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From: vsafran@ukrv.de (Volker Safran)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.software
Subject: Re: Lost Boot sector adding win95
Date: 29 Aug 1996 15:37:54 GMT
Organization: Technical University Berlin, Germany
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J.-U. Thieme schrieb in comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.software:
>
>
> In <501q6q$1mtg@msunews.cl.msu.edu> Bill Punch wrote:
> > I have an Intel P590 with a 1 Gb drive partitioned into 75%NeXT and
> > 25%DOS. Well, it was DOS, but I installed from scratch Win95 into
> > the DOS partition. Now Win95 runs well but it no longer prompts me
> > at boot time for the partition to start, and I can't start NeXT.
> > Obviously, the Win95 install over-wrote the boot prompt. How can I
> > re-install, get back the boot prompt. Thanks.
> >
> >
>
> 1.) Boot from the NeXT-Installfloppy
> 2.) use : disk -b "raw-device" , this command write a new bootsector
> on your drive.
>
Better use "disk -B0 /usr/standalone/i386/boot0 /dev/rsd0a" according
to NA1470.
CIAO Volker
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From: felix@nice.usergroup.ethz.ch (Felix Rauch)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Jaz-Drive: No plug and play?
Date: 31 Aug 1996 21:37:30 GMT
Organization: NiCE - NeXT User Group, Zuerich, Switzerland
Message-ID: <50abaq$qjp@elna.ethz.ch>
I bought one of thouse new Jaz-Drives, but it's not an easy plug and
play as I read it here in the news.
After connecting it and booting my black machine (as usual from my
external scsi-disk with scsi-id 1), I tried to do a "disk -q
/dev/rsd2a" (the Jaz has id 3), a panel popped up asking me to insert
a disk in external drive 2. I did this and nothing happened (the
lights flashed a bit, but there was no noise). I tried it a few more
times, but never ever something happened. (I added a disktab-entry to
my /etc/disktab as suggested in the news btw.)
So I took the drive to school, hooked it up on a Mac Quadra, was able
to install the software (parts of it were taken from the Jaz-Medium,
so this was the first time a disk was accepted), rebooted the Mac and
was unable to insert the disk again. Well, I could insert it, but
nothing happened (except the lights flashing of course, but no noise).
I went to another place at school and with the help of a friend was
able to connect the drive to a NeXT cube. Everything was perfect. We
could insert a Medium and it was automatically and correctly mounted
as a Mac-removable disk. The "disk -q" worked as well. "Great, so it's
ok", I thought, took it home, connected it directly to my NeXT
(without any other drives on the scsi-chain this time) and this time,
the "disk -q" worked. Strange. After playing around with my other
scsi-devices I found out (at least I thought so) that the Jaz has to
be the first device on the chain. I was able to format the disk,
install a NeXT-filesystem on it, mount it, was happy and switched
everything off.
Now (a few hours later) I'm again unable to do anything with the
drive. When I try to mount a disk or do a "disk -q", the panel pops
up, I insert the disk, the lights flash, a noise does NOT occur and
nothing happens. As this is not exactly the behaviour I originally
expected from a Jaz-drive, I'm asking you for help. Does anybody
understand this? Did something similar happen to any of you? Were you
able to solve the problem? Any ideas?
Any hint is appreciated.
- Felix
PS: Right after writing this article I tried it again. I did a "disk
-q /dev/rsd2h" and inserted the disk immediately without waiting for
the panel and it worked! The drive spinned up adn afterwards, I could
mount the disk, copy some stuff on it, umount and eject it (with disk
-e). But I can't repeat this now :-(. This drive seems to be some kind
of a probabilistic drive...
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From: matthewm@sgate.com (Michael Matthews)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Internal modems & NEXTSTEP 3.3 Intel
Date: 29 Aug 1996 20:37:31 -0400
Organization: Southgate Internet Host
Message-ID: <505d4b$u6f@sgate.com>
Um.
Can someone tell me how to get my internal modem to be recognized by
NEXTSTEP? I vaguely remember seeing something about this a while ago, but my
cursory search of the archives and AltaVista came up empty handed.
NEXTSTEP 3.3/Intel, the modem in question is a USR 28.8 "classic." It's
working fine under Windows as COM2 IRQ3 base addr 0x2f8. I have the new
serial driver (NeXTanswers 1327?).
Do I need to make it something like COM4? Will the serial driver give me
something other than serial port or PCMCIA card for a choice as to location?
Thanks.
Mike
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From: Peter Olsson <peter@miskish.gi.alaska.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Re: Laptops and Nextstep
Date: Thu, 29 Aug 1996 14:05:04 -0800
Organization: Geophysical Institute, University of Alaska Fairbanks
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Earlier I wrote:
>
> I am interested in purchasing a pentium laptop to run nextstep on and
> would be interested in hearing from anyone out there who has some words
> of wisdom regarding compatability, good deals, requisite hardware, etc.
>
> Please respond via e-mail, and thanx in advance for your time.
>
> --
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I got several responses (thanx), all suggesting the Toshiba Tecra 720.
Sounds like a fine machine, but at the upper $5k range perhaps a bit
steep for me. Anyone out there with suggestions in the $2.5k-$5k range?
Being primarily a user of Unix workstations, I am admittedly ignorant
concerning laptops and am concerned about how to allocate $$$.
Certainly, a high quality display is important. How about memory? Is 32
Mb necessary? (seems so) My main interest is in text-processing
(FrameMaker) and web browsing.
A lot of folks tell me that I should run Linix, but that seems like kind
of a step down from NeXTstep/Openstep. I do not have much time to
research this laptop issue and would appreciate any input available. Any
FAQs I should know about? How about other newsgroups?
Dr. Peter Q. Olsson
Geophysical Institute
University of Alaska Fairbanks
Fairbanks, AK 99775-7320
Phone: (907) 474-6477
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From: Robert DeMartino <demartino@worldnet.att.net>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: next 400dpi printer
Date: 30 Aug 1996 21:10:08 GMT
Organization: AT&T WorldNet Services
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Is it possible to connect a NeXT printer to a comm port on a dell omniplex
566, and do you know how the cable needs to be wired.
From: Admin
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Network Performance Problems (Cogent EM 960)
Date: 30 Aug 1996 23:25:41 GMT
Organization: MARCON - Evstathios Marinos Consulting, Karlsruhe/Germany
Message-ID: <507t9l$7t@marcon.marcon.de>
Hi,
I changed my network card from SMC Elite 16 to a Cogen EM 960 PCI card. From one moment to the other the complete network performance went down at least 200%. I am getting messages like
netinfo [lookupd] rpc timed out.
Also the NFS performance became bad.
Does anybody had a similar problem in the past?
My configuration:
Processor: Intel 80486 (wrong P6)
Primary Memory: 128.00 MB
Hostname: bianca
Kernel: NeXT Mach 4.0: Sun Apr 21 18:06:55 PDT 1996; root(rcbuilder):Objects/mk-183.25.obj~6/RELEASE_I386
System Version: OPENSTEP 4.0 for Mach(Lantern3V1)
Drivers Installed:
Boot Drivers: DECchip21040NetworkDriver DPTSCSIDriver ISASerialPort Floppy PS2Keyboard PCIBus EISABus
Details:
DECchip 21040 Network Driver 4.00 PCI bus
EATA PCI Controller 4.03 PCI bus
System Serial 4.00 EISA bus at IRQ 4 ports 0x3f8-0x3ff
Floppy 4.00 at IRQ 6 DMA 2 ports 0x3f2-0x3f7
PS2Keyboard 4.00 at IRQ 1 ports 0x60-0x65
PCIBus 4.00
EISABus 4.00 at IRQ 2 ports 0x00-0x0f 0x20-0x21 0x40-0x4b 0x70-0x71 0x81-0x8F 0x92-0x92 0xc0-0xcf
PS2Mouse 4.00 at IRQ 12
System Parallel 4.00 at IRQ 7 ports 0x378-0x37f
ELSA WINNER Adapter 1.3A PCI bus map 0x7c000000-0x7fffffff
ELSA WINNER Adapter 1.3A PCI bus map 0x78000000-0x7bffffff
Omni Pentium Pro Driver 1.0
My netinfo server is a NeXTstation turbo with NS 3.3 + the latest patches, NFS-Server is an HP 712/80.
I never had performance problems until I swapped the network card.
Would be great if somebody can help me, Thanks
Stathis
From: dwy@walrus.com (David Young)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Re: Adaptec 2940 Ultra/Ultra W - Problem installing with
Date: 30 Aug 1996 18:42:16 GMT
Organization: Intellitech Corporation
Message-ID: <507cm8$48d@alice.walrus.com>
References: <4vv7jm$n55@zorak.acns.carleton.edu> <4vvfsp$d4j@news.xmission.com>
don@misckit.com wrote:
:> I'm having trouble installing NeXTSTEP 3.3 on a Gateway P6 with an Adaptec
> 2940 Ultra/Ultra W (Bios v1.23) scsi adapter. I would really appreciate
> any advice that anyone can give.
: I'm having a similar problem, but I can't get 4.0 (OPENSTEP) to
: install. With OPENSTEP, the driver is version 4.0 instead of 3.3's
: 3.37. My problem is that I get through much of the boot from the CD
: (I'm trying to do it off an EIDE CDROM--a Toshiba) but then it dies
: saying that there are *no* suitable disks to install on.
This sounds similar to the problems I encountered with NS 3.3.
I have a 2940UW and installed from an ATAPI CD on my Dell XPS 133c.
Here's the deal. Make sure you have the latest boot disk, driver disk, and
_additional driver disk_ from NeXTanswers. Boot the boot disk, dismiss the
prompts, until you get to the part where you need to load drivers.
Switch disks to the additional driver disk, load the 2940UW driver from
this disk (it should say "Dev: 16" and some other info next to it).
At the next prompt load the EIDE/ATAPI driver. Doesn't matter which is
your CD and which is your disk, it should get it all straightened out
later on.
On a side note, I have my EIDE CD as a master device on my primary controller
since I don't have an EIDE hard drive anymore; when NS boots it waits for
a long time while it probes a nonexistant device 1 (the CD is 0, it falsely
detects the device 1).
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Subject: Re: Adaptec 2940 Ultra/Ultra W - Problem installing with
Message-ID: <3226A9CC.689C@uwyo.edu>
From: Earl Spillar <spillar@uwyo.edu>
Date: Fri, 30 Aug 1996 02:43:56 -0600
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Guys:
I plugged my old NeXT SCSI CDROM in, and things loaded up fine
(although I think the new 8x would have been a little faster).
Once the system was loaded, all the SCSI and ATAPI devices worked.
So this is one solution, all though
it doesn't help if you don't have a SCSI CDROM (or need to
wait for a cable like I did.) Anyway, it sounds like Marcels
solution may work for ATAPI drives.
Earl Spillar
From: hansen_e@otto.cmr.fsu.edu (Erik A Hansen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: FAQ info
Date: 30 Aug 1996 03:17:38 GMT
Organization: Florida State University
Message-ID: <505mgi$67d@news.fsu.edu>
Is there a FAQ available about NeXT configurations?
I am considering getting a NeXT but I am confused
about the "slabs", "boxes", "turbos", and "colors".
I've worked on what I assume is a Cube, it's shaped
likw one, waiting for a response from my teacher.
So I'm familar with using one just not what that NeXT
was or what other ones are. Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks,
erik
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From: dwright1@voicenet.com (Darren Wright)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: 030 Headless Cube Boot????
Date: 1 Sep 1996 02:20:31 GMT
Organization: Voicenet - Internet Access - (215)674-9290
Message-ID: <50artf$lqp@goodnews.voicenet.com>
I just bought an 030 headless cube. I'd like to get it to boot, but I'm
not sure what to do here:
I can get it to power on (power resisitor and 470 ohm trick)
But the serial port console isn't kicking in. How cna I get this on
without a B & W monitor? I have a color station here....can I wire up
that monitor just to see the console?
I also have some multisync monitors...can they be used?
Thanks¡
-Darren
From: khader@katie.vnet.net (R. D. Khader)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Help: Installing NS3.3 on Intel?
Date: 1 Sep 1996 13:43:19 GMT
Organization: Vnet Internet Access, Inc. - Charlotte, NC. (704) 374-0779
Message-ID: <50c3tn$iqg@ralph.vnet.net>
From: khader@katie.vnet.net (R. D. Khader)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Help: Installing NS3.3 on Intel?
Date: 1 Sep 1996 16:10:06 GMT
Organization: Vnet Internet Access, Inc. - Charlotte, NC. (704) 374-0779
Message-ID: <50ccgu$kfs@ralph.vnet.net>
Hi there,
I am trying to install NS3.3 on an Intel TRICAD machine, I have 2GB
partioned into 4 segments. and a Sony CD, all controlled by a scsi driver.
The machine was configured by our PC-Admin, to run both NT/dos windows.
I would like to use on of the disks for NS. The Installation disks loads
device drivers that can't find the CD to contiue the load. I searched for
SONY/CDU55 in the NextAnswers and it looks like its there and there is
a support for it, but the driver is on the CD, So:
1) How can I get the installation to load the correct driver
that can read the CD to continue the installation !
2) If I need to load the CD driver on a floppy, which I
understand it has to be unix/NS formatted disk, How Can I load that
driver on an additional floppy If I cant read them further write to them
from NT/Windows? Is there an other way to do that? or is there a
complete floppy set of all the drivers available from Next?
Any help or direction will be very appreciated.
Thanks,
khader@vnet.net
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From: Holger.Hoffstaette@schwaben.de (Holger Hoffstaette)
Subject: Re: Two SCSI COntrollers
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Date: Sun, 1 Sep 1996 18:53:10 GMT
bdm@xp.psych.nyu.edu wrote:
>
> Is it possible to have two SCSI controllers
> (e.g., Adaptec 2940W) in an Intel machine
> running 3.3?
Yes. Two different ones work fine, too - I once had an 2940 and
an DPT in my box. It just worked.
Holger
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From: Kurniawan Darmawangsa <kdarmawa@ix.netcom.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Problem installing HP Laset Jet on NSFIP is solved
Date: Sun, 01 Sep 1996 15:58:55 -0700
Organization: Terra System Inc.
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Thanks for the helps from Felipe A. Rodriguez and Yu Wen-Chen, finally
the HP LaserJet 5MP works flawlessly on my NSFIP.
The problem was caused by the Power Management (APM) being turned on.
When I disabled, everything works just fine. It is still mystery to me.
Why APM can caused printing problem?
Thanks again for the help.
Leon
From: G.F.Vocking@kub.nl (Gustaaf Vocking (DEA/IM))
Newsgroups: nl.comp,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.acorn.hardware
Subject: Re: Two keyboards on one computer
Date: Mon, 2 Sep 1996 08:19:36 GMT
Organization: Tilburg University, The Netherlands
Message-ID: <G.F.Vocking.82.322A9898@kub.nl>
References: <NEWTNews.16421.841476389.beppo@pi-user.pi.net>
In article <NEWTNews.16421.841476389.beppo@pi-user.pi.net> j.b.dufour@pi.net writes:
>Hello, my name is Raimond and I wonder if it is possible to have two
> keyboards on one computer.
Hi there,
Of course this is possible. Actually there are switchboxes (like the
printerswitches) available for 2 (or more) keyboards on 1 PC or for 2 (or
more) PC's on 1 keyboard.
NB for simplicity it's handy when the keyboards have the same connectors, i.e.
it MIGHT give you trouble when one is a buskeyboard and the other is not.
Regards,
Gustaaf
From: matthewm@sgate.com (Michael Matthews)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: SOLVED?: internal modems, NEXTSTEP 3.3
Date: 2 Sep 1996 10:06:57 -0400
Organization: Southgate Internet Host
Message-ID: <50epm1$a7r@sgate.com>
Thanks to Yu-Wen Cheng (yucheng@math.arizona.edu) for pointing the obvious
out to me -- the serial port drivers for 3.3 come in two parts (maybe three,
if you have a serial mouse): the ISASerialPortDriver and the TTY PortServer.
I hadn't installed the PortServer, so none of my serial ports would work.
That worked fine for a few days. Just like some other equipment I bought (my
internal Jaz drive won't accept any new disks; just doens't latch on any
more... "worked for a few days").
Now every time I try to access the damn modem, either via kermit or PPP, the
machine freezes completely. I even reinstalled the drivers.
WTFO?
[for those that don't know, that stands for What The F***, Over?]
I hate it when other people say this, but, well, "nothing's changed." The
modem works perfectly fine under Windows.
I'd have to say that NEXTSTEP has pretty lousy support for internal modems.
When it works, it's wonderful. When it doesn't work, you're screwed.
Has *anybody* seen something like this? I'm really getting fed up with
NEXTSTEP (although I'm getting fed up with this whole computer; OS/2 won't
load because it keeps locking up on bootup. I finally put a valid label on
the other disk I got so NEXTSTEP won't bitch about the disk being unreadable,
but I know the label will go away once I get OS/2 up -- if -- and use fdisk
to partition it the way I want, so I can install some other stuff, although I
know that the install for Linux won't work because OS/2's boot manager will
undoubtedly say the partition is not formatted like it said before etc. etc.
etc. Sometimes, life really sucks. I guess I'm getting punished for taking
advantage of my company's computer loan program).
Thanks.
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From: smb3u@delton.psyc.virginia.edu (Steven M. Boker)
Subject: IBM disk woes solved! (summary)
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Organization: University of Virginia, Department of Psychology
Date: Mon, 2 Sep 1996 20:42:16 GMT
Hi all-
A week and a half ago I began to try to install one of the new IBM
UltraStar 4 gigabyte hard disks. Like many others in this group
I have had bad luck with the reliability of the LOUSY UNRELIABLE
SEAGATE BARRACUDA drives. I've installed 8 of them in the past
year and a half and I've had 4 I-DON'T-KNOW-I'M-A-SCSI-DEVICE
SEND-ME-BACK-TO-SINGAPORE failures in that time. 50% failure in
18 months is a lot worse than the published MTBF.
As far as I Quantum looks to be even worse. So, I've been looking
around for another solution. I found that I could buy an IBM
DFHSS4UF 4 gigabyte for $879 in an external enclosure. The specs
looked good (8.5 ms access, 7200 rpm, etc.) so I decided to give
it a try.
The disk refused to allow itself to be formatted by a NeXTstation.
I spent a good deal of time attempting to tweak a disktab, and
finally realized that there was something fundamentally wrong
when "disk /dev/rsd1a" would let me perform read tests, but
refused to let me perform write tests.
Many kind folks on this group helped me work out the solution to
this problem. Thanks to James Quick, Randy, and rencsok@channelu.com
for suggestions about possible solutions with disktab.
Timm Wetzel finally came up with the solution. The IBM drives have
the ASPDE (Additional Save Data Pointer Enable) bit set to 0 in
the SCSI page 0. This bit needs to be set to 1 in order to work
with black hardware.
You can do this with the old version of scsitools "sense" and
"select" commands. Unfortunately, these tools seem to have been
lost from the archives when nova.cc.purdue.edu went away. One more
person (Ernst Kloecker) came to my rescue with a copy of the
scsitools and now I'm up and running.
The IBM disk is much quieter than the LOUSY UNRELIABLE SEAGATE
BARRACUDA drives. Let's hope that it lasts longer.... So far,
I'm quite pleased with the drive.
Now, here's how to modify the IBM defaults so that the drive can
be used on black hardware.
-----------------------------------------------------------------
If (be sure to check!) your drive's page 0 is laid out like the
DFHS, then the following will work. IBM will send you a fax
of the relevant docs if you call 800-IBM-3333 in the US. I'll
be uploading a copy of scsitools.new.tar.gz to next-ftp.peak.org
as soon as my new machine name propagates through DNS so that
peak will let me ftp.
Here's how to set the ASDPE bit for an IBM OEM DFHSS4F:
1. Make sure you know which scsi drive to send to:
inquire
will come back with a listing of the devices. Suppose your
IBM drive is listed as "-t 2 -l 0"
2. Get a copy of the page 0 bytes:
sense -t 2 -l 0 -p 0 > somefile.orig
3. Make a copy of "somefile.orig" to "somefile.new" and
change the line that reads
-mp00 0003 31 ff # b1 ff 80 b1
to read
-mp00 0003 b1 ff # b1 ff 80 b1
4. Now make the change:
select -t 2 -l 0 -p 0 -f somefile.new
You should now be able to use "disk" to format the drive.
I ended up using the following disktab entry:
DFHSS4F|DFHSS4F-512|IBM OEM DFHSS4F:\
:ty=fixed_rw_scsi:nc#4392:nt#16:ns#135:ss#512:rm#7200:\
:fp#320:bp#0:ng#0:gs#0:ga#0:ao#0:\
:os=sdmach:z0#64:z1#192:hn=localhost:rw=a:rw=b:\
:pa#0:sa#4194304:ba#8192:fa#1024:ca#32:da#4096:ra#10:oa=time:\
:ia:ta=4.3BSD:\
:pb#4194304:sb#4194304:bb#8192:fb#1024:cb#32:db#4096:rb#10:ob=time:\
:ib:tb=4.3BSD:
Remember, if you copy this disktab from your newsreader, that blank
space at the beginning of each line but the first has to be _one_ tab.
Not spaces. One tab.
Good luck!
Steve
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From: mmalcolm crawford <m.crawford@shef.ac.uk>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Canon: Was Re: Hard Drive Failures - Was Re: Mail aliases under NS 3.3 with new Sendmail
Date: 2 Sep 1996 22:01:29 GMT
Organization: University of Sheffield, UK
Message-ID: <50flfp$mo@bignews.shef.ac.uk>
References: <502egs$50c@news.digifix.com> <503780$7fd@news.digifix.com> <504dqm$kk1@sjx-ixn6.ix.netcom.com> <505ol9$g3j@news.digifix.com> <505ruh$gft@dfw-ixnews8.ix.netcom.com>
In-Reply-To: <505ruh$gft@dfw-ixnews8.ix.netcom.com>
On 08/30/96, Art Isbell wrote:
> We have about 10 rarely-used object.stations. Most are used for
customer
> training only, and you know how easy it is to find customers for NS
products
> :-( One has had a bad power supply replaced, another has non-functional
> serial ports, and another has some sort of problem with its SCSI hardware
> that makes it frequently unable to find the boot disk. Contrast this with
> our much older and continually-used NeXT hardware, some of which has been
> thrown around by airline baggage handlers on scores of sales calls. We had
> to replace one NeXTstation CPU board after a baggage handler dropped the
> computer so hard that a couple of plastic memory SIMM sockets broke!
That's
> it!
>
> I don't know if these object.stations are just typical PC quality, or
> worse. But they've certainly been a big disappointment from a quality/cost
> perspective.
>
I've been holding back on sending this as I heard a rumour that things might
have got moving on the Canon front and that support was likely to come
through. Sadly this appears not to be the case.
Here's a first draft of a letter I intend to send to Canon by September 16;
if anyone has any comments, wants to add anything etc, please let me know
asap. If you follow up on the newsgroup, please also cc me by email as I
don't always get everything I should on news.
Best wishes,
mmalc.
Haruo Murase
One Canon Plaza
Lake Success, NY 11042
(516) 488-6700
Dear Sir
I read with interest the section on your Company's WWW site
(http://www.usa.canon.com/noamorg.html) entitled "Maintaining a healthy
customer bond":
As with any sales-driven organization, success at Canon U.S.A. is determined
by a high level of customer satisfaction, making the activities of our Sales
and Marketing network vitally important. This vast network of regional
offices is instrumental in forging solid relationships with our dealerships,
who in turn are better able to serve our customers.
It is with much regret, therefore, that I enclose a copy of an email I sent
recently to the comp.sys.next.advocacy newsgroup, and a bulletin board for
NEXTSTEP-users in the UK which summarises grievances I hold against Canon for
the lack of support for the object.station developed, manufactured and sold
by Canon ATO. In my humble opinion, the actions of Canon CCSI in ignoring the
plight of Canon ATO's customers both here and in the USA (since posting my
message I have had reports of similar misfortunes suffered by customers in
the USA) have been both dishonourable and damaging to the reputation of
Canon.
We feel that an apology is in order, as well as some sort of reparation, in
the form of hardware made available by Canon to those of us who have disabled
machines. Even something that can only run NT is more useable than something
that is inoperative.
I look forward to your reply
Yours faithfully
Malcolm Crawford
X-Nextstep-Mailer: Mail 3.3 (Enhance 1.3)
Sender: Malcolm Crawford <malc>
From: mmalcolm crawford <m.crawford@dcs.shef.ac.uk>
Date: Thu, 11 Jul 96 16:47:21 +0100
To: uk-nextstep-users@mailbase.ac.uk
Subject: Canon
Reply-To: m.crawford@dcs.shef.ac.uk
Home-Page-Url: ”http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/~malc/
As I write, I'm looking at one of the brochures Canon produced a while back,
introducing the object.station 41. When I saw it first -- almost two years
ago was it now? -- I found it inspiring and reassuring. There are sentences
such as:
"Every customer appreciates good serive. At Canon, we'll customize a service
and support plan that caters for your needs."
"Your investment is safe for the long haul, too."
and
"THE SAFE CHOICE FOR NEXTSTEP...
Need to go beyond the standard 1-year warranty with free 7-day 24-hour phone
support? We've got the depth and flexibility to do it."
Today the emptiness of these promises is sickening.
As is I believe the case with many object.station owners (it took a lot of
effort just to become an owner, but that's a different story), I've had a few
problems. I think I've been luckier than many.
The hard drive failed sometime in Q1 this year -- after Canon had "withdrawn"
their product, and left support up to Bull Information systems. I was
fortunate that friends here happened to know just who to contact -- I don't
recall any communication from Canon about where to go for maintenance. I was
extremely fortunate in that the friendly people at Bull replaced my drive at
no cost.
Now the floppy controller has failed. For anyone in a similar situation,
Bull have told me that the problem can often be worked around by simply
telling the BIOS that there is no A: intalled -- this means you can't use the
floppy, but at least your system will boot. This doesn't work in my case.
(Nor, as far as I can tell, though I'm not a hardware expert and may have got
things wrong, does altering jumper settings to disable it, nor adding an IDE
card with floppy controller.)
Bull have also told me that despite numerous phone calls, letters, complaints
etc. Canon will neither supply further replacement parts, nor pay for repairs
and servicing that Bull have already undertaken. Canon UK refers any
enquiries to Canon USA, who in turn pass the buck to Canon Japan, who point
back to Canon UK. Regrettably, therefore, whilst they will do their best to
help me out this one last time (and they cannot guarantee to be able to fix
the problemn this time -- it depends on what parts they can scavenge from
other machines), in the future they will not be able to service my machine.
