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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: rkim@csri.toronto.edu (Ryan Kim)
Subject: Colorado Jumbo 250MB Tape & PCTools backup prog anyone?
Organization: CSRI, University of Toronto
Date: 15 Nov 92 17:37:31 GMT

Is anyone using the Jumbo 250mb tape backup with PCTools backup program?
If so, my questions are:
(I first format the tape in PCTools backup and use error correction,
 QIC-80 format (not PCTools format), minimize-time compression)

1.  Did you ever do compare after the backup?
    After the comparison (assuming all the files matched), how many
    recoverable errors do you get?
    I got something like 115 recoverable errors after comparing 
    about 290mb of data on 3 tapes.  All files matched.  Is this normal?
    I do not get any recoverable errors after backup, though.
    These are "Carlisle" tapes.  I also have 3-M and I think I got   
    similar results.

2.  Is new PCTools version 8 any good?
    I'm using v7.1 currently, and the only enhancement useful for me
    in v8 is the better handling of tape backups (according to their
    advertisement).
    How good is "better handling" compared to v7.1?
    At least, I saw they had an option of formatting the tape in v8.

3.  Is Colorado's tape controller (16bit one) worth the money?  Does it
    really double the backup speed?  I'm using 386DX-33 machine.

Thanks a lot!

__________________________________________________________________________

Ryan Kim
University of Toronto, Electrical Engineering,
Computer Group, M.A.Sc. Student            Rm SF2206
e-mail:  rkim@csri.toronto.edu
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: goyal@utdallas.edu (Mohit K. Goyal)
Subject: Re: New IBM PS/Valuepoint
Organization: Univ. of Texas at Dallas
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 21:22:13 GMT

>>This explains why IBM wrote os/2 2.0 drivers for the tseng chipset.
>
> According to the November 1992 issue of Byte which I just bought, at least
>the PS/Valuepoint 386SLC model uses a Cirrus 5422 chip for the video.
>This same chip is used by AST and Digital for their low priced models.
> I've never heard of this Cirrus chip, but it's reported by Byte as being
>fairly fast.  Gave speeds similar to the Compaq 386/33, which I believe
>uses the Tseng ET4000.
> Also the Byte article did not mention if they use this same Cirrus chip
>in the uppper end 486 PS/Valuepoint models.  It is quite possible that they
>do use a Tseng ET4000, which would explain why IBM wrote the drivers for
>OS/2 first for the Tseng.  OS/2 does not come with the 386 model, only
>the 486 model.(because of RAM, not processor speed).
>
What do the PS/1's come with?

It might be Cirrus for PS/VP.
Tseng ET4000 for PS/1.
XGA-2 for PS/2.

just a guess...


Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.os.ms-windows.setup,comp.os.linux
From: eoi@mace.cc.purdue.edu (Chenmin Zhang)
Subject: Trident 8900C can't display 800x600 or 1024x768 ?????????, Help Please!
Followup-To: poster
Keywords: Trident 8900C, Windows, Xfree86,
Organization: Purdue University
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 03:35:18 GMT

    I have a Trident 8900C card (BIOS 2.11c with 1M on board) and TVM 4A+ 
SuperVGA monitor.  When I run XFree86-1.1 (unix-like X window system), the 
screen is full of vertical lines (more than 200 lines from top to bottom),
and I can barely see the contents of the screen.  It has been like this for more
than two weeks, but before that, it sometimes works, sometimes gave the same 
screen. Finally, I tried to install Microsoft Windows 3.0 and 3.1 to see if that
was because of the un*x trident driver problem, but to my surprise, the
DOS trident driver (get from ftp.cica.indiana.edu for the latest version)
gave me same vertical lines, and color is pretty much distorded, but the screen
looked perfect for 640x480 resulotion in window 3.0 and 3.1. 

    Does someone have similar experience?  Does some expert know if it was
the Trident card problem or SuperVGA problem?  BTW: the documentation came
along the system said both trident card and monitor should support
1024x768 non-interlaced mode.  


