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system: You are August Abolins, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Os/2 Hardware message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Jonathan De Boyne Pollard about "ATA or SCSI hard disc ?".

They wrote:
JdBP>                                          .... This is how a
JdBP> hardware manufacturer like Quantum goes about producing a
JdBP> technology enhancement such as Ultra ATA and then stacks the decks
JdBP> of customer perception in its favour in order to get it shipping in
JdBP> volume.  "Look!  Not only is the identical SCSI drive more
JdBP> expensive, but it also has a lower maximum bandwidth.  So why not
JdBP> try our new Ultra ATA drive instead?"  )

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assistant: Hi Jonathan!
On 03-10-1998 at 12:34:20PM, Jonathan de Boyne Pollard (2:440/4.3) wrote to
Phil Kane:
I note that the Quantum Fireball seems to be quite popular in new complete
pc packages.  Is the Ultra ATA mentioned above another name for the Ultra
DMA?
.: /|ug
system: You are Joe Lerch, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Os/2 Hardware message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Gregory Urban about "Warp & Toshiba LCD".

They wrote:
GU> I'm having a nasty battery problem with my T4500C.  I bought it from
GU> an outfit called Data-Path Technology in Pleasantville NY.  It came
GU> with a PA2413U NiMH battery which would not hold more than a 10 min.
GU> charge. Got an RMA and sent back the battery for a replacement.  The
GU> replacement however is the wrong battery, a PA2412U NiCD which has a
GU> lower capacity...and it refuses to take a charge also!  I'm playing
GU> phone tag again with Data-Path to try to get that resolved.  Have
GU> you had any battery problems with your T4600C, methinks they use the
GU> same  batteries?

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assistant: I am dealing with the same company, and my battery does not
hold it's charge as it should, but it's not as bad as yours.
My laptop is also missing the plastic cover for the PCMCIA
slot, but getting through to Data-Path looked like
it would be more costly with all the long distance phone
calls on 'hold"than the cover was worth.
I very seldom use the laptop, and when I do it's with the
AC power adapter. Overall I am very pleased
with the way the T4600C works with
OS/2 Warp 3. I would like to install
Filebar, but I lost my registration number and don't feel
like registering it again., so I am running a basic
Warp 3 installation with only tcpip installed for
dialup access.
I do like the way the laptop shuts down the screen and
hardrive if you let it sit for a while or close the cover,
so I guess I would be happy with the auto-resume, but if it
gives OS/2 a problem, I will do without it.
I would like to find a cheap PCMCIA network card that
had a BNC (coax) type connector so I could occasionally
link my laptop to my peer to peer for sharing files
and installing software. I know you can use the parallel
port but I think that requires a de-tune of my current
peer to match the slower performance of the parallel
port in the Toshiba, so that is not a good option for
me. Of course a good, cheap, 28.8 modem
would be nicer than the current 14.4, or maybe a good
cdrom... but I really don't want to invest a lot of
money into this thing - so it looks like what I have
now is all it will be.
joe
system: You are Mark Lewis, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Os/2 Hardware message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Peter Garner about "Warp Install".

They wrote:
ML>>  PG> past the ATAPI CD-ROM problem.  BTW the Hard Disk is attached
ML>>  PG> to channel 0, and the CD-ROM to channel 1.  These are the only
ML>>  PG> devices attached to the on board EIDE controllers, and there
ML>>  PG> are NO other devices or cards attached except for the Matrox.
ML>>
ML>> ensure that the cdrom drive is jumpered as slave... even if it is
ML>> the only device on that bus...
ML>>
ML>> give that a try...
PG> Well I installed fixpack 6 AND jumpered the drive as you
PG> suggested. It certainly was shipped jumpered as master.
PG> In any case, the drive now works fine.  I really should
PG> take the case apart and jumper it as master again, to see
PG> if it was the Fixpack 6 or the jumper setting that fixed
PG> things.  I really appreciate your input, as that seems
PG> to have solved the problem.
PG> I am curious if you or anyone else has seen this problem
PG> before?

