HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: u009@csx.cciw.ca (G. Stewart Beal)
Subject: Wanted:Disk Diagnostic reporting bad BLOCKS (not track/head)
Organization: Canada Centre for Inland Waters
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1992 14:31:22 GMT

I am looking for some kind of diagnostic for a MFM hard disk which will
report the actual block number (or cylinder+head + SECTOR) of bad blocks
on it. I want to spare out the bad blocks under 386BSD but the only
diagnostics I can find (Speedstore, Disk Manager, Mace HTest) all report
only the track containing the error. While I was playing with the drive on
a Mac, I got a listing of some of the blocks after it was formatted with 
1:1 interleave but on the PC, I can only use 2:1 so the block numbers I
currently have are probably meaningless. I have the Cyl/Head/BFI values
of some of the flaws from the manufacturer, but I can't calculate the sector 
'cause I don't know the actual byte by byte organization of a track, besides
the interleaving would complicate things too much for my little brain!
So if you've got a pet diagnostic that reports Blocks or sectors, I'd
love to hear from you.
 
Regards, Stu Beal, VE3MWM, U009@CS.CCIW.CA,
National Water Research Institute, Burlington, Ontario, Canada.
 
"A breathless story that zips along at warp speed... because the characters
are undeveloped and the author has not the least sense of narrative pace."


Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: IMAGING.CLUB@OFFICE.WANG.COM ("Imaging Club")
Subject: Re: Mail Order Equipment by Email?
Organization: Mail to News Gateway at Wang Labs
Date: 28 Sep 92 16:34:57 EST

In answer to this question, you can contact just about anyone in
the very large Wang Express PC equipment and supplies telemarketing
operation via Email.  Their address is usually of the form:

              John.Smith@OFFICE.Wang.com    (sample)

To find out particular specialists to Email and perhaps to get
a full catalogue, you could first call 1-800-835-9264.

Besides the latest PCs with very impressive price/performance,
they also have lots of PC software, power products, modems,
supplies, memory, and environmentally safe cartridges, as typical
items in the Wang Express catalogue.

For example, if you would like some advice or recommendations about
quality supplies, you could send an Email to:

               Janet.Tremblay@OFFICE.Wang.com

(She's back in the Supplies group after just completing a semester
as a Wang Total Quality instructor, or Quality Leadership Process,
using Wang terminology.  Even if you're not ordering from her, she'll
be happy to give you some advice or recommendations on supplies,
other PC products, or Total Quality (and zero defects) in general.)

Michael.Willett@OFFICE.Wang.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: mosbrook@beach.csulb.edu (Brent Mosbrook)
Subject: Re: Pro Audio Spectrum 16 SCSI port?
Organization: Cal State Long Beach
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1992 00:08:19 GMT


my experience with that company is extremely negative... they say a SCSI cable
kit is required.. the box makes no mention that a $60 driver is required for
EACH type of SCSI device you add.  Their tech support is almost non-existant..
takes 3 days to get a return call, and their BBS sysops don't give a reply
either.

instead of saying that they have a SCSI port, they should say that you can
upgrade to allow a CD rom or other device, but it doesn't really seem fair to
claim a SCSI port, since it is crippled unless you buy a software driver from
Trantor, un-related to Media Vision... even their manual says to call Trantor
with any SCSI related problems.


Brent
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: timmons@npmv11.enet.dec.com (Ray Timmons)
Subject: Write precomp. after sector translation?
Reply-To: Timmons@Raven1.enet.dec.com
Organization: None
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 92 17:10:58 GMT


Suppose I have a drive with 1170 cylinders (more than the 1024 DOS can
handle) and want to use a controller with sector translation so that I
don't need no stinking tsr to fool DOS.  Now if the precomp was 512, 
what does it become after the the 1170 cyl, 7 hds, 26 sectors are
translated to say 415 cyl, 16 hds, 32 sectors?  Does it matter what 
I put in CMOS set up after I tell the controller what it really is?

