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From: hamish@waikato.ac.nz
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Good SCSI-2 controller for Netware?
Date: 6 Nov 92 12:18:03 +1300
Organization: University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand

In article <szymon.67.720981434@uci.agh.edu.pl>, szymon@uci.agh.edu.pl (Szymon Sokol) writes:
> We are going to upgrade our Novell server (Netware 3.11, Adaptec controller,
> 600MB SCSI disk). I would like to add HP 1.3 GB SCSI-2 disk, but
> our Adaptec is outdated and will not support SCSI-2. So, my question is:
>

EISA, MCA or ISA? The Adaptect 164x and 174x controllers are SCSI-2
controllers, if you have ISA, then I'm not sure what the choices are, but I
thought the adaptec 1542 was SCSI-2 as well.

Oh yeah. Anything that does SCSI-2 also does SCSI-1 as SCSI-2 is a superset of
SCSI-1
 
> Anybody heard of good controller which supports both SCSI and SCSI-2?
> 
> Some people here suggested Ultrastor 14F, our dealer has DTC and BusTek -
> any experience with them? Are they good or bad?
> TIA,
> 
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From: esova@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Edward R Sova)
Subject: 2 IDE drives can't we all just get along?!
Organization: The Ohio State University
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 20:49:36 GMT

I had to perform the gruesome task of transferring things from 
a small hard-drive to a newly installed big hard-drive.  I 
could cable 2 computers with the 2 IDE drives, and laplink'm 
but that was slow.  I ended up doing disk 
backup/transfer/restore operation.  In the disk documentation, 
for the IDE drive, it said it was possible to have 2 disks off 
the same controller, with jumpers on each drive for slave/master
Well, can you leave both disks in and just transfer from disk->
disk from within the same computer?
Thanx for any insight


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From: simonm@dcs.glasgow.ac.uk (Simon Marlow)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Conner 30104 Question
Date: 8 Nov 92 16:55:09 GMT
Organization: Glasgow University Computing Science Dept.

jwoods@cmptrc.lonestar.org (Jeff Woods) writes:

>In article <1992Nov4.235054.1@sara.cc.utu.fi> ipe@sara.cc.utu.fi writes:
>|I have a Conner's hd model 30104 which manual claims to be 120MBytes drive but
>|I am able to make it only to the capacity of 104 MBytes. That is the same as
>|Conner's model 3104. Am I reading this hd's label somehow wrong or what?
>|Isn't my hd really 120 drive but 104 Mb's drive? I am able to make the
>|partitioning following the 30104's values but when I try to format the drive
>|there occurs seek failures. What's wrong?

>According to a document from Conner dated 08/91, the geometries are:
>CP3104:  8 hd, 776 cyl, 33 sect @ 512 bytes/sector = 104,890,368 bytes
>CP30104: 8 hd, 762 cyl, 33 sect @ 512 bytes/sector = 102,998,016 bytes

Hmmm, mine says 39 sectors for the 30104. This gives a capacity of
116M for the drive which is almost acceptable. I have to admit I was a
little cheesed off when I discovered my 120M drive was 4M short, but I
would have been extremely annoyed if it had been 16M below the spec.

BTW, my drive is a 30104H, if that makes any difference.

>Both have "Universal Translate" which means "Select a drive type that is close
>to but does not exceed the megabyte capacity of the drive.  The drive will
>translate to the megabyte capacity you have selected."

Yes, another thing that worries me about these drives is that I was
able to specify a translation that was larger than the actual capacity
of the disk (this is how I verified that the actual capacity was
indeed 116M). I think the translation I used was something like 1219
cyls, 12 heads and 17 sectors.

	Simon
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From: chans@cs.curtin.edu.au (Sean Chan)
Subject: 486SX confusion!!??!!
Organization: Curtin University of Technology
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 15:57:16 GMT

Gidday all,

Just to clear up some confusion...tell me if I'm wrong...

The very first 486SX - faulty coprocessor
The next 486SX - coprocessor circuitry, but disabled
Finally 486SX - noe coprocessor circuitry at all!!

Is that right??

Sean
Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.benchmarks,comp.sys.intel
Date: Fri,  6 Nov 1992 19:39:41 -0500 
From: David Eugene Dwiggins <dd2x@ANDREW.CMU.EDU>
Subject: Re: ATI Ultra PRO 24-bit?
 <smithbm.721061471@craft.camp.clarkson.edu>

Nope, you won't be able to write a nifty program to get the card into
unusual modes, because ATI is not going to tell you how.

I was going to get an Ultra+, and I called ATI, and they said that if
I wrote them a note on company letterhead stating the reason I wanted to
know how to program their card they would consider selling me the
programming information.

I thought about telling them if they should send me a letter on company
letterhead why I should buy a product that they won't tell me how to use.
But I refrained, and cancelled my order.

DON'T BUY ATI PRODUCTS IF YOU WANT TO KNOW PROGRAMMING INFORMATION.

Gene
From: afc@gnv.ifas.ufl.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: 1.44MB floppy driver?
Date: 10 Nov 92 14:13:32 -0500

Any assistance is greatly appreciated...

I have just replaced a 5.25" 720K floppy drive with a 3.5" 1.44MB floppy.
The machine recognizes the new drive as a 1.2MB drive, which obviously
doesn't work.  The floppy drives are automatically recognized during
startup, so I can't use setup to fix this.

I understand that I have two options:

1. Replace the BIOS.

2. Get a driver for the floppy drive.  Is there such a thing available
via FTP?

Note: this is a Compaq Deskpro 386 running DOS 3.1 (give me a break,
it isn't my machine).

Andrew Cockburn
From: price@helios.unl.edu (Chad  Price)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Is Gateway a publicly held company? I think I'll short some stock...
Date: 10 Nov 1992 00:11:05 GMT
Organization: University of Nebraska--Lincoln	
NNTP-Posting-Host: helios.unl.edu

I ordered a Gateway 486DX2/66 EISA about a month ago, and got it about 2 
weeks later, including a phone call the day before it arrived telling me
that it would arrive. When I ordered, the quoted 2-3 1/2 weeks shipping
time.
 
My machine has the Ultrastore 24F SCSI controler in it.

Except for the Speedstar 24X video card, which is not truely supported by OS/2
I have been quite pleased with the system. I can only get SVGA part of the
time, and text mode only, not graphics mode. 132x44 character screens are nice
for word processing, but I drop to 640x400 pixels for document review. 

I'm sure if I ran Windoze and DOS, I could get SVGA all of the time.


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From: Mary.Evans@launchpad.unc.edu (Mary Evans)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Drive parameters needed for Seagate st251
Date: 9 Nov 92 14:15:07 GMT
Organization: University of North Carolina Extended Bulletin Board Service


I low-level formatted an st-251 using 820 cyl, 6 heads.  I used debug to
do it.  When I finished, the drive capacity showed anout 62 meg.  Since
this is a forty meg drive, I'm puzzled.  I used debug--g=c800:5 to
initiate the low-level format.  What is the relative danger in using the
drive formatted like this?  Also, it (the low level) defaulted to 4, and I
changed it to one.  I'v been advised that the XT probably should not have
a 1 to 1 interleave, so I'm gonna re-do that.  (My brother's gonna love me)

What is the actual drive geometry?  I got the files from wuarchive, and
the cyls heads and tracks (17) are as above.  Disk Mangler also agrees.

?????

Thanks,

Mary
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From: TKSGJVV@ubvm.cc.buffalo.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: IBM AT Switch Setting for Multi-Tech Card
Date: 13 Nov 92 14:45:54 GMT
Organization: University at Buffalo

I just pick up an IBM AT. It came with a Multi-TECH Memory/async/parallel
port card.  I would like to just use the memory and disable the async and
parallel ports...  Does any body have the card doc for a
MULTI-TECH  MFB-AT PB85043(I) - 2A  card
                 Thanks in Advance
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                                  Internet: TKSGJVV @ UBVM.CC.BUFFALO.EDU
From: price@helios.unl.edu (Chad  Price)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Gateway problems universal?
Date: 6 Nov 1992 20:25:05 GMT
Organization: University of Nebraska--Lincoln	
NNTP-Posting-Host: helios.unl.edu

as232@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Michael Lerner) writes:

>Are these problems that Gateway 66-V and 33-V users having, occuring on other
>company's system, or is the problem strictly Gateway?  What about ZEOS  and
>Dell, do their systems exhibit these problems, or are they clean?  Just curious
>if it's an industry or single company problem.

I've had a Gateway 486DX2/66 EISA for a couple of weeks now and have absolutely
no problems with the hardware. To what problems are you so loosely refering? 



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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: berger@atropa (Mike Berger)
Subject: Re: 386Max and QEMM386
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Distribution: usa
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 17:47:18 GMT

smaa@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Shaw-Chang Maa) writes:
>     I know this may not be the right place, but I don't know where to post
>my question. So, forgive me first. My question is that which one, 386Max or
>QEMM386, performs better in managing memory. If anyone outhere who has
>experiences with both programs, please give me some advice, general or 
>specific.   Thanks in advance.
*----
QEMM beats 386max hands down on my machine.  I have both.  386max is
so buggy, it doesn't even work successfully with Microsoft C/C++ 7.0,
though it comes bundled with that product!  QEMM has a free DPMI module
for licensed users, so I don't need to worry about 386max anymore.
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: phong@triples.math.mcgill.ca (Phong Co)
Subject: HELP! defective COMPAQ board
Organization: McGill University
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 02:04:27 GMT

I am posting this for a friend who does not have net access.  Please
reply by email.

Can somebody help me out?
I have been given a defective main board for a Compaq 386 Deskpro 33.
The board is defective in the sense that one chip is missing. The
missing chip is located at U28, which I presume is a PAL16R4. The
main board has the Assembly No. 001184. Compaq has published a
technical reference manual for board, part No. 130 767 001. I tried to
buy that manual but they do not ship to Canada. If somebody has that
manual or know the logic map for the PAL, can you please let me know?
The people at Compaq told me that in the manual they had published
the logic map of PALs on the board. Even if the logic map is not
there, if you can just give me what the signals in and out are connected to,
I would be grateful.

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From: medin@catbyte.NoSubdomain.NoDomain (Dave Medin)
Subject: Re: IBM XT processor upgrade
Reply-To: medin@catbyte.b30.ingr.com
Organization: Intergraph Corporation, Huntsville AL
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 19:56:47 GMT

In article <1992Nov9.194014.99@cuphub.cup.edu>, luf4695@cuphub.cup.edu writes:

|>   I'm pretty sure the 10% performance increase was due to the NEC V20 being
|> faster than a 8088 and not the speed of the chip.  I am almost positive that 
|> your 10MHz chip is running at 4.77MHz if you didn't also change the crystal 
|> on the motherboard.  If anyone out there knows, please help.  Thanks.

As intimated by several other posters, you are correct. The V20 still
runs at the same motherboard clock speed, but gains its 10 - 20%
performance increase because of more efficient microcode. The chip's
rated clock speed must be the same or greater than the motherboard's
clock speed, though. I have seen V20's sold rated for 6 and 10 MHz
operation.

I've done over a dozen V20 "brain transplants" without a problem.
The V30 transplants (for the 8086) went well, too, except I've noticed
Norton goes crazy on the performance figures...

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From: kgermann@zeos.com (Ken Germann)
Subject: Re: New Tseng chipset?
Organization: Zeos International, Ltd
Date: Fri, 06 Nov 1992 17:13:12 GMT

In article <1992Nov5.135356.203220@uctvax.uct.ac.za> wtrkei01@uctvax.uct.ac.za (Keith Waters) writes:
>Hi there
>
>I have heard a rumour that Tseng has discontinued its ET4000 chipset and is
>producing a new one...  (ET5000?)
>
>Can anyone confirm this?
>
The Chip Set from Tseng is called the W32. There is a longer part that I 
usually forget unless I look at my notes which are at work.

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From: dennis_c@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.periphs
Subject: IR Serial Link - possible?
Date: 10 Nov 1992 21:58:40 GMT
Organization: Wellington City Council (Public Access), Wgtn, Nz
Reply-To: dennis_c@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz
NNTP-Posting-Host: kosmos.wcc.govt.nz

I am looking for a remote (infra-red or otherwise) serial link for 
connecting two computers.

In other words, I want to be able to exchange data between two computers
without having a physical wire connecting them, because one of the
computers is on a wheelchair and moves around, and the user is unable to
connect or disconnect a cable himself.

Is such a link possible?  I would be grateful for any information on
suppliers, circuit diagrams, reasons why it can't be done, or any other
ideas. 

I want to keep it fairly simple - a radio modem would be a bit over
the top I think.  It only needs to operate at 2400 bps over a range of
1 or 2 metres.

Thanks,

Chris Dennis                           dennis_c@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz
Wellington, New Zealand
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: mrosen@nyx.cs.du.edu (Michael Rosen)
Subject: Windows General Protection Fault problem solved (sort of)
Organization: University of Denver, Dept. of Math & Comp. Sci.
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 92 23:24:28 GMT

Well, I finally determined that my problem is indeed the ATI Graphic
Ultra Pro's driver.  I changed my display device in Windows setup to
Super VGA and my problem disappeared.  Unfortunately, this only gives
me 16 colors.  Is there a display mode I can use that will work with
the ATI that will give me 256 colors?

Mike
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From: atzeiner@iastate.edu (your mom)
Subject: math coprocessors
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, IA
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 00:49:44 GMT


I have gotten interested in raytracing, and am interested in buying a math
coprocessor for my 386-33.  I was wondering if any brand (Intel, Cyrix, IIT) 
was better than the others.  Also what and where are the cheapest prices for
the best option??

Thanks...
From: jra@law7.DaytonOH.NCR.COM (John Ackermann x 2966)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: ESDI performance
Date: 5 Nov 92 21:08:53 GMT
Reply-To: jra@law7.DaytonOH.NCR.COM (John Ackermann x 2966)
Organization: NCR Corporation -- Law Department

What kind of performance (throughput) is typical for ESDI drives?  I've
got an Adaptec track-caching controller (64k cache) and an older CDC
182MB drive, running on a 486SX-25 machine.

The seek time is very good -- something like 16ms according to all my
benchmarks -- but the throughput isn't much better than my old MFM
controller and drive with 1:1 interleave.  The benchmarks say the ESDI
system is giving me about 550kb/sec transfer rate -- the MFM system
showed about 490kb/sec.

Do these benchmarks understate the performance of my system, do I have
something wrong, or is there really no advantage to ESDI?
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: s_fuller@iastate.edu (Steve Fuller)
Subject: Re: Gateway Flat screen 15" monitor
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames IA
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 05:30:03 GMT

I've been using a Gateway 15" FS for about 4 months now and it is
really nice, especially paired w the ATI Ultra video card.
Running Windows in 800x600x256 or 1024x768x256 has been no
problem at all. I've found the display to be really clear and
well worth the extra $100 cost over the 14" when the system was
puchased.


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From: ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Iskandar Taib)
Subject: Re: Colour scanner (which should I buy)?
Organization: Indiana University
Distribution: na
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 14:29:57 GMT

In article <rohrernl.36@helix.nih.gov> rohrernl@helix.nih.gov (Nathan Rohrer) writes:

>The first version of Omnipage that I had (came with the scanner) didn't work 
>with my SVGA monitor.  Omnipage sent a newer version that has been working 
>fine (version 2.0 ???).

Hmmm.. I always thought it was a Windows program, and used Windows
video drivers. 




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From: stu@Warren.MENTORG.COM (Stu Brown)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: What's the best VGA card for DOS AND Windows?
Date: 6 Nov 1992 10:57:20 -0500
Organization: Mentor Graphics -- IC Group
NNTP-Posting-Host: stu.warren.mentorg.com

I hear alot of Winmark talk for video performance, but I like to
play PC games which are all DOS-based (e.g., Falcon 3.0). I also
spend a lot of time in Windows so I would like great performance
there, too.

Eventually I would like to go to 1280x1024 256 color in Windows
when the monitor prices get more reasonable.

I expect some newer games will use advanced drivers to get better
DOS performance out of special video hardware, but what will be
the standard? So far I have only seen a VESA game, but I don't
think that is a performance thing, just resolution.

What card has great benchmarks in both DOS and Windows? What drivers will
game makers use?
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From: davei@comp.lancs.ac.uk (Mr D Ingles)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: connecting a multisync monitor to a composite video signal
Date: 12 Nov 92 09:46:24 GMT
Organization: Department of Computing at Lancaster University, UK.

Has anyone got a circuit that would allow a multisync monitor (NEC 3D)
to a composite video signal (video cassette recorder) ?? The video has a
scart socket, but I believe that most videos don't have the R G B
signals actually connected to the scart socket. 

Davei
From: Kate.E.Krolicki@williams.edu (Kate Krolicki)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: NEED info about Amptron 386DX/or manual for
Date: 13 Nov 92 03:21:23 GMT
Organization: Theatre
X-Xxmessage-Id: <A72889DDCA050540@jesup205_06.cc.williams.edu>
X-Xxdate: Thu, 12 Nov 92 22: 23:25 GMT
X-Useragent: Nuntius v1.1.1d12


I have an Apmton 386DX-25 motherboard (model DX-4050), sans manual.
Configuring memory has proved to be a small problem. As far as I can
tell, you can only install SIMMs in groups of four... but, I can't even
tell where all the memory banks listed by the setup program are.

Can anyone either (a) give me the company phone/address or (b) photocopy
the manual pages for me (small fee offered!) or (c) tell me anything
about this board?

Thanks,

  Wayne
From: frisk@complex.is (Fridrik Skulason)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Memory prices going crazy
Date: 5 Nov 92 09:12:20 GMT
Organization: Frisk Software International, Iceland

mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539) writes:

>>    The anti-dumping duties are NOT going to be levied against DRAMs 
>>    and SIMMs imported as a component of a computer system.  Another
>>    word, only computers (also workstations, laser printers, etc.) 
>>    assembled in the US are going to be taxed... 

I wonder if whoever got this "bright" idea considered that this would then
drive up the prices of US-made computers exported, making them less
competitive than they are today - thus reducing exports, etc....

-frisk (who until now bought most of his computers from the US)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: berger@atropa (Mike Berger)
Subject: Re: Does Adoptec refuse to support its SCSI I/F for end users?
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 17:49:30 GMT

turabe@gradient.cis.upenn.edu (Toshiyuki Urabe) writes:
>I'm looking for SCSI Controller and I found interesting advertisement.
>According to the D-C-Drives's AD, Adaptec refuses to offer end user
>user support. Therefore, they recomend Ultrastor SCSI controller.

>Is this true? I think Adaptec 1542B is one of the most popular(?) SCSI
>controller. So, is this controller is good enough to work without
>support?
*----
No, it's not true.  Adaptec offers very good end user support via
telephone, bulletin-board system dialup, fax, and unofficially by
electronic mail.  DC Drives is not listed as an OFFICIAL Adaptec
authorized dealer, so they probably make a lot more money on
Ultrastore products.
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