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From: bsd_stephen@actew.oz.au
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Computer too fast! - Colorado Tape backup unit
Date: 8 Jan 93 12:05:17 EST
Organization: ACT Electricity & Water

In article <62890013@hpsgm2.sgp.hp.com>, limrcd@hpsgm2.sgp.hp.com (Richard LIM) writes:
> Well, I have a similar related problem with back-up software.
> I used to use FastBack on 386s. Ever since I upgraded to a 486,
> I have great difficulty in getting the software to work 
> properly. Usually, it hangs.
> 
> Does any body know where I can get a utility program to turn
> off/on the 486 internal cache?
> 

  I have had problems making my copy of Fastback work my 486DX-33MHz
  but found that by switching back to 8MHz (hardware switch), that 
  all was OK and I could retrieve some old backups from floppies.

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From: kdriscol@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Keith H Driscoll)
Subject: Re: SEAGATE 4096 80Meg MFM
Organization: The Ohio State University
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 18:15:35 GMT

In article <1is6eeINNhaj@phakt.usc.edu> hho@usc.edu (*** N.T.K.C.D. ***) writes:
>Hello world,
>
>I have just acquired a Seagate 4096 80meg MFM drive. Unfortunately,
>my system has a RLL controller with a Mitsubishi 65Meg in it.
>
>Will the Seagate be able to work with an RLL controller to get
>26 sector/track instead of the 17??
>
>Thank you
>:-)
>H.
>
>

	I took the two MFM drives that were in my old '286 and RLL'd them.
The ones I used were an ST4096 and an ST251-1.  Those drives are still
in my '386, and have worked flawlessly for over two years now.  I'm 
fairly sure that the physical media on the MFM and RLL versions of the
drives are the same, but I could be wrong (and I'm sure to be flamed 
if I am).  Based on my experience, it should work, but there's ALWAYS 
something that can go wrong :)

Keith

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From: lief@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM (Lief Sorensen)
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 17:12:14 GMT
Subject: Re: Monitor Damage PERMANENT?
Organization: Hewlett-Packard, Fort Collins, CO, USA
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware

In comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware, whare@ac.dal.ca writes:

> 
> I have a Darius SVGA monitor hooked up to a 1MB OAK SVGA Card.
> I have been noticing sparatic filckers and yellowing of whites.
> Is this apparent disturbance permanent damage? ie will putting
> another card in instead solve the problem?
> 
> Anxiously yours....
> 
> Antony

This could be something as simple as a bad connection with the BLUE video
input signal.  Check your cable.

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From: adrian@wccf.mit.edu (Adrian Zelazny)
Subject: Wanted: 10-net compatible board for XT clone.
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Organization: MIT - Whitaker College
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 19:59:00 GMT

I need it A.S.A.P. 
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From: palane@iastate.edu (Paul A. Lane)
Subject: Re: Gateway 2000 486DX2-66V vs. Zeos 486DX2-66 VESA Local Bus System
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames IA
Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 07:45:08 GMT

In <31500@nntp_server.ems.cdc.com> ahummel@ems.cdc.com (H. Austin Hummel) writes:

>In article <FRIEDMAN.93Jan6232406@khan.trincoll.edu>, friedman@starbase.trincoll.edu (Mark A. Friedman) writes:
>|> I've narrowed the choice of what system I will buy to two and now wish
>|> to make a final decision between the Gateway 2000 486DX2-66V and the
>|> Zeos 486DX2-66 VESA Local Bus System.  The systems seem comparable in
>|> terms of performance, features and cost in terms of my needs and
>|> budget.  I will be buying only a system unit (i.e. motherboard,
>|> processor, memory, etc. within a tower case) and hard disk but no
>|> monitor nor graphics card from one of these two vendors.

