Distribution: na
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 18:32:36 GMT

In article <PETSCHE.93Jan8090530@puffin.siemens.siemens.com> petsche@puffin.siemens.siemens.com (Thomas Petsche) writes:
>
>We're looking to buy a LJ 4 with ethernet to be used from
>a network of Suns.  What kind of driver do we need and where
>can I get it?
>
>Thanks!
>
>petsche@learning.siemens.com
>--

When you order the JetDirect Ethernet card, you need to specify that it's 
for SunOS.  Then they send you a QIC tape with the drivers you need on it
and a nice installation manual as well.


-- 
David Good                                                  dave@cigna.com

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Newsgroups: comp.periphs.printers,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: scott@hpcvccl.cv.hp.com (Scott Linn)
Subject: Re: Canon BJ300 verus HP DJ500
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Company, Corvallis, Oregon USA
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 22:04:34 GMT

jjwu@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (James J Wu) writes:
: Well, I own a BJ300 and am quite surprised it it isn't advertised more heavily 
: and more popular.  I am very pleased with my Bj-300.  the reason I purchased it
: rather than a deskjet was because its more versatile.  It can use both 
: continuous feed paper and single sheet paper.  It's slightly louder than the 
: deskjet (when the print head changes direction), but not only does it take up 
: less desk space it is faster and less expensive to maintain (cheaper paper and 
: ink cartridges).

How is the paper "cheaper"?  I use standard copier paper with the DJ500, and
it works just fine.  I use the cheapest I can find.

Scott Linn
scott@hpcvccl.cv.hp.com
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.printers
From: rypma@waterloo.hp.com (Ted Rypma)
Subject: Re: Help me select a Laser/LED/Jet printer
Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 03:17:12 GMT
Organization: HP Panacom Div Waterloo ON Canada
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1.4 PL6]

Varouj Garapetian, SMCC.BDC.HW. (varouj@garp.East.Sun.COM) wrote:
: 	I am thinking of replacing my 24pin dot-matrix printer with a low-end
: ($600 or less) Laser/LED/Jet printer.
: 
: 	My first choice (being stingy :-)) was the $300 HP's DeskJet-500.
: But when I tried a demo unit, the print was a bit foggy. Is this 

I admit that I have not looked at a lot of the competition, but I've used
DeskJets for quite a while and owned one for a year or two.
I find that when the right paper (not necessarily expensive, just 'right')
is in the paper tray, and the ink cartridge isn't something that has been
refilled with some unknown grade of ink, the quality produced really is
superb - it can really be almost indistinguishable from a laser printer
with a good toner cartridge.

: 	Since I can't afford Postscript, what is the standard I should
: look for? I hear PCL, HP-IIP etc.

No matter what you get, if ghostscript has a driver for it, you can get
postscript output. ghostscript has 2 DeskJet500C drivers and a DeskJet driver.
Also, the DeskJet is popular enough that most s/w packages have DeskJet
drivers. DeskJets are PCL3. Microsoft Windows drivers and HP Windows drivers
are available, HP supplies theirs with the printer.

: 	What are the hidden costs (Cartridge etc?). How much memory
: is sufficient etc.

If you are going to use Windows printer drivers, you don't need any extra
memory - DeskJet memory is only used for soft fonts which are available from
HP and shareware firms. Many word processing packages can use soft fonts if
the right configuration is done.  Font cartridges don't need extra memory.

Ink is as cheap as you want - there is a FAQ on refilling cartridges that
appears regulary in  comp.periphs.printers. Of course you get what you pay
for - I suggest using HP ink cartridges all the time if you don't mind the
cost or refill for high volume lower-quality requirements and pop in a 
'real' cartridge when quality is important. The high capacity black ink
cartridge is probably going to set you back $20. How long it lasts will
depend entirely on how much and what kind of printing you do. I do some
printing almost every night and my kids do school projects regularly - one
high capacity cartridge lasts me up to 1/2 year. The one I'm using now has
been in since August, the one before that since April or May. In 1 1/2
years I've gone through about 2 color cartridges.

Paper can be as cheap as $2 / 500 - shop around till you find a brand that
likes the printer, then buy a bunch (keep it dry, though - I've found that
humidity does affect quality).