Up until recently I had been very impressed with Canon. Now, although I
understand that Canon ATO seems to have been a "special case", and that Canon
Japan is still doing "good things" with NeXT in the Far East, the fact that
the parent company seems to have completely disinherited its admittedly
prodigal offspring leaves me wondering just how far they can be trusted in
future.
Bull, on the other hand, comes out of this very well: on the basis of my
experience so far, I would recommend their services without hesitation --
call them on
+44 (0)161 486 5234
If anyone has any suggestions for the appropriate people to contact at Canon,
I would be most grateful.
Best wishes,
mmalc.
.
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From: lionel@cyberlab.ch (Lionel Tinguely)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: CD-R & OPENSTEP
Date: 2 Sep 1996 23:51:45 GMT
Organization: SWITCH, Swiss Academic & Research Network
Message-ID: <50fruh$5gn@scsing.switch.ch>
Hi !
Is it possible to use a CD-R under OPENSTEP ?
What software should I use ?
Thanks
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From: Jim De Arras <jmd@westlab.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: 21" monitor (3 BNC RBG) cable for Intel?
Date: Mon, 02 Sep 1996 23:09:05 -0400
Organization: WestLab Consulting
Message-ID: <322BA151.3E0A@westlab.com>
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Does anyone know of a way I can use my 21" NextDimension display on
an Intel box? Specific cards and cables appreciated!
Please respond via e-mail to jmd@westlab.com
Thanks,
Jim
From: mpaque@pacbell.net (Mike Paquette)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Re: next 400dpi printer
Date: Tue, 03 Sep 1996 04:20:32 GMT
Organization: Electronics Service, Unit No. 16
Message-ID: <50gbpq$pes@pbinews.snfc21.pacbell.net>
References: <507lbg$q7m@mtinsc01-mgt.ops.worldnet.att.net>
Robert DeMartino <demartino@worldnet.att.net> wrote:
>Is it possible to connect a NeXT printer to a comm port on a dell omniplex
>566, and do you know how the cable needs to be wired.
Nope.
While the NeXT Laser Printer interface can technically be called a
serial interface, it's nothing like the RS-232 serial interface as
found on a PC. It's more of a digital video stream, complete with
sync signals, and with the same sort of extremely tight timing
requirements.
The printer relies on the Display Postscript interpreter running on
the NeXT CPU to convert PostScript to a bitmap, and then uses
dedicated hardware including a DMA channel to pump the bits to the
printer.
Mike Paquette
I don't speak for my employer, and they don't speak for me.
mpaque@pacbell.net Personal E-mail
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco
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From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@nerc3.nerc.com>
Date: Mon, 2 Sep 96 23:41:47 -0400
Subject: dead RAM?
Organization: Princeton Theological Seminary
Return-Receipt-To: luomat@nerc.com
I came back from my weekend away to find that my NeXTStation had a
problem.
It seems this problem is in the RAM.
I need help in figuring out how to diagnose and fix the problem.
Here's the error message which appeared 3/4 of the way through the
boot process:
Parity errr at address Ox5alf890
(not sure what that character after the "a" is, actually, might be
a 1 might be an "l")
SIMM memory socket 4-7
panic (CPU 0) parity error
I was able to subvert this error by turning off the DRAM test and
the parity check from the ROM monitor (was this a bad thing to
do????)
Anyway, how can I find out:
1) what chip(s) is/are bad?
2) how to get them out? (just heard about this, but can't find the
reference)
3) where to get new SIMMs/what kind to get (parity/no parity, 70ns?
100ns? which is better??)
I've got a non-turbo slab with 32 ram max.
Any advice accepted.
Thanks
TjL
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From: tralala@mlink.net
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.marketplace,comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: FS: NeXTCubes w/NeXTDim, NeXTStations, etc.
Date: 2 Sep 1996 08:45:38 GMT
Organization: Mlink Internet, Montreal, Canada
Message-ID: <50e6ri$ig8@neon.Mlink.NET>
FOR SALE
System #1
NeXTCube - 68040 - 50 mHz - 32 MB RAM
(with Pyro Accelerator Card)
NeXTDimension Board - 32 MB RAM
NeXT MegaPixel Display - 17" color (very crisp)
NeXT MegaPixel Display - 17" mono (very crisp)
Quantum Hard Drive - 405 MB
3 1/2" Drive
NeXT Optical Drive - with 7 Optical Disks (250 MB/each)
NeXTPrinter - 400 dpi with tray & toner
NeXTColorPrinter - 360 dpi (11 X 17)
HSD Color Scanner (24 bits) with software
NeXT CD-ROM Drive
Keyboard, mouse, and cables
NEXTSTEP 3.3 User & Developer installed
All equipment in impeccable condition
Original shipping boxes & books
Price: Best reasonable offer
System #2
NeXTCube - 68040 - 25 mHz - 32 MB RAM
NeXTDimension Board - 32 MB RAM
NeXT MegaPixel Display - 17" mono (very crisp)
Quantum Hard Drive - 405 MB
3 1/2" Drive
NeXTPrinter - 400 dpi with tray & toner
Keyboard, mouse, and cables
NEXTSTEP 3.3 User & Developer installed
All equipment in impeccable condition
Original shipping boxes & books
Price: Best reasonable offer
System #3
NeXTStation - 68040 - 25 mHz - 16 MB RAM
NeXT MegaPixel Display - 17" mono (very crisp)
Quantum Hard Drive - 405 MB
3 1/2" Drive
NeXTPrinter - 400 dpi with tray & toner
Keyboard, mouse, and cables
NEXTSTEP 3.3 User & Developper installed
All equipment in impeccable condition
Original shipping boxes & books
Price: Best reasonable offer
System #4
NeXTStation - 68040 - 25 mHz - 8 MB RAM
NeXT MegaPixel Display - 17" mono
Quantum Hard Drive - 405 MB
3 1/2" Drive
Keyboard, mouse, and cables
Original shipping boxes & books
NEXTSTEP 3.3 User & Developper installed
Price: Best reasonable offer
The following equipment can be purchased separately:
2 X NextDimension Card with 32 MB RAM
1 X 50 mHz Pyro Accelerator Card
1 X NeXT MegaPixel Display Color - 17" (Like new)
3 X NeXT MegaPixel Display (b/w)
1 X NeXT Color Printer 360 dpi (Like new)
3 X NeXT Printers - 400 dpi with tray & toner (Like new)
1 X Extra paper tray
1 X HSD ColorScanner - 24 bit with software (Like new)
1 X NeXT CD-ROM Drive
1 X Optical DIsk Drive with 7 disks
Price: Best reasonable offer
Shipping worldwide.
Buyer pays for shipping.
Please contact:
Andre
(514) 526-3996
(514) 526-4004
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From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@nerc3.nerc.com>
Date: Tue, 3 Sep 96 00:15:00 -0400
Subject: Re: External Modem
Cc: comp-sys-next-hardware@antigone.com
Organization: Princeton Theological Seminary
Return-Receipt-To: luomat@nerc.com
woo@woonext.cmo.ornl.gov (John W. Wooten) on 30 Aug 1996 wrote:
> I get a message "Can't synchronize with Hayes" when I try to
> tip dial1200 ###-####
>
> I have the correct cable and have it connected to serial port A.
>
> What do I do to get things set up just minimally?
I had this same problem with my MultiTech modem.
Switched to kermit and it worked immediately.
ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/next/binaries/comm/kermit-5A-190.NIHS.README
ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/next/binaries/comm/kermit-5A-190.NIHS.tar.gz
TjL
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From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@nerc3.nerc.com>
Date: Tue, 3 Sep 96 00:56:00 -0400
Subject: Help in piecing together an Intel system
Organization: Princeton Theological Seminary
Return-Receipt-To: luomat@nerc.com
I'm starting to have thoughts about an Intel machine running NS
(probably eventually OpenStep, but not for awhile).
I'd like to use as much of what I have now as possible.
I'm 99% sure I can use all of these:
scsi CD-ROM (sony 4x)
scsi EZ135
scsi HD (Micropolis)
scsi SupraFaxModem 28.8
Any reason any of the above might not work easily on an Intel?
Any chance I'll be able to salvage the RAM from my NeXTStation into
some Pentium system?
I'm really at a loss when it comes to thinking about what I'll
need/want to get a new system together.
What will I need to add to the above to get a working system going?
My thought is that all I would need is a CPU/motherboard and a
monitor, but that seems too simple.
What I'd like to know is:
- starting references in NeXTAnswers (seems like there's a
lot to go through)
- warnings/gotchas to be aware of when going from NeXT
hardware to Intel.
- advice on how to get started with a basic (ie cheap)
system that I can upgrade as time goes along. (ie "You might want to
get this board with this video card which you can upgrade later to
this")
I'm at the very early stages of thinking about this, but would very
much like to hear from people who have done this. My old 040 25MHz
isn't going to last forever :-( and I'd really like color & access
TjL
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From: Garance A Drosehn <gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.marketplace,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Asking a favor
Date: 3 Sep 1996 02:40:21 GMT
Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy NY, USA
Message-ID: <50g5ql$11g@usenet.rpi.edu>
References: <01bb9798$69b121e0$331543a4@lullaby>
"Duncan Idaho" <everblue@ucla.edu> wrote:
> I'm looking to utilize the Recycler animation in NeXTSTEP in a
> Windoze app I'm currently working on. Unfortunately I sold my
> copy a while back so I have to get the bitmaps from someone else.
"Utilize", as in "copy" and "use without permission"?
My guess is that you'll be treading on some copyright issues that
you should not be treading on. What makes you think you have the
right to use those images for some application you're writing?
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From: mow@navigator.de (Markus Wenzel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Re: Network Performance Problems (Cogent EM 960)
Date: 2 Sep 1996 07:15:32 GMT
Organization: Navigator
Message-ID: <50e1ik$81u@marsu.navigator.schwaben.com>
References: <507t9l$7t@marcon.marcon.de>
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Cc: Admin
In <507t9l$7t@marcon.marcon.de> Admin wrote:
> I changed my network card from SMC Elite 16 to a Cogen EM 960 PCI card. From
one moment to the other the complete network performance went down at least 200%.
I am getting messages like
> netinfo [lookupd] rpc timed out.
> Also the NFS performance became bad.
>
> Does anybody had a similar problem in the past?
> System Version: OPENSTEP 4.0 for Mach(Lantern3V1)
> My netinfo server is a NeXTstation turbo with NS 3.3 + the latest patches,
NFS-Server is an HP 712/80.
>
> I never had performance problems until I swapped the network card.
>
> Would be great if somebody can help me, Thanks
I cannot speak for OS 4.0, but under NS 3.3 the EM 960 works like charm for me.
ftp throughput is up to 700-800 KB/s to a Win95-Pentium equipped with the same EM
960 adapter. You did not mention the chipset of your P6 board. If it is an early
Orion, you might run into trouble of disabled PCI burst transfers.
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From: foo@bar.com (Lurker)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Turbo RAM - Tin, Gold ?
Date: Tue, 03 Sep 1996 03:09:49 -0400
Organization: barfuss
Message-ID: <foo-ya023060040309960309490001@news.tiac.net>
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I find NeXTAnswers and the FAQs are not particularly helpful
when it comes to buying modern RAM. The Turbos were apparently
produced when it was necessary to build a dual sided RAM chip
to get adequate capacity. Hence the 1a, 1b etc. output on the
monitor display of memory slots, ie, two virtual slots per
real slot. To add to the confusion, our Mac 7500s have two real
DIMM slots corresponding to 1a, 1b etc.
Does anyone know if there are any advantages to installing
two sided SIMMs, assuming they are still available (unlikely)?
But much more to the point, what are the contact requirements
for Turbo SIMMs? Both tin and gold are common, and I've seen
copper mentioned, as well as warnings about corrosion eating
away both chip and motherboard contacts if you mix metals.
My Turbo seems to have tin contacts on the original 16 MB and
the motherboard (as far as these old eyes can tell), but gold
on the 2x4 MB I added later. Can't say that I see any signs
of corrosion on the latter but, still, I'd like some knowledgable
advice. There's a local sale on 72 pin single sided tin SIMMs
and I'd like to upgrade from 24 to 32 MB.
TIA
Barney
From: Sven Droll
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Re: Zip drive problem
Date: 3 Sep 1996 07:55:20 GMT
Organization: University of Wuerzburg, Germany
Message-ID: <50go98$pqp@winx03.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de>
References: <4vviil$lqs@news.onramp.net> <Dwvyt9.BF3.0.astra@now.ch>
Hi there.
I have got a problem with the IOmega-ZIP-drive, too.
The drive works fine on a friends mono NeXTstation and on a
turbo-mono-NeXTstation both with NS3.3. Just plug in and an inserted disk
will be recognized and displayed in Workspace. As far as I know this is the
normal behaviour.
Well, I have got a mono (nonturbo) NeXTstation running a frech installed and
batched NS3.3, wich recognice the drive as SCSI-drive during bootup. But when
I insert a disk in Workspace, the drive crackles (? knackt for German
readers) three times, the LEDs are blinking and nothing more happens. No
mount is shown in the console-panel and you cannot mount the (NeXTformated
disk) by hand.
During boot-process you got the message "sd1 UNIT ATTENTION" and if you
insert a formated (NeXTformat) disk while the ...'s are coming by another
"sd1 UNIT ATTENTION" is displayed, but the disk is not recognized.
Now my question: which part of the system could be responsible for this
misbehavour of my system (booting-ROM, some file from /private/etc, ...)?
Thank you very much for any help
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From: kline@cs.arizona.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Thinking of buying a new p6 system for ns 3.3
Date: 3 Sep 1996 02:50:52 -0700
Organization: University of Arizona CS Department, Tucson AZ
Sender: kline@CS.Arizona.EDU
Message-ID: <50gv1s$6cu@boojum.CS.Arizona.EDU>
I'm thinking of building a new p6 based system. Any problems with atx?
I'll probably get an atx system. comments?
Either asus p6np5 (at based 440fx) or asus xp6np5 (atx motherboard)
p6-200 256k cache
32 meg edo ram 60 ns
2 gig eide hard drive (they are soo cheap!)
reuse my old adaptec 1540b scsi controller (isa)
resue my old pas 16 sound card (isa)
plextor 6 plex scsi cdrom
matrox millenium video card 2 or 4 meg of ram
reuse my viewsonic v17 monitor.
Comments on this system for ns 3.3? I don't know if I'll buy ns 4.0.
I know the scsi controller and sound card work on my current dx2 66 486 system.
I can get the cpu, motherboard, case, floppy, video card for less than $2k,
I've shopped around and this seems a good price.
-nick
kline@cs.arizona.edu
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From: roland@onevision.de (Roland Schwingel)
Subject: Cogent EM 110 Combo
Message-ID: <Dx5Lp1.255@onevision.de>
Sender: news@onevision.de
Organization: OneVision GmbH, Regensburg, Germany
Date: Tue, 3 Sep 1996 11:10:13 GMT
Hello,
We have tried to use two of these cards in our intel machines. But they
are refusing to work. Either with the Cogent EM 110 setting in the DecChip21140
Driver or with generic DecChip 21140. We are using Version 3.33 of that driver.
Propably it depends on the CSR 12 value in the driver.
Without CSR 12 the card is completly "blind". It is not blinking.
When the CSR 12 is set (without any value) the card starts blinking, but
is already not communicating with our net.
Has anyone made similar observations, or much better has a solution ?
Roland
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From: psi@fortune.nest.or.jp (SHIROYAMA Takayuki)
Subject: Re: Q: IBM DORS hard disc and BLACK Hardware
Message-ID: <Dx5nn6.6oC@fortune.nest.or.jp>
Sender: psi@fortune.nest.or.jp (SHIROYAMA Takayuki)
Cc: jurgen@oic.de
References: <DwyM3M.M8@oic.de>
Date: Tue, 3 Sep 1996 11:52:18 GMT
In <DwyM3M.M8@oic.de> , Juergen Moellenhoff wrote:
> how can I use an IBM DORS (2GB) hard disc with black Hardware?
> I can remember that the
> hard disc needs modifications, but I can't remember what it was.
>
> Can someone help me?
>
I just use this hard disk on my Cube. It's little over than 2G,
so you must divide two partition. On NeXTSTEP3.3, it make two
partion with no problem.
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From: felix@nice.usergroup.ethz.ch (Felix Rauch)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Re: Zip drive problem
Date: 3 Sep 1996 13:21:15 GMT
Organization: NiCE - NeXT User Group, Zuerich, Switzerland
Message-ID: <50hbcb$3gr@elna.ethz.ch>
References: <4vviil$lqs@news.onramp.net> <Dwvyt9.BF3.0.astra@now.ch> <50go98$pqp@winx03.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de>
SvenDroll wrote:
> The drive works fine on a friends mono NeXTstation and on a
> turbo-mono-NeXTstation both with NS3.3. Just plug in and an inserted disk
> will be recognized and displayed in Workspace. As far as I know this is the
> normal behaviour.
> Well, I have got a mono (nonturbo) NeXTstation running a frech installed and
> batched NS3.3, wich recognice the drive as SCSI-drive during bootup. But when
> I insert a disk in Workspace, the drive crackles (? knackt for German
> readers) three times, the LEDs are blinking and nothing more happens. No
> mount is shown in the console-panel and you cannot mount the (NeXTformated
> disk) by hand.
> During boot-process you got the message "sd1 UNIT ATTENTION" and if you
> insert a formated (NeXTformat) disk while the ...'s are coming by another
> "sd1 UNIT ATTENTION" is displayed, but the disk is not recognized.
Unfortunately I can't help you, but I have the exact same problem with
my new Jaz-drive. It seemed to work fine with a NeXTcube, but I have
the exact problems you describe on my NeXTcolorstation (with
Pyro-accelerator).
I was thinking that my drive could be broken, but now that you
describe this problem with your Zip-Drive, I think it could be a more
general problem :-/
- Felix
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From: neuss@isa.informatik.th-darmstadt.de.NOSPAM (Christian Neuss)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Q: IBM DORS hard disc and BLACK Hardware
Followup-To: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Date: 3 Sep 1996 13:14:33 GMT
Organization: Fachbereich Informatik, TH Darmstadt, Deutschland
Message-ID: <50havp$epd@rs18.hrz.th-darmstadt.de>
References: <DwyM3M.M8@oic.de>
Juergen Moellenhoff (jurgen@oic.de) wrote:
> how can I use an IBM DORS (2GB) hard disc with black Hardware? I can
> remember that the hard disc needs modifications, but I can't remember
> what it was.
Never done it myself (I was too chicken the disk wouldn't work, so I
went for the Quantum Fireball instead). I've heard however it *must*
be jumpered to asynchronous SCSI mode, which is easy if you've managed
to get hold of the docs. I was told the jumper settings can be found
from IBM's Web site.
Since you post from a German domain: Ask in de.comp.sys.next. I think
the DORS was discussed there some weeks ago.
Hope this helps, Chris
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From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@nerc.com>
Subject: dead RAM???
Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.95.960903094852.5803A-100000@charisma>
Date: Tue, 3 Sep 1996 09:50:19 -0400
Organization: Princeton Theological Seminary
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I came back from my weekend away to find that my NeXTStation had a
problem.
It seems this problem is in the RAM.
I need help in figuring out how to diagnose and fix the problem.
Here's the error message which appeared 3/4 of the way through the
boot process:
Parity errr at address Ox5alf890
(not sure what that character after the "a" is, actually, might be a 1
might be an "l")
SIMM memory socket 4-7
panic (CPU 0) parity error
I was able to subvert this error by turning off the DRAM test and the
parity check from the ROM monitor (was this a bad thing to do????)
Anyway, how can I find out:
1) what chip(s) is/are bad?
2) which ones are 0-3 and which are 4-7???
3) where to get new SIMMs/what kind to get (parity/no parity, 70ns?
100ns? which is better??)
I've got a non-turbo slab with 32 ram max.
Any advice accepted.
Thanks
TjL
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From: dkramer@loki.blkbox.com (Daniel L. Kramer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Re: Cogent EM 110 Combo
Date: 3 Sep 1996 15:06:48 GMT
Organization: The Black Box, Houston, Tx (713) 480-2686
Message-ID: <50hhi8$3ld@news.blkbox.com>
References: <Dx5Lp1.255@onevision.de>
In article <Dx5Lp1.255@onevision.de> roland@onevision.de (Roland
Schwingel) writes (about the Cogent EM-110 cards):
> We have tried to use two of these cards in our intel machines. But they
> are refusing to work. Either with the Cogent EM 110 setting in the
DecChip21140
> Driver or with generic DecChip 21140. We are using Version 3.33 of that
driver.
> Has anyone made similar observations, or much better has a solution ?
>
> Roland
Cogent, for some reason, moved information around on their newer cards.
The en0 address should be 00.00.92... something. If the card posts
differently, you need to add - "Address Offset" = "20" to the expert
settings for the driver. Neat, huh? A new driver which will autodetect
such things is being rumbled about.
Cheers and good luck!
--
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Bifrost Workstations, Inc.
10850 Richmond Ave., Suite 270
Houston, TX 77042
(713) 952-9949 voice
dkramer@onramp.net, for now, as the ISDN setup is only half-working...
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From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@nerc3.nerc.com>
Date: Tue, 3 Sep 96 10:25:29 -0400
Subject: Help in piecing together an Intel system
Organization: Princeton Theological Seminary
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I'm starting to have thoughts about an Intel machine running NS
(probably eventually OpenStep, but not for awhile).
I'd like to use as much of what I have now as possible.
I'm 99% sure I can use all of these:
scsi CD-ROM (sony 4x)
scsi EZ135
scsi HD (Micropolis)
scsi SupraFaxModem 28.8
Any reason any of the above might not work easily on an Intel?
Any chance I'll be able to salvage the RAM from my NeXTStation into
some Pentium system?
I'm really at a loss when it comes to thinking about what I'll
need/want to get a new system together.
What will I need to add to the above to get a working system going?
My thought is that all I would need is a CPU/motherboard and a
monitor, but that seems too simple.
What I'd like to know is:
- starting references in NeXTAnswers (seems like there's a
lot to go through)
- warnings/gotchas to be aware of when going from NeXT
hardware to Intel.
- advice on how to get started with a basic (ie cheap)
system that I can upgrade as time goes along. (ie "You might want to
get this board with this video card which you can upgrade later to
this")
I'm at the very early stages of thinking about this, but would very
much like to hear from people who have done this. My old 040 25MHz
isn't going to last forever :-( and I'd really like color & access
TjL
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LOOKING FOR NS 3.3 (m68k) User/Dev (cheap ;-)
From: Sjur Anda <katja.sjur@goteborg.mail.telia.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: AMD DX4 120 mhz problems
Date: Tue, 03 Sep 1996 18:27:46 +0200
Organization: Telia Internet Services
Message-ID: <322C5C82.7A1B@goteborg.mail.telia.com>
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I´v upgraded my laptop with an AMD DX4-120 enhanced processor and are
having some problems. The computer recognises the processor as a
DX2-120. I am also having problems running some games which uses DOS4/GW
. Quake in shareware version won´t work. My BIOS are Award 4.50G My
motherboard is a OPTI 82C895. Please help me someone.
Sjur Anda
From: gfin@psych.ualberta.ca (Gary Finley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Re: Network Performance Problems (Cogent EM 960)
Date: 3 Sep 1996 17:37:10 GMT
Organization: University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
Message-ID: <50hqc6$m3u@pulp.ucs.ualberta.ca>
References: <507t9l$7t@marcon.marcon.de> <50e1ik$81u@marsu.navigator.schwaben.com>
In-Reply-To: <50e1ik$81u@marsu.navigator.schwaben.com>
On 09/01/96, Markus Wenzel wrote:
>I cannot speak for OS 4.0, but under NS 3.3 the EM 960 works like
>charm for me.
Me too. 700 kbps ftps between Pentium NeXTs with Cogent cards. All
machines running NS 3.3. This is a good, quick network card.
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From: don@misckit.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Re: OpenStep for Mach on Black performance
Date: 3 Sep 1996 21:26:51 GMT
Organization: XMission Internet (801 539 0900)
Message-ID: <50i7qr$k0m@news.xmission.com>
References: <504sut$d1t@jake.esu.edu> <505u4n$fsc@news.xmission.com> <5071pg$hik@sjx-ixn5.ix.netcom.com> <Em_7=Xu00iWX42y6Br@andrew.cmu.edu> <50clfp$fsc@news.xmission.com> <jbf-ya023060040309960347050001@news.tiac.net> <50hp1a$32c@news.xmission.com>
I wrote:
> On my 64MB Pentium Pro, it doesn't matter. That machine is fast
> enough that OPENSTEP runs just fine for me
And then Tom M. Blenko wrote to me:
> If you'd like to become even more famous and popular (rich comes
> later), you could post a specification for your (fast) system!
Well, I kind of already posted the details elsewhere, it was either
in the hardware group or in the advocacy thread about how you can
build a usable NEXTSTEP/OPENSTEP system for well under $6k US. My
system actually did have a cost near $6k, but I went all out to put
together a killer system. A system that costs less than half as
much would still run NEXTSTEP quite well, and at the end, I'll
suggest ideas on how to slash the cost. I just wanted to do better
than "quite well". This machine is definitely much more than the
baseline you'd need to run OPENSTEP comfortably.
I'll try to be real specific this time... :-)
Intel Pentium Pro 200, PC Power & Cooling CPU Fan
Intel Venus VS440FX 200MHz Pentium Pro Motherboard
(NOT the model with USB and onboard sound)
2 8x32 32MB 72 Pin EDO SIMMs (64MB RAM total)
Matrox Millenium PCI with 4MB VRAM
PC Power & Cooling Mini Personal ATX Case w/250W power supply
Adaptec 2940UW PCI Ultra/Wide SCSI controller
Quantum Atlas 4 GB wide SCSI hard drive
Teac 3.5" 1.44MB floppy drive
Logitech MouseMan PS2 mouse
Microsoft Keyboard
US Robotics Courier 28.8 External modem
Toshiba 5402B 4X IDE CDROM
Cogent PCI Combo Ethernet card
Nanao F2-21 21" monitor
Altec Lansing ACS-31 speakers (2 spkrs plus subwoofer)
Ensoniq Soundscape Elite
(you will need to buy a special driver for NEXTSTEP--cost $10)
I think that's all of it!