    Help Please !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    Please send your comment to:  eoi@mace.cc.purdue.edu
 
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: shopsis@panther.adelphi.edu (Charles Shopsis)
Subject: Video woes
Organization: Adelphi University - Node: Boole
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 22:52:39 GMT

	I have been experiencing an intermittent computer video problem, and I don't
know which of my components is responsible.

My system is:
     1. a Northgate 386 20 MHz computer with 4 Mb of RAM
     2. an ATI VGA Wonder card with 512 K RAM  (revision 1.03).  This card
     came with 256 K of RAM; the additional 256 K was added about 2 years
     ago and has caused no problems
     3. a Zenith 1490 flat screen monitor

The problem(s):

1. When I start the system, particularly if its been off for several hours or
overnight, the initial text on the screen indicating the BIOS and the memory
check is sometimes enlarged, garbled and completely illegible.  This malady
appears before the hard disk has been read.  If the boot is allowed to
continue, no legible text appears on the screen.  Re-booting sometimes 
results in thesame behavior, but eventually results in a readable VGA 
monochrome display. Turning the monitor off and then on again never helps, 
only a reboot (warm seems as effective as cold).  Eventually, after several 
reboots, the system appears normal.

2. While running this apparently normal system in Windows 3.1 configured for
640 X 480 with 16 colors, there are rapid, transient flashes of color change 
on the screen, which then returns to normal.  Sometimes, when I run a DOS
program full-screen, the program behaves as if the computer is in EGA mode. 
When I run ATI's VCONFIG program (a utility that detects and sets the video
mode), it indicates that the computer is in EGA mode, even though Windows
was running in VGA.  If I exit the DOS window and return to Windows, the
Windows is in a different video mode, with text enlarged so that only part of a
full-screen window is visible.  If I then open up a DOS window, run VCONFIG,
and reset the mode to VGA, and then return to Windows, things appear normal
again (until the next time I run a DOS program, whether from a PIF or a DOS
window, at which point the problem recurrs).


Are these two problems related?  Is it (or are they) due to the video card, 
tthe motherboard, the monitor, or an improper diet?  Has anybody out there
experienced anything similar?
Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 05:16:55 -0500 
From: Douglas Lee Nigen <dn15+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: Trident Win Driver

I get a 486 machine with a Trident 1 Meg SVGA card.  But I don't the
Window driver to run it in 1024x768 256 color.  Would some please give me
the necessory window driver?

Thanks


Doug.
From: poe@wharton.upenn.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: QUANTUM IDE HD OWNERS, PLEASE READ...
Date: 23 Nov 92 16:31:34 GMT
Organization: University of Pennsylvania

Hello World.

I have a Quantum 105-AT IDE Hard drive. You know, the one with
755 Cylinders, 16 Heads, 17 Sectors/Track.

I'm lending it to a friend of mine who is having mega-problems with
his HD. Unfortunately, I forgot to bring the documentation. It was my 2nd 
drive, so I removed all jumpers, but it will be his primary drive.
What I need to know is which jumper sets the drive from slave
mode to master mode. DM, SP, or DS? 

Thanks for any info
Phil
POE@WHARTON.UPENN.EDU
From: rseymour@reed.edu (Robert Seymour)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Using Apple Imagewriter printer on IBM
Keywords: imagewriter
Date: 16 Nov 92 05:39:26 GMT
Article-I.D.: reed.1992Nov16.053926.9836
Reply-To: rseymour@reed.edu
Organization: Reed College, Portland, OR

In article <168A0A704.ASPRUIL1@ua1vm.ua.edu> ASPRUIL1@ua1vm.ua.edu (Allen L.  
Spruill) writes:
> I have a T5200 laptop and would like to know if an Apple Imagewriter printer
> that I have can be connected to it.  I have heard it can, and I think I even
> saw mention of it on some other newsgroups.  Also, does anyone know of a
> Windows 3.1 printer driver for it?
>  
> Thanks, Allen

	Apple ImageWriter and ImageWriter II printers use Apple's QuickDraw  
imaging technology. Since QuickDraw is an Apple product, no one may write a  
QuickDraw driver without the explicit permision of Apple. I have not heard of  
anyone getting such permission, though there may be a driver out there. You  
will also need a DIN-8 serial interface port with an adapter or Apple native  
pinouts.

