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Info-IBMPC Digest           Mon, 21 Dec 92       Volume 92 : Issue 198

Today's Editor:
         Gregory Hicks - Rota Spain <[e-mail]>

Today's Topics:
                      address info for weather pix
                Configuration for HDD MAXTOR 7120A 120MB
                    Drive configuration information
                  environment in dos window in windows
                             Epson LQ-2550
                       IDE, SCSI and OS/2 ftp site
                    how to hookup RGB monitor to PC
                     Hard drive "burps" (V92 #189)
                   msdos undocumented switch (2 msgs)
                   Packet Driver for Ethernet Adapter
                         PC/Computing Utilities
              PGD(PGA)  <=to=>  VGA converter.  Possible?
                  reply to info-ibmpc digest v92 #190
                             0UNIX for PC?
                        Works for Windows files

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Date: Tue, 15 Dec 92 09:44:09 CST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: address info for weather pix

I have to FTP through an outside machine (i.e., not directly).  So,
what is the full INTERNET address for obtaining weather .GIF files?  I
need more than just vmd.cso.uiuc.edu . . .

Please inform.
Thanx,
--Nick Weisensel

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Date: Mon, 14 Dec 92 15:40:26 EST
From: [e-mail] (Jake Jacobson)
Subject: Configuration for HDD MAXTOR 7120A 120MB

In comp.sys.ibm.pc.digest you write:

>My friends, I need your advice. I had problems with my new hard disk
>MAXTOR, everytime it produces lost clusters, and many programs are
>lost. I want to know the reason. Somebody told that the problem was the
>configuration.
>
>Does anybody has a MAXTOR 7120A installed?

>Disk manager shows this configuration:   1024,14,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,17,39
>In my BIOS configuration I used : Cyl   Hds  Pre   Lz   Sec  Size
>                  1024  14    0   1024   17  119
>                  1024  14    -1  1023   17  119
>
>In both cases, I had many problems with the FATs.
>
>Thanks in advance,
>                Eduardo Zeballos ([e-mail])

Try                                936  16    0    936   17  124

(It's either 936 or 966, I'm not sure)  My drive works beautifully, and
you get an extra 5Mbytes!

-jake jacobson-
[e-mail]

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Date: Tue, 15 Dec 92 11:19:17 +0000
From: Andy Chittenden <[e-mail]>
Subject: Drive configuration information

I've recently acquired an old Seagate MFM drive (ST 4096) but don't
have its configuration information (such as number of cylinders, number
of heads, starting write precompensation cylinder and shipping zone). I
believe that there is a list somewhere that gives configuration
information on all manner of drives. Please could some kind soul email
me a copy of such a list or point me at a site where I can get hold of
a copy OR provide me with the information I need?

Thanks in advance,
Rgds, Andy Chittenden
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Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 15:22 EST
From: Will Polik <[e-mail]>
Subject: environment in dos window in windows

In order to customize a Windows DOS window, I create a program item in
Program Manager which calls a PIF, e.g., MYDOS.PIF.  I then create a
PIF which invokes a batch file, e.g., MYDOS.BAT.  This batch file can
load in TSR's, etc.  In my experience, the original (boot-up) DOS
environment is preserved.

Will Polik
[e-mail]

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Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 13:47 CDT
From: "Rick Receveur [phone]" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Epson LQ-2550

Folks,

        Has anyone out there had any troubles with Epson LQ-2550's
under reasonably heavy use ?  We've had print heads go bad every month
or two.  The mean time between failures for 25% use ( 2 hours out of 8
) is 6000 hours, or two years.  We estimate that we have about 50% use,
but have a mean time between failures of about 300 hours at most.

        Something's fishy.  By the way, we're printing on three part
forms, if that makes any difference ( it shouldn't ).

        Please reply by e-mail, as I'm not currently on the list.

