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From: storm@cs.mcgill.ca (Marc WANDSCHNEIDER)
Subject: Re: Why is Maxtor 7213A so cheap???
Organization: McGill University, Montreal, Canada
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 02:18:59 GMT

In article <1992Oct13.160124.15272@ampex.com> russest@ampex.com (Steve Russell) writes:

>Noise is relative. I've found both Maxtors, 7213 and lxt200, to be extremely
>quiet drives. It should be noted that the lxt series is built from a machined
>casting and the 7213 is no where near as massive. you can barely hear
>the 7213 with the power supply fan running. you can't hear the lxt
>at all (normal office environment) and you got to kill the fan to hear
>it in a home environment.
>
>the old 7080at 84mb model tended to be a real screamer, however.

	I used to have an 80MB Seagate ST296N, which REALLY let you know when
it was working.

	I then upgraded to a Maxtor 82MB IDE Drive (don't know the model 
number, but it has the same jumper as the 7120 and is less than a year old)
and was quite shocked at how quiet it is.  

	This summer, I went out and picked me up a LXT340AT Drive, which has
gotta be the nicest thing I have had the pleasure to use in a while.  

	Only drive I've liked more are the Fujitsu 520MB SCSI Drives....

	Toodlepip!
	Marc 'em.

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From: ewadams@netcom.com (Ernest Adams)
Subject: Are 50MHz Local Bus machines a fraud?
Keywords: local bus motherboard
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1992 23:29:51 GMT

Since the VESA standard for the local bus is only 33 MHz, how can
Micronics offer a 50MHz local bus machine? Does this mean that although
there's a 50MHz 486 on board, the bus speed is still only 33MHz?
Or are there now three buses: ISA, local, and "local local"? :)

I notice that ZEOS only offers 50MHz DX2s and 66MHz DX2s on their
local bus machines (not counting 33MHz DX's), presumably for
just this reason -- the bus is still at or below 33 MHz.

Any insight would be appreciated.
From: adhir@oberon.umd.edu (Alok Dhir)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Chipsets: OPTI or SIS ? Which would you prefer ?
Date: 16 Oct 92 19:38:21 GMT
Organization: /etc/organization


>From my experience, boards based on the SIS chip set are usually faster than
>those based on OPTI, although OPTI seems to be the only chip set that offers
                               ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

>a write/back CPU cache. I have heard that the Forex chip set for 486 based
>systems is also very fast, but I have yet to see a board that uses it. The
>Forex chip set for the 386 is on the motherboard of my machine, and it is the
>fastest chip set I have seen for 386 systems so far. It also came out as the
>fastest 386 chip set in a review of the German computer magazine c't. So it 
>might well be possible that their new 486 chip set is also very fast. BTW, the
>latest issue of c't has a review of four chip sets for the 486, including OPTI
>and SIS. The SIS chip set came out ahead of the OPTI in most (or even all)
>their tests. This supports what I have found out about the two myself. The
>fastest chip in the above mentioned article was a yet to be released chip set
>from C&T. With regard to compatibility issues, I haven't heard of or experienced
>any problems with either the SIS or the OPTI chip set.
>
>Norbert
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Actually, I have a 486/50eisa with an SiS Eisa chipset with a write-back
cache...



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From: staffan@nynashamn.telesoft.se (Staffan K-E Ungsgard)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Racho Tech. SCSI-Controller
Date: 6 Oct 92 10:24:57 GMT
Organization: Telesoft Norden AB

I picked up a Rancho Technologies RT10-AT SCSI Host Adapter at
a computer swap meet some time ago. Before looking for a SCSI
disk I'd like to hear if there'e anyone out there in netland who
has had any experience in this controller. The card  is 16-bit, and
has it's own BIOS. When the card was inserted in a slot in the
computer, it reported the following at boot time:

--------------------------------------------
Racho Technologies RT10-AT SCSI Host Adapter
Quick Bios (TM) Version A1.171R
Copyright(c) 1987 Quicksilver Software Inc.

