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From: cscc13@judy.uh.edu (NAVEED IQBAL)
Subject: What is EISA ISA?
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Organization: University of Houston
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 23:30:00 GMT

As the subject says it. I am looking for info on EISA and ISA architectures.
- What are they?
- Why are they?
- What do we miss if we don't have such an animal in our PC cage?


Thanx
Naveed Iqbal
NIbal@uh.edu


Xref: sparky comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware:22287 comp.periphs:1152
From: phr@soda.berkeley.edu (Paul Rubin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.periphs
Subject: Re: Are Seagate drives any good ?
Date: 20 Aug 92 16:12:27 GMT
	<16rdq3INN38b@seven-up.East.Sun.COM>
	<1992Aug19.120952.1661@prism.poly.edu>
Organization: CSUA/UCB
NNTP-Posting-Host: soda.berkeley.edu
In-reply-to: kapela@prism.poly.edu's message of Wed, 19 Aug 92 12:09:52 GMT

Your ST238R is an ST225 selected for being able to handle the RLL density.
The ST225 was one of the few fairly reliable drives Seagate made,
from what I understand.  You are pretty lucky with your ST251's,
which have an awful reputation.
From: pcellik@axion.bt.co.uk (Peter SPHINX Cellik)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: 0xa0000
Date: 17 Aug 92 09:44:50 GMT
Reply-To: pcellik@axion.bt.co.uk (Peter SPHINX Cellik)
Organization: British Telecom Research Labs


Hopefully you already know this, but just incase...
EGA and VGA video RAM is resident at 0xA0000 to 0xAFFFF.  Shadow RAM
could very likely be taking place.

I have not been following your thread, so if this info is totally
useless, then just ignore it.  :-)

     SPHINX

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From: bytehead@bp1742.UUCP (Bryan Price)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Help: SCSI woes
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 92 20:21:26 EDT
Organization: Burning Point, Columbus OH  43229-5646

fbruno@shrimp (F. Bruno) writes:

> Help needed:
>  I just borrowed a 380 meg SCSI (micropolis 1684-7, number on PCB
> connector 106582-03-4 Rev B14). It is set up for 1024 bytes/sector and
> my adaptec can't read it! Is there a jumper setting to switch to 512/sector
> or must I wait until he gets back from vacation to get a new one.
> Please reply via email as soon as you can if you can answer my question.
> Your help is appreciated.

Do you want what's on it?  If not, you can reformat it.  I had to
reformat a 317 megger that had been in use on a Mac.  I have an
Adaptec 1542B.  I'm assuming that this probably should work for you
as well.  Make sure you know what address your ROM is at, run DEBUG,
and type in 

G=XXXX:6

Where XXXX is the segment address of the ROM, and press enter.  You
will then get a menu that lists the current drives, and allows you to
format them.  It's only taken me 4 years to find this (how to format)
out. :)

Note that the 6 is non-standard, most controllers use 5 as the
address to jump to.

Bryan L. Price       | [ bytehead@bp1742.UUCP ]           *Burning Magnesium*
<Why would I make    | [ {n8emr|nstr}!bluemoon!bp1742!bytehead]
my disc any laimer?> | [ Bryan.Price@p1742.f340.n226.z1.FIDONET.ORG ]
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From: ggeorge@bilbo.encore.com (Greg George)
Subject: Re: monitor won't do 1024*768
Keywords: frustrated
Organization: Encore Computer Corp.
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 12:43:31 GMT

Jae,
	Check the horizontal frequency that your monitor
can be driven to. It is probably ~35kHz. Your card is
probably sending at ~45kHz. You will need to change jumpers
on your Tseng ET4000 to the lower horizontal frequency. You
are probably trying to drive your monitor as a non-interlaced
but your monitor can't handle the refresh rates. Check the
specs of the card and monitor, I'm sure this is what the
problem is.

greg

Greg George
Principal Systems Software Analyst
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: barkerb@slab.unt.edu (BOB BARKER)
Subject: Hard Drive Recommendations
Organization: School of Library & Info Sci, UNT
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 15:46:30 GMT

Hi.

Please forgive if this is dumb question, but . . . . . . . . . 

I'm in the market for an additional hard drive and would like some 
recommendations from those in the know.  Right now, I have a 120 meg HD (
Panasonic I think - it came with the machine and has been a good one) and 
would like another drive of approximately the same size.  If anyone has any 
recommendations, caveats, places to buy, or otherwise, I would appreciate 
it. 

Thanks in advance.