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: leeb@cs.uiuc.edu (Gunter Leeb)
Subject: features of the 586 (P5)?
Summary: Question for the features of the P5/586
Keywords: P5 586
Organization: University of Illinois, Dept. of Comp. Sci., Urbana, IL
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 19:18:01 GMT

Can anybody send me a summary of the new features of the P5 / 586
uProcessor? 
I am also interested on their consequences for sw development.

Thanks,

Gunter
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: eduard@htsa.aha.nl (Eduard Beijnes)
Subject: Re: Anyone know of a way to cold boot off second floppy drive?
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 10:02:23 GMT
Organization: Algemene Hogeschool Amsterdam, Polytechnic Institute
Keywords: boot 

If you format you drive with fdformat a special bootsector is loaded.
The bootsector looks if the disk is bootable
   - yes - load io.sys msdos.sys command.com etc...
   - no  - load bootsector of harddisk

You can use debug to debug the boot sector of the disk in A:
(or a disassembler)
when you replace mov xx,80  (hex) with mov xx,1  (b:) then the B: gets 
booted. I tried it (a year ago) and it boots....

BUT I tried to boot ms-dos, and ms-dos doesn't like to be booted from 
B: and gives problems.

If you want to play old games from 5.25" you can change some connectors 
of your floppy drives (let a good person do that) and make 
A:--> B:  and B:--> A:
From: Jim_Johnson@abcd.Houghton.MI.US (Jim Johnson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: system speeds
Distribution: world
Date: 15 Nov 92 19:39:32 EST
Organization: Amiga BitSwap Central Dispatch

There has been lots of speculative discussion on what is faster, a system
based on AMD's 40MHz 386DX, or any of Intel's 486 chips (SX or DX).

A recent review of these systems performing different tasks was published
in the December 1992 issue of Byte.

If the task uses lots of DMA or hard drive accesses, the 386 tends to be as
fast as a 33Mhz 486 (and on rare occasions faster) because of its higher
clock speed.  As to be expected, the more CPU intensive the task is, the
better the 486 systems will perform.

Since real life is a mix of tasks, the 486 systems will generally out
perform the 40MHz 386, but not by much.

-- Via DLG Pro v0.995

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: rvinluan@cs.cornell.edu (Rolando Vinluan)
Subject: Fastmicro's 486SX-25 at $999?
Organization: Cornell University, CS Dept., Ithaca, NY
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 23:01:31 GMT

	(The latest FastMicro ads in PC Mag are selling this 
setup with an 80 MB HD, 1024x768 monitor, and 4 MB RAM.
Overdrive-upgradable, too of course.)

	Can anybody who bought this baby give us evaluation
of the machine itself, and of FastMicro's service? If it's
half as decent as it looks like, it looks to be a real bargain.

	Does that mean, by next year, we can look for $500 386SX's,
$750 486-SX's, and $1000 486-33's?

	If the clonemakers can keep this up, demand for those
Prolineas and Valuepoints may be short-lived.
From: Brandon.Vanevery@launchpad.unc.edu (Brandon Vanevery)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Pentium is not 64-bit internally
Date: 23 Nov 92 01:44:33 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: University of North Carolina Extended Bulletin Board Service


I'd respond in thread but I have an archaic POST facility. :)

I've read in this group and I think in a few magazines, that the Pentium
chip is _NOT_ a 64-bit processor.  It is a "superscalar" 32-bit processor.
That means it handles 32-bit instructions, has _TWO_ 32-bit
instruction pipelines, and _TWO_ 32-bit external data buses with which to
fetch those instructions.  So on a single clock cycle, the chip can grab
and simultaneously execute two instructions, so long as they are
non-conflictual.

Thus, you're still talking about a 32-bit software world.  Intel has been
claiming that no Pentium-specific recompiles will be necessary.

Another benefit is to be the improved floating point unit (2-3 x speedup).

