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From: jre@zeos.com (Jim Erickson)
Subject: Re: 5.25" drive won't see disk changes...NEED help!
Organization: Zeos International, Ltd
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 16:00:43 GMT

In article <1992Sep27.063632.223417@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu> ry01@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (ROBERT YUNG) writes:
>My 5.25" disk won't recognize disk changes! Even if I take the disk out and
>leave the door open, it still will show me the disk's directory! I can get it
>to realize that their's a new disk by running Norton Disk Doctor on A:. Is
>their a faster way? A program perhaps? What's wrong anyway? I've checked the
>wires and they are just fine! One for the scrap? :( Thanks!
>c
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I'll get it this time...

Try cleaning the drive by blowing compressed air into it - your sensor could
be being blocked by dirt etc.

Or, add this line to your config.sys: DRIVPARM=/D:x /F:y
                                      where x=0 for A:; x=1 for B:
                                            y=1 for 1.2MB
                                            y=2 for 1.44MB

Or, as was recently posted to this group, try changing the sensor in the
drive.

Or, replace the drive.
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From: jgd@dixie.com (John De Armond)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: BERNOULLI BERNOULLI
Date: 29 Sep 92 06:47:23 GMT
Organization: Dixie Communications Public Access.  The Mouth of the South.

jws@iastate.edu (James William Shoemaker) writes:


>	I have used both, and in my experience the bernuli is the better
>choice.  here are my reasons:

>	A bernuli is much more reliable (syquest drives are fragile, and 
>a bad drive can eat carts, and bad carts can kill drives)
>	A bernuli is more robust.  Bumping the table next to a syquest can
>cause it to crash, but you can drop a running bernuli without damage.

Both Bernoulli and Syquest quote the same G specs for operating and storage. 
Unless they've changed recently, Bernoulli does not warranty their cartridges
very long.  Syquest warrants the drive and the cartridge for 2 years. 
Since both drives use embedded servos, this warranty is important for the 
instance when you accidently degauss your cartridge.  With bernoulli,
you're SOL.  Syquest will replace the cartridge within the warranty.

Since the technology used by Syquest is conventional Winchester, reliability
and ruggedness has tracked that of more conventional hard drives.  I have
dropped Bernoulli drives from an inch or so while operating just to see what 
happens.  Error, retry and usually OK.  I've not gotten that brave with
the Syquest yet because I rely on it so much but I HAVE jostled it 
fairly hard on the desk.  No errors, no problems.

Another consideration is cartridge life.  Since the Syquest is a conventional
Winchester, it should last practically forever if not abused.  My experience
with Bernoulli is that cartridges last about a year if the drive is 
programmed not to spin down when idle.  If that is not done, one must
be prepared to accept several seconds' delay for each read and write
separated in time.


>	Driver support for DOS and bernuli's is free (downloadable) while
>you must pay for syquest drivers (last time I checked)

Syquest does not need a driver unless you want to tell dos the drive has
removable media.  Adaptec controllers come with a driver.  Syquest has
a BBS where theirs can be obtained.  I think they may charge for their
utility package but the adaptec afdisk works fine.


>There are several reasons to consider the syquest though:
>It is the standard (most people who accept data on RCD's use syquest)

Yes.

>	It is slightly cheaper.

If the $400 for the drive and $80-100 for cartridges as quoted here
are correct, the Syquest is a lot cheaper at $275 and $60 respectivly.

John
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From: grier@world.std.com (The Political Crony)
Subject: Anybody know about Ricoh IS-3 scanner?
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 18:06:21 GMT

My neighbor has a line on some used Ricoh IS-3 scanners and wants
to know if they are any good for use for OCR work (light duty). Does
anyone have any info?