Bob Barker
Internet barkerb@slab.unt.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: skcgoh@tartarus.uwa.edu.au (Shaw Goh)
Subject: Re: INFO WANTED on Bubble Jet
Organization: University of Western Australia
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 03:00:05 GMT

crots00@DMI.USherb.CA (SERGE CROTEAU) writes:
: In article <ultima.712360247@mcl> ultima@mcl.ucsb.edu (David Rosen) writes:
: >My friend is thinking of getting either the BJ10ex, BJ20, or BJ300, and
: >he would like some information on the speed, quality of print, etc. on
: >these printers.  Are they better than HP's?
: >
: >Please send E-mail to this account.  Any information will be appreciated.
: >
: >Thanks in advance,
: >
: >Dave
: >ultima@mcl.mcl.ucsb.edu
: 


***********************************

GET IT!!!

Buy a bubble jet, it's laser quality and cheap...
I'm using the BJ10ex and finds that it has excellent paper handling for
such a small size printer.  Although, you should really get a sheet
feeder with it.

If your friend has been shopping around, I would appreciate some pricing
on them over there.  Here in Perth, I bought it at the cheapest at $530
M ASF for $85.  These were special price since I bought about 7 of
them!!

CYa!!


Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: kgermann@zeos.com (Ken Germann)
Subject: Re: ZEOS, Centrix
Organization: Zeos International, Ltd
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 16:16:03 GMT

In article <zpfys3_@rpi.edu> gilem@aix02.ecs.rpi.edu (Michael R. Gile) writes:
>I am looking for a 486-33 that is upgradable to a DX2-66.
>after looking around for a while, I have narrowed the
>search down to 2 companies that I would like to do buisiness
>with.  I would like all of those people who have had experience
>dealing with zeos (zeos reps not included) to send me mail
>to advise me on whether to buy a centrix computer, or else 
>splurge with the extra $550 and get the new zeos machine.
>The basic configurations contain:
>	8Mg RAM
>	~200Mg IDE HD
>	SpeedStar 24x
>	15" monitor 

Three points that I would like to add 

1> Electronic Mail Support for all Zeos Customers.

2> A list server on-line for manuals, drivers, and technical specs.

	Archives for FAQ's, Drivers, and Manuals are an on-going project.

3> We read the USENET on a daily basis. 

4> We are posting a products guide twice a month to biz.zeos.announce
   and the list server.

E-mail is being checked on the half hour during normal business hours.
(7:00 - 3:30 CDT). We are providing support on all of our products.
There will be a second person added to check e-mail from 3:30 to midnight.
-- 
  	   New! ZEOS 486 Upgradable VESA Local Bus Motherboard.  

			   info@zeos.com
Ken Germann		support@zeos.com 	Zeos International, Ltd.
From: pjd@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Peter J Dotzauer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: modem question: V.32/V.32bis
Date: 16 Aug 92 02:06:19 GMT
Organization: The Ohio State University

I'm in the market for an external high speed data&fax modem,
and I'm currently looking at the Twincom 14.4 DF (seen for $299
on mail order).

It says in the ads, among other thigs,
14,400 bps Industry Standard, V.32bis...
Auto Fallback & Fallforward ...

It does not say, V.32 at 9600 bps.

Is this automatically implied by 14,400 bps/V.32bis?

Or is it possible that it operates in a non-standard way at 9600 bps,
or that it doesn't operate at 9600 bps at all?

Also, what's a 16550 UART Interface?

I always thought the 16550 UART was a chip, not an interface.

Any other comments about that modem? Are there better deals?
(It has also V.42, V.42bis, MNP 2-5 protocols, send/receive fax
at 14,400 and 9600 bps, etc.)

-p
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From: exunmk@exu.ericsson.se (Noel Kerns)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Help: Can't load VESA.EXE for Trident TVGA8900C
Date: 14 Aug 92 19:23:45 GMT
Organization: Ericsson Network Systems, Inc.

In article <1992Aug14.164729.15246@icd.ab.com> rgciccot@ibis.icd.ab.com (Rich G. Ciccotti) writes:
>From: rgciccot@ibis.icd.ab.com (Rich G. Ciccotti)
>Subject: Help: Can't load VESA.EXE for Trident TVGA8900C
>Date: 14 Aug 92 16:47:29 GMT

>I recently bought a program which requires the VESA driver for my
>Trident TVGA8900C video adapter (installed on the motherboard). When I
>try to load the VESA.EXE driver that was provided with my system
>(or, for that matter, the one that was included with the software
>I purchased) the following message is displayed:

>           Error: Wrong system configuration

>The board is configured with 512K video RAM - do I need 1024K to
>use this driver? Anyone have a clue to lend? Thanks in advance...
>--

Are you certain that this is a built-in adapter?  Maybe I hav'nt 
gotten 	around enough, but I've never seen any Trident adapters built
on to mother boards.  Anyway, I don't think there are any tricks to	
loading the driver, I've seen it load on everything from a 8800 chipset
to an 8900-B  with no problems.

