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Organization: Penn State University
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 18:04:48 EST
From: <RXM40@psuvm.psu.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Help needed setting up modem...

Greetings....
I have a NeXT turbo color running NS3.0 and I would like to hook
up a modem to it so I could dial in from home.  I am fairly new to the
NeXT environment and I had heard that adding modems to them could be
tricky so I was hoping to get some assistance.  Here are the specifics:
2400 baud hayes compatible
will be dialing into this from home using WinQvt on my PS2
or I will be using kermit.

Are there any programs out there that will do compaction at 2400
baud?  The low speed is a real bummer!!  I will hopefully have a qblazer
slapped onto this in the near future but this is all I have for now.
What I am looking for here is kind of a step-by-step procedure that I
should go through with any warnings that I should be aware of.  Thanks
for your help in advance!!

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From: brueck@inm.uni-sb.de (Stefan Brueck)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: help! colorstation doesn't power up
Date: 25 Dec 92 14:07:06
Organization: Institute for New Materials (INM), Saarbr"ucken, Germany.
Distribution: comp
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hi

i have a big problem starting a nextstation color. pressing the 'power' key
on the keyboard doesn't start the system. neither the harddisk nor the fan
in the computer starts. yes the computer is connected properly with a power
cord - the monitor on the same wall socket has power and the computer was
running before and it was powered off with the 'power' key.

thanks for your answer (email preferred)
stefan

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
From: iwelch@agsm.ucla.edu (Ivo Welch)
Subject: Pixel Burnout
Organization: UCLA, Anderson Graduate School Of Management
Date: 1 Jan 93 17:13:20 PST


At least one  of the pixels on  my monitor  has  "died." It is  a clear black.
Disconcertingly, it is only slightly smaller than a period ('.') on the
screen. Is this normal? Acceptable?

/ivo welch
ivo@next.agsm.ucla.edu
From: ostertag@cs.umd.edu (Eduardo Ostertag)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Lots of NFS I/O halts my NeXT. Please help!!
Date: 27 Dec 92 16:51:40 GMT
Article-I.D.: mimsy.63068
Organization: Computer Science Dept, University of Maryland at College Park

I have a NeXTstation (non-Turbo) with NeXTSTEP 3.0, 20MB RAM,  400MB  disk.
The  NeXT is our File Server and is exporting its entire disk. This disk is
being NFS mounted from a bunch of client UNIX machines in our LAN (none  of
them  is  a  NeXT).  THE  PROBLEM:  each time I execute a shell script in a
client machine to create a big archive file (ar) in the exported  disk,  my
NeXT  either  freezes  or  enters  panic  mode.  In this last case, I get a
message in "/usr/adm/messages" that says "unexpected page fault".

Details:

The NeXT's exported disk is  being  mounted  as  "/server"  in  all  client
machines. I login to one of client machines and do the following:

	bash$ cd /server
	bash$ sh -x script

were "script" contains around 150 lines that look as follows:

	ar alv archive.a file.o

I know this could be done using one "ar"  command,  but  this  is  not  the
point.  Also,  the "l" options makes "ar" create its temporary files in the
current directory, in other words the NeXT NFS mounted disk "/server".  The
resulting  archive  file  is  close  to  2MB in size. THE RESULT: somewhere
around the middle of the script my NeXT freezes or enters panic mode.

I would appreciate any help in this matter,

-Eduardo Ostertag (ostertag@drinkme.cs.umd.edu)
From: bohlkejh@nextwork.rose-hulman.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Block size on Seagate 406M
Date: 2 Jan 1993 23:36:48 GMT
Organization: Computer Science Department at Rose-Hulman
Reply-To: bohlkejh@nextwork.rose-hulman.edu
NNTP-Posting-Host: manager.nextwork.rose-hulman.edu

Ok,
   I saw some posts on how to format a Fujitsu disk at 1024 bytes/sec.  Has  
anyone tried (or is it even possible) to do the same sort of thing on a seagate  
406M drive?  I used sense to get the page info from the disk and then modified  
it and used select (both from the scsitools) to apparently(sp) write it back to  
the disk.  When I used sense again the data was back to the default?!!!  Can  
somebody help me????

