waashk/20ng huggingface dataset:
DXB132@psuvm.psu.edu writes: >SCSI-I ranges from 0-5MB/s. >SCSI-II ranges from 0-40MB/s. >IDE ranges from 0-8.3MB/s.                                        >ESDI is always 1.25MB/s (although there are some non-standard versions) The above does not tell the proper story of SCSI: SCSI-I: 8-bit asynchronous {~1.5MB/s ave}, synchronous {5MB/s max} transfer  base. SCSI-1{faster} this requires a SCSI-2 controller chip and provides  SCSI-2 {8-bit to 16-bit} speeds with SCSI-1 controlers. SCSI-2: 4-6MB/s with 10MB/s burst{8-bit}, 8-12MB/s with 20MB/s burst {16-bit},  and 15-20MB/s with 40MB/s burst{32-bit/wide and fast}.  16-bit SCSI can be wide or fast, it depends on how the port is designed{The Quadras will support fast SCSI but not wide when the OS SCSI manager is rewritten since the Quardas use a SCSI-1 {non-wide} port}.  The article in PC Mag 4/27/93:29 was talking about SCSI-1 {SCSI-2 uses TEN (10) devices in it native mode, outside its native mode it behaves a lot like SCSI-1 (7 devices, slower through put}  From your own figures SCSI-1 is indeed twice ESDI as the article pointed out as for "20% faster then IDE" that seems to be 8-bit SCSI-1 using a SCSI-2  contoler chip {The Mac Quadra uses a SCSI-2 controler chip for its SCSI-1 and gets 6MB/s through put for asynchronous {8-bit} SCSI-1, far in excess of a normal SYNCHRONOUS SCSI-1 output} 120% of 8.3 is 9.96 which is near the burst of a SCSI-1 machine with a SCSI-2 controller chip.  The PC world seems to have SCSI-1 and SCSI-2 mixed up.  Fact is SCSI-2  controler chips allow near SCSI-2 speeds through a SCSI-1 device {As shown in the Mac Quadra} which skews some of the data of SCSI-1 vs IDE or ESDI test. I agree that the article COULD have stated that the "20% faster then IDE" came off a SCSI-1 device with a SCSI-2 chip.  Maybe it was there and the EDITOR killed it because the article was dealing with SCSI-1 NOT SCSI-2 and he did not understand the effect of a SCSI-1 device with a SCSI-2 controller chip. SCSI-1 chips are limited to 5/MB max.  SCSI-1 devices with SCSI-2 chips {becoming common} produce up to 10Mb/s in 8-bit mode and 20MB/s in 16-bit mode {the fast version, SCSI-1 ports cannot use wide SCSI}.  Of cource the prime piece of wierdness is that SCSI-1 devices HAVE SCSI-2 chips {or more accurately the machine does}. This allows the best of BOTH worlds: high SCSI-2 speeds and cheeper SCSI-1 costs {FULL SCSI-2 hardware (port, electronic controller, etc) is VERY expensive.  It ALSO creates a logistic NIGHTMARE as to how fast SCSI-1 goes.
Bill Willis (willisw@willisw.ENG.CLEMSON.edu) wrote: : In article <1qn627$iv@darwin.sura.net> wbarnes@sura.net (Bill Barnes) writes: :  : >Recently my cousin got a second internal IDE drive (a Seagate 210MB, : >I can look up the model number if it's important) and I've been : >trying to help him install it.  [I've got a vested interest, since : >my machine's busted and I have to use his until I get mine fixed.] : >He already has a Seagate 85MB IDE HD (again, I forget the model number : >but I can find out.) :  : >Anyway, I can't seem to get the bloody thing up.  I've managed to get : >one or the other drive up (with the other disconnected), but not both : >at the same time; whenever I try, the thing hangs during bootup - : >never gets past the system test.  The IDE controller's instruction : >sheet says it supports two drives; I think I've configured the CMOS : >correctly; the power's plugged in properly; I even learned about the : >master/slave relationship that two HDs are supposed to have (didn't : >know PCs were into S&M! 8^) and I think I configured the jumpers : >properly (the 85MB one is the master, the new 210MB one is the slave). :  [deleted] : : >Many, many thanks in advance!  This is practically an emergency (I have : >two papers to do on this thing for Monday!)!  Help! : >--  : >----------------------- : >William Barnes         SURAnet Operations : >wbarnes@sura.net       (301) 982-4600 voice  (301) 982-4605 fax : >Disclaimer:  I don't speak for SURAnet and they don't speak for me. : I've been told by our local computer guru that you can't do this unless you  : perform a low level format on your existing hard drive and set your system  : up for two hard drives from the beginning.  I took him at his word, and I  : have not tried to find out any more about it, because I'm not going to back  : everything up just to add another HDD.  If anyone knows for sure what the  : scoop is, I would like to know also.  Thanks in advance also. :  : Bill Willis :   1. do not do a low level format on an IDE drive unless you have the    executable for doing so supplied by the manufacturer.  