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assistant: i kinda figured it was... we used to do that at the shop i work in until i
discovered that they ran just fine as slave when they are the only device on
the bus... so we quite switching them from slave to master and that saved us
a few steps in the builds and in later drive additions... not only the few
steps but upwards of ten minutes on the later drive additions 'cause we don't
have to remove the cd and switch the jumper ;-)
you could switch it back and try it if you like... i don't know that i'd go
thru all that just to see...
i remember reading something that one of the drivers (ATAPI?) insisted on the
CD being set to slave... figured it couldn't hurt to have you try it ;-)
)\/(ark
system: You are Peter Garner, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Os/2 Hardware message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Mark Lewis about "Warp Install".

They wrote:
ML>  PG> past the ATAPI CD-ROM problem.  BTW the Hard Disk is attached
ML>  PG> to channel 0, and the CD-ROM to channel 1.  These are the only
ML>  PG> devices attached to the on board EIDE controllers, and there
ML>  PG> are NO other devices or cards attached except for the Matrox.
ML>
ML> ensure that the cdrom drive is jumpered as slave... even if it is
ML> the only device on that bus...
ML>
ML> give that a try...
ML>
ML>

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assistant: Well I installed fixpack 6 AND jumpered the drive as you suggested.
It certainly was shipped jumpered as master.  In any case, the drive now
works fine.  I really should take the case apart and jumper it as
master again, to see if it was the Fixpack 6 or the jumper setting that
fixed things.  I really appreciate your input, as that seems to have
solved the problem.  I am curious if you or anyone else has seen this
problem before?
Thanks,
Pete
system: You are Will Honea, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Os/2 Hardware message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Peter Garner about "PIO modes".

They wrote:
PG> Some BIOS let you set that from the advanced options.  I know the
PG> AMI BIOS on the Tyan Tiger MB will do so, so I would imagine that
PG> most/all recent AMI BIOS will allow this.

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assistant: Peter Garner wrote to Will Honea on 03-31-1998
Yep, AWARD BIOS on the FIC PA2007 has the same setting - which
IBM1S506.ADD ignores as it goes it own merry way :-{
Will Honea <whonea@codenet.net>
system: You are Eli Krakovsky, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Os/2 Hardware message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to All about "Can anybody help me?".

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assistant: Hi, All!
I've just bought sound card ExpertColor MED3201 with AMD WaveTable. With this
card I got InterWave drivers for DOS/Win3.11/WIN'95. Can anybody write me,
where to find consequent drivers for OS/2 Warp 4.0 (AKA Merlin). Any help
would be appreciated. Thanks in advance.
Best Regs,
          Eli.
                       Thursday April 02 1998 00:03
system: You are Jonathan Michaels, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Os/2 Hardware message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Lee Aroner about "motherboards and os/2".

They wrote:
JM>> i have my old nt v3.51 cd's, will they make good frisbies ?

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assistant: Hello LEE!
hello leming .. er lee (grin)
Saturday March 28 1998 15:27, LEE ARONER wrote to JONATHAN MICHAELS:
 LA >>   NT on the same box just runs like a dog.
 LA >    Nah. Some lemming will pay for them.
 LA >    If you don't want em, send em to me...
do i hear a better than $USD200 offer ?
its only to cover shipping costs, you know.
cheers
Jonathan
... i do what i can, with what i have, are you able to say the same ?
system: You are Jonathan Michaels, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Os/2 Hardware message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Bat Lang about "stb 4 port serial card".

They wrote:
-=>> Quoting Jonathan Michaels to All, [28 Mar 98  16:13:40] <=-
JM>> Hello All!
JM>> i have inherited an stb 4 port serial card, it has a
JM>> startech 16650 vlsi chip on it and jumper for irq and
JM>> address for each of the 4 serial ports. it has fifo caching
JM>> and those funny ps/2ish ports on the backplane. can
JM>> somebody who has one help me with where to get the cable
JM>> for this card, more importantlu where i can get
JM>> dicumantaion/drivers etc for it.
JM>> i believe thatt this is the serial card that was being
JM>> advertised by steve winters of christian fidonet conference
JM>> fame some years ago.
JM>> is id possible to set this up on an os/2 box ? how,
JM>> currently os/2 sees a serial cards but when it comes to
JM>> connecting a modem os/2 complain's about the card not being
JM>> thier, that is were os/2 thinks it is .. thes card cam out
JM>> od a ms win95 box that ran binkleyterm (not very reliably,
JM>> it was one of my downlinks)
JM>> anyhelp would be apreciated.

