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From: gregh@alw.nih.gov (Gregory Humphreys)
Subject: Re: ///////// Dual monitors? \\\\\\\\\
Organization: National Inst. of Health, DCRT, CSL
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 15:02:31 GMT

In article <1992Aug13.011416.9791@uniwa.uwa.edu.au>, cjohnson@tartarus.uwa.edu.au (Christopher Johnson) writes:
|> arcpau02@uctvax.uct.ac.za (Paul Archer) writes:
|> 
|> >Can anyone help me on this one???
|> >Dual Monitor Support???
|> >I am currrently using a SVGA graphics system, but I still have my old
|> >EGA, and CGA graphic cards and monitors gathering dust...
|> 
|> >I am very interested in using two monitors together, for programs that support
|> >dual monitor mode (eg  Turbo Pascal 6.00). Is there any way I can use my old 
|> >EGA card as a secondry monitor for example. Do I need a monochrome card to do
|> >this? Do I need to modify me EGA board ???
|> 
|> >If anyone out there knows, PLEASE contact me....
|> 
|> >Thanks in advance
|> 
|> > Paul Archer     (ARCPAU02@UCTVAX.UCT.AC.ZA)
|> 
|> >   University of Cape Town.
|> >   South Africa
|> >
|> 
|> Me too, only I have a super VGA and a HERC card.
|> 
|> Thanx in advance,
|> 
|> Chris.  
|> --
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|> Christopher Johnson         |  _________________________  |can go wrong it
|> cjohnson@tartarus.uwa.oz.au | | Sudden decompression Sux| |Segmentaion fault
|> johnson@swanee.ee.uwa.oz.au |  -------------------------  |Core dumped         | I reserve the right to be totally wrong!

Unfortunately, there is no way to use two graphic cards together because of conflicts.  The dual monitor mode in TP is made for a setup with a graphics and a MONO TEXT card.  I have that running on my system, and it's really nice - you should see how much easier it is to debug SVGA programs because if you switch modes back and forth, it loses the palette (and the resolution I think).  But you definitely need a mono text card to use that.

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: srg@leonardo.polito.it (S.Moretto(uff=710350))
Subject: Qic-02 infos
Organization: Politecnico di Torino - Italy
Date: Sun, 16 Aug 1992 13:06:32 GMT

Hi,

I looking for some documentation on the Qic-02 standard interface
for programming my streaming tape an Archive 2150L; if you have some infos
please mail me,


thanks,							/srg
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From: lodzins@pilot.njin.net (Dean Lodzinski)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: 2 IDE drives - Different make
Keywords: IDE,Hard Drives,Help,Question
Date: 19 Aug 92 03:02:36 GMT
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.


I have an Western Digital AP4200 (Pirahna) in my system now.  Is it
safe to mix drive types?  Should I only get Western Digital?  Do I
need another AP4200?  Advantages/Disadvantages.  E-mail me please with
responses.
   Dean
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From: 5916rahmank@vms.csd.mu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Fax/Modem/Voice on one line.
Date: 13 Aug 92 18:12:25 GMT
Article-I.D.: vms.0095F081.B79AA320
Reply-To: 5916rahmank@vms.csd.mu.edu
Organization: Marquette University - Computer Services

In article <8AUG199212020682@vms.huji.ac.il>, gilf@vms.huji.ac.il (GIL FREUND) writes:
|>I have an Everex Fax/Modem installed in my computer, and only one phone line.
|>Is there any way for the modem to switch between Voice (answering machine),
|>Fax and Modem. I have seen some standalone Fax machines who can do this
|>trick.
|>
|>Thanks
|>
|>Gil

	Just get a fax/phone switch. Available at any
	computer store (almost).
		-Anis.
From: klliou@milton.u.washington.edu (Kan-Lee Liou)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: WD2200
Date: 20 Aug 92 01:48:17 GMT
Article-I.D.: milton.klliou.714275297
Organization: University of Washington

kgermann@zeos.com (Ken Germann) writes:

>WD2200 - 989 heads, 12 Cylinders, 35 Sectors, Land Zone 989, Precomp of 0.
>User definable drive type 48 on Award, Phoenix, and Mylex BIOS.