Jim Grier
grier@chpc.org		(For a few months)
grier@world.std.com	(Permanent)
From: bewhite@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (MacroMan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: ViewSonic 6 - What is the real refresh rate?
Date: 30 Sep 1992 13:42:11 -0500
Organization: Kansas State University
NNTP-Posting-Host: matt.ksu.ksu.edu

  I received a ViewSonic 6 monitor that says right on the
box "72 hz refresh rate (VESA standard)".  Yet, in the
manual, all it quotes are vertical and horizontal frequencies
none of which are at 72hz (horizontal is, of course, in khz
anyway).  So, the question is, what gives?  Is refresh
rate different from vertical frequency?
  Could some kind soul who owns (or is just plain knowledgeable
about) a ViewSonic 6 help me configure my Trident card
so give me the best results?
  Thanks,
-- 
  Bruce White(bewhite@matt.ksu.ksu.edu)
  "Back off man, I'm a scientist." - W. Murray
From: scottd@cs.hw.ac.uk (Scott Dunn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: 486 Motherboards
Date: 29 Sep 92 17:30:36 GMT
Organization: Dept of Computing & Electrical Engineering, Heriot-Watt University, Scotland

Hi,

I am hoping that someone could recommend a good 486 motherboard please.
33 or 50 MHz, preferably AMI BIOS.

I know the question is a bit vague, but even an email address of appropriate
sources would be enough to allow me to pursue this further.
I would particularly like to hear about boards with a couple of local bus
slots.

Thanks in advance,

Scott.
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From: bkelly@doc.helios.nd.edu (b kelly)
Subject: info on leading edge models DX and M -- Specs anyone?
Organization: OUC, University of Notre Dame
Date: Sat, 26 Sep 1992 05:35:28 GMT

 friend of mine has a couple of questions and it has fallen to me to ask the 
net for help.  
   1   He has a Leading Edge model DX with a 486dx/33 in it which he tells
me is a standard configuration. ie. he bought it off the shelf with no
special options. Except for that, I would not even bother asking this question
He wants to know whether this has SCSI built in? He tells me he has two
rs232c ports, a parallel printer port, a monitor port nad one more
25 pin port which he does not recognize. He cannot find the documentation for
the machine and I have not as yet been able to reach Leading Edge.  He wants
to install a cd-rom drive but does not know whether he will need a scsi 
interface. Any guesses?

   2   Bonus question:  He also has an ancient xt class Leading Edge model M
gathering dust which he would like to uses for a small dialup BBS.  It has two
5.25 360k drives in it.  What are the caveats for putting in a harddrive?
Will the Leading Edge controller run a hard drive? If it will, he can pull one
floppy, throw in a hard drive, and BBS away. If not, can a harddrive controler
coexist with his floppy controller, or must he replace it? Alternatively, should
he look into a hardcard? These are more expensive.

Any and all help/suggestions would be appreciated. Sorry to ask for advice s
unseen, but this is my situation too, as my friend lives in Southern California.Thanks in advance.
Brendan Kelly
Brendan.R.Kelly.7@nd.edu
bitnet: bkelly@Irishmvs
From: camerons@NAD.3Com.COM (Cameron Spitzer 408/764-6339)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: EISA - information
Date: 30 Sep 92 22:40:58 GMT
Reply-To: camerons@NAD.3Com.COM
Organization: 3Com Corp

In article 19584@ida.liu.se, t91magru@odalix.ida.liu.se (Magnus Runesson) writes:
>Does annybody knows how fast a EISA-bus are? How many MHz?
>If I put a ISA-card in one EISA-bus how fast will it goes and does it
>slow down for the EISA-cards which are in other buses?
>Can I find the EISA specification on anonymous FTP?


Well nobody else posted and it might be of general interest.  My copy of the
EISA spec (Version 3.11, does anyone know if this is current?) says Copyright
1989, 1990, BCPR Services Inc.  *DO NOT COPY*. The address is
1400 L ST NW
Washington DC 20005-3502
(202) 371-5921

All the EISA mo'boards I've tested run the bus clock at 8.33 MHZ, which is the
limit in the spec.  At this rate the bus can move 33MB/sec, but only a bus master
in burst mode can reach this speed.
Your ISA cards will work fine unless they are seriously broken.  The EISA bus
performs ISA cycles for them when they are selected, and ignores them
the rest of the time, so they shouldn't slow their EISA card neighbors down.
Does this help?