These are    available from bbs's or mail but the mail version costs a nominal    fee.  2. In addition to the master/slave jumper on an IDE drive there is also    another jumper to indicate whether a slave is present.  Get it right!  3. The cabling is not an issue as long as pin 1 goes to pin 1 goes to    pin 1.  No twisting or swapping on an IDE cable.  Be sure of pin 1    on all three components - do not make assumptions (guesses are ok    but assumptions are bad).  4. If the cable and jumpers are correct, and the CMOS setup is correct,    then you may have to do an FDISK followed by a high level format.    I have NEVER personally found this necesary, but perhaps there is    something gone wrong with the data on the disks?  Probably not but    I understand your predicament - You will probably throw salt over    your shoulders, wear funny clothes and do a spooky sounding chant    while dancing around the room if someone said it might help.  Good Luck
mreamy@rock.concert.net (Michael G Reamy -- Support) writes:  >>and they too said that the Nanao T560i was the best monitor to get if >>you had the money. But they also said that the Mitsubishi Diamond Pro >>17 is the next best choice and that it has superb picture quality. >>This monitor can be had for around $1070. >> >>Has anyone actually seen any of these?   >I am responsible for choosing standard components in my company and as part >of my review i got the Viewsonic 7, Mitsubishi 17, and Nanao F550is.  I picked >the F550i even though it costs more than the other two choices because it >has a the best clarity and text is not fuzzy at all.  The Viewsonic 7 is the >worst, the Mitsubishi 17 is much better but the Nanao F550i blows both of >them out of the water.  I don't understand why the Nanao is so much better  >since one would think that the Mitsubishi 17 with it's Trinitron tube would >be better.  I can only imagine that the Nanao T560i must be incredible if it >is beter than the F550i. >--   >Michael G. Reamy (mreamy@rock.concert.net)  >The light at the end of the tunnel may be an oncoming dragon.  One of the monitors I reviewed for the June issue of Windows Magazine was the Mitsubishi.  I also reviewed a new Nanao, the F550iW, which has just been released.  Last year for the May '92 issue of Windows, I reviewed several monitors, including the Nanao T560i.  There's no question that the Nanao monitors are the best available this year, just as they were last year.  The difference between my ranking of the best in Windows and the ranking in Windows Sources is due mainly to a difference in the testing criteria and the scoring.  I used different tests than they did, and I scored differently.  There's nothing wrong with the Mitsubishi, and it scored very highly in my tests, but it was a few points shy of perfect.  Incidentally, one of the things everyone should do when they're reading reviews of any product, whether it's monitors or mice, is to read the criteria and methodology carefully.  Unless you know how the product testing was done, and on what the scores are based, you can't possibly know what they really mean.  Just seeing that I rank a monitor differently from Windows Sources is meaningless without knowing how we did the ranking.  Likewise, it's impossible to tell whether a monitor will meet your needs unless you know how we did the testing.  After all, some of what we do may not apply to you.  Likewise, some of what we do may apply more closely in one review than in another.  You can't always tell anything from reading the 300 or so words of commentary we write if you don't also understand the scoring.
>>>>> On 20 Apr 93 19:01:58 GMT, perry@wswiop15.win.tue.nl (Perry Egelmeers) said: Perry> NNTP-Posting-Host: wswiop15.win.tue.nl  Perry> artieb@vnet.IBM.COM writes:  >    I saw a posting earlier that refered to FUNET.FI directory /pub/msdos >however, when I log on to FUNET.FI I cant even find the "pub" directory let >alone the "msdos" directory !!!!  Can someone tell me what I'm doing wrong??  Perry> Perhaps you should try nic.funet.fi instead of funet.fi ??!?!?  Another possibility is, that you did not give your email address as password for the anonymous account. If you that, you see following message:  230- 230-You entered an invalid/inpropable password, and are now accessing 230-restricted subset of files.    Please read README for more information. 230-We have special access features, see file README 230 It was last updated Tue Apr 13 23:45:09 1993 - 9.4 days ago  This can happen, if your terminal emulator does not generate the '@' character as you think (it is hard to see, since passwords are not echoed..).