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assistant: Hello Bat!
Sunday March 29 1998 18:51, Bat Lang wrote to Jonathan Michaels:
 BL > Howdy, JM!
 BL > I enjoyed your exchange on mobo's with Linn, so I thought I'd
don't do this to me bat, i've just gotten used to be the ratbag and prime
wit
list candidate .. or at least thats the impression i get regardsing my
somewhat
direct opinons.
just as a matter of exchange, i am one of yor original australian fans, all
those years ago when i started in fidonet, i used to read and enjoy the dos
batchfile programming echo that you headedup .. back then i was so timid my
own
shadow would have had a far better chance of posting that i ever would.
 BL > see what I could do to help you. {^; The bad news is: that on
snip
 BL > edited them down to what I thought would be useful to you, and
 BL > here it is:
 BL >          |                     | Alfa Computers Pty. Limited  |
 BL >          | USA                 | Unit 1, 620-632 Botany Road  |
 BL >          | International ==>   |     Alexandra, NSW 2015      |
i have an account thier
 BL > I hope this leads you to where you want to go. Good Modeming!
it is a place to start, thank you very much.
gee i never thought i'd get to talk to one of my own 'idols', as it were, now
all i have to do is get to talk to leonard cohen and i can die happy. i am
rally that simple, er uncomplicated, my desires are not really erth
atering.
i think i will put the pc away for today and just relish this moment, for a
little while atleast.
cheers
Jonathan
... i do what i can, with what i have, are you able to say the same ?
system: You are Jonathan Michaels, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Os/2 Hardware message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Ian Singer about "stb 4 port serial card".

They wrote:
->> i have inherited an stb 4 port serial card, it has a startech
->> 16650 vlsi chip on it and jumper for irq and address for each
->> of the 4 serial ports. it has fifo caching and those funny
->> ps/2ish ports on the backplane. can somebody who has one help
->> me with where to get the cable for this card, more
->> importantlu where i can get dicumantaion/drivers etc for it.

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assistant: Hello Ian!
Monday March 30 1998 07:27, Ian Singer wrote to Jonathan Michaels:
 IS > Should be a 16554 chip as its 4 16550 in one vsli package. Needs
yup thats the beastie, some days i get fuzzier that others.
 IS > no drivers at all.  The cables I think are same as Mac ones.
now thats a start .. i will hunt some down.
 IS > Numbers I have for STB are Phone 214-234-8750 Fax 214-234-1306
i have just gotten the australian reps, i will be trying them first, its
cheaper to hop in the car and drive down, its a bit more expensive to hop the
redeye out to lax, besides it leaves sydeny internation too early in the
morning for my liking .. grin
thanks
Jonathan
... i do what i can, with what i have, are you able to say the same ?
system: You are Steve Mccrystal, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Os/2 Hardware message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Mike Ruskai about "Bidirectional parallel p".

They wrote:
SM>> Can I assume that the above files provide *generic* support
SM>> for bidirectional printers? I got the files (actually I've
SM>> had them for quite some time (about the year you mentioned),
SM>> but when I install them with my port set to either EPP or
SM>> ECP the printer isn't found, and if I open the printer
SM>> object it tells me just that.  The driver loads fine with no
SM>> complaints, tho.
MR> What kind of printer?  I've found that my HP LaserJet loves the
MR> EPP/ECP port, but my DeskJet can't handle anything beyond
MR> standard bidirectional (it's interface isn't designed for it).

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assistant: ;
In a msg of <Sunday March 29 1998>, Mike Ruskai writes to Steve Mccrystal:
;
Mike,
An Epson Stylus Color 600 inkjet.  The only thing that seems to work is the
SPP (Standard P-Port) setting in the bios settings.  The printer is supposed
to be IEEE-1284 compliant, at least that's what the specs say.
I know the bios isn't supposed to be used once OS/2 is booted, but I assume
*this* setting is still important.
I'd sure like to get it working!
-[Steve]-
system: You are George White, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Os/2 Hardware message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to David Page about "OS/2 & Modem".