>Latest issue of PC Magazine- editor Choice  Gateway 2000 486DX2-66V

However, the ZEOS was one of the runner-ups, primarily because of a weak
monitor. Howeverm, its graphics subsystem was the fastest ever seen.
Given that you won't be buying video, this is not a consideration.
From: schuster@panix.com (Michael Schuster)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Archive 5945L-2 info wanted and needed!!
Date: 4 Jan 93 20:29:51 GMT
Organization: Panix Public Access Internet & Unix, NYC

In article <1993Jan4.154325.1@tnclus.tele.nokia.fi> lauusitalo@tnclus.tele.nokia.fi writes:
>
>        Tell me more about tape drive made by Archive and model
>        number 5945L-2. I assume scsi? Tell me all you know.

It uses a dedicated non-SCSI controller card (SC-400S if I remember
correctly) made by Archive.

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: soudan@boole (SOUDAN sebastien)
Subject: joystick caracteristics?
Keywords: joystick
Organization: University of Grenoble (France)
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 11:22:20 GMT

I'm looking for the description of the pc analogic joystick:
plug pins connecting, and resistors values (linear or log?)
thanks for the help

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From: marklc@umbc3.umbc.edu (Mr. Mark L. Cohen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Computer too fast! - Colorado Tape backup unit
Date: 9 Jan 1993 11:32:08 -0500
Organization: University of Maryland, Baltimore County Campus
NNTP-Posting-Host: umbc4.umbc.edu

This entire question seems strange to me because I am running the Colorado
Jumbo 250 on both a 386DX/33 and a 486DX/50 without any problems.  You may
want to make sure that you are using the most recent tape drivers (I think
our most recent is version 2.46 of the Jumbo drivers).  Also, on many 
motherboards, you are allowed to set the bus speed based on the CPU speed.
On my 386/33, I can set the bus for either CPU/6 or CPU/8 mhz.  Hope this
helps...

      Mark Cohen   marklc@umbc4.umbc.edu
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From: rene@hal.et.tudelft.nl (Rene Bodenstaff)
Subject: Re: EISA bus specifications
Organization: Delft University of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering
Date: Thu, 07 Jan 1993 18:41:00 GMT

In article <1993Jan7.001201.16078@venice.sedd.trw.com>, van@venice.sedd.trw.com (Ken VanCovering) writes:
> 
> Does anyone know where I can get hold of the bus specs for ISA and EISA?
> We are interested in prototyping some custom interfaces on cards for the
> PC and need to know timing, pinouts, handshake sequences and tolerances.
> 
> Also are there any software considerations we need to be aware of?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Ken VanCouvering
> van@venice.sedd.trw.com
> 

  There is a book out there, written by a guy called Solari, that
  covers the ISA and E-ISA bus in great detail. This guy reverse-engineered
  the entire timing scheme, which can be seen as a amazing job. 
  I hope you have enough info to find a copy. (I left mine at home
  so I can't give ISBN numbers or something, sorry).

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From: opus@ihcase.att.com (0-robin.kim(frb000))
Subject: Re: Gateway video problem
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
Distribution: na
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 20:44:32 GMT

In article <4284@eastman.UUCP>, lrxi00@icts01.Kodak.COM (James Nonnemacher) writes:
|> One of my co-workers has a problem with his Gateway2000 486sx, 33MHz PC.
|> 
|> 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?

This is a very simple configuration problem.  Your friend needs to run the
ATI Graphics Ultra setup program (with ALL memory managers deactivated!!!).
This will allow him to set the screen postion for every resolution, along
with refresh rates, etc.  His current problem is that the screen centering
differs for DOS mode and whatever Windows resolution he's using.  After
setting things up the way he wants them, he can tell the ATI program to
save the information in its EEPROM.

If the 486SX system does not come with the ATI GU, then either the card
it comes with has such setup options or he is out of luck.

Rob
opus@ihlpf.att.com
From: tvp@gibdo.engr.washington.edu (Tad Perry)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: MD: Sony's new Mini Disk technology
Date: 11 Jan 93 22:14:08 GMT
Article-I.D.: gibdo.1993Jan11.220619.20212
Distribution: na
Organization: unaffiliated
NNTP-Posting-Host: gibdo.engr.washington.edu

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. 

Sony may have recently introduced some MD hardware, but let's get some
facts straightened out:

 1. CDs were a *joint* development of Philips and Sony.
    Sony did a good job convincing a lot of people it
    was all their own.
 2. MDs are a joint development of Philips and Panasonic.
    Other than indirect work done on CDs, earlier Sony had
    nothing to do with MD development.

