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Approximately four months ago, I purchased a Quantum 240LPS HD from La Cie for $649. After two months, the drive started having problems. First, there were intermittent freezes, then corrupted files and resources, then Silverlining 5.41 wouldn't even recognize the drive. So I got an RMA from La Cie and exchanged the new drive for a reconditioned one.  Well, about a month has passed now and the second drive is having problems. Often, when I boot up my IIsi I get the flashing question mark. Sometimes, if I then insert the Silverlining (5.42) program I can get it to recognize the drive by making it scan over and over for drives. At that point I can restart the IIsi and boot from the HD. I've called La Cie again and they've given me another RMA. Their tech support people tell me that if Silverlining doesn't see the drive there's a definite hardware problem.  Given that this is the second bad drive in four months, I asked La Cie to send me a *new* one, but they said "no." Also, within three weeks after I purchased my original drive, La Cie dropped the price on it by over $100.  I can accept that a drive (or two) may be bad. And I know that hardware vendors make a practice of sending reconditioned replacements when they do repairs. And I understand that the nature of the computer industry lends itself to sudden price fluctuations. Nevertheless, taken together, the convergence of these facts/events have left a bad taste in my mouth. (I should have added above that when I asked La Cie to transfer the contents of my current drive to the one they will send_I think the data is still in good shape and I'll have to again reinstall everything from floppies_they said it would cost me $250 for data recovery.)  It seems to me that reconditioned hardware should be sold as reconditioned at a discounted price, and that replacements for new hardware gone bad (still covered under a 90-day warranty) should be new.   I feel a little helpless about all this. I don't mean to necessarily flame La Cie_their support staff have always been friendly and sometimes even helpful. But c'mon. Sometimes a little extra customer service goes a long way. (I sent a letter to La Cie's customer service when the first drive was returned and I asked them for a credit on the price difference since I had purchased the drive three weeks before they slashed the price. I told them I would like to apply the credit toward the purchase of another La Cie product. They didn't even  have the courtesy to reply one way or the other.)  What's the moral of this story? I'm not sure. But I do know I won't buy any other products from La Cie in the future.  Bill Krauthammer f2ehg786@umiami.ir.miami.edu
In article <ingemar.735296165@isy> Ingemar Ragnemalm, ingemar@isy.liu.se writes: >>Enter game developers. The sound driver and current sound manager are >>inconveniently lame for making games. > >The Sound Driver is pretty ok, since it's fast. Sound Manager used by the >book is *useless*. Disposing of sound channels as soon as sound has completed >is out of the question for games with smooth animation. (It's too slow.)  Why would you dispose a channel if you are going to play more sounds soon? If you are trying to write a game, you shouldn't be using SndPlay. Instead, make a channel and use BufferCmds to play sounds on it. It works great. You can add CallBacks to the channel also to let you know when the channel is getting empty. Before it gets empty.  > >The Sound Driver is so much snappier than Sound Manager. Unfortunately, >System 7 supports it poorly, making programs crash occasionally. > >>The moral of the story is to developers: DON'T CHEAT! > >Well, I want my code to work on old systems too. I don't know about sys 7.1, >but at least on 6.0.7, there are bugs in the Sound Manager that causes >channels to hang (with no error message). This happends when I keep a >channel open for long periods - necessary for performance - and play many >sounds, stopping sounds halfway. Callbacks seems not to be reliable. >Then only way I can safely tell if a sound has stopped playing is to >inspect private variables in the channel (QHead, I think it was), and the >only way I have found to tell if a channel is hung is to inspect an >*undocumented* flag and modify it.  Callbacks are very reliable, I found them 100% reliable, even under System 4.1. I was doing continuous background sound with interrupting sound effects on System 6.0 with the IM-V documentation.  You probably were cancelling your callback commands out of your channels, of course you didn't get called. In general, if you have problems with sounds working when you play one per channel and then close the channel (with the related slowdown), but then when you play more than one you don't work, then you are adding more than one synthesizer to a channel, possibly the same one multiple times. This might be because you are calling SndPlay on a preexisting channel with a sound resource which adds the sampled sound synthesizer to the channel first thing before it plays. Most sampled sounds have this command at the start of them. You need to resedit the sound and remove that command, then when you create your channel, specify the sampled sound synthesizer to be the channel's synth. Then you can use asynch sndplay's all you want. You'll probably want to switch to BufferCmd's, since you are going to have to use SndDoCommand anyway to add callbacks.  Now before you go ahead and tell me I am full of it, and the sound manager doesn't work for games, remember, Spectre uses it. And it works great. If Spectre can spare the CPU time, you can too.  One little disclaimer: There are some out there who say the Sound Manager in the IIsi can't be made to work right. I'm not sure either way, but I know for sure that you can make your sounds work 100% correctly on every other machine using the Sound Manager.