They wrote:
DP> RK> Well I Have Com4 Which My Modem Is On, And I Have Com1 Which Is My
DP> RK> Mouse Port...Don't You Just Love PS2 Mouses!!!
DP> JdBP> PS/2 mice don't use serial ports.
DP>Well, actually they do. It's just that the "serial port" in
DP>question is run by the keyboard controller, and isn't in
DP>the I/O space of the system processor at all, just like the
DP>"serial port" that connects to the keyboard itself.
DP>Just think; an TRUE example of multiproccesing, since the
DP>keyboard procesor can run at the same time as the system
DP>processor.
DP>           Imagine what just a little more of this kind of
DP>thinking could do. An 80186 compatible processor is very
DP>cheap as part of an ASIC, and blows away the original
DP>keyboard processor, which was markedly inferior to an 8088.
DP>Such a processor could run a whole array of serial ports,
DP>for example. Of course, that's probably what the USB
DP>interface looks like in hardware.

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assistant: Hi David,
You wrote to Jonathan de Boyne Pollard:
Yes, but in the context above, it's a serial mouse as it's on COM1 :-)
And it's been there since the first IBM PC!
It is in fact a pre-programmed 8048 family device - an 8041.
Sure, that's what TCL, Digiboard, Chase etc use for their intelligent
multiport serial cards. The TCL cards have an 80186 running at 16 MHz.
Great for multi line BBSs under OS/2 :-)
George
 * SLMR 2.1a * Wastebasket: Something to throw things near.
system: You are August Abolins, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Os/2 Hardware message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Ian Singer about "pressure sensitive mouse devices".

They wrote:
IS> I have a Cirque GliePoint touch pas on comm 2 and its configured as
IS> serial mouse and works fine on Warp 3

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assistant: Hi Ian!
So.. OS/2 doesn't require any other software beyond the standard VMOUSE.SYS
for a pressure sensitive device?
.: /|ug
system: You are Coridon Henshaw, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Os/2 Hardware message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Barry Bogart about "Mem".

They wrote:
BB> If Os/2 runs out of memory, will the system Halt?

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assistant: On Wednesday April 01 1998 at 09:13, Barry Bogart wrote to All:
When OS/2 runs out of RAM, it will page (swap) something to the swapfile.
When it runs out of both swap space and RAM, the system will crash.
system: You are Mike Ruskai, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Os/2 Hardware message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Cliff Hetherington about "new motherboard".

They wrote:
MR> Stick with HX, or go with a 200 or 233MHz Pentium II setup
MR> instead.  I'd recommend the latter option, using ASUS, Supermicro,
MR> or Tyan.
CH> I havent seen much about LX chipset Mobos, apart from a brief mention
CH> in a mag about slot1 bing out and slot2 in.. How does the LX chipset
CH> handle cacheing? Since p][ cpus now have the cache seperate, if on the
CH> same card.. will it still cache ALL the memory in the system or do we
CH> have a 64meg and 20% hit in performance problem there as well?

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assistant: Some senseless babbling from Cliff Hetherington to Mike Ruskai
on 03-31-98  00:01 about new motherboard...
I'm pretty sure that it caches all memory, which is at least 768MB, since
some motherboards based on the LX support that much.
I've only got 64MB installed right now, though, so I can't vouch from
experience.
The cache size, BTW, is not the limiting factor with the TX/VX chipsets.
It's the limit on TAG size.  The Pentium II's have cache off the die, but
on the same card as the CPU in the big module, with a direct bus between
them.
Mike Ruskai SA/AG #1106
thanny@home.com
... Keep your OS/2 system healthy by practicing safe REXX.
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system: You are Mike Ruskai, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Os/2 Hardware message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to All about "redirecting LPT1".

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assistant: I don't know if I asked this here before or not...
I would like to redirect LPT1 to a network printer.  Is this possible?
Mike Ruskai SA/AG #1106
thanny@home.com
... alt.rush.limbaugh.what.a.big.fat.dork
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system: You are Peter Garner, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Os/2 Hardware message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Ludovic Braun about "Warp install".

