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1,900 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | help my gateway freezes up help my computer from gateway is freezing up on me gateway tech support couldn t help me they want more specifics on when it freezes up i did anyway here it is if the keyboard is left idle in dos for more than minutes i can type on the command line but as soon as i hit a carraige return the computer locks up this will happen almost every time whether i ve just booted up reset or finished using a dos program everything works fine if i don t let it sit windows is a different story if i let the machine sit while in windows for minutes or more it does not freeze up however i do get frequent application errors that kick me out of an application unexpectedly losing my work i just don t know if this is a hardware or software problem any help in diagnosis or things to try would be greatly appreciated p s i do not run any tsrs except smartdrive and qaplus diagnostics says everything is good system is sx crystalscan gateway monitor vlb ati ultra pro using mach driver build winchester mb hd microsoft mouse thanks el guapo
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1,901 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | conner cp g info please i have a conner disk model cp g mb with no info at all the only thing i know is that is normally used with compaq machines please send me information on switch settings geometry and so on it looks like a normal ide disk but is it possible to use it with a standard ide controller michael michael thurbin sommarvagen phone s vaxjoe fax sweden
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1,902 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | looking for replacement for a jvc disk hi i got hold of an old zenith laptop with model zwl the hard disk is dead but the rest seems to work i took the zenith apart and found a very strange disk for wich i now try to replace the disk is marked jvc model jd r has anyone any specs on this disk or suggestion where i can find it or a cheap replacement for it thanks for your help michael michael thurbin michael pcmith rks se michael thurbin sommarvagen phone s vaxjoe fax sweden
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1,903 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | re s video card at different address in article qmrdd h umcc umcc umich edu jon umcc umcc umich edu jon zeeff writes 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 for what it s worth i haven t confirmed it a diamond tech rep told me that all s based video cards use port addresses x e and x e if this is true it appears that you cannot use more than one s card in your system lance hartmann lance hartmann austin ibm com ibmpa awdpa ibm com yes that is a percent sign in my network address all statements comments opinions etc herein reflect those of the author and shall not be misconstrued as those of ibm or anyone else for that matter
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1,904 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | turbomodem complete pc question i m trying to transfer some software between two machines and i m having real trouble my own intel k v v bis v v bis works fine i just talk to it at k and everything comes out clear this other modem at the other machine is a turbomodem from the complete pc the machines are in seperate houses so a direct serial link is impossible and copying this much data to disk is a pain easier to turn the machines on for a few hours and go see a movie no this is not pirated software i am having no end of trouble trying to set it up it will dial and connect just fine at baud but if i try to set the comm at k k or kbps the stupid thing connects but just gives garbage it connects k his machine a dx has a afn uart so that s not the problem it seems to me that the stupid thing wants to talk to a comm program at bps even though it will take dialing instructions at k and respond ok etc to other commands i don t have a comm program that can do precisely k i looked at the manual but it was unclear all i know is i didn t have this trouble with the intel it came ready to connect this way do i need to initialize it any way in particular also it s using v bis and v and mnp when connecting here i e at since our tests at k are zip so far but it doesn t say so there any ideas btw i tried the initialization string that i use for my modem but it just gives error on that one moscow a grandfather who taught literature in an orphanage has gone on trial in rostov on the don after confessing to more than gruesome sexual murders whose victims included children as young as eight events in modern history from the sunday mail apr
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1,905 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | faq on cyrix dlc is there a faq on cyrix dlc could anyone please repost it or email to me if i missed it thanks in advance alexander poylisher internet apoylis inode com fidonet blue wave qwk v
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1,906 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | re ide vs scsi in article c lkev hpj feanor xel com shaw feanor xel com greg shaw writes 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 then don t complain maybe it wasn t you that scsi was so expensive on pc s because all we ve had until a year or two ago was the isa bus ie no one buys scsi for isa because isa is slow are you saying that scsi on an isa bus is not an automatic winner when compared to ide 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 i get different transfer rates out of my ide when i change my isa bus speed 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 ide is just a variant of the old ibm mfm at controller at least that s how it looks from a software point of view it was never meant to be an all encompassing protocal standard to be implimented across different platforms is there any argument that ide can or can t transfer data from the ide drive at least as fast as the drive is able to provide the data are scsi versions of ide drives able to deliver higher sustained transfer rates to their scsi interface because of a higher rpm platter different arrangement of heads etc 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 if data is going from one drive to another and if scsi has the ability to perform that transfer without the data having to go through the cpu or main memory then yes that is the optimal way to do it as far as i know ide can t do that but when the cpu wants data from both drives data to be stored in main memory are you saying that scsi can grab data from both drives at the same time and store transfer that data to main memory also at the same time working off irq and dma channel on an isa or whatever bus i just bought at quantum for my mac at home i paid for it i haven t seen ide drives cheaper a friend of mine just got a maxtor meg ide drive for that s million bytes or mega bytes with the basic interface he gets close to meg sec transfer on his does your figure include a few hundred for scsi drivers 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 so you re saying that scsi would have been the default interface type considering that the vast majority of pc s don t have cd rom drives or tape backups or etc that most pc s only have or had hard drive and run dos that scsi hard drives cost a lot more than mfm or rll drives at the time and how common were scsi drives under megs to years ago there s a lot more than the lack of a common interface card that prevented scsi from becoming 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 on that point is it faster this is what all this is about do you get more performance for the money for all the people that will only have a single hard drive in their system regardless of the os will the scsi choice really give them more performance than ide but you bought your pc for expandibility so you d want to add more drives or whatever true but expandibility can also start on the bus which means the option is there for cd rom drives or tape backups that run off their own cards you can add many different types of devices and access them concurrently no argument this is always held up to the first time scsi buyer as the best reason but how many scsi devices will the first time scsi buyer eventually acquire again does it make sense to go scsi for a single hard drive system 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 with all the postings on the scsi i or ii specs are you really sure that pc and apple scsi hard drives are compatible and even if they are is the data accessible from either machine ie are there no formatting partitioning or file table differences is it really plug n play 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 so the c drive on the connor becomes a logical d drive to dos is this really a problem 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 after having two ide drives in my system for temporary file transfers i have never seen any differences when switching between drives nor have i ever seen any differences when transfering files between drives or to from the same drive 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 that is nice as long as the power supply can keep up i do believe that there is the possibility for up to ide drives on a pc simply put scsi is handier than ide no mysterious jumpers to figure out but what about mysterious and expensive drivers to figure out at least ide doesn t require drivers that consume precious conventional dos memory
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1,907 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | jumper settings for omti esdi controller subject says it all i m looking for the jumper settings for an sms omti at bus esdi controller card thanks in advance richard richard solomon ncr microelectronics aeroplaza drive richard solomon colospgs ncr com colorado springs co uunet ncrcom ncr mpd richard solomon
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1,908 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | ide esdi coexistence hello all you the net are my last resort or i ll just change my job this might be a faq e g mixing controllers but haven t seen any sys ami bios and your run of the mill multi i o card with serials paral floppies and ide controller clone gw ex there are no jumpers affecting the hd or ctrller quantum prodrive lps m type cyl hds spt pb i want to bring in this nd hand neat price maxtor xt b e m ms bios type ctrller manages the real geom cyl hds spt western digital wd v se esdi ctrller no floppies jumpers set irq hw port addr f and bios addr cc c and other floppy format stuff goal have the wd esdi as a secondary controller and have both disks simultaneously working being able to boot from the esdi too would be a nice bonus but is not expected ultimate goal have room for linux et al ex of scheme i have in mind boot from ide hd or floppy and mount the esdi as root not booting from esdi or even from hd is acceptable i have tried numerous all combinations to no avail they work alone or can coexist witout hang ups but can t access the esdi or the ide depending on setup jumpers useful suggestions might be how do i tell the bios setup about two ctrllers i guess the nd hd is expected to hang off the same ctrller as the st do i need some driver to make it work some new bios chip for any of these cards do i have to buy another controller to make them hds happy ide is cheaper esdi is hard to find and rather costly i m not rich or i wouldnt try to scavenge around so soft slns are preferred adapters of some sort i can hold a soldering iron and can change a chip or put a jumper also useful bbs or hot line of western digital ftp archives with relevant info expert stores in toronto ontario area that would be a miracle haven t seen any really knowledgeable ppl in a while any hints into inner workings of the system anything else that helped you in similar situations prayers direct or posted replies are ok many thanks cat catalin ivan email ivan iro umontreal ca tel human computer interaction humain machine universite de montreal informatique et recherche operationelle