Those are the facts you got wrong. Here's an important one you left
out:

  - MDs solve the skipping problem that CDs had by using a three
    second buffer to read in music and then make sure that every-
    thing in that buffer gets read out properly. Three seconds
    gives enough time for recovery if necessary.

> 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...

Smaller, writable and represent the same storage. Obviously these
things are going to become very common, very fast especially as prices
start to drop.

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From: rem@buitc.bu.edu (Robert Mee)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: What's the real difference between QIC-40 and QIC-80?
Date: 7 Jan 93 15:05:18 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Boston University, Boston, MA, USA

Can one use a DC2000 tape in a DC2120 drive? Will 
it's capacity just be lower or will the drive not 
recognize the tape?

Just asking,
Rob


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From: u5775949@ucsvc.ucs.unimelb.edu.au
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: SKIP
Date: 11 Jan 93 14:08:55 +1100
Organization: The University of Melbourne

In article <1993Jan9.172511.7360@infonode.ingr.com>, bbrown@infonode.ingr.com (Bailey Brown) writes:
> 
> I was thinking about upgrading my 386DX/33 with a cheap 486DX/33
> motherboard.  The two things I wanted to go faster were games
> (had to turn off clouds in Comanche Maximum Overkill) and
> JPEG.  So I ran some tests on a friend's Taiwanese 486DX/33
> of unknown chipset:
> 
> 386 - Swan 386DX/33, Micronics MB with either 32 or 64K cache (I'm ashamed 
>       to admit I'm not sure which, salesman said 32K, magazine review said
>       64K, manual says both are possible), Intel cache controller,  
>       8MB ram, Pheonix bios
> 
> 486 - noname 486DX/33, Taiwanese MB of unknown chipset, 256K external cache,
>       16MB ram, AMI bios
> 
> Tests:
> 
> Tests were run on bare dos 5.0 with minimal stuff in config files:
> 
> I used the Independent JPEG Group vesion4 jpeg code, compiled with
> the Intel 386/486 C Codebuilder (32bit extended dos) compiler.
> The jpeg stuff is not disk bound, and besides, both systems have
> comparatively fast IDE drives.  Timing was done with a stopwatch.
> lake2.gif is 630x422x256.
> 
> cjpeg -Q 80 lake2.gif:
> 
> 386: 15.0 sec
> 486: 29.7 sec
Something I found recently was that some of the chipset setup
programs initialise memory waitstates and clock rates on the 
conservative side of things when using the "QUICK" setup or
"SET DEFAULTS".  In my 386DX 33MHz machine the AMI bios setup
could be modified to go much faster provided the correct RAM
chips and bus hardware is used.  Maybe the two machines
your comparing could be optimised?  Also I noticed that some
assembler instructions run slowerrr or a 386 than a 286 ?"{
 - could this be happening on you particular code for the 486??

good luck , mark harrison
> 
> djpeg lake2.jpg:
> 
> 386: 23.3 sec
> 486: 47.3 sec
> 
> The other benchmark results were more reasonable, but these
> were canned benchmarks, not real-world tests.
> 
> Norton 4.0 cpu index:
> 
> 386: 42.7
> 486: 54.2      
> 
> Norton 5.0 cpu index:
> 
> 386: 35.4
> 486: 72.1
> 
> Does anyone have a clue as to why the 486 was twice as slow on the jpeg
> stuff?  I know the Intel cache controller on my 386 uses posted writes for 
> 0ws writes 100% of the time, and the 486's external cache may be 
> write-through, but shouldn't the internal writeback cache in the 486 buffer 
> the effects of this, if the 486's external cache is indeed write-through.
> 
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> bbrown@casca.b11.ingr.com                              Procol Harum
Organization: Penn State University
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 11:19:30 EST
From: <DLA5@psuvm.psu.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Third Parallel Port