Cameron
** my opinions above, not 3Com's **
From: tkhut@ap.cl.msu.edu (Scott Karre)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Are Hardware IDE cacheing controllers really that fast?
Date: 5 Oct 92 14:47:15 GMT
Organization: Michigan State University, USA


	I was reading an article in the computer shopper in which they
advertiased an IDE cacheing controller to speed up hard disk performace.
They stated that the average seek time was < 0.03 milliseconds, which
seemed incredible to me.  DO they really work that amazingly, or are
software disk caches like Smartdrive and Qcache just as good as them.
They also said it was upgradable to 8MB of ram.  What is the priomary
difference between having 2MB or 8MB on such a card?  Is it simple them able 
to load more data into its memory?  I would grealt y appreciate any advise
you have!

	Kris

	     " That which does not kill us, makes us stronger... "

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: lsaaski@abo.fi
Subject: Renoir SVGA drivers?!
Organization: Abo Akademi University, Finland
Date: Sat, 26 Sep 1992 09:36:20 GMT

Hi folks!

	What is the latest version of Renoir Ultra SVGA driver for
	Windows 3.1? I am using it with Hitachi MVX 14" monitor which
	can use 800x600 in non interlaced mode with 72 Hz vertcal refresh 
	rate, but unfortunately I have managed to make it work in
	32k color only. 256 color mode would be much faster. Now I must 
	use it in 800x600x256c mode with 60Hz vertical refresh but 
	it's not very good for eyes.

	I would be grateful if someone knows the internet address to get 
	the latest drivers for this card.
	 
Thanks in Advance!
-- 
Jussi Saaski
F18LAND
From: Mike@tron.gun.de (Michael Gerhards)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re^2: 486 50DX dies with memory
Organization: TRON Public Mailbox, Neurath, Germany
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 92 16:44:00 +0100

Reply to "Re: 486 50DX dies with memory"
from KGALLAGH%DIGI.LONESTAR.ORG@USENET.ZER

Hello,

> In article <1992Sep25.155729.21407@cs.mcgill.ca> storm@cs.mcgill.ca (Marc
> WANDSCHNEIDER) writes:
> >I just bought a LB 486 50DX board, and when I put it into my machine,
> >it screws up big time.
> >[..]
> >Now, My memory is as follows:
> >
> >4MB of 70ns 1MB SIMMs
> >16MB of 80ns 4MB SIMMs.
>[..]
> I'd replace your 80ns SIMMs with 70ns SIMMs, if it were my system.

Sorry, I didnt't receive the first message, but why don't you use waitstates ?

c u

Michael
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,comp.sys.gateway.tech.support.sucks
From: jim@ferkel.ucsb.edu (Jim Lick)
Subject: Re: Federal_Express==Overnight_Delivery? 
Organization: University of California, Santa Barbara
Date: Sat, 26 Sep 1992 07:48:44 GMT

In <1992Sep24.154432.22995@tandon.com> tdbear@tandon.com (Tom Barrett) writes:
>In article <Bv1BGr.Dn2@news.udel.edu> jon@chopin.udel.edu (Jon Deutsch) writes:
>>It seems that "overnight" delivery means 2 days, but hey...

>A lots of places advertise "Federal Express"... what they
>don't tell their customers is that they don't use the
>overnight service, but the less expensive one which may or may
>not get their in 1-2 days.

Federal Express has 3 main delivery options:  Overnight Rush will arrive the
next morning.  Overnight will arrive by 4 the next day.  And Economy 2-Day
will arrive by 4 the 2nd day.  2 day service is a LOT cheaper than the
others, and for most cases it is plenty fast enough.  These days a lot of
places send using 2-day service as standard.