Configuration Information:
RAM Segment: 004B
code: D000
Base Port: 340
Polled I/O

Quick-Bios: Too many drives in the system; 
No SCSI Fixed disc installed.

-------------------------------------------

Pretty much info for just connecting the controller.

So is there anyone who knows what I need. A device driver in
config.sys ?  A low level formatter ? Can it be used togehter
with my Western Digital MFM-controller.

Any info would be higly appreciated.

Staffan Ungsgard
Telesoft NORDEN AB
NYNASHAMN SWEDEN
From: gb03@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (GEORGE PHILIP BLUHM)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Sweet 'P' plotter.
Date: 16 Oct 92 21:12:23 GMT
Organization: Lehigh University

In article <1992Oct15.120547.17369@news2.cis.umn.edu>, rsilver@milli.cs.umn.edu
(Roy M. Silvernail) writes:
>Somebody gave me a Sweet P plotter.  (little flatbed, takes 8.5 x 11
>paper)  How do I talk to this thing?  It has a 20-pin header plug, but I
>didn't get any docs with it.  (overstock from an OEM product)
>
>It wouldn't be a Centronics interface in disguise, would it?
>
>E-mail preferred, so I don't miss anything.
>--
>Just only $0.02 from Roy M. Silvernail
>rsilver@unity.cs.umn.edu
>roy%cybrspc@cs.umn.edu
>
Sure is.  I had one. Liked very much.  Sold for what I paid after 3 years use.
 Converted it to standard pens using a standard tape for stadler??? pens.

 Also supports HPGl ??? I thick,  it has benn 6 years

 George Bluhm AKA Phyle THEE McNAsty
From: wright@lims01.lerc.nasa.gov (Ted Wright)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Monitor Mystique: Trinitrons Not Good
Date: 8 Oct 92 12:35:14 GMT
Organization: NASA Lewis Research Center

In article <1992Oct7.173349.29790@cognos.com> faraghec@cognos.com (Chad Faragher) writes:
>From: faraghec@cognos.com (Chad Faragher)
>Subject: Re: Monitor Mystique: Trinitrons Not Good
>Date: 7 Oct 92 17:33:49 GMT

>In article <1992Oct6.213951.1@uwovax.uwo.ca> singer@uwovax.uwo.ca writes:
>>I have recently looked at a 14-inch Sony monitor, a Nec 4fG, Compac and
>>so-called Trinitron Viewsonics, and haven't seen anything among the crop that
>>was worth considering at their higher price. On the other hand, I have seen a
>>less expensive Samsung 4C (flat screen) that was slightly less and much much
>>crisper; and an Everdata I am told was made by Darius(?) which despite a price
>>half as much as the others, was a better monitor. Am I missing something in the
>>high priced Trinitrons and Necs? Most color monitors are pretty bad stuff, and
>>seem to be the second major cause for going blind. Has anybody discovered any
>>moderately priced monitor that approaches the clarity of monochrome?-- 

>Aren't ~ 90% of all picture tubes made under the name SONY TRINITRON?
>Just about every CRT device I ever cracked open had SONY written on it.
>Just like all the fridges used to be made by.. (Who?  American something..)
>As far as I know, the only reason A Trinitron would be worse than other
>brands is because of their electronics.  (I'm not saying that they actually
>are any better or worse, I'm just wondering about the origin of the
>actual hardware.)

I am pretty sure this is not true. The monitors that I _know_ to use
Trinitron tubes are different from all the other monitors we have.
The Trinitron tubes in our Sony and Seiko monitors are cylindrical
(that id, they are flat in the up-down direction). They have a much 
blacker black than the grey-ish black on most monitors. All Trinitron
tubes I have ssen have a faint grey horizontal stripe (seen on a bright 
screen) about 2/3 of the way down the screen. I find them much easier
to stare at for long periods of time. However, I don't know what a
"Trinitron Viewsonic" is, maybe they are different.

