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I have WD1007-WA2 ESDI controller with ROM BIOS v.1.1. It has been working fine until I recently upgraded motherboard to 386-40MHz. Now, my Maxter drive goes crazy making lots of seeking sound even when the drive is not accessed.  Of course, with numourous hard disk controller errors. These symptoms disappear when I switch to non-turbo mode (8 MHz). I suspect some timing dependent Rom Bios routines. (There's a newer version 2.x) Could anybody help me on this? By the way, my new mother board has AMI Bios, 128k Cache, 8 MHz bus, and works fine with my old MFM drives (I had to dig them up). :-( Also, I will appreciate it very much if somebody send me the phone numbers (tech support/BBS) for Western Digital. Many thanks in advance.  Jay
gkoh@athena.mit.edu (Glenn Koh) writes: :  : Then again, maybe $2445 for the gateway system isn't too cheap. :  : I have a system from Micron computers: :  : 486-2-50, 16 meg ram, 245 Maxtor HD, Local bus IDE / 2 meg video card, and : the same 15" monitor.  The system with shipping came to $2200.  I sold the : sx-33 chip that came with it and bought a dx2-50.  Total price $2300-2400.  I think you got something wrong here.  You state that the system was a 486dx250, then say that you sold the sx-33 chip that came with it.  This does not make sense.  --
From article <1qq7i1INNdqc@dns1.NMSU.Edu>, by bgrubb@dante.nmsu.edu (GRUBB): > wlsmith@valve.heart.rri.uwo.ca (Wayne Smith) write: >  >>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. > Nice of you to DELETE BOTH YOUR responce and the item that prompted it. > to whit: >>>I just bought at Quantum 240 for my mac at home.  I paid $369 for it.  I >                                       ^^^  [Tons of stuff deleted on SCSI vs. IDE question...]  Wow, you guys are really going wild on this IDE vs. SCSI thing, and I think it's great!  Like lots of people, I'd really like to increase my data transfer rate from the hard drive.  Right now I have a 15ms 210Mb IDE drive (Seagate 1239A), and what I would say is a standard (not special, no cache I believe) IDE controller card on my ISA 486-50.  I'm currently thinking about adding another HD, in the 300Mb to 500Mb range. And I'm thinking hard (you should hear those gears a-grinding in my head) about buying a SCSI drive (SCSI for the future benefit).  I believe I'm getting something like 890Kb/sec transfer right now (according to NU).  How would this number compare if I bought the state-of-the-art SCSI card for my ISA PC, and the state-of-the-art SCSI hard drive (the wailing-est system I could hope for)? Obviously money factors into this choice as well as any other, but what would YOU want to use on your ISA system? And how much would it cost?  Along those lines, what kind of transfer rate could I see with my IDE HD's if I were to buy the top-of-the-line IDE caching controller for my 200Mb, 15ms HD? And how much would it cost?  I actually have a PAS-16, and could (what a waste I guess it would be...) hook up a SCSI HD through it's SCSI port which yields an optimum of 690Kb/sec. Actually, I have a borrowed 12ms Fujitsu HD hooked up through it now (and own the Trantor HD drivers for the PAS-16 SCSI port).  Is this SCSI port a SCSI-2 port?  How could I tell?  Is the Fujitsu 2623A a SCSI-2?  Are all SCSI HD's SCSI-2?  Thanks for any comments on these rephrased questions.
I just read an article in another group that mentions this. I have never heard of the VCPI memory standard. Can someone explain what  this is??? Thanks
In article <id.XNFZ.VJ8@nmti.com> korenek@nmti.com (gary korenek) writes: >In article <C5ovwv.LMo@news.iastate.edu> schauf@iastate.edu (Brian J Schaufenbuel) writes: >>I am looking at buying some Companion brand VLB/ISA/EISA motherboards with >>HINT chipsets.  Has anybody had any experience with this board (good or bad)? >>Any information would be helpful! >>thanks >>Brian J Schaufenbuel > > >I believe that any VL/EISA/ISA motherboard that uses the HINT chipset >is limited to 24-bit EISA DMA (where 'real' EISA DMA is 32-bit).  The >HINT EISA DMA has the 16 mb ram addressing limitation of ISA.  For this >reason I would pass.  I own one of these (HAWK VL/EISA/ISA) and am look- >ing to replace it for exactly this reason. > >Please double-check me on this.  In other words, call the motherboard >manufacturer and ask them if the motherboard supports true 32-bit EISA >DMA. > >Other than this limitation, the motherboard works quite well (I am using >mine with DOS 5, Windows 3.1, and UNIX S5R3.2).  Also with Adaptec 1742a >EISA SCSI host adapter. > >--  >Gary Korenek   (korenek@nmti.com) >Network Management Technology Incorporated >Sugar Land, Texas       (713) 274-5357   You are correct!  The motherboard manufacturer where I usually buy boards says that they will have this problem fixed in about two weeks...
