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In article <1993Apr15.040231.17561@c3p0.novell.de> pbartok@c3p0.novell.de (Peter D. Bartok) writes:  >>  Great! But don't let your effort and talent be un-noticed. >>  Put the program on the net, upload it to some anonymous ftp >>  sites. So people (at least me) can have it and appreciate it. > >   Please put it into ftp.novell.de (193.97.1.1) pub/incoming/pc  OK, the small programme that can be used to switch a SunCD drive into 2048 bytes/block mode for use with MSDOS/Adaptec/APSI it now available by 'ftp' from  	ftp.novell.de (193.97.1.1) pub/pc/adaptec/cdblksize.zip
In article <C5uw1t.3HI@eskimo.com> johnn@eskimo.com (John Navitsky) writes: > >I would like a monitor that can handle high resolutions like 1024x1024 NI. >I'm envisioning using this monitor on an Amiga 4000 or Amiga 2000 w/a graphics >board like the Retina, and/or on a Sun like the SPARCstation LX.  Basically >I want a high resolution versital monitor.  This monitor need not be large >(=>17") if it meets the brief requirements as outlined above.  I've been >very happy with a 16" on Suns and could probably cope with smaller at home. > >I'm interested if anyone has more details on high quality Sony and Hitatchi >monitors since they seem to be used on Sun's fairly often and look pretty >good (to me at least).  I haven't seem them brought up in c.s.i.p.h very >often as are Mag and Viewsonic. > Give the new Viewsonic 17 a good look.  I have seen it side by side with an old Viewsonic 7, a MAG 17, a Nanao 17" (not the Trinitron one), and a Sony OEM 17" (which does have a Trinitron tube).  The new Viewsonic beat all of them easily in terms of picture quality, and I think it is far superior to the 16" Sun that I am staring at now.  The place asks $1178 for it; I would have bought it if I had not just bought a 15" Nanao F340iw a week earlier :(
In article <33z5zgc@rpi.edu> arnolm2@aix.rpi.edu (Matthew Richard Arnold) writes: > >Would someone be willing to explain to me the 486DX 50MHz is not more >popular than it is?  I would think it would be just as fast, if not  >faster than the 486DX 66MHz for certian applications.  Plus, a 50MHz  >motherboard would seem better if you had any plans on upgrading the >chip in the future.  I must be missing something, since everyone is  >buying the DX2 66...  Many adds don't even mention the DX 50. >  One of the things going for the DX2-66 (over the 50) is that it's clock speed complies with the VESA local bus spec.  Lance Hartmann (lance%hartmann.austin.ibm.com@ibmpa.awdpa.ibm.com)                Yes, that IS a '%' (percent sign) in my network address.
Has anyone connected a high-res, fixed frequency monitor to their PC? I have a mitubishi monitor that does 1024x768 at 60hz, but won't do any other resolutions.  All the video cards designed for this sort of thing are very expensive (>$400).  Has anyone done it with an SVGA card (I know it can be done, it's just a question of getting the card at the right resolution and frequency)?  I'd like to use a mono (hercules) monitor as my dos/command line monitor, and switch to the mitsu for Windows or X-windows (under Linux or 3BSD).  Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.  E-mail, please.  Thanks,
In article <pdb059-210493145738@kilimanjaro.jpl.nasa.gov> pdb059@ipl.jpl.nasa.gov (Paul Bartholomew) writes: >In article <3130@shaman.wv.tek.com>, andrew@frip.WV.TEK.COM (Andrew >Klossner) wrote: >>  >> [] >>  >> 	"These LPT1, COM1, disk controller are call devices.  There are >> 	devices that requires exclusive interrupt ownership, eg. disk >> 	controller (I6) and keyboard (I1).  There are also devices that >> 	does not require exclusive ownership, ie. it will share an >> 	interrupt with another device, eg. LPT1" >>  >> No.  In a standard ISA bus, the one that almost all non-laptop PCs use, >> two separate interface cards cannot share an interrupt.  This is due to >> a screwup in the bus design.  For example, if your Soundblaster wants >> to drive interrupt number 7, then it must hold a certain bus wire to 0 >> or 1 at all times, depending on whether or not it wants an interrupt. >> This precludes letting another card assert interrupt number 7. >>  >> When two or more devices in an ISA bus PC share an interrupt, it's >> because they're implemented by a single card. > >Interesting.  