Also, Peripheral Control Interconnect support.  This has important
implications for external bus traffic efficiency, say when your EISA system
seems micro-slow 7 years from now.  There have been some blurbs in PC
Magazine about some technical details.

So how much tangible benefit does this give you?
- You wait for Pentium systems to _REALLY_ ship.  By summer '93?
- First Pentium systems will probably have proprietary buses and cost a
  mint.  So you wait another year.
- Then you could get your faster processor, faster FPU.
- The P24T comes out at the same time.  Not superscalar, but still a faster
  processor, faster FPU.  (But you can't buy a system now that's
  GUARANTEED to use it, because the specs aren't public yet.)
- You wait a long time for companies to develop a substantial PCI peripheral
  market.  Maybe 3 years.  EISA's been out since '90 and has few boards
  compared to ISA.  And only recently are cost premiums coming down.
- Meanwhile the EISA market matures.  You can finally get lotsa boards.
  Manufacturers make EISA boards because PCI can use them, and not so much
  PCI.
- 4 yrs from now, PCI is a mature hardware market.


Corrections and additional conjectures welcome. :)

Brandon Van Every
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: mem28103@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (M. Munoz)
Subject: Re: Speed of 486 external cache ram
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 05:54:26 GMT

Query:  If you put faster SRAM than what is normally used (e.g. 15 ns SRAM
	vs. 25 ns SRAM) will you get any problems?  Or will you just get
	improved SRAM performance?
From: thijs@titan.hts.hsa.nl (Thijs Kaper)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: HP-LASERJET Fontcardridges (conversion/structure)
Summary: How to convert softfont to romfont, need rom-structure
Keywords: hp-laserjet,fonts,cardridge,softfont,conversion
Date: 16 Nov 92 12:36:25 GMT
Organization: Hogeschool Alkmaar, The Netherlands.


Hello there,

I've already asked my questions in comp.fonts, but i think the people
reading comp.fonts aren't hardware orientated.... Too bad... 

My original posting follows, and i would like to add one question:
- Does anybody have the (email) adress of Hewlett Packard ??
  In that case I could direct my questions to them...

Here's the posting:

Hello, font users,

I was wondering if someone out there (perhaps from Hewlett Packard) could
provide me with the nessesery information to convert my own softfonts
to rom-fonts.

I own a HP-Laserjet+, and I'm using several soft fonts. I also do have a 
font cardridge (Legal Elite). What i would like to try is to create
a couple of new ROM's (EPROMS) containing just my own soft-fonts, and 
substitute these in place of the normal LEGAL-ELITE roms. (Keep them
exchangable).
This would save a lot of down-loading time.

What i need for this is the structure in which i should transform my
soft-fonts. Things like - In what byte should the Pitch be stored
			- In what byte should the Fixed/Proportional bit
			  be stored
                        - Same for Height/Width/Italics-Normal/Boldness/etc..

It would be (of course) most easy if someone already wrote a programm for
this purpose, but it won't be a problem for me to write one if i could get
the structure information from someone.

Thanx in advance and greetings,
			 Thijs Kaper



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From: paha@sbustd.rz.uni-sb.de (Patrick Haeusser)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Info needed for Maxtor HD 805/A
Date: 23 Nov 1992 16:09:35 GMT
Organization: Studenten-Mail, Rechenzentrum Universitaet des Saarlandes
NNTP-Posting-Host: sbustd.rz.uni-sb.de

Hi !

A friend of mine has a little problem.
The Setup of his AT entry for his Maxtor HD was set wrong, so
the Computer was not able to start. Then he wanted to set the original
entry, but he didn`t know. 
He look in the Setup-Info, but all the Information he has about his HD
is not enough to set the right value.

All he knows about his Harddisk is :

 It's a Maxtor Model 805/A with 5 Heads and 17 Sectors, and he
 needs the number of cylinders, the write precomp. and finally
 the landing zone.

Is someone out there with the same HD ? The shop where he bought the
computer can`t tell him the right setting. (A problem, when buying a
Computer at an discounter. Cheap price, no service ! )

Please respond via E-Mail, directly to me, because I usually don`t
read this newsgroup.