Jon
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
From: jjfeiler@relief.com (John Jay Feiler)
Subject: Re: Help with Fujitsu Hard Drive
Reply-To: jjfeiler@relief.com
Organization: relief consulting
Distribution: usa
Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 02:51:49 GMT

In article <1hvr1uINNsgv@mirror.digex.com> jimb@access.digex.com (Jim  
Brooking) writes:
> We have a Fujitsu M2652SA hard drive mounted externally on
> a cube.  The Fujitsu is 2.0 gb (unformatted), and is acting
> as a network server disk.
> 
> There is a recurring problem wherein the cube panics without
> warning.  No one needs to be logged in to the cube for the panic
> to happen.
> 
> When rebooting, fsck fails, so we run it manually.  The Fujitsu
> winds up with a ton of duplicate INodes and other problems which
> wind up causing a loss of data.
> 
> Does anyone know why this is happening?  We're running 3.0, and
> the cube is rebooted daily.  I realize the explaination is sort 
> of sparse, but it's all we can get at the moment.
> 
> Any assistance would be appreciated!  8^)

Sorry, I don't have any helpful suggestions, but misery loves company, and  
I'm having problems with the same model drive.

I can get it mounted fine, and can do simple operations, such as creating  
files, deleting files, etc.  Whenever I try to do something more, like  
copying an entire directory tree, the system hangs.  I don't get the NMI  
monitor or anything obvious, not panics, but any filesystem activity is  
completely hosed.  Funny thing is, the workspace process is still fine, and I  
can move the windows around, bring them forward, etc.  If I'm running  
KPerfMon, I can see that all disk activity has stopped, but the statistics  
keep being gathered, and the little graph keeps truckin' along.

Have you changed any of the jumper settings on your drive to get it to work?   
Perhaps there's some kind of incompatibility between NeXT's SCSI and this  
model drive.  Or maybe Fujitsu produced a flaky run of drives of this model.

If anybody has any useful suggestions, I'm all ears  (so to speak.....)

	John

> 
> Thanks
> -- 
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
From: smg@orb.com (Samuel M. Goldberger)
Subject: Re: Medium-old '030 cube upgrade question.
Organization: CR Labs - Internet Dialup Access (415-389-UNIX guest)
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 09:07:25 GMT

In article <1h8m5vINNlls@clem.handheld.com> jmd@cube.handheld.com (Jim De  
Arras) writes:
> A local owner of a '030 cube, who has not used the cube since the 1.0x days,  
> just bought the CD-ROM and Drive upgrade to 3.0.  
> 
> He can't read the CD-ROM, of course.  But he was also told his '030 could NOT  
> run 3.0, and that the cube could NOT be upgraded to an '040, either 25 or 33  
> Mhz.  
> 
> This does not ring true.  I've run 3.0 on an '030, and although it needs more  
> than 16 Meg to run well enough, it does run.  I am not aware of any problems  
> upgrading a '89 cube to an '040.  The monitor has the mike built in, so it's  
> not as old as is possible.
> 
> Any input on these claims?  He is hesitant to try to find an '040 board based  
> only on my opinion.
> 

I've likewise run 3.0 on '030 cubes; rumor hath it that there may be problems  
with the serial ports, however. I cannot confirm this, as mine work fine. It  
is, however, awfully slow. 

It is true that 25 mhz '040 boards have been discontinued, and that the 33 mhz  
boards (Turbo, so called) are available only as service parts. They are very
expensive, and neglibly faster, than the 25 mhz. Again, rumor hath it that a
faster '040 board may be in the works.

One option for your friend might be to buy a cheap Station and network it
to his cube. Then he can have the best of both worlds. Write me for more info
on the latter.
--
Samuel M. Goldberger	smg@orb.com--NeXT Mail OK
Spherical Solutions, 	47 Myrtle Avenue, Mill Valley, CA  94941
415.383.7512--voice     415.381.9556--fax
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
From: harryt@world.std.com (Harry D Tirrell)
Subject: Maxtor P0-12S
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL3
Date: Fri, 25 Dec 1992 21:21:52 GMT

Distribution: 
Summary: 
Keywords: 

Has anyone used a Maxtor P0-12S in their cube.  I have one in my
pc that I would like to move to the NeXT.

harry

harryt@world.std.com
From: jmd@cube.handheld.com (Jim De Arras)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Medium-old '030 cube upgrade question.
Date: 23 Dec 1992 03:24:47 GMT
Organization: Hand Held Products, Inc.
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: dale.handheld.com

A local owner of a '030 cube, who has not used the cube since the 1.0x days,  
just bought the CD-ROM and Drive upgrade to 3.0.  

