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From: Michael.Kohne@launchpad.unc.edu (Michael Kohne)
Subject: I need help with an old priam drive
Organization: University of North Carolina Extended Bulletin Board Service
Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 02:34:08 GMT

I need help with an old Priam drive I have come into possession of.
It is a Priam 'Inner Space' drive, Model # ID330-EC. I need to know:
What sort of drive is this? It has connections like those used for 
RLL and MFM drives, but I've had no success with either type of controller.
Partially because of :
How many heads/cylinders does this thing have? The defect map attached to
the drive has cylinders up to 1197 and heads up to 13. Yet there is a
hand-written note that mentions 16 heads and 808 cyl.

What are the dip switches and jumpers? It has 1 bank of dip switches on the
bottom labeled 'DSEL1', 'DSEL2', 'DSEL3', SCNT1, SCNT0, 'SPN OP', ASK
in that order from switch 1 to 7. Switch 8 is unlabled.

On the upper side of the same board, there is a bank of jumpers(3 positions)
which is unlabeled.

Any help is appreciated, Thank you.

(Note: if replies could be sent by e-mail, it would speed things up, and
I'll post a summary in a day or so)

Also, if anyone knows who might be doing tech support for old Priam drives,
I would like to know that also.

Michael Kohne
House of the Techno-Discordians, Awesome Amusements Division

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From: sassoj@vccnw10.its.rpi.edu (John J. Sasso Jr.)
Subject: Bernoulli Drives VS Floptical Drives (?)
Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy NY
Distribution: usa
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 15:51:54 GMT

Hello,

   On my i486 PC I have a 104M harddrive (SCSI), which has only 15M left on
   it.  Although I could buy another 100+M harddrive to get more storage, I
   was thinking of turning to removable storage (high capacity disks).  I was
   looking at floptical drives and Bernoulli drives.  From what I understand,
   (1) Bernoulli drives run about $500, and flopticals about $300, (2) the
   disks that come w/Bernoulli drives are usually 90M, whereas the disks for
   flopticals are 21M.  However, how do these two drives compare as far as 
   access time is concerned (as well as w/ harddrives)?  In the future, I plan
   on having over 200M worth of programs and data files that I'll have to 
   store.  So, should I get a floptical or Bernoulli drive?  I figure if I 
   buy either one, all I will have to spend money on is the disks, and not 
   have to spend hundreds of $$$ on another harddrive.

             -- John
From: dsc3pzp@nmrdc1.nmrdc.nnmc.navy.mil (Philip Perucci)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Cleaning Wangtek 1550ES?
Date: 8 Jan 93 19:28:09 GMT
Organization: Naval Medical Research & Development Command

Does anyone have any advice on cleaning a Wangtek 5150ES 
SCSI tape backup? 
 
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From: tvf@cci632.cci.com (Tom Frauenhofer)
Subject: RealTek VGA Windows 3.1 Drivers?
Reply-To: tvf@cci.com
Organization: Northern Telecom, Network Applications Systems, Rochester, NY
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 19:20:14 GMT

I have a RealTek 1 Meg VGA Card.  I purchased it in March, 1992.  I
need to get the updated drivers for use with Windows 3.1.  Does anyone
have the drivers or know of an FTP site where I can grab them?  Or how
to get in touch with RealTek?  I've tried the place that I bought my
card, but they no longer deal with RealTek.  Thanks.
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From: rpg@world.std.com (r goldsmith)
Subject: hard disk repair recommendations?
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
Distribution: n.a.
Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 05:48:44 GMT


I have a non-working hd.  Any experiences with hard disk repair oputfits?
From: francis@ac.dal.ca
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: SRAM cache vs cache
Date: 12 Jan 93 13:08:43 -0400
Organization: Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

> When examining the cache, I noted that the Tri-Star has a 256K cache,
> while the Gateway uses a 64K SRAM cache. When I started looking at
> other vendors, I noticed that many had a cache of a given size while
> others used an SRAM cache.
> 
> So, here's the question. Is there any differene between a cache using SRAM
> or one which doesn't (assuming identical size and design otherwise)?
> 
> Paul Lane
> 

> 

*ALL* cache memory subsystems on the motherboard are SRAM, whether it be 64kb
of cache or 256kb of cache...cache RAM is generally understood to be SRAM,
because DRAM *can't* be used for caching, for obvious reasons, otherwise we
woudn't need the faster SRAM for caching in the first place. :-)

Francis

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From: pastor@prc.unisys.com (Jon Pastor)
Subject: Re: ATI Ultra PRO New Drivers (build 53) 
Organization: not much...
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 22:40:37 GMT

I imagine that they are *at least* making as sure as they can that the ATI
driver isn't going to screw up GW machines.  The impression I got from the GW
tech is that they actually hacked build 50 to get it past their (GW's) QA.  I
don't know whether this is true or not.  Anyway, my experience with beta
releases is that, yes, a build 50 that's passed two vendors' QA is liable to
be more stable (in the sense of not having any horrible bugs) than a build 53
beta, which I'd expect to have both things that don't work right and maybe
some horrible bugs.