Thanks in advance for any help!

Ray T.
Organization: Penn State University
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 23:54:54 EDT
From: <PTS102@psuvm.psu.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Wanted: 1280 x 1024 VGA card (not S3)

I've just ordered a MAG MX15F (1280X1024 NI) and I need a video card
to go with it.

  1) Must do 1280x1024x16, 1024x768x256,
             800x600x256 (32768 would be nice), 640x480x32768.

  2) No S3 Windows acceleration.  I use Windows about once a week.

  3) Must be cheap (under $200).

  4) Must work with my 286-20.  Speed isn't important, since
     everything is slow on a 286 anyway.  I have seen that some
     of the Diamond cards require a 386/486.  Is this typical?

    I will probably buy a VL-bus 486 sometime next year,
  as well as a new video card, so I don't want to invest too much
  in this one.

  Thanks.

---
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pts102@psuvm.psu.edu  pts@ecl.psu.edu
Xref: sparky comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware:25412 comp.dcom.modems:14012
From: ksthorn@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Kurt Stephen Thorn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Recommendations for 9600 baud modem?
Keywords: modems, 9600baud, v.42bis
Date: 27 Sep 92 16:44:49 GMT
Article-I.D.: Princeto.1992Sep27.164449.16060
Distribution: usa
Organization: Princeton University
Originator: news@nimaster

Hi There:
	I'm in the process of trying to choose a modem for my PC (Gateway 2000
486/33).  I'm looking for an internal modem, 9600 baud, preferably V.32/42bis,
and cheap.
	So far I've seen two that seem reasonable: the Gateway Telepath, and 
the Compudyne 9600 Internal V.32/42bis.  I've heard some complaints about the
Telepath, but I'm not quite sure what they were.  Could someone please send
there comments about either of these two modems, and/or reccomendations for 
others (under $300).

Thanks,
Kurt Thorn
ksthorn@phoenix.princeton.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,comp.sys.intel,comp.unix.sysv386
From: sonny@charybdis.harris-atd.com (Bob Davis)
Subject: Re: Can a '486DX drop into a '486SX socket?
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1992 19:11:41 GMT
Reply-To: sonny@trantor.harris-atd.com (Bob Davis)
Organization: Advanced Technology Dept., Harris ESS, Melbourne, FL

In article <id.XART.7NK@ferranti.com> peter@ferranti.com (peter da silva) writes:
>In article <1992Oct1.004856.23867@unislc.uucp> martin@unislc.UUCP (Martin Cryer,D1Z01,5754) writes:
>> The 486SX and 487SX are different from both each other and
>> the 486DX/486DX-2 pinout. That's why Intel specifies multiple sockets etc
>> in their suggested layouts. Its to allow field upgrades without
>> removing anything.
>
>It's for no such purpose. They could do that without changing the pinout.
>It's to improve the profit margin.
>

	Nowadays, you can buy motherboards with a single CPU socket
and jumpers which allow configuring so that a 486SX, 487SX, or 486DX
CPU chip can be run in the single CPU socket. I have such a motherboard,
which can go to 486DX 50 Mhz operation, with a cheap 486SX 25 Mhz chip
currently plugged in until someone will sell me a 486DX 33 or 50 MHz chip
cheap...(Do you have one for me?)


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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: tdbear@tandon.com (Tom Barrett)
Subject: Re: Intel 486 price changes (Re: THE WAR IS OVER)
Organization: Tandon Corporation, Moorpark, CA
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1992 16:15:34 GMT

In article <BvGzyC.D32@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us> mju@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us (Marc Unangst) writes:
>Sorta makes you wonder, though -- don't most companies do
>internal testing on, say, the first 50 boards off the line?

Well, most medium to large companies (Tandon is medium,
Zenith/Compaq is large... IBM is gigantic) use up the first
few systems (many more m'boards) just for internal marketing
and sales use, quality checks, and continuing engineering
checks.