                                                - Rick Receveur
                                                [e-mail]

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Date: Tue, 15 Dec 92 17:19:33 CET
From: "P. Rovers" <[e-mail]>
Subject: IDE&SCSI and OS/2 ftp site

> Date: 17 Nov 92 14:45:16 GMT
> From: Jim Erickson <[e-mail]>

> >>>I am considering mixing a SCSI drive in with my IDE drive sometime
> >>>in the near future.  However, I want to make sure that the 340MB IDE
> >>>is still the drive that boots the system, and ends up as the C:
> >>>drive.  Can I add a SCSI Controller, tack a 200MB SCSI drive onto it,
> >>>and still keep the IDE drive as the primary one.

Yes, I have about the same situation. I have a 212Mb Conner (IDE) and a
80Mb Seagate (SCSI). I use a IDE controller that came with the Conner
and a DTC 3280 SCSI controller (bought this one instead of the ST-01
controller that came with the Seagate because that one did not work
correct with the IDE). I just load two device drivers in high memory
for the SCSI and it maps the SCSI as H: and I:. Works perfect.  I even
used it with a second IDE drive which was indeed some more plugging
etc. but it worked too (had to check which jumper to put where), but I
had no problem like:

> ASPI drivers needed to be loaded for the dual IDE setup.

Only a jumper needed to be set elsewhere, no messing with config.sys or
whatever. SCSI was mapped as I: and J: afterwards.

> >Make sure that when you purchase the SCSI controller, you get the
> >version that comes with the device drivers (Adaptec kits them
> >separately, so that the controller can be purchased with or without
> >drivers).

Strange, my controller came with all drivers I needed, for DOS, OS/2
and Unix systems and costs only half as much as an Adaptec. Why are
they sold separately??? You can't use the drive without the drivers if
it's not a primary one.

And another remark:

> Former sites reported as inactive for OS/2 as of 27 Nov 92
>
> novell.com                   130.57.4.1               pub/os2
>   reported to have abandoned os/2: newest may 92

Appears to have become ftp.novell.com

Hope this helps,

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Date: 15 Dec 92 22:15:09 GMT
From: [e-mail] (Satyendra Dhingra)
Subject: how to hookup RGB monitor to PC

I currently have a PC Clone with SVGA, I would like to replace my
current monitor with a sony RGB monitor.  Does any one know if it is
possible to do this by use of some adapter.

thanks in adv for any response,
satyendra
[e-mail]

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Date: Mon, 14 Dec 92 14:52:29 MST
From: David <[e-mail]>
Subject: Info-IBMPC Digest V92 #189

On Tue, 8 Dec 1992 22:32:29 GMT Info-IBMPC Digest said:
>From: Tom Frenkel <[e-mail]>
>Subject: Hard drive "burps"
>
>Hi -- I have an IBM-clone PC (AST 386-sx running DOS 5) ... not sure of
>the hard drive brand.  But every few minutes, the hard drive does this
>kind of "burp" ... makes some kind of noise, and for 1 or 2 seconds it
>is locked up -- the PC often freezes (if it's doing I/O) until the hard
>drive has finished "burping".

I found this kind of activity on a 386 when I put a 200 mg Connor drive
into the system.  I formatted it with DR DOS 6 - and every so often the
drive light would come on, the who system would be locked for a couple
of seconds, and then the machine would continue as normal.  I thought
it had something to do with DR DOS.  Then I thought it might have
something to do with buffers in high memory -- and then a disk cache --
etc, etc.  the Digital Research people couldn't help.

I basically put up with the problem until I got made and repartitioned
the 200 mg drive into two 100 mg drives.  after the the problem mostly
went away.... although sometimes it would return.

 When I put os2 os the system, I never saw that problem again.  That
includes using FAT and HPFSpartitions on the drive.

David Bear
Office Automation
ASU COPP [phone]
... I think -- therefore I am a formal system -- I think?
[e-mail]

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Date: Tue, 15 Dec 92 10:25:29 EST
From: ed street <[e-mail]>
Subject: msdos undocumented switch.

I just heard that there is supposed to be an undocumented switch in the MsDos
version 5.00a, whether or not this is true I don't know.  Someone said it was
In the chkdsk command.

Does any one know anything about this??