Pricewise, expect to approximately:
$1000 for the CPU/motherboard/fan
$1800 for a high quality 21" monitor
$1000 for a 4GB SCSI drive (+/- $200 or more depending upon which drive)
$ 380 for the 4MB Millenium
$ 390 for 64MB EDO RAM (that's at $195/SIMM)
$ 300 for the Courier modem
$ 250 for the SCSI controller
$ 200 for the case and power supply
$ 175 for the sound card and driver
$ 125 for the mouse, keyboard, and floppy drive
$ 100 for the speakers
$ 100 for the Cogent ethernet card
$ 60 for the CDROM
(Those estimates are all higher than what I paid.)
This system was actually around $5500 before tax; you can probably
do better if you hunt around. I didn't have the time for that, and
this was a pretty reasonable price, plus I didn't have to piece it
together myself. The guy I had build the machine is Sammy at
Universal Systems, Inc., 1356 E. 3300S., Salt Lake City, UT, 84106,
801-484-9151. He was very helpful, and I'm quite happy with the
machine. (I have no other affiliation with them other than being a
satisfied customer.) Also, I got the Soundscape direct from Ensoniq
and got the speakers from another source.
Installing OPENSTEP was tricky only in that you have to load the
Adaptec driver when it asks for the CDROM's driver and then load
the EIDE driver when it asks for the hard drive's driver. This is
backwards...but it is what you have to do to make it work. Other
than that quirk, everything installs perfectly normally, no
problems whatsoever. (You may have a few troubles getting the
Ensoniq card to work right under Win95--conflicts, etc.--but it was
fairly easy to get it working. And I'm a Win95 dunce, IMHO.)
Now, if you want to make the system even better, add more RAM, add
more VRAM, get a Seagate drive instead of a Quantum, upgrade the
Adaptec to a caching DPT SCSI controller (haven't tried this, but
it should really scream), and get an 8x CDROM. Note that the SCSI
hardware I have is quite acceptable. Faster is possible, but I'm
happy with it and it didn't cost me too much, comparatively.
I suppose you could also downgrade if necessary. In that case, get
a smaller monitor, then move from SCSI hard drives to EIDE (you can
get 3GB drives now). You can get an internal modem, and, if you
must, downgrade the video card (or get one with only 2MB VRAM).
You could also get a cheaper case; I spent a little more for a nice
case. There are also cheaper mice and keyboards out there. As it
is, though, it makes a killer system!
Note that with my proposed cost reducers, you could probably still
get a Pentium Pro system up and running with a 17" monitor and all
EIDE drives for well under $3500--probably under $3k! Some may
skip the sound/speakers, ethernet, and/or the modem. It really
depends upon how much you want to spend and which components you
want to have in the box.
Finally, again, I'd stress that a Pentium Pro is not a requirement
to run OPENSTEP. A P90 can still do a good job of it...though I
would still consider upping the RAM to 64MB if you can do it,
especially with RAM so cheap right now. It really does make a
difference! Hope that helps, or at least answers the questions of
the more curious folks out there.
--
Later,
-Don Yacktman
don@misckit.com
<a href="http://www.misckit.com/don.html">My home page</a>
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From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@nerc.com>
Subject: NeXTStation: Exception #3 and Exception #2
Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.95.960903181113.1400A-100000@charisma>
Date: Tue, 3 Sep 1996 18:13:46 -0400
Organization: Princeton Theological Seminary
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My NeXTStation failed to boot with this message:
exception #2 (0x8) at 0x4380000
(and when I tried again it said basically the same thing with #3
instead of #2)
What is this error? Is it/could it be RAM related?
TjL
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From: perkins@cps.msu.edu (Stephen J. Perkins)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Re: How fast is a NS/FIP (115.2 kbaud)
Date: 3 Sep 1996 22:25:03 GMT
Organization: Michigan State University
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <50ib7v$ere@msunews.cl.msu.edu>
References: <501vc8$1hd8@news.rhrz.uni-bonn.de> <Pine.HPP.3.95.960829113233.9310A-100000@hphalle0.informatik.tu-muenchen.de>
Cc: scholz@informatik.tu-muenchen.de
In
<Pine.HPP.3.95.960829113233.9310A-100000@hphalle0.informatik.tu-muenchen.de>
Bernhard Scholz wrote:
>
> On 28 Aug 1996, Michael Moellney wrote:
>
> > I'd like to connect a externel ISDN (ZyXEL Omni TA 128) adapter to my
> > NS/FIP system. I'm somewhat worried about hearing that there might be
> > problems, because ISDN is 64 kbaud and NS/FIP can provide only 57.6
> > kbaud. Shouldn't tha be 115,2 with a FIFO UART 16650 inside?
> >
> Yes, it _should_. However I never tried it, because I always was running
> PPP and the PPP rejects connections over 57.6kbps to a modem, etc.
>
> So maybe it's not a serial driver problem, but a problem of the PPP
> deamon. I don't know whether the limitation is still there in OS4.0. NS3.3
> isn't able to do PPP connections via a modem with more than 57.6kbps.
More an OS problem. The default speeds defined in the NeXT header files go
to 57600.
Some serial drivers are reported to go faster if compiled with custom
headers. PPP does
not take advantage of this by default.
- Steve
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From: patj@nntp.best.com (Pat Jensen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.forsale.computers,comp.forsale.hardware
Subject: WTB: NeXTstation/Cubes [Color or Mono]
Date: 31 Aug 1996 07:20:42 GMT
Organization: Best Internet Communications
Message-ID: <508p4a$7fo@nntp1.best.com>
Hello,
I'm looking to buy any NeXT equipment, preferred is a Mono or Color cube
with 500+ meg HD and 16+ megs of RAM.
Please email if interested.
-Pat (patj@best.com)
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From: morehouse2@aol.com (Morehouse2)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Re: WTB: NeXTstation/Cubes [Color or Mono]
Date: 3 Sep 1996 21:40:21 -0400
Organization: America Online, Inc. (1-800-827-6364)
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Dear Pat;
I just acquired a cube from an auction. Powers up fine, but I can't tell
what it has because there's some old password in it.
I might end up selling it, and I'll let you know if I do.
First, though, can you shed any light on how I can boot from the MO (or
some other trick), bypassing the Pword?
I have System 2.0 on MO.
This is a legit request. I bought the machine for personal use. There
might be others available in the next month or so.
Can you help?
-Craig Morehouse
From: "Duncan Idaho" <everblue@ucla.edu>
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Subject: Re: Asking a favor
Date: 4 Sep 1996 03:01:34 GMT
Organization: University of California, Los Angeles
Message-ID: <01bb99ca$41ed87f0$871443a4@lullaby>
References: <01bb9798$69b121e0$331543a4@lullaby> <50g5ql$11g@usenet.rpi.edu>
Actually, it's for personal use.
From: robert@elastica.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: NeXTSTEP on Notebooks with SCSI?
Date: 04 Sep 1996 01:13:49 -0400
Organization: Digital Gateway Systems
Sender: robert@justine
Message-ID: <f20gi50c2.fsf@elastica.com>
I'm thinking of getting a modest notebook to run NS on.
What DX4 or P90 machines that have SCSI run NS?
--
Art is prostitution of the mind.
From: rft@cg.tuwien.ac.at
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: ASUS Natoma board with NextStep?
Date: 4 Sep 1996 17:02:25 GMT
Organization: Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Message-ID: <50kcn1$bi@news.tuwien.ac.at>
I'd like to upgrade my NeXTStep PC from a Pentium 133 to a Pentium Pro. I
intend to buy the following board:
ASUS P6NP5 PENTIUM PRO (Natoma Chipset)
What are the experiences with NeXTstep? I've heard the Asus Pentium boards
could only cache the lowest 64MB, is this true for the PentiumPro boards as
well?
Thanks for any information.
------------------------------------------------------------------------
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Institute of Computer Graphics - mailto:rft@cg.tuwien.ac.at
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From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@nerc3.nerc.com>
Date: Wed, 4 Sep 96 12:34:56 -0400
Subject: Solved (Re: NeXTLP: Paper is jammed in the printer -- no it isn't !!)
Organization: Princeton Theological Seminary
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With thanks to: rencsok@channelu.com (Randall J. Rencsok) who put
me on the right track.....
For those who might be interested in what the problem was:
1) Open your NeXT Laser Printer
2) Look inside, down by where the paper goes through the fuser assmbly
3) on the left hand side, note a white piece of plastic which must
be taken apart if/when the fuser is removed (as I did to clean the
rollers)
4) Make sure that white piece of plastic (which is actually two
pieces which fit together like a plug and a socket) are actually
CONNECTED. I had neglected to reconnect them when I placed the
fuser back together.
Also: don't bother trying to save some $$ when you get those
streaks I was talking about before. You need to replace the Toner.
I went through a lot of trouble taking it apart and cleaning
everything I could, only to have it still printing streaks....
*sigh*
TjL
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
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From: "Axel G. Merk" <agm@dataphone.se>
Date: Wed, 4 Sep 96 20:21:23 +0200
Subject: Does Xirxom's CreditCard Ethernet+Modem 28.8 work with NS?
Hi,
does anyone have experience with Xircom's ethernet+modem PCCard on a notebook?
If you do, I would appreciate your comments.
Please email me directly (I don't have direct access to
comp.sys.next.hardware); I'll summarise if there is demand.
Thank you,
Axel Merk
agm@doc.ic.ac.uk
From: dogstar@unixg.ubc.ca (Seamus Dunne)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Dual-CPUs Run Symmetrically?
Date: 4 Sep 1996 21:06:29 GMT
Organization: University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., Canada
Message-ID: <50kr0l$ln6@nntp.ucs.ubc.ca>
[I'll try this posting again...]
I'm considering adding another board (an '030-25 Mhz NeXT) to my existing
cube, with its present 040-25 Mhz CPU, 28 Mb RAM; housekeeping tasks
would be assigned to the 030 CPU; major tasks assigned to the 040 CPU.
Question 1: Can a hardware/software configuration get BOTH CPUs
to work on the SAME task?----which I understand to be symmetric processing.
Question 2: Any idea how much faster dual CPU's
would be over my present hardware?
Answers can be posted or emailed to me: dogstar@unixg.ubc.ca
Thanks in advance Seamus Dunne
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I'd rather not die at all.
Anon
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From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@nerc.com>
Date: Wed, 4 Sep 96 20:54:06 -0400
Subject: Solved: Re: NeXT LP (BW): streak in middle of page
References: <199608150606.CAA24553@nerc.com>
Organization: Princeton Theological Seminary
Return-Receipt-To: luomat@nerc.com
"Timothy J. Luoma" on Thu, 15 Aug 96 wrote:
> I've got a 1" black streak (not very dark, but clerly visible)
> coming down the middle/right of each page I print.
>
> Suggestions on removing it? Has anyone used those LaserPrinter
> cleaner sheets with a NeXT LP (black and white)? Suggestions,
> recommendations, warnings, appreciated :-)
The solution was to buy a new toner cartridge, basically to get a
new cleaning bar that cleans the excess toner off.....
Burns me up that I had to pay $70 for a hunk of plastic with some
fabric glued onto it.....
FMI (For my Info) does anyone know how many pages I should hope to
get out of this new toner?
TjL
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From: finton@cs.wisc.edu (David J. Finton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: [Q] Experience with Olympus Magneto Optical SYS.230 on black hardware?
Date: 5 Sep 1996 01:22:03 GMT
Organization: University of Wisconsin, Madison
Message-ID: <50l9vr$3dmm@news.doit.wisc.edu>
I'm interested in the Olympus Magneto Optical SYS.230.
Anyone know if this works with a NeXTstation TurboColor? Any experiences,
good or bad?
Thanks,
David Finton
finton@cs.wisc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
From: dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca (David Evans)
Subject: Re: Turbo RAM - Tin, Gold ?
Sender: news@novice.uwaterloo.ca (Mr. News)
Message-ID: <Dx6B7K.IMt@novice.uwaterloo.ca>
Date: Tue, 3 Sep 1996 20:21:20 GMT
References: <foo-ya023060040309960309490001@news.tiac.net>
Organization: University of Waterloo
In article <foo-ya023060040309960309490001@news.tiac.net>,
Lurker <foo@bar.com> wrote:
>
>Does anyone know if there are any advantages to installing
>two sided SIMMs, assuming they are still available (unlikely)?
>
I would doubt it.
>But much more to the point, what are the contact requirements
>for Turbo SIMMs? Both tin and gold are common, and I've seen
>copper mentioned, as well as warnings about corrosion eating
>away both chip and motherboard contacts if you mix metals.
>
I don't think it matters. I think this topic is akin to audiophiles going
on and on about oxygen-free copper and how a certain brand of drywall nails,
when used to build a room, dramatically improve the sound.
--
David Evans (NeXTMail OK) dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca
Computer/Synth Junkie http://bbcr.uwaterloo.ca/~dfevans/
University of Waterloo "Default is the value selected by the composer
Ontario, Canada overridden by your command." - Roland TR-707 Manual
From: lehner@i-node.at (Alexander Lehner)
Newsgroups: at.tuwien.hardware,biz.comp.hardware,comp.hardware,comp.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.publish.cdrom.hardware,comp.publish.cdrom.software,comp.sys.hardware,comp.sys.hardware.ibmpc,comp.sys.ibmpc.hardware,comp.sys.ibmpc.hardware.cd-rom,comp.sys.ibmpc.hardware,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.sgi.hardware,de.alt.cdrom,de.comp.periph.cdrom,fido.ger.hardware,fido.hardware-ger,maus.hardware,microsoft.public.hardware,muc.lists.freebsd.hardware,zer.z-netz.rechner.hardware,zer.z-netz.rechner.cd-rom,zer.z-netz.rechner.ibm.hardware
Subject: SONY CDU920S
Date: Thu, 05 Sep 1996 08:00:21 GMT
Message-ID: <841914200.757753@p133.i-node.at>
Cache-Post-Path: p133.i-node.at!unknown@usr2.i-node.at
Hello / Hallo!
I have a problem!
I have buy an SONY CDU920S CD-Recorder and I lik to install it under
Win95.
The Problem is, that the Wirter not write. Who have an SONY CD-Writer
and can send me TIPS!
Error-Messages: Can't make a Simul. Wirte,
No CD-R !!!
...
...
Please help me!
Ich habe ein Problem!
Ich kaufte mir ein SONY CDU920S, das mich aber nicht will!
Ich versuche es unter Win95 zu installieren, aber die SW will einfach
nicht schreiben!
Ich bekomme nur die Meldung, daß
Auf LW E: kann keine Schreib-Test durchgeführt werden.
Keine CD im LW.
...
Leute, bitte helft mir, ich bin der Verzweiflung nahe!
Danke Thank you
Tschüß and Bye
Alex from Vienna
From: sanjeev@ee.umr.edu (Sanjeev Agarwal)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Re: HELP! SoundBlaster 32 installation
Date: 5 Sep 1996 12:35:39 GMT
Organization: UMR Missouri's Technological University
Message-ID: <50mher$9fm@hptemp1.cc.umr.edu>
References: <5063ie$jln@ustsu10.ust.hk>
Chan Wai Ming (waiming@cs.ust.hk) wrote:
: Hello,
: I have bought a sound card (SoundBlaster 32) for my pentium 100 (ASUS
: board). The motherboard can recognize the sound card and it works in
: Win 95. However, it does not work on the OPENSTEP 4.0 for mach. It
: seems that the OS for mach cannot detect the card.
: Is the the soundbaster 16 driver (included in the OS for mach CD) not
: able to work with SoundBlaster 32 ???
: Any suggestions of making the sound card work ???
: Thanks !
: waiming
: --
: "I will never lose until I give up ..."
: / / / by someone
: \ \ \
: ------ It is tea, not Java :)
: \____/> Email: waiming@cs.ust.hk
Hi,
I also have similar problem. Help please ...
Sanjeev
From: sanjeev@ee.umr.edu (Sanjeev Agarwal)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Re: SB 32AWE PnP and Imagine Series II
Date: 5 Sep 1996 12:44:16 GMT
Organization: UMR Missouri's Technological University
Message-ID: <50mhv0$9fm@hptemp1.cc.umr.edu>
References: <mshores.840265835@isua2.iastate.edu> <Pine.BSI.3.93.960831022206.27004C-100000@cais3.cais.com>
Hi,
I cannot find driver for SoundBlaster AWE32. Would SoundBlaster AWE 16
driver work with AWE32?
Thank you very much ...
Sanjeev
Robert La Ferla (rdl@cais.com) wrote:
: 1. You can use the Creative Labs SoundBlaster AWE32 PnP card with
: NEXTSTEP 3.3. Just ftp the *latest* EISA and SoundBlaster drivers
: from ftp://ftp.next.com. You will need to go into the Expert
: settings for the SoundBlaster PnP driver and manually enter the
: ID of your card. The ID can be found in /usr/adm/messages when you
: boot with the new EISA driver.
: 2. Many other people would like to know when NeXT will be releasing
: the #9 Imagine 128 Series II driver. I would also like to know if
: Number Nine will be releasing an 8MB version of that card.
: Robert La Ferla
: Registered OPENSTEP Consultant
From: vsafran@ukrv.de (Volker Safran)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Re: ASUS Natoma board with NextStep?
Date: 5 Sep 1996 13:33:49 GMT
Organization: Technical University Berlin, Germany
Message-ID: <50mkrt$2qi@brachio.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE>
References: <50kcn1$bi@news.tuwien.ac.at>
Cc: rft@cg.tuwien.ac.at
rft@cg.tuwien.ac.at schrieb in comp.sys.next.hardware:
>
> I'd like to upgrade my NeXTStep PC from a Pentium 133 to a Pentium
> Pro. I intend to buy the following board:
>
> ASUS P6NP5 PENTIUM PRO (Natoma Chipset)
>
> What are the experiences with NeXTstep? I've heard the Asus Pentium
> boards could only cache the lowest 64MB, is this true for the
> PentiumPro boards as well? Thanks for any information.
This wasn't a problem with ASUS Boards, but with Triton chipsets
(which were used by ASUS, too). With NATOMA chipsets there should
be no problem with caching of more than 64MB (up to 512MB AFAIK)
if you have the right cache-modules.
CIAO Volker
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From: alanf@izzy.net
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Re: CD-R & OPENSTEP
Date: 5 Sep 1996 13:42:31 GMT
Organization: "Comshare, Inc."
Message-ID: <50mlc7$dlr@inet-prime.comshare.com>
References: <50fruh$5gn@scsing.switch.ch>
Cc: lionel@cyberlab.ch
In <50fruh$5gn@scsing.switch.ch> Lionel Tinguely wrote:
> Hi !
>
> Is it possible to use a CD-R under OPENSTEP ?
> What software should I use ?
>
>
> Thanks
>
> LiONEL
>
Here's something I snagged in Digital Librarian while newsbrowsing:
-------------------------
mkisofs: Allow you to make a iso9660 or Rock Ridge CD images in your NS.
All compiler warning messages eliminated.
isoinfo: Simple program to dump contents of iso9660 image in more usable
format.
isovfy: Simple program to verify contents of iso9660 image
AUTHOR:
Eric Youngdale <ericy@gnu.ai.mit.edu> wrote both the linux isofs9660
filesystem and the mkisofs utility, and is currently maintaining them.
The copyright for the mkisofs utility is held by Yggdrasil Computing,
Incorporated.
AVAILABILITY:
I will upload it to ¬ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/next/submissions/ within
day
or so.
source: mkisofs-1.0.5.src.tar.gz
binary: mkisofs-1.0.5.I.tar.gz
PLATFORM:
I used it on NS/intel 3.3 DEV compiled with posix patched and should
work flawlessly on other NS hardware.
email: kwong@cs.mun.ca
url: ¬http://web.cs.mun.ca/~kwong/
Welcome <NeXT,MIME> mail!
-------------------------
Regards,
Alan Frabutt (mailto:alanf@izzy.net)
From: tjallen@wishep.physics.wisc.edu (Theodore J. Allen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Help: Adaptec 2940 Problems
Date: 5 Sep 1996 13:30:08 GMT
Organization: University of Wisconsin, Madison
Message-ID: <50mkl0$3b3s@news.doit.wisc.edu>
Has anyone had the following problem?
I am replacing my 2940UW with a 2940U
so that I can run some SCSI II external
drives. When I booted with the 2940U,
NEXTSTEP couldn't find the parallel port
and said the serial ports had an unknown
type of UARTs. When I replaced the 2940U
with the old 2940UW, everything was fine.
Oddly enough, there was no entry in
/usr/adm/messages for the boot process
with the 2940U. Other than these problems,
NEXTSTEP *seemed* to boot fine and gave me
a login panel. I didn't log in, though, so
I don't know that it was functioning beyond
booting up.
The 2940UW was purchased in May and the
2940U just yesterday.
Any hints?
Thanks,
--
Ted Allen, Ph.D.
High Energy Physics
University of Wisconsin-Madison
tjallen@wishep.physics.wisc.edu
http://theory2.physics.wisc.edu/~tjallen/
From: tjallen@wishep.physics.wisc.edu (Theodore J. Allen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Re: Help: Adaptec 2940 Problems
Date: 5 Sep 1996 13:34:37 GMT
Organization: University of Wisconsin, Madison
Message-ID: <50mktd$3136@news.doit.wisc.edu>
References: <50mkl0$3b3s@news.doit.wisc.edu>
Ooops, I forgot to say that I'm
using 3.3 unpatched with the Adaptec2940
driver version 3.37.
--
Ted Allen, Ph.D.
High Energy Physics
University of Wisconsin-Madison
tjallen@wishep.physics.wisc.edu
http://theory2.physics.wisc.edu/~tjallen/
From: robert@elastica.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Toshiba Satellite notebooks?
Date: 05 Sep 1996 10:26:08 -0400
Organization: Digital Gateway Systems
Sender: robert@justine
Message-ID: <fwwy9kphb.fsf@elastica.com>
Hi, does NeXTSTEP/OpenStep run on the satellite series notebooks?
Does anybody have a comprehensive list of notebooks that run NS/OS?
--
Art is prostitution of the mind.
From: schmidt@radius.mae.cornell.edu (Peter Schmidt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Re: Dual-CPUs Run Symmetrically?
Date: 5 Sep 1996 16:28:18 GMT
Organization: Cornell University
Sender: ps17@cornell.edu (Verified)
Message-ID: <50mv32$2j@newsstand.cit.cornell.edu>
References: <50kr0l$ln6@nntp.ucs.ubc.ca>
Seamus Dunne (dogstar@unixg.ubc.ca) wrote:
: I'm considering adding another board (an '030-25 Mhz NeXT) to my existing
: cube, with its present 040-25 Mhz CPU, 28 Mb RAM; housekeeping tasks
: would be assigned to the 030 CPU; major tasks assigned to the 040 CPU.
This configuration would be the same as having two seperate NeXT's -- they
get linked by ethernet. This is NOT creating a parallel processing machine,
a SMP, but simply putting two computers in one case.
: Question 1: Can a hardware/software configuration get BOTH CPUs
: to work on the SAME task?----which I understand to be symmetric processing.
If you want to do this, investigate client/server facilities such as RPC
(remote proceedure call). This is client/server technology as I understand
it, not multiprocessing (be it SMP, MPP, etc.).
Remember that there is no data bus for communication between two system
boards in the back of a cube -- you have assigned the same address (1) to
both system boards, and so even if the OS supported two system boards, they
would be unable to communicate.
: Question 2: Any idea how much faster dual CPU's
: would be over my present hardware?
It all depends on how you divide up your tasks. Probably your best bet for
getting things going would be to switch over to a client/server type OS,
like plan9 (http://plan9.att.com) which has been ported to the NeXT platform
(read about it, never used it). The Plan9 page says, "Plan 9 runs on the
68040-based NeXTstation but on no other NeXT machine." I guess that for
your 68040/030 combination, it would not work, but if you read about Plan9,
that would give you an idea of the kind of distributed OS which could share
load easily. You can always write your own programs to take advantage of
the networked CPU power.
If you want to get into SMP, try getting a dual pentium (or pro) PCI
motherboard to put in a PC, and run SOLARIS on it. This shouldn't be very
expensive, unless you have (like I have) all the expense of having a VESA
local bus 486 and all your cards will have to be replaced when you go PCI.
SOLARIS is reported to be better at SMP than NT. If you have more money
and want OPENSTEP, get a SMP sun workstation.
I assume that that will work -- Solaris is written to work with SMP
hardware, and if you can run Solaris I assume that you can run OPENSTEP for
Solaris.
-pete
From: Tal Lancaster <tlan@fa.disney.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Re: ASUS Natoma board with NextStep?
Date: Thu, 05 Sep 1996 09:29:59 -0700
Organization: The Walt Disney Company
Message-ID: <322F0007.1372@fa.disney.com>
References: <50kcn1$bi@news.tuwien.ac.at>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
rft@cg.tuwien.ac.at wrote:
>
> I'd like to upgrade my NeXTStep PC from a Pentium 133 to a Pentium Pro. I
> intend to buy the following board:
>
> ASUS P6NP5 PENTIUM PRO (Natoma Chipset)
>
> What are the experiences with NeXTstep? I've heard the Asus Pentium boards
> could only cache the lowest 64MB, is this true for the PentiumPro boards as
> well?
I believe that the cache problem is specific to the Trition chipset. So
any motherboard based on that chipset would have that problem, not just
ASUS.
--
Tal Lancaster
Technical Director, Disney Feature Animation
email: tlan@fa.disney.com
WEB: The RenderMan Repository (http://pete.cs.caltech.edu/RMR/)
From: perkins@cps.msu.edu (Stephen J. Perkins)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Re: Toshiba Satellite notebooks?
Date: 5 Sep 1996 17:47:25 GMT
Organization: Michigan State University
Message-ID: <50n3nd$17la@msunews.cl.msu.edu>
References: <fwwy9kphb.fsf@elastica.com>
Cc: robert@elastica.com
In <fwwy9kphb.fsf@elastica.com> robert@elastica.com wrote:
> Hi, does NeXTSTEP/OpenStep run on the satellite series notebooks?
>
> Does anybody have a comprehensive list of notebooks that run NS/OS?
I'm looking for a list of Notebooks also. If you happen to respond via
email, would you please followup to the list also?
Thanks,
Steve
---
==============================================================
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Dept. of Comp. Science | NeXT, MIME, finger for PGP
Michigan State University | NeXT OS 3.3 using PPP-2.2
NeXT PPP-2.2 info at http://www.thoughtport.com:8080/PPP/
From: dekorte@suite.com (Steve Dekorte)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Zip disk problem
Date: 5 Sep 1996 18:10:57 GMT
Organization: OnRamp Technologies; ISP; Dallas/Ft Worth/Houston, TX USA
Message-ID: <50n53h$qam@news.onramp.net>
SvenDroll wrote:
> I have got a problem with the IOmega-ZIP-drive, too. [Disk
unrecognized problem on some NeXTs]
I have a new problem:
When I format my Zip disk for NeXTstep, I often get a "Disk is Damaged"
panel with the options
to re-initialize or repair it. Selecting repair allows me to continue
using the disk as normal without
lossing anything, but this keeps happening - which makes me nervous.