I have a very unique problem which I hope someone can help me with.  My
father owns a small business and asked me to ssetup and administer a small
LAN (3 PC's so far).  There are three different printer on the network.
From a DOS environment I can print to any of the three printers using the
network software.  (The software in question is Novell Netware Lite, this
software does not come highly recommended but that is another discussion.)
The problem I have is with accounting software they use (Peachtree).
I can use the nework to redirect a print-job from an imaginary LPT3 port
to any of the network printers.  However, when I try to install a printer
in Peachtree on LPT3, IT CHECKS THE CONFIGURATION AND TELLS ME THAT THERE
IS NO LPT3.  We have already purchased a second I/O card for each machine
to be able to use 2 printers.  Does any body know if we can add a third
LPT without duplicating IRQ's or wouldn't this matter since the network
is just going to redirect the print-job.

Any input on this matter is GREATLY appreciated (either a post or E-MAIL)

Dave
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: wlsmith@valve.heart.rri.uwo.ca (Wayne Smith)
Subject: Re: IDE vs. SCSI
Organization: (this space for rent)
Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1993 01:52:02 GMT

In article <1993Jan12.223718.25158@sj.ate.slb.com> poffen@sj.ate.slb.com (Russ Poffenberger) writes:
>
>Nut if you ever plan on adding stuff in the forseeable future, then SCSI is
>cheaper in the long run. You cn add CDROM, tape, more disk, etc, without
>having to add more adapter cards, and chewing up your precious IRQ's and
>stuff.
>
>I have 3 disks, CDROM, and tape on my Adaptec 1542b. Best investment I
>ever made on my system.

What is all this "pack my pc with crap" stuff all about?

Who needs more than 2 hard drives in a PC?
(If you have 3 hard drives then you made a boo boo when you bought the 
second drive)

An IDE controller can control 2 hard drives, 2 floppy drives, and you can
get tape backup drives that hook up to your floppy disk controller.
Serial, parallel, and game ports also on the IDE card.
All that on 1 card.

If you have a separate card for serial/parallel I/O, then you've "wasted"
that slot anyways.  You need 2 slots for SCSI hard drive, 1 for the hard
controller, and 1 for the I/O (unless there are single board SCSI
controllers that have floppy and serial/parallel ports).

2 hard/2 floppy/1 tape backup/2 serial/1 parallel/1 or 2 game ports on card 1
A proprietary CD-rom controller takes up slot #2
A video card takes up slot #3
A Sound card takes up slot #4
A fax/modem card takes up slot #5
Optional specialty video board takes up slot #6 

And now, with local bus boards, you usually have 2 slots, one for video and
one for the drive controller.  I bet the local bus IDE controllers stand
up pretty good against comparible SCSI controllers, and are probably 1/4 the
cost.

If SCSI is the be-all/end-all, why are there no SCSI floppy drives?
Any SCSI video cards?  SCSI modems?  SCSI sound cards?

So many SCSI device id's, but relatively few SCSI devices...
From: csc@pilot.njin.net (Sean Casey)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: MD: Sony's new Mini Disk technology
Date: 12 Jan 93 20:41:01 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.

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.

Two very important key differences are:

Lossy compression. These disks are not CD quality. I've read some
reviews where people were able to to hear differences, especially
during quiet passages. Naturally this means nothing if they're used to
store data, except that they don't hold as much raw data as a CD.

SCMS. These players have built-in copy protection. This becomes quite
an issue when one considers an external controller. Allow absolute
access to the disk and one can zero out the SCMS bits. I.e. make a
copy of a CD, and then deprotect that copy, allowing infinite copies
to be made from it. This copy protection may be adaptable to software.
So will manufacturers produce an MD that allows full access to the
media format? Who knows. No doubt it's patented and no doubt Sony can
dictate parameters of use.

Sean
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: wlsmith@valve.heart.rri.uwo.ca (Wayne Smith)
Subject: Re: What is MCGA?
Organization: The John P. Robarts Research Institute, London, Ontario
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 21:27:35 GMT

In article <1ips0iINN8uq@life.ai.mit.edu> drosera@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Donald Burden) writes:
>
>MCGA is used in the IBM PS/2 model 25 computer (an 8086 or 80286 system).  It
>is basically compatible to VGA mode with 360x200 resolution x 256 colors.

