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In article <tigerC5K9oy.Gx@netcom.com> tiger@netcom.com (Tiger Zhao) writes: >goyal@utdallas.edu (MOHIT K GOYAL) writes: >>Can anyone tell me if this card works with the March OS/2 2.1 beta? > > I believe so, since the Buslogic cards have proven to be very  >reliable in OS/2 2.0.... > The BusLogic cards have an OS/2 2.0 driver that does work with the March 2.1 beta. Support for the BusLogic cards is not included with OS/2 2.0 any longer. If you wish to install the beta from the CD/ROM, you will need to REM out the Adaptec device drivers, as they have a nasty tendency to crash the BusLogic cards when OS/2 attempts to use them. (Thanks Adaptec!)   So you add the BusLogic drivers to the config.sys on the CD-ROM boot disk, and REM out the Adaptec drivers.  Then you install the whole 1st half of the Beta.. and it won't work! IBM nicely copies in the Adaptec drivers once again. (Thanks IBM!) So.. REM out the Adaptec drivers once more.. and reboot. If you have everything in the right order.. it will work.  Things are pretty smooth through the rest of the installation.. except OS/2 will try to install the Adaptec SCSI drivers once again at the end... so.. you are off to more REM statements and more fun.   The BT 542Bk comes with drivers and costs the same as the Adaptec cards that do not come with drivers. The DOS drivers work great. This card can easily be configured to work with 8 different sets of I/O ports (and you can use multiple host adapters in one machine) If you get a new card.. it will also be able to support up to 8 GB drives under DOS.  Hope this helps..  - Dan
In a previous article, rrn@po.CWRU.Edu (Robert R. Novitskey) says:  > >Just a qestion for all you pc-er's out there.  Will the upcoming pentium >systems be compatible with current simms and vlb cards?  Any info would be >helpful.  I would just like to know before I plunk my $ on new hardware. > >Thanks >BoB >  Well, it all depends on the motherboard implimentation.  I'm sure someone will make a vlb motherboard that takes 1x9 simms and uses a pentium processor.  I'm also sure that there  will be some motherboards that won't.
In article <C5Fu1u.pxx@austin.ibm.com> guyd@austin.ibm.com (Guy Dawson) writes: > >In article <10998@lhdsy1.lahabra.chevron.com>, jjctc@lhdsy1.lahabra.chevron.com (James C. Tsiao) writes: >> In article <1993Apr12.172751.27270@fct.unl.pt> fcm@diana.fct.unl.pt (Fernando Correia Martins (MEI 1)) writes: >> >Spectre (spectre@nmt.edu) wrote: >> >: When I look at a magazine ad that says: [deleted] >> >: what exactly do the numbers mean?  (i.e.  which is the MB, ns...) >> > >> >The numbers 60, 70 and 80 refers to nanoseconds. Could someone explain >> >*exactly* what this numbers means? (Time spent bettwen processor's request >> >and answer retrieved (in case of reading)? ) >>  >> It means the time required for the memory to refresh,  i.e. a 1x9-60 >> needs 60ns before it is ready to be read again. > >Nope! It's the time taken to read data from memory. It's the read time. >The memory will still have to be refreshed. The whole phase is called >a cycle, the cycle time being about twice the access time.  I'm sorry if I'm misunderstanding your post, but DRAM *does not* have to be refreshed on *each access cycle*.  So cycle time does *not* have to be twice the access time *because of refresh phase*.  The access time usually means the delay time from falling edge of raw address strobe (RAS) to data bus driven.  DRAM access cycle timing chart can be roughly shown as following (some signals are intentionally omitted);  ADDR --<RA><CA>-------<RA><CA>--------- RA=Raw Address, CA=Column Address RAS  ~~~~\________/~~~~~\________/~~~~~		~=High, _=Low, -=Floating CAS  ~~~~~~~\_______/~~~~~~\_______/~~~		<..>=driven either H or L DATA ---------<VALID>--------<VALID>---          |-------+------|          |-+--|  |            |     +----------- cycle time            +---- access time (or RAS access time)  Yes, the cycle time is more than twice as the access time but *not* because of the refresh phase.  The refresh can be done either as a trailing phase of normal access cycle or as an individual cycle.  > [other stuff deleted] >  Ken Nakata
rnichols@cbnewsg.cb.att.com (robert.k.nichols) writes:                  steps deleted {> ... {>  {> It's an interesting idea, but the worst-case data patterns developed to {> test magnetic media are totally different than the patterns used to detect {> common faults in memory chips. {>  I was having major memory problems a few monthes ago. getting parity error - system halted error message in windows. I ran QA/PLUS, Check It, Diagnose, as well as several shareware memory checkers. I had a total of 8 meg SIMM in my system. these store bought/ shareware memory diagnostics either ran fine without errors or found an error at some address that I couldn't place on a memory chip. Out of exahperation I came up with the (now deleted) steps to find bad memory chips. I found 2 (moral : never buy memory stamped "not for sensitive or critical  applications" on the back.         anyway I did filter out all the bad memory chips using  combinations of 4 of the 8 meg chips and creating a RAM drive to test on. Although it dodn't alleviate my parity error problems in windows. I did manage to find bad memory chips in this manner It has NEVER failed to find a bad chip for me. and the commercial/ shareware have always faild me either not finding the error or pointing to an addreww which I have no idea on what chip it is.  p.s. man my typing stinks today and I don't feel like futzing around with  this line editor.                                                         -David  =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
Gateway service has confirmed my suspicion, echoed by a couple of people who responded to the original request for help.  The ATI VLB video board uses the addresses for COM 4.  They could suggest no work around. I will be returning the DF IO card they supplied for COM 4 (even though it could not possibly work) for credit against a bus mouse.  This will free up the COM port I need - too bad the original salesman who suggested either the DF IO card or the bus mouse would solve my need for a port didn't know enough about the hardware.  Otherwise I must say that the 486DX2/66 system has worked very well - no problems with any other hardware or software.
G. Wayne Nichols (gwni@troi.cc.rochester.edu) wrote: > I have a 386/40 motherboard with AMI BIOS. [..] > After multiple reboots, now it only gives 10 beeps and sits there? Referring to the manual of my motherboard with AMI-BIOS, 10 beeps are a  'CMOS Shutdown Register Read/Write Error', if the system stops after these beeps. If the system continues, it is a 'Keyboard error'.  Michael
Hi, I've got a Multi I/O card (IDE controller + serial/parallel interface) and two floppy drives (5 1/4, 3 1/2) and a Quantum ProDrive 80AT connected to it. I was able to format the hard disk, but I could not boot from it. I can boot from drive A: (which disk drive does not matter) but if I remove the disk from drive A and press the reset switch, the LED of drive A: continues to glow, and the hard disk is not accessed at all. I guess this must be a problem of either the Multi I/o card or floppy disk drive settings (jumper configuration?) Does someone have any hint what could be the reason for it. Please reply by email to GERTHD@MVS.SAS.COM Thanks, Thomas +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Thomas Dachsel                                                    | | Internet: GERTHD@MVS.SAS.COM                                      | | Fidonet:  Thomas_Dachsel@camel.fido.de (2:247/40)                 | | Subnet:   dachsel@rnivh.rni.sub.org (UUCP in Germany, now active) | | Phone:    +49 6221 4150 (work), +49 6203 12274 (home)             | | Fax:      +49 6221 415101                                         | | Snail:    SAS Institute GmbH, P.O.Box 105307, D-W-6900 Heidelberg | | Tagline:  One bad sector can ruin a whole day...                  | +-------------------------------------------------------------------+
ST002560@brownvm.brown.edu wrote: : As far as I can tell, the MD is an offshoot of technology that already exists. : It is an MO drive.  MO drives exist already for computers.  They're expensive : and a bit slow, but the disks are cheep (128 mb disks).  Dan.  I read a recent article in Personal Computer World mainly about the new digit audion formats (DCC and MD) but at the end talked about how nice it would be to use these for data storage with a brief calculation of how much data you could store. The author had been talking to someone from Sony about these formats and mentioned this to get the reply "MD is a purely audio format, we wouldn't use it for data", then when pressed for info about MO the Sony man basically admitted that it was no more than a slight adaptabtion on MD!  What I think the original poster was wanting was MO drives at MD audio player prices. I'd assume that the problem here is that an MD system can have higher tolerances than an MO system as the ear doesn't pick up the occasional bit error as well as an archiving program!  --
In article <1993apr19.072253.14522@dde.dk> ibh@dde.dk (Ib Hojme) writes: >	I have a question concerning SCSI on DOS. > >	I have a ST01 SCSI controller and two hard-disks conected >	(id's 0 and 1). I'd like to connect a SCSI streamer, but I >	don't have software to access it. Does such a beast exist >	as shareware or PD ? >	Also what if I want a third disk ? I know that DOs only can >	"see" two two physical and four logical disks. Will it be >	possible to use extra disks ?  Contrary to what others might have thought, I actually did have a SCSI drive once.  It was the Seagate 296N and the ST-02 controller.  I found that the controller couldn't keep up with a 1:1 interleave, so the best I could do with the drive was a 2:1 interleave and a data transfer of about 450 k/sec.