I set Lzone at 0.  Is that the reason I got a lot of bad blocks?

klliou@u.washington.edu
From: davei@comp.lancs.ac.uk (Mr D Ingles)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: SPARC compatible tape units?
Date: 20 Aug 92 17:01:37 GMT
Organization: Department of Computing at Lancaster University, UK.

In article <1992Aug20.104745.22330@spectrum.xerox.com> braven@rx.xerox.com writes:

>Thanks, thats something I was wondering about as well. A couple of questions though.
>What does "archive viper 150" mean? I am only aware of one 150MB external tape drive sold by Sun and I am not familiar with this phrase. Also, what are ASPITAR ans SYTOS?

Archive is a tape drive manufacturer, Viper is the one of the models of
tape drive that Archive manufacture.  Aspitar is a version of tar
written to work with the ASPI4DOS driver that comes with the Adaptec
1542B SCSI controller.  Sytos is a tape backup system written by Sytron.

>I am also interested in the same thing as the original poster, but the
>Sun tape drive is a little expensive (the last list price I saw was 1200
>pounds sterling).  Anybody know of anything considerably cheaper???

Yes there are cheaper alternatives. I bought my streamer second hand for about
300 quid + the 160 pound customs charge that was slapped on it *8-(

Storage direct sell a SANKYO CP150SE for 425 pounds, and they also sell the
Wangtek 150 MB device.

Davei (davei@lancaster.ac.uk)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: wood@jester.usask.ca (Monty Wood)
Subject: Need Wangtek 5150EQ tape drive info
Originator: wood@jester.usask.ca
Organization: University of Saskatchewan
Distribution: na
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 05:14:11 GMT

   Hi...

   I have a used Wangtek model 5150EQ QIC-02 tape drive and controller
   that I am trying to get working. I'm not sure if it is still functional.
   Are (were) there any test or setup programs for this particular drive? 

   I have access to Sytos+ but don't have the correct driver.

   Any info would help. Thanks a lot.

   Monty Wood     ( wood@admin.usask.ca )
   University of Saskatchewan
   Canada
Xref: sparky comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware:22266 sci.electronics:14631
Organization: Penn State University
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 03:18:18 EDT
From: <FWR100@psuvm.psu.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,sci.electronics
Subject: Re: What is the difference between DX and SX?

In article <sehari.713896990@vincent1.iastate.edu>, sehari@iastate.edu (Babak
Sehari) says:
>What is the difference between a DX and a SX specification for 386 and
>486?!  Usually, SX means 16 bit bus structure and DX means 32 bits bus
>structure. However, any 386 or 486 can address the memory in either
>8,16, or 32 bits bus structure.

386 DX - 32 bit external bus
386 SX - 16 bit external bus
486 DX - 32 bit ext. bus, 8K onboard cache, math co-processor
486 SX - 32 bix ext. bus, 8K onboard cache, no math co-processor

Internally, all these chips use a 32-bit data path.  The addressing
scheme is backwardly compatible with 80286,8088,etc.

>By the way, is there any difference between a 386 and 486 except that
>486 has some catch memory inside chip?

The 486 has (basically) the same instruction set as the 386, but it can
perform the instructions in fewer clock cycles.  This is why a 25MHz 486
will generally outperform a 33MHz 386.  Also the 486DX includes the
80387 math coprocessor on the chip.

-Frank
From: davem@ersys.edmonton.ab.ca (Dave McCrady)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: ESDI Drive
Date: 16 Aug 92 03:02:52 GMT
Organization: Edmonton Remote Systems #1, Edmonton, AB, Canada

slightbo@ugly.UVic.CA (Simon  Lightbody) writes:

- I picked up an Imprimis drive which I believe is ESDI. I do not know what
- size it is or anything. Its model number is 94216-106 and somebody has
- written CDC Wren 3 on it with a pen. Does anyone know what size this drive
- is? Also, does anyone happen to have an ESDI controller for sale? Thanks

   It is a Wren 3:  ESDI, 106 mb (91 MB formatted)

The geometry:  1024 cyl, 5 heads, WPC at 128.  Encoding is 2.7 RLL.