If your board came from a Taiwan clone maker, it doesn't sound
like you could have been the lucky person in the tens of
thousands to get one of the first few boards... what are you
basing this on?  Is it more like the dealer from which you
bought the system or board stuck his own S/N on it?  He could
have had the board out for display, for example, and it was
damaged by static during handling.

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From: paulsen@iscsvax.uni.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: HELP - Diskette Duplicator Machine
Date: 5 Oct 92 13:42:44 -0500
Organization: University of Northern Iowa

I am looking for a disk duplicating machine for both 3.5 & 5.25" diskettes, up
to 1.44 capacity.  I am looking for the machine not just software.  

If you know of a good option, please contact me at PAULSEN@UNI.EDU or call me
at  (319) 273-6815.  Thanks.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: jim@ferkel.ucsb.edu (Jim Lick)
Subject: A REAL 24 bit graphic card available?
Organization: University of California, Santa Barbara
Date: Sat, 26 Sep 1992 07:31:37 GMT

What I mean by real:

8-bit DAC for each of the RGB colors
Able to do high res (1024x768 or 1280x1024) in 24-bit
(Most 24-bit boards I've seen only do it in 640x480 mode, blech.)
Graphics Accelerated
Real bus: EISA or VESA Local Bus
Flat memory map, No BS (Bank Switching)
32-bit memory addressing and ability to put it far away from system memory
Developer friendly company so I can write Unix/X support for it if I want

I figure that this could be done for under $600.

Anything like this on the horizon?

                            Jim Lick		       
Work: University of California	| Play: 1236 Camino Meleno
      Santa Barbara		|       Santa Barbara, CA 93111-1007
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      2311 Engr II Building     |	(805) MUD-SPY1 data
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From: djr8482@acf5.NYU.EDU (Daniel Reznick)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: where is the ATI Ultra Pro???
Date: 6 Oct 92 15:00:00 GMT
Article-I.D.: acf5.54830018
Organization: New York University

I got mine from Gateway 2000, with their 66mhz DX2.

Gateway still maintains that this IS a full Ultra Pro, and WILL support
640x480x16.7M, but that I need to wait about 2 weeks for the correct drivers.

We will see.

Daniel Reznick
djr8482@acf5.nyu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: schinagl@fstgds06.tu-graz.ac.at (Hermann Schinagl)
Subject: ET4032 ???
Organization: Technical University of Graz, Austria
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 92 13:29:58 GMT

Hi

Some month ago I have read that tseng is hardly 
working on an et4032, which should support local
bus and some more features like hardware bitblt.

What about tseng, are they really working, or is 
this only a roumor ???



Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: kgermann@zeos.com (Ken Germann)
Subject: Re: 5.25" drive won't see disk changes...NEED help!
Organization: Zeos International, Ltd
Date: Sun, 27 Sep 1992 18:40:27 GMT

In article <1992Sep27.183838.26746@zeos.com> kgermann@zeos.com (Ken Germann) 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! 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
>>-- 
>There is an optic that detects diskette changes. You can take some canned/
>compressed air and clean the optic sensor. Blow the compressed air on both
>the right and left hand side of the floppy drive. If this doesn't work, you can
>look in the back of the DOS manual for the DRIVPARM options that force
>the system to look for diskette changes every time there is a diskette insterted
>into your floppy drive.
>-- 


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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: cristo@krk.fi (Kristo Airinen)
Subject: Wangtek streamer..
Organization: Radio Club of Kauniainen (OH2NRG)
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 23:03:26 GMT

	Hey everybody,

	I got my hands on an old machine which had one Wangtek streamer.
	The only problem is that I know nothing about it, except that
	it's _OLD_ (something like year 1985) and eats DC600A -tapes.

	The connector is like SCSI, but it's card-edge and not
	a pin connector such as harddisks have. But the cable itself is 
	just like SCSI, just as wide. 

