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From: snh1@crux1.cit.cornell.edu (Sanjay Hiranandani - N2MRZ)
Subject: Memory module for Leading Edge DLT 386/SX Laptop
Summary: leading edge memory
Organization: Cornell Information Technologies
Date: 22 Nov 92 00:51:28 GMT

	I have an old Leading Edge DLT 386SX Laptop with 1 meg of
ram onboard. I know it can be upgraded to 2 megs, but I can't find
memory modules for leading edge laptops listed anywhere in the catalogs
of memory dealers. Does anyone know whether the modules of any of 
the more popular brands are compatible with the leading edge 
dlt386sx?


Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: chans@cs.curtin.edu.au (Sean Chan)
Subject: Re: cmos
Organization: Curtin University of Technology
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 17:49:52 GMT

spader@caesar.cs.mcgill.ca (Yoo-Shin LEE) writes:

>HI,

>I was wondering if there were any CMOS docs available for FTP anywhere.

I'd like to know too!!

Sean
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: yik1351@cucs18.cs.cuhk.hk (Ernest Yik)
Subject: Re: Quadtel(??) Bios & setup menu
Reply-To: yik1351@cs.cuhk.hk
Organization: Computer Science Department, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 08:30:11 GMT

J056600@LMSC5.IS.LMSC.LOCKHEED.COM writes:

>I think I have a Quadtel 386 BIOS (in which the CMOS info disappears just
>about weekly).  Anyway, hit a key during the memory check (or hit escape to
>bypass the memory check), and then hold down a key.  You should get some
>"keyboard error" and you'll be prompted to hit F2 to enter SETUP.

	For my Quadtel BIOS, press ctrl-alt-a at any time will bring up
the setup menu.

Regards,
Ernest Yik.
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 * Origin: VAXlab : Home of Ernest (6:700/375.1)   Internet: yik1351@cs.cuhk.hk
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: masten@beta.lanl.gov (David A. Masten)
Subject: Re: What are the good boards for non-Windows graphics performance?
Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory
Distribution: na
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 03:14:58 GMT

In article <1992Nov18.031030.6190@newshost.lanl.gov> masten@beta.lanl.gov (David A. Masten) writes:
>Following up on my post for info on benchmarks:
>
>I see all these new boards bragging about Windows graphics speed. Also
>all the claims for the improvements  accrued by using a local bus.
>
>But if I don't care much about Windows, what are the boards to consider
>(especially in $150-250 range) for VGA applications (ie games :-))?

Sorry to follow up my own post.  But I forgot to add I currently have a
Diamond Speedstar Plus and 386/33.  I was wondering if new boards would
be significantly faster for non-Windows.
 
>Dave Masten
>masten@beta.lanl.gov


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From: tholen@galileo.ifa.hawaii.edu (Dave Tholen)
Subject: Re: formatting a 3.5" HD diskette to 720K: broken?
Organization: University of Hawaii
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 01:27:31 GMT

Timothy Sipples writes:

> High density diskettes (1.44 MB) may not be formatted to 720K without
> the risk of errors, like the ones you describe.  The magnetic material
> on the diskette has different characteristics.

Theoretically, however, I don't understand why it shouldn't be possible
to format an HD diskette to a capacity less than it's rated maximum, if
done in an HD drive.  If the software automatically assumes that a DD
diskette is in the drive whenever a 720 kbyte format is requested, then
it would probably adjust the drive to handle the lower coercivity of the
DD magnetic media.  If, however, the user had really inserted an HD
diskette, then the drive would not be using the appropriate head currents
for the higher coercivity media.  The result would be problems.

On the other hand, DD diskette shells do differ from HD diskette shells
(the extra hole in the corner), so software need not assume that a DD
diskette is in the drive if a 720 kbyte format is requested; it can and
should utilize the media sensing capabilities of the drive (though not
all manufacturers have provided such capability, perhaps as a cost-saving
measure?).

