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From: eric@geoblue.gcn.uoknor.edu (Eric Pyle)
Subject: SCSI ST01 (Seagate) info.
Summary: TO DAN SCHMIDT 
Organization: Geosciences Computing Network, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK
Date: Sat, 22 Aug 1992 04:41:39 GMT

	I'm sorry Dan, I tried to reply to your message, but it
    was sent to a different Dan. Anyways, I do have a Seagate
    ST01 SCSI controller but I don't have the docs to them. If I
    get around to it, I'll bother Seagate and have them send me
    some docs for the controller. The controller has its BIOS
    information addressed at CA000. If I can somehow relocate it
    at a different address (out ot the C0000 - DFFFF range) then
    I can at last have 16bit SVGA! Hopefully it can be done via
    jumpers. If you have any information on jumpers for this
    card (BTW: it's version 1.7 if that has any significance)
    please fax them to my father (Scott Davis) at (405)325-3357.
    Thanks for all your help and time. It's greatly appreciated!!
    By the way, if I relocate the BIOS address of the card, do I
    need to have a program that will tell DOS that it has a new
    location??

						Eric Pyle

Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: bp112@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Steven C. Lin)
Subject: Re: Sudden Reboot Syndrome
Reply-To: bp112@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Steven C. Lin)
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Date: Sat, 15 Aug 92 16:35:25 GMT


In a previous article, josephk@usc.edu (Joseph Kim) says:

>To test, I left the PC on for a while in windows. No reboot.
>Then, I connected USC using modem.  It almost immediately
>rebooted.  The second time I make a connection, everything
>is fine again.  
>
>Any help will be greatly appreciated.
>
>Joseph Kim
>

Which communications program are you using??  Although I usually do not use
it, once or twice when I tried the "Terminal" applet that comes with
Windows, my system rebooted, also.  Besides, Terminal has VERY little
features!  If you are using Terminal, (or really, no matter which program
you use), I would recommend trying another communications program to see if
your problem goes away.  

Steve Lin
bp112@cleveland.freenet.edu
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Subject: Re: Bus Computers, Out of Business??
From: dec_fouts@mec.ohio.gov
Date: 14 Aug 92 10:31:42 -0400
Organization: Metrop. Educ. Council, Columbus, OH

>> Problem: I have been trying to contact the company for the past 4 days
>>          with no luck. Three of their phone numbers have been disconnected,
>>          and the 800 numbers forward to a cellular phone that does not
>>          accept incoming calls! 
>> 
>> 
>> QUESTION:
>> 
>> 	Does anyone know anything about this company? 
>> 
>> 	Bus Computer Systems
>> 	NY, NY
>> 	(800) 451-5279


>Terry,
>I visited them several years ago. They seemed to be a legit small company,
>and seemed to know their business. But in these price cutting days they
>may have gone under.

> Contact NYC Better Business Bureau.

	I called the NYC Better Business Bureau, They will not give
	any information unless a credit card number is given, or a call
	to a 900 number is made. Their charge for information is $0.95
	per min.

	I thought local company's funded the Better Business Bureaus to
	assist potential customers select reputable company's.
	
	This speaks well of the businesses in the NYC area!

	
> You might try their non-800 number: 212/627-4485 (in the ad).

	I've tried the both the 800 & non 800 numbers today, they
	ring with no answer. Oh well, so much for a first time 
	"Computer Shopper" user.

Terry


Bob Strauss 
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From: olsenc@milton.u.washington.edu (Clint Olsen)
Subject: Hardware requirements for local bus
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 00:13:58 GMT

Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.hardware
Subject: Hardware requirements for local bus
Summary: 
Followup-To: 
Distribution: world
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle
Keywords: 

Hello:

There has been a lot of commotion about this local bus and I just
wanted to get a clarification on a couple of things:

In order to take advantage of local bus, we will be investing our
money in new HD controllers and VGA cards.  What about hard drives?
I haven't opened up my box lately, but will our old hard disks work
with the new cards?  I'm thinking on the lines of whether or not we
even have a 32 bit data path on the pin connections on our current
hard drives.  It seems that would should only have 16, since that's
what most of the external controllers support.