Hello,  you're not quite sure if that's a joke or not? Anyway you read the article!  --> You're right!!!  (1. The header (only this) IS a joke, 2. it's worth reading)  Perhaps some of you know my regular 'List of IDE Harddisk specs' where I give all available information about IDE Harddrives. I am strongly interested in contacting the manufacturers directly. But I have no money for overseas calls, so I need  	HARDDISK MANUFACTURER's  EMAIL ADDRESSES  Please help if you can!  Carsten.
Hi netters! 	I often have troubles with my PC and would like to fix it by myself.  Is  	there any book that show you how to fix your own PC (hardware, monitor, 	printer problems..etc).  Of course, no book would tell you the exact 	problem with your PC, but at least it will give a general idea what 	might be wrong.  Thanks so lot for your help.
I am wanting to upgrade from a 386SX-25, to a 486DX-33, and are looking at a cheap quote from someone offering me a 486DX-33 motherboard, with no ram in it.  (I will probably sell my old m-board off somewhere) Now, I have 4 meg of RAM in my 386, which consists of  4 x 9 module 1024KB simms, running at 70 nanoseconds.     ^^^^^^^^                          ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Would I encounter problems with the pointed out areas, by throwing these from one computer to the other?
I've been troubleshooting the existence of way too many General Protection Faults on a 486-33, Eisa-VLB, system.  At this point I think I've narrowed the problem down to the video drivers for the Volante Warp-10 adapter by National Design, INc.  Yet somehow I find this hard to believe.  Does anyone else have any experiences with this board.
Do you happen to know how I can get a serial mouse (9 pins) working on an IBM L40 notebook (which has a kind of bus mouse connection besides serial and parallel interfaces). The manual doesn't say anything about it.  I've tried two drivers, with the result that left and right buttons are recognized, but mouse movement is not. Should I cut or shortcut some wires to/from the mouse?  Thanks for your help.
I'm using DRDOS 6.0 with SuperStor for nearly 2 years now, and I'm wondering, if MSDOS 6.0 could keep up with it at last. Is there anybody who tried out both?  What about this Double-Disk ? (had lots of problems with SStor too.) How much memory do you get? (I've got 616K with EMM and SStor) What about the on-line help (Really great in DRDOS) Any help appreciated.
I know this is the wrong newsgroup, but I was wondering if anyone  knows the date(s) of this year's COMDEX convention in Atlanta,GA. Or has it passed already?? E-mail if possible. Thanks.
HI,  that might look like a dull request, but I have been following this newgroup for a couple of weeks and It didn't help me make my mind.    I bought a new 486 machine not long ago after being disconnected from the pc world for a while (I have been running on an xt 5MHz till last january!!). The machine I bought came equipped with a ATI VGA XL 24 graphic card. It gives a very nice picture and the  Windows drivers are pretty stable. The only problem is that it is quite slow.  I would like to go for a faster card (not in the 400$ range). I saw a lot of comments on many products over the last weeks, but didn't get an overall picture clear enough to make a choice. My question is : Could somebody direct me to a source of information which would help me in my quest. I would like to get information about :      - the refresh rates the various cards provide;      - quality of windows drivers;      - standard vga performance (non-Windows stuff).  Direct me to a magazine article or something like that (I got winvid.zip  info, but it is not enough). If you have an ISA card you are really satisfied with it,  let me know. 	If this information is of any use, here is my system configuration: 	- Fujikama 486 33MHz ISA system (Contaq motherboard) 	- monitor DARIUS 14" non-interlaced multisync (up to 1024X768)                                 (can reach 70kHz horizontally)    I would also like to know if it is a standard for video drivers to allow screen dimensioning and screen positioning by writing on the EPROM of the graphic card. This is the case with my ATI card and it is very convenient when changing graphics mode since my monitor is not intelligent  enough to record settings.  Merci a l'avance for any information you would be kind enough to provide me,
Perry Egelmeers (perry@wswiop11.win.tue.nl) wrote: > ladanyi@cs.cornell.edu (La'szlo' Lada'nyi) writes:  > >Problem: Occasionaly the machine freezes. At least that's what I thought, but > >recently I discovered that the machine works, just the keyboard freezes and > >the clock drops down from turbo (33Mhz) to standard (16Mhz) mode.  > Perhaps you hit the ^S (Control S)?  Try ^Q. > I know it doesn't explain the clock rate drop...  We had the same problem in our company. We changed the keyboard-bios and after that, everything went fine. Our dealer told us that some boards of that series have a defect kbd-bios.  Michael
I need a device (either an ISA board or a subsystem) which will take two RGB video signals and combine them according to a template. The template can be as simple as a rectangular window with signal one being used for the interior and signal two for the exterior. But I beleive fancier harware may also exist which I do not want to exclude from my search.  I know this sort of hardware exists for NTSC, etc. but I need it for RGB.  Please email and or post any leads....