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Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 23:33:30 -0700 (MST)
From: Gregory Hicks - Rota Spain <[e-mail]>
Subject: msdos undocumented switch.

yes.  The switch is in the FDISK command.

If you want to restore you master boot record (perhaps virus infected
with some sort of partition virus) do a
FDISK /MBR
and you master boot record will be replaced.

Regards,
Gregory Hicks
Editor, Info-IBMPC Digest

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Date: Tue, 15 Dec 92 15:59:34 GMT-3:00
From: [e-mail] (Vanner Fernandes Vasconcellos)
Subject: Packet Driver for Ethernet Adapter

        Hi folks

        Recently I installed a IBM PS/2 Adapter/A for Ethernet Networks
in a IBM PS/2 model 80, but I'm having problems to find out which
packet driver should be used with this adapter. The manual pages of the
adapter says that it works like Western Digital EtherCard PLUS/A, so
any packet driver that works with these two may solve my problem.

        Thanks in advance.
        Vanner Vasconcellos
        [e-mail]

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Date: Mon, 14 Dec 92 09:30:22 -0600
From: John Boyd <[e-mail]>
Subject: PC/Computing Utilities

I've found ftp sites for PC Magazine utilities, but could someone point
me to a repository for some of the stuff from PC/Computing? Thanx!

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Date: Mon, 14 Dec 92 14:04:58 PST
From: [e-mail] (Joseph A. Faracchio)
Subject: PGD(PGA)  <=to=>  VGA converter.  Possible?

We are about to chuck an IBM PGD (Professional Graphics Display) into
the trash here.  But before I let them do it, I'm trying to use it as
VGA monitor.    PGD/PGA was IBM's first stab at Analog display
technology.

The pin in/outs of the PGD/PGA are very close to the VGA but not exact.

There's a correspondence of the red, green , blue and returns.  Where
the PGA is composite sync, vga is horizontal sync, and the mode control
is where vert sync is.

Can a 15 pin to 9 pin converter be created?    The other pins on the
VGA not accounted for are the Monitor ID BITs (1,1,2) on pins 11,12 &
4.

Better yet, does anyone know of an outfit that has 'created' one of
these connectors and sells them?   It would be worth paying $50.00 for
something that works.

any help would be appreciated.  Please respond directly as I don't
think there's a lot of interest in this area.   I will summarize if I
get some good information worth passing on.

            thanks ...... joe.f.

SPGJAF @ CMSA.Berkeley.Edu    also ... USUCA886 @ IBMMAIL via x.400

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Date: 14 Dec 92 16:41:00 CST
From: 9CSSCSNC <[e-mail]>
Subject: reply to info-ibmpc digest v92 #190

Eduardo Zeballos Veraloza writes about a Maxtor 7120A 120MB drive, I've
seen the same problem in systems here.  On the drive, JB2 (jumper block
2) should have jumpers 2 and 3 REMOVED for the configuration he listed.
i.e. 1024 cyl, 14 hds, 17 spt.  If jumper 2 is installed, your BIOS
lists too many tracks and cylinders.

SSgt Robert H. Stewart, Jr.
Small Computer Support Center
Beale AFB, CA
[e-mail]

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Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 14:08:47 GMT
From: [e-mail] (Kim Roland Rasmussen)
Subject: UNIX for PC?
Keywords: UNIX, PC
Summary: Is Unix avaiable for the PCs

Could somebody tell me if it is possible to run Unix, with X-Windows,
on a PC. I have a 486/50 VESA Local Bus with 245 MB HDD and 8 MB RAM.
If it is possible which Unix (if there are more than one) should I buy?

Thanx in advance.
                        Kim/[e-mail]


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Date: Mon, 14 Dec 92 22:47:45 GMT
From: Christopher Currie <[e-mail]>
Subject: Works for Windows files

Does anyone know whether:

1.  Microsoft Works for Windows wordprocessor uses the same format for
its files as Microsoft Word, and if so, which version of Word?

2. the Works for Windows wordprocessor can save files in other than its
native format, and if so in which formats?

Thanks. Please reply directly to me.

Christopher Currie
[e-mail]

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