Would you care to explain to me then, how my SoundBlaster >Pro card and my printer card are sharing IRQ 7 successfully?  I assure >you that they are both set to IRQ 7 and that I have no problem.  My >computer is a DTK 286-12 IBM clone.  Simple.  First, Andrew is correct, although I can see where there might be some confusion.  It is indeed possible to have two cards *configured* to use the same interrupt.  They can not *share* the interrupt in the sense that it is not possible to have both cards active at the same time.  Here is an example.  For some time, I was short of "free interrupts."  I had a tape controller (not a "floppy tape") that needed one of IRQ0-IRQ7.  (It's an *old* tape drive.)  My solution was to use IRQ3 (also used for COM2, where my modem is).  I did this because I reasoned I would never be using the modem and the tape simultaneously.  When kermit runs, it installs its own interrupt handler for IRQ3 and uses the serial port.  If the tape drive were to generate an interrupt, kermit would not have a clue what to do with/for the tape controller.  (And since the tape controller would not be serviced, it would most likely "hang.")  Likewise, when the tape backup software runs, it installs an interrupt handler for IRQ3.  That handler won't do anything for the serial port.  Under DOS, printing is NOT interrupt-driven.  Instead, the BIOS polls the status of the parallel port to determine when another byte may be sent. That's why you can have your sound card and LPT1 both configured to use IRQ7. Try that on NT and see how far you'll get. :-) --  Kenneth R. Ballou				VOICE:		 (617) 494-0990 Oberon Software, Inc.				FAX:		 (617) 494-0414 One Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MA  02142	Internet:     ballou@oberon.com
Hi.  Recently my svga monitor has been acting up by taking about 3 minutes to warm up.    Previously, when I first start up my PC I can see all the  CMOS messages (RAM test ...etc) but now I've got to wait  for about 3min before the display shows anything and it starts up with a bright white flash.  This only happens when the system has been off for a long time (eg overnight). If it was only off for a couple of hours and then turned on again, the display works as normal like before.  Does anyone know what is causing this?  Is it a warning that it will give up soon or just signs of aging (the system is a 386sx and its about 3 yrs old).  I've used systems at work for years and never seen this happen to a monitor yet.  I'd really appreciated any help that you fellow netters can offer. Thanks a lot.  Edwin --
[discussing the use of IRQ 7]  In  recent article msprague@superior.mcwbst311b (Mike Sprague) writes:  >I as a number of poeple in this thread have already written >(I can't prove it's true, but I believe it), LPT1 does not >actually use IRQ7, even though that interrupt is supposed to >be dedicated to LPT1.  To put it a little differently:   - IRQ 7 is the de facto standard interrupt assigned to be used by the    printer adapter to announce its completion of some activity.   - DOS doesn't monitor IRQ 7; it uses other means to determine when it's    time to send out another byte to the printer.   - Most (all?) (hardware) printer adapters have the ability to disable    the use of IRQ 7, usually by merely breaking the connection between    the ISA pin and the associated driver.  Other adapters control the    IRQ line by a tri-state driver, and by programming just leave it    in the high-impedence mode.   - Unfortunately, there are a lot of adapter cards which use bistate    drivers (i.e., either assert high or assert low) for the IRQ lines    rather than tristate drivers (assert high, assert low, or don't    assert anything).  The presence of such a card on an IRQ line precludes    the use of that IRQ by any other adapter unless it is physically     disconnected by a jumper.     (Incidentally, note that there's no requirement that a card hold    the IRQ line low when no interrupt is desired.  If that were true    you would have to somehow tie down all unconnected IRQ lines, and    that certainly isn't a requirement.)   - Non-DOS operating systems (OS/2, NT (?), various Unices or whatever the    proper plural of Unix might be) require the use of IRQ 7 for performance    reasons.    And the SB16, alas, is one of the cards which uses bistate drivers.