Ted Wright (wright@lims01.lerc.nasa.gov)
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From: ccasted@prism.gatech.EDU (Edward Deering Boykin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: SCSI cahing controller 16bit.
Date: 8 Oct 92 17:21:51 GMT
Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology

I have a Gateway 2000 66mhz local bus system with a local bus controller which can controll
four drives. I would like to add a scsi interface in one of my isa slots
to controll a tape backup, cd-rom and more hard dirves. What I would like
are recommendations on good brands that are of quality and reliabilty.
I would prefer a cache ability. I want this controller for my 16 bit slot NOT my local bus slot.

I would also like to know if anyone has found a mail order place to buy 16meg 36bit simms yet? Please reply with name and addresses or phone numbers.


BOYKIN,EDWARD D
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From: david@gdstech.grumman.com (David Nettles)
Subject: Re: AST SIXPAKPLUS --- What is this things??
Reply-To: david@gdstech.UUCP (David Nettles)
Organization: Grumman Data Systems-Woodbury
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 17:28:32 GMT

In article <9OCT199220135708@rosie.uh.edu> st1r8@rosie.uh.edu (Guillot, Burt J.) writes:
>My friend just bought an old computer for $3.00 (yes three dollars).  It didn't
>have a power supply, keyboard, floppy, or hard drive, but it did come with a
>AST SIXPAKPLUS (full length) card and we don't know what functions this card
>is supposed to perform.  Can someone tell me what this card is supposed to do?
>And, if anyone has a documentation for it, I'd appreicate letting me know.


I have a SIXPAKPLUS card, too (but mine is a 1/2 or 2/3 length card,
but basically what features mine supplies are as follows:

	384K RAM
	1 Parrallel Port
	1 Serial Port
	1 Game Port

I know nothing else regarding the features that it is supposed to
offer.  Also, there are at least 3 to 5 versions of it.  For
information on how to configure it call AST at 1-800-876-4AST and make
sure that you have the your card handy... they are going to ask you
for the model number... then ask away!

Their hours of operation are 7:30am-5pm Pacific Time, I believe (I
could be wrong about the closing time...)

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From: edwong@acs.nntp-read.bu.edu (Edward Wong)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: ATI ultra +
Date: 14 Oct 92 19:17:29 GMT
Distribution: comp
Organization: Boston University Information Technology Boston, MA USA

I have just ordered the new ATI graphic ultra + with 2M, I wonder when it's
gonna be shipped.  Does anyone know if it will come with any graphic
program that lets me to view pictures?  also, where can I get some 24-bit
pictures?
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From: mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Can I use a Mac SCSI disk?
Date: 14 Oct 92 20:58:28 GMT
Article-I.D.: mksol.1992Oct14.205828.478
Organization: Texas Instruments Inc

In <1992Oct14.124509.4617@engage.pko.dec.com> ervin@pinbot.enet.dec.com (Joseph James Ervin) writes:


>Path: pinbot.enet.dec.com!ervin
>Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
>Distribution: world
>Followup-To: 
>From: ervin@pinbot.enet.dec.com (Joseph James Ervin)
>Reply-To: ervin@pinbot.enet.dec.com (Joseph James Ervin)
>Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
>Subject:Can I use a SCSI disk from a Mac? 
>Keywords: 

>Hi all,

>I have an old (slow) Macintosh computer with a 105 Meg Quantum
>external drive.  The Mac is so slow that it's not of much use any
>more, but I'd love to be able to use the drive.

>Does anyone out there know whether I can stick a SCSI adapter into
>my PC and make use of the disk?

From what I've been told (I haven't done this myself), this ought to
work.  What I've been told is that the Mac requires a slightly
'brighter' SCSI drive, so it can sometimes be risky trying to go the
otehr way, but if you have a standard SCSI controller in your PC it
should be able to run a drive off a Mac just fine.