BTW, the Gateway tech had never heard of anyone not being able to go into
800x600 mode from the MACH32 Windows tool, but I did it for him...  If he
comes up with a solution, I'll post.

From: rik@misty.boeing.com (Rik slaven)
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 18:41:31 GMT
Subject: Quantum SCSI HD Terminators
Organization: Boeing Commercial Airplane BCS Support
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware


  I have an Adaptec 1522 SCSI controller attached to Quantum Prodrive 80S 
  internal hard drive.  I want to attach a NEC internal CD ROM drive to
  the bus as follows:

	Adaptec-------Quantum HD--------NEC CD ROM

  I.E.- the Adaptec is the first device on the bus and the NEC is the last
  device.  All devices are terminated, although the terminators are internal
  to the NEC.  Thus I need to un-terminate the Hard drive.

  I Think I've found the terminators on the HD, but I want to make sure, since
  I don't have documentation for it.  There are three (removable) sets of what 
  look like pull-up resistors right behind the connector on the hard drive.  
  Are these the terminators??


  XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX   SCSI CONNECTOR
  XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

  ============== ================= =================   TERMINATORS???
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From: Richard_Robb@mindlink.bc.ca (Richard Robb)
Subject: Re: NO ROM BASIC, SYSTEM HALTED ???
Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 10:34:02 GMT

> The Golden Gryphon writes:
>
> Msg-ID: <1993Jan05.132239.3881@openage.openage.com>
> Posted: Tue, 05 Jan 1993 13:22:3
>
> Org.  : Open Age, Inc.
>
> rubin@procon.jhuapl.edu (Don Rubin) writes:
>
>
> >I have been fooling around with a new motherboard
> >and some disks and get the following message when
> >I try to boot a 340mb IDE drive
>
> >NO ROM BASIC
> >SYSTEM HALTED
>
> You may not have the boot partition active.  Hookup the drive and run fdisk
> off
> floppy, and check the partition status.
> --
> The Golden Gryphon                              gryphon@openage.COM
> "Mad Scientists seeks mindless brawny assistants, good pay, quiet
> location."
> "They're not ghosts,  they're metaphysically challenged." - Me
> Openage - The Premier SCO UNIX integrator in the Washington D.C. area

I had this message pop up regularly after about 3 years' of almost
round-the-clock usage of a Taiwanese clone computer.  My dealer said
indicated a motherboard problem.  I suspected my system was overheating from
too much use, and since I began turning it off a few hours a day to let it
cool, the problem has disappeared.  In any case, the problem certainly was
not related to anything having to do with my boot partition or hard disk, at
least not with my system.
From: keithl@klic.rain.com (Keith Lofstrom)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Run a 486/33MHz CPU at 40 or 50MHz?
Date: 12 Jan 93 20:19:13 GMT
Article-I.D.: klic.1993Jan12.201913.19407
Organization: Keith Lofstrom Integrated Circuits

> I have a 486DX/33MHz system, and I have been told by the manufacturer 
> that the motherboard is upgradeable to 50MHz by plugging in a new
> crystal and CPU.
> 
> Question:
> Is it possible to plug in (say) a 40MHz or even a 50MHz crystal
> into the board *without* replacing the old (33MHz) CPU? 

Integrated circuits can WEAR OUT.

There are two types of mechanisms to worry about - heat induced degradation
and hot carrier injection.  The first problem results in hard failures,
and can be avoided by keeping the chip cool.  Hot carrier injection occurs
at all temperatures - and is enhanced a bit by cooling the chip - and acts
to make the chip slower with time.  

What this means to you is that a chip that works up to, say, 55 MHz this
year may only work up to 45 MHz a year from now.  Intel may have marked 
that chip as 33 MHz, so that the part would keep working for a decade at
its rated speed.  Intel has a powerful incentive to sell those chips at
as fast a speed rating as they can get away with.  If a batch will safely
go at 50 MHz over its lifetime, they gain no advantage by marking them as
33 MHz.  If they mark them as too fast, then have to recall them, they
lose a lot of money.

Heat also slows chips down, by about 0.5% per degree C.  If Intel rated
the chip at 55C, and you can guarantee the chip stays below 35C at all
times, you've bought an extra 10% speed margin.   However, if you tweek
the machine to go as fast as it can go this winter at 18C ambient, and
this summer it gets up to 38C *outside the case*, you are going to have
a miserable summer.  Most chips run too hot anyway.  Put a fan on it.