--
Steve Dekorte - OpenStep Developer - Anaheim, CA
"Fundamentalism isn't about religion. It's about power." - S. Rushdie
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco
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Content-Type: text/plain
Mime-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 3.3 v118.2)
From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@nerc.com>
Date: Thu, 5 Sep 96 13:23:51 -0400
Subject: NeXTLaserPrinter -- Felt Cleaning Bar Part #
Organization: Princeton Theological Seminary
Return-Receipt-To: luomat@nerc.com
Just spoke to someone at Hewlett Packard (1-800-752-0900) who found
out for me that I CAN buy just the toner cleaning bar (that
felt-lined piece of plastic which goes on the fuser assembly).
Hewlett Packard Laser Printer Paper Cleaner Bar (felt lined)
part # RG1-0966-030CN
(for the Toner Cartridge 92295A, the suggested Toner Cartridge for
NeXT Laser printers)
Cost: $8, and HP pays for shipping.
Not sure if it will solve the streaking problem (no, my printer is
not running around nude...) but if spending $8 saves me from having
to spend $70, I'll be happy.
TjL
ps -- also, can't say enough for the helpfulness of the person I
spoke to. When I told her I was calling from across the country (ie
I don't want to call your non-800# for parts and service) she did a
lot of checking on her computer, contacted her supervisor who gave
her some tips on searching, and she found it (I think she was more
excited than I was). HP's "call directing" system is very good too.
It tells you how many options you'll be hearing, and includes an
option to go back to the last menu (which I think should be required
by law of all companies using these automated things). When I
selected "Customer service" I was on hold for less than a minute...
not bad for lunch time (EDT at least!).
-- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --
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From: finton@homer.cs.wisc.edu (David Finton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Re: Zip drive problem
Date: 5 Sep 1996 18:36:19 GMT
Organization: University of WI, Madison -- Computer Sciences Dept.
Message-ID: <50n6j3$7el@spool.cs.wisc.edu>
References: <4vviil$lqs@news.onramp.net> <Dwvyt9.BF3.0.astra@now.ch> <50go98$pqp@winx03.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de>
Sven Droll (sdroll@cip.mathematik.uni-wuerzburg.de) writes:
>The drive works fine on a friends mono NeXTstation and on a
...
>Well, I have got a mono (nonturbo) NeXTstation running a frech installed and
>batched NS3.3, wich recognice the drive as SCSI-drive during bootup. But when
>I insert a disk in Workspace, the drive crackles (? knackt for German
>readers) three times, the LEDs are blinking and nothing more happens. No
>mount is shown in the console-panel and you cannot mount the (NeXTformated
>disk) by hand.
>During boot-process you got the message "sd1 UNIT ATTENTION" and if you
>insert a formated (NeXTformat) disk while the ...'s are coming by another
>"sd1 UNIT ATTENTION" is displayed, but the disk is not recognized.
Have you tried inserting the Zip disk *before* beginning the boot process?
I have a non-ADB TurboColor, and my Sony 2x CD-ROM is only recognized if
I've booted up with a CD in the drive. After that, I can load and eject
discs at will, login, logout, ... everything is normal. But my machine
can't recognize that device properly unless the CD-ROM drive had a CD in
it during the boot.
So, it would be something to try, at least.
--David Finton
finton@cs.wisc.edu
From: castor@leland.Stanford.EDU (Andrew Evans Einaudi)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: NeXT MIDI Interface
Date: 5 Sep 1996 12:10:35 -0700
Organization: Stanford University, CA 94305, USA
Message-ID: <50n8jb$q72@solaria12.Stanford.EDU>
Just bought a beautiful 68040 cube running 3.0. Now all I need is a MIDI inter-
face that I can attach to my serial port. Does anyone out there know of one
that is still made today that works with the NeXT? I know a company by the name
of Quest Inc. that made an interface that worked beautifully - the box was
called MIDILink - they don't make 'em anymore though. I'd be perfectly willing
to buy one off any old NeXTstepper who wasn't using his or hers.
Since this doesn't seem to be a topic of discussion these days, why don't we do
this by email. Send responses to aeinaudi@ccrma.stanford.edu. Thank you.
-Andrew
From: gclem@dannug.dk
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Dell Optiplex GX Pro
Date: 1 Sep 1996 07:31:05 GMT
Organization: Danish NeXT User Group
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <50be3p$1le@snaps.dannug.dk>
Hi there,
The Dell Optiplex GX Pro has a new PCI implementation (PCI 2.x ?) which
gives me 5 available PCI slots (3Com ethernet onboard). Has anyone
successfully installed 3.3 on such a machine? If yes, any problems in
particular? If no, should I expect incompatibilities between 3.3 and this
PCI implementation?
Thx. Geert
From: edx@cc.usu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: EM-960TP Ethernet woes
Message-ID: <1996Sep5.173116.84593@cc.usu.edu>
Date: 5 Sep 96 17:31:16 MDT
Organization: Utah State University
Has anyone else encountered trouble with the
Cogent EM-960TP ethernet cards using OPENSTEP
4.0? I have installed the card, and the driver,
and when I ttempt to boot, it gets as far as
"registering en0", and then just hangs.
This is a new machine, Micron Millenia Plus P-166.
Any tips appreciated.
- HRC -
From: danno@stimpy.us.itd.umich.edu (Dan Pritts)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.periphs.scsi
Subject: seagate st1480n disks in next slabs
Date: 6 Sep 1996 00:07:36 GMT
Organization: University of Michigan, Operations Management
Message-ID: <50nq08$svj@thighmaster.admin.lsa.umich.edu>
Hi all, I have a bunch of seagate st-1480n disks (out of suns,
SUN0424 disks in sun parlance) that i'd like to put in NeXT
NeXTstation machines to replace the ailing 200M quantums the
nexts came with.
I would think this would be simple; next used what i thought was this
very model of disk in some of its machines, including a turbo slab i
have. I've set the jumper settings on the Sun disks identical to the
one in my turbo, and also tried all four of the various permutations of
the "motor start" and "start delay" jumpers.
However, when installed in the slabs (i have tried several, and have
tried two different sun disks), the machine will not boot (gives a
"scsi bus hung" message), likely because the disk never spins up.
It's really strange, since when i put the disk in an external
enclosure, i can boot from it just fine (don't think i ever tried using
the seagate external with no internal disk, which may somehow be
relevant).
The machines boot fine from the original quantum 200's and from some
fireball 1080's i've tried but don't want to waste on the stupid nexts.
I would much appreciate any suggestions.
by the way, the nexts do a fine job as x terminals when you run
Intuitive systems' cub'X (ask for version 4; the current version 5 does
not work outside of nextstep). New life for old machines.
danno
--
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From: gclem@dannug.dk
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: FX440 chipset - does NS 3.3 work with it
Date: 2 Sep 1996 10:05:11 GMT
Organization: Danish NeXT User Group
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <50ebgn$3uk@snaps.dannug.dk>
Hi there,
Subject should say it all: Can NS 3.3 run on machines that uses the FX440
chipset (in Pentium Pro machines)?
Thx. Geert
From: alvin@cse.ucsc.edu (Alvin Jee)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Re: Zip disk problem
Date: 5 Sep 1996 20:22:02 GMT
Organization: UC Santa Cruz CIS/CE
Message-ID: <50ncpa$4v4@darkstar.ucsc.edu>
References: <50n53h$qam@news.onramp.net>
In article <50n53h$qam@news.onramp.net>,
Steve Dekorte <dekorte@suite.com> wrote:
>I have a new problem:
>When I format my Zip disk for NeXTstep, I often get a "Disk is Damaged"
>panel with the options
>to re-initialize or repair it. Selecting repair allows me to continue
>using the disk as normal without
>lossing anything, but this keeps happening - which makes me nervous.
I had similar problems. That was until I realized that I wasn't
supposed to use the eject button on the drive. Use the Workspace
to eject the disk. That way, the disk gets sync'd before it gets
spit out.
--
--
Alvin Jee
alvin@cse.ucsc.edu
NeXTMail gleefully accepted!
From: Salvo@AccessOne.com(Marc Salvatori)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Re: can't reasb on a MICROP 1991-27SC21020AV drive
Date: 6 Sep 1996 07:03:05 GMT
Organization: AccessOne
Message-ID: <50oib9$h0@kanga.accessone.com>
References: <4v0llm$hq8@nntp.Stanford.EDU> <4v46aj$dl@turbocat.turbocat.de>
<4va4ic$2he@precipice.fdn.fr>
Cc: hugues@precipice.fdn.fr
In <4va4ic$2he@precipice.fdn.fr> Hugues RICHARD wrote:
> dave@turbocat.de (David Wetzel) wrote:
> >I would never suggest someone to buy a Micropolis drive. 2 out of 3 we
have
> >are making "problems" (If you call MEDIA ERRORS a problem:-(
>
> me too :-)
>
> I had 1 Microplis 4110 that was up 24/24h.
> After one year, it became loud. One year later, it died with
> MEDIA ERRORS, and lost files :-(
These don't sound anything like my drives. My 2-year 2217, 1-year 3423, and
1-month 3423 have performed flawlessly. Perhaps the BusLogic EISA 747S or
active terminator are factors.
--
>< Marc J. Salvatori | ><
>< mailto:salvo@accessone.com | MIME & NeXTMail are accepted ><
From: bresink@informatik.uni-koblenz.de (Marcel Bresink)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Re: ASUS Natoma board with NextStep?
Date: 6 Sep 1996 09:28:28 GMT
Organization: University Koblenz / Germany
Message-ID: <50oqrs$5dm@newshost.uni-koblenz.de>
References: <50kcn1$bi@news.tuwien.ac.at>
rft@cg.tuwien.ac.at wrote:
> ASUS P6NP5 PENTIUM PRO (Natoma Chipset)
>
> What are the experiences with NeXTstep?
It just runs fine on this board :-). But be sure to upgrade the BIOS to
version 1.03. Only then, you can use the OmniPentiumPro driver which will
give you an additional graphics performance boost.
> I've heard the Asus Pentium boards could only cache the lowest 64MB, is
> this true for the PentiumPro boards as well?
As some people already said: It's not a problem of ASUS, but a general
problem of the Intel 430FX (Tr*ton) chipset. It can handle 128 MBytes, but
only cache the lower 64 MBytes.
With a Pentium Pro CPU, the problem is simply non-existent, because a PPro
doesn't need a second level cache. It already has 256 KB cache "on-chip", and
there will be 512 KB versions in the near future.
BTW: The Natoma 440FX chipset can handle 1 GB main memory. Should be enough
for the next few months... :-)
Marcel
---
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Rheinau 1, D-56075 Koblenz, Germany, Fon: +49-261-9119-421 Fax: ...-497
Mail: bresink@informatik.uni-koblenz.de (MIME/NeXT accepted)
WWW: http://www.uni-koblenz.de/~bresink
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
From: "Peter.Depuydt" <pdepuydt@uia.ua.ac.be>
Subject: SB16 Value PnP
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Message-ID: <32300D78.3B86@uia.ua.ac.be>
Sender: news@uia.ua.ac.be (News database)
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Organization: U.I.A. University of Antwerp
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Date: Fri, 6 Sep 1996 11:39:36 GMT
Hello NeXT-files :-))
Here is the problem ....
When I play sounds on my NeXT the systems sometimes freezes ...
... only the reset button keeps working ... :-((
System config
NS 3.3
SB16 driver version 3.33
EISAbus driver 3.33
What is going wrong ?
Thanks in advance
"The NeXT step is the only step forward"
--
--------------------------------------------------------------
Peter DEPUYDT NeXT & E-mail : pdepuydt@uia.ua.ac.be
Student (Computer Science) at University of Antwerp (UIA)
Belgium / Europe
--------------------------------------------------------------
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
From: dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca (David Evans)
Subject: Re: Dual-CPUs Run Symmetrically?
Sender: news@novice.uwaterloo.ca (Mr. News)
Message-ID: <Dx9wo9.Hrx@novice.uwaterloo.ca>
Date: Thu, 5 Sep 1996 18:57:45 GMT
References: <50kr0l$ln6@nntp.ucs.ubc.ca>
Organization: University of Waterloo
In article <50kr0l$ln6@nntp.ucs.ubc.ca>,
Seamus Dunne <dogstar@unixg.ubc.ca> wrote:
>[I'll try this posting again...]
>I'm considering adding another board (an '030-25 Mhz NeXT) to my existing
>cube, with its present 040-25 Mhz CPU, 28 Mb RAM; housekeeping tasks
>would be assigned to the 030 CPU; major tasks assigned to the 040 CPU.
Not a bad idea.
>Question 1: Can a hardware/software configuration get BOTH CPUs
>to work on the SAME task?----which I understand to be symmetric processing.
No.
The boards will appear as separate machines, basically using the same power
supply and case. A modification to the backplane is required to do this; it's
on Peanuts and is called something like "DualCPUBoardsInCube".
--
David Evans (NeXTMail OK) dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca
Computer/Synth Junkie http://bbcr.uwaterloo.ca/~dfevans/
University of Waterloo "Default is the value selected by the composer
Ontario, Canada overridden by your command." - Roland TR-707 Manual
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,de.comp.sys.next
From: roland@onevision.de (Roland Schwingel)
Subject: Re: Cogent EM 110 Combo
Message-ID: <DxB30u.74B@onevision.de>
Sender: news@onevision.de
Organization: OneVision GmbH, Regensburg, Germany
References: <50hhi8$3ld@news.blkbox.com>
Date: Fri, 6 Sep 1996 10:12:30 GMT
Hello,
In article <50hhi8$3ld@news.blkbox.com> dkramer@loki.blkbox.com (Daniel L.
Kramer) writes:
> In article <Dx5Lp1.255@onevision.de> roland@onevision.de (Roland
> Schwingel) writes (about the Cogent EM-110 cards):
>
> > We have tried to use two of these cards in our intel machines. But they
> > are refusing to work. Either with the Cogent EM 110 setting in the
> DecChip21140
> > Driver or with generic DecChip 21140. We are using Version 3.33 of that
> driver.
> > Has anyone made similar observations, or much better has a solution ?
> >
> > Roland
>
> Cogent, for some reason, moved information around on their newer cards.
> The en0 address should be 00.00.92... something. If the card posts
> differently, you need to add - "Address Offset" = "20" to the expert
> settings for the driver. Neat, huh? A new driver which will autodetect
> such things is being rumbled about.
>
> Cheers and good luck!
>
> --
> Daniel L. Kramer
> Bifrost Workstations, Inc.
> 10850 Richmond Ave., Suite 270
> Houston, TX 77042
>
> (713) 952-9949 voice
> dkramer@onramp.net, for now, as the ISDN setup is only half-working...
I have tried it today. And it works. Thanks Daniel !
Bye,
Roland
--
============================================================================
Roland Schwingel OneVision GmbH
Developer Zeissstrasse 9
Email:roland@onevision.de 93053 Regensburg
(NextMail,MIME welcome) Germany
============================================================================
From: arpad@tezcat.com (Arpad Geller)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Intel install with Dell and Motion 771??
Date: 6 Sep 1996 16:36:42 GMT
Organization: Pink Flamingos
Message-ID: <50pjuq$sq@tepe.tezcat.com>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=US-ASCII
O.K., it's been a week, three SCSI cards and at least five complete runs
through installation (it took me a while to even get that far). I'm closer
than I've ever been, but still no working operating system.
At this point everything installs and seems to be fine..."remove disk and
press return to restart." However, after restarting only the first line of
text comes up declaring the nextstep version; then it freezes there. I've
tried booting off of floppy and specifying hd(1,a)mach_kernel. It actually
starts booting off the hd and then it asks me to insert the disk with the
additional drivers. If I do this, the computer reboots. If I don't, the
kernel panics (obviously it doesn't have the drivers it needs). AAARRGH.
I'm trying to install on the first 700MB partition on the second EIDE hard
drive. I have Win95 and OS/2 Warp on two partitions on the first drive. I have
a 500MB DOS FAT parition on the second hard drive and 300MB of free space.
My system:
Dell Pentium XPS133 16MB RAM
#9 Motion 771 PCI video
Adaptec 2940 PCI SCSI
Sony CDU8012 external CDROM (SCSI 0)
Syquest EZ135 external (SCSI 1)
Two EIDE hard drives
ATAPI Nec CDROM:273 (internal)
I've installed the 3.37 version of the Adaptec 2940 driver and the 3.31
EIDE/ATAPI driver. The NeXT CD is in the Sony CDROM (the nec is totally
unsupported). I know that my video card is a problem but I have no way of
loading the drivers or issuing any commands to the effect of no boot graphics.
I'm going to go buy generic ISA video card today to see what happens. It's
always good to have a cheap, backup video card around anyway. Any suggestions
other than this? Please.
------
Peace,
Arpi
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
David Arpad Geller
(312) 862-2941 arpad@tezcat.com
Chicago, IL gelldav@elof.acc.iit.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@nerc.com>
Subject: Re: Zip disk problem
Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.95.960906133126.9099A-100000@charisma>
Date: Fri, 6 Sep 1996 13:33:59 -0400
References: <50n53h$qam@news.onramp.net> <50ncpa$4v4@darkstar.ucsc.edu>
In-Reply-To: <50ncpa$4v4@darkstar.ucsc.edu>
Organization: Princeton Theological Seminary
Return-Receipt-To: luomat@nerc.com
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
I _believe_ that the "Disk is damaged" panel merely indicates that the
clean flag is NOT set on the disk's superblock (see 'man fsck').
However, the disk itself may be clean.
Yes, the eject button on the Zip, EZ135, CDRom, etc should not be
used. However, I often eject a CD because I go to put one in and find
out there already was one in there! (oops ;-)
TjL
-- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --
Timothy J. Luoma <luomat@nerc.com> http://www.nerc.com/~luomat
NeXTstep Web Page: http://www.nerc.com/~luomat/next
for email-autoresponder info, NeXTPrinter FAQ,
Swapdisk&Swapfile FAQ and more
On 5 Sep 1996, Alvin Jee wrote:
> In article <50n53h$qam@news.onramp.net>,
> Steve Dekorte <dekorte@suite.com> wrote:
> >I have a new problem:
> >When I format my Zip disk for NeXTstep, I often get a "Disk is Damaged"
> >panel with the options
> >to re-initialize or repair it. Selecting repair allows me to continue
> >using the disk as normal without
> >lossing anything, but this keeps happening - which makes me nervous.
>
> I had similar problems. That was until I realized that I wasn't
> supposed to use the eject button on the drive. Use the Workspace
> to eject the disk. That way, the disk gets sync'd before it gets
> spit out.
>
> --
> --
> Alvin Jee
> alvin@cse.ucsc.edu
> NeXTMail gleefully accepted!
>
>
>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware
From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@nerc.com>
Subject: Re: can't reasb on a MICROP 1991-27SC21020AV drive
Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.95.960906133524.9099B-100000@charisma>
Date: Fri, 6 Sep 1996 13:36:55 -0400
References: <4v0llm$hq8@nntp.Stanford.EDU> <4v46aj$dl@turbocat.turbocat.de> <4va4ic$2he@precipice.fdn.fr> <50oib9$h0@kanga.accessone.com>
In-Reply-To: <50oib9$h0@kanga.accessone.com>
Organization: Princeton Theological Seminary
Return-Receipt-To: luomat@nerc.com
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
On 6 Sep 1996, Marc Salvatori wrote:
> In <4va4ic$2he@precipice.fdn.fr> Hugues RICHARD wrote:
> > dave@turbocat.de (David Wetzel) wrote:
> > >I would never suggest someone to buy a Micropolis drive. 2 out of 3 we
> have
> > >are making "problems" (If you call MEDIA ERRORS a problem:-(
> >
> > me too :-)
> >
> > I had 1 Microplis 4110 that was up 24/24h.
> > After one year, it became loud. One year later, it died with
> > MEDIA ERRORS, and lost files :-(
>
> These don't sound anything like my drives. My 2-year 2217, 1-year 3423, and
> 1-month 3423 have performed flawlessly. Perhaps the BusLogic EISA 747S or
> active terminator are factors.
My 1gig MICROP /1598-15MD1066702/DD24/ has been working fine for over
a year (probably more than 3, but I've only had the drive for a
year... I think Carl had it for at least 2) on my m68k system....
However, I have heard from several people that Micropolis drives have
given then many many headaches.
TjL
-- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --
Timothy J. Luoma <luomat@nerc.com> http://www.nerc.com/~luomat
NeXTstep Web Page: http://www.nerc.com/~luomat/next
for email-autoresponder info, NeXTPrinter FAQ,
Swapdisk&Swapfile FAQ and more
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@nerc.com>
Subject: EZ135: sad news
Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.95.960906133747.9099C-100000@charisma>
Date: Fri, 6 Sep 1996 13:45:06 -0400
Organization: Princeton Theological Seminary
Return-Receipt-To: luomat@nerc.com
MIME-Version: 1.0
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I have spent 2 days looking for an EZ135 cartridges in the area
without any luck. In fact, most places claim to have been out of them
for weeks. Most places also had a list of people who wanted
cartridges once they come in (or IF they come in).
I was told by more than one salesperson (at stores I respect) that
SyQuest has stopped supporting the EZ135 entirely (unofficially).
This certainly seems the case as I have sent several email messages to
them, which have gone unanswered for many days now.
It seems they are turning their attention to the EZ-flyer230, but for
how long?
As one tech guy put it "The EZ is far superior to the Zip drive in
just about every way, faster, more diskspace per cartridge, more
diskspace per dollar..... but at least Iomega makes the cartridges
available". And that is true, ZIP cartridges are as frequently
spotted as AOL disks.
I recommended the EZ many, many times, and bought one myself. In
fact, the return period expired just days before SyQuest announced the
EZFlyer (and dropped the price $80 on the EZ135).
Also of note to those on the East Coast: the entire east coast was
sent a bad batch of disks... perhaps that is why I can't find any
cartridges.
All this because I finally decided to do some backups as I should....
TjL
-- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --
Timothy J. Luoma <luomat@nerc.com> http://www.nerc.com/~luomat
NeXTstep Web Page: http://www.nerc.com/~luomat/next
for email-autoresponder info, NeXTPrinter FAQ,
Swapdisk&Swapfile FAQ and more
From: kyle@morgan.ucs.mun.ca (Kyle Hearfield)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Re: Intel install with Dell and Motion 771??
Followup-To: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware
Date: 6 Sep 1996 18:03:02 GMT
Organization: Memorial University of Newfoundland
Message-ID: <50pp0m$bjl@coranto.ucs.mun.ca>
References: <50pjuq$sq@tepe.tezcat.com>
have you tried loading the device drivers for the video card from a floppy
just after you load the drivers for the HD and CDROM. It worked for me.
Arpad Geller (arpad@tezcat.com) wrote:
: O.K., it's been a week, three SCSI cards and at least five complete runs
: through installation (it took me a while to even get that far). I'm closer
: than I've ever been, but still no working operating system.
: At this point everything installs and seems to be fine..."remove disk and
: press return to restart." However, after restarting only the first line of
: text comes up declaring the nextstep version; then it freezes there. I've
: tried booting off of floppy and specifying hd(1,a)mach_kernel. It actually
: starts booting off the hd and then it asks me to insert the disk with the
: additional drivers. If I do this, the computer reboots. If I don't, the
: kernel panics (obviously it doesn't have the drivers it needs). AAARRGH.
: I'm trying to install on the first 700MB partition on the second EIDE hard
: drive. I have Win95 and OS/2 Warp on two partitions on the first drive. I have
: a 500MB DOS FAT parition on the second hard drive and 300MB of free space.
: My system:
: Dell Pentium XPS133 16MB RAM
: #9 Motion 771 PCI video
: Adaptec 2940 PCI SCSI
: Sony CDU8012 external CDROM (SCSI 0)
: Syquest EZ135 external (SCSI 1)
: Two EIDE hard drives
: ATAPI Nec CDROM:273 (internal)
: I've installed the 3.37 version of the Adaptec 2940 driver and the 3.31
: EIDE/ATAPI driver. The NeXT CD is in the Sony CDROM (the nec is totally
: unsupported). I know that my video card is a problem but I have no way of
: loading the drivers or issuing any commands to the effect of no boot graphics.
: I'm going to go buy generic ISA video card today to see what happens. It's
: always good to have a cheap, backup video card around anyway. Any suggestions
: other than this? Please.
: ------
: Peace,
: Arpi
: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
: David Arpad Geller
: (312) 862-2941 arpad@tezcat.com
: Chicago, IL gelldav@elof.acc.iit.edu
--
I don't wan't the world, I just want your half.
-Unknown
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Kyle D. Hearfield kyle@morgan.ucs.mun.ca
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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From: Denis Delbecq <ddelbecq@francenet.fr>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: frozen mouse on a black station
Date: Fri, 06 Sep 1996 20:35:46 -0100
Organization: CalvaCom Networks
Message-ID: <32308B22.6D3B@francenet.fr>
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CC: ddelbecq@francenet.fr
Hi Folks!
My mouse seems desesperately frozen on the same location of my
5-years-old screen. I own a blackstation (040-25MHz). Does anybody
experienced the same problem? Can I use a modified Mac Mouse to replace
it? Where can I find a Next-branded or compatible mouse?
HEEEELLLPPP...
Thanks for answer,
Denis
From: rmitchel@cymitar.net (Mitch)
Newsgroups: comp.soft-sys.nextstep,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.marketplace,comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: Please help on pricing a system!
Date: Fri, 06 Sep 1996 02:09:38 -0600
Organization: Zippo
Distribution: inet
Message-ID: <rmitchel-0609960209380001@news1.cymitar.net>
Hello.
My name is Ryan Mitchell, and I'm talking to a guy who's interested in
selling a NeXT Color Station for $2300. It comes with a 21" monitor
(color), 24M RAM, Soundbox, mouse, keyboard, 1400dpi printer, and the
system software on CD-ROM (although it doesn't have a CD ROM drive).
Anyway, I'm wondering if someone could give me some pointers on whether
they think that $2300 is a fair price. Comments? Suggestions? Please
post here or, for a faster and better response from me, email to
rmitchel@cs.trinity.edu. Thanks a lot for any help you can give!
Mitch
From: hawk@cts.com (Mike Cianflone)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Pinouts for 21" blac NeXT monitor wanted
Date: 6 Sep 1996 21:24:27 GMT
Organization: CTS Network Services (CTSNET), San Diego, CA
Message-ID: <50q4qb$3pe@bogus.cts.com>
Could someone post or email the pinouts for the 21" Black NeXT monitor. I
am looking to hook one up to a PC and need to know the pin assignments for the
monitor. If anyone knows (or knows of a FAQ somewhere or a WWW site that has
the descriptions, please do let me know). Thanks!!
Mike
From: Garance A Drosehn <gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Re: EZ135: sad news
Date: 6 Sep 1996 19:12:18 GMT
Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy NY, USA
Message-ID: <50pt2i$jf1@usenet.rpi.edu>
References: <Pine.NXT.3.95.960906133747.9099C-100000@charisma>
"Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@nerc.com> wrote:
>
> I have spent 2 days looking for an EZ135 cartridges in the area
> without any luck. In fact, most places claim to have been out
> of them for weeks. Most places also had a list of people who
> wanted cartridges once they come in (or IF they come in).
>
> I was told by more than one salesperson (at stores I respect) that
> SyQuest has stopped supporting the EZ135 entirely (unofficially).
>
> This certainly seems the case as I have sent several email messages
> to them, which have gone unanswered for many days now.
>
> It seems they are turning their attention to the EZ-flyer230,
> but for how long?
It should be considerably longer than the EZ-135. The problem with
the EZ-135 was that it was rushed out as panic response to the ZIP
drive. While some of it's capabilities were better than the ZIP
drive, it came out later than the ZIP drive and cost more to make.
The more EZ-135 drives Syquest sold, the worse off they were
financially.
The EZ-Flyer is a modest improvement in technology, in the sense
that it doesn't cost them much more to make than the 135's (it
might even cost them less, for all I know). However, thanks to
the greater capacity they can justify a higher charge for it.
As such, they actually make money on it instead of losing money.
This makes it likely that it will be supported for longer than
the 135 was.
As for me, I still prefer either magneto-optical, ZIP, or JAZ,
depending on the circumstances.
---
Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu
Senior Systems Programmer (MIME & NeXTmail capable)
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Troy NY USA
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@nerc.com>
Subject: Re: frozen mouse on a black station
Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.95.960906172953.11988B-100000@charisma>
Date: Fri, 6 Sep 1996 17:31:40 -0400
References: <32308B22.6D3B@francenet.fr>
To: Denis Delbecq <ddelbecq@francenet.fr>
In-Reply-To: <32308B22.6D3B@francenet.fr>
Organization: Princeton Theological Seminary
Return-Receipt-To: luomat@nerc.com
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Does anyone around you have a mouse you can use to see if that is the
problem?
If you want a new mouse, contact tim@dancingbear.com
You can make one yourself, the pinouts are posted here about weekly,
whenever some discussion about this comes up ;-)
TjL
ps -- one bad thing about NS (and probably OS too) is that if you
don't have a mouse the system is almost useless.... but still cool
-- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --
Timothy J. Luoma <luomat@nerc.com> http://www.nerc.com/~luomat
NeXTstep Web Page: http://www.nerc.com/~luomat/next
for email-autoresponder info, NeXTPrinter FAQ,
Swapdisk&Swapfile FAQ and more
On Fri, 6 Sep 1996, Denis Delbecq wrote:
> Hi Folks!
>
> My mouse seems desesperately frozen on the same location of my
> 5-years-old screen. I own a blackstation (040-25MHz). Does anybody
> experienced the same problem? Can I use a modified Mac Mouse to replace
> it? Where can I find a Next-branded or compatible mouse?
> HEEEELLLPPP...
>
> Thanks for answer,
>
> Denis
>
>
>
From: mpaque@pacbell.net (Mike Paquette)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.periphs.scsi
Subject: Re: seagate st1480n disks in next slabs
Date: Fri, 06 Sep 1996 22:18:18 GMT
Organization: Electronics Service, Unit No. 16
Message-ID: <50q82l$6tv@news2.snfc21.pacbell.net>
References: <50nq08$svj@thighmaster.admin.lsa.umich.edu>
danno@stimpy.us.itd.umich.edu (Dan Pritts) wrote:
>Hi all, I have a bunch of seagate st-1480n disks (out of suns,
>SUN0424 disks in sun parlance) that i'd like to put in NeXT
>NeXTstation machines to replace the ailing 200M quantums the
>nexts came with.
>However, when installed in the slabs (i have tried several, and have
>tried two different sun disks), the machine will not boot (gives a
>"scsi bus hung" message), likely because the disk never spins up.
>It's really strange, since when i put the disk in an external
>enclosure, i can boot from it just fine (don't think i ever tried using
>the seagate external with no internal disk, which may somehow be
>relevant).
Terminating resistors.
The Seagate 1480 disks need terminating resistors attached, to provide
the internal bus termination. There is a row of little Augat sockets
(teeny little brass-like holes) just above the ribbon cable connector.
This is where 3 terminating resistor RPACs get plugged in. I don't
have the specs on the parts, unfortunately. Probably hard to find
anywhere.
Two cheats to try:
Hook up an external SCSI cable to the SCSI-2 connector on the back
of the machine and slap a terminator on it. (Good enough for testing,
but without internal termination there will be an occasional glitch.)
Get a short SCSI ribbon cable with three male connectors (most PC
clone shops sell these. Plug one end into the slab motherboard, the
middle connector into the disk drive, and a SCSI ribbon connector
terminator on the end. (Also pretty common, and used (for example) in
many expandable Macs.)
Mike Paquette
I don't speak for my employer, and they don't speak for me.
mpaque@pacbell.net Personal E-mail
mpaque@next.com NeXT business mail only, please
From: jsamson@istar.ca (Jean-Paul Samson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Re: EZ135: sad news
Date: 7 Sep 1996 03:10:58 GMT
Organization: iSTAR Internet Incorporated
Message-ID: <50qp42$8j9@news.istar.ca>
References: <Pine.NXT.3.95.960906133747.9099C-100000@charisma>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.NXT.3.95.960906133747.9099C-100000@charisma>
On 09/06/96, "Timothy J. Luoma" wrote:
>I have spent 2 days looking for an EZ135 cartridges in the area
>without any luck. In fact, most places claim to have been out of
>them for weeks. Most places also had a list of people who wanted
>cartridges once they come in (or IF they come in).
The EZ135 disks are still readily available where I live in Canada. A
good philosophy when buying removable drives is to stock up on the
media. Make sure you purchase enough cartridges to keep you going
until you decide to buy something better in a few years time. This
will protect you when the drive becomes obsolete and the media
unavailable. I have bought seven EZ135 cartridges, but am only using
three of them at present.
You could try a mail order service if you can't find the cartridges
locally.
--
-===================================================================-
Jean-Paul Samson -==- jsamson@istar.ca -==- NeXTmail welcome, no MIME
-===================================================================-
From: drgrant@zipnet.net (Mike Capone)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.chips
Subject: Re: Some questions Re ASUS and Tyan Pentium motherboards
Date: Sat, 07 Sep 1996 06:30:17 GMT
Organization: The Internet Access Company, Inc.
Message-ID: <32311635.2677872@news.tiac.net>
References: <acu3tuafaz.fsf@tundra.winternet.com> <3224B9DF.718@fpe.erenj.com>
:Probably it is stable by now. It is supposed to be faster.
:
:My impression from reading comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.chips around that
:time was that ASUS had a great reputation but the deciding factor for
:me was that the Tyan had 5 ISA slots while ASUS had only 3.
:
:My main complaint about the Tyan is that changing the chipset settings
:for memory access doesn't seem to make any difference in eg. Norton
:benchmarks. I have them set to the fastest possible for FPM RAM anyway.
:This puzzles me. I have Award bios version 3.00.
:
:Also I tried to overclock the Pentium by changing jumpers per the
:manual but the but the MB just ignored the changes! Stange.
:
It didnt ignore the changes- the pentium chip ignored them. Intel has an anti
overclock mechanisim in all their newer chips.
From: Paul Venezia <pvenezia@top.monad.net>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Re: Hard Drive Failures - Was Re: Mail aliases under NS 3.3 with new Sendmail
Date: Sat, 07 Sep 1996 02:13:34 -0400
Organization: MonadNet Corp.
Message-ID: <3231128E.1326@top.monad.net>
References: <502egs$50c@news.digifix.com> <503780$7fd@news.digifix.com> <504dqm$kk1@sjx-ixn6.ix.netcom.com> <505ol9$g3j@news.digifix.com>
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Scott Anguish wrote:
> I've had three Quantum Empires fail in 6 months.
> Blacksmith has also had 2 fail recently.
I've heard some bad things about the empire series, but
the Fireball series has been rather good to me. Unfortunately, they tend
to be smaller drives.
> Alarm bells are ringing big time here. I'm not sure if Quantum is
> better, but the data on that drive is mine, its sensitive, and its
> private. I'll be damned if I'm going to have some dealer futzing around
> with it to get warranty service. I don't know if Quantum is better, or if
> I can even get service through Quantum...
My experiences with Quantum have been adequate. Better than most,
but generally not as good as Micropolis.
> My biggest concern is reliability, I can't afford to loose data
> like I've just lost. Likewise, I can't afford solutions like RAID.
>
> And Yes, I have backs, redundant backups. But the tapes will not
> read on my HP Dat. Where was it bought from? LaCie... A Quantum Company.
>
I just lost about half my equipment room to a pipe burst. The worst
things hit were the mail and web servers, and a Micropolis 9 gig drive.
Granted, the drive was slow as death, but for feeding HTML files, it worked
fine. This drive took about 2 hours of sitting half submerged in water,
power still running, and I was able to retrieve about 95% of the data from
it before it finally smoked. THAT'S reliability. I like Micropolis quite a
bit after this.
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MonadNet Corporation | Email: request@monad.net | Information:(603)352-7619
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From: hassan@blackstar.ssnet.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: Need Immediate Feedback on HD Purchase !
Date: 7 Sep 1996 13:46:10 GMT
Organization: SSNet -- Public Internet Access in Delaware!
Message-ID: <50rub2$8s4@news.ssnet.com>
Could you please recommend some SCSI Hard Disk Drives that definately work
with NeXT Blackware (in particular a NeXTstation TurboColor).
Tomorrow (Sunday) a am going to a fair and I wan't to buy a drive.
Appreciate any feedback
Hassan
From: wilkie@cg.tuwien.ac.at (Alexander Wilkie)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Re: Zip disk problem
Date: 7 Sep 1996 14:47:28 GMT
Organization: Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Message-ID: <50s1u0$mtb@news.tuwien.ac.at>
References: <50n53h$qam@news.onramp.net> <50ncpa$4v4@darkstar.ucsc.edu>
<Pine.NXT.3.95.960906133126.9099A-100000@charisma>
Cc: luomat@nerc.com
Hi newsgroup!
> Yes, the eject button on the Zip, EZ135, CDRom, etc should not be
> used. However, I often eject a CD because I go to put one in and find
> out there already was one in there! (oops ;-)
Ain't there a SCSI command to lock/disable the eject button for ZIP drives
(that one could send to the thing during boot-up)?
MPGI that there have to be a number of (proprietary?) SCSI commands for the
ZIP drive, because AFAIK write protection of cartridges (which I, being a
NeXTStep-only user, have only heard about in rumours) is done software-wise.
Perhaps one could bug IOMega to give some details? The last time I checked
their website the most technical information one could find was "Well, we
produce all sorts of backup media. Click here to see NICE AND COLOURFUL
photos of them..."
Alexander Wilkie
---
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From: jq@papoose.quick.com (James E. Quick)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Re: Help: Adaptec 2940 Problems
Date: 7 Sep 1996 11:07:02 -0400
Organization: PHCS
Message-ID: <50s32m$3m4@papoose.quick.com>
References: <50mkl0$3b3s@news.doit.wisc.edu>
In article <50mkl0$3b3s@news.doit.wisc.edu>,
Theodore J. Allen <tjallen@wishep.physics.wisc.edu> wrote:
>Has anyone had the following problem?
>
>I am replacing my 2940UW with a 2940U
>so that I can run some SCSI II external
>drives. When I booted with the 2940U,
(munch. . .)
>
>Any hints?
I would suggest returning the 2940U and just using the 2940UW.
You have several options for using external narrow devices with
the UW.
1. Buy an external cable which has a 50pin wide connecter on
one end, and either high density or centronics 50 pin SCSI-2
on the other. This cable can be found for $30-$40 from many
sources, and is all you need to connect a chain of narrow
devices. When I upgraded to a 2940UW recently, I got one
of these cables to connect my old narrow external devices.
I use wide internal, narrow internal, and narrow external
devices at the same time with no problems.
This is the cheapest and easiest option if you have a number
of narrow external devices already and just want to migrate
them to a controller with an external wide connector.
2. Another option is to put narrow drives in external, wide
exclosures. This would be the best option if you have a
number of narrow devices and want to purchase external
enclosures in a forward looking fashion. There are short
lengths of internal cable, with a a narrow connector, off
of a wide loop. This means that you can connect narrow
devices to a wide SCSI chain.
This way when you retire your older narrow components, you
can simply puchase a wide drive, and slap it in the enclosure,
and it will work fine.
DISCLAIMER - I am not affiliated with Impediment, just a satisfied customer.
There is a systems integrator in my area I have dealt with a couple of
times and highly recommend. He has extensive NS experience (he used to
work at NeXT) and would be a good resource if you want to price these
two options or buy systems or components that you know will work with NS/OS.
They support only a limited range of components but they are about the best
available.
There web page is http://www.impediment.com/.
His email is andrew@impediment.com.
--
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/ / / | Private HealthCare Systems NeXTMail O.K.
\_/ (_\/ | Systems Integration Group (617) 895-3343
) | "I don't think so," said Rene Descartes. Just then, he vanished.
From: dwy@walrus.com (David Young)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Re: Intel install with Dell and Motion 771??
Followup-To: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware
Date: 7 Sep 1996 19:47:56 GMT
Organization: Intellitech Corporation
Message-ID: <50sjhc$k3k@alice.walrus.com>
References: <50pjuq$sq@tepe.tezcat.com>
Arpad Geller (arpad@tezcat.com) wrote:
: O.K., it's been a week, three SCSI cards and at least five complete runs
: through installation (it took me a while to even get that far). I'm closer
: than I've ever been, but still no working operating system.
[snip]
Very much like my system, only I don't have any EIDE devices.
If it's a 2940UW, did you load the 2940 driver off the additional drivers
disk as opposed to the drivers disk? Also, how much memory is on your
Motion771?
---
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. . . . .. dwy@ace.net / 1.201.798.5217 / 1.917.923.6461 //
. . . .. www.ace.net: a playground for the truly digital //
From: edx@cc.usu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Cogent EM-960TP on Micron Millenia Plus
Message-ID: <1996Sep7.134631.84661@cc.usu.edu>
Date: 7 Sep 96 13:46:31 MDT
Organization: Utah State University
I'm still having trouble with the EM-960TP on
the Micron Millenia. I ditched OPENSTEP 4.0 and
tried installing NeXTSTEP 3.3. No luck - same
problem - it boots as far as "Registering en0"
and then hangs.
Any advice welcome.
- HRC -
From: Dan Pritts <danno@us.itd.umich.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.periphs.scsi
Subject: Re: seagate st1480n disks in next slabs
Date: 7 Sep 1996 21:04:05 GMT
Organization: University of Michigan, Operations Management
Message-ID: <50so05$h6v@thighmaster.admin.lsa.umich.edu>
References: <50nq08$svj@thighmaster.admin.lsa.umich.edu> <50q82l$6tv@news2.snfc21.pacbell.net>
Originator: danno@stimpy.us.itd.umich.edu
In article <50q82l$6tv@news2.snfc21.pacbell.net>,
Mike Paquette <mpaque@pacbell.net> wrote:
>danno@stimpy.us.itd.umich.edu (Dan Pritts) wrote:
>
>>Hi all, I have a bunch of seagate st-1480n disks (out of suns,
>>SUN0424 disks in sun parlance) that i'd like to put in NeXT
>>NeXTstation machines to replace the ailing 200M quantums the
>>nexts came with.
>
>>However, when installed in the slabs (i have tried several, and have
>>tried two different sun disks), the machine will not boot (gives a
>>"scsi bus hung" message), likely because the disk never spins up.
>Terminating resistors.
>
>The Seagate 1480 disks need terminating resistors attached, to provide
>the internal bus termination. There is a row of little Augat sockets
>(teeny little brass-like holes) just above the ribbon cable connector.
>This is where 3 terminating resistor RPACs get plugged in. I don't
>have the specs on the parts, unfortunately. Probably hard to find
>anywhere.
"above" the connector? Or on the circuit board, right near the connector?
I didn't see (and dont' have the disks handy just now) these holes,
although i didn't look real closely. I did see three chips soldered
to the circuit board on the circuit board where i mention, which i had
guessed were the terminators.
i'll check it out more closely.
thanks and thanks to those who emailed with similar suggestions.
danno
--
dan pritts ITD/LSA Partnership Unix Support dan.pritts@umich.edu
From: beaucham@cmp-rs.cso.uiuc.edu (james beauchamp)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: RAM for Cube: where to buy?
Date: 7 Sep 1996 21:29:47 GMT
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Message-ID: <50spgb$6j8@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu>
Dancing Bear is selling 32MB 72 pin SIMMs for $225, but these are used parts.
How does this compare with buying new SIMMs? I know that Black NeXT SIMMs
have to be "low-profile", so does this mean Mac or PC parts won't work?
Please reply directly to me.
Jim Beauchamp
j-beauch@uiuc.edu
From: Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Re: RAM for Cube: where to buy?
Date: Sat, 7 Sep 1996 19:00:05 -0400
Organization: Fifth yr. senior, Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
Message-ID: <gmATtp_00iWT07kmF=@andrew.cmu.edu>
References: <50spgb$6j8@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu>
In-Reply-To: <50spgb$6j8@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu>
Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.hardware: 7-Sep-96 RAM for Cube:
where to buy? by james beauchamp@cmp-rs.c
> Dancing Bear is selling 32MB 72 pin SIMMs for $225, but these are used parts.
> How does this compare with buying new SIMMs? I know that Black NeXT SIMMs
> have to be "low-profile", so does this mean Mac or PC parts won't work?
New 32MB 72-pin SIMMs (8x32 by 70ns) are $163 at the Chip Merchant,
which is $62 bucks cheaper.
I've never had a problem fitting SIMMs into a NeXT computer, but I
suppose that you could always return them if you do encounter trouble.
-Chuck
PS: Your 'From:' header is "beaucham@cmp-rs.cso.uiuc.edu", which seems
invalid, at least according to what my mail system sees here at CMU.
Please fix it.
Charles Swiger | cs4w@andrew.cmu.edu | standard disclaimer
----------------+---------------------+---------------------
I know you're an optimist if you think I'm a pessimist.
From: Roland Telfeyan <rolandt@crt.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Re: NeXTSTEP on Notebooks with SCSI?
Date: 8 Sep 1996 05:26:32 GMT
Organization: Vnet Internet Access, Inc.
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <50tle8$b5c@ralph.vnet.net>
References: <f20gi50c2.fsf@elastica.com>
In article <f20gi50c2.fsf@elastica.com> robert@elastica.com writes:
> I'm thinking of getting a modest notebook to run NS on.
>
> What DX4 or P90 machines that have SCSI run NS?
>
> --
> Art is prostitution of the mind.
Contact Advanced Information Systems. See http://www.advis.com/.
Best regards,
Roland Telfeyan
roland@telf.com
From: ts110@pmms.cam.ac.uk (Tomaz Slivnik)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Plextor 8Plex CDROM on Black
Date: 8 Sep 1996 10:49:13 GMT
Organization: Cambridge University, Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics
Message-ID: <50u8b9$55r@lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk>
Has anyone successfully connected a Plextor 8Plex CD-ROM drive to a black
NeXT? I can get it to work most of the time, but at boot I get a message
every time saying something like
sd3: UNIT ATTENTION
and then NeXT takes some time for ``drive to become ready''. It wouldn't
be a major problem, but I have tried installing OpenStep 4.0 from this
CD-ROM and I can't do it (the machine hangs some 2% of the way of the
second phase of the installation process). I seem to remember from
somewhere that disk drives connected to black hardware have to have the
Unit Attention switch set to Yes (as opposed to Mac drives which must
have it set to No), but this CD-ROM drive at least does not seem to have
a Unit Attention switch.
Any ideas? Thank you very much. Tomaz Slivnik
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco
Return-Path: <wolf@dino.ph.utexas.edu>
Message-ID: <199609081436.HAA04685@isp.net>
From: David Wolf <wolf@dino.ph.utexas.edu>
Subject: optical drives - which ones work?
Date: Sun, 8 Sep 96 9:28:56 CDT
Cc: wolf@dino.ph.utexas.edu
Mailer: Elm [revision: 70.85]
friends, the subject says it all.
i have a next cube 040 and i want to put a zip-like drive on the system.
i've looked all over oregon and peanuts, but i cannot find anything resembling
an up-to date hardware faq.
does anyone have any information or recommendations for scsi optical hardware
for the next?
in particular, has anyone gotten the iomega scsi zip drive to work with next,
and if so, is there anything special about it in terms of cabling, jumpers,
etc. that isn;t immediately obvious?
PLEASE: respond via email to WOLF@DINO.PH.UTEXAS.EDU
thanks, david
david wolf
u tx austin
From: "Eric A. Dubiel" <eadubie@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.marketplace,comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: FS: Canon object.station 41 logic board-bare
Date: Sun, 08 Sep 1996 12:06:36 -0500
Organization: Illinois State University- Instructional Technology Services
Message-ID: <3232FC84.6EF2@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu>
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Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Hi,
I'm selling a Canon object.station 41 logic board that's bare- no CPU or
RAM.
If you're interested, let me know and we'll talk about the price- make
me an offer.
----------------------------------------
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mailto:eadubie@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu ASCII, MIME, SUN or NeXT Mail; PGP
ok.
* PGP public key available, send mail with subj "Send PGP Key"
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
From: Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki)
Subject: Re: frozen mouse on a black station
Message-ID: <DxD2DL.1vH@nidat.sub.org>
Sender: nitezki@nidat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki)
Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany
References: <32308B22.6D3B@francenet.fr>
Date: Sat, 7 Sep 1996 11:53:45 GMT
In article <32308B22.6D3B@francenet.fr> Denis Delbecq
<ddelbecq@francenet.fr> writes:
> Hi Folks!
>
> My mouse seems desesperately frozen on the same location of my
> 5-years-old screen. I own a blackstation (040-25MHz). Does anybody
> experienced the same problem? Can I use a modified Mac Mouse to replace
> it? Where can I find a Next-branded or compatible mouse?
> HEEEELLLPPP...
>
First, you may have a broken cable. In this case a soldering iron would
help.
Replacement mice: Microsoft Bus mice or compatibles with permuted pinout
will do. Instructions are to be found on Peanuts. Commercial versions
are on sale from Dancing Bear.
--
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Staarenbergstr. 44 | Tel.: +49 7251 62495 # not about the pleasure and
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GERMANY | E-mail defunct, sorry # up to the Net. Peter 1,3-5
From: arpad@tezcat.com (Arpad Geller)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Re: Intel install with Dell and ps/2 mouse?
Date: 8 Sep 1996 20:16:55 GMT
Organization: Pink Flamingos
Message-ID: <50v9jn$n3v@tepe.tezcat.com>
References: <50pjuq$sq@tepe.tezcat.com>
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I'm almost there, the system runs. I've got to learn to read instructions more
carefully. Apparently, the install disk needs to be the primary disk to boot
and install properly (at least that was my solution). So I have two problems
left:
1. My mouse is stuck at IRQ12. It is a PS/2 mouse (Logitech cordless). I
tried to edit the Default.table in /usr/Devices/PS2Mouse.config so that
everything points to IRQ12 but the mouse still isn't recognized (yes, I type
config=Default at boot). Am I missing something in the Default.table? I
changed two lines (the only two with IRQ references).
2. I can only get the nextstep partition to boot as hd1a from floppy. It
won't do it from the OS/2 boot manager. I changed the /etc/fstab line to
/dev/hd1a instead of /dev/hd0a and still no luck. Is there something else I
need to change?
Thanks in advance.
In article <50pjuq$sq@tepe.tezcat.com>, arpad@tezcat.com says...
>
>I'm trying to install on the first 700MB partition on the second EIDE hard
>drive. I have Win95 and OS/2 Warp on two partitions on the first drive. I
have
>a 500MB DOS FAT parition on the second hard drive and 300MB of free space.
>
>My system:
>Dell Pentium XPS133 16MB RAM
>#9 Motion 771 PCI video
>Adaptec 2940 PCI SCSI
>Sony CDU8012 external CDROM (SCSI 0)
>Syquest EZ135 external (SCSI 1)
>Two EIDE hard drives
>ATAPI Nec CDROM:273 (internal)
>
--
Peace,
Arpi
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
David Arpad Geller
(312) 862-2941 arpad@tezcat.com
Chicago, IL gelldav@elof.acc.iit.edu
From: Steve Haynes <shaynes@ibm.net>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Help please..Slab refuses to boot after unplugging
Date: Sun, 08 Sep 1996 20:44:23 -0400
Organization: EQB Industries
Message-ID: <32336867.6B9A@ibm.net>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Hello,
During the hurricane last week I unplugged my turbo color for a few days
and now it refuses to boot.
I have gone throught the configuration and reset the boot command to sd
but it fails to recognize the drive.
The message I get is:
sc: Didn't complete
Any ideas would be very much appreciated.
Steve Haynes
EQB Industries.
From: hugues@precipice.fdn.fr (Hugues RICHARD)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Re: Hard Drive Failures - Was Re: Mail aliases under NS 3.3 with new Sendmail
Date: 8 Sep 1996 09:17:28 GMT
Organization: Individual - France
Message-ID: <50u2v8$10q@precipice.fdn.fr>
References: <502egs$50c@news.digifix.com> <503780$7fd@news.digifix.com> <504dqm$kk1@sjx-ixn6.ix.netcom.com> <505ol9$g3j@news.digifix.com> <3231128E.1326@top.monad.net>
Did anybody got a Fujitsu that went bad...
Hugues.
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From: Roland Telfeyan <roland@telf.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: scanners for black ?
Date: 9 Sep 1996 03:34:10 GMT
Organization: Telf Design Corp.
Message-ID: <51037i$p1q@ralph.vnet.net>
What are some good scanners to buy for black hardware? Can I get an HP SCSI
scanner from a catalog and be assured that it will work? What about scanner
software?
Best regards,
Roland Telfeyan
roland@telf.com
From: rencsok@channelu.com (Randall J. Rencsok)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Re: Toshiba Satellite notebooks?
Date: 9 Sep 1996 06:37:02 GMT
Organization: Michigan State University
Message-ID: <510due$n4e@msunews.cl.msu.edu>
References: <fwwy9kphb.fsf@elastica.com> <50n3nd$17la@msunews.cl.msu.edu>
Cc: perkins@cps.msu.edu
In <50n3nd$17la@msunews.cl.msu.edu> Stephen J. Perkins wrote:
> In <fwwy9kphb.fsf@elastica.com> robert@elastica.com wrote:
> > Hi, does NeXTSTEP/OpenStep run on the satellite series notebooks?
> >
> > Does anybody have a comprehensive list of notebooks that run NS/OS?
>
> I'm looking for a list of Notebooks also. If you happen to respond via
> email, would you please followup to the list also?
>
I'm looking too (but havn't looked hard yet)
--
Randy
From: ifeulner@xenon.cube.de (Ingo Feulner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,de.comp.sys.next
Subject: Dead NeXT Laser printer
Date: 8 Sep 1996 17:19:05 GMT
Organization: Home, sweet home in Boeblingen, Germany
Message-ID: <slrn536009.m2a.ifeulner@xenon.cube.de>
Suddenly my NeXT laser printer does not power on any more
(during the boot process).
While trying to reconfigure it with PrintManager, it says
there is no printer attached.
I believe it is something with the power supply. I opened
the printer and found two kind of fuses, but one is ok and
the other one is totally unknown to me and I wasn't able
to detach it (it's at the right back of the printer, labeled
with 10 ampere.)
Any suggestions?
Thanks, Ingo.
--
Smail: Ingo Feulner, Wolfacher Weg 19, 71034 Boeblingen, Germany
Email: ifeulner@xenon.cube.de
"You do not understand." - Kosh, Babylon 5, various episodes.
From: hassan@blackstar.ssnet.com (Hassan N. Kelley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: New Micropolis Won't boot
Date: 9 Sep 1996 09:24:42 GMT
Organization: SSNet -- Public Internet Access in Delaware!
Message-ID: <510noq$pt@news.ssnet.com>
I just bought a New Micropolis Model 4221 TY0030-02-7 HD for my
ColorTurbo. The The DiskBuild completes but when I try to boot the
Micropolis it hangs while loading from disk. The ROM Monitor says it
fails at some kind of "init". Any solutions?
Hassan
hassan@blackstar.ssnet.com
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From: rx7power@ix.netcom.com (Water)
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Subject: ****QUICK AND EASY CASH****
Date: Mon, 09 Sep 1996 11:27:58 GMT
Organization: Netcom
Message-ID: <510v1k$9g7@sjx-ixn4.ix.netcom.com>
I was scanning thru a NEWSGROUP and saw an article stating to
GET CASH FAST!! I thought..."Here on the Internet?? Well, I'll just
have to see what schemes could possibly be on the internet." The
article described a way to MAIL A ONE DOLLAR BILL TO ONLY FIVE PEOPLE
AND MAKE $50,000 IN CASH WITHIN 4 WEEKS! Well, the more I thought
about it, the more I became very curious. Why? Because of the way it
worked AND BECAUSE IT WOULD ONLY COST ME FIVE DOLLARS (AND FIVE
STAMPS), THAT'S ALL I EVER PAY....EVER!!
Ok, so the $50,000 in cash was maybe an tough amount to reach, but
it was possible. I knew that I could at least get a return of $1,000
or so. So I did it!! As per the instructions in the article, I mailed
out ('snail mail' for you e-mail fanatics) a single dollar bill to each
of the five people on the list that was contained in the article. I
included a small note, with the dollar, that stated "Please Add Me To
Your List." I then removed the first position name of the five names
listed and moved everyone up one position, and I put my name in
position five of the list. This is how the money starts rolling in!
I then took this revised article now with my name on the list and
REPOSTED IT ON AS MANY NEWSGROUPS AND LOCAL BULLETIN BOARD
MESSAGE AREAS THAT I KNEW. I then waited to watch the money come
in...prepared to maybe receive about $1000 to $1500 in cash or so....
But what a welcome surprise when those envelopes kept coming in!!! I
knew what they were as soon as I saw the return addresses from people
all over the world-Most from the U.S., but some from Canada, even some
from Australia! I tell you, THAT WAS EXCITING!! So how much did I
get in total return? $1000? $5000? Not even!!! I received a total of
$23,343!!! I couldn't believe it!!
I now have a brand new black Acura Integra to speak for, due to
this!! Now after almost 8 months, I am ready to do it again!!! So
maybe it was possible to get $50,000 in cash, I don't know, but IT
COMPLETELY DEPENDS ON YOU, THE INDIVIDUAL! You must follow through
and repost this article everywhere you can think of! The more
postings you achieve will determine how much cash will arrive in your
very own mailbox!! It's just too easy to pass up!!!
Let's review the reasons why you should do this: The only cost
factors are for the five stamps, the 5 envelopes and the 5 one dollar
bills that you send out to the listed names by snail mail (US Postal
Service Mail). Then just simply repost the article (WITH YOUR NAME
ADDED) to all the newsgroups you can. Then sit back
and, (ironically), enjoy walking (you can run if you like! :o ) down
your driveway to your mailbox and scoop up your rewards!! We all have
five dollars to put into such an easy effortless investment with
SPECTACULAR REALISTIC RETURNS OF $15,000 to $25,000 in about 3-5
weeks! So HOLD OFF ON THOSE LOTTERY NUMBERS FOR TODAY,EAT AT HOME
TONIGHT INSTEAD OF TAKEOUT FROM McDONALDS AND INVEST FIVE DOLLARS IN
THIS AMAZING MONEY MAKING SYSTEM NOW!!! YOU CAN'T LOSE!!
So how do you do it exactly, you ask? I have carefully provided
the mostdetailed, yet straightforward instructions on how to easily
get this underway and get your cash on its way. SO, ARE YOU READY TO
MAKE SOME CASH!!!?? HERE WE GO!!!
OK, Read this carefully. Get a printout of this information, if you
like, so you can easily refer to it as often as needed.
STEP 1. Write your name and address on 5 separate pieces of paper with
the words "PLEASE ADD ME TO YOUR MAILING LIST". For a neat little twist,
also write what slot their name was in: "You were in slot 3", Just to
add a little fun! This is all about having fun and making money at the
same time! Fold a $1 note or money order or bank draft in each of the
pieces of paper and mail them to the following five addresses:
**********************************************************
* 1. Jason Dessenberg
* Whispering Way #10
* Grand Rapids, MI 49546
*
* 2. Michael W. Graham
* 7342 146th St. SW Apt. C
* Tacoma, WA 98439
*
* 3. Dave Alexus
* 918 Sunridge Dr.
* Sarasota, FL 34234
*
* 4. Greg Farries
* 119 Mount Crandell Crescent West
* Lethbridge, Alberta
* Canada T1K 6L7
*
* 5. John Wise
* 2130 Cameron Cir.
* Birmingham, AL 35242-6411
******************************************************************
STEP 2. Now remove the 1st name on the list, move the other 4 names up
(5 becomes 4, 4 becomes 3 etc) and put your name and address as number 5
on the list. You can do this by re-typing this article or simply editing
and re-posting it in this or another newsgroup.
STEP 3. Post your amended article to at least 200 new groups (there are
17 000 of them).
You are now in the Mail Order Investment Business and you will start
receiving $1 returns by mail within a week or two. The more newsgroups
you post to, the bigger your return will be.
HOW THE SYSTEM WORKS
Of every 200 postings I made, I received an average of 5 replies, YES -
ONLY 5, each with a $1 bill enclosed. You make $5 for every 200
postings WITH YOUR NAME AT NUMBER 5.
Each person who sent you $1, now also makes let's say, only 200
additional postings WITH YOUR NAME AT NUMBER 4, i.e. 1000 postings.
On average therefore, 25 people will send you $1 with your name at
number 4. You make $25.
Your 25 new agents make 200 posting each WITH YOUR NAME AT NUMBER 3
or 5 000 postings - average return 125 at $1 each is $125. They
make 200 postings each WITH YOUR NAME AT NUMBER 2 = 25 000 postings
= 625 returns at $1 each = $625.
Finally, 625 people make 200 postings each WITH YOUR NAME AT NUMBER 1
and you get a return of $3125 (for every 200 postings) before you name
drops off the list. Total income in one cycle = $3905. AND THAT'S IF
EVERYONE DOWN THE LINE ONLY MAKES 200 POSTINGS!
From time to time, when your name is no longer on the list, you take
the latest posting that is appearing in the newsgroups, SEND OUT
ANOTHER $5 TO THE NAMES THAT ARE ON THE LIST, PUT YOUR NAME IN
AT NUMBER 5 AND START POSTING AGAIN. Remember, 200 postings is only
a guideline. The more you post, the greater the return.
Let's review the reasons why you should do this
THE ONLY COST FACTORS ARE
5 STAMPS
5 ENVELOPES
5 $1 BILLS
Anyone can afford five dollars to put into such an effortless investment
with SPECTACULAR RETURNS.
Some people have said to me "What happens if the scheme is 'played
out' and no one sends me any money"? Big deal! So you lose $5 - but
what are the chances of that happening?
Do you realise how many Internet Users there are? Do you realise how
many times this scheme can be utilised over and over again - with
COMPLETELY NEW people participating?
Remember, read the instructions carefully and play FAIRLY...that's
the only way this will work. Get a printout so you can refer back
to this article easily.
Try to keep a list of everyone that sends you money and always keep
an eye on the newsgroup postings to make sure everyone is playing
fairly. You know where your name should be.
REMEMBER - HONESTY IS THE BEST POLICY.
ENJOY!
From: felix@nice.usergroup.ethz.ch (Felix Rauch)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Jaz-Drive does NOT work with my black NeXT
Date: 9 Sep 1996 12:14:53 GMT
Organization: NiCE - NeXT User Group, Zuerich, Switzerland
Message-ID: <5111nt$1nb@elna.ethz.ch>
I already wrote about this problem here, but the only answers I got
suggested to add an entry to /etc/disktab, which I already did.
The problem is that when I insert a disk in my drive, the red light
starts to flash, I hear a few 'clicks' inside it (hardly hearable
because of the NeXT's and the external harddrive's noise) and nothing
happens. Interestingly the red light keeps blinking from now on (just
a bit slower than right after inserting the disk) until I eject the
disk with the button on the front of the drive.
Sometimes (unfortunately nearly never) when I insert the disk, it
starts to spin and I can mount the disk by hand (this way I was also
able to format it and install a NEXTSTEP-fs on it).
I thought it could be the drive and tested it on a friend's PC with
Windows 95/NT and it worked perfectly. Everytime we inserted a disk,
it startet to spin and was reconized by the PC. I once tried it on an
old black cube and it worked perfectly there.
So is it my colorstation (with Pyro-Board) that causes the problem? I
don't think so, because I have no problems with my external harddisk
drive and an external CD-rom.
Do I need a new driver to get this to work?
Does anybody have any hints? I'd really like to use my drive :-(
- Felix
--
Felix Rauch, CS-Student @ ETH Zurich, Switzerland.
internet: felix@nice.ch (NeXT Mail welcome)
For pgp public key finger felix.pgp@nice.ethz.ch
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From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@nerc.com>
Subject: Re: ****QUICK AND EASY CASH****
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Subject: ****QUICK AND EASY CASH****
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On Mon, 9 Sep 1996, Water wrote:
> I was scanning thru a NEWSGROUP and saw an article stating to
> GET CASH FAST!! I thought..."Here on the Internet?? Well, I'll just
> have to see what schemes could possibly be on the internet." The
> article described a way to MAIL A ONE DOLLAR BILL TO ONLY FIVE PEOPLE
> AND MAKE $50,000 IN CASH WITHIN 4 WEEKS! Well, the more I thought
> about it, the more I became very curious. Why? Because of the way it
> worked AND BECAUSE IT WOULD ONLY COST ME FIVE DOLLARS (AND FIVE
> STAMPS), THAT'S ALL I EVER PAY....EVER!!
>
> Ok, so the $50,000 in cash was maybe an tough amount to reach, but
> it was possible. I knew that I could at least get a return of $1,000
> or so. So I did it!! As per the instructions in the article, I mailed
> out ('snail mail' for you e-mail fanatics) a single dollar bill to each
> of the five people on the list that was contained in the article. I
> included a small note, with the dollar, that stated "Please Add Me To
> Your List." I then removed the first position name of the five names
> listed and moved everyone up one position, and I put my name in
> position five of the list. This is how the money starts rolling in!
> I then took this revised article now with my name on the list and
> REPOSTED IT ON AS MANY NEWSGROUPS AND LOCAL BULLETIN BOARD
> MESSAGE AREAS THAT I KNEW. I then waited to watch the money come
> in...prepared to maybe receive about $1000 to $1500 in cash or so....
> But what a welcome surprise when those envelopes kept coming in!!! I
> knew what they were as soon as I saw the return addresses from people
> all over the world-Most from the U.S., but some from Canada, even some
> from Australia! I tell you, THAT WAS EXCITING!! So how much did I
> get in total return? $1000? $5000? Not even!!! I received a total of
> $23,343!!! I couldn't believe it!!
>
> I now have a brand new black Acura Integra to speak for, due to
> this!! Now after almost 8 months, I am ready to do it again!!! So
> maybe it was possible to get $50,000 in cash, I don't know, but IT
> COMPLETELY DEPENDS ON YOU, THE INDIVIDUAL! You must follow through
> and repost this article everywhere you can think of! The more
> postings you achieve will determine how much cash will arrive in your
> very own mailbox!! It's just too easy to pass up!!!
>
> Let's review the reasons why you should do this: The only cost
> factors are for the five stamps, the 5 envelopes and the 5 one dollar
> bills that you send out to the listed names by snail mail (US Postal
> Service Mail). Then just simply repost the article (WITH YOUR NAME
> ADDED) to all the newsgroups you can. Then sit back
> and, (ironically), enjoy walking (you can run if you like! :o ) down
> your driveway to your mailbox and scoop up your rewards!! We all have
> five dollars to put into such an easy effortless investment with
> SPECTACULAR REALISTIC RETURNS OF $15,000 to $25,000 in about 3-5
> weeks! So HOLD OFF ON THOSE LOTTERY NUMBERS FOR TODAY,EAT AT HOME
> TONIGHT INSTEAD OF TAKEOUT FROM McDONALDS AND INVEST FIVE DOLLARS IN
> THIS AMAZING MONEY MAKING SYSTEM NOW!!! YOU CAN'T LOSE!!
>
> So how do you do it exactly, you ask? I have carefully provided
> the mostdetailed, yet straightforward instructions on how to easily
> get this underway and get your cash on its way. SO, ARE YOU READY TO
> MAKE SOME CASH!!!?? HERE WE GO!!!
>
> OK, Read this carefully. Get a printout of this information, if you
> like, so you can easily refer to it as often as needed.
>
> STEP 1. Write your name and address on 5 separate pieces of paper with
> the words "PLEASE ADD ME TO YOUR MAILING LIST". For a neat little twist,
> also write what slot their name was in: "You were in slot 3", Just to
> add a little fun! This is all about having fun and making money at the
> same time! Fold a $1 note or money order or bank draft in each of the
> pieces of paper and mail them to the following five addresses:
> **********************************************************
> * 1. Jason Dessenberg
> * Whispering Way #10
> * Grand Rapids, MI 49546
> *
> * 2. Michael W. Graham
> * 7342 146th St. SW Apt. C
> * Tacoma, WA 98439
> *
> * 3. Dave Alexus
> * 918 Sunridge Dr.
> * Sarasota, FL 34234
> *
> * 4. Greg Farries
> * 119 Mount Crandell Crescent West
> * Lethbridge, Alberta
> * Canada T1K 6L7
> *
> * 5. John Wise
> * 2130 Cameron Cir.
> * Birmingham, AL 35242-6411
> ******************************************************************
>
> STEP 2. Now remove the 1st name on the list, move the other 4 names up
> (5 becomes 4, 4 becomes 3 etc) and put your name and address as number 5
> on the list. You can do this by re-typing this article or simply editing
> and re-posting it in this or another newsgroup.
>
> STEP 3. Post your amended article to at least 200 new groups (there are
> 17 000 of them).
>
> You are now in the Mail Order Investment Business and you will start
> receiving $1 returns by mail within a week or two. The more newsgroups
> you post to, the bigger your return will be.
>
>
> HOW THE SYSTEM WORKS
>
>
> Of every 200 postings I made, I received an average of 5 replies, YES -
> ONLY 5, each with a $1 bill enclosed. You make $5 for every 200
> postings WITH YOUR NAME AT NUMBER 5.
>
> Each person who sent you $1, now also makes let's say, only 200
> additional postings WITH YOUR NAME AT NUMBER 4, i.e. 1000 postings.
> On average therefore, 25 people will send you $1 with your name at
> number 4. You make $25.
>
> Your 25 new agents make 200 posting each WITH YOUR NAME AT NUMBER 3
> or 5 000 postings - average return 125 at $1 each is $125. They
> make 200 postings each WITH YOUR NAME AT NUMBER 2 = 25 000 postings
> = 625 returns at $1 each = $625.
>
> Finally, 625 people make 200 postings each WITH YOUR NAME AT NUMBER 1
> and you get a return of $3125 (for every 200 postings) before you name
> drops off the list. Total income in one cycle = $3905. AND THAT'S IF
> EVERYONE DOWN THE LINE ONLY MAKES 200 POSTINGS!
>
> From time to time, when your name is no longer on the list, you take
> the latest posting that is appearing in the newsgroups, SEND OUT
> ANOTHER $5 TO THE NAMES THAT ARE ON THE LIST, PUT YOUR NAME IN
> AT NUMBER 5 AND START POSTING AGAIN. Remember, 200 postings is only
> a guideline. The more you post, the greater the return.
>
> Let's review the reasons why you should do this
>
> THE ONLY COST FACTORS ARE
>
> 5 STAMPS
> 5 ENVELOPES
> 5 $1 BILLS
>
> Anyone can afford five dollars to put into such an effortless investment
> with SPECTACULAR RETURNS.
>
> Some people have said to me "What happens if the scheme is 'played
> out' and no one sends me any money"? Big deal! So you lose $5 - but
> what are the chances of that happening?
>
> Do you realise how many Internet Users there are? Do you realise how
> many times this scheme can be utilised over and over again - with
> COMPLETELY NEW people participating?
>
>
> Remember, read the instructions carefully and play FAIRLY...that's
> the only way this will work. Get a printout so you can refer back
> to this article easily.
>
> Try to keep a list of everyone that sends you money and always keep
> an eye on the newsgroup postings to make sure everyone is playing
> fairly. You know where your name should be.
>
> REMEMBER - HONESTY IS THE BEST POLICY.
>
> ENJOY!
>
>
>
>
From: sieg@hera.cip.informatik.uni-muenchen.de (Arne Sieg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Nextprinter doesnt print. Interface failure?
Date: 9 Sep 96 15:31:50 GMT
Organization: Institut fuer Informatik der Universitaet Muenchen
Message-ID: <sieg.842283110@hera>
Summary: Nextlaserprinter does not print but recognices e.g. "no paper", no error.
Keywords: Nextlaserprinter printer
Hallo!
One of my two Laserprinters is defekt. I swapped the printers
and the problem remains the same. (so no cable or nextstation
error).
The printer powers on. The Printer does not send messages like
"warming up" or something like this, as a normal Nextprinter
would answer, when querried. If printing a page, nothing happens,
no error comes up. But it never prints and spoolfile stays with
the files to print. (changing the printer, all is printed correctly).
If the papertray is away, it says no paper in printer, correctly.
When the papertray is inserted, the panel goes away, correctly.
But as before, nothing is printed. (Same with printer cover open,
no toner etc.)
I think the interface for the laserbeam and the rollers must be defekt.
Has anyone experienced the same behavior, some hints, solutions?
Is it possible to exchange the defekt hardware without too much work?
How expensive will it be? (Is there a german "repair-shop"?)
Many thanks,
Arne Sieg.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.graphics,comp.sys.mac.hardware.misc,comp.sys.mac.hardware.storage,comp.sys.mac.hardware.video,comp.sys.mac.hypercard,comp.sys.mac.oop.powerplant,comp.sys.mac.portables,comp.sys.mac.printing,comp.sys.mac.programmer.codewarrior,comp.sys.mac.programmer.help,comp.sys.mac.programmer.misc,comp.sys.mac.programmer.mtools,comp.sys.mac.system,comp.sys.mac.wanted,comp.sys.newton.misc,comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.palmtops,comp.sys.pen,comp.sys.p
From: John Deacon <johnd@sig.net>
Subject: Re: ****QUICK AND EASY CASH****
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Message-ID: <32344AD9.477C@sig.net>
Sender: news@sig.net (Signet ISP Network news)
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Organization: ROSS Microcomputer
References: <510v1k$9g7@sjx-ixn4.ix.netcom.com>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Date: Mon, 9 Sep 1996 16:50:33 GMT
Everyone complain about this idiot
dont fall for it its a federal offence to send this shit in the mail
From: uxscs@montana.edu (Christian Stryker)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: SCSI Disk Problem: Please Help
Date: Mon, 09 Sep 1996 11:45:37 -0600
Organization: Montana State University
Message-ID: <uxscs-0909961145370001@news.montana.edu>
Mime-Version: 1.0
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I have an urgent problem.
I've been a black hardware owner since 1991. I recently upgraded my cube
to OpenStep 4.0. Last evening I was copying files in the WorkSpace as
root. They were being copied from one partition of my external disk to
another. The copy operation quit halfway through and I found that my
external disk no longer appeared to be mounted.
I logged out, shut down cleanly and tried to reboot. During the boot,
when it tried to check filesystems, I got the message:
/dev/rsd0a clean
/dev/rsd1a
can't check filesystem
can't read label on /dev/rsd1a (null pointer)
unexpected inconsistency
run fsck manually
I was then dumped into single-user mode and tried to run fsck which
failed becuase it still couldn't read the label on /dev/rsd1a
FYI, /rsd1a is my external 4 GB drive which I've paritioned into 3
parts:
/rsd1a
/rsd1b
/rsd1c
It holds users accounts and all my apps. It has been functioning fine
for the past 1.5 years in its current configuration. It is not the
startup disk.
I'm sure you can anticipate my question.
How can I go about fixing this?
Is it possible to restore the Disk Label to /rsd1a without
re-initializing?
Any help you can provide would be greatly appreciated.
-Chris
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From: uxscs@montana.edu (Christian Stryker)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: SCSI Disk Problem: Please Help!
Date: Mon, 09 Sep 1996 10:13:25 -0600
Organization: Montana State University
Message-ID: <uxscs-0909961013250001@news.montana.edu>
Mime-Version: 1.0
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I have an urgent problem.
I've been a black hardware owner since 1991. I recently upgraded my cube
to OpenStep 4.0. Last evening I was copying files in the WorkSpace while
logged in as root. They were being copied from one partition of my
external disk to
another.
The copy operation complained halfway through and gave me the option of
proceeding or aborting. I chose to abort and when I went looking to see
what had caused the problem, I found that my external disk no longer
appeared to be mounted.
It was about 2:30 AM, and, not wanting to fiddle too much, I logged out
and restarted--figuring that that would fix the problem.
During the boot, when it tried to check filesystems, I got the message:
/dev/rsd0a clean skipping check
/dev/rsd1a
can't check filesystem
can't read label on /dev/rsd1a (null pointer)
unexpected inconsistency
run fsck manually
I was then dumped into single-user mode and tried to run fsck manually which
failed again still complaining it couldn't read the label on /dev/rsd1a
FYI, /dev/rsd1a is an external 4 GB Seagate drive which I've paritioned into 3
parts:
/rsd1a
/rsd1b
/rsd1c
It holds all user accounts and LocalApps. It has been functioning fine
for the past 1.5 years in its current configuration. It is not the
startup disk.
I tried one more restart. Early in the boot process as it probes for SCSI
devices, I noticed something I missed the last time--it had correctly ID'd
the external drive and had retrieved the manufacturer and drive type but
also indicated
can't read label on /dev/rsd1a
I'm sure you can all anticipate my question.
How can I go about fixing this?
Can I restore the Disk Label to /rsd1a without re-initializing?
If so, how?
Any help anyone can provide would be greatly appreciated.
As usual, it's been some time since my last backup and I'd had to have to
kiss everything goodby and start from scratch.
-Chris
From: sanguish@digifix.com (Scott Anguish)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Re: Hard Drive Failures - Was Re: Mail aliases under NS 3.3 with new Sendmail
Date: 9 Sep 1996 20:34:43 GMT
Organization: Digital Fix Development
Message-ID: <511v13$oju@news.digifix.com>
References: <502egs$50c@news.digifix.com> <503780$7fd@news.digifix.com> <504dqm$kk1@sjx-ixn6.ix.netcom.com> <505ol9$g3j@news.digifix.com> <3231128E.1326@top.monad.net> <50u2v8$10q@precipice.fdn.fr>
In-Reply-To: <50u2v8$10q@precipice.fdn.fr>
On 09/08/96, Hugues RICHARD wrote:
>Did anybody got a Fujitsu that went bad...
>
>Hugues.
I bought a Fujitsu in January when I bought my CD-R, and put it
away incase of emergency.
pulled it out after this recent Quantum failure, and it was DOA.
No more Fujitsu for me!
--
Scott Anguish DBS Online - http://www.dbs-online.com/DBS
sanguish@digifix.com Stepwise OpenStep WWW - http://www.stepwise.com
From: Maurice 'Mouse' de Laat <M.M.G.d.Laat@stud.tue.nl>
Newsgroups: at.tuwien.hardware,biz.comp.hardware,comp.hardware,comp.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.publish.cdrom.hardware,comp.publish.cdrom.software,comp.sys.hardware,comp.sys.hardware.ibmpc,comp.sys.ibmpc.hardware,comp.sys.ibmpc.hardware.cd-rom,comp.sys.ibmpc.hardware,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.sgi.hardware,de.alt.cdrom,de.comp.periph.cdrom,fido.ger.hardware,fido.hardware-ger,maus.hardware,microsoft.public.hardware,muc.lists.freebsd.hardware,zer.z-netz.rechner.hardware,zer.z-netz.rechner.cd-rom,zer.z-netz.rechner.ibm.hardware
Subject: Re: SONY CDU920S
Date: Tue, 10 Sep 1996 02:42:27 -0700
Organization: Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
Message-ID: <32353803.6A55@stud.tue.nl>
References: <841914200.757753@p133.i-node.at>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
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To: Alexander.Lehner@2-310-70-85.st.co.at
Alexander Lehner wrote:
>
> Hello / Hallo!