 
Dave McCrady              davem@ersys.edmonton.ab.ca
Edmonton Remote Systems:  Celebrating 10 years of service to Northern Alberta
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.sys.intel
From: tdbear@tandon.com (Tom Barrett)
Subject: Re: Help - Cyrix processors, anyone know for sure?
Keywords: Intel, P5, Cyrix, 486DLC, i386, Gomez
Organization: Tandon Corporation, Moorpark, CA
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 17:01:54 GMT

In article <Bt91A8.212@nntp-sc.Intel.COM> cpurkis@gomez.intel.com (Clif Purkiser) writes:
>I think you would have cache coherency
>problems between the internal cache and external cache, because
>the cache controller on the i386 motherboard wouldn't be aware
>of the internal cache. 

[note who that quote came from... particularly the server
address]

The external cache controller doesn't need to be aware of the
Cyrix internal cache because they did something smart... as
long as the 386 socket has a real HOLD signal going to it, the
Cyrix can be programmed to flush it's internal write-through
cache on each DMA.  Furthermore, they provided a special
non-cacheability setting for the 1st 64K of each 1M to
eliminate the A20 problem.  And, still furthermore, they did
something extra smart by providing an internal cache-ability
map (something Intel should have done, especially with the
P5... it is a total pain to provide KEN support which is cheap
and can easily be programmed by BIOS).  Now, if they would
have only provided WriteProtect mapping, I would have been
totally happy!

With the external cache, the 486DLC operates up there with the
AMD/Intel 486 (just wishful thinking on the AMD :), and the
performance hit from the DMA flush isn't noticable unless you
have a alots of DMA activity (ie. Floppy, DMA LAN card, DMA
SCSI, DMA video, etc.) or if your cache controller doesn't
hide the refresh (even without hidden refresh it is still
pretty darn swift).  And, with external cache I have seen no
real performance hit using the Cyrix A20 feature.

NOW, if the motherboard is Cyrix ready then chances are you
won't see any problems with refresh and no low performance due
to DMA read ops or because of the A20.

>Cyrix performance claims are generally based on modified i386
>processor motherboard. So without enabling the cache I doubt 
>you'd see a big performance boost.

Right on the first part and right on the second part, but just
like a political spin doctor you left out the fact that
typical unmodified i386 processor m'boards (sans the i386)
will would tons faster than when the i386 was used!


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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
From: hecker@access.digex.com (Frank Hecker)
Subject: Recommendations for quiet power supply?
Organization: Express Access Online Communications Service, Greenbelt, Maryland USA
Distribution: usa
Date: Sun, 16 Aug 1992 19:55:52 GMT

I am looking for a PC power supply with a quiet fan; the one I have
now is quite annoying.  Does anyone have any good recommendations for
products, companies, and suppliers of such?

For the record, the power supply I have now is an Amcer model STCU-250
from Taiwan; this is a 250 W power supply with AT form factor, but
mounted in a mid-sized tower case.  (Thus it doesn't have an external
power switch mounted on the power supply itself, but rather a cord
that connects to a power switch on the front of the tower case.)  It
has two 6-wire Burndy connectors going to the (386/33) motherboard,
and four drive power connectors, one of which has a smaller secondary
connector attached to it (for 3.5 inch floppy drives, apparently).

I am definitely prepared to pay more for as quiet a system as I can
have, so I'm not looking for the cheapest possible solution.  I also
am not interested in doing anything like taking the power supply apart
and just replacing the fan; I want a complete drop-in replacement.

Thanks in advance for any help and advice.  Direct email replies to
hecker@digex.com; I will post a summary later.

Frank
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: skcgoh@tartarus.uwa.edu.au (Shaw Goh)
Subject: Re: Trident tvga drivers for WIN 3.1
Organization: University of Western Australia
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 03:22:00 GMT

lacs@ERE.UMontreal.CA (Lacombe Serge) writes:
: Hi.
:  
:        Is there a ftp anonymous site from where i can import Windows 3.1
: drivers for a TRIDENT TVGA 8900C video board.
:  
: Thanks.
:  
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Try  wuarchive.wustal.edu.au  under mirrors/win3/drivers/video

Cya!!
Xref: sparky comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware:22300 comp.dcom.fax:1552
From: hho@usc.edu (*** N.T.K.C.D. ***)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.dcom.fax
Subject: Voice Mail Card
Date: 20 Aug 1992 13:09:48 -0700
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: aludra.usc.edu

Hi, I am looking for a voice mail card (beside complete PC)..
Maybe something with Fax too.. FOr an IBM 386..
If anyone know of any source, please mail me :-)


THanks
H.