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From: jre@zeos.com (Jim Erickson)
Subject: Re: Dead/dying Seagate drive-help!
Organization: Zeos International, Ltd
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 16:53:15 GMT

In article <1992Sep28.125654.9273@europa.asd.contel.com> markt@rocky.gte.com (Mark Tsombakos) writes:
>
>A friend of mine recently gave me a Seagate 7120 130M drive.  He told me he was

>The problem with the drive seems to be that it fails to spin-up - sometimes.
>A friend told him it was a known problem with Seagate's drives of this type,
>and that the head(s) actually "stick" to the platter occasionally.  He

   Current debat aside, you may want to leave your computer on all of the
time if you use this drive.
---JRE---




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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: gateway 2000
From: archerb@gawain.umkc.edu (Barry Archer)
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1992 14:36:37 GMT
Reply-To: archerb@gawain.umkc.edu (Barry Archer)
Organization: UMKC Academic Computing Services

In article <1992Sep17.181110.12667@tc.fluke.COM>, moriarty@tc.fluke.COM (Jeff Meyer) writes:
|>
|>Two observations:
|>
|>I've been extremely pleased with Gateway 2000 Tech support, WITH THE
|>UNDERSTANDING that 24-hour turnaround is OK.  I've sent in my questions via
|>FAX, and have gotten reasonable and informed information fairly quickly.
|>God help anyone trying to phone into their tech support lines.
|>
	I've been trying to help our Biological Sciences school, who have had
a lot of trouble getting responses from Gateway.  They ordered a second serial 
board which arrived, withou doc, and using dip switches instead of jumpers for
com designation and irq.  A week of calls, and an incorrect setting was given
by phone.  I had the school ask for correct doc, and three weeks after it
was promised by FAX, the same old doc for the older board arrived.

	It's doubtful these folks will buy Gateway again.  We don't have time 
for that lack of support.

	BTW, does anyone on this group know the dip switches we need to set for
COM3 on a Gateway 2000 serail board?

--

Barry Archer 
archerb@gawain.umkc.edu	

  "Madness is the result not of uncertainty but certainty."
	- Friedrich Nietzsche
From: u8945535@csdvax.csd.unsw.edu.au
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Problem with my 386 & IDE drive
Date: 29 Sep 92 15:54:59 +1000
Organization: University of New South Wales

I have just put together a 33Mhz 386.  I installed a 40Mb IDE Hard drive in it.

I have  had may problems with it.  I have tried combinations of duplicate
motherboards, drives and controllers and am still having problems

The only solution to the problem (namely that fdisk can not permanantly set up
the partition table) seems to be to change the wait states on the motherboard..
and even this is not a permanant solution.  The problem reappears soon after.

I have carefully made sure that there are no viruses (using Mcafee).

Is it common to have these problems....Have I overlooked something major.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.
From: hughesk@helium.gas.uug.arizona.edu (Kirby W. Hughes)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Help is ISA vs EISA
Date: 30 Sep 92 20:37:23 GMT
Organization: University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ

In article <1992Sep30.162106.21635@news.uni-stuttgart.de> GOETZER@nvdv01.ind.e-technik.uni-stuttgart.de (MARTIN GOETZER) writes:
>In <1992Sep27.195540.19722@cc.umontreal.ca> cholette@JSP.UMontreal.CA writes:
>
>> 
>> Hello everyone, I would like to know if anyone out there know's what the
>> differences between the ISA and EISA buses are, are both buses 32 bit wide
>> data buses, are they both clocked at the same speed? What are their respective
>> data flow rates?
>> 
>> Thanks in advance to anyone who help's out!
>> Martin Cholette
>> cholette@jsp.umontreal.ca
>EISA supports 32 bit, ISA 16 bit
>EISA uses 8 MHz, ISA 6-8 MHz, with ISA you need 2 clock cycles for 1 access.
>---> ISA 6-8 MByte/s; EISA 32 MByte/s.
>
>Hope that helps.
>
>- Martin -

So does this mean that with 16-bit ISA cards in your EISA machine, you
will still go 4 times faster?  I have been trying to figure out
ISA-EISA differences for a while now.  I thought that EISA would only
benefit if you had 32 bit EISA cards (one of which I have never seen).
If all I will ever have in my machine are 16-bit video, sound, and modem
cards, do I want EISA?  (I'm getting ready to buy and appreciate any input...)