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1,909 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | re toshiba b cd rom any problems msmith beta tricity wsu edu mark smith writes i m thinking about getting a toshiba cd rom and hooking it up through the scsi port on a media vision pro audio spectrum sound board does anybody have this configuration out there if so does it work for anybody in general who has the toshiba cd rom drive have you had any hadware problems door not opening scratched disks door not closing getting stuck or not closing all the way cd holder jamming and any other cd related problems i have one and it is my favorite cd rom drive so far i also have a nec and have had experience with several other drives various phillips drives the is faster than the nec i like its door better the nec needs hands the xa handling the nec needs to be re booted to go from xa to rom while the does it on the fly all in all i am seriously considering replacing my nec with another toshiba jws
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1,910 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | re please help identify this old com ethernet card simon moscow uidaho edu mike simon writes 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 i got two very similar sounding boards for dirt cheap too their assy numbers were not series but your description fits otherwise they are com c s aka etherlink plus cards check out ftp com com there are drivers and diagnostic programs for just about any and all com cards i concluded that my card was the after i ran their diagnostic program for c succesfully passes with flying colours anybody know of packet drivers for these cards under os juha liukkonen aka jliukkon cc helsinki fi university of helsinki dept of lost souls trust me i know what i m doing sledge hammer
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1,911 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | re ide vs scsi in article apr julian uwo ca wlsmith valve heart rri uwo ca wayne smith writes 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 i have been following this thread and figured i d throw in my two cents the amiga zorro ii bus is comparable with the isa bus vs mhz the amiga has had a pre emptative multi tasking os since and can operate with mb ram scsi is used almost exclusively on these systems a scsi controller that transfers data by dma allows the cpu to request data from the hard drive and continue working while the controller gets the data and moves it to memory a controller that allows reselection can operate even better with multiple devices this is espically true with scsi tape units for example when rewinding or formatting a tape the command is issued to the controller and the bus is released to allow access to other devices on the bus this greatly increases productivity or at least do something else while backing up your hard drive which happens to be what i am doing while reading this group its a long story but i still use ide on my except for the cdrom which thanks to scsi i can move between both machines if and when scsi is better standardized and supported on the ibm clone machines i plan to completely get rid of ide wayne summer amiga simply the best palm bay fl us x wayne amtower spacecoast org quote of the week don t hate microsoft because because they are microsoft though hate them because their products are lame found in c s ibm pc misc
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1,912 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | re toshiba b cd rom any problems in article apr serval net wsu edu msmith beta tricity wsu edu mark smith writes once in a while you have to put in a good word for something that works well i have had no problems with my toshiba it works very well with dos and os for os you don t need to load any special drivers the installation will detect that it is a toshiba drive and you are done btw it s also very fast carlos rimola sarti email rimola csisdn com connective strategies inc car btr com isdn pri connectivity phone
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1,913 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | re ide vs scsi in article wayne uv amtower spacecoast org wayne amtower spacecoast orgx newssoftware grn f by mike schwartz michael b smith writes in article apr julian uwo ca wlsmith valve heart rri uwo ca wayne smith writes 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 i have been following this thread and figured i d throw in my two cents the amiga zorro ii bus is comparable with the isa bus vs mhz except for the fact that it s superior in just about every way to the isa bus the amiga has had a pre emptative multi tasking os since and can operate with mb ram scsi is used almost exclusively on these systems except for the new systems that now ship only with ide controllers toodlepip marc em
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1,914 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | help with olivetti floppy we are trying to connect an olivetti xm floppy drive as the second drive on a panasonic machine it seems to sort of talk to it gets it spinning and stepping but gives a disk not ready error there are two jumpers which seem to work best open a position dip switch and a position dip switch we don t know how to set the dip switches and think that may be the problem any information or advice other than junk the stupid thing would be most appreciated thanks email reply preferred jdresser tymnet com
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1,915 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | re ide vs scsi in article wayne uv amtower spacecoast org wayne amtower spacecoast orgx newssoftware grn f by mike schwartz michael b smith writes 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 a scsi controller that transfers data by dma allows the cpu to request data from the hard drive and continue working while the controller gets the data and moves it to memory ide also uses dma techniques i believe floppy controller also uses dma and most a d boards also use dma dma is no big deal and has nothing to do directly with scsi for example when rewinding or formatting a tape the command is issued to the controller and the bus is released to allow access to other devices on the bus this greatly increases productivity or at least do something else while backing up your hard drive which happens to be what i am doing while reading this group you can thank your software for that if dos had a few more brains it could format floppies etc while you were doing something else the hardware will support it but dos at least won t again this has nothing to do with scsi its a long story but i still use ide on my except for the cdrom which thanks to scsi i can move between both machines if and when scsi is better standardized and supported on the ibm clone machines i plan to completely get rid of ide and if you stick with dos you ll wonder why you can t multitask again i ask why can t a unix or os type os do all the miraculous things with an ide harddrive that it can with a single scsi hard drive
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1,916 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | pc junior usable my fiance has a pc junior and wants to upgrade to a full does anyone know if we could use the monitor it came with on a new machine i heard it s mcga or ega but not sure which also does it use cards so we can use the drive controller floppy etc thanks for the help bryan bryan welch amateur radio n sfg internet europa vnet ibm com best bwelch scf nmsu edu everything will perish save love and music scots gaelic proverb disclaimer it s all opinion everything so there
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1,917 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | baud spirit ii modem hi world i want to buy a spirit ii data fax modem made in u s a have anyone heard about it or using it what is it s performance is it stable or not please give me some advice in addition i heard a news from local distributor that a new baud ccitt rom the distributor said it will be the new ccitt standard for this modem will be produced at the end of this year after replaced the old rom by this rom this spirit ii can transfer data at baud without any hardware alternation is this new true and possible would the telephone line really able to transfer at such high speed please give me some advice at last can anyone tell me how to contact with the central dealer quickcomm inc i am not sure whether it in u s a or not please leave me a e mail thank you very much leung from hong kong university
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1,918 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | re where to buy pentium motherboard has anybody bought a pentium motherboard if so or you where i can buy it please send me a e mail thank you in advance pentium processors motherboards are not available to the general public as of yet intel has released them to companies such as gateway and dell to do testing etc it ll be a while mike bitz internet bitzm columbia dsu edu research and development bitzm dsuvax dsu edu dakota state university bitnet s sdnet bitnet
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1,919 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | help with decision i m buying a new system this week to replace my brain dead and could use some feedback on a couple systems i m looking at if anyone is familiar with them the system that looks the most interesting is the budget vlb tower for about delivered it offers vlb mb mb ide a mitsumi cd rom with software bundle media vision sound board ctx ni k cache and the usual drives ports os software since my budget is for a system it seems almost too good to be true which may mean it is too good to be true of course among other things i ve never seen a review of the budget systems or their parent company micro smart or of the motherboard they are using the aetana any feedback would be appreciated in a similar vein the second system i m considering midwest micro s elite vesa tower with a diamond viper mb midwest micro mi monitor is one i ve never seen reviewed anywhere i m familiar with the firm but not the product line and some idea of their quality would be abig benefit here as well any other suggestions in the price range would be appreciated my greatest needs are speed and graphics capabilities email response would be greatly appreciated thanks the only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community against his will is to prevent harm to others his own good either physical or moral is not a sufficient warrant john stuart mill rick adams adamsr ais org adamsr norwich bitnet anonymous users may send to ap poly n kbt rain com
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1,920 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | re ide vs scsi wlsmith valve heart rri uwo ca wayne smith writes i just bought at quantum for my mac at home i paid for it i haven t seen ide drives cheaper a friend of mine just got a maxtor meg ide drive for that s million bytes or mega bytes with the basic interface he gets close to meg sec transfer on his does your figure include a few hundred for scsi drivers since the mac uses only scsi for hard drives yes the figure includes a hundred for scsi drivers this is sloppy people and dumb but on that point is it faster this is what all this is about do you get more performance for the money ok once again with the scsi spec list scsi with a scsi controler chip synchronous range is indeed mb s asynchronous range is slower at mb s 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 pcs use this set up too scsi bit scsi mode mb s with mb s burst for those who want scsi but don t want to pay for the bit or bit hardware or mess with the scsi software controllers usable by scsi devices with close to bit scsi speeds scsi bit wide or fast mode mb s with mb s burst scsi bit wide and fast mb s with mb s burst on the other interfaces let dxb psuvm psu edu speak ide ranges from mb s again synchronous and asynchronous modes with asynchronous much slower range mb s esdi is always mb s although there are some non standard versions one problem is the inconsitant use of the term scsi in articles and by people its proper meaning is the set of scsi interfaces composed of scsi and scsi look at the inconsitant use of scsi in the below quote my comments in pc magazine april although scsi is twice as fast as esdi this is asynchronous scsi with a scsi chip faster than ide this is both asynchronous scsi with a scsi chip and bit scsi to read consitantly the quote should read asynchronous scsi with a scsi chip although asynchronous scsi is twice as fast as esdi one third the speed of ide or asynchronous scsi with a scsi chip or bit scsi although scsi with a scsi chip and bit scsi are eight times as fast as esdi faster than ide note the nonuse of scsi by itself this eliminates ambaguity scsi drivers are somewhat reasonable while bit and bit scsi drivers are very expansive bit scsi can use scsi drivers with little speed degridation the mac quadra does exactly this if we are to continue this thread state clearly which scsi you are talking about scsi or scsi or scsi over all scsi and scsi it does make a difference