Regards, and happy comparing and choosing.

Ted Rypma
HP Panacom Division

(A happy DeskJet 500C user.)
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From: frampton@vicuna.ocunix.on.ca (Steve Frampton)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.printers,comp.editors,comp.text,sci.electronics,bit.listserv.word-pc
Subject: Help!  Need to interface typewriter to a PC.
Date: 7 Jan 93 16:34:12 GMT
Reply-To: frampton@vicuna.ocunix.on.ca
Followup-To: poster
Organization: Vicuna Systems, Kingston, Ontario, CANADA
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii

Hello:

First of all, sorry for the diverse cross-posting but there didn't seem
to be a specific group for "interfacing a standard typewriter to an IBM
PS/2" computer.

I am trying to interface a Smith-Corona "Memory Correct III Messenger"
typewriter to an IBM PS/2 using an RS-232 serial cable.  The typewriter
has a 9-pin female RS-232 plug on the back, to which I cable over to
the 25-pin male RS-232 COM port on the PC.

Trouble is, I am getting no response from the typewriter whatsoever.  I
have tried both WordPerfect 5.1 (Standard Typewriter as the selected
printer, set to print on COM1) and Telix 3.20 communications software 
for testing purposes.

I gave Smith-Corona a call, they claim that I would have to purchase
a "Smith-Corona Module" for about $200, and a *cable* for about $100(!!)
to transform the thing into a daisy-wheel printer.  Hmmm...I'm sure
you can get a decent daisy-wheel printer for around that price anyway!
Sounds like Smith-Corona's idea of making a quick buck.

Surely something like this can be done?  If so, what parameters would
I have to use (port speed, handshaking, parity, etc.) and/or what kind
of device (or cable pin-swapping) would I have to construct in order
to accomplish this?

Any information you can provide me in relation to this problem would be 
most appreciated.  As I unfortunately do not have read-access to any of 
these groups, please respond via e-mail.  If response dictates, I shall 
be more than happy to follow-up with a summary.

Thanks in advance!

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From: varouj@garp.East.Sun.COM (Varouj Garapetian, SMCC.BDC.HW. )
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.printers
Subject: Help me select a Laser/LED/Jet printer
Date: 8 Jan 1993 16:42:45 GMT
Organization: Sun Microsystems, Inc.  Mt. View, Ca.
Distribution: world
Reply-To: varouj@garp.East.Sun.COM (Varouj Garapetian, SMCC.BDC.HW.)
NNTP-Posting-Host: garp.east.sun.com

	I am thinking of replacing my 24pin dot-matrix printer with a low-end
($600 or less) Laser/LED/Jet printer.
	I have considered the following:
		1-  HP's DeskJet-500, for ~$300
		2-  Panasonic KX-P4410 laser printer ~$600
		3-  OKIDATA-400 LED printer ~$600

	My first choice (being stingy :-)) was the $300 HP's DeskJet-500.
But when I tried a demo unit, the print was a bit foggy. Is this 
what I can expect from a $300 printer or was it the demo unit? I would
be interested to hear from people who have used this printer.

	Also, I would like any feedback on my other choices (Like
how better/worse is a LED from a Laser, when both are advertised as
300dpi) or any other printers you may have in mind.

	Since I can't afford Postscript, what is the standard I should
look for? I hear PCL, HP-IIP etc.

	What are the hidden costs (Cartridge etc?). How much memory
is sufficient etc.

I would appriciate any and all comments/feedbacks emailed or posted.
  
  Thanks Much,
 		Var.
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Newsgroups: comp.periphs.printers
From: egharbaw@nmsu.edu (Eihab Gharbawi)
Subject: HP LaserJet 4 Windows drivers?
Organization: NMSU Computer Science
Distribution: comp.periphs.printers
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 15:18:15 GMT

Greetings,

Would anyone happen to know if there is a site to download that
driver?

Thanks

Eihab
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.printers
From: egharbaw@nmsu.edu (Eihab Gharbawi)
Subject: Re: HP IVM
Organization: NMSU Computer Science
Distribution: comp.periphs.printers
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 05:23:24 GMT

PPD files for the LJ IVM are on compuserve for the looking in hpper
forum.

eihab
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.printers