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From: thbaca@nmsu.edu (Thomas L. Baca)
Subject: Re: 16550/82550/???
Organization: NMSU Computer Science
	<ADAMS.92Aug15001453@PDV2.pdv2.fmr.maschinenbau.th-darmstadt.de>
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 22:20:54 GMT

As I shop for a serial card with an NS16550AFN UART, I have come
across a couple which were 8-bit cards.  Please excuse my ignorance of
the subject, but shouldn't that chip be on a 16-bit card to perform
optimally?  As I understand it, (which is not well at all) the 8250
was an 8-bit chip, but the 16450 and 16550 are 16-bit chips (the 16550
having a 16 byte FIFO buffer).  So there's the cause of my confusion:
wouldn't putting the 16550 on an 8-bit card be defeating the purpose?


Thanks,

Tom Baca
thbaca@nmsu.edu
From: pdp@ariel.its.unimelb.EDU.AU (Paul Douglas Page)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: closet SCSI
Date: 20 Aug 92 11:05:01 GMT
Organization: University of Melbourne

In my closet I came across a vintage SCSI adapter called a RODIME R0650 INTERFACE, on the back it had written COPYRIGHT AMBIT PACE 1985.

Has anyone any experience with this card?

If so HOW DO YOU FORMAT A DRIVE with it ?


Thanks in advance.

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From: liats3@cspyr1.cs.adfa.oz.au (LIANG TIAN)
Subject: Re: Help! No alt.soundcards here!
Organization: Australian Defence Force Academy, Canberra, Australia
Date: Sat, 22 Aug 1992 13:56:53 GMT

jayward@rigel.cs.pdx.edu (Jay Ward) writes:


>Since my site does not get alt.soundcards (or whatever it is actually
>called), I am forced to cry to the net for either an ftp site for 
>group archives (I looked on ftp.uu.net) or an address for any 
>mailing lists that might exist.
  have you tried comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard?

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From: coombes@tcom.stc.co.uk (Philip Coombes)
Subject: OCE 6027, info wanted
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 12:53:13 +0000


I wonder if anyone can help me.

I have an OCE 6027 laser printer sitting on my desk, but have
no manuals or any kind of info for it at all.

If anyone knows anything about this printer, ie emulations etc
or even how to configure it as it has no buttons or displays
anywhere I can see, I would be most grateful for the info.

Additionally, if anyone knows a contact number for OCE, or
whoever makes these, for the UK, I would be most grateful also
as presumably they would be able to supply me with the info
required.

If you can help then please reply by email, as I'm sure no one
else is particularly interested.

Cheers,

Phil

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From: dcling@athena.mit.edu (Douglas C Ling)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Optimizing 386SX-16's for Windows
Date: 14 Aug 92 06:49:57 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Seems like offices are full of 386SXs (as I am facing a similar problem).

Memory is certainly Windows' best friend! At $30/Meg, it is probably the
best cost-beneficial solution. Setting up Smartdrv and ramdisk will definitely
improve performance.

I am also considering a co-processor. But can someone give a comparative
analysis bewteen a Cyrix, IIT, and Intel as far as improvement for Windows 3.1?
(i.e. speed gain due to improved font handling and graphics only)

Changing display is probably counter productive unless your application 
requires VGA/SVGA - then using monochrome VGA/SVGA will probably be the
way to go (for $$sake).

Good luck! 

Doug
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From: ellis@nova.gmi.edu (Stew Ellis)
Subject: Re: Help: Zenith keyboard clicks
Organization: GMI Engineering&Management Institute, Flint, MI
Distribution: usa
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 13:01:07 GMT

jorourke@ocf.berkeley.edu (Jason O'Rourke) writes:

>My Zenith 386 has a keyboard board that makes a click for every
>keystroke...a hideous feature to me.  I have not figured out 
>how to turn this feature off...anyone know?  No mention is made
>of it in the manual or the setup-monitor program.  Do I have
>to yank the speaker out of the keyboard?