In article <1qegfd$dqi@wsinis03.info.win.tue.nl> monty@wsinis03.info.win.tue.nl (Guido Leenders) writes: >Hi, > >Is it possible to use an ESDI-controller with HDD together with an >IDE-harddisk + controller in one ISA-system? > >I've read stuff about secondary controllers. Does this trick work? > >Thanx in advance, > >Guido >monty@win.tue.nl  I have the same question as Guido. It is possible to use the ESDI drive as a master and the IDE drive as the slave ?  At the moment , I have been using the ESDI drive and recently I bought a IDE drive to use as the 2nd drive .  The person in the computer shop told me that it is not possible to run 2 disk controller cards together on the same motherboard ( ESDI AND IDE ) but I think there might be some way of making them work. Can anybody enlighten me on this? And it is possible to  run a ESDI HDD using a IDE controller? or vice versa? Can anybody please help me out on this? Your help will be very much appreciated.  G.Chow
In article <1993Apr20.191255.10115@news.columbia.edu>, imj1@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Imad M Jureidini) writes: |> Hi! |> 	I recently purchased the Toshiba 3401 CDROM.  I own an Adaptec 1542B |> SCSI card, and I have so far failed to get the CDROM to work under DOS.  It |> works very well under OS/2, so I know that the drive is not faulty. |> In my config.sys, I have aspi3dos.sys, aspidisk.sys, aspicd.sys.  In my  |> autoexec.bat, I have MSCDEX, which came with DOS 6.0.  MSCDEX seems to find |> and install the drive as drive F:, but when I switch to that drive and try a |> dir, I get an error message telling me the drive is not ready or something |> like that.  The CDROM is locked too, and the adaptec utilities don't seem to |> recognize that I have a CDROM at that point. |> 	Has anyone ever had this problem?  Is there something abvious that I |> am missing?  And finally, I was wondering if anyone using this setup could  |> kindly post his/her config.sys and autoexec.bat. |>   Hi!  One of the ASPI-drivers (I think it's the ASPICD) supports a /NORST paramter, which means to not reset the SCSI bus when it loads. This fixed the problem a friend of mine was having with his adaptec+tosh  3401.  Regards,
Hello  I have recently suffered from various problems concerning an Adaptec 1542A controller.  Problem 1: Floppy disk drive doesn't work. There's apparently at least two jumpers on the controller that affect the floppy disk drive. Unfortunately I have located only one of them (in the lower front corner). I would like to know, if there are any other such jumpers and possibly where they  are located.  Problem 2: My hard disks refuse to boot. With my two SCSI HD's (Rodime, Miniscribe) I get a message 'Missing operating system', even though the disks have been formatted with the same controller and they damn sure have an operating system on them. If I boot from a Quantum I might get as far as getting the MS-DOS version information. This might of course be due to incombatible memory drivers. Are there any jumpers that could affect the HD causing such errors?  	Thanks in advance          Jouni
Anybody use CD Speedway out there?  Is it as good as they say?  I hate waiting around for my CD to finish loading the next level in WC and the such.  How much memory does it eat up?
Lino Montuno (montuno@physics.su.OZ.AU) wrote: >This may be a very naive question but is there any basis for the >claim that a CPU will get hotter when a computationally intensive  >job is running? My friend claims that there will be little difference >in the temperature of an idle CPU and a CPU running a computationally >intensive job.   >Lino Montuno  I totally agree with your friend, since when the CPU is apparently idle it is still in fact churning away millions of instructions per second (checking for keyboard input for instance).    The exception to this is for CPU's used in laptops, where the CPU can enter an idle state where it is just preserving its current status but doing absolutely nothing.  In this case it needs a hardware interrupt to get it going again.   -- _____________________________________________________________________  Victor Buttigieg					e-mail:	victor@uk.ac.man.ee.comms  Communications Research Group  University of Manchester
dudek@acsu.buffalo.edu (The Cybard) writes: : worked fine.)  Please note: none of the software or hardware parameters : were changed, only the phone line itself.  Is my new modem faulty?  What : can I do?  :  : --  : David Thomas Dudek /  v098pwxs@ubvms.bitnet     \     __   _ The Cybard  I'm arguing with the phone company about a similar problem.  We installed a second phone line in our home (for our kids), and whenever one of them is on THEIR line, the modem returns "NO DIAL TONE" on its line.  When we pick up the phone and listen, we can hear my kids' voices "bleed" through.  Whenever we can hear this, the modem won't dial (even though the dial tone is loud and clear through the modem speaker).  I think it's the phone company's problem, but they say they can't (won't?) correct the problem...I'm still working on them. ;-}
In article <62890018@hpsgm2.sgp.hp.com> taybh@hpsgm2.sgp.hp.com (Beng Hang TAY) writes:  >   Hi, >       I am buying a Quantum LPS240AT 245 MB hardisk and is deciding a >       HDD/FDD controller. Is 32-bit VL-bus HDD/FDD controller faster  >       than 16 bit IDE HDD/FDD controller card?  No, VL-bus IDE is no faster than ISA IDE.  The IDE interface is fundamentally nothing more than an extension of the ISA bus, and if you hook it to VL-bus it'll work as fast as the slower of the two, meaning ISA speed.  >       I hear that >       the VL bus controller is SLOWER than a IDE controller?  On the other hand, I wouldn't expect it to be *slower*...