Note that I have NOT tried this, so your mileage may vary
considerably. 

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From: william@natimuk.acci.com.au (William Lo)
Subject: Re: Does the Diamond Speedstar 24x Have 1024 x 768 x 16M color drivers?
Organization: IBM Australia/ACCI 
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 01:25:26 GMT

In article <1992Oct12.202735.14320@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> shim@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Sam Shim) writes:
>Diamond released new Window 3.1 drivers on their bbs last week.  It seems
>to be a bit faster than the old drivers.
>
>-Sam-

Any kind soul out there cares to upload the new 24X 3.1 drivers to cica?
Coz I'm dying for that...

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From: damouth@wrc.xerox.com (David E. Damouth)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Monitor Mystique: Trinitrons Not Good
Date: 8 Oct 92 13:04:05 GMT
Reply-To: damouth@wrc.xerox.com
Organization: Xerox Webster Research Center

The perceived quality of the monitor has as much to do with the quality
of the electronics as with the tube itself.  Take a look at the
(expensive) 19" Sony Trinitron on a new Sun Sparc workstation.  The
spots are small and crisp.  They provide convergence controls on the
front the the cabinet, but in twiddling with them, I've never been able
to improve on the automatic setting, which is near-perfect, even in the
corners of the tube.
 

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard
From: kgermann@zeos.com (Ken Germann)
Subject: Re: Zeos' Support of P24T: < 100% Due to Cache Differences?
Organization: Zeos International, Ltd
Date: Wed, 07 Oct 1992 15:58:34 GMT

In article <1992Oct6.185607.14386@seq.uncwil.edu> bgoffe@seq.uncwil.edu (Bill Goffe) writes:
>In the recent thread on Zeos' new machines and their support of
>the "586SX" P24T, I was left confused on one point. As I understand
>it, the motherboard on the new machines won't support the 
>writeback mode of the P24T cache (and I presume a ROM upgrade
>wouldn't change this).

There has been no release of any information in any thread stating
that our motherboard won't support the write-back mode of the P24T.
The P24T will have full floating point and integer capabilities.
So it wouldn't be classified as an SX. The P24T is an overdrive chip
that is/will be part of the 486DX2 family of processors. It will
have a "586" core processor. This is based on the preliminary info
from Intel.

The question of which modes of the P24T our motherboard will support has
been given to OUR engineers that designed the motherboard. We will have
this information available in the near future. We designed the motherboard
from the specs that Intel gave us on the P24T.. 

>
>Thus, to really support the P24T, wouldn't the cache in the P24T
>have to have the ability to be put into writethrough mode? If it
>can't, can Zeos really claim support for the P24T?
>
>Am I missing something here?
>
The ZIF Socket and suppporting Chipsets are there for the P24T to be
supported. The P24T isn't due out until several months after the P5
is released. We have to support what we advertise. The question that is
being asked overall, How does ZEOS support the P24T? 

The answer will be available in the near future.

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From: ggeorge@bilbo.encore.com (Greg George)
Subject: Re: PARITY ERROR ????  SYSTEM HALTED (help)
Organization: Encore Computer Corp.
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 14:26:21 GMT

When this happened to me it was my soundblaster going bad.
I ran a memory test and found all kinds of parity errors.
I replaced my memory and ran the tests again, same errors.
I removed my sound blaster and the errors went away. I also
had problems reading/writing and formatting floppies in my
machine while the soundblaster was installed. Really strange
because everything ran ok for 2 mos before the soundblaster
croaked.

greg
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From: chans@cs.curtin.edu.au (Sean Chan)
Subject: 486SX-25 > 386DX-40??
Organization: Curtin University of Technology
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 13:33:21 GMT

Gidday all,
I just got myself a 486SX-25 motherboard and I've had a lot of friends
who told me that it was a huge mistake to buy one. They claimed that the
386DX-40 was faster. I have heard that the 386DX-40 is faster than a
486SX-20, but is it faster than the 25?? 