Hello out there!  My Mac IIsi runs a Radius Pivot LE monitor, with the PDS card.  As I wanted to try to switch to 32 bit adressing, i couldn't startup my Mac anymore.  1.	What is the trick to zap the PRAM (so I won't have to take out the battery next time)  2.	Is there any trick that could allow me to switch to 32bit?  3.	What does 32bit adressing bring to me as an user? faster work?  4.	Any chance to have more than 8Mb of adressable memory with 24bit adressing?  Thank you a lot for your answers (via mail or reply)
Hi,  Does anyone know where I can get the developer notes for the new Mac models (like IIvx, LC III, Centris)?  Thank's for any information.  Please reply by email.
I am running System 7.1 on a Centris 610. I have not been able to setup my printer yet because when I open Chooser, I get a blank screen. I do have all kinds of print drivers but none shows up. I even do not get a port iconn either. It is just one big BLANK screen.  Your help is very appreciated.  BTW I did rebuild the desktop but that did not help either.
I haven't seen much info about how to add an extra internal disk to a mac. We would like to try it, and I wonder if someone had some good advice.  We have a Mac IIcx with the original internal Quantum 40MB hard disk, and an unusable floppy drive. We also have a new spare Connor 40MB disk which we would like to use. The idea is to replace the broken floppy drive with the new hard disk, but there seems to be some problems:  The internal SCSI cable and power cable inside the cx has only connectors for one single hard disk drive.  If I made a ribbon cable and a power cable with three connectors each (1 for motherboard, 1 for each of the 2 disks), would it work?  Is the IIcx able to supply the extra power to the extra disk?  What about terminators? I suppose that i should remove the resistor packs from the disk that is closest to the motherboard, but leave them installed in the other disk.  The SCSI ID jumpers should also be changed so that the new disk gets ID #1. The old one should have ID #0.  It is no problem for us to remove the floppy drive, as we have an external floppy that we can use if it won't boot of the hard disk.  Thank you!
In article <C5pC9F.n4I@rahul.net> jonathan@mecca.epri.com writes: >A A DeGuzman (deguzman@after.math.uiuc.edu) wrote: >> My boss is considering the purchase of a Powerbook or Duo. He is leaning >> towards a 180, because of the math coprocessor (for Mathematica), but would >> get a Duo if he could find a Mini-Dock with a coprocessor. Have any >> third-parties announced such a beast? > >   I believe that E-Machines might produce something of this nature. >     Yes, E-Machines makes two mini-docks--the Powerlink Presente and the PowerLink DeskNet. The Presenter offers a variety of video-out options,  including NTSC, RGB and SVGA. It also has sound out, floppy drive port and a power port. Unfortunately no SCSI port and it blocks the serial port.   The DeskNet has the standard ports plus built-in EtherNet. Alas, none of these have an FPU.   In the future, RasterOps is putting out a mini-dock, but the name escapes me now. It is supposed to support 16-bit color and "Quadra" comparable video speed. No idea if it has an FPU.   Hope this helps...
Interestingly enough, the CDROM 300i that came with my Quadra 800 has  only 8 disks:  1. System Install 2. Kodak Photo CD sampler 3. Alice to Ocean 4. CDROM Titles 5. Application Demos 6. Mozart: Dissonant Quartet 7. Nautilus 8. Apple Chronicles  Has anyone else noticed that they got less than everyone seems to be getting with the external?  What I really feel I missed out on is what is supposed to a fantastic Games demo disk.  I have heard that people have gotten up to 9-10 disks with their drive. I assume they get the 8 titles above plus Cinderella and the Games Demo CDROM.  any comments and experiences?  Should I call Apple to complain? =)  Derek
I am looking for any information about the Sigma Designs 	double up board.  All I can figure out is that it is a 	hardware compression board that works with AutoDoubler, but 	I am not sure about this.  Also how much would one cost?