I have a friend with an original HP LaserJet.  The nameplate does not  specify a number, but since the LJ II followed later, one assumes that he  has a LJ I.   His problem is a tax program which requires a 17 cpi font to  print the forms properly.  This unit came to market in 2 versions.  The plus version supported  dowloadable fonts.  You can guess which one my friend has - the plain, not  the plus.  The printer does though have a slot and he has a small selction  of cartridges including a 16.6 cpi - but none with a 17 cpi font.  Can anyone suggest a source for a cartridge with a 17 (or 18?) cpi font?   Alternatively, is an upgrade to the plus version available at reasonable  cost?  Any suggestions would be welcome.  Thanks      ---  * WinQwk 2.0b#943 * Seattle Rain Festival - Jan. 1 to Dec. 31
I have a Sony 1604S 17" monitor and I don't see any lines across the screen and am only using the non interlaced mode. But because of the hor. lines and poping that I do see and hear when I am usinf 800x600x256 and 1024x768x256 modes and switch back to anything of less. I would not buy another Sony at what ever price. Oh ya this is I guess a 15" viewing area. It don't impress me one bit!   Sam
Hi there,  I think it is time to create a MS DOS 6.0  FAQ since lots of questions about it are actually flooding the net.  I won't be able to write it my self because of the lack of time/knowledge/experience.
Hi, I have got a Quantum ProDrive 80AT IDE harddisk and would like to format it. When trying to format it (*no* low-level format, just FDISK and DOS FORMAT), I somehow messed up the parameters... I had entered FDISK /MBR not exactly knowing what this does. The suggested drive type 38 formats the drive only to 21MB. I tried type 25, but this gives only around 70MB and not the nominal 80MB. Could I use user type 47? However, I don't know the actual parameters (cylinders, heads,...) Could someone give me them? And how does FDISK work together with user type 47? Please reply by email to GERTHD@MVS.SAS.COM Thank you, 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...                  | +-------------------------------------------------------------------+
Our university is wanting to buy a couple of servers to provide Email to students (@ 2300) and faculty (@ 250). Two servers are being lokked at for one to provide news service and one mail service from a proposed Internet connection. Are there any foreseable problems with this proposed set up? Provided that IHETs is providing an Ethernet line from a Cisco router into our network.  2 X 	486 DX 50 MHz 	SMC Elite 32 or 32TP EISA  NIC 	Dual Duplexed 2.5Gb SCSI-2       	with 5yr parts and labor on everything but the hard drives 	running UNIVEL UNIX for Application Servers  We will run CC:Mail on a campus wide Novell network to access these <hopefully>. Is there any other aspect I should be looking at?    Which NIC do I use?  Is this enough disk space? etc...    Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Daniel M. Coleman (dcoleman@utxvms.cc.utexas.edu) wrote: : 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 blindly installed it and I haven't had any problems or noticed any differences yet! Note that I did not backup my previous BIOS, you can with the tool that they ship.  Rob "I live on the edge" Laddish ---------___----------------------------------------------------------         /  /        Robert Laddish              AT&T:    707-577-3767 HEWLETT/hp/PACKARD  HP Santa Rosa, Ca.          Telnet:  1-577-3767       /__/          mail stop 4USR              robl@sr.hp.com
In article <1993Apr19.132748.18044@julian.uwo.ca> wlsmith@valve.heart.rri.uwo.ca (Wayne Smith) writes: >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.  According to what others have told me, the ST-296N is difficult to run at the 1:1 interleave even though Seagate claims it.  I have a non-pc system (don't ask what it is, you probably haven't heard of it) that is built around SCSI and it can't do 1:1, either.                                          Brian                            ( bcwhite@sunee.uwaterloo.ca )
I am looking for a CDROM audio cable to connect my Toshiba 3401B (L/R audio) to the Pro Audio Spectrum 16 sound card.  Thanks in advance for any pointers...