My Western Digital also has three sets of pins on the back. I am using it with another hard drive as well and the settings for the jumpers were written right  on the circuit board of the WD drive......MA SL ??  I can't remember what the last one was. If you can't find these markings on the circuit board, I'll open my machine and tell you what mine are.......
In article <1993Apr16.131036.1017@brtph560.bnr.ca> adcock@bnr.ca (Doug Adcock) writes: >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").  That figure (1/4") for image rotation would seem to be a little high... on my NEC 5FG the specs call for no greater than 3mm (0.12").  >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?   I can't speak for MAG Innovision but as far as NEC is concerned, they are adjusted to "factory-spec" before leaving the central USA distribution point (MA) for the eastern Canadian market. Now, here's the key: NEC *knows* that the >=15" monitors' adjustments are very sensitive to shipping over distances (with all the bumps, rough handling, and such) and therefore *expect* and (at least in theory) *require* that the local *distributor* (not dealer) have it adjusted at the *local* service centre (Bull HN Information Systems in Toronto) before sale. This is the correct and probably only way of having any chance of receiving a "perfect" monitor (the definition of "perfect" seems to depend on how picky one is, in my case quite :).  >Are other netters just living with these kind of imperfections?  I, for one, was not willing to accept what I considered a substandard monitor and, after two months of wrangling and direct contact with NEC, finally received a satisfactorily adjusted monitor (not perfect, IMHO, but a major improvement over what the dealer and distributor were trying convince me was "normal"). The short answer is no, don't accept these "imperfections" as "normal" because for the premium one pays for the larger screen monitors, one has a right to expect higher quality, and if you're persistent, you'll receive it.  >............................................................... >:      Comments and opinions are mine - not BNR's             : >: Doug Adcock                      adcock@bnr.ca              : >: Bell-Northern Research           Research Triangle Park, NC : >...............................................................
>In article <1993Apr22.002231.13716@julian.uwo.ca> rmitch@irus.rri.uwo.ca (Ross Mitchell) writes: >>I have a choice now between basically the above system but with a >>486DX2-66 with ISA and VLB,  or,   a 486DX-50 with EISA and no VLB (and thus >>the non-local bus version of the ATI card).  Which is better, keeping in mind >>that I'm primarily interested in the last two tasks?    Micronics & AMI came out with EISA/VLB motherboards. Byte Mag tests indicate that VLB is faster for video but EISA is faster for disk ops. So I'll wait for GW2K to hopefully start using the Micronics board.  --
In article <21APR199311301194@elroy.uh.edu> st1r8@elroy.uh.edu (B.J. Guillot) writes: >In article <1993Apr20.074447.26955@zip.eecs.umich.edu>, grover@emunix.emich.edu (Grover Thomas) writes... >>Just poke out the little pins in the connector, and then replace them in >>the correct slots. > >Is this reverisible?  You can unpoke as easy as you poke? >  Yep.  I've done this, too.  The trick is to use a tiny screwdriver and push down on the "latch" of each pin and then pull it out of the connector.  Label each one first with tape so you don't get them confused after you've pulled them out.  Compare the pinout tables in the Mitsumi and Soundblaster manuals to get the correct orientation.
yuri@atmos.washington.edu writes: >	I need  100 simms and 100 sipps 1MB, but price should be around  $17-20/piece. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~    I assume you are talking about 1meg X 9 SIMMs, or 1Meg X 9 SIPPs with speed of 70ns? I would take 10K pieces per week if you have that price. (FOB US port).     I am not waiting for an offer with that price, I could only dream.  tiger  >I am waiting for an offer.