Mysstem crashes aftwer sleepp.  I use 1.0.1 enabler. I use appletalk and  filesharing. I have and ExpressModem.  --Lowell
I would like to know what people's opinions are about the  "real world" differences are between a C650 with and without  a coprocessor...  I don't use anything like Mathamatica, Maple, etc. I don't use Spreadsheets (at least no sheets with complicated anything), I don't use 3D CAD apps (although I used to),   I DO:  use 3D renderers, EXTENSIVE communications, I run a BBS, I write software, I write papers, etc...  BTW, just for kicks, this is what I was told by my local Apple Rep about upgrading a 68LC040 to a 69RC040 on a C650: "Well, Apple built in an extra socket for the coprocessor chip.  That way, you just plug in the coprocessor, and it works." I then heartily laughed and hung up the phone.  thanks,  -nate
skok@itwds1.energietechnik.uni-stuttgart.de (Holger Skok) writes:  >In article <C5nq9C.LLp@news.cso.uiuc.edu> rvenkate@ux4.cso.uiuc.edu (Ravikuma Venkateswar) writes: >[... stuff deleted] >> >>Besides, for 0 wait state performance, you'd need a cache anyway. I mean, >>who uses a processor that runs at the speed of 80ns SIMMs? Note that this >>memory speed corresponds to a clock speed of 12.5 MHz. >> >[more stuff deleted...]  >How do you calculate that figure? I'd assume even in personal computers >the board designers would use bank switching to (optimistically)  >quadruple the access speed  or am I missing something here?  The previous article referred to the fact that you could only use 20ns SIMMs in a 50MHz machine, but that you could use 80ns SIMMs in slower machines. I just pointed out that if you could only use 20ns SIMMs in a 50MHz machine, you can't use 80ns SIMMs in anything faster than a 12.5 MHz machine. Bank switching and caches were not considered in either example (although both would help memory access).  >HSK --  Ravikumar Venkateswar rvenkate@uiuc.edu
In article <C50CMD.1zz@newcastle.ac.uk> Tor-Olav.Berntzen@newcastle.ac.uk (Tor-Olav Berntzen) writes: > Another thing, why a SCSI interface ?  Because SCSI works well with removable media, and works well with large capacity devices. The floppy interface you suggest handles the former, but it doesn't have any hooks for dealing with the latter... you'd have to kludge it. Plus, it's extremely low performance. AND, SCSI has gobs of room for expansion compared with a floppy (I can just see it, let's stick a 5.25", a 3.5", a tape drive, and a MO drive, all on the floppy interface. The possibilities for unexpected collisions are enormous).
I recently upgraded to System 7.1 and now I also upgraded my DeskWriter drivers from 2.2 to 3.1.  I got the software from Sumex, but it is not clear to me where to install what.  Can someone tell me which of the files that come with DW-3.1 go where and for what purpose?  What can be left out, for instance, if you don't want to do background printing?  Thanks,  	Tom
I have a IIsi & a portrait display (and I love it).  I'm using the built-in video support, so its slow and deals with 16 colors/grays. So, I'm wondering:  if I get a video card, how much does this tend to speed up things and will I be able to get more than 4bits?  Oh, I have CombiCache w/FPU.  Does this limit my choices of video cards?  Thanks
Hello all. 	I am thinking about buying an external monitor for my SE/30 and was wondering if anyone out in netland has any advice for me. 	I am mostly thinking about a 14" color monitor and an 8 bit card that can switch between 640*480 and something higher (like 800*600).  I read an old report on a card from Lapis that could do this, but could not use the external monitor as the main screen (with menubar) which to me is a major draw- back.  Has this perhaps been fixed? Or can any other cards do this (like the Micron Xceed) ? 	Also which monitor should I buy?  At the moment I am leaning towards the Sony 1304, 1304s or 1320 (what exactly is the difference between these?) but are there any other good cheap monitors I should know about?  Doesn't the monitor have to be multisync to support cards that can switch resolutions?  Please send me e-mail and I'll summarize.  I would also greatly appreciate getting the e-mail addresses of any mail order companys that sell monitors or cards.  Thanks in advance