>Jason O'Rourke
>jor@cea.berkeley.edu

Some computers let you adjust the keyclick with CTL-ALT-PLUS or MINUS.

It's worth a try.

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From: tagoldth@tagsun.med.utoronto.ca (Thomas A. Goldthorpe)
Subject: Prog Info Needed
Organization: University of Toronto
Date: Sun, 16 Aug 1992 21:54:37 GMT
Keywords: wd8013e, logical drive assignment

Hi,

I am looking for the following information:

Programming information for the WD8013E ethernet card (no, I can't use
the packet driver interface, it must be the hardware itself).

Information on the routines I need to write to make a logical dos disk
drive (not a block device driver, but a file system interface I can
attach my own hooks to for a logical disk drive).

If you have such information and are willing to share (electronic
format preferred, this way it is mailable) please email me at:

tagoldth@tagsun.med.utoronto.ca

Tom
From: dab6@po.CWRU.Edu (Douglas A. Bell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: speedstar 24x and scrolling fonts
Date: 14 Aug 92 15:27:14 GMT
Reply-To: dab6@po.CWRU.Edu (Douglas A. Bell)
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, (USA)




Would it be possible for someone to post some bechmarks comparing
scrolling fonts in a window for a speedstar 24x against a tseng 4000
and an s3 based video card?

I don't mind if it takes a half second to refresh the desktop, its when
I'm using a gui based editor and I have to wait for scrolling text that
annoys me.

By the way, I talked to diamond, and they said that they will be fully
supporting os/2 2.0, but they would not give me a date for video driver
availability.

Douglas Bell-
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From: brims@bnkl01.astro.ucla.edu (George Brims)
Subject: Re: To Gateway, or not to Gateway.  That is the question.
Organization: UCLA Dept of Astronomy
Date: 12 Aug 92 14:35:28 PDT

In article <4j9xs1a@rpi.edu> stronc@aix.rpi.edu (Christopher Keith Strong) writes:
>
>I've been looking at a number of the larger mail order computer places
>and I'm considering Gateway 2000.  I know that there's been a lot of talk
>about Gateway, andsome people have had problems.  
I haven't had any problems with them except that they're abysmally slow.
Long times on hold, some calls not returned necessitating more time on hold,
and so on. They have recently claimed to have put more resources into Tech
support, and I haven't needed to call since so things mightr be better. They do
sell a lot of machines so it's not surprising they're swamped.
I have more trouble with their sales force. They seem to have a reflex reaction
along the lines of:
Me: The system has to have X characteristic, is this a problem?
They: No, no problem.
Me: And it absolutely mustn't  have Y or it's of no use to me.
They: No problem, it's not like that.
Me: So can you FAX me the data sheets on the motherboard?
They: Sure, no problem.
FAX arrives, turns out there's no X, lots of Y. No sale! Annoying since they
seem to have a very good deal going on their systems these days.

George Brims
From: chbl@sbustd.rz.uni-sb.de (Christian Blum)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: 16550/82550/???
Date: 14 Aug 92 17:22:18 GMT
Organization: Studenten-Mail, Rechenzentrum Universitaet des Saarlandes

Derek (derek@dts.ine.philips.nl) asked me to post this for him:

>The 16550 is a replacement for the 16450. It is pin-compatible, and software
>written for the 16450 works fine with it. The 16550 has a 16 chars pipeline
>and the 16450 doesn't, that's the difference. Since the pipelining has
>one or two bits of control, software should be able to detect it, but
>the easiest way is something with a screwdriver and a flashlight... :-)
>Chris

(sorry I can't post)
I've had a problem recently with my supplier: they say every time they try
to order a 16550AFN, they are sent a (UMC) UM82C550. All the tests I put on
this chip (modem doctor, OS/2, and x00 fossil) insist that it is a 16550
without a buffer!