In article <1r42r9$965@jethro.Corp.Sun.COM>, lonewolf@muse.Corp.Sun.COM (Peter Pak) writes: > Hi, >  > Does anyone have a source for 386DX/25 Motherboards?  I've > been calling around the local stores and everyone appears > to be only stocking the 386DX/33/40 or 386SX/25/33 motherboards. >  > How difficult is it to modify a 386DX/40 motherboard to run at > 25 MHz?  Is it as simple as replacing the system clock with a > slower part? >  > Thanks! >  > -Peter   This is normally the case, but make sure you get a board with a plug in oscillator as you will screw up your warranty if you start to solder the board.
PC Mag only got around 9-10 Winmarks when they tested the Steal 24.  It sounds like you are ok. jamesc
why does my keyboard not have a cents key ? | C |  like to have my 2 cents worth or $ 0.02 (boaring)                                                         -David  =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
I have a Standard Computer 486DX2/66mhz EISA Tower with 16MB RAM, a Quantum 240MB Hard Drive, 1.2 and 1.44 MB floppies and a Colorado 250MB tape drive. I also have a Sound Blaster Pro and a 3COM Ethernet card (3C507) installed. The machine is completely stable in non-Turbo mode. In Turbo mode, Windows for Workgroups crashes or won't come up at all. If Windows does come up, I get General Protection Faults and Divide by Zero System Errors. Is there a problem with memory keeping up with the speed of the CPU o    n these machines?  I have tried to reach Standard Computers, but their phones have been disconnected. Does anyone know what happened to this company? YAMOHS- Yet Another Mail Order Horror Story!
2-The-Max VESA VL video controller/ Cirus Logic chipset  (2Mb ram, 24-bit color, 1280x1024 NI)   Does XFree1.2 (or 2.0) support this card?
Okay, I'm trying to install NCSA telnet on a couple (okay, a whole bunch) of machines.  They're all true blue IBMs with either Fallon Phonenet cards or Dastar cards.  (I belive those names are correct.)  Well, the docs for telnet say that it'll run over an AppleTalk driver, but I've had little success.  If anyone has succesfully installed Telnet w/ AppleTalk, I'd like some help with the config file for Telnet...  BTW, please reply via E-mail if possible...  Thanks,  Jeremy  --  Jeremy Zawodny | Computer Science Undergrad | Bowling Green State University
My PC is a 486-33DX (ISA) with AMI BIOS and OPTI chipset. I am thinking of replacing the AMI BIOS chip (dated 6-91) with an up-to-date one (not for any reason, just messing around). My questions are:  1. Do I just take out the old one and plug in a new?  2. Anything else I have to take care of? What precautions should I take?  3. Where can I get the new BIOS chip, CompUSA, mailorder or what? (I live in Orange County California).  4. What is the most up-to-date version?  5. Very important. How much would it be?  Thank you for your help.
<GUF@psuvm.psu.edu> writes:  >I own an 8088 640K clone which does all I want except run 1 game I want >to buy.  The game says it requires a 80286 with 640K.  Game tech. support >says game will run on 8088 but uses a some digitized graphics which would >make it run really *slow* (it's a card game - Hoyles Classic Card Games, >digitized graphics are photos artwork of game fictional card players).  >What can I do to speed up how this game would run, short of an 80286 >motherboard upgrade.  Co-processor?  Accelerator card mimicking 80286? >My 8088 can run at 10 Mhz.  Any advice would be greatly appreciated.  a 286 upgrade would probably cost about $50, 386 about $150 or so.   Coprocessors or accelerator cards would cost at least that much.
wright@lims01.lerc.nasa.gov (Ted Wright) writes: > > An Adaptec ACB-2322 rev B disk controller has come into my hands with > no documentation. Is this an ESDI controller? MFM? RLL? Something else? > The BIOS on it is dated 1987, if that is any help.  I think it is an ESDI controller if you need the doco i can help you.    Stefan