> My solution was to switch the interrupt to IRQ 5, which is > unreserved in contemporary computers (using IRQ 5 for the > drives went out with the XT architechture ... )  Not completly true.  For AT class and later machines, IRQ5 is reserved for LPT2.  Since it's rare to have a second parallel port in a PC, it's usually a good safe choice if you need an interrupt.  On the other hand, we just ran into a problem with that here at work on a Gateway computer (4DX-33V).  It has a Modem on COM1, a Mouse on COM2, and the other serial port was set to COM3 (which normally uses the same interrupt as COM1).  We had a real fight with a board when trying to use IRQ5, and discoverd the problem was that Gateway had set it up such that COM3 used IRQ5.  As soon as we disabled COM3, our problems went away.  Grumble ... after several days of trying to figure out why the interrupt didn't work.
Could anybody please provide me a copy of the Windows 3.1 drivers and grabbers from Orchid Technologies for use with their ProDesigner IIs ISA video card? Currently I do not have access to a modem to dial out to Orchid BBS. If you can help me, please do any of the following, wichever is most convenient to you:  1) Copy the binary files to a directory readable by any user in any cell of the Andrew File System  2) Upload the binary files to an anonymous FTP site (where allowed).  3) uuencode the files and send them to me by electronic mail.  Please notify me by electronic mail at towwang@caen.engin.umich.edu  Thanks in advance.
In article <121477@netnews.upenn.edu> balog@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Eric J Balog) writes: >When posting Winmark results, it is a good idea to give the version of  >WinBench that you used to obtain the scores, as well as the resolution that >you tested and the version of the drivers.  Doesn't anybody actually read the licence agreement of WinBench before blindly running it? The licence agreement very clearly says that details about hardware configuration, driver, resolution and other relevant facts *MUST* be included when giving WinMark results.  Ziff-Davis wants everybody to do this and that requirement makes sense, really! Plain numbers are useless when resolution, driver and machine are unknown.
HELP!  I really got ripped off and I need some help unripping myself.  I bought a Maxtor 4380 300mb ESDI HDD from Hi-Tech for $300, then paid to get it repaired, for about another $300.  Here's the deal:  The thing works fine!  It low level formats, etc without any bad spots at all!  AND THEN... (Jaws Music) sectors start going bad!  EEK!!!  One at a time.  Norton disk doctor keeps marking some U and some C.  That FIXES it.  For about 5 minutes.  Then next day when I run NDD on it again: NO DICE more uncorrectable and correctable sectors.  AHHHHHUUUURRRRRRGGGGGHHHHH!!!!!  So I fugure: "Ok, NDD's just not being thurough enough, I'll use Spinrite, I heard that works well." What happens?  Spinrite goes and returns the clusters to active use!!!   AHHHUUUURRRRRRGGGGGHHHH!!!!  NDD undoes it of course.  The problem seams to be getting worse and worse.  HOWEVER when the HDD is low level formatted again the problem goes away for a while, only to return in a day or so.  I'm so pissed off right now I'm considering buying another HDD, and I really can't afford it.  I'm using SMARTDRIVE, and WINDOWS 3.1 (I'm not using the 32 bit disk access though, I know that can create problems).  The disk is using the second option to trick the controller into thinking it's got less then 1024 cyls, and everything else selected is standard, maybe I need to use a different head skew or something?  I don't know.  ANYONE WHO KNOWS HOW TO FIX THIS PROBLEM PLEASE TELL ME HOW!!!! HELP!!!!