Thanks !

Patrick

E-Mail : paha@stud.uni-sb.de


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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: PROGRAMMING THE 24X CARD
From: rushable@vax1.mankato.msus.edu
Date: 16 Nov 92 10:58:52 -0600
Organization: Mankato State University

I JUST BOUGHT THE DIAMOND 24X CARD AND WOULD LIKE TO KNOW 
HOW TO PROGRAM THE COPROCESSOR ON IT      

DOES ANY ONE KNOW HOW OR HOW I COULD FIND OUT.
DAVE
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: sqz@ornl.gov (Bob Sanders)
Subject: Advance diagnostic program for 286 
Keywords: diagnostic program 
Organization: Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 20:59:21 GMT


-- 

I am looking for a ftp site that has
a dos program to perform advance diagnostic
on a 286.

Please e-mail responses to me.

Thanks,

Robert Sanders
SQZ@ORNL.GOV

The opinions expressed are mine, and do not reflect those
of my employer or my place of employment.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: arc5@chempc0.york.ac.uk (Alastair Cargill)
Subject: Re: Conner CP 3204F drive
Organization: University of York, UK
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 21:45:55 GMT
X-Posted-From: chempc0.york.ac.uk
NNTP-Posting-Host: sol.ctr.columbia.edu

IDE/AT Drive Identify Program 1.0>(c) Copyright 1991 by Thomas J. Newman
>All Rights Reserved.
>
>The System BIOS reported 1 hard drive(s).
>A scan of the hardware found 1 IDE/AT hard drive(s).
>
>Drive 0 Information
>
>   Cylinders........... 684
>   Heads............... 16
>   Sectors per track... 38
>   Bytes per track..... 25740
>   Bytes per sector.... 660
>   Buffer Size......... 64 Kb
>   ECC bytes........... 7
>
>   Model Number........ Conner Peripherals 200MB - CP3204F
>   Firmware Revision... 2.77
>   Serial Number....... Q95TG8
>
>   Drive capacity...... 203 KB

Hi

Is the above program PD ? If so does anyone know where to find it

Many thanks

Al
From: bi927@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Yi Jin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Need Information on Maxitor LXT535SY
Date: 23 Nov 1992 00:49:07 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio (USA)
NNTP-Posting-Host: hela.ins.cwru.edu


Some one is trying to sell me a Maxitor LXT535SY, which is a 535MB
SCSI drive. Can some one tell me how good is this drive, is it fast
(seek time, transfer rate etc). Since I have no experience with SCSI
drives, can you tell me if it can work with IDE drives in a machine
(486)? How a ScSI would cost? TThanks.

Yio
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: dpatel59@uther.calvin.edu (DINESH PATEL)
Subject: Re: Format 3.5 DD floppy as a HD, is it reliable?
Organization: Calvin College
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 19:50:41 GMT

david@datamark.co.nz (David Rowland) writes:

>However, I could not use them to transfer data from my computer to
>either a Wang pc or an AST as these computers would return READ/WRITE
>errors.  When I put the same diskettes in my computer, I had no
>problems.

>I guess this boils down to the fact that if the diskette drive is a
>good quality drive, it can handle this but if it is not, then this
>practice is definitely one to be avoided.

This problem in your case is because one of your computer can detect between
HD and DD and the other one can't. So, when you format a DD as a HD (and if 
it does not have a notch for HD indication) and then try to read that disk on
the computer which can detect the type of disk, computer takes it as a DD and
gives READ error as the format is not DD (but HD). Try punching a hole on
the disk (on opposite side of read/write protection switch) and I am pretty
sure that both computers will read it without giving you any error. Here,
quality of disk drive is not a problem. Also, according to what I have 
realised, HD and DD have the same material (Magnetic media) the only difference
is that HD are tested for performance (?). Anyway, in my case, I have been 
using DD as HDs and result is satisfactory (Ofcourse, I only use good quality
DDs for this purpose.. such as Sony, Maxwell, 3M etc.

Dinesh Patel

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