He can't read the CD-ROM, of course.  But he was also told his '030 could NOT  
run 3.0, and that the cube could NOT be upgraded to an '040, either 25 or 33  
Mhz.  

This does not ring true.  I've run 3.0 on an '030, and although it needs more  
than 16 Meg to run well enough, it does run.  I am not aware of any problems  
upgrading a '89 cube to an '040.  The monitor has the mike built in, so it's  
not as old as is possible.

Any input on these claims?  He is hesitant to try to find an '040 board based  
only on my opinion.

And I figure I can upgrade him (he has the CD-ROM) by net-booting him on my  
network.  

Jim
jmd@handheld.com

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: wjabi@libra.arch.umich.edu (Wassim M. Jabi)
Subject: >>>HELP<<< PLEASE: Fujitsu hard disk problems
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 92 14:56:36 EST
Organization: The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Reply-To: wjabi@libra.arch.umich.edu
Distribution: usa

Hi:
I've been experiencing some trouble with my Fujitsu 520MB
external.  It happens once or twice a week. I would hear the disk
go "click, click" and then the console window will have these messages
scrolling by. Many times an alert window would come up telling me
to save documents before logging out. Any idea what is going on?

Messages:
------ cut here -----------------------------
Target 0: HARDWARE ERROR; block 0H retry 1
Target 0: NOT READY; retry 1
Target 0: NOT READY; retry 2
             .
             .
             .
Target 0: NOT READY; retry 19
sd0 (0,0): sense key:0x2  additional sense code: 0x4
    SCSI Block in error = 0 (front porch)
IO error on pagein: error = 5.
Dec 30 15:00:18 Workspace: Controller exited.
------ cut here -----------------------------
HELP!!!!!!
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
From: death@netcom.com (David Burrowes)
Subject: Modem info request
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
Distribution: usa
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 06:37:26 GMT

I'm looking at buying one of these relatively inexpensive 14400 fax/V.32[bis]
modems that I've seen advertised.  The one called the supra fax modem has 
generally looked like a good deal.
I wondered if anyone could offer any commentary (e.g. experience with
this supra fax modem) to let me know whether this is actually as good
a deal as it sounds (about $300 for the 14.4 fax and V.32 data).
I'm also sure much of this has appeared in the past on this group.  So, if
someone could let me know where to find archives, I'll turn my attention
there as well.

Thanks!

\david john burrowes

Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
From: BrianW@SoundS.WA.com (Brian Willoughby)
Subject: Pinout/signal names for the DSP SIMM module connector?
Reply-To: BrianW@SoundS.WA.com
Organization: Sound Consulting, Bellevue, WA, USA
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 07:54:23 GMT


	Does anyone have the pin-outs for the DSP SIMM module socket in the  
NeXT?  I wouldn't want to risk static damage to my CPU by probing around to try  
and find out where the address and data bits are connected if someone already  
has documentation of this.
	I'm tired of reading all of the NeXT literature and dealer spec sheets  
which brag about the capability of the DSP to be expanded to 576 KB (192 KWord)  
when there is in fact no way to purchase such memory expansion for the NeXT  
(NeXT's paltry 96 KB DSP Memory Expansion product, N7013, is really only 32  
KWords, and would be laughable if it weren't for the even smaller amount of RAM  
shipped with the standard NeXT).
	I have e-mailed NeXT directly on several occasions as well as talked on  
the phone to NeXT employees, and I was told that NeXT is too busy handling the  
legal issues of licensing with other companies to take time out to send me this  
information.  I don't know why I would need to sign a legal agreement to obtain  
information which any open hardware platform would make freely available,  
especially if said company does not have the time to draw up the legalese.
	The most recent NeXT employee that I corresponded with actually had the  
audacity to suggest that I bother some gentleman down at a California  
university (no, not Stanford) who *was* able to get the information out of  
NeXT.  Obviously, this suggestion was not met with much understanding, because  
the gentleman had no motivation to provide support for NeXT Computer.
	Well, back to my question (and off my soapbox):
	I would also find it useful to hear about current limits and timing  
constraints for the signals that are available on this SIMM socket.  Any  
signals which are directly connected to the DSP 56001 are clearly documented in  
my Motorola DSP56000 User's Manual, but I would need to know which DSP signals  
are available on which SIMM pins.
	Power supply signals and signals that are buffered inside the NeXT are  
obviously not documented elsewhere, unless someone can tell me which chips NeXT  
uses for buffering (in which case I can obtain my own documentation for the  
specific chips and go from there).