In article <1993Apr20.070919.24246@mcshub.dcss.mcmaster.ca>, cs3sd3ae@maccs.mcmaster.ca (Holly       KS) writes: |> Perhaps this is a silly question but here goes..... |>  |> What is the difference between the US Robotics Courier v32bis external and the |> Sportster 14400 external? I see that the price of a Sportster has dramatically |> dropped to below $200 but the price of the Courier remains above $400. |>  |> Anyone with knowledge of both of these modems or anyone that owns a Courier? |>  |> I'd really appreciate your comments before I decide on which one I buy. |>  |> Thanks in advance and thanks again to those that replies to "US Robotics info |> wanted"........ |>  |> Kevin |>  |> hollyk@mcmail.cis.mcmaster.ca |>
Hi,    I'm currently in the process of writing a number of PD programs for the sound blaster. The first of which is a CMF voice editor which is hopefully going to be available soon (as soon as I can get it to  an FTP site).  Anyway the next stage is to use the midi port to enter music and play the FM synth remotely. The problem is that I have little or no info on the SB midi port.  I have tried using the Sound blaster freedom project routines, however this just results in the port locking after a couple of accesses and loss the of note velocity data byte.  I am using Turbo C and would be grateful for any info or source fragments may help. When I was in Berlin this summer I saw a book which seemed to have all this information, but my German is poor to say the least, if anyone has this book could they please mail me.  My second request for help concerns standard file formats (how can a file  format be standard if you keep it secret ?) I need to know the file format  for instrument bank files *.BNK and Roland music files *.ROL.  Finally does anyone have a source for displaying PCX or GIF files to EGA or VGA monitors.  Please Help, You know it makes sense.
Can any body tell me where the most significant bit of the total horizontal width hides out on the Tseng Labs ET4000 with a 15/16/24 bit dac? I am trying to use the 640x480x16M mode under unix (so i cant just call int 10h)I have a program which dumps the contents of the card registers under dos, but I am not sure I trust it for the extended registers of the et4000. Anyway, the problem is that in this mode, the Horizontal Total Register (3d4h index0) is apparently set to 0x27, but 3d4h index 1 (the displayed clocks) is set to 0xEF, so 0x27 is nonsense. A resonable value would be 0x0127 - so is there a high bit, and if so, where is it? Also, how does one set the video dot clock to the appropriate frequency ( and what would be an appropriate frequency?). The documentation isn't really very clear (tseng.txt from  vgadoc2.zip from some ftp site) about this. My card is a MegaVga/1024 1Mb card. Seems to have a Tseng Labs Bios (ver 8.05 I think.) Works nicely under dos, and very well under unix (linux) in all the non-hicolor modes. Great for running X-windows in up to 1152x900x256ni - if your monitor will take it (only just in my case).  Please email the answer, as I can't read news very often.
Dear All,  	I am trying to get my standard connection going with KA9Q (PA0GRI113016) and a GVC NIC-2000 ethernet card. I know that my router and modem is working because I am able to ping, finger, and even telnetd with it.  	However, after a time, it crashes randomly. Help would be greatly appreciated.  	I suspect that there is a hardware conflict in the PC.  I am running with a 386SX/33, 2 MB Ram.  The Ethernet card is configured for IRQ 5, ports 0x360-0x37F.   	Thanks in advance. I know that it's not much to go on, but I don't even know what the questions to ask are, sorry.  Please send mail.
lyourk@cbnewsc.cb.att.com (Loran N. Yourk) writes: >  > With a sound card on interrupt 5, two serial ports (one for modem on i4, > one for Miracle Piano on i3) and a printer port on i7, I have run out of > low interrupts.  What I would like is a mouse port with an interrupt of > 10, 11, or 12 (which ever interrupt the PS/2 mouse port uses) in in ISA > i486 computer.  I called technical support of Microsoft, Logitech, & ATI > (checked what interrupts the mouse port on the ATI video cards can use) > and they all said the only interrupts possible on these cards was ones > lower than 7.  Does anyone know of any board for an ISA bus which will > allow a mouse port (or even a serial port) with high interrupts?     Try putting one of the IRQs for your COM ports onto IRQ2. The hardware will automagically wrap IRQ2 to IRQ9 on AT class machines (eg, anything with high IRQs). This is what I'm doing on my set up right now.     I've got COM2 on IRQ2 (really IRQ9 - address it this way in software), COM1 on IRQ3, SoundBlaster on IRQ5, LPT1 on IRQ7, and my ATI BusMouse port on one of the interrupts in between. Works just great.    If you need even more, there's a text file floating around somewhere that details how to hack up any serial card (and probably any others) to work on the higher IRQs. It basically involves cutting the trace to the low IRQ and running a wire over the a high IRQ pin on the 16bit expansion bus.    It will be best to put the modem's COM port onto IRQ2/9. This will be the   first IRQ serviced by the system, giving the modem a better response --  especially handy under multitaskers like OS/2 -- which I'm running with no problems.  Justin