Going the other direction (formatting a DD diskette to HD capacity) is not 
recommended.  If a DD drive was used to do the format, it would not be
designed to handle the higher coercivity material; if an HD drive was used,
it would either complain about improper media (if media sensing was utilized)
or use write characteristics appropriate for HD media, which some DD diskettes
aren't designed for.  Some people get away with this strategy, however,
because the difference is small, and some diskettes have a wider latitude.
If I remember corrected, the difference between DD and HD diskettes is 600
versus 700 oersteds.  Compare with the 5.25 inch 360 kbyte and 1.2 Mbyte
capacity diskettes, which used 300 and 600 oersteds -- a much bigger
difference.
From: nnw@concurrent.co.uk (Neil Watson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: 3 chip vs 9 chip SIMMS
Summary: Problem with 3 chip 1Mb x 9 upgrade
Keywords: SIMMS
Date: 19 Nov 92 11:05:50 GMT
Organization: Concurrent Computer Corporation, Slough, England

I remember there being a thread that was running a while ago about the
virtues of 9 chip verses 3 chip 1Mb x 9 SIMMS. At the time I wasn't
interested...!

I now have purchased a new 4Mb of memory for my (Companion - an
AMI/ETEQ chipset) 386DX-40, and they don't work. I either get parity
errors or just plain "won't boot" with the new memory installed. 
The problem seems to worsen as the machine warms up.

According to the documentation the motherboard will accept 256k, 1M or
4M SIMMS. I thought the fact that it took the latter implied that the
new 3 chip 1Mb SIMMS would be OK....

I recall seeing a very informative posting on how the different refresh
cycles worked for 3 chip vs 9 chip SIMMS, but didn't save it (fool!).
However I'm not sure this is the problem - I may have a genuinely faulty
module (as it fails more often as it warms up?).

Any clues as to what's wrong very much appreciated. 9 chip SIMMS are
getting very hard to find in the UK! (though at least the prices haven't
gone up much for what we CAN get - or should that be "yet")

The memory vendor has suggested "turn off the parity checking", but as
it's there for a purpose, I'm unwilling to do that. I think that that
will just mean that I don't get errors detected!

Thanks in advance
Neil


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             Phone: (+44) 753 513360  FAX: (+44) 753 513303 
(nnw@slough.ccur.com, nnw@concurrent.co.uk or 100021,3041 @ Compuserve)
From: rcomg@melomys.co.rmit.oz.AU (Mark Gregory)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: PAS 16 is a dog
Summary: PAS 16 is a dog
Keywords: sound pc ibm drivers
Date: 20 Nov 92 01:01:06 GMT
Organization: RMIT Computer Centre
NNTP-Posting-Host: melomys.co.rmit.oz.au

Hello everyone,
this is a short note to warn people against buying
any of the Pro Audio products.  We have bought several
of the Pro Audio Spectrum 16 sound cards and have found
that they do not work if you have a pc connected to a 
Novell Network.

More importantly if you try the latest windows drivers put
on ftp.cica.indiana.edu, you will find that the PAS16
will not boot up with these drivers.

We have found that the PAS16 drivers clash with netx.com

We have also found that a tape drive cannot be connected
to the SCSI port.  Apparently (heard this second hand) Trantor
does not support tape drives connected to this interface.

what a dog!!!!!!

what an expensive waste of money, so do not follow us.
From: hwstock@snll-arpagw.llnl.gov (stockman harlan w)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: The P5 will be called the Pentium
Date: 21 Nov 92 00:04:25 GMT
Organization: Sandia National Labs, Livermore, CA

>>>Wonder what Motorola has up its sleeve...
>
>>No doubt that Motorola will keep ahead of INTEL.  I don't think Intel was trying
>>to protect name copying from Motorola.  How long did it take INTEL to come up
>>with a 32bit processor, protected mode..many generations that Motorola
>
Whether Motorola was a superior company or not, it is being left in the
dust today. More and more companies are swithching from 68xxx to intel
i960's for laser printing; Next uses an Intel i860 for its high-speed
graphics boards. 68040's have OK floating point at low (33 MHz) clocks,
but 68040's can't go much faster than 33 MHz without setting your house
on fire. Unix benchmarks put a 66 MHx 486DX2 2.5 times faster than a 33
MHz 68040 on dhrystone, and at least 20% faster on Linpack. 

