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From: ccs@u.cc.utah.edu (Charles Storer)
Subject: Re: Need advice about Bernoulli drive
Organization: University of Utah Computer Center
Distribution: usa
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 92 22:55:56 GMT

In article <1992Aug17.191738.21886@edsi.plexus.COM> lon@edsi.plexus.COM (Lon Ponschock) writes:
>
>Here is an e-mail address to contact Bernoulli.  I have used it 
>and found it helpful.
>
>==>  info@iomega.com
>
>The contact's name is Ronald Routh.
>
>-- 
More precisely, if you want to get in touch with Ron directly, send your
e-mail message to service@iomega.com or to 75300.2511@compuserve.com.
Messages sent to info@iomega.com are handled by some mail answering
software that allows you to download certain drivers as well as files
containing information about Bernoulli and other Iomega products.

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Voice: 801-778-3452      CompuServe User ID:     70744,46
Disclaimer: Views expressed here are not necessarily those of Iomega
From: forest@soda.berkeley.edu (Forest Edward Wilkinson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Can I use IRQ2??
Date: 19 Aug 1992 00:02:32 GMT
Organization: U.C. Berkeley, CS Undergraduate Association
NNTP-Posting-Host: soda.berkeley.edu

In article <1992Aug18.203129.22330@mksol.dseg.ti.com> mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539) writes:

>If you are using an ISA card to drive your CD (likely), you can use
>IRQ2.  This will be automagically remapped to IRQ9 on an AT-bus
>machine (IRQ2 is the Cascade interrupt).

What's the cascade interrupt?  (How is it different from the others, and
why is it there?)


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Forest Edward Wilkinson
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: ajb8886@ritvax.isc.rit.edu
Subject: Re: ALR Business/VEISA help needed
Reply-To: ajb8886@ritvax.isc.rit.edu
Organization: Rochester Institute of Technology
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 23:13:02 GMT

In article <s_fuller.714284837@vincent1.iastate.edu>, s_fuller@iastate.edu (Steve Fuller) writes:
>I have recently purchased a used Busines VEISA made by ALR. The
>machine is a 33 MHz 386 with an 80387. When I run Norton sysinfo
>on the machine, I get a speed rating of >>12.3<< This doesn't
>seem quite right to me as the Compaq DeskPro 386-33 rates around,
>I believe 28 or so. The machine itself is set to high speed via
>the CMOS setup, and slowing it down with the Ctrl "+" key combo
>makes it drop to 25 MHz speed and a sysinfo rating of >>2.1<<!
>
>So, in short, doesn anyone know anything about this machine and
>even better have a solution for the problem??? The only manual
>that came with the machine is the User's guide, and is about as
>not even worth the paper it's printed on. 
>
>Any help is, as allways, most appreciated.
>
>
>-- 
>---------------------=------------------------------
>Steve Fuller	     = 
>s_fuller@iastate.edu =   No witty quote here yet...
>---------------------=----------------------------
The weird thing about the old 386/33 ALR VEISA machines...
They did NOT come with an external cache (which is an optional daughtercard).
Without the cache the 386/33 basically bogs itself down to whatever
speed it can access the slow drams effectively at.

Open up the case, and next to the drive cage in front, you should see
a little card plugged into a proprietary slot with an 80386-33 on it.
There's a second proprietary slot for the optional cache card.  If the
cache card IS there, check the ALR's setup to see whether or not the cache
has been disabled.

Alex Brin
From: amodra@ucs.adelaide.edu.au (Alan Modra)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Two computers, one SCSI
Date: 14 Aug 92 13:44:32 GMT
Organization: Information Technology Division, The University of Adelaide, AUSTRALIA

From article <Bstrx8.Knu@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu>, by dny@mosque.cs.huji.ac.il (Danny Halamish):
> SCSI can connect up to 8 devices. Is it possible for more than one of them
> to be a master, I.E. can I connect two or more computers with one SCSI????