Lastly, consider how you test the modified system .  I don't know if
anybody has developed a test program for PCs that checks all the
potential data pattern sensitivities for all the different peripheral
combinations and chipsets - it would be a difficult problem.  I'm
pretty sure Checkit and QAPlus find many potential errors, but I
doubt they find all the speed related ones.

The bottom line?  Don't do it if you count on the machine for anything.
Go ahead and do it if you enjoy testing the hell out of it and will
report the results of your extensive tests to the rest of us.  
Please, no "I increased my clock xx% and it hasn't crashed for days"
stories - I can make a cursor blink with unreliable hardware, too.

Keith
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From: sramsdell@ws19.ips.iacd.honeywell.com (Steve Ramsdell)
Subject: Re: Diamond Viper
Keywords: IDE
Organization: Honeywell Industrial Automation & Control
Distribution: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Date: Wed, 13 Jan 93 00:22:49 GMT

Call Diamond at 1-800-949-2345 and ask for the sales rep for your state.
They can fax you a 1 page brochure, if you have a fax.

It comes only for VESA local bus, and with 1 or 2MB of VRAM.  Claims 50 million
Winmarks.  Displays up to 1280x1024 265 color at 74Hz.

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Honeywell, Inc., Phoenix, AZ
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From: wijkstra@fwi.uva.nl (Marcel Wijkstra (AIO))
Subject: Modem dialing problem
Organization: FWI, University of Amsterdam
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 10:25:18 GMT

Hi,

I have a rather strange modem problem: I have a 1200 baud Hayes compat.
modem (Repko M2000trio) that I want to connect to my 386 clone.
I got it from a friend, who used it with a PS/2 and Procomm 2.3, which
worked ok.
However, when I attach it to my 386 with Procomm 2.4.2, it does not dial
any phone number properly: I can hear the (phone) dialing tone through
the internal speaker, waiting for a number to be dialed. But the dialing
itself is just a short period of (fluctiating) noise (which length is
proportional to the length of the phone number, so it DOES try to dial
something). And then of course, nothing happens.
With my friend's PS/2, everything still works, i.e. we can hear the
dialing pulses.
I've tried it with a 286 (Bull Micral, so no cheap clone...), but I get
the same negative result. Also, I've tried using Windows' (3.0 and 3.1)
Terminal program, but again: no luck.

What could cause this problem? I don't suppose it's the serial cable,
since it is a full 25-wire one (or is it wrong to connect all 25 pins???)

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Marcel.
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From: tracyb@bnr.ca (Tracy Blomquist)
Subject: ?? Amdek 817 Monitor ?
Organization: Bell Northern Research
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Distribution: na
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 02:14:01 GMT

Has anyone seen the Amdek 817 17" monitor?  The dot pitch is .26
and it claims 70 Hz @ 1280x1024.  Amdek's been in the monitor
business for a while, but I'd like some opinions on this monitor.
The price seems right at < $1000 USD.

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From: tn0s+@andrew.cmu.edu (Timothy L. Nali)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: question about local bus/EISA
Date: 6 Jan 93 19:29:08 GMT
Article-I.D.: andrew.IfGvyYi00WB=0AzUkx
Organization: Junior, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA

Quick question

Is it better to put a hard drive controller (SCSI or IDE) on a VESA
local bus or EISA slot?  Which bus will give me better performance?


Also, I'd like recommendations on good 486DX2/66 systems with at least 2
VESA local bus slots and the rest EISA (though I'm not adament on the
EISA part).  One system that caught my eye is Zenon's Z-dream II.  Any
comments?
I plan to run windows, unix, and X on this machine.
  

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From: sjm1@ra.msstate.edu (Sarah J. McKinley)
Subject: HELP: Packard Bell Troubles
Summary: New Motherboard in PB case
Keywords: Packard Bell
Organization: Mississippi State University
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 21:24:28 GMT

With the recent discussion on the quality (or lack thereof) of Packard Bell
computers, I hoped I could find the solution to a persistant problem
I have with mine.  I am using all the original components of my PACK-MATE
but have installed a non-PB motherboard (386SX-25).  This involved chopping
holes in the case among other things.  My problem now is that the clock chip
cannot keep time (I have even put an external battery pack on) and if I don't 
turn the thing on for a week or so I get a Hard Disk error (Non-System Disk).
Is the PB power supply somehow the root of all my problems?
Or is this sorry Miniscribe drive part of it?
Any help would be appreciated, as I must use this system til I can afford a new
one.