Kin Chan (Sparrow+@CMU.EDU) wrote: : Just curious why floptical drives never seemed to catch on. Remember : those 21 Mb disks that look and feel like 3.5" floppies? These drives : are SCSI devices and can read and write both 720 Kb and 1.44/21 Mb : disks. Sounds to me to be one great product for the PC market. Are the : prices really that unaffordable compared to CD-ROMs which are currently : not rewritable? I know about the new rewritable CDs and expect SONY to : develop the first MDs for the computer. My question is: why isn't there : any substantial interest in developing the flopticals?  Certainly in the UK the 21Mb flopticals are about the same price as a cheap CD-ROM now (you seem to be able to get them for around GBP 200-250). However the bigger optical drives (e.g. 128Mb) are much more expensive - around the GBP 1000 mark.  A couple of questions that someone may be able to answer - the 21Mb flopticals - are they direct drop in replacements for a floppy or do they need driver software etc. I.e. do you just rip out the floppy drive, plug the same cables into the floptical, stick in a flopti-disk and hey presto you have a 21Mb floppy. This sounds far too easy.  On the subject of Sony developing MDs for computers, I have reread a PCW article on this subject and there it says that Sony have been doing optical drives for other people for some time and may be about to do a product themselves. From the article it seems that the audio MD format is a byproduct of their computer storage work - the MD  mechanism is identical to their MO computer optical drives. A Sony spokesman was quoted as saying that a 2.5" MD disk would hold about 100Mb of data though he refused to comment on any possibility of this being productized.  The article said that one of the problems holding back development in this area was lack of sensible standards plus there are at least 2 distinct optical storage mechanisms around at present. Given that it probably needs MDs being used as a distribution medium to get it into the market and since this has already been cornered by CDs it probably needs someone to come in with a very strong marketting lead to get MDs accepted.  --
I have had a Zeos for a couple months.  While the experience was not painless or perfect, it was way better than that endured by most (7 people I personally know) who have ordered Gateways.  (Of course, several of the Gateway buyers were rewarded by getting free stuff as Gateway can't seem to keep track of what it has or hasn't sent out...B{)   I got the 1 MB Viper card.  The first one was defective, but Zeos replaced it with only minor hassles.  This one works fine.  I haven't noticed any problems in any of my applications.  I also ordered it because of all the complaints about the ATI a few months ago.  Guess you can choose either buggy state-of-the-art stuff, or robust average stuff....   For my particular configuration (tower, 300 watt supply, pkg#3, no monitor, viper, etc.) the Zeos was slightly cheaper than Gateway, Austin, etc.  But this can change from month to month.