The German magazine c't (Feb 1992) says the UM82550 is a 16550 replacement,
and my supplier does too. But I can't get any of my software to see it as
buffered, which, of course, is what I need. Have you are comments. If not,
would it be too much to ask you to post the question for me?

Thanks in advance.

Greetings from the Ancient Duchy of Brabant.

Best Regards, Derek Carr
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From: danderer@chopin.udel.edu (Dave Anderer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Sierra DAC sources
Date: 18 Aug 92 23:49:33 GMT
Organization: University of Delaware


I want to purchase a Seirra DAC for my Speedstar Plus.  Diamond
will sell me one, of course, but I wonder if they're available
from other sources, perhaps quicker and cheaper.  Any
suggestions?

-- 
    Dave Anderer        danderer@brahms.udel.edu       (302) 831-8805
Instructional Technology Center, University of Delaware, Newark, De.  19716
		"Sinners can repent; stupid is forever."
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From: afgun@engin.umich.edu (Andrew F. Gunnesch)
Subject: Need information on ESDI controller
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 92 14:33:00 EDT
Organization: CAEN, University of Michigan
Summary: Want fast ESDI controller
Followup-To: poster
Keywords: ESDI

I need suggested ESDI controllers that will do the following:

1)  support >1024 cylinders (1361, to be exact)
2)  support 69 sectors/track
3)  support 14 heads
4)  talk at LEAST 20Mb/sec.

I've had suggestions of the Ultrastor 12C and 12F-24.  Also, pointers
to documentation on any suggested interface cards would be greatly
appreciated.

--andrew
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From: pss1@kepler.unh.edu (Paul S Secinaro)
Subject: Re: Hardware Cache
Organization: University of New Hampshire  -  Durham, NH
Distribution: na
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 14:43:00 GMT

In article <1992Aug14.072931.11693@u.washington.edu> newsman@milton.u.washington.edu (Chris Ricci) writes:

>I recently saw an ad for a caching IDE controler card.  It was cheap!
>($99.00) Does anyone know the advantages(Disadvantages) of these.  Are
>they any better than software caches?

I've recently had some experience with a 4MB cache on a DTC 3290HD
EISA SCSI controller.  From what I can see, it's pretty much useless.
For DOS, Smartdrv 4.0 seems to work much better.  For example - take a
large uuencoded file and try to uudecode it.  With the DTC's cache,
even with writeback enabled, the disk thrashes like crazy.  With
Smartdrv, there's very little disk activity and the operation is much
faster.  And any real OS like UNIX or OS/2 will have built-in caching.

(Does anyone out there have any experience with this controller?
Maybe I'm doing something wrong?)

Based on my experience, I'd try-before-you-buy to see if you get any
performance improvement.  One advantage is that you might save a
little DOS memory by not having to load Smartdrv.  If you're running a
32-bit OS, though, I think you'd be better off buying a non-caching
controller, and then using the money you save to buy more RAM for your
motherboard.

Paul





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From: jpl1@Ra.MsState.Edu (John Patrick Lestrade)
Subject: Re: Is the maxtor 213 meg a good buy at $470?
Organization: Mississippi State University
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 13:47:27 GMT

>In article <jpl1.713643195@Ra.MsState.Edu> jpl1@Ra.MsState.Edu (John Patrick Lestrade) writes:
>>f you have had any experience with this drive, I would appreciate
>>your feedback.  thanks
>>
>>John Patrick Lestrade, PhD                             jpl1@ra.msstate.edu

The responses I rec'd were overwhelmingly positive.  2 negatives and 13
positives.  I just ordered the drive for $459 from DC Drives
(800-872-6007)  ask for Mike.  tell him Patrick from Mississippi State
sent 'ya. 
I will also order a new controller card because mine does not have a 
"user-definable" drive type 47.  (mine is pre-defined)  But first
I will try to find a "close" type and see if I can get it to run --
with maybe the loss of a few megs.  any comments?
thanks to all those who responded.
patrick