	The model number I found in it is: 5099EN24. 

	Is this streamer really a SCSI-streamer or something else? 

  K.A - cristo@krk.fi

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: randy@chinet.chi.il.us (Randy Suess)
Subject: Re: 5.25" drive won't see disk changes...NEED help!
Organization: Chinet - Public Access UNIX
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 01:08:52 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! 

	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.

-- 
	I am created Shiva the Destroyer; Death, the shatterer of worlds!
	Who is this dog meat who stands before me now?
	That's the biz, sweetheart.
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From: peter@global.hacktic.nl (Peter Busser)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: 586?
Date: Sun, 27 Sep 92 15:15:16 GMT
Organization: Global Village 1

markus@clement.info.umoncton.ca (MARC PAULIN) writes:

>	Actually, the 586 is supposed to be called P5.  But I don't know 
>what to trust.  A magazine talks about the P5 and another one talks about 
>the 586.

Intel called 'it' the P5 because numbers (like 386) are so difficult to
trademark. Maybe they have moref luck this time than with the iAPX386 which
everyone calls 80386...

Greetings,
Peter Busser
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: rswanepo@cs1.uct.ac.za (RJ SWANEPOEL)
Subject: Help ! - Installing MAXTOR 7040AT & Seagate 157A together
Summary: What are the jumper settings for the  MAXTOR 7040AT ?
Keywords: MAXTOR  Seagate IDE dual-drive jumper settings
Organization: Computer Science Department, University of Cape Town
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1992 09:36:45 GMT

Hello Everybody

I have a bit of a problem and would appreciate it if anyone could
help.

I have two IDE drives, a Seagate 157A and a Maxtor 7040AT, which I am
trying to install together.  Problem is, I don't have the jumper
settings or drive specificatios for the Maxtor.

If you know the specifications and more importantly the jumper
settings to set the Maxtor up as either slave or master, PLEASE
PLEASE PLEASE let me know.

You can Email me or post a reply here.

Thanks

Robert

ROBERT SWANEPOEL                    EMAIL : rswanepo@cs1.uct.ac.za
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: olsenc@milton.u.washington.edu (Clint Olsen)
Subject: Re: 486/50 WITH local bus ?
Keywords: 486-50DX local bus
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle
Date: Sat, 3 Oct 1992 04:08:55 GMT

>bus 486-DX 50 Mhz. with local bus !
>
>I understand that the impression here on the net is, that a 50 MHZ local
>bus is not yet on the market. How can they offer me one then ?
>(PS : the bare machine costs : 3799,-- (guilders, holland)
>Any help is appreciated. (Any offers also..:-))
>FRed.
>

Here in Seattle, WA, 50 MHz local bus has beeen out for a few months.
The catch is finding peripherals that will work at that speed.  At the
time of its debut, Tseng's local bus video card wouldn't work at such
speeds.  I don't know if that's the case now, but it's something to
keep in mind.

-----------------------------------------------------------------------
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olsenc@u.washington.edu

Computers cause dain bramage...
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From: livigni@bldrdoc.gov (David livigni 303-497-5898)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Recommendations wanted for an upgradeable 386/486 motherboard
Summary: other alternative motherboards
Keywords: 386 486 upgradeable
Date: 1 Oct 92 21:16:04 GMT

In article <feOn02ls23Ex01@JUTS.ccc.amdahl.com>, msl30@ccc.amdahl.com (Michael Lucash) writes:
> In article <Bv905J.6vy@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> notarus@uiuc.edu (Mark Notarus) writes:
> >
> > I'm looking to upgrade from my 286, but have decided to go via the
> >386/486 upgradable motherboard route.
<stuff deleted>
> >mark
> >
> I am upgrading from a 286 also and found an upgradable motherboard from
> Hippo Systems in Computer Shopper.  The board will use a 386 25mhz-40mhz or
> a 486sx-486dx2 50Mhz.  They also mention the P24? chip.  I ordered mine and
> it should be in tomorrow so when I get more info I'll post it.
> 
> I asked about the chip set and they use Symphony with a write-through cache.
> 
> 
>                  Mike