They wrote:
LB>
LB> PG> 512 Meg of SDRAM
LB>
LB> Wow, what are you going to do with THAT much RAM ?
LB>

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assistant: Develop in C++ and Java, hell the minimum for Visual Age Java is 64
MEG these days.  In a few years it will be 128, etc.  Given how flaky
SDRAM is I wanted to get all of the machine's RAM slots filled with the
same lot from the same manufacturer.  I have installed RAMDISK and I
copy all of the VAC++ headers, libraries and binaries to that Ramdisk on
boot up. It is really cool to compile VAC++ with MEMMAN=NOSWAP in your
config.sys! Getting a little more on topic, I am seeing a performance in
compiling C++ on this machine that is slightly less than what I would
expect from a high end RS-6000 with only one or two users online.
I am still not convinced the SDRAM is completely OK.  Oddly enough
Sysbench immediatly traps with an access error (SYS3175) "Program
created an access error".  Other than that the machine runs fine now.
Does anyone know of any good programs to test RAM?
Thanks,
Peter
system: You are Kris Steenhaut, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Os/2 Hardware message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Jonathan De Boyne Pollard about "FIC PA 2012".

They wrote:
JP> All right, so maybe I did fall for *one* gimmick: the SoftTouch velvet
JP> coating.  But given that at �13 it was nearly the cheapest mouse in
JP> the shop (only the cheap and nasty bog-standard mice were cheaper),
JP> and the fact that I *do* like the feel of the thing, I don't feel very
JP> guilty.

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assistant: Hello Jonathan,
vrijdag 20 maart 1998 13.03, Jonathan de Boyne Pollard wrote to George
anov:
Many thanks for this report Jo, very interesting.
BTW: I do advise  you to make use of rodent.sys. It's a mouse-add-on system,
wich makes living with the mouse much easier. In any event, you'll be able to
set your mouse at 600 DPI, and that makes the cursermovements go very smooth.
I do have here a Logitech Mouseman Cordless Pro, three buttons,  no wheel,
and set as PS/2.
Rodent.sys even enables the PS2 to use the third button. The third button
emulates the CTRL-ESCAPE here. Very handy, you should try it.
    Groeten uit Gent,
    Regards/2
      Kris
system: You are August Abolins, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Os/2 Hardware message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to All about "Mustek HT-800 anyone?".

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assistant: I would like to probe my fellow OS/2 users if anyone among you has the Mustek
HT-800 handheld greyscale scanner.
I lost the installed software several years ago due an hdd problem, and I've
misplaced the original diskettes in the process of moving to another city.
I would appreciate it if anyone can help and send me a copy of the software
and drivers.
I had contacted Mustek about 2 years ago (upon discovering the hdd problem
and the missing diskettes) and they were unable to point me to a source for
the necessary software.
.: /|ug
system: You are Jonathan Michaels, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Os/2 Hardware message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Nicky Morrow about "stb 4 port serial card".

They wrote:
JM>>> i have inherited an stb 4 port serial card, it has a
JM>>> startech 16650 vlsi chip on it and jumper for irq and
JM>>> is id possible to set this up on an os/2 box ? how,
JM>>> currently os/2 sees a serial cards but when it comes to
JM>>> connecting a modem os/2 complain's about the card not
JM>>> being thier, that is were os/2 thinks it is .. thes card
>> I enjoyed your exchange on mobo's with Linn, so I thought I'd
>> see what I could do to help you. {^; The bad news is: that on
>> the IBM Device Driver site, I could find no support for this
>> board.

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assistant: Hello Nicky!
Monday March 30 1998 21:52, Nicky Morrow wrote to Bat Lang:
 NM > Hello Bat!
snipp
 NM > This board works fine with COM.SYS if you use a different IRQ
 NM > for each port.  If you need to put more than 1 port on an IRQ
 NM > then go with SIO.  I run all 4 ports on a single IRQ here with
 NM > SIO.
sorry, i am this slow.
if i understand what you have said, you have an stb 4 port card and you run
t
setup as com 1 2 3 4 with the irq jumpers for all four set to the same value
..
yes ?
Jonathan
... i do what i can, with what i have, are you able to say the same ?