horton@what.sps.mot.com (David Horton) writes: >bm967@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (David Kantrowitz) writes: >> >>> When the computer is set for 256 colors and certain operations are done, >>> particularly vertical scrolling through a window, horizontal white lines >>> appear on the monitor (which generally but not always spare open >>> windows).  These lines accummulate as the operation is continued.  If a >>> window is moved over the involved area of the screen and then moved away >>> the line disappear from that area of the screen.  This problem is not >>> observed if the monitor is configured for 16 colors or a 14 inch Apple >>> monitor with 256 colors is used. >>> >>Has anyone NOT had these problems in the given configurations? >>(that would help eliminate design flaw as the explanation)  >As a data point, I'm using a Centris 610 4/80 with the Apple 16" >monitor and do NOT have these problems.   I can produce similar artifacts.  I am using a Centris 610 with an Apple 16" monitor.  I got the 8/230/CD configuration, so there is on-board ethernet and 1 Megabyte of video ram. The effect only occurs in 256 color and 256 grey modes.  Any vertical scrolling operation, whether with a scrollbar or, say, using vi and inserting lines, will produce a scattering of horizontal flickering lines on the screen. They do not persist -- each is visible for perhaps one refresh, and then that part of the screen is back as usual.  They seem to always start at or about the 64th pixel from the left, and are maybe 512 pixels wide.  This is certainly not preventing me from using my Macintosh ;-), but it does seem to be a sign of something perhaps grounded incorrectly in the video circuitry...   I went ahead and called the Apple Customer Assistance Center, at:   1-800-776-2333, or 1-800-767-2775 (more direct?)  The person who answered was polite :-).  I also took the chance to complain about my mouse button sticking, and about the mac hanging on boot after a (hard - killed MacsBug) crash which left a CD in the drive.  (I had to play with a paperclip for about 5 minutes to get thing to eject, after which the mac booted fine.)
Does anyone know how to zap the PRAM on the Duo 230. Inaddition I have recently noticed that checking the ram left in the finder on the duo 230 4/80  reveals the normal 1800K for the system file but only about 1/10 to 1/5 of the bar is actually highlighted implying that only 2-300K is being used for the system. What gives? I have had no crashes yet or other software problem...
You macinators who have used these voice messaging/FAX/data-modems.  I have a question.  First what brand names do you recommend(I am mostly interested in the voice messaging and FAX part).  Is the voice part as reliable and understandable as the sellers claim?  Approximately, how much hard drive space does an average day of callers take up, if they speak for one minute?   Any feed back would be appreciated.  My company is looking at buying one or two.  Hey, I may buy one myself too.  Thanks in advance Don
egaillou@etu.gel.ulaval.ca (Eric Gailloux) writes:  >I'm about to purchase a laser printer for my Mac and I read the MacUser >Buying Guide special issue. All HP printers (except IIISI) are rated very low >compared to other noname bargain-priced printers. Why is that so? On the PC, >HP printers are THE standard amongst printer manufacturers.  >PS: My personnal favorite -budgetwise- would be the IIIP.  The IIIP has just been superseded by the 4M, which is the one I am using at work.  The quality of the print is execellent, beating 300 dpi printers hands down.  In Australia the price of the 4M is about comparable with that of the III-series, so HP are trying to get people to buy the new one !!!