VEGA makes a similar motherboard that can use 386-40, 486 and 486 sx 25,
33, 50, dx2-50, and dx2-60.  Does not support P24 though.  Comes with
386DX-40 installed.  Runs with 2-wait states for all modes except 486-50
(maby one other) which runs at 0-wait.  Supports 387, 487sx, Weitek.
32 Megs on MB, Symphony chip set.  Built in 10-year battery (strange),
AMI Bios.  I'll post some benchmarks soon.  If you get one, I suggest 
having the vendor install it in a chassis because the wiring of the
digital speed display is difficult.  I got this board from
DynamicScan, (314)423-0044 for $279.00.  See add in Octorber BYTE.
So far, so good, but I've barely cracked the box.

David Livigni

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From: chyang@engin.umich.edu (Chung Hsiung Yang)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: are EISA & local bus mutually exclusive?
Date: 4 Oct 92 02:55:16 GMT
Organization: University of Michigan Engineering, Ann Arbor

In article <91495@netnews.upenn.edu> sergei@upenn5.hep.upenn.edu (Sergei Borodin) writes:
>In article <1992Oct2.151024.1@vax1.umkc.edu> eputnam@vax1.umkc.edu writes:
> 
>>>>In article <91131@netnews.upenn.edu> sergei@upenn5.hep.upenn.edu (Sergei Borodin) writes:
>
> The fact that you take some load off the LB doesn't speed up the system,
> it either works or not (works sometimes means that it doesn't here).
>
> So, I still don't see any advantage in having EISA/LB combination.
> But it's cool.
>
> Remember, VL-bus has 3 slots, and supposedely we have one left free.
>
> What to put in it?
>
     	A T.V. Card would be nice! A window based T.V. card with fully
interactive video editing system.  Wouldn't that be something!

- Yang  
> S.B.
From: csa@cup.portal.com (CHUCK - ARAKAWA)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Need manual for Adaptec AHA-1542b
Date: Mon,  5 Oct 92 20:57:21 PDT
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
Distribution: na

You would'nt happen to have the drivers for this card would you?  Such as
ASW-1410 Dos Driver
ASW-1420 OS/2 v1.1 driver
ASW-1440 Novell 286/386 driver
CD ROM Drivers

Send E-Mail csa@cup.portal.com
or (310) 986-2722
From: smithgr@rintintin.Colorado.EDU (Gregory P. Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: SpeedSTAR 24x 286 only?
Date: 4 Oct 92 18:00:54 GMT
Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder

What makes the Diamond SpeedSTAR 24x video card a 386 only SVGA?

Greg
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: isc10085@nusunix1.nus.sg (NG YENG YONG)
Subject: Re: Software to format Conner IDE drive?
Organization: National University of Singapore
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1992 08:25:29 GMT

Reinhard Kirchner (kirchner@uklira.informatik.uni-kl.de) wrote:
: 
: I just decided to get a Conner IDE drive, and ... aehemmm, I do only
: have a limited trust in the promise I don't need a low level formating.
: 
: So, just for prevention: Can some of these low level tools like DiskManager,
: Spinrite II, Speedstor etc. do a low level format on such a drive ?

There is a software call MICROSCOPE that allows IDE re-formatting.

Best regards,
Steve
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: dhaigh@actrix.gen.nz (David Haigh)
Subject: DEC Tiger PCs: Good? Bad? Problems?
Organization: Actrix Information Exchange
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1992 11:08:05 GMT

The title pretty much sums up what I'm after. Simply, what are your
experiences with the DEC Tiger range?

I have found them to be rather picky about expansion cards and even
cause problems with external modems which work fine on other
machines.

Comments please!

Dave.

Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware