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1,800 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | booting from b drive i have a drive as drive a how can i make the system boot from my b drive optimally the computer would be able to boot from either a or b checking them in order for a bootable disk but if i have to switch cables around and simply switch the drives so that it can t boot disks that s ok also boot b won t do the trick for me thanks davebo david weisberger q mr president do you care to say any more about the operational details of the airlift djweisbe the president no unix amherst edu q how about explaining to the american people why it s an important issue for the united states to undertake the president what
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1,801 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | info about fast centronics ecp epp hello in the edn magazine i found a note about the new c t c i o controller it support several parallel port protocols including fast centronics microsoft enhanced capabilities protocol ecp enhanced parallel port epp the last two handle data rates up to mbytes sec is there any specification about these protocols available regards christian franke aachen university of technology informatik i ahornstrasse w aachen germany tel e mail franke informatik rwth aachen de
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1,802 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | re monitor for xga in apr watson ibm com kaul vnet ibm com writes my home viewsonic i like the multisyncs because it s easy to run them in modes like x x k colors noninterlaced or at higher modes like x x oh yeah i just got my new eizo flexscan yesterday to replace my old and i tried it with x this mode is just great i can get four perfectly readable command windows on the screen and if i need more colors i can go back to x or even x one thing i am wondering though why isn t there a monxxxx dgs file which contains all the resolutions up to x now i have to change the xgasetup pro every time i want to switch instead of simply going through the system settings of os regards martin erzberger
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1,803 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | s re problems with s initialization as described the manual the following steps must be done for th initialization of the s card initdisplay bios call with ax reg f h with bx reg h for x x resolution interrupt h unlock register lock cr for access to s register set unlock register lock cr for access to syst control and syst extension register unlock graphic command group cr set bit to in syst configuration register unlock advanced display functions set bit to in function control register after these operations the fifo stack of the s should be empty when we watch the status graph proc status we always get the value fh instead of h full would mean ffh places occupied empty would mean h places occupied it is possible to read this register in two different ways both times we get different results our machine is a dx with eisa bus and a s c local bus any ideas andreas disteli institut fuer computersysteme eth zuerich email disteli inf ethz ch
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1,804 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | re recommendations for a local bus cached ide controller on apr gmt divya sundaram sundaram egr msu edu wrote i would like to hear the net wisdom and net opinions on ide controllers i would liek to get a ide controller card for my vlb dx motherboard what are good options for this preferably under it must also work under os and be compatible with stacker and other disk compression s w i have a maxtor mb on an isa ide controller although my machine is dx vlb i has the save transfer rate of mb s regardless of the variations of the isa bus speed i tested it with speed between mhz and mhz not any difference the problem is not the interface between the controller and the memory my advice buy megs of ram save and enjoy performance penio penev x w internet penev venezia rockefeller edu disclaimer all oppinions are mine
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1,805 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | an simulator is example code available hello world i m attempting to write an simulator on an ibm pc for teaching purposes so that first year elec eng students can see the workings of the microcontroller as it performs operations logical ands for example being shown on a bit by bit basis and so that the students can see that it s not really a mystical process but totally logical for example every instruction should show some working and not just alter register memory port contents does anyone know of any freely available example simulation code in pascal or modula that would show me where i m going wrong in writing my simulator i m using ayala s the microcontroller as a reference the simulator supplied with the package is overkill for simple teaching purposes i feel and there s no source code to help you roll your own please email me if you can help or if you know of somewhere more appropriate i should be posting this i rarely scan these groups thanks lloyd wood l h wood lut ac uk
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1,806 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | wanna sex hello you re not quite sure if that s a joke or not anyway you read the article you re right the header only this is a joke 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 carsten grammes internet ph hucg rz uni sb de experimental physics voicenet universitaet saarbruecken faxnet saarbruecken germany
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1,807 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | connection machine hiya all i realise this has little to do with pc s but it does have a lot to do with hardware so has nay of you heard of a computer called the connection machine if so could you e mail me any and all info you have eg references ideas etc all help is appreciated caviar dreams l cause s minyos xx rmit oz au royal melbourne institute of technology music is like directing sounds theatrically moulding them into landscapes i wanted to link my music to places architectural environments and visual techniques j m jarre
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1,808 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | ide scsi controller hi folks i have hd first is an seagate mb the second a cdc mb with a future domain no ram i d like to change my controller ide scsi and buy a new one with ram at least mb that could controll all of them any companies how many and is it possible via hw or via sw select how divide the ram cache for hd for example using dos that is about all on one hd i d like to reserve ram cache just to it thanks to all write at rosa ghost sm dsi unimi it
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1,809 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | apple hard disk drive just wanted to ask a question i bought a hard disk drive second hand the other day and i opened the packaging up and saw that there was a small sticker on the drive that had a little red apple with a bite taken out of it it s socket did not look the same as my existing hard disk that is in my computer already it has fifty little pins sticking out from it instead of the that is sticking out of my old hard disk i don t know if disk drives for the apple or mac are different from ones used in at clones so could someone tell me if i could use this hard disk on my at clone if not what did i just purchase it s a quantum prodrive it s dated on the green board will i need a controller add in card all the help is much appreciated thanks pc
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1,810 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | re hard disk question in article aovai bp qube ocunix on ca aovai qube ocunix on ca aovai writes hi i just disassembled my old xt and get disk drives m hard drive and a k floppy drive my questions are can i use these drives as drives d e on my sx this sx currently has m hard drive m m floppy drives if i can what s w or h w do i need i would doubt that you would be able to use the hard drive xt drives usually came in mfm or rll flavors i bet your sx has ide drives the two are not compatible on the same controller however you might be able to use the drive with its controller in your sx you should be able to plug your k drive into your existing sx controller i think you might have to use the floppy controller that was used in the xt timothy hu timhu ico isc com the intelligence or lack of expressed interactive systems corporation above does not necessarily reflect resource solutions international that of anyone else also thu grips uwyo edu
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1,811 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | what video board for my system i d appreciate any advice about a video card for my system dx mb of ram on a novell network monitor nec fge capable of hz vertical refresh rate major considerations i expect i will work mostly in windows but with some dos applications and i would want decent speed in dos i do mostly word processing database and communications not much intensive graphics with a monitor i expect i will work mostly in x and colors seems plenty but i d like like the image to be sharp fast and rock solid other considerations i sometimes run a unix clone coherent and i understand that some companies e g diamond don t encourage the third party development of drivers i might move to os if i decide i need better speed and reliability than i get with windows for my database work and multitasking i don t have a local bus motherboard i m not sure how much to invest in an isa video board versus getting something less expensive now and upgrading to local bus later i like buying things from companies that treat their customers well if you have any advice for me i d love to hear it via email or post thanks david m todd department of psychology university of massachusetts amherst ma usa phone david todd psych umass edu fax
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1,812 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | dx isa vs dx eisa hello can anyone give me their opinion on which system has got the best overall system performance dx with isa bus or dx with eisa bus the systems are equal in all other areas thanks in advance jesper honig spring spring diku dk if animals believed in god university of copenhagen denmark the devil would be a man
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1,813 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | mountain tape backup dh does anyone out their have a mountain tape backup that i could compare dh notes with jumper settings software ect dh or does anyone know where i could contact the makers of this drive dh you can contact mountain network solutions at dh general number dh tech support dh bbs thanks very much for the info david especially for their tech and bbs lines this should get me going bye x slmr a x it s only a hobby only a hobby only a origin the keep bbs
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1,814 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | re ctx i started a similar thread about a month ago and got many replies the summary ctx nasty low quality avoid ctx proscan not as good as some other makes however cheap main problem seems poor quality control some reported pincushioning the problem i had others poor focus etc etc i complained about mine and it was re tuned i dodn t even pay shipping and returned to me in days it s now clear well focussed and has no pincushioning or barrel distortion at all i m very happy with it and the digital controls and mode memory are nice certainly a trinitron say would be much nicer but that s well out of my price range conclusion if you re on a budget get one and be prepared to send it back if it s not perfect it probably won t be when you get it but has good potential chris
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1,815 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | re dx isa vs dx eisa on fri apr gmt jesper honig spring spring diku dk wrote can anyone give me their opinion on which system has got the best overall system performance dx with isa bus or dx with eisa bus dx eisa vesa royal among others is celling such a system for penio penev x w internet penev venezia rockefeller edu disclaimer all oppinions are mine
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1,816 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | re ide vs scsi i almost got a hernia laughing at this one if anything scsi on a pc will be obsolete killed off by vesa local bus ide it must be real nice to get shafted by bucks for the extra cost of a scsi drive then pay another for a scsi controller first off with all these huge software packages and files that they produce ide may no longer be sufficient for me mb limit second rumor is microsoft recognizes the the importance of scsi and will support it soon i m just not sure if it s on dos win or nt at any rate the deal is with corel who makes i hear a good cohesive set of scsi drivers mark ashley disclaimer my opinions not harris marka gcx ssd csd harris com the lost los angelino
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1,817 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | re difference between vlb and isa eisa hurley epcot spdc ti com writes in article apr spdc ti com what about vlb and a dx does the local bus still run at mhz or does it try to run at mhz brian hi vlb is defined for cards by mhz and cards by mhz there are designs with mhz and vlb slots s c t mhz and slots are realy difficult to design better oss os ix are able to handle more than mb of dram if you use eisa bus has someone experience with vlb i think of scsi vlb busmaster the problem is the bit floppy dma controller which is unable to reach more than mb joerg
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1,818 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | orchid fahrenheit sparkel the answers ok thanks to all of you who responded to my post here s the official response from orchid orchid is aware of the problem the new rev of the board rev d should not would take care of the problem production was scheduled to start on april i have no confirmation that production did start on this day just the word of the tech on the other line now the flame you would think a company like orchid who has produced good quality products in the past would be more helpfull and willing to make right on a screwup of theirs very poor tech support the first times i called i must have spoke with the janitor because they where talking craziness the last time i talked to a tech named paul and he seemed to have a pretty good idea what was going on until these problems are resovled neither myself nor my department will buy or recommend orchid products flame off again thanks to all of you who answered my post terry
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1,819 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | two questions two questions i m trying to figure out how to access cmos advanced chip setting on a eisa motherboard air that has ami bios specifically i would like to set the atclk or wait states or bus speed on this board i can t seem to be able to do it any help in this area would be greatly appreciated i am looking for a phone number for wangtek tape drives specifically i am looking for jumper settings on a en drive thanks in advance tony
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1,820 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | eisa tape controllers is there a qic format tape drive that comes with an eisa controller colorado s only has isa and mca controllers thanks e mail please mark ashley disclaimer my opinions not harris marka gcx ssd csd harris com the lost los angelino
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1,821 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | re choosing an appropriate power supply please help in a previous article lopes cogsci ucsd edu alann lopes says the problem is that i recently had an hd go bad and someone suggested that it may have been because of an inadequate power supply how does one know what kind of wattage is necessary to run two large maxtors and i am not an expert my understanding is the watts output of the power supply must exceed the sum of the hard disk watts requirement typically a w power supply is sufficient to power a pc hope this help lau hon wah
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1,822 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | re why vesa local bus in a previous article guyd austin ibm com guy dawson says something to bear in mind is what the v in vlb stands for v for video the origional intention of the bus was to speed up the bus so that large memory to memory transfers would be faster this is espically useful in transfering data from main memory to video memory well not to be picky but the v in vlb stands for vesa while the v in vesa stands for video saying the v in vlb stands for video is not entirely correct
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1,823 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | q which of these cd rom players would you choose for os netters i need a cdrom drive as my order was cancelled and thought why not ask the net community i was ordering a nec cdr but saw so much cheaper ones that i want to know more the drive will be used to install software and if available for listening to cd s perhaps some day i ll want to use it to read the other cd s but that s not really relevant at the moment i ve been offered the following cd rom players for the prices stated they all claim to have scsi i and operate under os the drives are not listed in the cdrom faq and therefor please give your opinions on the drives i ve got the impression that they re not all scsi actually the nec was listed as non scsi in the cdrom faq and as a compatible scsi product in the os faq i ve calculated the prices as having dutch guilders times it s actually about times mitsumi crmc philips lms i philips toshiba nec cdr who bought that trantor that is in the faq it s extremely cheap and scsi so what s the trick or where can i order it holland using mastercard trantor t regards jv name j v meuldijk o o address gildelaar hw teteringen fax holland e mail volkert kub nl oooo oooo
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1,824 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | perfect mag mx f monitors 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 mx f one article contained a comment that the owner called the factory and was told that his screen rotation was within spec well my monitor arrived last night and sure enough it has a very noticable barrel distortion it s not dramatic but it is there and it is especially noticable when the image doesn t fill the entire screen the fact that it is worse on the right side doesn t help matters what i m trying to find out is if these minor imperfections are the norm or are most of their monitors perfect i don t want to send it back and get one with the same or an even worse problem does the factory consider this kind of thing normal and ship their monitors with less than perfect alignment are other netters just living with these kind of imperfections comments and opinions are mine not bnr s doug adcock adcock bnr ca bell northern research research triangle park nc
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1,825 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | connecting apple laserwriter ii to ibm pc has anyone tried connecting an apple laserwriter ii to a pc do i need any special controller card or software to do that thanks for any comments sardjono insani scip nusunix nus sg
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1,826 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | re shopping for a new nec monitor in article qjfa inn g titan ucs umass edu dtodd titan ucs umass edu david m todd writes from dtodd titan ucs umass edu david m todd subject re shopping for a new nec monitor date apr in article qhppp gha darwin sura net wbarnes sura net bill barnes writes basically i m looking for a svga x non interlaced monitor the nec fg is the one most of the computer mags use as their standard and from what i ve seen and heard it looks pretty good but it s a bit expensive bucks is the best deal i ve seen so i thought perhaps i might find something as good for less any recommendations i also thought about the nec fgx which has the same specs as the fg except for the scan frequency which is more limited anybody have any comments on this one would it work with i believe that nec is replacing the fg and fgx with fge and fge models reportedly being released at the end of this month i m waiting for a fge the main difference being a year warranty and higher refresh rates at the higher resolutions it sounded from a pc magazine note that the fge was being boosted in a number of ways call the nec number and have them send you info david m todd department of psychology university of massachusetts amherst ma usa phone david todd psych umass edu fax i have been using a nec fgx for several months now several others here also have this monitor we have had no problems personally i would spend extra money for this monitor and sacrifice other features on a pc such as mhz viz mhz based on the comments of others you might want to view the fgx vs the series on a pc running windows at x the refresh rate appears ok for me but you might feel differently finally speaking of spending money with the size of today s files etc a tape backup is certainly worth recently i set up a friend s pc mhz and vesa local bus the redraw time for a graphics program was only a factor of faster which i doubt warrants the extra cost
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1,827 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | re wanted opinions on mag s and nanao i monitor sleeping dragon ong mang iastate edu wrote i m looking to buy a monitor soon and it seems that i can t decide what monitor i should buy i have a mag s this is a dpi version and it using a triniton tube and a nanao i in mind good luck finding an mx s when i was looking around back in december january mag wasn t producing any because they couldn t get tubes from sony i asked when they expected to restart production as i was willing to wait a few months to get an mx s but they said not any time soon i wound up getting a t i and am extremely happy with it david david engel optical data systems inc david ods com e arapaho road richardson tx
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1,828 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | hard disk utilities hi to all you pc gurus i m new to these groups and so please forgive me if my questions are frequently asked but i don t know the answer i ve been recently having some problems with my computer with a seagate meg hard drive i occasionally find corrupted files but most of the time programs work fine are there any utilities that are easily available that can help me determine whether or not the problem is a result of the hard drive vs an ill behaved program or some other hardware item are there utilites to determine whether or not the hard drive is properly aligned etc as might be expected i would greatly appreciate any help on this matter i m considering just reformatting the disk and reinstalling everything and hoping that will fix the problem but i would like to have some assurance of what the problem cause is also can someone give me an opinion on dos are the compression and defragmentation routines good enough to consider the upgrade if i don t have those routines already as opposed to buying them separately much thanks in advance for any help mitchel soltys soltys radonc unc edu
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1,829 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | re recommendations for a local bus cached ide controller in article apr sol ctr columbia edu penev venezia rockefeller edu writes i would like to hear the net wisdom and net opinions on ide controllers i would liek to get a ide controller card for my vlb dx motherboard what are good options for this preferably under it must also work under os and be compatible with stacker and other disk compression s w i have a maxtor mb on an isa ide controller although my machine is dx vlb i has the save transfer rate of mb s regardless of the variations of the isa bus speed i tested it with speed between mhz and mhz not any difference the problem is not the interface between the controller and the memory my advice buy megs of ram save and enjoy performance computer mhz bus isa mhz drive maxtor a mb config sys autoexec bat ms dos no win smartdrv sys cache smartdrv exe core v k sec k sec k sec norton si v k sec k sec k sec i d still like to here from people with vlb ide i still want to know what vlb bus speed is used with ide drives i still want to know if some most ide drives can handle bus speeds mhz ps a friend with a and a new maxtor meg ide drive gets between k sec can t remember exactly i think the bus is running at mhz in this case
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1,830 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | ibm pc convertible parts sale i have some used but working parts available for the original ibm laptop the pc convertible if you have one of these things and still are using it you may have found out that ibm wants outrageous prices for parts i built up a supply of enough parts to keep mine going for a few years and will be willing to part with the rest basically i have all the standard parts except motherboard battery power supply i ve got a few of the accessories too just ask these are in very limited supply however i ve basically just cannibalized a couple of old machines if you are interested please e mail me note for those who want to convince themselves that they are somehow superior because they have newer and better machines or who want to inform me that these are worthless junk save your effort i ll just delete the note those of us who bought these machines when they first came out still find them useful for word processing etc i m saving mine as a future antique
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1,831 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | re ide vs scsi dxb psuvm psu edu writes scsi i ranges from mb s scsi ii ranges from mb s ide ranges from mb s esdi is always mb s although there are some non standard versions the above does not tell the proper story of scsi scsi i bit asynchronous mb s ave synchronous mb s max transfer base scsi faster this requires a scsi controller chip and provides scsi bit to bit speeds with scsi controlers scsi mb s with mb s burst bit mb s with mb s burst bit and mb s with mb s burst bit wide and fast 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 non wide port the article in pc mag was talking about scsi scsi uses ten devices in it native mode outside its native mode it behaves a lot like scsi devices slower through put from your own figures scsi is indeed twice esdi as the article pointed out as for faster then ide that seems to be bit scsi using a scsi contoler chip the mac quadra uses a scsi controler chip for its scsi and gets mb s through put for asynchronous bit scsi far in excess of a normal synchronous scsi output of is which is near the burst of a scsi machine with a scsi controller chip the pc world seems to have scsi and scsi mixed up fact is scsi controler chips allow near scsi speeds through a scsi device as shown in the mac quadra which skews some of the data of scsi vs ide or esdi test i agree that the article could have stated that the faster then ide came off a scsi device with a scsi chip maybe it was there and the editor killed it because the article was dealing with scsi not scsi and he did not understand the effect of a scsi device with a scsi controller chip scsi chips are limited to mb max scsi devices with scsi chips becoming common produce up to mb s in bit mode and mb s in bit mode the fast version scsi ports cannot use wide scsi of cource the prime piece of wierdness is that scsi devices have scsi chips or more accurately the machine does this allows the best of both worlds high scsi speeds and cheeper scsi costs full scsi hardware port electronic controller etc is very expensive it also creates a logistic nightmare as to how fast scsi goes when one knows the facts behind the numbers then one realizes that the article knows what it is talking about even if it does not tell how the figures came about while dxb psuvm psu edu is throwing out ranges that don t tell squat since he ignores scsi devices with scsi chips his ranges tell even less then intended
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1,832 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | re help with bit mode for ati in article wong apr ws webo dg com wong ws webo dg com e wong writes i finally got the vesa driver for my ati graphics ultra plus m however where did you get this driver please please please i ve been waiting months for this when i tried to use this to view under bit mode i get lines on the picture with bit or below the picture is fine can someone tell me what was wrong is it the card or is it the software thanks user s name edward wong internet wong ws webo dg com telephone cannon lobby ti com
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1,833 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | re ide vs scsi dxb psuvm psu edu writes in article qlbrlinn rk dns nmsu edu bgrubb dante nmsu edu grubb says in pc magazine april although scsi is twice as fasst as esdi faster than ide and support up to devices its acceptance has long been stalled by incompatability problems and installation headaches i love it when magazine writers make stupid statements like that re performance where do they get those numbers i ll list the actual performance ranges which should convince anyone that such a statement is absurd scsi i ranges from mb s scsi ii ranges from mb s ide ranges from mb s esdi is always mb s although there are some non standard versions all this shows is that you don t know much about scsi scsi with a scsi controler chip range is indeed mb s and that is all you have right about scsi scsi with a scsi controller chip mb s with mb s burst bit note the increase in speed the mac quadra uses this version of scsi so it does exist some pc use this set up too scsi bit scsi mode mb s with mb s burst scsi bit wide or fast mode mb s with mb s burst scsi bit wide and fast mb s with mb s burst by your own data the although scsi is twice as fast as esdi is correct with a scsi controller chip scsi can reach mb s which is indeed faster than ide of is all these scsi facts have been posted to this newsgroup in my mac ibm info sheet available by ftp on sumex aim stanford edu in the info mac report as mac ibm compare version txt it should be but may still be there part of this problem is both mac and ibm pc are inconsiant about what scsi is which though it is well documented that the quadra has a scsi chip an apple salesperson said it uses a fast scsi chip not at a mb s mb s burst it does not scsi is mb s maximum synchronous and quadra uses ansynchronous scsi which is slower it seems that mac and ibm see scsi interface and think scsi when it maybe a scsi interface driven in the machine by a scsi controller chip in bit mode which is much faster then true scsi can go don t slam an article because you don t understand what is going on one reference for the quadra s scsi controller chip is digital review oct v n p
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1,834 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | re booting from b drive djweisbe unix amherst edu david weisberger writes i have a drive as drive a how can i make the system boot from my b drive optimally the computer would be able to boot from either a or b checking them in order for a bootable disk but if i have to switch cables around and simply switch the drives so that it can t boot disks that s ok also boot b won t do the trick for me thanks davebo you can try to get into the setup byt pressing ctrl alt ins or ctrl alt printscreen on most pc s that should give you an option to set regarding the drives to boot from
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1,835 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | pc sound on a sb i read sometime in the last couple of weeks an article which desribed how to play pc sound through a soundblaster i didn t save the article and all old articles have been purged from our system here would whomever posted the article detailing where to connect the wires please re post specifically i need to know where to connect wires from the pc speaker to the sb card thx in advance carl
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1,836 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | no bit box on gateway while playing around with my gateway local bus machine last night it became apparent that windows didn t give the option for bit access for virtual memory i am using a permanent swap file and the disk drive is on the local bus interface is this expected or should i be investigating further why no bit option appears thanks for any help scott linn scott hpcvccl cv hp com
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1,837 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | question how to get serial mouse working on ibm notebook l do you happen to know how i can get a serial mouse pins working on an ibm l 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 eddy zondag philips research egzondag prl philips nl
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1,838 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | re laserjet iv upgrades to dpi opinions larryhow austin ibm com wrote what are the current products available to upgrade the resolution which ones support postscript any experiences with them either good or bad is the quality difference really noticable i m planning on producing camera ready copy of homes will the higher resolution be noticed for these if you are talking about laser jet then i believe it has to be postscript i don t see any advantage to using pcl when you have a peice of hardware plugged into the lj that is doing the work and it can support any language that is suited for the job besides i don t think pcl is even capable of handling dpi specifications i only have experience with the laser master winjet which brings the lj up to dpi and it uses postscript it also has a fast print mode which is not postscript and it is at a lower resolution dpi i think but it is fast this particular product uses your host processor to process the postscript so even with a decent pc you know it s going to be slow i e slow compared to a high end workstation processed ps the quality difference is very noticable and is almost worth the wait for the ps processing i m rather impatient we were using it for b w camera images rs the gray scale image was accepted by ms word and handed to the winjet ps printer driver which converts the image into postscript and then hands it off to the winjets postscript processor the postscript is rendered into ram lots of it and when it is done it shoots it directly to the printer the ps processor can also accept ps files created from other sources including dos applications but windows has to be running at the time of printing the ps processor is responsible for the halftoning and i d say it does a pretty good job our camera images came out very good in my opinion not as good as laser master s demo though i don t know how many other similar products are out there but i would be surprised if there are several gordon lang
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1,839 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | tandberg future domain tmc seagate st m problem i am trying to get my system to work with a tandberg future domain tmc seagate st m mfm controller the system boots up if the tandberg is disconnected from the system and of course no scsi devices found i have no other scsi devices the system boots up if the seagate mfm controller is removed from the system the future domain card reports finding the tandberg on the scsi bus the system then of course stops booting because my mfm hard disks can t be found the system hangs if all three tandberg future domain tmc seagate mfm controller are in the system looks like there is some conflict between the seagate and future domain card but the funny thing is that it only hangs if the tandberg is connected i have checked that there are no conflict in bios addresses irq i o port have i missed anything i am lost here any suggestions are most welcomed thanks in advance delman delman lee tel medical image processing group fax university of pennsylvania f blockley hall service drive philadelphia pa u s a internet delman mipg upenn edu
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1,840 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | logitech button mouse bios routines availability newsgroups comp ibm pc hardware subject logitech button mouse pin out bios routine availability distribution world organization purdue university engineering computer network i have a logitech s f or f s button mouse that i want to interface to a serial port of a different non ibm compatible system the mouse is xt at ps compatible with a db connector i tried to reverse engineer the mouse but it has a micro controller inside it if i could get the db pin out and perhaps a copy of the bios routines that support it i could map all this into my target system anyone know where i might get the pin out or the bios routines are the routines published someplace convenient thanks silvio ps please send email to me directly
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1,841 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | re booting from b drive david weisberger djweisbe unix amherst edu wrote i have a drive as drive a how can i make the system boot from my b drive optimally the computer would be able to boot from either a or b checking them in order for a bootable disk but if i have to switch cables around and simply switch the drives so that it can t boot disks that s ok also boot b won t do the trick for me thanks davebo we had the same issue plague us for months on our gateway i finally got tired of it so i permanently interchanged the drives the only reason i didn t do it in the first place was because i had several bootable s and some based install disks which expected the a drive i order all new software and upgrades to be and the number of stupid install programs that can t handle an alternate drive are declining with time the ones i had are now upgraded and as for the bootable s i just cut replacements if switching the drives is not an option you might be able to wire up a drive switch to your computer chasis i haven t tried it but i think it would work as long as it is wired carefully gordon lang
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1,842 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | re soundblaster irq and port settings the cybard dudek acsu buffalo edu wrote uzun netcom com william roger uzun writes i have a soundblaster board in a sx pc and i have it jumpered to irq port h will this conflict with my parallel port i just have an ide controller a multi io board with ser par port and a vga board should i choose another irq besides or is irq safe to use on motherboards recently i was adding a modem to my computer and i noticed that lpt uses irq and so does my sb card h i ve never had a problem but i m just wondering why not i thought this would cause a conflict i would also like an explanation of this if anyone can explain why the sb pro and lpt can share an irq please do so thanks tom huot huot cray com
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1,843 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | bye as of today i will no longer be a contact for zeos international on the net this responsibility has been taken over by another tech davidm zeos com and i am moving up and on mo money mo money i just wanted to thank all of the netters who have supported and encouraged the participation of zeos on the net i personally feel it is important for companies such as zeos to provide their customers with as easy access as possible when they have questions problems and being on the net is an big step in the right direction i hope that other companies will follow suit as weitek and others have done again thanks jre jim erickson zzzz eeee oo ssss zeos international ltd support zeos com inet z e o o s technical support dept uunet zeos support uucp z ee o o sss industrial blvd n e any opinions expressed z e o o s minneapolis mn herein are my own zzzz eeee oo ssss fax
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1,844 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | help installing old hd on older compaq xt we are trying to install a donated hard disk miniscribe vintage on a supercheap ancient compaq xt for use in education the only problem is that the supercheap compaq didn t come with the manual and i haven t been able to figure out how to start the setup program i began using pcs after s were invented so i have a couple of basic questions did xt class computers even have setup programs if they did or do how do i access it if anybody has any good advice on how to proceed or what to do next or what to look out for please let me know e mail is best but i ll also be watching the newsgroup postings thanks in advance robert robert luke internet luke aero org the aerospace corporation compuserve danger will robinson
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1,845 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | re zeos computers mspeed ccwf cc utexas edu matthew p speed writes i am looking at purchasing a system from zeos computers i would appreciate if people could give me some feedback about the quality of their products and customer service along with any advice about which systems people like thanks in advance i bought a dx system a little over years ago and was satisfied with everything about zeos that computer went off to grad school with my son and i replaced it with a dx pkg mbhd mb ram with diamond viper k level cache and tower upgrades delete the ctx monitor i got a hp d a monitor employee purchase this is a great system fast quiet solidly built not a single glitch bringing it up tech support seems busier now than years ago i called with a configuration question and they called back hours later with the right answer i think there s a slight premium over gateway prices but imho zeos is worth it btw they have enough lines that i ve never gotten a busy signal calling sales customer service or tech support now you usually wait or minutes to talk to someone but at least you get in the queue and wait on their dime al devilbiss al col hp com
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1,846 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | what svga excuse me to every one i am an amiga owner and tired to have the same graphic modes so i saw on nn there was a little bridgeboard that made the amiga s pc slots communicate with the stanndard amiga s slot the building mother house of this little gadget assure me that using this thing i can use all the pc boards included the svga cards i am interested in computer graphics and i do not know many things about pc in general so what is the best isa slot card on the market i d like to reach resolutions like x with colors or x with bitplanes any suggestion thankyou in advance paolo silvera certified commodore amiga developer silvera ghost sm dsi unimi it
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1,847 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | amd cpu any comments of amd microprocessors good bad thanks pat
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1,848 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | leading tech question hey does anybody know anything about leading technology computers i have a leading technology sx and need a new mother board for it does anybody know where i can get one leading technoology is really made by samsung sx is samsung model sd
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1,849 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | need info on high quality video card hi i need some info on video card i am looking a video card that can deliver a high quality picture i need the card to display images well for advertising company btw so it must be rich with colors and the speed must be fast too i am just wondering if somebody can advise me what to buy for such application and possible the address of the vendor thanks in advance glenn jayaputera
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1,850 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | comments on an accelerated video card for isa bus hi i am looking to buy an accelerated video card for my dx with isa bus i have a svga ni monitor i m currently running dos and windows although i m considering os in the future can anyone make a suggestion for a video card that would suit my needs how is diamond speedstar stealth etc thanks kent
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1,851 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | monitor with rgb sync to vga i don t know if this is an obvious question but can any of the current batch of windows accelerator cards diamond etc be used to drive a monitor which has rgb and horizontal and vertical sync bnc jacks altogether connectors out the back i might be able to get ahold of a raster technologies monitor cheap and i was wondering if it was possible to connect it via an adapter rgb to vga to my gateway would i need different drivers etc thanks mike scanlon please reply to scanlon interlan com
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1,852 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | for sale decpc sxlp for sale decpc sxlp it s in very good condition used for one year it has mhz intel mb hard disk super color vga monitor button mouse mg floppy disk drive software microsoft dos microsoft windows microsoft works for windows borland turbo pascal borland turbo c for dos i m asking for the system send me e mail if interested
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1,853 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | re monitors tony catone catone compstat wharton upenn edu wrote in article c geh n d utdallas edu goyal utdallas edu mohit k goyal writes oh yeah i just read in another newsgroup that the t i uses a high quality trinitron tube than is in most monitors the sony s for example and this is where the extra cost comes from it is also where the high bandwidth comes from and the fantastic image and the large image size etc etc it s also where the two annoying lines across the screen one a third down the other two thirds down come from the lines are not a result of the high end trinitron tube these wires will be found on all trinitron tubes e g mitsubishi sony etc on sony tubes you ll find one wire their level of annoyance is purely subjective i m so happy with the sharpness of the t i that i don t even notice the lines the t i uses a trinitron sa tube which when viewed as a complete tube has a larger diameter than the standard trinitron tube this results in a flatter screen than other monitors using the standard trinitron which has a vertically flat but not horizontally flat surface and apparently the ability to provide a tighter beam focus karl tracy blomquist e mail tracyb bnr ca fax consultant opinions are my own ph bell northern research p o box stn c ottawa ont k y h
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1,854 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | re soundblaster irq and port settings in apr walter cray com huot cray com tom huot writes i would also like an explanation of this if anyone can explain why the sb pro and lpt can share an irq please do so i think it s simply because dos doesn t use the irq for anything os does so with that you can t share the irq anssi anssi saari s ee tut fi tampere university of technology finland europe
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1,855 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | re ide vs scsi in article qlbrlinn rk dns nmsu edu bgrubb dante nmsu edu grubb writes in pc magazine april although scsi is twice as fasst as esdi faster than ide and support up to devices its acceptance has long been stalled by incompatability problems and installation headaches note what it does not site as a factor price there is a premium of approx for the controller what is nice is being able to run hard disks tape drives cd roms and scanners of one dma channel and interupt scsi makes sense is you are going to load up a machine if you just want a standard box for windows then ide makes sense i have one loaded box that uses scsi and run unix and one standard box that runs dos windows that uses ide by standard i mean mb ram mh disk s video int eh same article the pc would will get plug and play scsi from the article it seems you get plug and play scsi only since scsi in full implimentation has ten not devices i beleive this last bit is just plain wrong scsi intergration is sited as another part of the microsoft plug and play program guy guy dawson hoskyns group plc guyd hoskyns co uk tel hoskyns uk guyd austin ibm com tel ibm austin usa
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1,856 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | orchid p vs fahrenheit mini review i just purchased a viewsonic and and orchid p in short i am happy with the monitor and unhappy with the card i have spent a lot more time futzing with the card so that is what i am going to write about the monitor is pretty the moires i had under simcity on my magnavox went away it isn t as heavy as i thought it would be lbs i think so much for the monitor on to the bitch session and test results in going with the modern trend the orchid p card only supports colors in x mode without a driver of course this breaks any dos program which uses svga modes like most of my cd roms the compudyne whiplash vga orchid fahrenheit and orchid f vlb all share this limitation those are all s cards which means it is an s problem for them the p uses a weitek vga chip which also doesn t support them the hercules graphite card does seem to have these modes but i didn t run the same test cases as i did on the other boards during the brief time i had it it was able to print the splash screen for the grolier s encyclopedia though which the s cards just printed as hash which is why i suspect the svga modes are supported the supported resolutions really annoy me you can do x at hz if you tell the driver you have an nec fg they only have about six monitors listed plus generic and if you choose generic you can t get any high refreshes at all but at x you are limited to hz seems to me that the hardware should be able to support the bandwidth if it can do hz at it sure should be able to do it at higher vertical resolution was the main reason i bought the card over the orchid f vlb i currently have and it will do x x hz as well the higher graphics modes all crash hp dashboard i just got off the phone with orchid and with the drivers i don t know what i have he was unable to recreate the problem on the plus side their tech rep was as helpful as he could be and booted up the program on his computer to verify he didn t have the problem he didn t know why they limited the refresh to hz either the board is faster that the ofvlb for most things according to the hercules speedy program this program tests various operations and reports the results in pixels second i don t have the numbers for the graphite card but they were close to half of the ofvlb ie slower but that was running in a mhz isa so the numbers aren t really comparable the following numbers were all obtained using a mhz air motherboard umc chipset with mb memory i give ranges because the program reports the numbers as it computes them and these tend to jump around a bit k means thousand not m means million pixels per second orchid fahrenheit vlb orchid p chip s weitek dib to screen k k k k memory to screen m m m m screen to screen m m m m vector solid m m m vector styled k k k k polygon shaded m m m m polygon hatched m m m m ternary rops m m k k font k k k k m the dib to screen test takes a device independent bitmap of a face and transfers it to the screen i have no idea what is being done internally as far as conversions go the memory to screen takes the same face and copies it to the screen my guess is after it has been rasterized into a bitmap that can just be copied to the video display the screen to screen test copies that face from place to place on the screen awesome interestingly the solid vectors and shaded polygons show no improvement and hatched polygons ie filled with cross hatching and ternary rops whatever they are graphics operations like xors maybe are a dead loss on the i give two numbers for the fonts because i think they are caching when the fonts are first drawn on the screen they are done fairly slowly the speed of the ofvlb then the speed increases dramatically sounds like programming to a benchmark to me i make no claims that these numbers mean anything at all its just what i saw when i ran them on my computer i normally don t write disclaimers but this time maybe i d better my testing is totally unconnected with my work i program under unix on decstations is done completely without the knowledge blessing or equipment of my company geoff sherwood
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1,857 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | question can i connect two harddisk to one controller hi i ve got a victor pc xt with a mb harddisk in it the controller is a toshiba mfm controller with an additional pins connector there are busses from my harddisk to this controller one with wires and another with wires the controller has two connectors for a wire bus and one for a wire bus now i got a mb harddisk from a friend of mine and i wondered whether i can connect this second harddisk to the same controller there is room for a wire bus but not for the wire bus how can i solve my problem any suggestions if you need more info mail me please luttik fwi uva nl bas
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1,858 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | s video card at different address i d like to add a second s based video card to my system does anyone know of a company that sells a card that can coexist with another one all i really need is color text on one monitor and fast color graphics on the other probably just a configurable address would do it
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1,859 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | switch to a hi i d like to switch my floppy drives so that my b drive becomes a while my a becomes b i m having a few problems though i know that the ribbon cable must be switched as well as the cmos settings to reflect this change and i think that i ve done that correctly however the drives do not operate correctly in this configuration from the c prompt if i type a the drive light comes on if i type b both the light for the and drives come on there are some jumpers on each drive label original pos pos i changed it to ds on off ds off on ds on on ds off off io off off ms off off d r on on ms on on fg off off ds off on ds on off ds off off ds off off mm on on dc on on md off off ttl c mo on on any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated thanks in advance eric balog balog eniac seas upenn edu
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1,860 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | help me select a backup solution hi netters i m looking at purchasing some sort of backup solution after you read about my situation i d like your opinion here s the scenario there are two computers in the house one is a small mb ide drive the other is a dx scsi drive w adaptec controller both systems have pc tools and will use central point backup as the backup restore program both systems have and floppies the computers are not networked nor will they be anytime soon from what i have seen so far there appear to be at least possible solutions i m sure there are others i haven t thought about for these options i would appreciate hearing from anyone who has tried them or sees any flaws drive type x won t coexist with device y etc in my thinking i don t know very much about these beasts put mb floppy drives or a combination drive on each system can someone supply cost and brand information what s a good brand what do the floppies themselves cost put an internal tape backup unit on the using my scsi adapter and continue to back up the with floppies again can someone recommend a few manufacturers the only brand i remember is colorado memories any happy or unhappy users i know about the compression controversy connect an external tape backup unit on the using my scsi adapter and maybe connect it to the somehow any suggestions install a floptical drive in each machine again any gotcha s or recommendations for manufacturers i appreciate your help you may either post or send me e mail i will summarize all responses for the net thanks george george j pandelios internet gjp sei cmu edu software engineering institute usenet sei gjp fifth avenue voice pittsburgh pa fax disclaimer these opinions are my own and do not reflect those of the software engineering institute its sponsors customers clients affiliates or carnegie mellon university in fact any resemblence of these opinions to any individual living or dead fictional or real is purely coincidental so there
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1,861 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | help video problems i am using a ibm monitor greysale with a trident mb card the screen looks great windows at x but total shit at x there are lots of lines and the image is sorta blurry is there anything i can do do you think it is the monitor i know that it is interlaced at that res but still thanks for the help paul davies pdavies alchemy chem utoronto ca
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1,862 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | re comments video blaster creative labs in article apr ultb isc rit edu mej ritvax isc rit edu writes in bu edu heiser acs bu edu bill heiser writes in article c rdy fw chinet chi il us randy chinet chi il us randy suess w rites the video blaster doesn t work with the ati graphics ultra pro doesn t work with m system ram are you serious so i can t use a video blaster in my mb what are the alternatives other than removing memory get a better one hows about the win tv thing the wailer at the gates of dawn banshee cats ucsc edu just who are you calling a froofroo head od just a friend of the beast banshee ucscb ucsc edu banshee ucscb bitnet no good i perfer watchit tv it can run in dos and windows win tv only run in windows sorry still no good watchit tv will not work on a with local bus video it will not work in any high reolution modes either the people who make the card assure me that they will have a card available in june that supports both local bus and hi res btw does anyone know the name of the company who makes watchit tv phone bbs internet thanks michael grant mikgr wordperfect com or mikgr wpsun uunet uu net
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1,863 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | re int h for joysticks is slow lioness oak circa ufl edu writes i m using int h to read my joystick and it is hideously slow something like of my cpu time is being spent reading the joystick and this is in a program that does nothing but printf and joyread the problem is that a lot of programs trap int h like smartdrv and so it is a slow as hell interface can i read the joystick port in a reasonably safe fashion via polling and that isn t platform or clockspeed specific the joystick reads in anolog values through a digital port how you send a command to the port to read it then you time how long it takes for the joystick port to set a certain bit this time is proportional to the joystick position obviously since time is used as a position you cannot get rid of this ridiculus waste of time if you wrote your own routine instead of the bios it would speed it up some but the time would still be there john a slagel my old man used to tell me before he left this j slagel uiuc edu shitty world never chase buses or women you always get left behind the marlboro man