*** On 04-21-93  04:30, Michael Shapiro had the unmitigated gall to say this:   MS> The DOS system date has a twenty-four hour clock and a rollover bit.  MS> When the system crosses midnight, the rollover bit is turned on.    MS> Subsequent reads of the time add one.  There's no change possible   MS> (This information was current up through DOS 3.3.  I've not checked to  MS> see whether it applies to later versions.)  Just a small tidbit: with the advent of DOS 3.3 and later versions, MS added a small "feature" to the DOS time function.  If a program sets the DOS clock via DOS system services, then DOS will set the BIOS clock to the same value. This breaks the isolation between the two clocks that used to ensure that errors in the DOS clock did not bleed over into the BIOS clock.  Sometimes the Microsoft people just don't think! :)  ... Fact:  Mickey Mouse wears a Al Gore wristwatch. --- Blue Wave/QWK v2.10
With your date/time problems, you MIGHT have a problem with the Dallas Clock Chip (I'm making a possibly bad assumption that your system has a clock chip and that it's the standard Dallas Clock Chip).  I always look at the battery and the clock chip when such things go wrong-- at least, as the first course of action.   Mel. White/Data Services/City of Garland, Texas
35002_4401@uwovax.uwo.ca wrote: : I need to know the Pins to connect to make a loopback connector for a serial : port so I can build one.  The loopback connector is used to test the  : serial port. :  : Thanks for any help. :  :  : Steve :  Me Too!!!!!!! skcgoh@tartarus.uwa.edu.au
In article <1qpu0uINNbt1@dns1.NMSU.Edu> bgrubb@dante.nmsu.edu (GRUBB) writes: >wlsmith@valve.heart.rri.uwo.ca (Wayne Smith) writes: >Since the Mac uses ONLY SCSI-1 for hard drives YES the "figure includes a >hundred $$$ for SCSI drivers"  This is sloppy people and DUMB.  What group is this?  This is not a MAC group.  >Ok once again with the SCSI spec list:  Why the spec list again?  We are talking SCSI on a PC, not on a MAC or a UNIX box.  And we are talking ISA bus, or possibly EISA or VLB.  This isin't comp.periphs.SCSI. Tell me what the performance figures are with a single SCSI drive on a PC with an ISA (or EISA or VLB) bus.  Theoretical performance figures are not relevant to this group or this debate.  I'm sure that there are some platforms out there that can handle the 40 megs/sec of SCSI xyz wide'n'fast, but the PC isin't one of them.  >If we are to continue this thread STATE CLEARLY WHICH SCSI you are talking  >about SCSI-1 or SCSI-2 or SCSI over all {SCSI-1 AND SCSI-2} >IT DOES MAKE A DIFFERENCE.
I've acquired an old Logitech Series 7 (3-button) mouse, and I'm told that this is a bus mouse.  Does anyone want to unload an old (pc-clone) bus-card for this mouse?  email replies to:  bobmon@cs.indiana.edu
O.K, I am not a computer literate, but what can/cannot be done with the RAM over 16 megs in an ISA machine.  Please e-mail!  Thanks in Advance!
I'm trying to connect a Mac SE modem port to a PC 25 way serial port, can someone provide me with a wiring diagram for a null modem lead for this setup.  Please use Email since my news feed is a bit quirky.  Thanks in advance  Sean Gordon
I used to have a lot of line noise problems with my 1200 baud modem. What was sudgested to me was to put a toriod transformer on the line. This is easily done by getting a large toroid core from your local electronics shop, a toroid core is a ceramic/metal "donut", and wind the telephone line in through the center of the core and out around the ouTside five or six times. This is a easy and cheap fix that does not have the hassels of having to use sofware to fix a hardware problem.
Hi!  I recently switched my 3.5" drive to A:. The problem is, while I can read and write to both the new A: and B: correctly, I can't boot from a floppy in A:. I've checked the CMOS settings; it is set for Floppy Seek at Boot and Boot  Order A:,C:.   Once, I had a floppy that did not have the systems files on it in A:. I got a message telling me to put a disk systems disk in the drive. It didn't work. When I do have a systems disk in the A: drive, this is what happens: 1) Power-on and Memory Test; 2) A: light comes on 3) B: light comes on, followed by a short beep; 4) HD light comes on for an instant; 5) B: light comes on again, then nothing happens  The light goes off, there is no disk activity of any kind, and the screen  blanks. I can't even use ctrl-alt-del.  Any suggestions.  Thanks in advance.
I am looking for an inexpensive vlb card, and have yet to run across any real reviews of them. One of the cards the local stores are pushing is the Genoa 8500 for $125-140. Apparently it uses a Cirrus Logic acc. chip, but I don't know which one (GD5426?). One of the shops I've spoken with  claims the card out-performs the Diamond Stealth 24 vl and the Orchid Fahrenheit 1280 plus vl cards (S3 86C805 based), but that can't be true if it is using the GD5426. I like the price of the Genoa 8500, but if it lags in performance behind the S3 cards, I'll pay the extra $50 for one  of them.  Any info. on low end vlb cards would be appreciated. If I get replies via email, I'll post summary info. if anyone else is interested.
*** On 04-21-93  04:50, R.x. Getter had the unmitigated gall to say this:   RG> This may be a dumb question, but I need to put a hard drive on my  RG> father's PC/XT, either MFM, RLL, or IDE. I know how to hook it up, but  RG> how do I tell the computer the geometry of the drive. On my 386, you  RG> set it in the BIOS, but I doubt that's how it's done on an XT. I  Most XT IDE controllers are responsible for keeping track of the drive geometry and getting the information to the computer.  The controller may come with software to update its on-board BIOS, or may be designed to work with a particular drive.  Seagate drives usually have special controllers for use on XT's, and these are tailored to the drive.  Also, you cannot low-level format an IDE drive.  The low-level format is stored on specal magnetic areas on the disk surface called "servos" (not like the electronic use of the term) that need a higher recording bias than the drive's recording heads can generate.  Don't try to low-level format an IDE drive!  ... P.E.T.A. People for the Eating of Tasty Animals --- Blue Wave/QWK v2.10
I'm trying to transfer some software between two machines  	and I'm having real trouble.  My own Intel 14.4k ( 	v32/v32bis/v42/v42bis) works fine--I just talk to it 	at 56k and everything comes out clear.  This other modem, 	at the other machine, is a "Turbomodem+" from "The  	Complete PC" (the machines are in seperate houses,  	so a direct serial link is impossible, and copying this 	much data to disk is a pain--easier to turn the machines 	on for a few hours and go see a movie--no, this is not 	pirated software).  	I am having no end of trouble trying to set it up.  It will 	dial and connect just fine--at 9600 baud.  But if I try to 	set the comm at 19k2, 38.4k or 56kbps, the stupid thing 	connects, but just gives garbage (it connects 14.4k).   	His machine (a dx48633) has a 16550AFN UART, so that's 	not the problem.  	It seems to me that the stupid thing wants to talk to 	 	a comm program _at_ 14.400bps, even though it will take 	dialing instructions at 56k (and respond OK, etc. to  	other commands).  I don't have a comm program that can 	do precisely 14.4k.    	I looked at the manual but it was unclear.  All I know is, 	I didn't have this trouble with the Intel--it came 	ready to connect this way.  Do I need to initialize it 	any way in particular?  	Also, it's _using_ V.42bis and V.42 (and MNP5) when connecting 	here (i.e., at 9600, since our tests at 14k4 are zip so far) 	but it doesn't _say_ so there.  any ideas?  	(BTW:  I tried the initialization string that I use for 	my modem, but it just gives ERROR on that one)
In article <734874577snx@finbol.toppoint.de> jschief@finbol.toppoint.de (Joerg Schlaeger) writes: >[......] >Better OSs (OS/2 & iX) are able to handle more than 16MB of DRAM, >if you use EISA-Bus. >Has someone experience with VLB ?? >I think of SCSI-VLB-Busmaster. The problem is the 16bit Floppy DMA >controller, which is unable to reach more than 16MB.  I don't think FD is a problem.  Since FD is much sloooooooowwwwwwer than HD, the overhead of double buffering doesn't matter.  Ken Nakata
I'm planning on buying a joystick (first time since I sold 	my Amiga five years ago :) for a PC. I have no idea what  	kind of stick I should buy. Many people have recommended  	variety of Gravis'es models. Are they any good/the best?  	-- Willy
bsardis@netcom.com (Barry Sardis) writes:  >kevin@kosman.uucp (Kevin O'Gorman) writes:  >>Anybody seen the date get stuck?  >>I'm running MS-DOS 5.0 with a menu system alive all the time.  The machine >>is left running all the time.  >>Suddenly, the date no longer rolls over.  The time is (reasonably) accurate >>allways, but we have to change the date by hand every morning.  This involves >>exiting the menu system to get to DOS.  >I've started to notice the same thing myself. I'm running DOS 5 and Win 3.1 so >I can fix it from the Windows Control Panel. At times it is the date, at >others the clock seems to be running several minutes behind where it should >be.  Did I once hear that in order for the date to advance, something, like a  clock, *has* to make a Get Date system call? Apparently, the clock hardware interrupt and BIOS don't do this (date advance) automatically. The Get Date call notices that a "midnight reset" flag has been set, and then then advances the date.  Anybody with more info?
In article <1993Apr21.215204.18373@ntg.com> dplatt@ntg.com (Dave Platt) writes:     The IRQ and interface-select jumpers are pretty straightforward, but I     don't grok the settings of W10-W18 (also labelled A15 through A18).     Could somebody tell me which settings of these four jumpers correspond     to what I/O addresses?      The U-B PCNIC (also OEMed by IBM for a while) is the only Ethernet card I know of that doesn't use I/O addresses.  It only has interrupts and shared memory.  The jumpers you see control bits 15-18 in the base address of the shared memory.  I can't recall which is 1 and which 0, but that's easy to determine with DEBUG.
Why is it going to take a year for V.fast to become a standard? Are there technical problems to work out, or is it just bureaucratic slowdown? THANKS!
Article #61153 (61302 is last): >Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware From: nstassen@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Nicki A Stassen Lantz) Subject: HELP: LED connectors for motherboard Date: Thu Apr 22 09:02:48 1993   I bought a 386DX-40 motherboard for 50$... no documentation at all. Everything appears to work, except I'm having trouble getting a few of the LED connectors working. I've looked at the manuals for 4 other motherboards, but the pin configuration doesn't look anything like what is on this board. Does this pin arrangement look familiar to anyone out there??? Any hints on where I can find this information?                   1                 10       "speaker"  . . . . . . . . . .       "keylock"  . . . . . . . . . .                  11          ^     20                        J23   |                              |The board came with a jumper vertically across                               these two pins.  I can get the power/keylock to work across pins 11-15, reset across pins 9 and Shown 82%, press <SPACE> for more, 'q' to quit, or 'h' for help                                                                                  19, but would prefer not to blow something up by further experimentation. The date on the board itself is 6/92, opti chips.  I would really appreciate any help, and thank you in advance.  N A Stassen Lantz End of File, Press RETURN to quit  Nicji, It would realy realy help if you said what chipset and if the board was an upgradable or not board and how old it and the bios is??? Sam
Ok, this might seem a bit odd. How do check the state of (dip)switches on the mother board of a IBM XT WITHOUT using the BIOS.  	/Thanx
Selling -            Arnet Multiport card. Four serial ports on one card (16450s) with docs and drivers for OS/2 and DOS (works great with Unix flavors too).  Aggregate is probably around 64Kb.     Offers?  Also willing to swap for monitor.
Hi, I need some advice from the netland in selecting a sound card.  I am about to buy a sound card for my kid. I don't know which one to buy. Which one to select from the following list:  - Sound Blaster 16 - Miscrosoft- sound card - Audio Spectrum - Sound Blaster pro - Sound Blaster   My allocated budget is around $250.   Could some of you know about sound cards help me to select the most appropriate one for my kid ?   I have 486-33 Mz OPTI MB. I also have NEC CDROM that I would like to connect to the sound card.   Thank you.
In article <C5pIsw.Kq8@cs.mcgill.ca> gerardis@cs.mcgill.ca (The GIF Emporium) writes: [stuff deleted] >a while.  That is the only thing that is making me lean more in favor >of the NEC 5FG (or now also available the NEC 5FGe - only difference, >no ACCUCOLOR ).  Any experiences or opinions from people who have used    Not only do you lose AccuColor, you also had to give up 1280x1024 non-interlaced mode, the wider 135 Mhz bandwidth and the Mac and BNC inputs of the 5FG.    Personally I am not bothered at all by the two lines in trinitron tube.  >        Tony Gerardis    @   McGill University - Computer Science
In article <1993Apr20.183959.1@utxvms.cc.utexas.edu>, dcoleman@utxvms.cc.utexas.edu (Daniel M. Coleman) writes: |> Gateway 2000 has released a new Flash BIOS update for their local bus systems.  |> Because I'm such a nice person, I uploaded them to wuarchive.wustl.edu.  Look |> for glb05.exe in the msdos_uploads section.  Enjoy! |>   I have several questions:  1) What do I gain with this new BIOS?  2) How can I save a copy of my old BIOS in case I want to go back?  3) How do I install the new BIOS?  I'd like to enjoy, but need answers first.  Thanks   --
I've been intently following the MAG thread while waiting for mine to arrive in the mail. There seems to be a lot of complaints about minor alignment problems with the MX15F. One article contained a comment that the owner called the factory and was told that his screen rotation was within spec (1/4").  Well, my monitor arrived last night and, sure enough, it has a very noticable barrel distortion. It's not dramatic, but it is there and it is especially noticable when the image doesn't fill the entire screen. The fact that it is worse on the right side doesn't help matters.  What I'm trying to find out is if these minor imperfections are the norm or are most of their monitors perfect? I don't want to send it back and get one with the same or an even worse problem. Does the factory consider this kind of thing normal and ship their monitors with less than perfect alignment?  Are other netters just living with these kind of imperfections?  --
rpao@mts.mivj.ca.us writes in article <C5J6zn.681@mts.mivj.ca.us>: >  > marka@SSD.CSD.HARRIS.COM (Mark Ashley) writes: >  > >Then the writer claims that glitches can > >occur in systems with over 16Mb because  > >of that limit. That part I don't understand > >because the RAM is right on the motherboard. > >So the cpu should have no problems talking > >with the RAM. Can anybody explain this ? The floppy is served by DMA on the motherboard, and original DMA-controller can't reach more than the first 16MB (The address-space of the ISA-bus) joerg