Thanks (I would really appreciate any amount of help in this matter),
-- 
Brian Willoughby	Software Design Engineer, BSEE NCSU
BrianW@SoundS.WA.com	Sound Consulting: Software Design and Development
NeXTmail welcome	- NO EMAIL SOLICITATION without prior permission
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
From: BrianW@SoundS.WA.com (Brian Willoughby)
Subject: Instructions on modifying CPU board for multi-CPU NeXTcube
Reply-To: BrianW@SoundS.WA.com
Organization: Sound Consulting, Bellevue, WA, USA
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 10:41:08 GMT


	I have heard from other UseNet folks that there was a posting (a long  
time ago) in comp.sys.next about how to modify a NeXTcube CPU board so that it  
would function in a different slot than the standard one - and also so it would  
not interfere with a second CPU board in the main position.  I believe this  
involved electrical modifications to the NeXTbus chip so that only power would  
come from the bus.  I don't believe there was any need to modify the monitor  
outputs, since the NeXTcube can handle a NeXTdimension setup with nothing  
plugged into the mono output of the main CPU (unlike the NeXTstation which  
doesn't like an open circuited monitor output).  This modified CPU board could  
then be networked to an unmodified main CPU for additional processing.
	Does anyone have a copy of this posting that they could e-mail to me?   
If not, can anyone remember when it was posted?  (perhaps I could try grep'ing  
through the comp.sys.next archives if I could narrow down the search to a  
specific time frame).

P.S.  My interest has been renewed in this hack upon pondering the possibility  
of obtaining a NeXTcube Turbo board and then modifying my original 25 MHz '040  
board to operate my Optical Disk from another slot in my NeXTdimension system.
-- 
Brian Willoughby	Software Design Engineer, BSEE NCSU
BrianW@SoundS.WA.com	Sound Consulting: Software Design and Development
NeXTmail welcome	- NO EMAIL SOLICITATION without prior permission
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
From: gmk@pegasos.ccsr.uiuc.edu (Gottfried Mayer-Kress)
Subject: IEEE Port ?
Reply-To: gmk@pegasos.ccsr.uiuc.edu (Gottfried Mayer-Kress)
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 01:49:42 GMT

Does anyone know if I can use an IEEE-488  8 bit bus parallel
transfer standard on the NeXT?
Thanks,

--
Gottfried Mayer-Kress
Center for Complex Systems Research, Department of Physics
3025 Beckman Institute, 405 N Mathews, Urbana, Il 61801
gmk@pegasos.ccsr.uiuc.edu (NeXT-Mail)
gmk@goshawk.lanl.gov, gmk@santafe.edu 
(217)-244-5877 (voice/fax modem),x8371(fax), x1994 (msg)
From: bostrov@flop.ENGR.ORST.EDU (Vareck Bostrom)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Re:  Multi Line BBS
Date: 21 Dec 92 16:32:03 GMT
Article-I.D.: flop.1h6jq3INNolm
Organization: College of Engineering, Oregon State University
NNTP-Posting-Host: flop.engr.orst.edu

In article <1992Dec20.152822.29515@wam.umd.edu> rsrodger@wam.umd.edu (Yamanari) writes:
>In article <dillon.0t21@overload.Berkeley.CA.US> dillon@overload.Berkeley.CA.US (Matthew Dillon) writes:
>>    * If you fill up the disk and the NeXT runs out of swap it crashes
>>      hard.

I keep wondering about this. My NeXTCube has never crashed though
it's run out of disk space on "/" (Same partition as the swap space)
many times. Some times I have several large Improv worksheets, Mathematica,
ImageViewer and several other things running ... vm_stat reports 
something like 20 pages free (i.e. out of real memory) and the disk is
full..df reports 101% use on /, but the machine does not crash. I keep
worrying about it because everyone has told me it would crash, but it never
does. I've got 24MB in my cube..