I think Moto got taken in by the "quality" scam, which caused them to
get the 68040 out > 1.5 years after Intel introduced the 486. It's a
shame; competition keeps them all working the hardest. If RISC were not
breathing down Intel's neck, they would feel less inclined to improve
the P5 floating point.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: chyang@orpington.engin.umich.edu (Chung Hsiung Yang)
Subject: NEW IBM PS/VALUEPOINT PART II
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 92 15:20:20 EST
Organization: University of Michigan Engineering, Ann Arbor
Originator: chyang@orpington.engin.umich.edu


Hi Folks:

I recently saw a IBM PS/VALUEPOINT add in the magazine and to
my surprise, it looked pretty good.  I was wondering if anyone
had any experience with it and please give us a report on how well
it holds up and operates.  

To me, it didn't look like one of those weird IBM/PS2 with MCA buses,
which does not rank too highly with me.

The PS/VALUEPOINT looked like one of those machines which some reputable
mail order companies are producing (ZEOs, DELL, Zenith... etc.)

I guess IBM is really serious about the PC market now.

Hmm....

Any comments.

- Chung Yang
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: william@natimuk.acci.com.au (William Lo)
Subject: Re: Need Help with Monitor Selection
Organization: IBM Australia/ACCI 
Distribution: usa
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 02:40:22 GMT

In article <1992Nov12.184806.17999@walter.bellcore.com> tld@cosmos.bellcore.com writes:
>In article <1du026INNp21@network.ucsd.edu>, doug@cahuilla.ucsd.edu (Doug Peckham ) writes:
>|>     Hi,
>|> 
>|>     Does anyone have any experience with a Viewsonic 8 20" SVGA monitor.  I
>|> am purchasing a 486/50 system for electronics CAD use, and that is the monitor
>|> that two seperate vendors have suggested.  The NEC 6FG appears to cost about
>|> $900 more, and I'm curious what that really buys you besides a small increase 
>|> in size (21").  Thanks for any direction that you can provide me.
>|> 
>|>     Doug
>
>Hi, Doug:
>
>My $0.02 worth:  Viewsonic.
>
>I'm not sure, but I think the V8 is .28 dot pitch; it *might* be .25.

	Should be .31(well, if I remember correctly...)

---:-)
	Bill
From: cjohnson@tartarus.uwa.edu.au (Christopher Johnson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: ESDI + IDE ?
Date: 17 Nov 1992 07:50:08 GMT
Organization: The University of Western Australia
NNTP-Posting-Host: tartarus.uwa.edu.au

kgermann@zeos.com (Ken Germann) writes:

>In article <9211121249.55@rgm.com> ronaldm@rgm.com (Ronald Mendoza) writes:
>>Hi everyone.  I've got a Miniscribe 9380E ESDI, and was wondering if I could
>>add in my Conner CP30104 IDE and/or Western Digital WDAC280 IDE drive(s).
>>
>>My ESDI controller is a Maple MC-1175, which can be changed to the secondary
>>address/irq, but I just have a no-frills Unique IDE controller.
>>
>>Is this possible?  How would I go about doing it?

>We have been able to get an UltraStor ESDI controller with an ESDI drive
>and two IDE's to work. The success of getting it to work is dependant on 
>the I/O addresses, and IRQs that the controllers are configuarable for.
>--

I have an adaptec ESDI controller primary with a special intelligent IDE
controller secondary and it works like a dream.  The IDE controller can in
fact controll up to 4 IDE hard drives with the ESDI controlling two (pity
I've run out of space in my tower case)

The IDE controller's code is CD-1010, but I'm still trying to work out the
company that makes it.....I got it indirect from a cheap computer place and
they got it from some computer place in sydney (you may not have noticed I'm
from down under).  hope this helps,

Chris. 
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: hblim@iti.gov.sg (Hock-Beng Lim)
Subject: Data transfer throughputs of buses
Organization: Information Technology Institute, National Computer Board, Singapore.
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 09:43:03 GMT

Hi !

I would like to find out the peak and sustained data transfer throughputs
of the ISA, EISA, and Microchannel buses. If you have these numbers, please
send them to me by email.

Thanks in advance !