thought I'd post this as well as e-mail it, just in case anyone else is interested in this info.....  In article <1993Apr15.054552.14548@henson.cc.wwu.edu> n9110338@henson.cc.wwu.edu (dan jordan) writes:  >   Hello, my question is could someone E-mail me the names of manufactures >of the 16550 and predecsor UARTs.   I have only seen them refered to by >number, however i would like to find a technical manual for these ICs.  >  any where i can find out the technical specs for these UARTs would be >appreciated: prefereably the 16450 as well as the 16550 however one will do.  I suggest that you go direct to the original (and preferred...best quality) source for all of this, just as you would (at least, should) for the chips themselves:  National Semiconductor.  you can reach them at 1-800-272-9959. they no longer package the data sheets in a book, as they did when I got mine, but you can get them as individual sets of data sheets.  you want, as a minimum, the following:     *) 2 sets of data sheets:       *) NS16450/INS8250A/NS16C450/INS82C50A       *) NS16550AF     *) 2 application notes (yes, GET THESE!):       *) AN-491 The NS16550A: UART Design and Application Considerations       *) AN-493 A Comparison of the INS8250, NS16450 and NS16550AF Series          of UARTs  both of the application notes I listed have proven to be AT LEAST as valuable as the data sheets themselves (more, actually).  AN-491, in particular, is an exceptionally well-written application note that goes into detail about how and why the 16550 does what it does, and how best to take advantage of it.  btw, they send these out free, as long as you don't abuse it.  later,    --jim  -- #include <std_disclaimer.h>                                 73 DE N5IAL (/4) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ INTERNET: jim@n5ial.mythical.com  |  j.graham@ieee.org     ICBM: 30.23N 86.32W AMATEUR RADIO: n5ial@w4zbb (Ft. Walton Beach, FL)          AMTOR SELCAL: NIAL
Has someone a list of CD-ROM's with no SCSI-Interface and if known how much they are present in the market.  Please mail direcktly as I am not reguarly reading the group.  I'll post a summary if wanted.   Thanks  Ihno  ============================================================================== Ihno Krumreich       | Phone (49) 721 955 253 0        U   U N   N  III  X   X Synerix Gmbh         | email: ihno@generics.ka.sub.org U   U NN  N   I    X X Bach Strasse 24      | FAX   (49) 721 59 02 11         U   U N N N   I     X D-W7500 Karlsruhe 21 |                                 U   U N  NN   I    X X                                                         UUU  N   N  III  X   X --
hi guys does anyone could tell me  at which resolution can work this monitor  of course it support 640x480 but at 800x600   and 1024x768 with a cirrus card it seems  to don't work any clues?
I posted this once but didn't receive any responses.  I've been looking for a good notebook for about $1700.  My two favorites are the Zeos Freestyle/SL and the Micro something or other Winbook (the one with the Apple Powerbook style trackball and handrest and the 486SLC).  Any suggestions on others?  I'd love to hear from someone who has one of the two mentioned above, too.
I am thinking about buying a new motherboard and a cyrix 486dlc 40 or 33 Mh z.  It will be an upgrade from a 386sx 25.  I was wondering if anybody has any FACTS they can fill me in on.  If anybody has one what do you think about it? I will also get a cyrix math co with it.  I have benchmarks for the two chips a nd they look very good for the price.  If anybody responds please send me email  because I usually don't check the mail very often but I check my reader daily.     Thanks for your info, and remember only respond if you have legitimate comp laints or praise, not just to Cyrix/AMD bash.  I know about what Byte, computer  shopper, pc computing and etc... have said and that is why I am considering the Cyrix chip.  Thanks.........
A couple of months ago I tried out a Hercules Graphite card.  A pretty nice board.  Fairly fast, and seemed quite compatible -- even seemed to handle the SVGA modes I have whined about here on occasion.  At the time I was just buying a VLB system, so after checking out the card I sent it back.  I wanted a VLB card, and purchased a Fahrenheit VLB card.  This card is fairly fast, will do 70 Hz refresh at 1024x768, but is not compatible with my CD-ROMS (the SVGA thing -- I think; I have merely conjectured that is the cause of an old graphics board being able to run in a higher resolution with those programs than the modern boards I have tried.  I have not gotten a straight answer out of anybody...).  The monitor I am using it with is a 17" Magnavox, which also tops out at 1024x768x70 Hz so its really a pretty good match.  But...  That is for my wife.  I just purchased a Viewsonic 17 for myself, and am looking for a graphics card to drive it.  I want > 70Hz refresh, and would really like it to handle my CD-Roms.  I tried the Orchid P9000, which did neither of those things (though Robert at Wietek did say that the >70Hz was possible if I modifed the driver data base).  So my thoughts go back to Hercules.  They were supposed to be coming out with a VLB version of the Graphite around the end of March.  I have heard precisely ZERO about it since then.  Does anyone know if the card was actually released, and what capabilities (and price) it has?  Any info would be most appreciated.
If anyone out there can help, I would greatly appreciate it.  This christmas, I built a computer out of used parts for my Father-in-law. The disk drive that I installed was a Seagate 251-1 MFM.  Anyway, he now he would like to put another HD into this system.  I DON'T want to buy another MFM, the only reason why I used an MFM in the first place is that it was FREE.  Would I need a special IDE HD controller?  Also, if I do need a  special IDE controller, where can I purchase one, & how much are they?  Please send any responses to: lynn@vax1.mankato.msus.edu   					Thanks in advance,
We are trying to connect an Olivetti XM4311 5" floppy drive as the second drive on a Panasonic 286 machine.  It seems to sort of talk to it (gets it spinning and stepping) but gives a "Disk not ready" error.  There are two jumpers (which seem to work best open), a 3 position DIP switch, and a 8 position DIP switch.  We don't know how to set the DIP switches and think that may be the problem.  Any information, or advice (other than "junk the stupid thing" :) would be most appreciated, thanks.  (email reply preferred).