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                                                Ericsson Network Systems, Inc
                                                              P.O. Box 833875
                                                    Richardson, TX 75083-3875
                                                       Voice - (214) 907-5954
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: des@frogland.inmos.co.uk ()
Subject: Re: Anyone has 486SX-25 and 386DX-40's SI and Landmark ratings?
Reply-To: des@frogland.inmos.co.uk ()
Organization: INMOS Architecture Group
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 92 09:56:38 BST


in a recent reply i made an editing mistake and got an atrribution wrong
which i've been asked to correct.

the atribution for:

>> I remember reading some years go about a factory in Japan that made
>> RAM. The person who started it out was a manufacturer of ball bearings,
>> of all things. His reasoning was making DRAM was much like making ball
>> bearings - lots and lots of perfectly identical ball bearings with
>> tiny identical etchings on them. The plant was almost totally auto-
>> mated. If a machine broke it was lowered through the clean room floor
>> to a service floor. Humans could walk down glass corridors but the
>> machines themselves worked in absolutely dust free environments. Im-
>> pressive. Wonder how well they did, because this was right before the
>> DRAM glut. I suppose making a 256 Meg DRAM would pose interesting
>> difficulties. Wonder how long it would be before they hit the market.

should have been attributed to Iskander Taib

sorry for any incovenience/confusion caused

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From: tbc@netcom.com (Mike Garvey)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: SCSI CACHING CONTROLLER
Date: 19 Aug 92 06:01:51 GMT
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)

In a prior missive, schludermann@sscvx1.ssc.gov (kris) eloquently scribed
this stuff:

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

Check out controllers from PSI and DPT; these can be expensive, though. If
you're tight on funds, you can add RAM to your motherboard and use a good
software cache (e.g. PCKwik) and get most of the performance of a hardware
caching controller. However, your setup CAN net improved performance since
you'll be using a large cache, and EISA. Good luck!

(Wanders off mumbling something about and get a fast hard drive such as a
Seagate Elite while you're at it)

Be seeing you...
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From: davei@comp.lancs.ac.uk (Mr D Ingles)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: SPARC compatible tape units?
Date: 19 Aug 92 16:42:35 GMT
Distribution: comp
Organization: Department of Computing at Lancaster University, UK.

In article <1992Aug19.062916.23622@kei.is.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp> jeff@is.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp writes:
>
>I would like to get a tape drive for a 486/50 which can read and write
>SPARC 150 MB tapes.  Is there such a thing?  If so, a name and model
>number would be good.  Perhaps even a cool ultra-cheap discount
>mail-order place that sells them.  Any experiences are also
>interesting.

Well I connected a SPARC 150MB external streamer (archive viper 150) to my PC
via an Adaptec 1542B SCSI controller and can extract data of the tape using
ASPITAR or SYTOS.

Davei
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: pngai@adobe.com (Phil Ngai)
Subject: Re: HELP : 486sx-25 cpu gets HOT, real HOT!
Organization: Adobe Systems Incorporated
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 21:58:33 GMT

In article <14141@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au> s870694@yallara.cs.rmit.OZ.AU (Alfred Porziella) writes:
>
>The 486sx-25 CPU in my system (Compumate - Opti chipset) gets so hot that
>I can hardly touch it! (even after a few minutes!).

This is normal for an Intel 486. You should try a 66 MHz Intel 486...

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A right delayed is a right denied.

Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: cab6944@usl.edu (Brasseaux Carl A)
Subject: Seeking Impressions of V-Com and ENSY Systems
Organization: University of Southwestern Louisiana
Date: Sun, 23 Aug 1992 13:50:32 GMT

If anyone out there has dealt with either of these two mail-order companies,
please share your impressions of them by e-mail.  I'm looking for a 486-33
machine.  Thanks.
Carl
cab6944@usl.edu

Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.sys.mac.hardware,comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: orville%weyrich@tnet.com (Orville R. Weyrich)
Subject: Re: Sony CPD 1302 Monitor Emits High Pitched Noise
Keywords: clue: "scream" >> typical high pitch monitor noise
Reply-To: tnet.com!weyrich!orville
Organization: Weyrich Computer Consulting
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 92 15:40:22 GMT

In article <1992Aug13.041607.4651@leland.Stanford.EDU> gsroka@leland.Stanford.EDU (Gregory Sroka) writes:
>In article <1992Aug12.180500.15822@microsoft.com> shaase@microsoft.com (Stephen Haase) writes:
>>>Yup, it's a gonna blow ;-). The high pitched "scream" you hear from some 
>>>monitors is being emitted from the flyback transformer. I have a
>>>27" sony tv and It's been noisy for quite some time. You should be
>>>able to take it to a tv repair place and have them order a new
>>>flyback for it or fix it.
>>
>Question: A previous post mentioned revarnishing transformer laminations
>to quiet the "screaming".  What type of do I need to do it myself? 