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1,864 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | fujitsu and seagate ide drive compatibility i ve been trying to get my fujitsu m t mb hard disk circa to share my ide card with a new seagate st a mb one i ve tried fiddling the jumpers to set the master and slave drives without any success without the table of hard drive specs from this newsgroup i couldn t have got that far has anyone else got this combination to work the place i got the new one muttered something like hmmm fujitsu nice drives not very compatible he ll let me swap the seagate for another brand but he thought it was more a problem with the fujitsu so has anyone got a similar fujitsu drive to work with another cheapish disk or want to buy a cute and cuddly little fujitsu drive andrew henry bspahh gdr bath ac uk
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1,865 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | memory access time was re sram and simms sale ben elliston writes msg id aa f n z fidonet org posted mon apr organization compact solutions canberra act australia k of ns sram by my way of thinking michael how could this memory be static ram if it has a speed rating i didn t think sram needed a refresh time doesn t that make it fast dram this chip would take ns to return valid data after being issued an address refresh time none for sram as you pointed out is a different parameter and is not generally referred to except by motherboard designers cheers ben ben elliston bachelor of engineering computer engineering university of canberra email tp jarrah canberra edu au uucp uunet munnari sserve adfa oz au compsol root fidonet if a train station is where the train stops what s a workstation origin compact solutions canberra act australia doug oke vancouver canada doug oke mindlink bc ca
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1,866 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | q asus motherboards i m considering the purchase of a dx vlb system to run linux the system has an asus brand motherboard anyone have any comments on asus motherboards thanks bob craycroft craycrof rtp semi harris com systems analyst phone harris semiconductor rtp nc usa
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1,867 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | specs for a wd drive greetings all could some kind sole email me the specs for a western digital drive it is model wd a with cyl and hds but i do not know the sectors per track or any of the other information i have to feed to my bios to get it up and running thanx for any help bob k roking lynx dac northeastern edu nope no sig honest
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1,868 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | i need a definition of the spec and dhrystone benchmarks i need definitions of the spec and dhrystone benchmarks any background material would also be welcome if anyoneand email something to me or point me to an anonymous ftp server i d appreciate it thanks al dykes adykes jpr com adykes ad com
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1,869 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | re toshiba b cd rom any problems i have the pas toshiba combo and have no problems with it
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1,870 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | adaptec asw and sony cdu about two months ago i purchased the adaptec asw driver for use with a cd rom drive at the time this seemed the thing to do as the documentation i had with my adaptec scsi controller said that this is the driver to be used with cd rom drives since then i have learn that this driver is out of date in a major way and that adaptec have an upgrade deal for going to the next driver i think it s called ezi scsi or something i wasn t too fussed about this until i upgraded by cd rom drive from a sony cdu to a sony cdu i now find that the audio mode will not work i assume it is not being handled correctly by the asw driver so should i chase adaptec for an upgrade if so does anyone know their fax number any assistance appreciated regards btw everything else works fine certainly seems that sony have caught up with the rest with the nigel harwood post coles supermarkets po box glen iris australia phone e mail nigel cnw storesys coles oz au fax
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1,871 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | do not rotate interrupter woops help aaahhhh please someone tell me what i have done my meg miniscribe at has a big sticker on the side that says do not rotate interrupter big knob here a big knob sticking off the side of the drive is pretty hard not to turn when removing the drive i turned it now the drive won t spin up even with no data or controller cables plugged in just power it won t spin up please help thanks paul carroll pec ra msstate edu pec erc msstate edu nsf engineering research center for computational field simulation
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1,872 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | a drive won t boot hi i recently switched my drive to a the problem is while i can read and write to both the new a and b correctly i can t boot from a floppy in a i ve checked the cmos settings it is set for floppy seek at boot and boot order a c once i had a floppy that did not have the systems files on it in a i got a message telling me to put a disk systems disk in the drive it didn t work when i do have a systems disk in the a drive this is what happens power on and memory test a light comes on b light comes on followed by a short beep hd light comes on for an instant b light comes on again then nothing happens the light goes off there is no disk activity of any kind and the screen blanks i can t even use ctrl alt del any suggestions thanks in advance eric balog balog eniac seas upenn edu
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1,873 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | re date is stuck kevin kosman uucp kevin o gorman writes anybody seen the date get stuck i m running ms dos with a menu system alive all the time the machine is left running all the time suddenly the date no longer rolls over the time is reasonably accurate allways but we have to change the date by hand every morning this involves exiting the menu system to get to dos anyone have the slightest idea why this should be even a clue as to whether the hardware battery cmos or dos is broken kevin o gorman kevin kosman uucp kevin kosman uucp nrc com voice vital computer systems beachcomber oxnard ca non disclaimer my boss is me and he stands behind everything i say i ve started to notice the same thing myself i m running dos and win so i can fix it from the windows control panel at times it is the date at others the clock seems to be running several minutes behind where it should be if you find out i d like to know also oh and i also leave my system running all the time barry sardis home laurie avenue office san jose ca fax email bsardis netcom com or compuserve com
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1,874 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | help installing second ide drive recently my cousin got a second internal ide drive a seagate mb 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 mb 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 and i think i configured the jumpers properly the mb one is the master the new mb one is the slave the only thing i can think of is maybe i m doing the cabling wrong i ve tried several combinations controller master slave controller slave master master controller slave none of them worked unfortunately i can t think of any others another possibility is that the mb one is already partitioned into two seperate drives c and d and the cmos asks for c drive and d drive setup info rather than drive and drive like most others i ve seen could this be confusing things so i need help the drive came bereft of any docs except for some info for the cmos setup the controller has a little piece of paper about the size of an index card i cannibalized the cable it s one of those with a connector at each end and the one in the middle so it looks like a serial connection now i be lost 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 voice fax disclaimer i don t speak for suranet and they don t speak for me
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1,875 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | re ide vs scsi in article qmgtrinnf a dns nmsu edu bgrubb dante nmsu edu grubb says dxb psuvm psu edu writes in article qlbrlinn rk dns nmsu edu bgrubb dante nmsu edu grubb says in pc magazine april although scsi is twice as fasst as esdi faster than ide and support up to devices its acceptance has long been stalled by incompatability problems and installation headaches i love it when magazine writers make stupid statements like that re performance where do they get those numbers i ll list the actual performance ranges which should convince anyone that such a statement is absurd scsi i ranges from mb s scsi ii ranges from mb s ide ranges from mb s esdi is always mb s although there are some non standard versions by your own data the although scsi is twice as fast as esdi is correct how is twice do you just pick whatever scsi setup that makes the statment correct even if you could make such a statement it would be meaningless unless you understood that esdi and ide i include scsi and ata are completely different esdi is device level like mfm rll with a scsi controller chip scsi can reach mb s which is indeed faster than ide of is all these scsi facts have been great you can compare two numbers ata has several speed modes by the way but what the article said was misleading wrong posted to this newsgroup in my mac ibm info sheet available by ftp on sumex aim stanford edu in the info mac report as mac ibm compare version txt it should be but may still be there i would recommend people call the ncr board and download the ansi specs if they are really interested in this stuff part of this problem is both mac and ibm pc are inconsiant about what scsi is which though it is well documented that the quadra has a scsi chip an apple salesperson said it uses a fast scsi chip not at a mb s mb s burst it does not scsi is mb s maximum synchronous and quadra uses ansynchronous scsi which is slower it seems that mac and ibm see something is missing there anyway i agree there s a lot of opportunity for marketing jingo like scsi compliant which tells you nothing about the performance whether it has wide support etc one reference for the quadra s scsi controller chip is digital review oct v n p what does it use hopefully a good ncr chip e g c
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1,876 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | re need phone number for western digital esdi problem western digital sam gosh i think i just installed a virus it was called ms dos don t copy that floppy burn it i just love windows crash
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1,877 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | help is my monitor dying hi recently my svga monitor has been acting up by taking about minutes to warm up previously when i first start up my pc i can see all the cmos messages ram test etc but now i ve got to wait for about min before the display shows anything and it starts up with a bright white flash this only happens when the system has been off for a long time eg overnight if it was only off for a couple of hours and then turned on again the display works as normal like before does anyone know what is causing this is it a warning that it will give up soon or just signs of aging the system is a sx and its about yrs old i ve used systems at work for years and never seen this happen to a monitor yet i d really appreciated any help that you fellow netters can offer thanks a lot edwin edwin ng edwin ccu aukuni ac nz e e engineering university of auckland private bag auckland new zealand