HB
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: lainhart@odel.stg.TRW.COM (Mike Lainhart)
Subject: Re: A favorable vendor story for a change!
Followup-To:  lainhart@odel.stg.trw.com
Summary: Colorado Memory Systems are the good guys
Organization:   TRW, One Space Park  MS O1/1061, Redondo Beach,CA 90278  (310) 813-0690
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 16:10:42 GMT

In article <1992Nov16.234142.16922@b30.ingr.com> medin@catbyte.b30.ingr.com writes:
>In article <1992Nov14.155748.14879@news.eng.convex.com>, harper@convex.com (David Harper) writes:
>
>|> Many companys talk about their commitment to the customer but I now have
>|> first hand experience that Colorado Memory Systems follows this up with
>|> deeds as well.  At this point I would have no hesitation about recommending
>|> CMS to anyone looking for a tape backup unit.  Standard disclaimers apply
>|> of course; I have no affiliation with CMS other than as a very satisified
>|> (and impressed) customer.
>
>This has been my experience with CMS, too. That's why I bought
>another when the time came...
>
>-- 

I have had the same experience with CMS.  I had to swap interface cards a few
times and the drive once before I got something that worked.  I bought mine
at one of those super computer garage sales with hundreds of vendors and
thousands of customers stumbling over each other.  The service from CMS was
excellent and the turn around time was only a few days.  I know of a few
other companies that could take lessons from them, but I won't mention Adaptec!

Incidentally, have any of the rest of you noticed wheter or not products
purchased at these big computer swapmeets seem to be more failure prone?
It just so happens that the CMS Jumbo 250 and the Adaptec 1742B that I 
recently purchased at the REALLY BIG Computer Marketplace show both required
quite a bit of effort to get working.  (The Adaptec people were never
helpful enough to make that purchase anything but a bad lesson).  Is it 
possible that the vendors are dumping the returns from their customers?
From: pauls@css.itd.umich.edu (Paul Southworth)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Trying to squeeze out max from CP3044
Date: 20 Nov 1992 23:14:50 GMT
Organization: University of Michigan ITD Consulting and Support Services
NNTP-Posting-Host: stimpy.css.itd.umich.edu
Originator: news@stimpy.css.itd.umich.edu

In article <26868@optima.cs.arizona.edu> jin@cs.arizona.edu (Yu Jin Thio) writes:
>I've got a Conner CP3044. How do I format it (low or hi) to get the maximum
>performance out of this drive? Right now I'm using drive type 17 on 
>AMI Bios. Is there a way to do a custom configuration to make it work
>better?

There are a number of performance increasing things you can do, and none
of them relate specifically to that drive.  I recommend you do not mess
with it if it works.  You should go ahead and make BIOS changes to use
shadow RAM, set up PC-KWIK or N-CACHE to provide disk caching that is
software based, etc.  The drive type 17 is the recommended drive type
for all Conner ~40Mb drives.  You are asking for trouble if you play with
low-level formats on an IDE drive that *already works*.

You might double-check with FDISK to see if your partition is really
using 100% of the drive.  If not, you can make a new partition to the
larger size (leaving the BIOS parms alone).

Remember that you have a fundamentally *slow* drive -- those Conners
are about 25ms (not *that* slow, but not great by today's standards).
Don't try to make it something it is not.


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(Not speaking for)                 |         Political Archives in /poli
Information Technology Division    |     Writable incoming directory on:
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  <Representing myself.  Everything I say is for educational use only.>
From: olson@mydual.uucp (Kirtland H. Olson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: 3.5" drive fine at HD, won't format DD
Date: 18 Nov 92 13:29:45 GMT
Article-I.D.: mydual.1992Nov18.132945.6143
Reply-To: olson%mydual.uucp@alliant.com
Organization: The Harvard Group, 01451-0667

In article <1992Nov16.162701.24207@hemlock.cray.com> rice@cray.com (Jonathan Rice) writes:
>
>I have a problem with my Sony MPF120-K0 3.5" diskette drive.  It reads,
>writes, and formats 1.44MB (HD) diskettes without a hitch.  It will also read
>*and write* 720KB (DD) diskettes with perfect ease.  However, it will not
>*format* a 720KB diskette.
>
>The media change sense mechanism works fine.  The density sense mechanism
>works fine.  CMOS setup knows it's a 1.44 MB drive.  Using /n: and /t: on the
>format command does no better than using /f:.
>
>If I format a 720KB diskette on my other 'puter, and then write it on the
>Sony, it's readable in every 3.5" drive I can lay my hands on.  Every program
>save one thinks the world is rosy at 720KB -- FORMAT is the only exception.
>
>Symptom: invalid media, track 0 bad.
>
>I don't want to tell setup that it's a 720KB drive (because I use HD's 95% of
>the time).  Similarly, I don't want to use drivparm or some such to claim
>the drive is not HD capable.
>
>I've found other people with the identical problem, but they've only shared
>sympathy, not solutions.  Any help from netland?  Thanks in advance.
>
>-- 
>Jonathan C. Rice  |   rice@zizania.cray.com  |  ...uunet!cray!rice