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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: pvonk@scott.skidmore.edu (Pierre VonKaenel)
Subject: Why isn't ISA dead?  Living with ISA...
Organization: Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs NY, 12866
Distribution: na
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 14:14:52 GMT

Many years ago, I began running into the INT problem when istalling
more devices in our computers.  Namely, not having enough interrupts
to use.  Since then we switched to microchannel and life has been a
breeze.  Now I'm considering replacing my personal machine with an ISA
bus Dell, but can't shake those old ISA memories out of my head.
Question:  if I were to go with a SCSI controller (for a HD and in the
future, a tape backup, a CD ROM player, and whatever I end up drooling
over for the SCSI) will such a SCSI system use only one interrupt?  If
instead I go with an IDE HD and later add SCSI for other devices, does
this combo use two ints (IDE and SCSI)?

Do you netters run into the interrupt shortage on your ISA machines?
Or do the newer machines have enough interrupt now to allow more
breathing room.  (Our old XTs had a limited number of ints, I recall
reading that newer ISAs introduced more ints, but am not sure.)

Thanks for any input.


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From: grtorlba@sumax.seattleu.edu (George Torralba)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Gateway CS1024NI = (!=) Mag Monitor
Date: 22 Aug 92 05:55:44 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Seattle University, Seattle WA


I'm not sure how to start asking this but aren't the CS1024NIs made by
the same people who make MAG monitors?  If so, then are the problems
reported by people about CS1024NI true too about MAG monitors?  Please
clear/confirm/correct my understanding about this matter.

George


Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,sci.electronics
From: ressler@galileo.ifa.hawaii.edu (Mike "IR" Ressler)
Subject: Summary: How to degauss color monitor with no degauss button?
Organization: UH IfA and NASA Infrared Telescope Facility
Date: Sat, 15 Aug 1992 07:22:13 GMT

Thanks to the many who posted or e-mailed about my degaussing problem. I
tried to respond to everyone who sent e-mail. If I missed you, please
accept my apologies and my thanks.

There were three common themes to the responses:

1) Most modern color monitors have a built-in degausser that kicks in when
the power is turned on. This appears to be the case with my monitor, since
I noted some brief degaussing activity if I fiddled with the on/off switch
just right. Repeated power cycling (on for 3 seconds, off for about 30)
seems to have fixed things quite nicely - at least my letters are the same
width all the way across my screen now and the color is more uniform.

2) If you really want to degauss things right, get your hands on a large,
degaussing coil, or take it too a TV repair place which has such a device.
This is the (mostly) fool-proof method if #1 is not available.

3) Bulk erasers/demagnetization wands might work, but they might make
things worse. It depends how careful you are in making a uniform mag field
pattern. Not recommended unless you are a hacker at heart :-)

Thanks again. Things are much improved ...

Mike
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: dbrake@cyclone.mitre.org (Dennis Brake (PSI) X7767)
Subject: Disabling memory checks
Keywords: ami, memory
Organization: Mitre Corporation, McLean, VA
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 12:51:17 GMT

I have a 486/25 with an AMI BIOS 5/90. I've just upgraded the memory
to 8Mb. Now it takes a few minutes for the system to check all of the
memory. Does anyone know how I can disable the memory checks?

Thanks

Dennis
From: schludermann@sscvx1.ssc.gov
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: SCSI CACHING CONTROLLER
Date: 13 Aug 92 21:38:55 GMT
Article-I.D.: sscvx1.1992Aug13.153855.1
Organization: Superconducting Super Collider Laboratory


   I am shopping around for an eisa scsi caching controller that would allow 
8 to 16 meg of cache. Thanxs for any leads.



                                  kris
From: etxansk@garbo.ericsson.se
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: HELP! PC Breakdown During Operation!
Date: 18 Aug 92 08:15:42 GMT
Organization: Ericsson
Originator: etxansk@garbod20


 
 My 386SX-16 PC with Ami BIOS has started breaking down every
now and then. If it's been left for a while (running) and I
return to it, it faints as soon as I touch the keyboard.