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1,878 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | re ide vs scsi here we go again in article apr julian uwo ca wlsmith valve heart rri uwo ca wayne smith writes in article ercc h w netcom com erc netcom com eric smith writes scsi is better because it has a better future and it has a lot of minor advantages right now ide cards are cheaper right now but will be obsolete in a few years in fact ide cards are so cheap they might as well be free the real cost is in the ide drives scsi cards cost more but they are worth it i almost got a hernia laughing at this one you ll probably get one when you realize that your vesa super dooper local bus ultra high tech controller sucks if anything scsi on a pc will be obsolete killed off by vesa local with any luck pc bus archeitecture will be doen any with by sbus have you ever seen what happens when you hook a busmaster controller to a vesa local bus it actually slows down your system bus ide it must be real nice to get shafted by bucks for the extra cost of a scsi drive then pay another for a scsi controller maybe my workstation doesn t understand what your vesa local bus ide is vesa local bus will be killed off by pcmi whatever intels spec is vlbus it not good for much more than vga cards to each his own i ll laugh when you start crying over how much you spent for your little ide drives and then finding out you need more space the biggest advantage of scsi right now is that you can add more different kinds of devices such as tapes etc easily and can add bigger disks the best and most cost effective hard disks available are scsi here here only of you need drives larger then meg oh yes gotta have megs sec transfer rate for those speedy tape backups and cd rom drives don t stick your foot in your mouth when you make a statement you know nothing about i d rather wait a second compared to the minutes and ide would take obviously exaggerated have you ever tried to backup gigs of disk oh i forgot you can t because you have an ide and no one makes ide disks that big basically if a person has to ask which one is better for him her then they will probably never see the expensive benefits from scsi i guess you probably bought a sx too also all this arm waving about scsi expandability is a moot point if the user only has one or two drives on it and with scsi those two drives may be fast but that speed is only due to the onboard memory cache something i can duplicate with a caching ide controller what the scsi fast wide spec has much more bandwidth than any stupid vlbus ide crap stop this thread now its just cluttering up bandwidth if you want to read about scsi vs ide just pay a visit to you local usenet archive the best scsi fast wide etc is clearly faster than any the best ide drive all the response given are based upon personal experience with or drives you can t judge such completely different interfaces ide has the low cost adavantage a descent performance scsi has the ability for super high capacity expandibility and speed neither one is better in all cases 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 send flames to dev null scott mace internet smace nyx cs du edu emace tenet edu
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1,879 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | mb isa limit i was just reading in pc magazine that the peripherals in a pc with an isa bus can only access mb of memory also that some video cards on the isa bus look for a memory aperture to map their memory to so that if i wanted to put mb of memory on my pc my video card wouldn t have anywhere to map it s memory to can someone explain this in more detail is there a way around this limit if you email me a response i will summarize bo begolej csgrad cs vt edu james bo begole begolej csgrad cs vt edu
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1,880 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | re monitors i have a sony s 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 x x and x x 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 viewing area it don t impress me one bit sam gosh i think i just installed a virus it was called ms dos don t copy that floppy burn it i just love windows crash
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1,881 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | re please help identify this old com ethernet card in article qhvuninnhau emory mathcs emory edu splee pd org seng poh lee speedy writes i have an old com ethernet card pc at bus that came out of a apollo workstation i m trying to identify it in order to use it on a pc the assembly number is rev and it is a bit card circa it has an aui port as well as a bnc coax connection it has selectable address for the bios io dma and irq locations via berg jumpers it also appears to have a intel processor on board presumably for buffering the ethernet chip appears to be an intel a pin dip package is this chip an equivalent to the used in some cards there is also a pin plcc chip called a link please e mail as i don t think this is of general interest my least favorite last line of a post um it is of general interest as i prepare to retire apollos myself i m looking for ways to recycle the useful parts mike simon simon moscow uidaho edu
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1,882 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | re changing motherboards messing with connectors in article ip portland caps maine edu jozef slaby ip portland caps maine edu writes when i changed my motherboard i had a lot of trouble getting led spkr turbo turboswitch hdd klck rst connectors correctly reconnected for example turbo switch had three wires and the motherboard connection only two pins and so on does anyone know a solution to this do i need to rewire the connectors or what is the best way to approach this it is somewhat frustrating i got it to work somehow but my turbo switch doesn t work at all i just put replaced the motherboard in a system and had similar questions my cents worth the speaker connector should have two wires going to the speaker a speaker being a coil it s bidirectional and makes no difference which way you attach turbo switch there are three wires to control how you want turbo to become active with the switch pushed in or the switch out i think the middle wire is common use an ohm meter to figure out which wire connects with the common wire when the switch is pushed in and which two wires are connected when the switch is out place the appropriate two wires on the turbo berg connector of the motherboard led s turbo and hd led s are uni directional depending which way the wires are attached the led will not light on my ami motherboard if the turbo switch wires are not attached to the berg connector on the board the board will power up in default in turbo mode if your motherboard is like that just attace the led wires to the board if the led doesn t light power off reverse the connectors and try again it should work if it does then attach the turbo switch to the board hope this helps dan moyer dan moyer columbiasc ncr com
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1,883 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | re soundblaster irq and port settings in article s ee tut fi s ee tut fi anssi saari says in apr walter cray com huot cray com tom huot writes i would also like an explanation of this if anyone can explain why the sb pro and lpt can share an irq please do so i think it s simply because dos doesn t use the irq for anything os does so with that you can t share the irq that is correct in dos you can use irq for your sb you can t do that under os because it uses irq for the printer
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1,884 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | info on genoa vlb card or other low end vlb i am looking for an inexpensive vlb card and have yet to run across any real reviews of them one of the cards the local stores are pushing is the genoa for apparently it uses a cirrus logic acc chip but i don t know which one gd one of the shops i ve spoken with claims the card out performs the diamond stealth vl and the orchid fahrenheit plus vl cards s c based but that can t be true if it is using the gd i like the price of the genoa but if it lags in performance behind the s cards i ll pay the extra for one of them any info on low end vlb cards would be appreciated if i get replies via email i ll post summary info if anyone else is interested thanks in advance brian oppy bjoppy ucdavis edu
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1,885 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | re splitting drives into two does it make them faster in article d q b w w infopls chi il us andyross infopls chi il us andrew rossmann writes guyd austin ibm com guy dawson writes the partitions take up disk space having or partition will cost somewhere between meg of hard disk space if you can afoord this luxury more power to you its your choice where does all this disk space go the dos partition table is fixed length and every hard disk carries one what is useing this lost mb if i remember right the partition table is allocated an entire cylinder to find out how much it takes up you need to calculate heads sectors also if you create an extended partition there is a second partition in there for the logical drives i think the original respondent guy dawson was refering to something much more elementary every partition whether it is the entire disk or not has two fats and an initial directory if you have a small disk meg or less i would recommend that it remain a single partition unless you have some other consideration if you have a large disk greater than meg multiple partitions can make sense mike lipsie work mlipsie ca merl com mitsubishi electronic research laboratory home mikel dosbears uucp
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1,886 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | re more western digital hd info needed cs sd ae maccs mcmaster ca holly ks writes 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 well i figured out how the jumpers go now i have quite a different problem that has me perplexed like you wouldn t know i have both drives working the c system formatted and all of my hardware installed only problem is that during the boot up sequence the computer does not want to pass up looking for a system on the a drive reinitialization all goes fine and the bios seems to be configured to what is necessary all the drive tests work but when the thing comes back around to the a drive and there is no disk present it just spins if you insert a disk into drive a with a system however it works fine and boots up ie how installed all my software any additional help on this will be most welcome swood hunting over in michigan don t despair no closed season on opossum porcupine weasel red squirrel skunk starlings feral pigeons english sparrows ground squirrel woodchuck anyway trout season opens the last saturday this month
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1,887 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | re help is my monitor dying it sounds like a magnavox with a sick flyback on its way out gosh i think i just installed a virus it was called ms dos don t copy that floppy burn it i just love windows crash