How does one print to a non-appletalk printer  using DMM LaserWriter Stuff.  I'm using the Serial driverand does nothig. I'vetried saving a postscriptfile and then tried sending with SendPS2.0 and it says can'topen LaserWriter Driver, then some appletalk messagethatprinter not specified.  I'm using and imagewritwrite one cable.   Should I use a null-modem adapter?  Help...  ---Lowell
I am having trouble with SCSI on a Mac IIfx. The machine is 3 years old and I have been using the same hard drive (internal Maxtor LXT-200S) for two and a half years. The disk recently crashed. I reformatted (Silverlining 5.42), but during the reformat I received random write errors during testing. The error message reported was like:  Sector 0: Write error detected after testing good - sector not mapped out.  This occurred randomly all over the hard disk (which makes me suspect the diagnostic's reference to Sector 0 ??? ). On the third reformat and after reinstalling the SCSI read/write loops I was able to get through passes 2,3, and 4 with no errors. (Pass 1 for some reason reported a lot of errors, but still mapped out no sectors.) I decided to go ahead and try to resinstall System 7 and reload my data from a backup. This proceded normally; however, I now have sub-optimal performance. Symptoms include:     o Frequent crashes    o Instances of extremely sluggish disk access requiring a reboot to        correct.    o Instances of not finding the disk on the SCSI chain on reboot.        - If I boot from Norton Utl. after this occurs, it cannot find the          disk either.        - The only thing that fixes this is recycling the power. It sometimes          requires several attempts.  QUESTIONS:     1) Has anyone had this type of problem before?    2) Is the problem with the fx motherboard (And its non-standard       SCSI implementation) or with my Maxtor Disk? Is there some       diagnostic software that would help me make this determination?    3) Is it a termination problem? I currently have external Syquest       and an external DataFrame XP60 on the chain. The XP60 is at the       end, and has internal termination; so I am not using the IIfx       terminator. I do have the SCSI filter installed on the internal       drive. I have run with this exact steup for 2 1/2 years with       one previous disk crash requiring a reformat (about a year ago).       I also have symptoms if I disconnect the external devices;       so I don't see how SCSI termination would now be an issue. Of       course who knows :-<  Help would be much appreciated.
Does NuTek (or anyone at NuTek) have an email address?  If not, why not? =)
> Unknown Class User writes:  [snip]  > I think the subject title says it all. Anybody that relies on a SCSI dick > for stoarage is a pain in the ass!!  ANYTHING you store in there will eventually cause some discomfort over time.
I hooked up an old 40meg external mac hardrive to a Powerbook 230.  I  reformatted the drive, copied all the files from the powerbook except the systemfolder, deleted the files from the powerbook (my biggest error, sigh) and then rebooted the whole set up and... chimes of death. I get the following sad mac error,  00000F 000003 I ran Norton and it claims its a bad SCSI driver and suggests replaceing it. I used Apples Disk Tools but I couldn't update the hardrives SCSI driver as it claimed it was in use, but I couldn't even mount the thing (though I could see it when checking the SCSI bus, after turning it on after booting my machine first).  What does that error above refer to?  Am I on the right track?  Is there anything I can do short of intialising the drive, since I need the data on there!
Ok I want to get a color Mac I don't care if it is an LC or a Mac II or what but I want to go to a color machine.  I'd prefer to trade my present Mac SE system plus some cash or other equipment for the color system as right now I'm not full of the $$$ to buy a color system outright. Here's what my Mac SE system has...  Mac SE 4/20 with internal 800K drive 20 Meg external External 800K drive ImageWriter II with 4 color ribbon  Stuff that can go with it...... I've got 3 modems and I'd be willing to give 1 of the 9600's and the 2400 with the system  MultiTech Multimodem II (9600 data/fax) U.S. Robotics Sportster (9600 data) Microcom QX/12K         (normally will connect at only 2400 as highest but it will do faster if connected to another Microcom)  The USR and the MultiTech are both brand-new  If interested send me e-mail at dleonard@wixer.bga.com
I am, at long last, going to replace my beloved 512ke. I am looking at a new LC III and a used IIci.  Prices have yet to be worked out, so I'm just thinking right now about their merits and drawbacks.  Here's what I've thought of:  The IIci has much greater potential for expansion, a la NuBus and greater memory capacity.  The LC III would be new, under warranty, newer ROMs (is the IIci "32-bit clean"?), and would have sound input.  I also like the "pizza-box" case.  Performance-wise, I have read that they are almost identical, the LC III being a little slower.  So, which should I get?
Ravi Konchigeri <mongoose@leland.stanford.edu> writes:  >About hard drive companies: the original 160 meg drive that was bad (bad >sector or something) was an IBM.  The new one is a Quantum.  Is the LCIII >supposed to be shipped with IBMs?  Is there a quality difference?   Officially, no. From experience (yours now included!), yes. Quantums seem to be the most problem-free brand on the Mac.  >Second, about hard drive position.  I've put the LCIII on its side and >the new 160 HD has had no problems at all.  I've even switched back and >forth between horizontal and vertical and there are no problems.  As far >as I'm concerned I don't believe HD position is important for drives up >to 160 meg, in any computer.  Don't know about CD-ROM, though.  It should not matter for the hard drive or the Mac.  Well, as long as it doesn't fall over.   ;)   Doug