Please post or e-mail responses to:
sjm1@isis.msstate.edu

Many Thanks - Sarah
From: mikew@hpwarha.wal.hp.com (Michael Williams)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: MD: Sony's new Mini Disk technology
Date: 12 Jan 93 18:10:37 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Company, Waltham, MA

In article <1993Jan11.220701.718@njitgw.njit.edu> dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap) writes:
>The next question is that of capacity.  If the MD player is at CD
>quality, it will record at about 44,000 16-bit samples per second.  I
>believe the time-limit of a MD is 74 minutes.  This yields 44,000 x 74
>x 60 = 195360000 or 186MW or 372MB.  This is unformatted, of course.
>
>Now, comes the issue of speed.  Since the unit is meant to record live
>audio, it must be able to record at least 44,000 16-bit samples per
>second.  This comes up to 88,000 bytes per second, or 85K per second.
>A slow transfer rate, when compared to hard drives, but fast when
>compared to floppies.  As for seek time, who knows.  That much can't
>be derived from it's performance as an audio player.
>
>Naturally, the specs may be different from these, but one can expect
>these to be a minimum if it is truly a CD-quality recorder.

The MD is supposed to be "CD quality" in the sense that it records only
those sounds that a human being can hear.  The upshot of this is that
you don't need to store 44kHz of 16-bit stereo data in order to
reproduce "CD-quality" sound; the MD actually stores much less than
this.

If my memory serves me correctly, the MD delivers in the neighborhood of
240,000 bits of data per second (far less than an audio CD).  For a
74-minute capacity, this would give you only about 130 MB of
information.  A lot less than a CD-ROM, but a convenient amount for a
removable, rewritable medium.

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From: lrxi00@icts01.Kodak.COM (James Nonnemacher)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Gateway video problem
Date: 11 Jan 93 16:13:34 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: Eastman Kodak Co

One of my co-workers has a problem with his Gateway2000 486sx, 33MHz PC. The problem is a video
problem and he describes it as follows:

Using the 15" Crystal Scan monitor in non-interlaced mode, with the Windows 3.1 SVGA driver, switching
from Windows to DOS causes the screen to "jump" off center. Image can be recentered using montor
controls.

Anyone else have this problem or a solution?
From: dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: MD: Sony's new Mini Disk technology
Date: 11 Jan 93 22:07:01 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, N.J.

In article <1ir5f6INN8ql@darkstar.UCSC.EDU> paladin@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (Robin Yang) writes:
>     Sony recently introduced a new generation of music compact disks--2.5"
>in diameter with the same playing time as a normal CD.  The key differences
>other than size are its caddy (it looks like a smaller version of a 3.5"
>floppy disk) and re-writability--more than one million times per bit.  The
>technology is still new so they go for $750, with prerecorded disks $16 and
>recordable ones $20 or so. 
>     I'm curious how adaptable MD's will be to pc's.  On the surface it sounds
>like they could replace current CD-ROM technology.  Certianly the rewritability
>will be greatly appreciated.  Then again flopticals are only 21 mb on a 3.5"
>optical disks.  Hmm...

Well, as far as price goes, it'll drop if and when it catches on.
Remember that the orignal CD players were about $500.  And read-only
MD players run about that price today...

The next question is that of capacity.  If the MD player is at CD
quality, it will record at about 44,000 16-bit samples per second.  I
believe the time-limit of a MD is 74 minutes.  This yields 44,000 x 74
x 60 = 195360000 or 186MW or 372MB.  This is unformatted, of course.

Now, comes the issue of speed.  Since the unit is meant to record live
audio, it must be able to record at least 44,000 16-bit samples per
second.  This comes up to 88,000 bytes per second, or 85K per second.
A slow transfer rate, when compared to hard drives, but fast when
compared to floppies.  As for seek time, who knows.  That much can't
be derived from it's performance as an audio player.

Naturally, the specs may be different from these, but one can expect
these to be a minimum if it is truly a CD-quality recorder.



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From: altitude@css.itd.umich.edu (Alexander King Tang)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Reputation of ALR Systems?
Date: 13 Jan 1993 04:08:46 GMT
Organization: University of Michigan - ITD Consulting and Support
Distribution: usa
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I personally own a Buisness Veisa 101 (386-33).  It's a great machine.  I
don't know about the machine you want to get.  But the old ALR's were 
built to be upgradable from the 386SX-25 on up.  They were rated very highly
by PCMAG on their tech support and customer support.  I've had a couple
of times that I've had to call the tech support (not any fault of the 
machine, but other things) and they were very informative and helpful and 
nice.  The only thing about uthem is that any replacement  or upgrade
parts tend to be expensive.  That's it.  Overall there as far from shady as 
I can think of.
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