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1,888 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | re monitors catone compstat wharton upenn edu tony catone writes in article c geh n d utdallas edu goyal utdallas edu mohit k goyal writes oh yeah i just read in another newsgroup that the t i uses a high quality trinitron tube than is in most monitors the sony s for example and this is where the extra cost comes from it is also where the high bandwidth comes from and the fantastic image and the large image size etc etc it s also where the two annoying lines across the screen one a third down the other two thirds down come from annoying are you actually using one or are you just talking i m sitting in from of one right now and i must say i never notice them yes of course i can see them if i look but annoying no way christian m christian holmgreen joker diku dk mochmch uts uni c dk m sc student university of copenhagen dept of computer science human errors can only be avoided if one can avoid the use of humans
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1,889 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | can t write to floppy ok all you experts need answer quick machine floppy unable to write to a formated disk machine claims that disk is write protected but it is not note it ll read s with no problem please e mail or post
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1,890 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | re difference between vlb and isa eisa in article snx finbol toppoint de jschief finbol toppoint de joerg schlaeger writes better oss os ix are able to handle more than mb of dram if you use eisa bus has someone experience with vlb i think of scsi vlb busmaster the problem is the bit floppy dma controller which is unable to reach more than mb i don t think fd is a problem since fd is much sloooooooowwwwwwer than hd the overhead of double buffering doesn t matter ken nakata i apologize if there are incorrect rude and or impolite expressions in this mail or post they are not intended please consider that english is a second language for me and i don t have full understanding of certain words or each nuance of a phrase thank you ken nakata cis student njit
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1,891 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | how to number prongs of a chip how can one tell which prong of your basic chip is number i realize there is a chunk of the chip missing so that one can orient it correctly so using that hole as a guide how can i count the prongs of the chip to find please help ren hoek internet ren ccwf cc utexas edu it is not i who am crazy it is i who am mad
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1,892 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | help with no docs for motherboard
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1,893 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | pc scanners hello there i am looking out for good scanners gray scale only no color which can be connected to ibm pc compatibles also automatic tray feeding is a must can somebody point out good scanners what are things that one should look for while purchasing a scanner i do not want hand held scanners my preliminary requirements are to dpi dithering half toning various patterns drivers for dos and windows standard file formats what are they automatic feed anything more is there any comparative survery in byte or pc mag which issue please e mail i ll summerize satam satam saathi ernet in kirtikumar g satam satam saathi ncst ernet in scientist network division national center for software technology juhu bombay tel fax
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1,894 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | re original ibm pc specs in article c jd j i s dutiws twi tudelft nl winfrvk dutiws twi tudelft nl r v kampen writes in article apr ucbeh san uc edu hoffmamc ucbeh san uc edu wr ites a hard drive with xt type controller can be added but i recommend not trying a full height hard drive as i have run into trouble with the w supply not having the oomph to spool up those big heavy platters one way to get the system going with one floppy drive and one hard disk on a watt power supply is to first disconnect the power from the floppy drive than turn on the pc you will notice the hard drive having a real difficult time getting up to speed but it manages when booting is finished plug in your floppy drive now it will work ok i know this is not very user friendly maybe you are better off buying a with watt power supply or something like that willem the newer the drive the less problem you will have the old ten and fifteen meg full heights were power hogs but i have over twenty units that i set up running flawlessly with half height drives and or hard cards dao ns cc lehigh edu don
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1,895 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | re possible faq question about a uart thought i d post this as well as e mail it just in case anyone else is interested in this info in article apr henson cc wwu edu n henson cc wwu edu dan jordan writes hello my question is could someone e mail me the names of manufactures of the 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 as well as the 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 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 sets of data sheets ns ins a ns c ins c a ns af application notes yes get these an the ns a uart design and application considerations an a comparison of the ins ns and ns af 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 in particular is an exceptionally well written application note that goes into detail about how and why the 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 de n ial internet jim n ial mythical com j graham ieee org icbm n w amateur radio n ial w zbb ft walton beach fl amtor selcal nial e mail me for information about kamterm host mode for kantronics tncs
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1,896 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | re ide vs scsi wayne smith wlsmith valve heart rri uwo ca wrote in article qk kvinnndk dns nmsu edu bgrubb dante nmsu edu grubb writes point of view why does scsi have an advantage when it comes to multi tasking data is data and it could be anywhere on the drive can scsi find it faster can it get it off the drive and into the computer faster does it have a better cache system i thought scsi was good at managing a data bus when multiple devices are attached if we are only talking about a single drive explain why scsi is inherently faster at managing data from a hard drive ide integrated device electronics currently the most common standard and is mainly used for medium sized drives can have more than one hard drive asynchronous transfer mb s max why don t you start with the spec sheet of the isa bus first you can quote scsi specs till you re blue in the face but if they exceed the isa bus capability then what s the point who said isa was necessary eisa or vlb are the only interfaces worth investing thousands of dollars e g a new pc s worth of money in who says ide is limited to megs sec what about vlb ide does anyone know how they perform you didn t read to carefully vlb ide uses the same connection mechanism as standard ide if transfer rate is limited by ide whether it s interfaced to isa eisa or vlb matters not so at its lowest setting scsi interface in asynchronous scsi mode averages the through put maximum of ide in asynchronous mode in full scsi mode it blows poor ide out the window down the street and into the garbage can as implimented on what system on mine for one thing scsi blows ide out of the water hands down if ide has better throughput why isn t it used on workstations and file servers the problem becomes can the drive mechanisim keep up with those through put rates and that is where the bottleneck and cost of scsi comes from not the interface itself but more and more from drive mechanisims to use the scsi through put given the original question scsi used only as a single hard drive controller is it then necessary to get a scsi drive that will do at least maybe megs sec for the scsi choice to make any sence what does a meg megs sec scsi drive cost no that s the nice thing on a multitasking os scsi can use both drives at once i ve got unix loaded on one of my pcs along with windogs and the os can only use one of the two ide drives at one time it s pretty ugly i just bought at quantum for my mac at home i paid for it i haven t seen ide drives cheaper the original cga cart back in was i think the original ega card or pga was scsi has stood relatively alone in not coming down in price mainly because we re talking about pc s and not sun s or sparc or sgi or name your favorite unix workstation that is after millions of pc buying decisions over the years scsi has had plenty of time to come down in price no actually we re talking about scsi being expensive simply because nobody did a common interface for the pc if they had a common read easily implemented method of adding scsi to a pc like as in a sun or mac then you d find scsi the connection medium of choice i won t argue that the scsi standard makes for a good well implimented data highway but i still want to know why it intrinsically better than ide on an isa bus when it comes to multi tasking os s when managing data from a single scsi hard drive on a single drive scsi is more expensive but you bought your pc for expandibility so you d want to add more drives or whatever the following are why i find scsi intrinsically better than ide a partial list you can add many different types of devices and access them concurrently a scsi device works on many different machines i have a mac and a pc at home and moving hard drives between them is very nice with scsi hook them up and away they go scsi devices work together better than ide devices for instance recently i added an older connor meg ide to a maxtor meg ide the connor must be setup as the slave it will work no other way on scsi you set the address check the termination plug it in and away it goes i have a problem with ide s mutual exclusion i notice that the time it takes to switch from accessing drive c to drive d is quite long as compared to the time it takes to switch from drive c to d on a scsi system under a multitasking os this is very noticable as many things can be going on at once one neat thing that i ve noticed lately a fringe benefit has been the ability to add older almost dead drives as storage on a scsi system with little problem we ve got a bunch of almost dead meg drives that i ve added to my pc i ve now got the interface full but it does allow me to have meg drives meg drive tape drive and meg drive all on the same card simply put scsi is handier than ide no mysterious jumpers to figure out greg you can t go against nature because when you do greg shaw go against nature it s part of nature too shaw feanor xel com love rockets uunet csn xel com shaw
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1,897 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | re ide vs scsi grubb bgrubb dante nmsu edu wrote wlsmith valve heart rri uwo ca wayne smith writes what does a meg megs sec scsi drive cost since the quadra is the only mac able to deal with mb s and hard drives start at mb i have no idea for the mac i have the following these are all external mb mb mb mb mb mb mb mb mb mb mb mb mb mb etc i thought you might want the latest prices as of macweek meg int ext m couldn t find one available m m all above are quantum low profile drives the last three are quantum height drives bunch o stuff deleted scsi came from the high end computer world with multitasking os were the standard for the most part hear hear you can t go against nature because when you do greg shaw go against nature it s part of nature too shaw feanor xel com love rockets uunet csn xel com shaw
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1,898 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | ide mfm in same machine how 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 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 vax mankato msus edu thanks in advance stan tyree
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1,899 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | maxtor drive geometry jumpers
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