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From: adams@pdv3.fmr.maschinenbau.th-darmstadt.de (Hans Adams)
Subject: Re: More on Local Bus - What about Unix?? S3 vs. 
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 16:31:26 GMT
	<1992Aug10.092255.118@vulcan.resmel.bhp.com.au>
	<Bss82v.LJM@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu>
	<ADAMS.92Aug13004812@PDV2.pdv2.fmr.maschinenbau.th-darmstadt.de>
	<1992Aug13.064156.2539@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE>
Organization: TH-Darmstadt

In article <1992Aug13.064156.2539@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE> roell@informatik.tu-muenchen.de (Thomas Roell) writes:

A) I regard your X11 port as one of the best available for standard
graphic adaptors in PC world ! 

>   >1) Without a coprocessor, graphic in a PC means bit manipulation by CPU.
>   >This may eat up most of the available bandwidth.

>   Yes, but in localbus designs you have the bandwidth available. And if
>   you have a simple framebuffer directly attached to the CPU it is
>   *very* fast.

.... but in no way special suited for bitmanipulation and clipping ...

>   >2) As a coprocessor allows to use protocols at a much higher level,
>   >like X or Phigs, communication overhead _shrinks_ tremendously.
>   >This has been proven with PC-graphic adapters running Xserver themselves,
>   >no CPU had to write to video memory anymore.

>   Well, then you hit another effect. The CPUs are getting faster faster
>   than the graphics chips do. Like the 34020 is about 6 MIPS, while a
>   486 is much higher (think around 20 on a 486/50). That means that the
>   main CPU is just waiting for the Graphics board the do something ...

NO! Compare current architectures to current architectures, not
outdated ones like 34020 [ >>> 20 << ]. BTW: Does not an 34c050 exist
meanwhile?

>   Another performance wall you hit is the communication between adaptor
>   and CPU. Normally they want to have all graphics requests in a special
>   format encoded, which means the 486 is quite busy to translate the
>   users requests. And not to forget you have to go over a bus, which
>   means you have to do busarbitrating (like queue polling).

Common architectures use real double ported memory or fifos to
interface client [ports] to server [engine]. No need for arbitration.
There is no special encoding necessary, as X uses a prescribed protocol 
anyway.

>
>   An approch like this will buy you much more than a highpriced special
>   Graphics board. Or why do you think are these RISCy GEs faster under X
>   than the 340x0 based boards ?
>

First, 34020s are outdated...
Second, those RISCies outperforming  free available graphic processors
employ their own property one, like
	- GSX board by SUN,
	- graphic engine and clipping pipeline by SGI for SGI-4Dxxx.

Or why do you think sell fast graphic subsystems like sliced bread,
like those from Raythenon?

best adams
From: rohrer@fncrd6.fnal.gov (Keith Rohrer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Snow with Paradise video card
Date: 13 Aug 92 21:23:10 GMT
Organization: Fermilab

In article <1992Aug13.051702.10191@ultb.isc.rit.edu> ajb8886@ritvax.isc.rit.edu writes:
>In regards to the "snow" problem with the Paradise (or virtually any card)
>the permanent solution is to replace the RAMDAC with an equivalent RAMDAC
>preferably of a different brand.  The way some older RAMDACS handle color
>cycling causes "snow" to appear.  Just make sure the speed rating of the
>replacement RAMDAC is the same speed or higher.
Mine gives me snow under Ultima 7 and under the DJGPP sample program
in the GRTASK directory, the latter putting up a fixed pattern and
cycling the colors, but I don't see such an effect under Fractint when
I color cycle (or when I don't), and I don't think Ultima 7 palette
cycles (though it could be *changing* the palette...).
But this is a Sierra HiColor DAC, the 32kcolor variety, on a ~1 yr. old
Swan Palette Plus card (generic ET4000)...does that count as "old"?

[deleted]
>Alex
>AJB8886@RITVAX.RIT.EDU

	Keith
(rohrer@fncrd0.fnal.gov)

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