So 360 x 200 x 256 is MCGA, and 320 x 200 x 256 is (the lowest) VGA?
What does the M in MCGA mean? Modified, Monochrome, ?
From: mtrachsel@csghsg5a.bitnet
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: ISA-BUS and 32 MByte RAM possible?
Date: 11 Jan 93 23:32:14 GMT
Organization: University of St.Gallen, Switzerland

I would like to get some information about the following problem:

I have a 486er board with 16 MB Ram and ISA-Bus and win 3.1. What is going to
happen if i put 32 mb of ram on my board?

Some say, that it will cause serious problems with the isa-bus, or
some cards. Others say that the pc will slow down because of the isa-bus.
Others say nothing will happen. What is now true?

- Are there limitations of the amount of memory form the system with
  isa-bus

- Will the system realy slow down  

- Will win31 use the 32 mb memory

- Any other problems i do not think about yet

I would be very thankful for some information before i buy

Markus

Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: khor@bnr.ca (Kyle Hor)
Subject: Re: What's the deal? My chip says "SX-25"; Norton says "SX-33"
Reply-To: khor@bnr.ca
Organization: Bell-Northern Research Ltd.
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 14:52:18 GMT

In article <1993Jan8.004159.7295@nosc.mil>, nagano@nosc.mil (Michael Y. Nagano) writes:
|> I would like to know how Norton's Utilities knows it is a 33 mhz chip
|> on a 25 mhz machine.  This does not seem like something that can be
|> tested for.
|> 
I think you got it all reversed.  The original post says that it was a
33MHz machine with a 486/25 chip.

...Kyle
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From: massoud@chemteca.sdsu.edu (Massoud Ajami)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.sys.ibm.pc.programmer
Subject: Re: Help me get my CMOS drive settings right
Date: 4 Jan 93 17:15:39 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: San Diego State University
NNTP-Posting-Host: 130.191.227.22

In article <1993Jan4.021737.8624@news.cs.brandeis.edu> dan@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu (Dan Schwarz) writes:
>From: dan@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu (Dan Schwarz)
>Subject: Help me get my CMOS drive settings right
>Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 02:17:37 GMT
>Here's the deal. I own an old (1988) NCR 386/16 system that I am trying to
>get running with an IDE hard disk and floppy drive. I have no manuals or
>other documentation for the system. The drive and HD card test out OK.
>
>The system has a setup progam in ROM (I believe it uses a Phoenix BIOS)
>that allows me to select one of 47 drive types. 
>
>* it does not allow me to enter my own HD drive geometry.
>* the parameters do not show on screen so I don't know if they are the
>  standard AT drive types or NCR's own variant.
>
>My HD is a Maxtor 7080A, which accepts several different configurations. An
>old system like mine should work with type 35.  When I choose type 35,
>the system hangs at self-test. WHen I choose type 1, the system boots from
>floppy but the hard disk shows garbage data (of course; type 1 is totally
>incorrect for this HD.)
>
>I'm looking for a way out of this problem short of buying a new motherboard.
>Can anyone recommend one of the following:
>
>* A software driver program (pref. shareware or freeware) that will let me
>use this drive with my system?
>
>* A way to hack the CMOS drive settings directly, to enter the drive geometry
>directly into the system, bypassing the SETUP program?
>
>* The proper NCR drive type which is equivalent to an IBM AT drive type 35?
>
>Any help would be much appreciated! Thanks.
>
>-Dan
>

I doubt if your mother board can drive the IDE due to the sector translation 
on the drive which does not match any priviously asigned hard disks. 7080A 
has 981 cyl., 10 hds., 17 sec., (specified for DOS, in fact it has 1170 
cyl., 4 hds., and 36 sectors). The address of hard drive table can be found 
at 0000:0118-0000:011B. Hard drive table hase 16 byte for each entry:
cyl	2 Bytes
hds	1 "
-	2 "
cmp	2 "
-	5 "
zone	2 "
sec/trk	1 "
-	1 "
find the parameter and see which one matches. using the other configuration 
for your HD, reduces the size too. So be brave, change your mother board! 
Then you will have type 47, user specified type!!
Good luck.

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