Yes.  I've used this capability many times to copy data from a hard disk
in one machine to another.  Make sure each device (and computer host adapter!)
has a different SCSI ID.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,sci.electronics
From: gerry@bluemoon.rn.com (Gerard M. Foley)
Subject: Re: What is the difference between DX and SX?
Organization: Blue Moon BBS ((614) 868-998[024])
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 92 08:53:28 EDT

ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Iskandar Taib) writes:

> In article <1992Aug15.185130.24702@wyvern.twuug.com> asoper@wyvern.twuug.com 
> >sehari@iastate.edu (Babak Sehari) writes:
> >
> >>---
> >>What is the difference between a DX and a SX specification for 386 and
> >>486?!
> 
> 
> DX = DeluXe
> SX = SuX
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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   I believe the 386SX has only eight data lines, in place of
16 in the 386DX, and 486SX has no operable mathematics coprocessor,
while 486DX has an on-chip math floating point coprocessor
equivalent to the 80387.

 This is from
     gerry@bluemoon.rn.com
who doesn't have his (or her) own obnoxious signature yet
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From: tbc@netcom.com (Mike Garvey)
Subject: Re: To Gateway, or not to Gateway.  That is the question.
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 92 05:33:24 GMT
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)
Distribution: na

It's funny that you heard a rep say that they no longer support Ultrastor
controllers, as I remember configuring at least two machines that included
Ultrastors, recently. I do agree about the comment that when you MUST have
X, you're likely to get Y with Gateway and recommend that people be
prepared to mix and match as necessary. As an example, I'm recommending
Adaptec 1542 SCSI controllers for software compatibility, and Quantum
LPS-240 SCSI drives for reliability. This often means that I order Gateways
with 80 Mb Western Digital IDE drives and transfer the software to the
Quantum. Also, I remember at least one client that wanted a Sony monitor
(1304 or 1604), or an NEC (3FGX or 4FG).

(Wanders off mumbling something about so consider the Gateway as a good
starting-point for non-trivial installations)

Be seeing you...
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From: "craig zacker" <craig.zacker@execnet.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: fastmicro; vesa
Date: 20 Aug 92 14:53:54 EST
Reply-To: "craig zacker" <craig.zacker@execnet.com>
Distribution: comp
Organization: Executive Networks Information

MR1) has anyone had any experience with FastMicro?
   I am interested because of their chip upgradability (386-40 to 
   486DX-50)

I've just ordered 2 486dx-33's and 2 486dx-50's from them.  I've dealt
with them before (though this is the first time I've bought anything
with a FastMicro label) and found their customer service staff to be
quite good.  I've never had need for tech support, but they promise
overnite shipping of replacement parts and free GE on-site service if
necessary.  They claim that all of their systems are now universally
upgradable (no special board, just replace the chip).  The only possible
drawback to their arrangement is a 15% restocking fee on returns.
Prices are very good: $1699 for the 33's and $1999 for the 50's, all
with 4 megs RAM ($120 extra for 8 megs), 170meg Conner IDE HD's, 2 floppy
drives, 1meg video card (their own Tseng-based), 126K RAM cache,
MS mouse, Windows, and DOS 5.

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: timm@cds8158.Cadence.COM (Tim Marriott)
Subject: HELP: I lost my disk
Reply-To: timm@cds8158.Cadence.COM (Tim Marriott)
Organization: Cadence Design Systems, Inc.
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 17:16:49 GMT

Resently I lost the CMOS configuration on my PC. 
I have an AMI BIOS and can not seem to figure out what
the custom disk settings were set to for my Conner 120MB disk.
I need the following information:
  # of Cylinders
  # of Heads
  # of Sectors

There are a couple of others I can't remember right now.  I think
the above information should get me going though.

Thanks in Advance

Tim
From: rcashman@ds5000.DAC.Northeastern.edu (Robert Cashman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: US Robotics Courier HST
Date: 17 Aug 92 23:14:01 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Northeastern University, Boston, MA. 02115, USA


    I have a US Robotics HST modem.  I remember hearing a year ago about a 
daughterboard which could be added to it.  The board would allow the modem to 
connect using the v.32 protocol.  Does anyone know where I could purchase one 
of those boards?  Or better yet, is there a v.32bis upgrade?  I took the modem
apart to see where the board would go.  I'm not too sure if my modem really
supports the board.  There is not a socket for it like I imagined from the
descriptions of the daughterboard.  I would assume that it should be soldered
into the holes available for it on the modem's circuit board.  Also there
aren't many foil connections from the daughterboard's pin outs to the rest
of the modem's circuitry.  Is there a better way to confirm if my modem is
capable of the upgrade?  Any information about upgrading my HST would be
greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
  Bob Cashman.

