HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: whl@minster.york.ac.uk
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Information about Conner CP30174 harddrive
Date: 12 Oct 92 14:25:14 GMT
Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of York, England


Hi there,

I have recently bought an IDE 170MByte harddrive (Conner CP30174) without
manual. I am trying to configure my PC to recognize the harddrive. Does 
anyone know the configuration details of the drive (ie: the number of
cylinders, the number of sectors per cylinder, the number of heads, etc).

I need the information quite urgently and any help would be very much
appreciated. Please email your response to: 
	whl@uk.ac.york.minster  or  whl@minster.york.ac.uk

Thanks.
Rynson.
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From: ketrenoj@ucs.orst.edu (Lord Logics)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: Need help on upgrading a v.32 modem to v.42
Date: 15 Oct 92 22:17:43 GMT
Article-I.D.: news.Bw6oLK.BzM
Organization: University Computing Services - OSU

] From: imbri_m@aesc.cs.odu.edu (Mark Imbriaco)
] Why wouldn't you consider a modem without v.42bis?  I have a GVC v.42 wit
] the port locked at 19.2k and I ran it side by side with a v.42bis modem 
] noticing little or no difference.  MNP functions almost as well, and if y
] are doing file xfers you would want it turned off for better performance 
] anyway.. right?

... correct me if i'm wrong, but isn't v.42 error correction, while v.42bis is
compression?  if ur running solely .zipped files, then the bis isn't gonna
help much, but if u read messages, or do a lot of text based transfers, the
bis will help quite a bit (pumping 14.4k up to like 38k and 19.2 up to 54k i 
*think*)

as to turning off the MNP, it depends on what protocol ur using.  if u use
ZModem, then u'll get better performance w/ the MNP off, since zmodem already
has a lot of error correction overhead.  if ur using ymodem, then leaving it
on will increase performance, since ymodem doesn't have the overhead...

at least that's what i've picked up from listening to people talk about the
hispeed modems.  i'm still trudging at 2400 (anyone want to sell a 14.4 or
16.8 for 150 bux?) l8r-

James
ketrenoj@ucs.orst.edu
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From: raoul@eplunix.UUCP (Nico Garcia)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Software/Video board incompatibility
Keywords: VGA, VESA, video board, STB, PADS
Date: 12 Oct 92 14:41:04 GMT
Organization: Eaton-Peabody Lab, Boston, MA

Hi. We just got a new 486DX from the Insight company, with a very nice 14"
monitor and STB Resolution VGA 1120 x 1024 video board. MS-DOS 5.0 is also
installed now.

Unfortunately, some software I was using before doesn't like it, namely the
PADS freeware.  The display options on the PADS freeware that work slightly
are the IBM VGA and EGA settings, and they don't work at all well.  Lines
are lost, moving objects leaves cruft behind on the screen, and text is
obscured by jaggedy lines. This is a circuit board design package: losing
lines makes this software useless.  A few other settings work equally badly,
several settings freeze the machine when the programs are run, and several
just leave a blank screen.

The freeware works fine on an ATI board in a Compaq 386. The monitor works
fine, and I've even tried swapping the monitors (to no avail). The Compaq's
ATI board worked fine on the new monitor, so that's OK. The 486's Resolution
card produced cruft on the Compaq's monitor, so I think the problem is the
board.

I've also called PADS, and they say they're not interested in writing
drivers specifically for that video card. They and STB said the card is a
VESA card, which STB claims is a great thing and PADS claims is not. PADS's
software has worked fine with the IBM VGA settings on many machines for years
now, and if it doesn't, the video card is not 100% VGA compatible.

My question is whether there are appropriate settings for this board, in
software or the dip-switches, to get it to properly emulate a known
hardware, like the IBM VGA or EGA video boards (as the most common, standard
exmaple).

Please note: I am not a PC expert, I am a UNIX sys-admin with a new machine
to cope with. Assume I'm new to this and explain your ideas completely
completely, and I'm much more certain to understand what you're suggesting
and its consequences.
-- 
			Nico Garcia
			CIRL/MEEI
			eddie.mit.edu!eplunix!raoul
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
From: tran@peora.sdc.ccur.com (Nhan Tran)
Subject: Problem with Ctrl-Break
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1992 19:26:45 GMT
Organization: Concurrent Computer Corp, Orlando, Fl
Followup-To: poster


I have a routine in Turbo-C. It detects user's keystroke with bioskey().
I want to detect Ctrl-C but ignore Ctrl-Break.

getkey()
{
	while (!bioskey(1))
		;
	return (getch());
}

It works fine for Ctrl-C. However, if I press Ctrl-Break, the program hangs.

When I change 
			while (!bioskey(1))
to
			while (!kbhit())

then both Ctrl-C & Ctrl-Break show ^C on screen and terminate the program.

When I use ctrlbrk() to set a new control-break handler, pressing Ctrl-C
or Ctrl-Break won't terminate the program but leave ^C on the screen.
Moreover, I cannot detect Ctrl-C this way (using kbhit())

Using bioskey() + ctrlbrk(), I can detect Ctrl-C, but again Ctrl-Break hang
the program.

Somehow bioskey() doesn't work with Ctrl-Break. 
Does anyone have any solution?

N. Tran.
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From: wilken@plains.NoDak.edu (Scott Wilken)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: Need help on upgrading a v.32 modem to v.42
Date: 15 Oct 92 21:41:20 GMT
Article-I.D.: ns1.Bw6Mww.Bzt
Organization: North Dakota Higher Education Computing Network

In article <1992Oct15.165257.7343@cs.odu.edu> imbri_m@aesc.cs.odu.edu (Mark Imbriaco) writes:
>Why wouldn't you consider a modem without v.42bis?  I have a GVC v.42 with 
>the port locked at 19.2k and I ran it side by side with a v.42bis modem 

Well, you were transfering a pre-compressed file if you noticed no difference
V.42 and V.42bis have little to do with each other (at least in as-much as
what they are designed to accomplish...)

V.42 is error correction, it cant compress *AT ALL*.  V.42bis provides (at
least in theory) 4:1 data compression (this is why you lock your port at
4X higher than your actual connect speed). 

If you noticed no difference in transfer speed, the file you were sending
was already compressed, nullifying V.42bis's effect.

>noticing little or no difference.  MNP functions almost as well, and if you

Heee Heee Heee Hee.... Someone pick me up, I think I just coughed up a lung.

Saying MNP performs as well as V.42bis is somewhat like saying a yugo functions
almost as well as a Porche 911.

>are doing file xfers you would want it turned off for better performance 
>anyway.. right?

Nope.   V.42bis is smarter than MNP.  When MNP transfers a pre-compressed
file it tries to compress it anyway, and the overhead can actually slow
your transfer somewhat.  V.42bis tries to compress it and says "Oh, I cant
compress this anymore than it already is," and turns itself off (coming
back into play once the transmitted data IS compressable).

I didnt see the previous posts in this thread (the poster wanted to upgrade
his modem from V.32 to V.42).  Im sure someone along the way tackled that
on already, but just in case here goes.

V.32 is a CCITT signalling protocol for transmission at 9600BPS.  V.42 is
a CCITT error correction protocol..  As you see, you cant upgrade from
one to the other since they are not dependant on one another (sort of like
saying you want to upgrade your V8 to a steering wheel.  They are both
part of a car, but not a function of the other...)

Scott
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: QUANTUM 105AT  HD CMOS SPECS
From: lynn@vax1.mankato.msus.edu
Date: 10 Oct 92 11:33:04 -0600
Reply-To: IN%"lynn@vax1.mankato.msus.edu"
Organization: Mankato State University

I have a friend who lost CMOS setup.  Anyway, if anyone out there has the
user defined settings for the following hard drive.


Quantum 105AT   



Please mail any information to: lynn@vax1.mankato.msus.edu


Thanks.  Stan Tyree
From: vo@be.seas.upenn.edu (Al Bundy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Comment about Oxy.
Date: 9 Oct 92 00:22:04 GMT
Organization: University of Pennsylvania

Article 39738 of comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware:
From: ericl@cbmvax.commodore.com (Eric Law - Staff)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Occidental LocalBus PC (Young Turk)
Summary: what am I missing
Keywords: vesa
Date: 7 Oct 92 13:43:57 GMT
Followup-To: ericl@commodore.com
Organization: Commodore

I just talked with Occidental about their 486/SX 25Mhz PC.

Configuration is:

    486SX/25 CPU
    0 cache expandable to 128 or 256K
    VLSI Chipset
    Pheonix Flash-BIOS
    Overdrive Socket, upgradable to DX2/66 and above
    Custom Motherboard (made in same plant as Zeos motherboards)
    4Meg RAM expandable to 32
    170Meg drive (conner)
==>    CTX 14" 72Hz monitor
    localbus video VESA standard on motherboard ( NCR Chipset > 10 Winmarks )
                                                (can disable with switch)
    1 localbus slot available
    2 teac floppies
    etc...

    As you can see, parts seem to be somewhat common brandnames
    (cept the motherboard of course, which is their own)



My comment:
1) CTX mopnitor is not 72Hz.  At 1024*768 it is only 62Hz.  But Oxy claims
   that they have special drive to speed up to 72Hz.
2) Never listen to any slimy reps when they say your system will be shipped in
   2 weeks or less.  If you are thinking about buying Oxy machines, then you 
   should make your plan at least 1 month ahead.   I've ordered the Young Turk
   about a month ago, and I have not received it yet.



Al Bundy.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.dcom.fax,comp.dcom.lans
From: bower@hfsi.uucp (Michael Bower Comm. )
Subject: LAN access to FAX modem
Reply-To: bower@hfsi.UUCP (Michael Bower Comm. )
Organization: HFSI, McLean VA.
Distribution: na
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 14:29:07 GMT

Dear Netters:

We are in the process of installing a twisted pair lan on our floor and my
management (bless his soul) has asked to be able to do the following:

From a PC on the LAN, generate a fax and send it out using a fax modem
on a "fax server."  He is willing to have a user send a file to the server
and still have the server send the fax but he wants it as automatic as
can be.

My suppostion (based on admittedly sparse knowledge) is that he will need
fax software in the users machine to send a fax "file" to the fax server
to be send out.

Can any of this be done and what is the best way to do it?  Your hasty 
input is sorely needed.

(This will teach me to learn to spell FAX and ALN (:-))

Michael Bower
bower@hfsi.com

P.S. I have posted this to comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware, comp.dcom.fax and 
comp.dcom.lans.  If it should be posted elsewhere for better exposure, 
please let me know or pass it on.  Thank you.

Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: pwb@aerg.canberra.edu.au (Paul Blackman)
Subject: Re: Info wanted about SCSI controllers
Organization: University of Canberra
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 92 01:19:30 GMT

Me too, if anybody would like to send me some
info/comments etc on any SCSI controllers I'd
appreciate it.

Can I use any controllers with any SCSI drives?

Has anyone heard of or used DTC (or is it DTK)
controllers? I am able to get on of these but 
I don't know anything about them.  eg. I don't
think they are supported under Windows NT or
are they compatible with another supported driver.

Any help appreciated,
Paul Blackman...       (pwb@aerg.canberra.edu.au )

Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: mgc@unislc.uucp (Marc Christensen)
Subject: Re: ATI Graphics Ultra or Diamond SpeedStar 24X
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Organization: Unisys Corporation SLC
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1992 23:44:54 GMT

Qi;Zheng (zheng@evy.ucsb.edu) wrote:
: 
: I want to buy a video card. I have choice between
: ATI Graphics Ultra and Diamond SpeedStar 24X.
: Someone told me that the ATI one is faster but
: it is not Hi-color (only upto 256) and the
: Diamond one is slower but has 16.7m colors.
: Is this true? Which one is better?  I need
: your advise.  
: 
: Thank you.
: 
I Just Returned a Diamond speedstar 24 (not 24x but also 24bit)
I got an ATI VGAWonder XL24 with a bus mouse built in for USD$30.00 
cheaper. Both Cards are 16.7 Mill. colors. both cards allow adjustment of
sync and timing to match your monitor and set startup Defaults BUT the
ATI puts those Settings on EEPROM on the card the Diamond "SEEMS" to expect
you to run a setup Program in your dos AUTOEXEC.BAT to set the card to those
defaults.
I and using X11R4 running on Unix Sys V Release 4 and Don't boot DOS 
so it was useless to me. From a Cold boot I Had to First bring up the CMOS
setup screen to get the card in the correct mode then exit and continue the
boot or else the video card went NUTS and chopped random bits of the Charaters
off. 
The EEPROM Approach it better Especially if you are using Unix and probably
Windows NT, OS/2, Xenix, or some other Future OS.
I Don't have the drivers for Coprocessor Type VGA Cards so I can't Talk about
Windows 3.1 Speed etc..
Be Aware also the Current Batch of cards can only do 16.7 million colors in
640x480 colors due to memory constraints.
they also do 32K colors in 800x600 modes and 256 colors in 1024x768.
the way I understand it if you don't have the Special drivers for the
Coprocessor type cards the perfomance is usualy WORSE than SVGA cards that
cost 1/3 the money. 
IMHO the Cheaper ATIWonder XL24 with Mouse and setup in EEPROM is the better
card UNLESS you want the Coprocessor type card.

Marc Christesen
From: jong@wright.seas.ucla.edu (Jong Y. Lee)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: 486 processor from Cyrix
Date: 15 Oct 92 00:43:14 GMT
Organization: SEASnet, University of California, Los Angeles


Hi netters!

I have a question for those who know very well about the new 486 clone from
Cyrix.  At first I thought it was real 486 without a coprocessor, but
I hear a lot of ppl saying it's just a fast 386dx.  So what's the catch?
Does it execute 1 instruction in 1 clock cycle as real 486 does?  Does it
have a on-chip memory management unit?  I know it has only 1k of cache 
instead of 8k in 486 and lacks FPU.  So is it a REAL 486 or just 
turbocharged 386??
I don't want to hear about Landmark/Norton number craps.  They don't mean
anything.  All I want to know is whether it's closer to 386 or 486
hardware-wise.

Thanks in advance!


Jongyoon

Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: lestrade@Ra.MsState.Edu (John Patrick Lestrade)
Subject: Which to buy, VESA (Tri-star) or EISA?
Organization: Mississippi State University
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 21:08:53 GMT

I thought I had an easy choice of EISA over ISA but now they 
tell me I can get VESA.  Can anyone tell me the main differences?
thank
you

--
John Patrick Lestrade, PhD        
cnesta::lestrade
lestrade@ra.msstate.edu
From: jefftep@cs.utexas.edu (Jeffrey Grills)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Why is Maxtor 7213A so cheap???
Date: 13 Oct 1992 01:34:06 -0500
Organization: CS Dept, University of Texas at Austin
NNTP-Posting-Host: ozona.cs.utexas.edu


I am an owner of a 7213a, and have been pretty happy.
The drive is quiet -- much quieter than my old WD,
and much quieter than my friend's Kalok drive.

However, it appears that older versions of this drive
have problems under unix.  I'm running linux, and have
been having some problems that I've traced to the drive.
The PCBA (some type of circuit board version number) on
my drive is supposedly new enough to be rid of the problems,
but I am still experiencing them.

I have tried to call maxtor, but I didn't have the time
to hold to talk to an technician.  I will attempt to call
later.  I have heard, tho, that they are very good about
shipping free upgrades to owners who run unix and experience
problems with the drives.

Other than that, I've be incredibly impressed with my
maxtor.  In fact, if I get this problem worked out, I may
just order another one, since the price is still dropping.
I paid $459 + tax for mine a few months ago.

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Undergrad Lab, UT Austin |   flees my soul, leaving even less behind."  -me
From: ajb8886@ritvax.isc.rit.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: ***** Ah!!!!! For Speedstar24 and/or ViewSonic 5E owners...
Date: 12 Oct 92 16:13:53 GMT
Reply-To: ajb8886@ritvax.isc.rit.edu
Organization: Rochester Institute of Technology

In article <cP7DsB1w165w@rhps.UUCP>, syzygy@rhps.UUCP (Eric Swanson) writes:
>cpw8034@venus.tamu.edu (ALAN C. WEN (409)693-2924) writes:
>
>> I'm trying to desparately use DVPEG or any other program to display
>> Hi or True Color on my Diamond Speedstar24 (not x and not the original)
>> 
>> Okay, next I thought that maybe I could remedy the problem by checking
>> which video resolutions actually supports Hi and True colors (and with
>> the correct sync's too) and set it up with VMODE MONITORS in my
>> Autoexec.bat too.  That didn't work.  I also set VMODE VESA in my auto
>> exec too... BTW, what does that actually do?  Does it take my any
>> kind of system resource like shadowing? 
>
>I've got a Speedstar 24..  VMODE is a tsr that takes up some memory, but can be
>loaded high if you have qemm or possibly emm386.  I've seen hi and true-color
>pictures on it with the HALO image editor that came with my card..  Runs in
>Windows.  Did you get one?  I think it's specific to the card.  I've tried VPIC
>5.1 to show true-colors pics but I'm not sure if it actually enables the modes
>or not..  Haven't done anything in Hi- or True-color in DOS.
>  -Eric Swanson

VMODE is not a TSR.  It loads, sets your monitor configuration in the video
chipset, and exits.

You must be confusing it with the VESA TSR...

Alex
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: bbrown@infonode.ingr.com (Bailey Brown)
Subject: Re: speedstar 24x price
Organization: Intergraph Corporation, Huntsville, AL.
Distribution: usa
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1992 13:44:03 GMT

dhw10@RUTS.ccc.amdahl.com (David H. Wang) writes:

>I've been hearing alot of good things about the speedstar 24x; it speeds
>up windows without slowing down DOS, etc.

>My question is:  If the speedstar 24x is so great, why is it so cheap?
>( < $200)

Because it is SIMPLE.  I have the databook on the WD90C31 (the controller
on the 24X).  It is an SVGA with a mulitpurpose blit function (can
be used to fill rectangles with patterns, etc) and hardware expansion
of monochrome (such as font) bitmaps into foreground and background
colors.  These simple capabilities take a great deal of load off of
the cpu and isa bus and make windows many times more responsive.
As to the excellent dos vga performance, it comes from the board 
also being a Western Digital (Paradise) SVGA.  Actually, it is much
faster in dos than most Paradise SVGAs out there.  Also, unlike alot
of other accelerators, the 24X gets by with cheap DRAM instead
of using expensive VRAM display memory.

The S3 chip is much more complicated.  Its instruction set is modeled
on the 8514/a's.  This makes it much better for CAD (can draw lines
in hardware, etc.) but not that much better for the average windows
user.

>Dave

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Bailey Brown                               "Above all else, confusion reigns."
Intergraph Corporation                                  
bbrown@casca.b11.ingr.com                              Procol Harum
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: rantapaa@s6.math.umn.edu (Erik E. Rantapaa)
Subject: Benchmarking the ATI Ultra Pro
Summary: This is one FAST card
Organization: University of Minnesota
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 04:52:04 GMT

For those who haven't been to you're local bookstore recently
or have it delivered to your house, the latest issue of PC Magazine
(October 27, 1992) has a good article on local bus video systems.
Besides giving an overview of the VESA and PCI standards and their
strengths and shortcomings, it has benchmark results for various local
bus video system including the ATI Ultra Pro on a Micronics local bus
motherboard (the same which is used in the Gateway systems.)

The results corroborate ATI's and Gateway's claims.  On a 486/33 local
bus machine, the Ultra Pro VLB pulled in 24-26 Winmarks (depending on
the resolution).  Surprisingly, the ISA version on a non-local bus
motherboard performed almost equally as well (23-25 Winmarks).
However, the VLB version was more than twice as fast on their DOS
video test which attests to how much faster memory can be moved over
the local bus than over a standard ISA bus.

Gateway claims that their 66DX2 local bus system performs at 30
Winmarks, and this is probably due to the local bus running twice as
fast as well as improved drivers (PC mag said they were using beta
versions).   DOS video performance for the 66DX2 should be greatly
enhanced over the 33DX since these operations seem to be memory
transfer intensive.  As an example, an ET4000 design was 50% faster
than the ATI Ultra Pro VLB in the DOS benchmark, and this was probably
due to the fact that it was running at 50 MHz as opposed to 33 for the
ATI.  When it came to Windows, however, the 4000 only managed to pull
in 6-7 Winmarks, 1/4th the performance of the Ultra Pro.

(BTW, the ATI VLB card was not the fastest at DOS video, but it was
real close.)
--
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 against lawlessness.
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: davidb@deimos.ucc.umass.edu (DAVIDB)
Subject: PARITY ERROR ????  SYSTEM HALTED (help)
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Organization: University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 03:17:00 GMT

Hello,

Has anyone ever encountered this error message:

PARITY ERROR ????
SYSTEM HALTED

followed by a system lockup?

Since my computer seems to be working properly, what are the chances
that this error was triggered by something other than a bad component?

Should I worry?

David Besonen
"davidb@deimos.ucc.umass.edu"

P.S.
    my system is a 286-20MHz, with 4meg RAM (1meg 80ns DIPPs),   
    Chips & Technologies NEAT chipset, & 1991 AMI BIOS
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