You should be able to work around this using a device assignment in your
config.sys file to assign a second letter to the 3.5" drive and give the
second "phantom" floppy 720K parameters.  Something like this:

{DEVICE | DEVICEHIGH}=DRIVER.SYS /D:# /T:80 /S:9 /H:2 /C /F:2

where # is the numeric designation of the 3.5" drive starting from 0:
A=0, B=1.

Now you use the new drive letter to format 720K.

Let us know if this works.

 
-- 
Kirtland H. Olson                     olson%mydual.uucp@alliant.com
From: robinson@sml.cs.psu.edu (Andrew Robinson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: 24 bit video with faster bus?
Date: 16 Nov 92 02:39:15 GMT
Article-I.D.: cs.BxsFDH.CzL
Distribution: comp

I appears that the information that I read was incorrect . . . I was informed
that the tech reference manual states that the 24X will work at 16 MHz bus
speeds.  So, I would like to turn the question around:  Are there any 24 bit
video cards that are known not to work at faster bus speeds?
--
     -- Andy
robinson@cs.psu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: jin@cs.arizona.edu (Yu Jin Thio)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Shadow ROM, What is it?
Date: 17 Nov 92 06:12:10 GMT
Organization: U of Arizona CS Dept, Tucson

Some of my computers have been set up with Shadow ROM enables, some without.
Can someone please tell me what this does? Is it meant to enhance performance?

Thanks,
Yu Jin.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.sys.sun.hardware
From: tout@frith.msu.edu ()
Subject: Slide scanner?
Originator: tout@frith.egr.msu.edu
Reply-To: tout@frith.msu.edu
Organization: Michigan State University, College of Engineering
Distribution: na
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 92 04:19:57 GMT

We have a number of slides that we would like to transfer to our computer
system for display and bookkeeping.  What is the best way of doing this?
Are there such things as slide scanners?  We need the responses ASAP.

Please direct your responses to my email address and if there is enough
interest, I'll summarize and post.

Thanks in advance,

-Walid   tout@frith.msu.edu   tout@msuegr.bitnet   uunet!frith!tout
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: linstee@dutecaj.et.tudelft.nl (Erik van Linstee)
Subject: Re: Will a 386-33 run on 150 watts???
Organization: Delft University of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 11:06:18 GMT

white_w@ab.wvnet.edu writes:

>Hello out there in netland,

>I have just purchased a new 386 33mhz motherboard to replace my 10mhz
>8088.  The board fits in the case fine, and the power supply hookup
>connects, but doesn't look right to me.  The bord gets power, but I
>don't think it is getting enough.  When I turn it on my EGA monitor
>goes from snow to black, indicating that something is trying to happen
>but nothing else does anything.  Drives come on and spin a second but
>don't do the normal (spin, grind, grind) checkup sequence.  Do I need
>a bigger power supply (I have a 150 watt xt style one now) or is the 
>problem somewhere else?

I suggest you check  out the power good signal first. 150 Watt should be
enough if you have no fancy devices installed. you'd be safer with 200
Watt though.

>Will













>Disclaimer:

>I am new to newsgroups, so 
>please forgive me if this is 
>not the right place to ask 
>this question.

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From: d9magnus@dtek.chalmers.se (Magnus Jingryd)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: #9GXe
Date: 19 Nov 92 09:16:21 GMT
Organization: Chalmers University of Technology

In article <102294@bu.edu> edwong@bu.edu (Edward Wong) writes:
>I have read this ad from pc mag, that this video card from Number Nine can
>boost the winmark to 40.5 Million under ISA bus.  Someone seen the actually
>thing working?
>
>
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I'm curious about this card as well. 
Does anyone know if it is (will be) availiable for the VL-bus?


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