rcashman@lynx.northeastern.edu
cashman@ll.mit.edu
From: Ed_Lee@mindlink.bc.ca (Ed Lee)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: How to setup HD in CMOS?
Date: 18 Aug 92 18:59:00 GMT
Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
Distribution: world

How to setup HD in CMOS?

I installed a 130MB IDE HD in my 386DX-20 system. The Pheonix BIOS on
Mother Board does not provide a user defined HD type. Dose anybody
know how to:
        1. Write HD parameters into CMOS directly?
           I heard DEBUG may work. But I need CMOS RAM mapping address,
           format, and method to write cylinders, heads, sectors etc.
        2. Is there any way to get user defined type in Pheonix BIOS 1.1?
        3. other better method to get full 130MB useage?

Please reply to this E-mail address or this news group. Thanks in advance.
                                                Yale
From: tima@hls.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Microsoft's soundcard
Date: 13 Aug 92 02:01:07 GMT



I just read an article in a local computer newsletter (_Bay Area Computer
Currents_ August 11,1992) which made reference to a sound card which is
being designed by Microsoft. The article states that it will be a 16-bit
card will have its own dsp.

Has any heard of this card or have more details ?

Tim
tima@hls.com
From: bgraham@yoda.wsu.edu (Brooks Graham )
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: ADIC Tape Drive
Date: 12 Aug 92 22:00:54 GMT
Organization: Washington State University!
Originator: bgraham@yoda.eecs.wsu.edu



I have an ADIC TD440i internal DC2000-based tape drive and have done
a bit of research on it.  It's transport is made by 3M and it is SCSI.
I have hooked it up to an Adaptec 154x controller and by using some 
low-level software, verified that it is indeed a standard SCSI device.

My question is, since ADIC hasn't supported this drive with new software
since about 1987, is there anything else out there that I can use with this
drive?  I've looked into Sytos+ and although they support lots of drives,
alas - nothing that uses an OEM 3M DC2000 transport.

Features that I want:  compression
                       decent speed
                       OS/2 HPFS support (would be nice though not required)

If anyone has any ideas, please respond through e-mail.  Thanks.

Brooks Graham
bgraham@yoda.eecs.wsu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: gilem@aix02.ecs.rpi.edu (Michael R. Gile)
Subject: 3 unrelated ques
Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 22:50:37 GMT

Three unrelated questions:

1)	Has anyone had any experience with Hitatchi monitors or
mitsumi CD rom drives?  I have an opporunity to get my hands on 
a smokin' 486, and these are in the package.  My only problem is 
that this 20" monitor has a .31 dot pitch

2)	Local bus: OK, who is the wise guy.  Micronics and Zeos
say there is a VESA standard, and they are following it.  Intel
says that there currently is no standard, and that there won't 
be until Jan. 93.   Many companies are complaining that there
is no standard, and since they were 1st to use local bus technology
(i.e. - gigabyte), doesn't that make it seem a bit strange that
some claim it exists already?

3)	Another problem here: local bus boosts the speed of the
bus from say 8MHz to 33MHz (about 4X)... are there any graphics
chips that are ready to handle this speed increase -- I don't 
think so!  Not yet anyway.  As an example, look at the recent 
diamond ss24x which is a technological step back using DRAM!
If we haven't yet exausted the usefulness of the ISA bus, and
definitely not the bus mastering of EISA, why do we need this
local bus confusion?

I have really had it with this local bus stuff!!!!
Does anyone have any answers!
I will definitely post the good ones.

Mike G
gilem@rpi.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: dml@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Danny M Lee)
Subject: Re: PS/2 60 hard disk information. Help!
Reply-To: Me
Organization: Columbia University
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 12:15:28 GMT

In article <1992Aug19.070021.24824@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au> sci240s@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au (Wey Jing HO) writes:
>I have a System 60 with a dead hard disk. A replacement from IBM will
>set me back for about A$3000. It is only a 40MB hard disk. The information

No possible way can _ANY_ 40 Mb hard drive cost $3000.  Is that 'A' for
Australia (probably) or American?  I think it uses an ST506 controller.
You would probably wanna buy an IDE controller for the machine and get the
much more common IDE hard drives that are out there.

>or confirmation I need is, I was told it is an ESDI hard disk. Can I just
>go out and buy an ESDI hard disk of popular makes and replace the dead
>hard disk? (This will certainly be much cheaper than getting from IBM
>direct.)
>
>Thank for any tips.
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>>Physics Dept., Monash University ( Caulfield Campus ), Melbourne, AUSTRALIA<
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: kgermann@zeos.com (Ken Germann)
Subject: Re: Is a 486-33 with 0 ws cache faster than a 486-50 with 1 ws ?
Organization: Zeos International, Ltd
Distribution: usa
Date: Sat, 22 Aug 1992 06:33:39 GMT

In article <1992Aug21.144712.26345@Warren.MENTORG.COM> stu@Warren.MENTORG.COM (Stu Brown) writes:
>From article <1992Aug16.060405.15165@ariel.ec.usf.edu>, by fevrier@sunburn.ec.usf.edu. (Ian Fevrier (EE)):
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> HELP!!!
>> I just upgraded from a 486-33 to a 486-50 and have noticed a
>> few strange things that I can't understand.
>> 
>> The 486-33  cache operated at zero wait state using 25ns
>> sram; at 33mhz that works out to 30ns per hit .
>> 
>> On the 486-50 the cache (20ns chips) operates at 1 wait
>> state. At 50mhz that's 40ns per hit ??????

The clock cycle on the motherboard is probably being split
to 25 Mhz before accessing system memory. This would be the result
of using a 33 Mhz chip set on the motherboard. Landmark 2.0 and
MIPS will show a better processor benchmark than what Norton will.
There are significant differences in benchmarks. 

>An article in Sept Computer Shopper said that some vendors were
>using 33MHz board designs and just upgrading chups to 50MHz. I would
>certainly want a board that was designed for 50MHz is I paid that
>premium. Since there is no way to verify that a vendor is doing
>this until after you've bought the board (and can't return it),
>I was really bothered by that.
>I was suprised to learn that a 486/33 was so much faster than a 386/33
>and that a 486/50 was not that much faster than a 486/33 (considering
>the >$200 price difference). 

The speed on the DX-50 needs to be check with multiple benchmarks to
get the true speed and feel for what is going on with the particular
board design. Norton SI gives an overall system index for performance.
When the motherboard clock cycle is being split to 25 mhz to access
memory you essentially have a DX2-50 except when you put on a 
50 Mhz 128k cache.

-- 
       	     
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Technical Support				support@zeos.com.
Operating Systems Group.			os@zeos.com
From: reznick@acf3.NYU.EDU (Daniel Reznick)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: DX2 50 vs. DX 50
Date: 14 Aug 92 18:29:00 GMT
Article-I.D.: acf3.54830008
Organization: New York University

I would like to knwo the difference between the 486DX2 50MHZ CPU and the
486DX 50MHZ CPU.  I know that the DX2 is a "clock doubler", and is only
50MHZ internally, but what does this mean in practical terms.  What is
"internal" and "external" operations.  If the data bus runs at 8MHZ
either way, how is the tru 50 faster?  Does the DX2 slow disk access?
Video access?  Would a DX2 50MHZ ISA machine be appropriate for a server
of any sort?  Thank you.

Daniel Reznick

OH, also, how does DX2 vs. DX and EISA vx. ISA affect multitasking in an
envirnotment like Windows?  or the promised Winddows NT or win32?

thanks
From: Ian.Munro@f341.n632.z3.fidonet.org (Ian Munro)
Sender: acsnet@csource.oz.au
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Sigma colour 400 ega
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 19:53:00 +1000

Another museum piece...

The Sigma Color 400 is a full-length 8-bit board dated 1984 Bios revision 3.6.
There is a small daughterboard marked 'AT Enhancer' dated 1985 with separate
Bios revision 2.49L.