Thanks,
Kirby Hughes
From: tkhut@ap.cl.msu.edu (Scott Karre)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: How upgradeable is a 386DX motherboard?
Date: 27 Sep 92 08:50:23 GMT
Organization: Michigan State University, USA

I own a 386DX 33 system (Am motherboard) and am interested to know if I can upgrade it to a 486SX class processor?  Do they make any 486SX chips that are pin compatable with 386DX motherbaords?  Thanks!

	Kris  tkhut@ap.cl.msu.edu

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: elgreco@milton.u.washington.edu (Jared Vogt)
Subject: Projection Monitor for Comp Presentations
Organization: University of Washington
Date: Sun, 27 Sep 1992 03:31:16 GMT




I am asking this on behalf of a friend.  He is interested in a color projection
monitor, to project a presentation that is running on a computer. 
Size - presentations of about 25 people.  Actually, he was wondering if
a projection monitor is the best solution. Apparently there are two different
styles, front and rear projection. What are the merits and drawbacks of each?   The screen size would need to be about
6' X 5'.  Any experience with these beasts and/or advice concerning them
would be much appreciated. Performance/price ratio would be helpful as well.

And if I am in the wrong newsgroup, could someone point me in the right
direction.

Please send email to:
elgreco@u.washington.edu

Thanks in advance

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From: Josef Moellers <mollers.pad@sni.de>
Subject: Re: 5.25" drive won't see disk changes...NEED help!
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1992 06:50:24 GMT
Organization: Siemens Nixdorf Info.Sys. AG, Paderborn, Germany

In <BvD9ut.A81@chinet.chi.il.us> randy@chinet.chi.il.us (Randy Suess) writes:

>In article <1992Sep27.063632.223417@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu> ry01@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (ROBERT YUNG) writes:
>>My 5.25" disk won't recognize disk changes! Even if I take the disk out and
>>leave the door open, it still will show me the disk's directory! 

>	Quite often it is because the cable has a broken wire.  The edge
>	of the cable is easily frayed, and is the (believe it or not)
>	"changed disk" line.

There are floppy controllers that have no input for something like a
"drive ready" signal. Therefore there is no way whatsoever to discover
whether the door is open or not (all You can do is access the floppy and
time out when no data comes in).
One example is the WD37C65C in the DIP package. It does not have a pin
for this function. In both the DIP and PLCC package, the READY bit in
the ST3 is always 1 and NOT READY in ST0 is always 0.

Also, as the floppy driver can only actively sense that the door is open
(i.e. it won't recognize when the door is opened and the closed again
while it's not looking), the DOS driver usually has to look onto the
floppy (if present) to see if it has been changed. For this purpose,
some newer version of DOS (>=3.0?) has introduced some number into the
boot block that is assumed to be unique between floppies.
Whenever You try to access the floppy, it'll first read the boot-block
and then check if the number matches the one it read the last time.
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From: anikzad@symbol.com (Arman Nikzad)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Gecco Computers.
Date: 30 Sep 92 17:32:50 GMT
Distribution: All
Organization: Symbol Technologies, Inc.

Does anyone have any input on Gecco Computers?  We are considering
486DX-33 systems with Diamond Speadstar 24X Video and Quantum hard drive. 
Any impressions of the company (Gecco) service and quality, or system 
performance would be appreciated.  Any input on Keyboard or other 
ergonomics, also.
Xref: sparky comp.sys.ibm.pc:600 comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc:13138
From: mramesh@cbnewse.cb.att.com (m.ramesh)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Diamond Stealth Vram Card
Keywords: resolt=ution, technical support, NEC 4FGX
Date: 28 Sep 92 14:18:56 GMT
Followup-To: poster
Distribution: na
Organization: AT&T


Any body has Diamond Stealth VRAM card?

I have one and an NEC 4FG 15" monitor.  I would like to know the effect of
choosing the NEC 4FGX option when I run the smode command provided with
Diamond Stealth card?  There is no difference between choosing 4FGX and fixed
frequency option on the monitor menu.

Also is there a driver for 1280x960 for this card?

I have been trying to contact the company and it is useless, their BBS is
useless and they do not reply to FAX.  And they make a big deal about excellent
technical support.

I hope the company reads this mail too.


I f anybody can answer my question I will be thankful.

Masoor Ramesh.
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