>
> I have a problem!
> I have buy an SONY CDU920S CD-Recorder and I lik to install it under
> Win95.
> The Problem is, that the Wirter not write. Who have an SONY CD-Writer
> and can send me TIPS!
>
> Error-Messages: Can't make a Simul. Wirte,
> No CD-R !!!
> ...
> ...
>
> Please help me!--
There's a jumper on it for type 4/type 5. Try setting it the other way.
----
From: Mouse, student/dj, Eindhoven, the Netherlands
E-Mail: M.M.G.d.Laat@Stud.Tue.Nl
From: vilkes@sunspot.ssl.berkeley.edu (Stephen Vilke)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: keyboard replacement
Date: 9 Sep 1996 22:15:14 GMT
Organization: U. C. Berkeley Space Sciences Laboratory
Message-ID: <5124ti$h9c@agate.berkeley.edu>
Hello,
Does anyone know offhand where I can buy a replacement keyboard
for my NeXTstation? Mine is dooubling letters like crazy now and
certain keys are not responding very well. I have cleaned it several
times over the last year with diminishing returns on the success.
Any help provided would be appreciated.
Please conatct me via email at:
vilkes@ssl.berkeley.edu
Thanks,
Stephen Vilke
Space Sciences Laboratory, U.C. Berkeley
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@nerc.com>
Subject: Re: SCSI Disk Problem: Please Help!
Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.95.960909200510.24028B-100000@charisma>
Date: Mon, 9 Sep 1996 20:07:50 -0400
References: <uxscs-0909961013250001@news.montana.edu>
To: Christian Stryker <uxscs@montana.edu>
In-Reply-To: <uxscs-0909961013250001@news.montana.edu>
Organization: Princeton Theological Seminary
Return-Receipt-To: luomat@nerc.com
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
I believe that you want the 'disk' command.
My confusion is that the disk command has two options which seems
appropriate, one is -L and the other is -l:
-l labelname
The labelname of a disk is printed in the message
log when the system boots. For optical media this
is also the name used as the mount point in the /
directory when the disk is automounted.
-L labelname
This flag can be used to change the labelname
field of the disk label without disturbing other
fields in the label.
Since I can't really tell you which one to use (ie what the difference
is) then I'll have to leave it up to you.
TjL
--
Timothy J. Luoma <luomat@nerc.com> http://www.nerc.com/~luomat
NeXTstep Web Page: http://www.nerc.com/~luomat/next
Swapdisk/Swapfile Faq: http://www.nerc.com/~luomat/next/swapfaq.html
Misc NeXT Info: http://www.nerc.com/~luomat/next/mailserver
On Mon, 9 Sep 1996, Christian Stryker wrote:
> I have an urgent problem.
>
> I've been a black hardware owner since 1991. I recently upgraded my cube
> to OpenStep 4.0. Last evening I was copying files in the WorkSpace while
> logged in as root. They were being copied from one partition of my
> external disk to
> another.
>
> The copy operation complained halfway through and gave me the option of
> proceeding or aborting. I chose to abort and when I went looking to see
> what had caused the problem, I found that my external disk no longer
> appeared to be mounted.
>
> It was about 2:30 AM, and, not wanting to fiddle too much, I logged out
> and restarted--figuring that that would fix the problem.
>
> During the boot, when it tried to check filesystems, I got the message:
>
> /dev/rsd0a clean skipping check
>
> /dev/rsd1a
> can't check filesystem
> can't read label on /dev/rsd1a (null pointer)
> unexpected inconsistency
> run fsck manually
>
> I was then dumped into single-user mode and tried to run fsck manually which
> failed again still complaining it couldn't read the label on /dev/rsd1a
>
> FYI, /dev/rsd1a is an external 4 GB Seagate drive which I've paritioned into 3
> parts:
>
> /rsd1a
> /rsd1b
> /rsd1c
>
> It holds all user accounts and LocalApps. It has been functioning fine
> for the past 1.5 years in its current configuration. It is not the
> startup disk.
>
> I tried one more restart. Early in the boot process as it probes for SCSI
> devices, I noticed something I missed the last time--it had correctly ID'd
> the external drive and had retrieved the manufacturer and drive type but
> also indicated
>
> can't read label on /dev/rsd1a
>
> I'm sure you can all anticipate my question.
>
> How can I go about fixing this?
>
> Can I restore the Disk Label to /rsd1a without re-initializing?
>
> If so, how?
>
> Any help anyone can provide would be greatly appreciated.
>
> As usual, it's been some time since my last backup and I'd had to have to
> kiss everything goodby and start from scratch.
>
> -Chris
>
>
>
From: jsamson@istar.ca (Jean-Paul Samson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Do 3-Chip 30-Pin SIMMs Work in a NeXT?
Date: 10 Sep 1996 00:14:35 GMT
Organization: iSTAR Internet Incorporated
Message-ID: <512btb$jo9@news.istar.ca>
Simple question. Do the 3-chip 30-pin SIMMs work correctly in the
original NeXTstation, or must I use 8 or 9-chip SIMMs?
--
-===================================================================-
Jean-Paul Samson -==- jsamson@istar.ca -==- NeXTmail welcome, no MIME
-===================================================================-
From: gcl@mail.sojourn.com (Gary)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Re: Do 3-Chip 30-Pin SIMMs Work in a NeXT?
Date: 10 Sep 1996 02:41:50 GMT
Organization: Sojourn Systems, Lansing, MI (USA)
Message-ID: <512khe$5u4@tkhut.sojourn.com>
References: <512btb$jo9@news.istar.ca>
Cc: jsamson@istar.ca
In <512btb$jo9@news.istar.ca> Jean-Paul Samson wrote:
> Simple question. Do the 3-chip 30-pin SIMMs work correctly in the
> original NeXTstation, or must I use 8 or 9-chip SIMMs?
I am using 3chip, 8chip, and 9chip SIMMS in my NeXTCube 68040,
all at the same time...
but I hear NeXTstations are more picky.....
Gary
--
________________________________________________________________
gcl@mail.sojourn.com NeXTmail/LipService is prefered
Founder: The NeXTstep for Intel Processors HomeBrew Mailing List
Owner: Network with a NeXT '040 Cube #4173 running NeXTstep v3.3
and a Intel i486dx2-66 running NeXTstep for Intel v3.3
_________________________________________________________________
From: tcbordp@vbbusnw1.tc.cc.va.us (Peter W. Borders)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Turning off NeXT (black) Monitor
Date: 10 Sep 1996 02:45:15 GMT
Organization: InfiNet
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <512knr$8qt@nw101.infi.net>
After reading the section of the FAQ detailing the relatively short lifespan of the NeXT
mono monitors I was wondering, has anyone ever figured out how to turn off the monitor while leaving the computer running? Specifically I have a non-turbo mono slab that I would like to leave on all the time but be able to turn the monitor on and off at will. You know, they way you can do on virtually EVERY other computer in existance. If someone has the schematics of the technical knowledge of the monitor internals ma707 alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.oral ybe they could point me in the right direction. I don't have any problem with adding a switch and the accompanying soldering and fabrication required to mount it. I just need to know what to disconnect that will power down the monitor but leave the computer up. This is an A series monitor if that info is needed. Thanks for any pointers.
Pete
From: steve@brecher.reno.nv.us (Steve Brecher)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.graphics,comp.sys.mac.hardware.misc,comp.sys.mac.hardware.storage,comp.sys.mac.hardware.video,comp.sys.mac.hypercard,comp.sys.mac.oop.powerplant,comp.sys.mac.portables,comp.sys.mac.printing,comp.sys.mac.programmer.codewarrior,comp.sys.mac.programmer.help,comp.sys.mac.programmer.misc,comp.sys.mac.programmer.mtools,comp.sys.mac.system,comp.sys.mac.wanted,comp.sys.newton.misc,comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.palmtops,comp.sys.pen,comp.sys.powerpc,comp.sys.powerpc.advocacy,comp.psion.misc,comp.sys.sgi.admin,comp.sys.sgi.graphics,comp.sys.sgi.hardware,comp.sys.sgi.misc,comp.sys.sinclair,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.sun.hardware
Subject: Reporting spammers (Was: Re: ****QUICK AND EASY CASH****)
Date: Mon, 09 Sep 1996 19:50:33 -0700
Organization: none, in Reno NV USA
Message-ID: <steve-0909961950330001@brecher.reno.nv.us>
References: <510v1k$9g7@sjx-ixn4.ix.netcom.com> <Pine.LNX.3.95.960909110336.8569C-100000@nerc3.nerc.com>
> Please delete this SPAMMER's account:
> From: Water <rx7power@ix.netcom.com>
[Quotation of entire spam deleted]
I couldn't agree more with those sentiments but posting a followup to 30
newsgroups with a quote of the entire spam is not helpful. The newsgroups
are read by people like us who are interested in their subjects -- not by
the spammer, and very probably not by the administrator of the server that
the spammer is using.
Netcom has an email address to which to report spammers: abuse@netcom.com
AOL also has an abuse@aol.com mailbox.
More generally, a report via email to postmaster@<domain> or root@<domain>
where <domain> is the domain name from which the spam originated. Include
all the header information from the offending post so that the offender
can be identified. Examine this header information prior to sending your
report -- sometimes the "From:" address is bogus, but the "Path:"
information indicates the news server to which the spam was posted. A
polite request for help in preventing additional abuse by the spammer,
preceding your quote of the spam, can't hurt, especially if you are
sending the report to a postmaster or root of an organization smaller than
Netcom or AOL.
--
steve@brecher.reno.nv.us (Steve Brecher)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@nerc.com>
Subject: Re: Turning off NeXT (black) Monitor
Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.95.960909233730.28332B-100000@charisma>
Date: Tue, 10 Sep 1996 00:48:07 -0400
References: <512knr$8qt@nw101.infi.net>
To: "Peter W. Borders" <tcbordp@vbbusnw1.tc.cc.va.us>
In-Reply-To: <512knr$8qt@nw101.infi.net>
Organization: Princeton Theological Seminary
Return-Receipt-To: luomat@nerc.com
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
On 10 Sep 1996, Peter W. Borders wrote:
> After reading the section of the FAQ detailing the relatively short
> lifespan of the NeXT mono monitors I was wondering, has anyone ever
> figured out how to turn off the monitor while leaving the computer
> running?
yes, there was a company which sold a device to do this, but they
stopped selling it a few years ago...
> Specifically I have a non-turbo mono slab that I would like
> to leave on all the time but be able to turn the monitor on and off
> at will. You know, they way you can do on virtually EVERY other
> computer in existance.
yes, that is true.
I believe that you can turn it off (ie unplug it) but there's NO WAY
to turn it back on.... and unplugging it is not suggested.
> I don't have any problem with adding a switch and
> the accompanying soldering and fabrication required to mount it. I
> just need to know what to disconnect that will power down the
> monitor but leave the computer up. This is an A series monitor if
> that info is needed. Thanks for any pointers.
I think that if this could be done (and be suggested) it would have
been discovered by now, but I might be wrong....
TjL
From: batmon@abico.com.tw (Mon-Sen Yang)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Install NeXT to a notebook computer
Date: Tue, 10 Sep 1996 03:58:11 GMT
Organization: j%nki~w€RJ3M-26XPLZ8L-BFGD44CT-1EA6BC82
Message-ID: <512sd6$99n@netnews.hinet.net>
Hi,
I am planing to install OpenStep or NeXTStep v3.3 to a notebook
computer. The notebook is P586/100, 16MB RAM with 1GB EIDE HD. I
also use an Adaptec SlimSCSI card to attach my CD-ROM. The problem is
when I use the boot-up disk and set the CD-ROM driver to Adaptec
PCMCIA 6x60 Card, HD to EIDE driver;, it only found my HD and said
there is no SCSI device or CD-ROM. I did check with NeXTanswers and
it says NeXT does support Adaptec SlimSCSI card. Is there any other
driver I have to load or any procedure I have to do for NeXT to be
able to find the Slim SCSI card??
From: Ronin <ronin27@primenet.com>
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Subject: How to react to Money Scam Spam...
Date: 10 Sep 1996 00:57:03 -0700
Organization: Brotherhood of Lost Souls
Message-ID: <3234BD72.5A3F@primenet.com>
References: <510v1k$9g7@sjx-ixn4.ix.netcom.com> <Pine.LNX.3.95.960909110336.8569C-100000@nerc3.nerc.com> <steve-0909961950330001@brecher.reno.nv.us>
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I have taken a direct approach to fighting these money scam spammers...
today I wrote the names down that were listed in the text (the
participants) and sent a postcard to the Postmaster in their area,
reporting them as using a chain letter to solicite money via US Mail (a
crime). I included all their information (name, address). I also sent
them a postcard as well, notifying them that they have been reported. It
took ten minutes and cost .80¢. Please report all future money spammers
to the US Post Office (they WILL take action). Thank you.
Ronin
From: Sven Droll
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Please help: Quantum Atlas 4GB - MEDIA ERROR
Date: 10 Sep 1996 09:19:24 GMT
Organization: University of Wuerzburg, Germany
Message-ID: <513bqs$enh@winx03.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de>
Hi.
We got a serious problem here (NeXTcube, NS3.3). Our Quantum Atlas 4GB-HD
worked without problems for the first week (with 2.5GB of data on two
partitions). But after a few days we got messages like
Sep 8 03:19:48 wmax60 mach: Target 2: MEDIA ERROR; block 4003e2H retry 1
Sep 8 03:19:52 wmax60 mach: Target 2: MEDIA ERROR; block 4003e2H retry 2
Sep 8 03:19:56 wmax60 mach: Target 2: MEDIA ERROR; block 4003e2H retry 3
Sep 8 03:19:59 wmax60 mach: Target 2: MEDIA ERROR; block 4003e2H retry 4
Sep 8 03:20:03 wmax60 mach: Target 2: MEDIA ERROR; block 4003e2H retry 5
Sep 8 03:20:07 wmax60 mach: Target 2: MEDIA ERROR; block 4003e2H retry 6
Sep 8 03:20:10 wmax60 mach: Target 2: MEDIA ERROR; block 4003e2H retry 7
Sep 8 03:20:14 wmax60 mach: Target 2: MEDIA ERROR; block 4003e2H retry 8
Sep 8 03:20:18 wmax60 mach: Target 2: MEDIA ERROR; block 4003e2H retry 9
Sep 8 03:20:21 wmax60 mach: sd1 (2,0): sense key:0x3 additional sense
code:0x11
Sep 8 03:20:21 wmax60 mach: SCSI Block in error = 4195298; Partition b
F.S. sector 674
Sep 8 03:20:21 wmax60 mach: IO error on pagein: error = 5.
... (many many more deleted) ...
A handdriven fsck gives something like
** /dev/sd1b
** Currently Mounted on /Users2
** Phase 1 - Check Blocks and Sizes
CANNOT READ: BLK 1133808
CONTINUE? y
THE FOLLOWING SECTORS COULD NOT BE READ: 1133808, 1133809, 1133810, 1133811,
1133812, 1133813, 1133814, 1133815, 1133816, 1133817, 1133818, 1133819,
1133820, 1133821, 1133822, 1133823,
CANNOT READ: BLK 1972736
CONTINUE? y
... (many many more deleted) ...
And now the questions:
How can I prevent the HD from using the bad blocks?
Isn't the system responsible for avoiding those blocks?
Shouldn't these blocks be marked during a lowlevel-format and how can I check
if this is done?
How can I do a lowlevel-format (sdformat 1.3 can NOT do this)?
Thanx for any hind/help
---
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc
Message-ID: <6GWM8GU--JB@delphin.tbx.berlinet.de>
From: M.GUENTSCHE@TBX.BerliNet.DE (mark-oliver guentsche)
Subject: Next 400 dpi printer prints no more
Date: Mon, 09 Sep 1996 12:12:00 +0200
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paper feed is ok, toner ok, but the paper is left blank while printing.
whats that?
mark
From: bspyropoulos@siumed.edu (Basil P. Spyropoulos, MD)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.graphics,comp.sys.mac.hardware.misc,comp.sys.mac.hardware.storage,comp.sys.mac.hardware.video,comp.sys.mac.hypercard,comp.sys.mac.oop.powerplant,comp.sys.mac.portables,comp.sys.mac.printing,comp.sys.mac.programmer.codewarrior,comp.sys.mac.programmer.help,comp.sys.mac.programmer.misc,comp.sys.mac.programmer.mtools,comp.sys.mac.system,comp.sys.mac.wanted,comp.sys.newton.misc,comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.palmtops,comp.sys.pen,comp.sys.powerpc,comp.sys.powerpc.advocacy,comp.psion.misc,comp.sys.sgi.admin,comp.sys.sgi.graphics,comp.sys.sgi.hardware,comp.sys.sgi.misc,comp.sys.sinclair,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.sun.hardware
Subject: Re: How to react to Money Scam Spam...
Date: Tue, 10 Sep 1996 10:05:57 -0500
Organization: SIU School of Medicine
Message-ID: <bspyropoulos-1009961005570001@slip1.info.siumed.edu>
References: <510v1k$9g7@sjx-ixn4.ix.netcom.com> <Pine.LNX.3.95.960909110336.8569C-100000@nerc3.nerc.com> <steve-0909961950330001@brecher.reno.nv.us> <3234BD72.5A3F@primenet.com>
In article <3234BD72.5A3F@primenet.com>, Ronin <ronin27@primenet.com> wrote:
> I have taken a direct approach to fighting these money scam spammers...
> today I wrote the names down that were listed in the text (the
> participants) and sent a postcard to the Postmaster in their area,
> reporting them as using a chain letter to solicite money via US Mail (a
> crime). I included all their information (name, address). I also sent
> them a postcard as well, notifying them that they have been reported. It
> took ten minutes and cost .80¢. Please report all future money spammers
> to the US Post Office (they WILL take action). Thank you.
>
> Ronin
Why don't we all send each other $1 !?
--
Basil P. Spyropoulos, MD
SIU School of Medicine
Department of Psychiatry
From: jsowers@lehman.com (Justin Sowers)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: SideNote: Fall Crate & Barrel catalog
Date: 10 Sep 1996 09:01:42 -0400
Organization: Lehman Brothers, Inc.
Sender: jsowers@cfdev1425.cfdev.lehman.com
Message-ID: <v6hafuyikw9.fsf@cfdev1425.cfdev.lehman.com>
Greetings to all Black hardware enthusiasts!
Just wanted to get in a plug for the Crate & Barrel Fall catalog which,
about three-quarters of the way through, in a spread for a desk and matching
bookshelf shows, lo-and-behold, a color NeXTStation on the desk!
I'm sure it was just used because its sleek profile and black color look
nice on the beechwood colored desk... Even so, it's good to see a NeXT
someplace surprising. I can't get too excited, though, because the thing
wasn't plugged together or turned-on.
A new life for the m68ks as photo props. Who would have ever guessed?
Until I can line a catalog gig or two up for my cube I'll probably be the
only one taking pictures of it. :)
-Justin.
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***** The opinions expressed herein are solely my own. *****
From: Tim Jeltema <fritz@voyager.net>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Re: Dell Optiplex GX Pro
Date: Tue, 10 Sep 1996 11:52:24 -0400
Organization: Voyager Information Networks, Inc.
Message-ID: <32358EB8.40C7@voyager.net>
References: <50be3p$1le@snaps.dannug.dk>
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gclem@dannug.dk wrote:
>
> Hi there,
>
> The Dell Optiplex GX Pro has a new PCI implementation (PCI 2.x ?) which
> gives me 5 available PCI slots (3Com ethernet onboard). Has anyone
> successfully installed 3.3 on such a machine?
> I have installed NS 3.3 on the GX Pro 200 successfully. I used an Adaptec
SCSI card to accomplish the task. After much effort I have not been able to
get the internal NEC CD-ROM to work.
Everything seems to work fine except that I get a strange time-out everyone
now and then. This is not an NFS of Netinfo time-out. It almost seems to be
some kind of low level hardware thing.
Generally speaking, I am quite happy with the machine.
From: mmalcolm crawford <m.crawford@shef.ac.uk>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Re: NeXT MIDI Interface
Date: 10 Sep 1996 16:59:14 GMT
Organization: University of Sheffield, UK
Message-ID: <5146p2$p73@bignews.shef.ac.uk>
References: <50n8jb$q72@solaria12.Stanford.EDU>
In-Reply-To: <50n8jb$q72@solaria12.Stanford.EDU>
On 09/05/96, Andrew Evans Einaudi wrote:
> Just bought a beautiful 68040 cube running 3.0. Now all I need is
> a MIDI inter- face that I can attach to my serial port. Does anyone
> out there know of one that is still made today that works with the
> NeXT? I know a company by the name of Quest Inc. that made an
> interface that worked beautifully - the box was called MIDILink -
> they don't make 'em anymore though. I'd be perfectly willing to
> buy one off any old NeXTstepper who wasn't using his or hers.
>
I've put relevant information I got many years ago from William Clocksin and
Dave Pickett on:
ftp://ftp.dcs.shef.ac.uk/home/malc/NEXTSTEP/Midi/
Best wishes,
mmalc.
--
From: uxscs@montana.edu (Christian Stryker)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: SCSI Disk Problem: Solved (for the moment)
Date: Tue, 10 Sep 1996 11:27:02 -0600
Organization: Montana State University
Message-ID: <uxscs-1009961127020001@news.montana.edu>
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After work yesterday, I went home ready for an evening of tinkering to try
and get my cube operational again. To my surprize, it booted just fine.
The problem that I described in my previous post was gone.
Of course, I immediately backed up all the data on the problem drive.
After the back up, I continued using the system until the wee hours and it
work perfectly the entire time.
Several pieces of helpful advice came in. Tom Blenko at Yale appears to
have correctly attributed the problem to a faulty drive and/or power
supply.
Many thanks to those who responded. I've summarized the key responses below.
Tom M. Blenko wrote:
Sounds like a (hard) disk failure. You don't want to write
the label, you want to repair the disk and get the data
recovered.
Timothy J. Luoma and someone named Albert from Clark Internet Services
both suggested using the 'disk' command. to correct the problem.
I didn't use disk to fix anything, but fired it up and dumped the label
and other pertintnet data just in case.
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From: alisi (Antony Garrett Lisi)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Hard Drive Recommendation
Message-ID: <3235a3b0.0@news1.abac.com>
Date: 10 Sep 96 17:21:52 GMT
Can someone recommend a good external SCSI drive
in the 1 - 2 GB range that will work happily with my
color station? I've read many horror stories and just
want something that works reasonably well without too
much tweaking. Cost is also a factor, of course.
Many thanks,
Garrett
alisi@ucsd.edu
From: s0wwchin@atlas.vcu.edu (Weiyuan W Chin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Re: Hard Drive Failures - Was Re: Mail aliases under NS 3.3 with new Sendmail
Date: 10 Sep 1996 15:00:56 -0400
Organization: Virginia Commonwealth University
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <514dt8$1a22@atlas.vcu.edu>
References: <502egs$50c@news.digifix.com> <503780$7fd@news.digifix.com> <504dqm$kk1@sjx-ixn6.ix.netcom.com> <505ol9$g3j@news.digifix.com> <3231128E.1326@top.monad.net>
Paul Venezia <pvenezia@top.monad.net> writes:
> I just lost about half my equipment room to a pipe burst. The worst
>things hit were the mail and web servers, and a Micropolis 9 gig drive.
>Granted, the drive was slow as death, but for feeding HTML files, it worked
>fine. This drive took about 2 hours of sitting half submerged in water,
>power still running, and I was able to retrieve about 95% of the data from
>it before it finally smoked. THAT'S reliability. I like Micropolis quite a
>bit after this.
>--
I like Micropolis's advanced replacement policy... they don't bother
to check if you purchased from an "authorized" reseller. Seagate
would refuse to do advanced replacement if you don't. I have two
Micropolis 4221's and have used several Micropolis drives before.
Two of them have died, but replacing them was not a big deal. With Seagate
and Fujitsu, that was not the case. Either way, with these
new 7200rpm drives, _definitely_ get enough cooling. I ended up
getting a removable drive cartridge/slot with a built in fan
to make sure the drive was cooled enough.
I would avoid SAG (aka East Coast Electronics). After sales support
was horrendous.
..Bill Chin
From: Jeff Fischer <fischej@ofc005a.sce.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.graphics,comp.sys.mac.hardware.misc,comp.sys.mac.hardware.storage,comp.sys.mac.hardware.video,comp.sys.mac.hypercard,comp.sys.mac.oop.powerplant,comp.sys.mac.portables,comp.sys.mac.printing,comp.sys.mac.programmer.codewarrior,comp.sys.mac.programmer.help,comp.sys.mac.programmer.misc,comp.sys.mac.programmer.mtools,comp.sys.mac.system,comp.sys.mac.wanted,comp.sys.newton.misc,comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.palmtops,comp.sys.pen,comp.sys.powerpc,comp.sys.powerpc.advocacy,comp.psion.misc,comp.sys.sgi.admin,comp.sys.sgi.graphics,comp.sys.sgi.hardware,comp.sys.sgi.misc,comp.sys.sinclair,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.sun.hardware
Subject: Re: How to react to Money Scam Spam...
Date: Tue, 10 Sep 1996 12:38:40 -0700
Organization: Southern California Edison
Message-ID: <3235C3A4.35CF@ofc005a.sce.com>
References: <510v1k$9g7@sjx-ixn4.ix.netcom.com> <Pine.LNX.3.95.960909110336.8569C-100000@nerc3.nerc.com> <steve-0909961950330001@brecher.reno.nv.us> <3234BD72.5A3F@primenet.com>
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To: Ronin <ronin27@primenet.com>
Ronin wrote:
>
> I have taken a direct approach to fighting these money scam spammers...
> today I wrote the names down that were listed in the text (the
> participants) and sent a postcard to the Postmaster in their area,
> reporting them as using a chain letter to solicite money via US Mail (a
> crime). I included all their information (name, address). I also sent
> them a postcard as well, notifying them that they have been reported.
This does not strike me as a particularly smart thing to do. Merely
having one's name and address listed in a chain letter is not proof that
one has participated in using a chain letter to solicit money. If you do
not have hard proof that those people who you accused of doing so have
committed a crime, you have just committed libel yourself.
Jeff Fischer
(My opinions are my own and do not represent those of any other
organization.)