In article <badry.735366806@cab009>, badry@cs.UAlberta.CA (Badry Jason Theodore) writes: > Hi.  I am trying to set up a Conner 3184 and a Quantum 80AT drive.  I have > the conner set to the master, and the quantum set to the slave (doesn't work > the other way around).  I am able to access both drives if I boot from a  > floppy, but the drives will not boot themselves.  I am running MSDOS 6, and > have the Conner partitioned as Primary Dos, and is formatted with system > files.  I have tried all different types of setups, and even changed IDE > controller cards.  If I boot from a floppy, everything works great (except > the booting part :)).  The system doesn't report an error message or anything, > just hangs there.  Does anyone have any suggestions, or has somebody else > run into a similar problem?  I was thinking that I might have to update the bios > on one of the drives (is this possible?).  Any suggestions/answers would be > greatly appreciated.  Please reply to: >  > 	Jason Badry > 	badry@cs.ualberta.ca >    Make sure that the hard disk you want to boot from is set as active (using the FDISK program that comes with DOS).
In article <1993Apr18.023428.17605@cronkite.ocis.temple.edu> u083s121@astro.ocis.temple.edu (cis083 sec001 spr93) writes: > >  I saw the following computer in a store and wanted to know if this is a good >computer or does someone see something wrong with it.  I also would like to [stuff deleted] > >      Leading Edge- Model PC4170E > >      * Intel 486SX/25 Mhz CPU >      * Supports Intel OverDrive clock-Doubling Processors(What is this?) >      * Upgradable to 486DX2/66 >      * 4 MB RAM upgradable to 32 MB >      * 8 KB internal cache >      * 1.2 MB 5 1/4" & 1.44 MB 3.5" Disk Drives  >      * 213 MB Hard Drive >      * 1024 x 768 VGA Video Resolution >      * 1 MB Video RAM 256 Colors >      * 6 Available 16-bit ISA expansion Slots >      * One local bus socket (16-bit ISA Compatible) >      * 4 5.25" drive bays, 3 external >      * One 25-pin Centronics type parallel port >      * 2 RS-232C Serial Ports (9 & 25 pin) >      * One 15-pin analog video connector >      * One PS/2 Compatible mouse port >      * 200 Watt power supply >      * 101 key keyboard and mouse included >      * Software includes Windows 3.1, Dos 5.0, Microsoft Works for Windows > >      The store wants $1200 (without monitor) for this.  Is it a good price? > >      Thanks! >  I recently bought a Leading Edge 80386DX-33 <mini tower case> and everything works fine. Leading Edge seems to be a decent brand and what-not. I would tend to say that it is a decent deal. The only things you might want to be wary about is that my L.E. computer has a back-plane mounted motherboard. Ie: The motherboard itself is a card that can be plugged in to a backplane. Some people don't like these configurations. The second thing is that whoever set up my computer at the factory didn't really know what they were doing. The installed windows video driver didn't even take advantage of the SVGA card/Monitor. Look forward to configuring the system optimally yourself.
I UPGRADED MY OLD 386 WITH 486DX-50 LOCAL BUS MOTHERBOARD TWO MONTH AGO  AND WITH IT I BOUGHT A CONTROLLER CARD LOCAL BUS AND A GRAFIC CARD  DIAMOND STEALTH VLB. BUT WHEN I TRY TO PUT MY NEW GRAFIC CARD AND MY NEW CONTROLLER TOGETHER MY SYSTEM DON'T WANT TO BOOT UP; IT STOP AFTER CONTROLLER CARD CHECKING.  I HAVE TRY TO CHANGE MY AMI-BIOS SETUP BUT NOTHING WORKS.  JUST ONE THING WHEN I DISABLE MY ROM-BIOS ADRESS ON MY CONTROLLER CARD MY SYSTEM DO ONE MORE STEP: CHECKING ALL SYSTEM AND CACHE MEMORY BUT NOTHING MORE. THANKS FOR ANSWER. CHROBERT
In article <1993Apr16.205724.26258@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> smace@nyx.cs.du.edu (Scott Mace) writes: > >Have you ever seen what happens when you hook a busmaster controller to >a vesa local bus.  It actually  slows down your system..... > >If you don't belive what I said about busmastering and vlbus then pick >up a back issue of PC-week in whihc they tested vlbus, eisa and isa >busmastering cards.