The only instance that I have been successful in repairing a flyback 
transformer was in an old [1958?] Zenith B&W TV. In that case the 
insulation had deteriorated and I had arcing. Bathtub silicone cauking
compound did the trick in that case. But the laminations are mostly covered
up by the windings [flyback with laminations? I haven't looked recently
but thought that flybacks usually used ferrite cores] and I don't think 
that you can get at them. Also note that color TV's and larger screen have
higher voltages, so fixing them is harder. 

WARNING: the flyback is in the high voltage circuit (about 23KV) connected
to the picture tube (via rectifiers). The picture tube is like a large
capacitor and retains significant charge long after powering down. It is
a shock hazzard -- talk to someone about safety precautions before you
start fooling with the high voltage section of a TV or monitor. Household
rubber gloves are NOT thick enough to give adequate protection.


orville

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From: bbrown@infonode.ingr.com (Bailey Brown)
Subject: Re: SpeedSTAR 24X performance?
Keywords: SpeedSTAR 24X
Organization: Intergraph Corporation, Huntsville, AL.
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 04:39:15 GMT

terry@uivlsi.csl.uiuc.edu (Terry Lee) writes:

>	With all the discussions about the SpeedSTAR 24X, there is still one
>thing I'm wondering about:  is a special driver required to obtain its max.
>performance, or is any regular Paradise SVGA driver sufficient?  Also, has
>anyone gotten it to work under X386?  Please help; I'm wondering if I should
>trade in my SpeedSTAR 24 while I still can.  Advanced thanks for any help!

Yes, it needs special WD 9031 aware drivers.  The Paradise SVGA driver
will get you Paradise SVGA Performance (maybe a *little* better).
No, I have not heard of any X386 support for the 24X.  If you
really want to run X386, you're probably better off with an
ATI 8514 clone or an S3 (someone's working on S3 X386).

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Intergraph Corporation                                  
bbrown@casca.b11.ingr.com                              Procol Harum
From: berger@atropa (Mike Berger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Kralok hard drives
Date: 14 Aug 92 20:13:58 GMT
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana

wolff@dutecai.et.tudelft.nl (Rogier Wolff) writes:
>ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Iskandar Taib) writes:
>I had a kalok 3100, 105Mb hard drive. It gives off extra interrupts
>when in interrupt mode. This gives problems while running Minix/Linux
>or when using a disk cache program (Hyperdisk). I was able to
>trade it in for a larger non-kalok drive. I am very happy with this
>situation.
*----
Can somebody explain this one to me?  As far as I can tell, disk
drives don't generate any interrupts.  That's usually the function
of the disk controller.
--
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	Department of Statistics, University of Illinois
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: gettys@regent.enet.dec.com (Bob Gettys)
Subject: Re: Conner and Maxtor Hard Drive compatibility?
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
Date: Sat, 15 Aug 1992 12:36:17 GMT


In article <1992Aug15.050138.2457@usenet.ins.cwru.edu>, bp112@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Steven C. Lin) writes...
> 
>In the past, I have read that when hooking up 2 IDE drives, sometimes
>problems occur because not all IDE drives are compatible to be used with
>all other IDE drives.  Currently I have a Conner 120MB IDE drive (don't
>have the model number handy, but I just got the computer in Feb. '92, so
>it's a new one).  I am interested in adding a Maxtor 210 MB hard drive as
>drive D in my system.  I called a mail-order vendor and he told me that
>Conners and Maxtors do not get along well, that I should get either another
>Conner or a Seagate (both more expensive!)...  Okay, I thought... Then I
>was reading last month's PC Magazine, where it says that nearly all IDE
>drives made in the last two years are completely compatible with each
>other!  My question (obviously!) is, will my Conner 120MB work with a new
>Maxtor 210 MB or not??? Any help would be appreciated; if the model numbers
>are required, e-mail me, I can take my trusty old screwdriver out and find
>out!!  Thanks a lot!
> 
>Steve Lin
>bp112@cleveland.freenet.edu
>-- 


	Steve,

		I just moved a Conner 105 meg drive out of my machine where it
had co-existed with a Maxtor LXT-213 drive. The only "problem" I had was that
the maxtor needed an extra jumper as the slave so that the led driver on the
IDE card would see activity. I have also used a Conner 120 meg drive in that
setup as well. If that conner is the 1 inch high 120 meg, it should work just
fine with the maxtor LXT-7213 (which is what I replaced the 105 with) which is
the new lower cost maxtor (available many places for under $500). 

		Yes - there are problems with mixing IDE drives, but they are
mainly with the older ones typically less than 100 megs in size (note the
qualifiers!) and sometimes can be "solved" by using the right one as the master
and the other as the slave where it won't work the other way up. The majority
of the newer ones co-exist just fine. Of course, the safest is to match not
only manufacturer, but drive, but this is overkill.


	/s/	Bob Gettys
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