 The BIOS (I've presumed it's the BIOS) starts sending out
sequences of three low-pitch beeps with an interval of
about three seconds between each sequence. I haven't got
an AMI BIOS error message/signal descriptions.

 Also, I've noticed there's a loose black wire from the
power supply going with four other wires to the on/off
button. It looks as if it's supposed to be connected to
something with a screw.

 Any hint will be appreciated.

 Anders Skelander, Sweden
From: rounsley@jeeves.ucsd.edu (Steve Rounsley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Advice needed
Date: 18 Aug 92 00:58:27 GMT
Organization: University of California, San Diego



	I would like to ask everyone out there in netland for
their words of wisdom regarding a system I am thinking of
buying.  
	A mailorder company on East coast (Quantex) is selling a
386/40Mhz system which was rated very highly by PC Sources.  My
question is has anybody dealt with Quantex, and if so, what are
your impressions of their operation.
	My second question is I am considering getting the same
components as they use via a local (small) company, which
therefore has the advantage of easy access if things go wrong.
Is there any advice you can give me regarding this approach -
with the same componenets can I expect a different performance?
	The components I would like to use are as follows.
		AMD 386 40Mhz chip
		Western Digital 125 Mb HD
		Diamond Speedstar Plus with Sierra HiColor
RAMDAC
		Intel Smart Cache chip..
		

	I am new to the PC scene, so if anybody has anything bad
to say against any of these, please let me know..
	I am sorry if these questions are somewhat vague, but I
have a million and one ideas about what to do..

	thanks,
		Steve
From: wilken@plains.NoDak.edu (Scott Wilken)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: What is the difference between DX and SX?
Date: 17 Aug 92 19:39:50 GMT
Article-I.D.: plains.19763
Organization: North Dakota Higher Education Computing Network

In article <1992Aug17.134521.27998@msc.cornell.edu> boris@lynx.msc.cornell.edu.UUCP (Boris Yost,311 Bard Hall,4045,2739205) writes:
>> 
>> The 486 has some additional instructions, and the 486DX has
>> an onboard math co-processor, if that helps.

>The SX processors have only 16bits worth of data lines on the package, so 
>they have to do two reads to get a long.  But this makes the system cheaper.

BZZZZZTTT  Wrong answer Boris..

While that is true for the 386sx processors, it is *NOT* true of the 486sx
processors.. 

The 486sx is the same as a 486DX except that it has no math coprocessor...

Scott
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: gburke@unix2.tcd.ie (Garrett Burke)
Subject: SCSI controllers & int 13h bios call
Summary: How SCSI drives appear to the BIOS
Keywords: Adaptec SCSI
Organization: Trinity College, Dublin
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 08:09:25 GMT

Hi All,
	Could any of you SCSI gurus out there please confirm this:

Page 7-5 of the Adaptec AHA-1740A/1742A/1744 Tech. Ref. Man. states:

'SCSI devices are addressed by logical block address without regard to
the physical geometry of the disk. For this reason, all SCSI devices are
                                                    ^^^
defined as drives with 64 heads and 32 sectors/track'
                       ^^           ^^

Q: Can I take this as true i.e use #define HEADS 64 etc when writing
software for creating boot blocks?

From experience it seems to be true and would make things easier to do.

Thanks for your help,
Garrett Burke,
Computer Architecture Group, TCD.

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From: jboyd@s.psych.uiuc.edu (John Boyd)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: IBM PC and Zenith FTM 1490
Summary: A video board for a Zenith Flat Screen Monitor
Keywords: video board, ati, paradise, IBM PC, zenith
Date: 17 Aug 92 21:43:04 GMT
Organization: UIUC Department of Psychology


	I have an IBM PC and Zenith FTM 1490 monitor.  I have
been using an IBM vga adapter card which now gives me one
long beep and 3 shorts when I boot up.  

	I have tried replacing the bad adapter card with other
vga cards and not all of them work.  For example, an ATI VGA
basic 16 just gives me static on the screen and never gets to 
the DOS prompt.  However, a Paradise VGA PLUS card works fine.

	I'a appreciate any help on why I can't use just any
VGA card, the ATI card is a lot cheaper than the Paradise and
I don't want to put any more money in the system than I have
to. 

-jb