The board operates OK in text mode but I would sure appreciate any additional
information on supported graphics modes ( I guess Win 3.1 drivers are out of the
question?!).

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: jeff@is.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp (Jeff McAffer)
Subject: PC ISDN cards?
Reply-To: jeff@is.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp
Organization: University of Tokyo, Good Times Department.
Distribution: comp
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 06:23:39 GMT


Anybody got one?  Anyone know who makes one?  I want to hook up to a
Sun which (obviously) has an ISDN board.  Email addresses would be
great.

Thanks

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From: preston@nic.cerf.net (Preston L. Bannister)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: modem question: V.32/V.32bis
Date: 18 Aug 92 09:30:32 GMT
Organization: CERFnet

In article <19745@plains.NoDak.edu> wilken@plains.NoDak.edu (Scott Wilken) writes:
>This modem uses the rockwell chipset doesnt it?  If so, you probably want to
>stay away from it..  There have been a great number of problems with V.32bis
>modems based on rockwell's design....

This is misleading.  

If you open up a modem based on the Rockwell chipset you will find two
large chips with Rockwell labels, and PROMs or ROMs from the modem
manufacturer.  Most (all?) the problems have been with the board design
or the firmware in the P/ROMs, which does _not_ come from Rockwell.

So the real question is whether the modem manufacturer using the 
Rockwell chipset (i.e. Supra, Zoom, Twincom, Hayes, Lightcom, etc.)
has done a good job...

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: gilem@aix02.ecs.rpi.edu (Michael R. Gile)
Subject: FastMicro; VESA
Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 03:54:37 GMT

I have two unrelated questions about mail order companies

1) has anyone had any experience with FastMicro?
	I am interested because of their chip upgradability (386-40 to 486DX-50)

2) does anyone know of any companies (other than Ariel) who
	are currently selling VESA local bus machines?












Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.arch
From: kgermann@zeos.com (Ken Germann)
Subject: Re: Does a 487sx shut down the 486sx??
Organization: Zeos International, Ltd
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 03:55:08 GMT

In article <IeYSMJK00Voz8Vf8ZN@andrew.cmu.edu> ks3l+@andrew.cmu.edu (Kenton Shaver) writes:
>Could anyone clear this up for me?
>I read it in some magazine, but my ECE
>friend is credulous.  Will my 487sx
>just shut the 486sx down and take over?
>
>Thanks for any replies.

The 487SX will shutdown the 486SX. 
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From: dman@netcom.com (Dallman Ross)
Subject: Re: Parallel Cable Info Needed
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 92 19:49:12 GMT
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4

I think parallel is no problem, but serial could be.

I have a 20' male-male parallel cable I'd like to sell.  $20 + shipping.

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From: ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Iskandar Taib)
Subject: Re: What is the difference between DX and SX?
Organization: Indiana University
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 20:46:46 GMT

In article <1992Aug15.185130.24702@wyvern.twuug.com> asoper@wyvern.twuug.com (Aubrey Soper) writes:
>sehari@iastate.edu (Babak Sehari) writes:
>
>>---
>>What is the difference between a DX and a SX specification for 386 and
>>486?!


DX = DeluXe
SX = SuX





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From: feustel@netcom.com (David Feustel)
Subject: Re: Serial ports with 16550 UART
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 92 23:47:38 GMT
Organization: DAFCO: OS/2 Software Support & Consulting

leonard@qiclab.scn.rain.com (Leonard Erickson) writes:

>root@mordor.com (Chris Mauritz - SysGod) writes:

>>Does anyone know of a good source for a ISA bus communication
>>port with the 16550AFN UART?  I haven't had any luck tracking
>>one down and most computer sales types don't even know what a
>>UART is.  What is the going rate for a 2 port card?  For what
>>it's worth, I'm using a 486-33 ISA machine.

>Just tell them that you need a card with the UARTs *socketed*. 
>Then buy a pair of 16550AFN chips...

I just bought today an STB 4-com serial i/o card (4 16550s on one
card) for $116 and the book "Serial Communications in C and C++
(disk included) which describes the programming of the 8530 and the
16550.
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