I have 16MB in my turbo color slab and it does crash when the disk
fills up where the swap space is. I wonder if its because the slab
runns 3.0 and the cube runs 2.1 , or because the cube has 24 MB real 
while the slab has only 16 MB, or what.


>>    * No resource limits (NeXT ignores everything but the stack size limit)
>>    * No process/thread limits
>	  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^
>
>	Surely you jest.  Surely, certainly, the OS of the future is
>	not so threadbare that it lacks features that most versions
>	of UNIX have these days..?
>

Well, i have noticed the quota system missing from the NeXT..and while it might
be nice for a BBS machine, I have never missed the process / thread limits
so common to the rest of the world. I hate the "csh: fork failed" that I
get on our HP's every time a big assignment is due and I try to fire up
emacs, cc, or anything. 

I can live without a BBS system for the NeXT for a while...who cares?
ftp seems to work pretty well. 

What I would REALLY like for the next is a good communications program
(kinda free, like so many of the PC world) that includes ZModem.

'I have tried IComm but it kinda takes over the machine, and I hate that.
I know there are comm programs that cost money out there but ...sigh.
I like going down to the local "HardWare Shop" , pointing at a 
Supra 14.4 modem and having a NeXT flow control cable and _NeXT_ 
communication software included. This MAC software that came with the
modem doesn't work well with NeXTs (or at all, in fact) .

I'm one of those people who hates mail order and must HAVE IT TODAY, and
NeXT software is simply not that available yet. Oh Well. 

Stick with our machines, guys..someday......

-Vareck
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
From: eric@whyanext.com (Eric Schwartz)
Subject: CD-ROM drives that work with the NeXTstation?
Reply-To: eric@whyanext.com (Eric Schwartz)
Organization: Portal Communications Company
Distribution: portal
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 07:31:42 GMT

Can someone please point me out to documented conclusions of the CD ROM drive  
compatibility issues relevant for NeXT users?  I frequently read this  
newsgroup, but can't keep track of that level of detail by default.

Thanks,

Eric
--
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eric@WhyaNeXT.com (NeXTmail spoken here)
work )408( 279-7191
FAX  )408( 279-7167

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
From: dnp@phragmen.mit.edu (Dan Port)
Subject: Cube Route has floppy drives
Organization: MIT Department of Mathematics
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 92 21:13:34 GMT

The Cube Route, Inc. has floppy drives both internal and external and
they're reasonably priced. Call them at 1-800-CUBE-RTE. Also they have
low prices on ready to go hard drives, tape drives, DAT, optical etc.
They will meet anyones price and still offer custom service (optimization
and extended testing).










Disclaimer: I do their techinal support, so I may be biased!
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
From: BrianW@SoundS.WA.com (Brian Willoughby)
Subject: Re: Instructions on modifying CPU board for multi-CPU NeXTcube
Reply-To: BrianW@SoundS.WA.com
Organization: Sound Consulting, Bellevue, WA, USA
Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 02:38:18 GMT

Brian Willoughby writes
| 
| 	Does anyone have a copy of this posting that they could e-mail to me?   

Got it, thanks!
-- 
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BrianW@SoundS.WA.com	Sound Consulting: Software Design and Development
NeXTmail welcome	- NO EMAIL SOLICITATION without prior permission
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
From: paul@seer.demon.co.uk (Paul Lynch)
Subject: Monitor Cables
Organization: P & L Systems
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 23:16:21 GMT

Robert Nicholson, once of Australia, and now resident in the UK, has asked  
me to post a plea for him.

After the saga of his broken monitor, he now has a NeXT station with no  
monitor, and a third party monitor on order.  He desparately needs a  
monitor cable; NeXT quote three weeks to find one for him, but he is  
NeXTless now.

Can anyone suggest a UK source for one of these cables, or (better)  
describe the connections he will need to make to get one made?

Please mail, I will pass on suggestions, and, if appropriate, summarize.

Thanks,

Paul
-- 
Paul Lynch
P & L Systems                   (NeXTmail) paul@seer.demon.co.uk
Tel: (0494)671501                      paull@cix.compulink.co.uk
Fax: (0494)680228                       76711.451@compuserve.com
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