My Norton SI gave my SX-25 a 54.0. For people with 386DX-40, what sort
of results do you get (and with what cache size)?? By the way, my SX-25
has no external cache (no sockets), and it's a UMC chipset.

Sean
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From: vz22+@andrew.cmu.edu (Valdis J. Zeps)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: NEED:cylinder/sector information for FUJI FK309-39R disk drive
Date: 13 Oct 92 05:09:17 GMT
Article-I.D.: andrew.seqgdxK00WB5J0n0wv
Distribution: usa
Organization: Physics, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA

Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware: 11-Oct-92 Re:
NEED:cylinder/sector in.. by ajb8886@ritvax.isc.rit.e 
> In article <r=5-fN@engin.umich.edu>, magilla@engin.umich.edu (Reid
Doyle Erick
> son) writes:
> >Hi,
> >
> >I have a PC-XT with a 32 meg Fuji HDD that has bitten the dust.  I don't
> >have any documentation on the drive itself, but I believe that the model
> >is an FK309-39R.  If someone has information about this drive, specifically
> >the number of cylinders and sectors per track, I would appreciate the help.
> >
This isn't directly the answer to your question, rather a pointer to the
information. A fairly complete list of all manufactured hard disk drives
can be found on SIMTEL-20 (or any of the mirrors) in a file:
pd1:<msdos.dskutl>drivelst.zip

to get to simtel-20 : ftp wsmr-simtel20.army.mil and login as anonymous guest.
good luck
-valdis
From: aron@samarra.ced.berkeley.edu (aron bonar)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Stealth VRAM or Local bus
Date: 13 Oct 1992 18:59:16 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: samarra.ced.berkeley.edu

In article <vincent-091092130841@whe1mac25.berkeley.edu>, vincent@garnet (Vincent Lee) writes:

|>                                                                   I think
|> you would only need it for CAD/Cam or some intensivce graphics stuff. Any
|> messages would be most helpful. 


You're right...you really only NEED a local bus system if you are doing stuff that throws
a lot of graphics up on the screen really fast.  I do a lot of 3d modeling, animation, and
image manipulation so it definitely helps me.  But if you just want windows to run fast, get 
a windows accelorator card.  The Stealth is great for windows.  (But pretty lame for everything
else.)
From: pb@idca.tds.philips.nl (Peter Brouwer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: mylex e-mail address/e-mail reacheble contact person wanted
Date: 15 Oct 92 13:00:00 GMT
Reply-To: pb@idca.tds.philips.nl (Peter Brouwer)
Organization: Digital Equipment Enterprise B.V.,Apeldoorn,The Netherlands.

X-Disclaimer: This opinion is mine alone

I have a few questions about the LNE390 ethernet card. 
I would like to have a E-mail address of a person with knowledge about MYLEX
products.

Kind regards,


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From: hb@vpnet.chi.il.us (hank barta)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: 8 Mb RAM <-> AMI bios <-> C&T doesn't work???
Date: 16 Oct 92 03:18:01 GMT
Organization: Vpnet Public Access


I have just added 4 Mbytes of RAM to asn 80386 motherboard that
uses the AMI bios and the C&T chip set. There are no jumpers on
the motherboard to enable the memory and it appears to be enabled
in the CMOS setup. (Banks 0,1 set up as 1 Mbyte chips) However
the power on memory test stops (as it always did) at 4096. I have 
used the MS-DOS program QA-plus to modify the CMOS and that results
in a "memory size conflict" error during power up initialization.
I have examined the "Extended setup" for some reason that the
memory should not be recognized and can see no obvious problems.

The bios is dated '89. Was there a problem back then with going
over 4 Mbytes or am I missing something?

Any help would be _greatly_ appreciated.

thanks,
hank
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