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1,921 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | re pc junior usable in article apr sernews raleigh ibm com europa tomcat raleigh ibm com welch bryan writes my fiance has a pc junior and wants to upgrade to a full does anyone know if we could use the monitor it came with on a new machine i heard it s mcga or ega but not sure which also does it use cards so we can use the drive controller floppy etc the only things you ll be able to salvage from the junior are the floppy drives and monitor the floppies are k and the monitor is cga but you will need an adaptor cable to use it the junior does not use standard cards unless you re really strapped for cash you should just junk the thing and buy new stuff dan daniel matthew coleman internet dcoleman ccwf cc utexas edu dcoleman utxvms cc utexas edu the university of texas at austin decnet utxvms dcoleman electrical computer engineering bitnet dcoleman utxvms bitnet
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1,922 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | re ide vs scsi in article qpu uinnbt dns nmsu edu bgrubb dante nmsu edu grubb writes wlsmith valve heart rri uwo ca wayne smith writes since the mac uses only scsi for hard drives yes the figure includes a hundred for scsi drivers this is sloppy people and dumb what group is this this is not a mac group ok once again with the scsi spec list why the spec list again we are talking scsi on a pc not on a mac or a unix box and we are talking isa bus or possibly eisa or vlb this isin t comp periphs scsi tell me what the performance figures are with a single scsi drive on a pc with an isa or eisa or vlb bus theoretical performance figures are not relevant to this group or this debate i m sure that there are some platforms out there that can handle the megs sec of scsi xyz wide n fast but the pc isin t one of them if we are to continue this thread state clearly which scsi you are talking about scsi or scsi or scsi over all scsi and scsi it does make a difference well maybe if the scsi design people had their act together than maybe all pc s would have built in scsi ports by now
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1,923 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | network i have heard that there is something called a network that allows two pc s to be networked by joining their serial ports does someone out there know anything about this i would greatly appreciate e mail on this thanks tschewe first etc bc ca wq
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1,924 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | re buslogic b questions in article tigerc k oy gx netcom com tiger netcom com tiger zhao writes goyal utdallas edu mohit k goyal writes can anyone tell me if this card works with the march os beta i believe so since the buslogic cards have proven to be very reliable in os the buslogic cards have an os driver that does work with the march beta support for the buslogic cards is not included with os any longer if you wish to install the beta from the cd rom you will need to rem out the adaptec device drivers as they have a nasty tendency to crash the buslogic cards when os attempts to use them thanks adaptec so you add the buslogic drivers to the config sys on the cd rom boot disk and rem out the adaptec drivers then you install the whole st half of the beta and it won t work ibm nicely copies in the adaptec drivers once again thanks ibm so rem out the adaptec drivers once more and reboot if you have everything in the right order it will work things are pretty smooth through the rest of the installation except os will try to install the adaptec scsi drivers once again at the end so you are off to more rem statements and more fun the bt bk comes with drivers and costs the same as the adaptec cards that do not come with drivers the dos drivers work great this card can easily be configured to work with different sets of i o ports and you can use multiple host adapters in one machine if you get a new card it will also be able to support up to gb drives under dos hope this helps dan dan galpin galpin cats ucsc edu
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1,925 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | data path width from to bits but speed less then double in evolution of x data path width has been doubled from to t bits but the speed of data processing has not increased at same rate the question is why what is relationship bettween data path width and data processing speed thanks in advance for the input robert
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1,926 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | address interliving what is address interliving and memmory modules interliving thanks in advance for the info robert
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1,927 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | re how to search for bad memory chips in article n s b w w c cat uucp david c cat uucp dave writes i came upon this idea i would like to share with everyone to check for bad memory chips create a boot disk with emm himem sys and ramdrive sys in the config autoexec bat boot the pc to create a ram drive as large as possible use a disk repair utility i use ndd run it on the ram drive yes it will run its only a device driver run or so passes they go very quick if your machine fails there is a definate bad memory chip if your machine passes there is a conflict with programs you are loading in memory it s an interesting idea but the worst case data patterns developed to test magnetic media are totally different than the patterns used to detect common faults in memory chips bob nichols at t bell laboratories rnichols ihlpm ih att com
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1,928 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | re buslogic b questions beta support for the buslogic cards is not included with os any longer why not this is rather disappointing if you wish to install the beta from the cd rom you will need to rem out the adaptec device drivers as they have a nasty tendency to crash the buslogic cards when os attempts to use them thanks adaptec yep that s cause the latest and presumably all future adaptec drivers look for the string adaptec or something to that effect in the cards bios
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1,929 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | seagate mb ide jumper question since the losers that sold me the hard disk for my computer are so generous i need the info to set this drive from master to slave any help would be greatly appreciated please reply via e mail incidentally avoid purchasing a computer from acs in endicott ny jeff four out of five electrons prefer holes for their mutual annhiliation needs boycott sierra ignore anybody who purports to be a serious windows user support new makers of hardware and software buy canadian music quit smoking take up running fm synthesis is the cga of audio jks ritvax isc rit edu
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1,930 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | simms and sipps mb needed misc entrepreneurs misc wanted pnw forsale uw pc ibm seattle forsale uw forsale misc forsale misc forsale computers d misc forsale computers pc clone misc forsale co omputers other distribution world from yuri atmos washington edu reply to yuri atmos washington edu organization subject simms and sipps mb needed keywords i need simms and sipps mb but price should be around piece i am waiting for an offer yuri yulaev th ave ne seattle wa home work fax internet yuri atmos washington edu uucp uw beaver atmos washington edu yuri
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1,931 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | re ide vs scsi wlsmith valve heart rri uwo ca wayne smith write in article qpu uinnbt dns nmsu edu bgrubb dante nmsu edu grubb writes wlsmith valve heart rri uwo ca wayne smith writes since the mac uses only scsi for hard drives yes the figure includes a hundred for scsi drivers this is sloppy people and dumb what group is this this is not a mac group nice of you to delete both your responce and the item that prompted it to whit i just bought at quantum for my mac at home i paid for it i haven t seen ide drives cheaper to which you responded a friend of mine just got a maxtor meg ide drive for that s million bytes or mega bytes with the basic interface he gets close to meg sec transfer on his does your figure include a few hundred for scsi drivers to which i correctly pointed out the following since the mac uses only scsi for hard drives yes the figure includes a hundred for scsi drivers this is sloppy people and dumb as i said this is sloppy and dumb you should resounded by discounting the mac not giving maxtor meg ide drive for example by giving an example you give the implied consent that for mac info to be included in the scsi discusion ok once again with the scsi spec list why the spec list again we are talking scsi on a pc not on a mac or a unix box and we are talking isa bus or possibly eisa or vlb ok i will do this v e r y s l o w l y so you can understand reguardless of whether it is a mac or a pc scsi and scsi are different from each other as is asynchronous and synchronous scsi all of these have different speeds and costs lumping them all together as scsi is dumb and sloppy take again the quote later on as an example of the problem in the pc world the spec list was so that you knew where the numbers were coming from in the article it shows the article is correct in it staments about scsi but not consitant this isin t comp periphs scsi with the way this thread has gone how do you tell tell me what the performance figures are with a single scsi drive on a pc with an isa or eisa or vlb bus already gave them you keep deleting them so here are the specs on everybody again with some added info scsi scsi controler chip asynchronous range mb s synchronous range mb s both common to the pc world difference is mainly in software not hardware scsi scsi controller chip also called scsi bit mb s with mb s burst this is advertised as scsi in byte for the pc and at these speeds not the mac the pc i have not seen the following for either the mac or the pc scsi bit wide or fast mode mb s with mb s burst scsi bit wide and fast mb s with mb s burst on the other interfaces let dxb psuvm psu edu speak ide ranges from mb s asynchronous range mb s infered from byte synchronous range mb s esdi is always mb s although there are some non standard versions wlsmith valve heart rri uwo ca wayne smith writes theoretical performance figures are not relevant to this group or this debate i m sure that there are some platforms out there that can handle the megs sec of scsi xyz wide n fast but the pc isin t one of them note that i also give the average through put for scsi which holds true a mac or ibm pc clone with the correct hardware and software and since pc adversizements are using theoretical performance figures why cannot we if we are to continue this thread state clearly which scsi you are talking about scsi or scsi or scsi over all scsi and scsi it does make a difference well maybe if the scsi design people had their act together than maybe all pc s would have built in scsi ports by now with pc articles like the following it is obvious that the problem is not with scsi but with the people who report it like you look at the inconsitant use of scsi in the below quote my comments in although scsi is twice as fast as esdi this is asynchronous scsi with a scsi chip faster than ide this is both asynchronous scsi with a scsi chip and bit scsi pc magazine april the article is confused not scsi the term is a mess from inconsitant use not because the interface itself is a mess scsi means the set of scsi interfaces composed of scsi and scsi not scsi as some people want to use it to read consitantly the quote should read asynchronous scsi with a scsi chip although asynchronous scsi is twice as fast as esdi one third the speed of ide or asynchronous scsi with a scsi chip or bit scsi although scsi with a scsi chip and bit scsi are eight times as fast as esdi faster than ide note the nonuse of scsi by itself this eliminates ambaguity if we are to continue this thread state clearly which scsi you are talking about scsi or scsi or scsi over all scsi and scsi lumping everything into scsi as scsi is sloppy wrong and dumb inconsitant scsi and scsi usage is also a problem clean it up now or have a mess like svga was several years ago because everybody and his uncle slapped scsa an their own monitor inteface scsi is standarized unlike svga was years ago except in terminaology
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1,932 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | re help my pc freezes perry egelmeers perry wswiop win tue nl wrote ladanyi cs cornell edu la szlo lada nyi writes problem occasionaly the machine freezes at least that s what i thought but recently i discovered that the machine works just the keyboard freezes and the clock drops down from turbo mhz to standard mhz mode perhaps you hit the s control s try q i know it doesn t explain the clock rate drop we had the same problem in our company we changed the keyboard bios and after that everything went fine our dealer told us that some boards of that series have a defect kbd bios michael michael jester gun de michael gerhards preussenstrasse germany neuss voice
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1,933 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | re western digital hd info needed holly ks cs sd ae maccs mcmaster ca wrote 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 the jumper is used if the other drive a conner cp xxx no jumper set drive is alone ma drive is master sl drive is slave michael michael jester gun de michael gerhards preussenstrasse germany neuss voice
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1,934 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | re com ports modem mouse conflict really phil hunt phil howtek mv com wrote i m kind of new at the pc stuff my machine has serial ports com and and share same irqs you mean i can t plug a mouse into com and a modem into com and expect both to work no but some os s coherent etc are able to drive one of the ports in polled mode without using the irq in your example after accessing the modem the mouse won t work until you reboot because the irq is used by the modem if answer is no should i change irq s for com ports to be different and does it really matter which irq i set the ports too yes you can change the irq s for com but it depends on your other hardware com uses irq com irq if you have only one printerport irq you can change com to irq normally nd printer for com you can assign irq if its free as far as i know no other irq can be used until your i o card is bit and caould access irq s michael michael jester gun de michael gerhards preussenstrasse germany neuss voice
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1,935 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | isa bus pin question re diamond speedstar x today i recieved a in warranty replacement for my diamond speedstar x on the card i ve noticed a few changes mostly there is a new jumper labeled jp the card is revision a my detective work has shown that this jumper simply connects disconnects the bale line on the pin part of the isa bus the question i have is simple to those people who own this revision of the speedstar x what does the manual claim that this jumper does to anyone with an isa reference what is the function of the bale line on a related note are there any ftp sites which contain a descriptive reference to the isa bus my motherboard manual has a simple pin to signal name chart but that is it douglas douglas r pokorny drp camelot bradley edu cs major geisert hall resident conveniently located in the bradley university armpit of illinois peoria
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1,936 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | re int h for joysticks is slow in ql i inn uh no names nerdc ufl edu 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 if you only do read print then there is no reason for the joystick stuff not to take of the time even if it is efficient 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 truth is that int h joystick reading is slow i read it directly from the hardware port note that doing so exposes you to intermittent disturbance from interrupts so you may want to read say twice in a row and keep the lower results don t just turn interrupts off it may prove detrimental to the health of any high speed comms and other devices here is an example of how to do this joy c an example of how to read pc joystick port by polling the hardware port directly uses inp outp for byte port access will timeout when int count counts up to zero this sample reads one port a is presented and b is in the comments you can read both at once by merging the two but it will time out when either joystick is not connected there is no need to optimize this routine since it runs for as long as the joystick circuitry needs written by eyal lebedinsky eyal ise canberra edu au include stdio h include stdlib h include conio h extern int readjoy int x int y int b int b define joyport x define xjoy x for joystick b use x define yjoy x for joystick b use x define xymask xjoy yjoy define but x for joystick b use x define but x for joystick b use x int returns if ok readjoy int x int y int b int b register int count register char temp joy temp char xymask count outp joyport set trigger do temp joy char inp joyport if temp xjoy x count if temp yjoy y count while count temp joy xymask b joy but b joy but return count this main is for demonstration int main int rc x y b b printf hit any key to exit n while kbhit rc readjoy x y b b printf r d d d d d rc x y b b
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1,937 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | looking for large mono color vga monitor i am looking for a monitor or larger that could do x with and a card ps i guess i would prefere and mono later becuase of lower price please email me the brand model condition and asking price please include this message for reference s alavi ssa unity ncsu edu h w
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1,938 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | mitsumi cd rom drivers fix for qemm just to let all you faithful mitsumi cd rom owners ever notice qemm can t load you cd rom driver high ain t it a bitch well you can call up quarterdeck s bbs and get a hold of the new drivers that can be loaded high sorry i don t have their on me i tested them out and the seem to work great small nose loose girls no nipples iczer curls gerard pinzone gpinzone tasha poly edu v join the eca wehrmacht kill cm
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1,939 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | cd speedway any good anybody use cd speedway out there is it as good as they say i hate waiting around for my cd to finish loading the next level in wc and the such how much memory does it eat up small nose loose girls no nipples iczer curls gerard pinzone gpinzone tasha poly edu v join the eca wehrmacht kill cm
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1,940 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | leading edge computer buy i saw the following computer in a store and wanted to know if this is a good computer or does someone see something wrong with it i also would like to switch the motherboard later when this computer becomes too slow does anyone know if this is possible with a leading edge computer or will it be difficult to find a motherboard that will fit in this computer any help will be greatly appreciated leading edge model pc e intel sx mhz cpu supports intel overdrive clock doubling processors what is this upgradable to dx mb ram upgradable to mb kb internal cache mb mb disk drives mb hard drive x vga video resolution mb video ram colors available bit isa expansion slots one local bus socket bit isa compatible drive bays external one pin centronics type parallel port rs c serial ports pin one pin analog video connector one ps compatible mouse port watt power supply key keyboard and mouse included software includes windows dos microsoft works for windows the store wants without monitor for this is it a good price thanks nicole bell at temple university philly pa e mail address u s astro ocis temple edu prodigy jpkn a if you re not part of the solution you re part of the precipitate steven wright
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1,941 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | more adaptec b problems okay here is my configuration gateway c micronics isa mb ram wd mb ide hd drive c st a mb ide hd drive d adaptec scsi b controller with scsi bios enabled seagate st n mb scsi drive alrighty when i boot up i get the adaptec bios message but it says something like drive c installed drive d installed adaptec scsi bios not installed and i can t get to the seagate drive i go into phoenixbios setup remove the entry for drive d and boom i can access the seagate is there a way to get two ide drives and the seagate at the same time i have aspi dos sys but it just hangs the system brian
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1,942 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | re booting from b drive glang slee srl ford com gordon lang writes 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 i did this i use a relay radio shack pdt instead of a huge switch this way if the relay breaks my drives will still work it works fine but you may still need to change the cmos before the drive switch will work correctly for some programs rp roger c pao gordius bagdad mts rpao rpao mts mivj ca us
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1,943 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | jumper settings for microscience hd ok i ll try one more time with this one if anyone out there has any information on microscience hard drives and how to set the jumpers and where they are for master slave configurations i will gladly accept any info as i have a m er sitting in my room collecting dust just waiting for me to install huge applications thanks in advance and yes i regulary check the ide harddisk spec that is posted here adam cheal i y rick cs ubc ca
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1,944 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | re leading edge computer buy in article apr cronkite ocis temple edu u s astro ocis temple edu cis sec spr writes i saw the following computer in a store and wanted to know if this is a good computer or does someone see something wrong with it i also would like to stuff deleted leading edge model pc e intel sx mhz cpu supports intel overdrive clock doubling processors what is this upgradable to dx mb ram upgradable to mb kb internal cache mb mb disk drives mb hard drive x vga video resolution mb video ram colors available bit isa expansion slots one local bus socket bit isa compatible drive bays external one pin centronics type parallel port rs c serial ports pin one pin analog video connector one ps compatible mouse port watt power supply key keyboard and mouse included software includes windows dos microsoft works for windows the store wants without monitor for this is it a good price thanks i recently bought a leading edge dx mini tower case and everything works fine leading edge seems to be a decent brand and what not i would tend to say that it is a decent deal the only things you might want to be wary about is that my l e computer has a back plane mounted motherboard ie the motherboard itself is a card that can be plugged in to a backplane some people don t like these configurations the second thing is that whoever set up my computer at the factory didn t really know what they were doing the installed windows video driver didn t even take advantage of the svga card monitor look forward to configuring the system optimally yourself anyone have a coat hanger my brain itches impster umcc ais org if i was a turnip would i be revered and charles budensiek worshipped like i would deserve to be ph ask if you want it
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1,945 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | re esdi with ide yes it should be possible in article apr monu cc monash edu au els r fawlty eng monash edu au g chow writes in article qegfd dqi wsinis info win tue nl monty wsinis info win tue nl guido leenders writes hi is it possible to use an esdi controller with hdd together with an ide harddisk controller in one isa system i ve read stuff about secondary controllers does this trick work thanx in advance guido monty win tue nl i have the same question as guido it is possible to use the esdi drive as a master and the ide drive as the slave i can definitily say that you can use an rll as master and ide as slave as i have just upgraded my machine with a mb ide and custom controller mdl ci extended ide controller while maintaining my rll d wren as master drive the trick is the controller which supports up to ide drives while coexisting with existing controllers mfm rll esdi scsi so according to the documentation it should work with esdi and i can assure you it works with rll bruce powell email bss brucep vd seqeb gov au
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1,946 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | re more adaptec b problems lioness maple circa ufl edu wrote okay here is my configuration gateway c micronics isa mb ram wd mb ide hd drive c st a mb ide hd drive d adaptec scsi b controller with scsi bios enabled seagate st n mb scsi drive alrighty when i boot up i get the adaptec bios message but it says something like drive c installed drive d installed adaptec scsi bios not installed and i can t get to the seagate drive i go into phoenixbios setup remove the entry for drive d and boom i can access the seagate is there a way to get two ide drives and the seagate at the same time i have aspi dos sys but it just hangs the system brian there is a simple answer if my memory serves me the scsi bios will only work as the first or second drive any built in drives e g ide are installed first and then when the scsi bios runs it will try to install as the next drive but if there are already two drives then no can do the solution is simple use the aspi dos device driver and disable the scsi bios as it is useless in your case it works like a champ i have seen a similar situation before good luck gordon lang
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1,947 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | re or grayscale displays a quick look through the computer shopper gave the following companies that sell monochrome monitors for less than pc or ps compatible cornerstone technology digital technology hardware that fits ibm ikegami image systems nanao radius ran ger technologies sampo samsung sigma designs most of these are single scan monitors which are useless for most pc users i posted requests for information in other newsgroups which were mostly fruitless but i have managed to track down two multisync grayscal monitors in the range one and one i am still looking into it and i will post the results when i get more info i am looking into a group purchase as well aniel thumim dthumim mit edu
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1,948 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | tseng labs video card problem i have a tseng labs video card that gives me problems when i do anything in super vga mode checkit v reports a video page frame address error at page frame what does this mean and how if i can could this be fixed the card says et ax on it thanks
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1,949 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | parallel port can anybody please help me with information on the use of the bi directional printer port i have successfully used one on a toshiba laptop by enabling bit of port x f and controlling bit of port x a for the direction of data flow ie for output for input the same code does not work on my desktop machine i have heard that i might have to use bit of port x a however this also does not work for a parallel port i am using one of those ide super i o cards and have been running a tape backup unit off it via a parallel to scsi converter so i am pretty sure that the printer port is bi directional any information would be greatly appreasiated please post a reply here or email me on internet rick cabsav vut edu au thanks richard muratti origin custom programming bbs
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1,950 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | ibm ps vs teac fd hello i already tried our national news group without success i tried to replace a friend s original ibm floppy disk in his ps pc with a normal teac drive i already identified the power supply on pins v and v shorted pin switch and inserted pullup resistors k on pins and the computer doesn t complain about a missing fd but the fd s light stays on all the time the drive spins up o k when i insert a disk but i can t access it the teac works fine in a normal pc are there any points i missed thank you volkmar volkmar grote stollmann de
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1,951 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | wanted isa mouse port with high interrupt with a sound card on interrupt two serial ports one for modem on i one for miracle piano on i and a printer port on i i have run out of low interrupts what i would like is a mouse port with an interrupt of or which ever interrupt the ps mouse port uses in in isa i computer i called technical support of microsoft logitech ati checked what interrupts the mouse port on the ati video cards can use and they all said the only interrupts possible on these cards was ones lower than does anyone know of any board for an isa bus which will allow a mouse port or even a serial port with high interrupts loran yourk at t lyourk ihlpm att com
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1,952 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | re can t write to floppy in article qndvd jhn usenet ins cwru edu da cleveland freenet edu andy nicola writes in a previous article limagen hpwala wal hp com says 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 if the disk is not an hd type disk i e with the extra hole in the case opposite the normal write protect hole the drive will not write to the disk you can punch a similar hole with whatever is handy or buy a small device a square hole puncher for about see the back pages of computer shopper magazine for it to be brief make the hole any way you can or no writing andy nicola of course you should be able to write a dd kb disk without making any holes stig
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1,953 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | q compaq configuration help hi all compaq owners a friend of mine has compaq portable iii and he has lost all the manuals and diskettes please help him getting the machine s equipment definition cmos memory configuration right the machine says that some bytes of it are still incorrectly set up it seems that compaq has some bytes defined not like the ibm compatible machines if you have a compaq it certainly has diagnostics diskette with it and this is needed i can t reach quickly any compaq dealers here if it is possible please email documentation or some of its configuration software heikki haldre e mail hhaldre sune stacken kth se or hhaldre park tartu ee
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1,954 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | alr proveisa if anyone has any experience with the alr proveisa dx system i would be interested to hear your impressions of it and of alr in general thank you mark winqwk b mark seltzer ravina cres toronto ont m j m canada rosemail rosenet usenet gateway rose media
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1,955 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | re wanted isa mouse port with high interrupt lyourk cbnewsc cb att com loran n yourk writes with a sound card on interrupt two serial ports one for modem on i one for miracle piano on i and a printer port on i i have run out of low interrupts what i would like is a mouse port with an interrupt of or which ever interrupt the ps mouse port uses in in isa i computer i called technical support of microsoft logitech ati checked what interrupts the mouse port on the ati video cards can use and they all said the only interrupts possible on these cards was ones lower than does anyone know of any board for an isa bus which will allow a mouse port or even a serial port with high interrupts try putting one of the irqs for your com ports onto irq the hardware will automagically wrap irq to irq on at class machines eg anything with high irqs this is what i m doing on my set up right now i ve got com on irq really irq address it this way in software com on irq soundblaster on irq lpt on irq and my ati busmouse port on one of the interrupts in between works just great if you need even more there s a text file floating around somewhere that details how to hack up any serial card and probably any others to work on the higher irqs it basically involves cutting the trace to the low irq and running a wire over the a high irq pin on the bit expansion bus it will be best to put the modem s com port onto irq this will be the first irq serviced by the system giving the modem a better response especially handy under multitaskers like os which i m running with no problems justin jdolske andy bgsu edu
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1,956 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | re mb isa limit rpao mts mivj ca us writes in article c j zn mts mivj ca us marka ssd csd harris com mark ashley writes then the writer claims that glitches can occur in systems with over mb because of that limit that part i don t understand because the ram is right on the motherboard so the cpu should have no problems talking with the ram can anybody explain this the floppy is served by dma on the motherboard and original dma controller can t reach more than the first mb the address space of the isa bus joerg
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1,957 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | mb f d wanted subject says it all please email soon skcgoh tartarus uwa edu au
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1,958 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | swap boot drive on i have a machine with a a drive and a b drive i want to swap them so drive is a what do i have to do tia david m todd department of psychology university of massachusetts amherst ma usa phone david todd psych umass edu fax
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1,959 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | wanted advice comments on building a pc in the next few months i am intending to build a or pc system for remote monitoring i would welcome any comments or advice you may have on the choice of motherboard hdds and i o boards recommendations for good companies selling these would be a big help many thanks peter green peter r green tel fax janet prg uk ac mcc nessie internet prg nessie mcc ac uk include std disclaimers
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1,960 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | q conner hd specs can anybody send conner cp harddisk specifications it has cyl and hd but i am more intrested in its time out values precomp etc heikki haldre internet hhaldre sune stacken kth se
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1,961 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | hint vlb isa eisa motherboard i am looking at buying some companion brand vlb isa eisa motherboards with hint chipsets has anybody had any experience with this board good or bad any information would be helpful thanks brian schaufenbuel brian j schaufenbuel there is no art which one government sooner learns helser halsted than that of draining money from the pockets of the ames ia people especially college students adam smith
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1,962 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | how to detect mouse at hardware level lo all i am writting a program that checks a computer for its configuration it s going to be run everytime a computer boots up to our campus network actually it already is running it s just not getting all the info i want it to yet anyway i want to check for a mouse i already check for a mouse driver using the code in microsoft s mouse book but there is no guarantee that the driver is loaded when my program runs or that they ever load the driver since i am interested in what hardware is attached to the machine how do i detect is a mouse is attached i know it can be done because the mouse driver can do it thanks in advance andy andy berkvam few are wholly dead u of wisconsin stevens point blow on a dead man s embers cleveland freenet bq and a live flame will start internet aberkvam spu uwsp edu robert graves
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1,963 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | re ide vs scsi in article c i fx fc ucdavis edu ez rocky ucdavis edu the great randalli writes can anyone explain in fairly simple terms why if i get os i might need an scsi controler rather than an ide will performance suffer that much for a mb or so drive if i don t have a tape drive or cd rom any help would be appreciated richard randall ez hamlet ucdavis edu there is a way in which a multi tasking computer actually gives you more cpu power then you had before and that is with i o overlap with i o overlap your cpu can continue to think while disk operations are underway whereas without overlap your cpu sits idly waiting for each disk operation to finish and disk operations take an eternity compared to a fast cpu so when you ve got multi tasking you want to increase performance by increasing the amount of overlapping you do one way is with dma or bus mastering either of these make it possible for i o devices to move their data into and out of memory without interrupting the cpu the alternative is for the cpu to move the data there are several scsi interface cards that allow dma and bus mastering ide however is defined by the standard at interface created for the ibm pc at which requires the cpu to move all the data bytes with no dma richard krehbiel richk grebyn com os will do for me until amigados for the comes along
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1,964 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | re ide vs scsi in article apr julian uwo ca wlsmith valve heart rri uwo ca wayne smith writes 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 the adaptec series use bus mastering this means that the cpu doesn t sit waiting for data bytes it can go off and do other computing if you have an advanced multi tasking os that is dos just sits and waits anyway 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 says ide is limited to megs sec what about vlb ide does anyone know how they perform why don t you start with the spec sheet of the isa bus first ide was designed to plug into isa virtually unaided in essence ide is isa on a ribbon cable therefore it s specs are the same as isa mhz clock bit width mb sec this is why i ve concluded that ide on vl bus is a waste of a fast slot the card s job would to slow the vl bus transactions to isa speed heck that s what isa slots do i ll just use one of those instead richard krehbiel richk grebyn com os will do for me until amigados for the comes along
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1,965 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | re ide vs scsi in article qm c on hcx ssd csd harris com marka hcx ssd csd harris com mark ashley writes first off with all these huge software packages and files that they produce ide may no longer be sufficient for me mb limit i ve seen a listing of a seagate g ide hard drive 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 windows nt already supports scsi a variety of adapters for disk tape and cd rom so does os richard krehbiel richk grebyn com os will do for me until amigados for the comes along
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1,966 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | re ide vs scsi in article apr julian uwo ca wlsmith valve heart rri uwo ca wayne smith writes in article wayne uv amtower spacecoast org wayne amtower spacecoast orgx newssoftware grn f by mike schwartz michael b smith writes 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 a scsi controller that transfers data by dma allows the cpu to request data from the hard drive and continue working while the controller gets the data and moves it to memory ide also uses dma techniques i believe floppy controller also uses dma and most a d boards also use dma dma is no big deal and has nothing to do directly with scsi ide does not do dma this is because it s like te pc at hard disk interface the controller moves a sector to some buffer memory on the controller card then the cpu moves the data from the buffer to main memory where it s needed if ide doesn t work this way then it s not compatible heck if ide used dma then you d hear all kinds of complaints about isa bus systems with more than m ram not working with their ide drives m is the dma addressing limit of the isa bus and if ide did dma there would be trouble btw there are dma enabling signals in the ide cable spec but the last report i heard was that they are never implemented because it would require a different kind of ide adapter and different drivers richard krehbiel richk grebyn com os will do for me until amigados for the comes along
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1,967 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | nec p printer question i just picked up a second hand color option for the nec p pin dot matrix printer alas there were no installation instructions so i am totally confused on why it won t go in do i have to remove the actaual print head it seems almost to fit but not quite please any info would be most appreciated x x jon chopin udel edu for my cents on eutsch i d pay a dollar x x
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1,968 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | re booting from b drive in article khan nova khan nova gmi edu mohammad razi khan writes glang slee srl ford com gordon lang writes 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 intermediate reply suggesting cable switch deleted i have ami bios i have poked around the bios but haven t tried this but somewhere it says boot a c i would assume that you could probably slip in a b althoug a i haven t tried it and b don t mess with your cmos unless you know what your doing i hate to burst your bubble but you cannot slip in a b to that particular ami bios setting that setting only allows you to set the boot order of the floppy a with respect to the primary hd c i e check a first then c or check c then a gordon lang mohammad r khan khan nova gmi edu after july please send mail to mkhan nyx cs du edu regards paul yee yee nimios eng mcmaster ca
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1,969 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | conner mb question what do i need to do to configure this drive as a slave model cp g please reply via e mail thanks jeff four out of five electrons prefer holes for their mutual annhiliation needs boycott sierra ignore anybody who purports to be a serious windows user support new makers of hardware and software buy canadian music quit smoking take up running fm synthesis is the cga of audio jks ritvax isc rit edu
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1,970 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | re perfect mag mx f monitors in article apr brtph bnr ca adcock bnr ca doug adcock writes i ve been intently following the mag thread while waiting for mine to arrive in the mail there seems to be a lot of complaints about minor alignment problems with the mx f one article contained a comment that the owner called the factory and was told that his screen rotation was within spec that figure for image rotation would seem to be a little high on my nec fg the specs call for no greater than mm well my monitor arrived last night and sure enough it has a very noticable barrel distortion it s not dramatic but it is there and it is especially noticable when the image doesn t fill the entire screen the fact that it is worse on the right side doesn t help matters what i m trying to find out is if these minor imperfections are the norm or are most of their monitors perfect i don t want to send it back and get one with the same or an even worse problem does the factory consider this kind of thing normal and ship their monitors with less than perfect alignment i can t speak for mag innovision but as far as nec is concerned they are adjusted to factory spec before leaving the central usa distribution point ma for the eastern canadian market now here s the key nec knows that the monitors adjustments are very sensitive to shipping over distances with all the bumps rough handling and such and therefore expect and at least in theory require that the local distributor not dealer have it adjusted at the local service centre bull hn information systems in toronto before sale this is the correct and probably only way of having any chance of receiving a perfect monitor the definition of perfect seems to depend on how picky one is in my case quite are other netters just living with these kind of imperfections i for one was not willing to accept what i considered a substandard monitor and after two months of wrangling and direct contact with nec finally received a satisfactorily adjusted monitor not perfect imho but a major improvement over what the dealer and distributor were trying convince me was normal the short answer is no don t accept these imperfections as normal because for the premium one pays for the larger screen monitors one has a right to expect higher quality and if you re persistent you ll receive it comments and opinions are mine not bnr s doug adcock adcock bnr ca bell northern research research triangle park nc regards paul yee yee nimios eng mcmaster ca
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1,971 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | upgrading a modem i have an old tandon type modem that s all the info i have apart from the fact that it is black does anyone have any info about this modem or upgrading it reply by e mail please to cdw dcs ed ac uk chris e mail cdw dcs ed ac uk or c walton ed or p cplab ph ed ac uk tel or at weekends write romero place edinburgh eh bj finagle s fourth law once a job is fouled up anything done to improve it only makes it worse chris e mail cdw dcs ed ac uk or c walton ed or p cplab ph ed ac uk tel or at weekends write romero place edinburgh eh bj
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1,972 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | re ide vs scsi richk grebyn com richard krehbiel writes stuff about the connection between ide and ida deleated mhz clock bit width mb sec if ide speed come from ida where does the mb s sighted for ide come from scsi is not complex it is just the way the industry uses and talks about it there are three key differences in scsi the controller chip the port and the software that is it let us look as scsi in from this stand point scsi asynchronous and synchronous modes software scsi driver only asynchronous is slower then synchronous mode only mb s vs mb s synchronous speeds can be reached by most scsi divices with a rewrite of the software driver as is the case for the mac quadra scsi bit this is the main source for the confusion this differs from scsi only in the controler chip in most machines in the mac and some pcs this is called fast scsi because it uses scsi ports and software drivers and can produce scsi speeds through scsi inspite of this even in the slower asynchronous mode average speed in asynchronous scsi mode mb s with mb s see in both quadras and higher end pcs synchronous mode just allows a higher burst rate mb s scsi bit two versions wide fast wide scsi requires two things over bit scsi a scsi software driver and a wide scsi port on the machine and the external device fast scsi also requires two things over bit scsi scsi driver software and that the recieving devise support bit fast scsi speed of both is the same mb s with mb s burst scsi bit also know as wide and fast scsi over bit scsi this requires scsi driver software wide scsi port and that the recieving devices also have a bit mode scsi chip as expected this is very expencive speed mb s with mb s bursts as i said simple seven versions of scsi seperated by software the controler chip and the port standarize the software and it drops to only five versions of scsi seperate by only hardware the chip and the port
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1,973 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | conner cp f info please i am looking for information about this drive switch settings geometry etc conner cp f please reply via e mail many thanks in advance nelson nsl doe carleton ca
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1,974 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | re pentium in a previous article rrn po cwru edu robert r novitskey says just a qestion for all you pc er s out there will the upcoming pentium systems be compatible with current simms and vlb cards any info would be helpful i would just like to know before i plunk my on new hardware thanks bob well it all depends on the motherboard implimentation i m sure someone will make a vlb motherboard that takes x simms and uses a pentium processor i m also sure that there will be some motherboards that won t
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1,975 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | beyond k trident and lots more hi i have a few enquiries about pc s and compatibles in general some software others hardware orientated probably the wrong newsgroup as everyone claims anyway does any one happen to have the board jumper details for a trident svga graphics card mb or even what the dip switches do on the end mine already works fine albeit slow and after having blown up a monitor i found out which switch controlled the interlace non interlace facility but i m curious as to why there are dip switches on the card with apparantly little use secondly does anyone know why commodore had to be so crazed in their design of the pc motherboard with respect to the ram ie or k can anyone supply pin details for the expansion ports for a pc or bit or even a sample circuit to cause an irq when a button is pressed yeah i know its a piece of cake i m lazy software wise anyone care to divulge some tips on accessing expanded ram on a pc from a program written in turbo c for instance using farcoreleft and coreleft return only memory available from the base k regardless of combinations of emm etc etc what i want is to be able to use the ram above and beyond the mb boundary i m not certain whether farmalloc new actually uses it anyway but i ll suspect not also what half brained wit created dos so as not to be re entrant as a follow on does anyone have any comments about the use of dos calls to c from within a dos interrupt ie will changing the stack size on entry be of use two articles i ve read on the subject have given conflicting views does anyone have any views on writing direct to screen memory in terms of portability many thanks gotta go bars closing soon cheers ian
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1,976 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | help on hand scanners wanted fellow netters i m in the market for a hand scanner however i don t know anyone who has one i have my eye on two choices dexxa this scanner is available at wal mart for it includes grayworks software and provides dpi and grayscales i think the ocr software catchword is available through mail order for about also mustek gray artist for windows this scanner offers grayscales according to cad graphics and dpi it is available for mail order and comes with perceive ocr and picture publisher le i am also looking at a genius hand scanner b from cad graphics it is basically the same as the mustek scanner except for the resolution dpi and price basically i would like recommendations on which to buy i have heard that logitech makes the best and manufactures dexxa scanners but which one is the best buy would dpi really be helpful output would be no better than hp laserjet iii or canon bj x to x i am leaning toward the mustek because it offers the most features and is in the middle in terms of prices which should i buy if you have a hand scanner please let me know whether or not you would recommend it also if you know of another scanner within the price range under that would be a better deal please e mail me any and all help would be greatly appreciated kevin harter
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1,977 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | re booting from b drive in article apr mcshub dcss mcmaster ca yee nimios eng mcmaster ca paul yee writes in article khan nova khan nova gmi edu mohammad razi khan writes glang slee srl ford com gordon lang writes 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 intermediate reply suggesting cable switch deleted i heard boot b zip could do exactly what you wanted without touching anything check it out with archie h j
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1,978 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | mitsubishi mr hard drive help i have a new mr mitsubishi hard drive rll or mfm that has been in storage and will not format i suspected that the switch settings may have been moved in the movement of the drive from one place to another does anyone have the switch settings for this drive it has j sw with switches and sw has switches sw is the one that selects the drive number if you have info on this drive or know a number i can call to configure it please please let me know by email it has cyl heads and i think is type thanks in advance chuck browning charles w browning browning galois nscf org university of ga browning moe coe uga edu augusta georgia cbrowni eis calstate edu
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1,979 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | re monitors mreamy rock concert net michael g reamy support writes and they too said that the nanao t i was the best monitor to get if you had the money but they also said that the mitsubishi diamond pro is the next best choice and that it has superb picture quality this monitor can be had for around has anyone actually seen any of these i am responsible for choosing standard components in my company and as part of my review i got the viewsonic mitsubishi and nanao f is i picked the f i even though it costs more than the other two choices because it has a the best clarity and text is not fuzzy at all the viewsonic is the worst the mitsubishi is much better but the nanao f i blows both of them out of the water i don t understand why the nanao is so much better since one would think that the mitsubishi with it s trinitron tube would be better i can only imagine that the nanao t i must be incredible if it is beter than the f i michael g reamy mreamy rock concert net the light at the end of the tunnel may be an oncoming dragon one of the monitors i reviewed for the june issue of windows magazine was the mitsubishi i also reviewed a new nanao the f iw which has just been released last year for the may issue of windows i reviewed several monitors including the nanao t i there s no question that the nanao monitors are the best available this year just as they were last year the difference between my ranking of the best in windows and the ranking in windows sources is due mainly to a difference in the testing criteria and the scoring i used different tests than they did and i scored differently there s nothing wrong with the mitsubishi and it scored very highly in my tests but it was a few points shy of perfect incidentally one of the things everyone should do when they re reading reviews of any product whether it s monitors or mice is to read the criteria and methodology carefully unless you know how the product testing was done and on what the scores are based you can t possibly know what they really mean just seeing that i rank a monitor differently from windows sources is meaningless without knowing how we did the ranking likewise it s impossible to tell whether a monitor will meet your needs unless you know how we did the testing after all some of what we do may not apply to you likewise some of what we do may apply more closely in one review than in another you can t always tell anything from reading the or so words of commentary we write if you don t also understand the scoring wayne rash
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1,980 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | re monitor with rgb sync to vga scanlonm rimail interlan com michael scanlon writes 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 you need a monitor cable that has a vga connector on one end and five bnc connectors on the other i bought one from nanao when i bought the nanao monitor i use which also has five bnc connectors check with a computer store that sells good monitors quite a few companies use that setup
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1,981 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | re tape backup question in article apr sol ctr columbia edu jerry msi com jerry shekhel writes hello folks i have an archive xl internal qic tape drive which is pretty comparable to the colorado jumbo since i have two floppy drives in my system i m using a small card not accelerated made by archive to attach my tape drive as a third floppy device the problem although the dos based qicstream software works just fine both the norton and central point backup programs for windows fail unless i switch the machine to non turbo speed i m using a dx eisa since the dos software works it can t be a hardware problem can it has anyone seen similar problems any solutions thanks in advance yeah sounds typical windows makes all sorts of extra demands on hardware and therefore your machine can t keep up with things ever notice how when acessing the floppies in windows everything else slows to a crawl i imagine your backup and evertyhing else that is running fights for cpu time and sometimes the backup program loses be glad i can t even run in medium speed with cp backup on my machine supposedly because i have a scsi machine which places extra demands on the data bus don
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1,982 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | re monitors in article qslfs bm access digex net rash access digex com wayne rash writes i also reviewed a new nanao the f iw which has just been released what s the difference between the f i and the new f iw i m about to buy a gateway system and was going to take the f i upgrade should i get the f iw instead mike yang silicon graphics inc mikey sgi com
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1,983 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | re q conner hd specs in aa sune stacken kth se hhaldre stacken kth se heikki haldre writes can anybody send conner cp harddisk specifications it has cyl and hd but i am more intrested in its time out values precomp etc heikki haldre internet hhaldre sune stacken kth se conner peripherals has a number with a touch tone voice response data bank giving all the info if you call directory assisatnce and ask for the phone number of conner peripherals you should get what you need dannyb panix com all the usual disclaimers apply whatever they may be
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1,984 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | at s need what kinda battery hello i m the proud owner of an ibm at without a battery i know it hooks into jumper j but i need more info so i can replace it what s its voltage any suggestions for replacement where can i get one please respond to grisch uceng uc edu thanks george
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1,985 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | re booting from b drive in c nvvx ns mts mivj ca us rpao mts mivj ca us roger c pao writes much discussion about switching and drives removed another albeit strange option is using a program like ii available via anonymous ftp at many major sites or fdformat also available via anonymous ftp that allows you to format hd disks to meg or hd disks to meg along with many many other formats so you can diskcopy yes the broken messy dos diskcopy the disks onto disks or vice versa i use this techniques with non dos self booting game disks on my old tandy and it works another program named teledisk shareware available on many major bbs s will also make the weird format disks provided you have ii or fdformat installed some disks that won t diskcopy properly can be readily teledisk d into the proper format at least this is a software solution for a hardware bios deficiency eh joseph zbiciak im u c camelot bradley edu disclaimer if you believe any of this check your head nuke the whales
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1,986 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | rockwell chipset for s any good i have a quick question regarding the rockwell chipset that s come out relatively recently it supports v v bis v group iii fax and so on however i heard there are bugs in the chipset i know someone that has a zoom modem that uses the chipset and he hasn t had a problem what s the word on the chipset is this a rom bug specific to a specific brand using the rockwell or is it the rockwell chipset itself and if it is the rockwell chipset what are the chances that if i buy one of these modems using the rockwell chipset that a the bug will affect me b a rom change will fix compensate for the bug please send responses via email joe zbiciak im u c cegt bradley edu im u c camelot bradley edu joseph zbiciak im u c camelot bradley edu disclaimer if you believe any of this check your head nuke the whales
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1,987 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | re shopping for a new nec monitor well people i can only recomend the non flat screen no hype no nonsense nec ds that i have and plus it has the advantage of not having one of those new flat screen tubes which are oversensitive and fragile and break often this is a heavy duty rugged set for those who insist on well proven reliable technologies jim
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1,988 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | re ide vs scsi first off with all these huge software packages and files that they produce ide may no longer be sufficient for me mb limit micropolis seems to have broken this limit they have ide meg and meg hd s available greg greene ggg kepler unh edu mark ashley disclaimer my opinions not harris marka gcx ssd csd harris com the lost los angelino
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1,989 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | re which high performance vlb video card in article apr spartan ac brocku ca tmc spartan ac brocku ca tim ciceran writes pc magazine just did another review of high end graphics accelerators for all around performance windows dos cad go for ati graphics ultra pro they ve done two reviews in the last three months and that card ranks as an editors choice in both reviews for all around performance it seems it just can t be beat you should pick up this issue of pc mag april and check it out for yourself windows the recent reviews have all shown that the p cards are significantly faster doing windows than the ati card vga the recent reviews have all shown that the p cards they looked at are significantly slower doing vga than the ati card about the speed as i recall the big question for me is the orchid v card each of the p cards tested so far has had the w to do vga orchid is the only one i know about i don t know about ami that uses the w for vga that is reportedly faster i would like to know whether the orchid card can do vga as fast as the ati card if so it would appear to be a formidable competitor advertised prices are about the same for the two cards someone in this group posted a little while back that they were getting an orchid v card has that card arrived what do the benchmarks look like also is the ami p based card real what does it use for vga speed bob
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1,990 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | re adaptec acb what is it wright lims lerc nasa gov ted wright writes an adaptec acb rev b disk controller has come into my hands with no documentation is this an esdi controller mfm rll something else the bios on it is dated if that is any help i think it is an esdi controller if you need the doco i can help you stefan stefan reck inet sreck rebox in berlin de berlin germany that s all
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1,991 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | gateway telepath modem getting v bis i have had a gateway telepath modem for about a month or so now actually i had one that wouldn t connect to anything no matter what software i used so i got a new one sent to me this allows me to connect to my favorite news system with zero problems so i m somewhat happier but i still cannot connect to my favorite dos bbs with any kind of reliability i have success about calls not good i would hope that the fact that this one can connect to at least one of my fave places means i just need to adjust it what i usually get is a fast stream of garbage in the modem response line on the dial window sometimes it will drop to full screen mode first then i get about screens of garbage in both cases the modem seems to time out before connecting and drops carrier i am using default settings at f and getting this problem i am using the autoconfigure settings that gateway has supplied with my copy of qmodem atw c d s w and getting this problem they have refused to help me beyond this claiming it must be the bbs or something like that not so my work modem connects to this same place just fine using factory settings a microcom anyone have any ideas next a waco update an ohio prison update a bosnia update a russian update an abortion update and a congressional update here on snn the standoff news network all news all standoff all day daniel a hartung dhartung chinet chinet com ask me about rotaract
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1,992 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | re which high performance vlb video card in article hcbfp e zola esd sgi com blean rwb esd sgi com bob blean writes someone in this group posted a little while back that they were getting an orchid v card has that card arrived what do the benchmarks look like the one i got only does about kb s in text and x vga mcga mode which is almost identical to the other w based cards ati does about kb s this is weird since the orchid supposedly should be much faster and i was told by someone that it can do almost kb s since the vga chip is covered by the orchid label i can t really tell for sure if it uses a chip but the spec sheet that comes with the board no docs did say it has meg dram and uses a chip winmarks is about mil slower than a viper vs using standard palette btw if anyone is insterested i m trying to sell a diamond viper megs vram for a friend for email if interested i m too broke to take it myself also is the ami p based card real what does it use for vga speed i think it s available in limited quantites no idea of what vga chip it uses though be very careful with oem p boards though the orchid i got for example only has a readme file on disk that serve as documentation and conflicts the hell with my vlb controller card or maybe it s my motherboard an a i r vlb stephen lau elec engineering univ of hawaii using a friend s account while waiting for my new grad account death to fm synthesis go gus
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1,993 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | some more info about p board one more thing to add the orchid board vesa bios is only able to handle the meg dram on board the viper however can utilize the meg vram on board to support vesa modes such as x x x x mil and x x under dos stephen lau elec engineering univ of hawaii don t have my own account until grad school starts autumn death to fm synthesis go gus
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1,994 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | need info on ps mouse port would someone please email me the pinout for a ps pin mini din mouse port i m trying to make an adapter for a serial mouse and the dealer who knows what adapter works with the mouse i bought doesn t have it in stock i have several different adapters but none of them make sense based on what sketchy information i have about the port they have connections to reserved pins bob nichols at t bell laboratories rnichols ihlpm ih att com
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1,995 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | re monitors 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 i agree that the image is as sharp as it gets with these sony tubes however in the monitors using these tubes the annoying black lines on the top and bottom quarters of the tube which are created due to the wires holding up the invar shadow mask are quite annoying after a while that is the only thing that is making me lean more in favor of the nec fg or now also available the nec fge only difference no accucolor any experiences or opinions from people who have used the nec fg would be appreciated since i want to get one right after my exams are all done ie about a week from now tony tony gerardis mcgill university computer science prefered account the sun is the same in a relative way gerardis cs mcgill ca but you re older however also available and shorter of breath and one day tgerardi nyx cs du edu closer to death floyd gerardis musocs bitnet
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1,996 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | quantum at is my cache working the quantum lps at is supposed to have a k cache on the ide controller built into the card yet when i do a dos dir command on my system the disk is always accessed i can hear the mechanical movement of the heads why is this happening strangely even when i have smartdrive installed every dir command accesses the disk did i somehow de activate the cache this is happening on each of two machines with an lps at drive will estes internet westes netcom com
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1,997 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | custom keys i am looking for a company that can make custom keys for instance we need a key that says help main menu etc which we are going to use instead of f f f etc can anyone point me to a company that does this also do you have to have a special keyboard or can i just pop off the old keys and pop in the new ones thanks for the help jeff swartz
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1,998 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | re monitors in article c pisw kq cs mcgill ca gerardis cs mcgill ca the gif emporium writes stuff deleted a while that is the only thing that is making me lean more in favor of the nec fg or now also available the nec fge only difference no accucolor any experiences or opinions from people who have used not only do you lose accucolor you also had to give up x non interlaced mode the wider mhz bandwidth and the mac and bnc inputs of the fg personally i am not bothered at all by the two lines in trinitron tube tony gerardis mcgill university computer science stephen lau elec engineering univ of hawaii don t have my own account until grad school starts autumn death to fm synthesis go gus
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1,999 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | re rockwell chipset for s any good in article im u c camelot im u c camelot bradley edu joe zbiciak writes what s the word on the chipset is this a rom bug specific to a specific brand using the rockwell or is it the rockwell chipset itself there were an assortment of firmware problems but that is pretty much expected with any fax modem talking with a different fax or modem which may have also been revised or is new i m pretty much oblivious to any current firmware problems so you ll have to get it from someone else however i can tell you to stay clear of any board which uses the rockwell mpu as opposed to the dpu for an internal implementation this is because the mpu used speed buffering instead of having a interface without the interface the number of interrupts are still the same and thus may get dropped under multitasking conditions like in windows as far as i know the speed buffering works ok for external modems if a is used on the internal serial port board hope this helps tom tom barrett tdbear sr engineer tom barrett amd com v amd pcd ms e ben white austin tx f don t take no take hold don t leave it to chance tasmin archer my views are my own and may not be the same as the company of origin
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