From: walter_gorlitz@mindlink.bc.ca (walter görlitz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.graphics,comp.sys.mac.hardware.misc,comp.sys.mac.hardware.storage,comp.sys.mac.hardware.video,comp.sys.mac.hypercard,comp.sys.mac.oop.powerplant,comp.sys.mac.portables,comp.sys.mac.printing,comp.sys.mac.programmer.codewarrior,comp.sys.mac.programmer.help,comp.sys.mac.programmer.misc,comp.sys.mac.programmer.mtools,comp.sys.mac.system,comp.sys.mac.wanted,comp.sys.newton.misc,comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.palmtops,comp.sys.pen,comp.sys.powerpc,comp.sys.powerpc.advocacy,comp.psion.misc,comp.sys.sgi.admin,comp.sys.sgi.graphics,comp.sys.sgi.hardware,comp.sys.sgi.misc,comp.sys.sinclair,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.sun.hardware
Subject: Re: How to react to Money Scam Spam...
Date: Tue, 10 Sep 1996 20:29:20 GMT
Organization: I'm not organized
Message-ID: <514j80$6k9@wolfe.wimsey.com>
References: <510v1k$9g7@sjx-ixn4.ix.netcom.com> <Pine.LNX.3.95.960909110336.8569C-100000@nerc3.nerc.com> <steve-0909961950330001@brecher.reno.nv.us> <3234BD72.5A3F@primenet.com> <bspyropoulos-1009961005570001@slip1.info.siumed.edu>
bspyropoulos@siumed.edu (Basil P. Spyropoulos, MD) wrote:
>Why don't we all send each other $1 !?
because then only the postal systems make money :)
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| walter gorlitz | "The Christian life is about |
| Vancouver, BC, Canada | the beginning of hope, |
| walter_gorlitz@mindlink.bc.ca | not the end of struggle." |
| or CIS:70404,416 | Brent Bourgeois |
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
From: Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki)
Subject: Re: Help please..Slab refuses to boot after unplugging
Message-ID: <DxILA6.36C@nidat.sub.org>
Sender: nitezki@nidat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki)
Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany
References: <32336867.6B9A@ibm.net>
Date: Tue, 10 Sep 1996 11:30:06 GMT
In article <32336867.6B9A@ibm.net> Steve Haynes <shaynes@ibm.net> writes:
> Hello,
>
> During the hurricane last week I unplugged my turbo color for a few days
> and now it refuses to boot.
>
> I have gone throught the configuration and reset the boot command to sd
> but it fails to recognize the drive.
> The message I get is:
>
> sc: Didn't complete
>
> Any ideas would be very much appreciated.
>
From this terse description you can only tell that you have SCSI troubles.
Any further diagnosis needs more input.
--
Peter Nitezki | Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org # Blessed art thou who knoweth
Staarenbergstr. 44 | Tel.: +49 7251 62495 # not about the pleasure and
D-76703 Kraichtal | Fax : +49 7251 69215 # delight of being hooked
GERMANY | E-mail defunct, sorry # up to the Net. Peter 1,3-5
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
From: Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki)
Subject: Re: New Micropolis Won't boot
Message-ID: <DxILF8.370@nidat.sub.org>
Sender: nitezki@nidat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki)
Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany
References: <510noq$pt@news.ssnet.com>
Date: Tue, 10 Sep 1996 11:33:07 GMT
In article <510noq$pt@news.ssnet.com> hassan@blackstar.ssnet.com (Hassan
N. Kelley) writes:
>
> I just bought a New Micropolis Model 4221 TY0030-02-7 HD for my
> ColorTurbo. The The DiskBuild completes but when I try to boot
> the Micropolis it hangs while loading from disk. The ROM Monitor
> says it fails at some kind of "init". Any solutions?
>
This is typical behaviour if you didn't successfully configure the drive
for SCSI-1, asynch mode.
---
Peter Nitezki | Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org # Blessed art thou who knoweth
Staarenbergstr. 44 | Tel.: +49 7251 62495 # not about the pleasure and
D-76703 Kraichtal | Fax : +49 7251 69215 # delight of being hooked
GERMANY | E-mail defunct, sorry # up to the Net. Peter 1,3-5
From: shess@parka.winternet.com (Scott Hess)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Re: SideNote: Fall Crate & Barrel catalog
Date: 10 Sep 1996 12:16:38 -0500
Organization: Is a sign of weakness
Sender: shess@parka.winternet.com
Message-ID: <acg24qqoi1.fsf@parka.winternet.com>
References: <v6hafuyikw9.fsf@cfdev1425.cfdev.lehman.com>
In-reply-to: jsowers@lehman.com's message of 10 Sep 1996 09:01:42 -0400
In article <v6hafuyikw9.fsf@cfdev1425.cfdev.lehman.com>,
jsowers@lehman.com (Justin Sowers) writes:
A new life for the m68ks as photo props. Who would have ever guessed?
Nah, this has _always_ been the case. There was a music video with a
NeXT monitor in it (Paula Abdul? Madonna? late 80s sometime). And
that one movie about keifer sutherland or someone croaking and being
revived. And a couple BYTE covers, of course :-).
Later,
--
scott hess <shess@winternet.com> (WWW to "http://www.winternet.com/~shess/")
Work: 12550 Portland Avenue South #121, Burnsville, MN 55337 (612)895-1208
<I want to become so famous that people buy tapes of me reading source code>
From: "Steve Roller" <sroller@worldnet.att.net>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Re: Intel install with Dell and ps/2 mouse?
Date: 10 Sep 1996 17:41:15 GMT
Organization: AT&T WorldNet Services
Message-ID: <01bb9f40$2269c120$2f85eea5@sroller>
References: <50pjuq$sq@tepe.tezcat.com> <50v9jn$n3v@tepe.tezcat.com>
Is your mouse on COMB and Modem on COMA?
If so, modify your Default.table COM=0 to COM=1
Steve
Arpad Geller <arpad@tezcat.com> wrote in article
<50v9jn$n3v@tepe.tezcat.com>...
> 1. My mouse is stuck at IRQ12. It is a PS/2 mouse (Logitech cordless). I
> tried to edit the Default.table in /usr/Devices/PS2Mouse.config so that
> everything points to IRQ12 but the mouse still isn't recognized (yes, I
type
> config=Default at boot). Am I missing something in the Default.table? I
> changed two lines (the only two with IRQ references).
> Thanks in advance.
From: untulis@best.com (Jason Untulis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.graphics,comp.sys.mac.hardware.misc,comp.sys.mac.hardware.storage,comp.sys.mac.hardware.video,comp.sys.mac.hypercard,comp.sys.mac.oop.powerplant,comp.sys.mac.portables,comp.sys.mac.printing,comp.sys.mac.programmer.codewarrior,comp.sys.mac.programmer.help,comp.sys.mac.programmer.misc,comp.sys.mac.programmer.mtools,comp.sys.mac.system,comp.sys.mac.wanted,comp.sys.newton.misc,comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.palmtops,comp.sys.pen,comp.sys.powerpc,comp.sys.powerpc.advocacy,comp.psion.misc,comp.sys.sgi.admin,comp.sys.sgi.graphics,comp.sys.sgi.hardware,comp.sys.sgi.misc,comp.sys.sinclair,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.sun.hardware
Subject: Re: Reporting spammers (Was: Re: ****QUICK AND EASY CASH****)
Followup-To: poster
Date: Tue, 10 Sep 1996 15:02:24 -0800
Organization: Starfleet Headquarters
Message-ID: <untulis-1009961502240001@nntp.best.com>
References: <510v1k$9g7@sjx-ixn4.ix.netcom.com> <Pine.LNX.3.95.960909110336.8569C-100000@nerc3.nerc.com> <steve-0909961950330001@brecher.reno.nv.us>
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[followups to poster]
In article <steve-0909961950330001@brecher.reno.nv.us>,
steve@brecher.reno.nv.us (Steve Brecher) wrote:
:More generally, a report via email to postmaster@<domain> or root@<domain>
:where <domain> is the domain name from which the spam originated.
You can also check news.admin.net-abuse.misc to see if other people have
complained about it. Don't post there unless you read the group and make
sure no one else has posted about it...
--
Jason Untulis, Ravenous Media Consumer /\ / untulis@netcom.com
<http://www.best.com/~untulis/> \ /==\ / untulis@shellx.best.com
fingerable PGP 2.62 key soon .sig v2 \/ \/ untulis@leland.stanford.edu
Read my copyright restrictions <http://www.best.com/~untulis/copyright.html>
From: henq@phsoft.knoware.nl (Henk van Tijen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Problems with Mac/Dos/Fat CD-ROMs...
Date: Wed, 11 Sep 1996 00:41:27 +0200
Organization: PH Software | 4, W.Pyrmontlaan | 2281VL | Rijswijk | Netherlands
Message-ID: <19960911004127275666@[192.0.2.1]>
Hi,
I have a P133 running NS3.3. The CD-ROM drive is NEC222. Even installed
NS from it. Scsi controller is buslogic 958 UW. I have a good workin
Atlas HD and Zipdrive too.
BUT when I try to insert one of the following:
- Nebula Fat ["ISO 966 with Rockridge extension" formatted] CD
- a CD for Mac OS
- Education Software sampler. (old, black-only)
- Audio CD
There seems to be a pattern in that the icon on the shelf is a generic
"audo CD like" icon with the CD's its expereincing troubles with.
I get
- *very* slow response (like > 1/2 hour for a small file copy)
- "address error" , sometimes with forced log out
OFF COURSE, on my black turbo slab, (NS 3.2) using the old next (sony)
external cdrom, these cd's are mounted quickly and with no problems!
Q: has this something to do with:
a) the *drive* NEC 222 (it was cheap for a SCSI, like $100)
b) system configuration (the "probing for xxx" sequence in the console
seems to be somewhat different between my black and white: on
white, it seems like it is not probing for foreign formats for
CD's).
c) NS 3.2 vs 3.3.
d) black vs white ?
Should I buy a CD-ROM drive that is multi-session photo-CD compatible ?
I haven't found a list of 'secure' CD-ROM drives on the NeXT's site, or
any other site for that matter.
Any tips welcome !
-Henk
-- ---------------------------------------------------------------------
Henk van Tijen henq@phsoft.knoware.nl
------------------------------------------------------------------------
From: velcro@escape.com (David Sinclair)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Re: Help please..Slab refuses to boot after unplugging
Date: 10 Sep 1996 22:15:26 GMT
Organization: Escape.Com Internet Access and Services
Message-ID: <514p9u$dlo@beyond.escape.com>
References: <32336867.6B9A@ibm.net> <DxILA6.36C@nidat.sub.org>
Peter Nitezki (Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org) wrote:
: In article <32336867.6B9A@ibm.net> Steve Haynes <shaynes@ibm.net> writes:
: > Hello,
: >
: > During the hurricane last week I unplugged my turbo color for a few days
: > and now it refuses to boot.
: >
: > I have gone throught the configuration and reset the boot command to sd
: > but it fails to recognize the drive.
: > The message I get is:
: >
: > sc: Didn't complete
: >
: > Any ideas would be very much appreciated.
: >
: From this terse description you can only tell that you have SCSI troubles.
: Any further diagnosis needs more input.
: --
: Peter Nitezki | Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org # Blessed art thou who knoweth
Steve:
any chance you also unplugged an external SCSI device which is
attached to the slab, and forgot to plug it (the external device)
back in (and turn it on, of course :) before rebooting?
-velcroboy
From: dmd@asimov.oit.umass.edu (Daniel M. Drucker)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: Need help with EIDE/ATAPI NS 3.3 install
Date: 10 Sep 1996 19:28:37 -0400
Organization: University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Message-ID: <514tj5$q0b@asimov.oit.umass.edu>
I'm attempting to install NS 3.3 intel.
My machine configuration:
Cyrix P166+ 32mb ram
Western Digital Paradise S3-964 Barbados video (PCI)
EIDE 1.2 gb hard drive
ATAPI Acer 665A CD-ROM (6x)
(Actually, I *had* a NEC CDR-273 this morning, but as NeXTanswers
informed me that that drive is *specifically* incompatible, I bought
the Acer, which is on the list of specifically compatible.)
My problem -- once I've selected "EIDE and ATAPI" as my driver (I
am using 1923_3.3_Additional_Drivers.floppyimage), the screen goes
completely blank. What's kind of interesting -- it's not just
text-blank... the resolution and refresh actually change, but the
screen is black.
I.e., it freezes and blanks just after I type '1' at this prompt.
>Normally, you only need to load the device drivers for the adapters your
>CD-ROM drive and hard disk are connected to in order to install NEXTSTEP.
>Other drivers are loaded automatically from the NEXTSTEP CD-ROM.
>
>If you do need to load another device driver, insert the disk that contains it
>in the floppy disk drive.
>
>Type 1 to continue without loading additional device drivers.
>Type 2 to load a device driver from the disk in the floppy disk drive.
>
>--->
Any help would be appreciated...
--
[ Daniel M. Drucker / dmd@3e.org ]
dreams windblown and scattered
among the grass and sand
From: nextsale@ibgi.com (Ed C.)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: FS - NeXTstations. $450.00 & up.
Date: Wed, 11 Sep 1996 01:00:06 GMT
Organization: IBGi
Message-ID: <514vhg$ekb@swifty.cfa.org>
Company went out of business.
We still have 30+ units available for sale; starting at $450.00
Excellent condition.
Various configurations available.
All units guaranteed against DOA.
Used but NOT ABUSED.
Bright N4000B MegaPixel Monitors.
For more information please check out:
http://ibgi.com/nextsale.htm
or
mailto:nextsale@ibgi.com
or call 1-914-928-3076 Lv. Msg. if no ans.
or Fax 1-914-928-7266
From: dob@mrd3.mmm.ucar.edu (David O. Blanchard,,,)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Can't print duplex to HPLJ-5M
Date: 10 Sep 1996 22:50:51 GMT
Organization: NOAA/NSSL
Message-ID: <514rcb$j9e@ncar.ucar.edu>
We recently acquired an HP LaserJet 5M with duplexing capability.
Unfortunately, we cannot print duplex from NextStep. If we save
the file in PostScript and examine it, the commands for duplexing
are there. For whatever reason, they are ignored during the actual
printing.
(We know that the 5M duplexes because the Macintoshes can print to
it in duplex mode without difficulty.)
I suspect that the problem may lie in the PostScript prolog commands,
but do not know enough PostScript to attempt a hack.
Can anyone offer any suggestions? Thanks.
Configuration
--------------------------------
System Release: 3.3risc
Workspace Version: 374.11
PostScript Version: 125.16
Processor: SPARC
printPackage.ps 3.1
--
+----------------------------------------------------------------------+
| David Blanchard NOAA/NSSL & OU/CIMMS Boulder, Colorado |
| blanch@ncar.ucar.edu http://mrd3.mmm.ucar.edu/~dob/www/ |
+----------------------------------------------------------------------+
From: Ernest Aleixandre
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.marketplace,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.programmer
Control: cancel <514f8o$a1e@fin.firstnations.ca>
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From: casper@nb.net (Timothy K Scoff)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.graphics,comp.sys.mac.hardware.misc,comp.sys.mac.hardware.storage,comp.sys.mac.hardware.video,comp.sys.mac.hypercard,comp.sys.mac.oop.powerplant,comp.sys.mac.portables,comp.sys.mac.printing,comp.sys.mac.programmer.codewarrior,comp.sys.mac.programmer.help,comp.sys.mac.programmer.misc,comp.sys.mac.programmer.mtools,comp.sys.mac.system,comp.sys.mac.wanted,comp.sys.newton.misc,comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.palmtops,comp.sys.pen,comp.sys.powerpc,comp.sys.powerpc.advocacy,comp.psion.misc,comp.sys.sgi.admin,comp.sys.sgi.graphics,comp.sys.sgi.hardware,comp.sys.sgi.misc,comp.sys.sinclair,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.sun.hardware
Subject: Re: How to react to Money Scam Spam...
Date: Tue, 10 Sep 1996 20:29:56 -0400
Organization: http://www.warroom.com
Message-ID: <casper-1009962029580001@oats-20.nb.net>
References: <510v1k$9g7@sjx-ixn4.ix.netcom.com> <Pine.LNX.3.95.960909110336.8569C-100000@nerc3.nerc.com> <steve-0909961950330001@brecher.reno.nv.us> <3234BD72.5A3F@primenet.com>
In article <3234BD72.5A3F@primenet.com>, Ronin <ronin27@primenet.com> wrote:
~I have taken a direct approach to fighting these money scam spammers...
~today I wrote the names down that were listed in the text (the
~participants) and sent a postcard to the Postmaster in their area,
~reporting them as using a chain letter to solicite money via US Mail (a
~crime). I included all their information (name, address). I also sent
~them a postcard as well, notifying them that they have been reported. It
~took ten minutes and cost .80¢. Please report all future money spammers
~to the US Post Office (they WILL take action). Thank you.
~
~Ronin
Also sending e-mail to the user "postmaster@" and their domain name helps
stop this cancer.
--
Timothy K. Scoff
casper@nb.net
"DOS Computers manufactured by companies such as IBM, Compaq, Tandy, and millions of others are by far the most popular, with about 70 million machines in use wordwide. Macintosh fans, on the other hand, may note that cockroaches are far more numerous than humans, and that numbers alone do not denote a higher life form."
( New York Times, November 26, 1991)
From: henq@phsoft.knoware.nl (Henk van Tijen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Problems with Mac/Dos/Fat CD-ROMs...
Date: Wed, 11 Sep 1996 00:39:56 +0200
Organization: PH Software | 4, W.Pyrmontlaan | 2281VL | Rijswijk | Netherlands
Message-ID: <19960911003956270250@[192.0.2.1]>
Hi,
I have a P133 running NS3.3. The CD-ROM drive is NEC222. Even installed
NS from it. Scsi controller is buslogic 958 UW. I have a good workin
Atlas HD and Zipdrive too.
BUT when I try to insert one of the following:
- Nebula Fat ["ISO 966 with Rockridge extension" formatted] CD
- a CD for Mac OS
- Education Software sampler. (old, black-only)
- Audio CD
There seems to be a pattern in that the icon on the shelf is a generic
"audo CD like" icon with the CD's its expereincing troubles with.
I get
- *very* slow response (like > 1/2 hour for a small file copy)
- "address error" , sometimes with forced log out
OFF COURSE, on my black turbo slab, (NS 3.2) using the old next (sony)
external cdrom, these cd's are mounted quickly and with no problems!
Q: has this something to do with:
a) the *drive* NEC 222 (it was cheap for a SCSI, like $100)
b) system configuration (the "probing for xxx" sequence in the console
seems to be somewhat different between my black and white: on
white, it seems like it is not probing for foreign formats for
CD's).
c) NS 3.2 vs 3.3.
d) black vs white ?
Should I buy a CD-ROM drive that is multi-session photo-CD compatible ?
I haven't found a list of 'secure' CD-ROM drives on the NeXT's site, or
any other site for that matter.
Any tips welcome !
-Henk
-- ---------------------------------------------------------------------
Henk van Tijen henq@phsoft.knoware.nl
------------------------------------------------------------------------
From: cjc1@tiac.net (cjc1)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.graphics,comp.sys.mac.hardware.misc,comp.sys.mac.hardware.storage,comp.sys.mac.hardware.video,comp.sys.mac.hypercard,comp.sys.mac.oop.powerplant,comp.sys.mac.portables,comp.sys.mac.printing,comp.sys.mac.programmer.codewarrior,comp.sys.mac.programmer.help,comp.sys.mac.programmer.misc,comp.sys.mac.programmer.mtools,comp.sys.mac.system,comp.sys.mac.wanted,comp.sys.newton.misc,comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.palmtops,comp.sys.pen,comp.sys.powerpc,comp.sys.powerpc.advocacy,comp.psion.misc,comp.sys.sgi.admin,comp.sys.sgi.graphics,comp.sys.sgi.hardware,comp.sys.sgi.misc,comp.sys.sinclair,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.sun.hardware
Subject: Re: How to react to Money Scam Spam...
Date: 11 Sep 1996 02:05:51 GMT
Organization: Personnel Copy
Message-ID: <5156pv$m8e@news-central.tiac.net>
References: <510v1k$9g7@sjx-ixn4.ix.netcom.com> <Pine.LNX.3.95.960909110336.8569C-100000@nerc3.nerc.com> <steve-0909961950330001@brecher.reno.nv.us> <3234BD72.5A3F@primenet.com> <bspyropoulos-1009961005570001@slip1.info.siumed.edu>
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May, I have your name and address?
Smile
In article <bspyropoulos-1009961005570001@slip1.info.siumed.edu>,
bspyropoulos@siumed.edu says...
>
>In article <3234BD72.5A3F@primenet.com>, Ronin <ronin27@primenet.com> wrote:
>
>> I have taken a direct approach to fighting these money scam spammers...
>> today I wrote the names down that were listed in the text (the
>> participants) and sent a postcard to the Postmaster in their area,
>> reporting them as using a chain letter to solicite money via US Mail (a
>> crime). I included all their information (name, address). I also sent
>> them a postcard as well, notifying them that they have been reported. It
>> took ten minutes and cost .80¢. Please report all future money spammers
>> to the US Post Office (they WILL take action). Thank you.
>>
>> Ronin
>
>
>Why don't we all send each other $1 !?
>
>--
>Basil P. Spyropoulos, MD
>SIU School of Medicine
>Department of Psychiatry
From: alec@inc.net (Alec Ellsworth)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Adaptec 3940W and Openstep 4.0 Any Ideas?
Date: 11 Sep 1996 03:05:26 GMT
Organization: Internet Connect, Inc.
Message-ID: <515a9m$m9b@news.inc.net>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=US-ASCII
Hello NeXTers,
I'm trying to get this Adaptec 3940 to boot with Openstep and it's giving me
grief. Any ideas regarding the drivers?
Thanks,
--
Alec Ellsworth
President
Internet Connect, Inc.
10437 Innovation Drive
Wauwatosa, WI 53226
414-476-4266 x 13
414-476-2403 Fax
alec@inc.net
http://www.inc.net
From: jmcnalle@attila.stevens-tech.edu (James McNalley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Re: RAM for Cube: where to buy?
Date: 11 Sep 1996 02:37:13 GMT
Organization: Stevens Institute of Technology
Message-ID: <5158kp$7ue@apocalypse.dmi.stevens-tech.edu>
References: <50spgb$6j8@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> <gmATtp_00iWT07kmF=@andrew.cmu.edu>
But $225 seems to be about right for parity SIMMs. I just bought
64MB EDO at about $175/32MB, and parity was about $220 from www.atipa.com.
non-parity, non edo 32MB 72pin 60ns SIMMs were $169 if memory serves :).
Charles William Swiger (cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu) wrote:
: Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.hardware: 7-Sep-96 RAM for Cube:
: where to buy? by james beauchamp@cmp-rs.c
: > Dancing Bear is selling 32MB 72 pin SIMMs for $225, but these are used parts.
: > How does this compare with buying new SIMMs? I know that Black NeXT SIMMs
: > have to be "low-profile", so does this mean Mac or PC parts won't work?
: New 32MB 72-pin SIMMs (8x32 by 70ns) are $163 at the Chip Merchant,
: which is $62 bucks cheaper.
: I've never had a problem fitting SIMMs into a NeXT computer, but I
: suppose that you could always return them if you do encounter trouble.
: -Chuck
: PS: Your 'From:' header is "beaucham@cmp-rs.cso.uiuc.edu", which seems
: invalid, at least according to what my mail system sees here at CMU.
: Please fix it.
: Charles Swiger | cs4w@andrew.cmu.edu | standard disclaimer
: ----------------+---------------------+---------------------
: I know you're an optimist if you think I'm a pessimist.
--
James E. McNalley | THIS SPACE INTENTIONALY LEFT BLANK
Linux / Unix hacker|
Hoboken, NJ |
jmcnalle@attila.stevens-tech.edu
From: jtodd@ss4.digex.net (John Todd)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: 4.0 and HP 80 gig jukebox - Whoo-hoo!
Date: 11 Sep 1996 04:19:16 GMT
Organization: Express Access Online Communications USA: 800-969-9090
Message-ID: <515ek5$5mr@news4.digex.net>
Summary: Need a hand with my new 80 gig toy and OPENSTEP 4.0
Keywords: SureStore, OPENSTEP, huge tracts of land
I've just laid my hands on an HP SureStore 80 gig optical jukebox. It's got
a SCSI bus on the back, which I've plugged into my Axil (Sparc clone) and it
sees the 4 optical drives with no problems. However, I'm not having any
luck with getting OPENSTEP to talk to the drives in a meaningful way. Is
there a tool (other than "disk", which sees the drives, but won't do
anything with them) that I can use to get things started? I hear that
NetBSD has device drivers built in that can grok the removable media and
control the robot arm, and I would assume that the clever people at NeXT
have put similar drivers in the current release. However, not being as
clever as they are, I am unable to find where those jewels are stored.
Summary: How do I make the HP talk to OPENSTEP on the SCSI chain and control
the robot arm sanely?
The lucky person that can help me get this drive up and running wins a free
envelope of "lucky air" that can help them win the lottery, get free prizes,
and help rid them of that unsightly ring around the collar. Send SASE.
You'll also get my undying gratitude and access to the NeXT archive that I
might be building on the drives. :)
JT
--
John Todd
jtodd@digex.net
From: jmcnalle@attila.stevens-tech.edu (James McNalley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Re: SideNote: Fall Crate & Barrel catalog
Date: 11 Sep 1996 02:31:48 GMT
Organization: Stevens Institute of Technology
Message-ID: <5158ak$7ue@apocalypse.dmi.stevens-tech.edu>
References: <v6hafuyikw9.fsf@cfdev1425.cfdev.lehman.com> <acg24qqoi1.fsf@parka.winternet.com>
Weren't there some NeXTStations in _True_Lies_, or was it just a
lot of black non-NeXT hardware? I thought I saw a NeXT, but it was a while
ago...
Scott Hess (shess@parka.winternet.com) wrote:
: In article <v6hafuyikw9.fsf@cfdev1425.cfdev.lehman.com>,
: jsowers@lehman.com (Justin Sowers) writes:
: A new life for the m68ks as photo props. Who would have ever guessed?
: Nah, this has _always_ been the case. There was a music video with a
: NeXT monitor in it (Paula Abdul? Madonna? late 80s sometime). And
: that one movie about keifer sutherland or someone croaking and being
: revived. And a couple BYTE covers, of course :-).
: Later,
: --
: scott hess <shess@winternet.com> (WWW to "http://www.winternet.com/~shess/")
: Work: 12550 Portland Avenue South #121, Burnsville, MN 55337 (612)895-1208
: <I want to become so famous that people buy tapes of me reading source code>
--
James E. McNalley | THIS SPACE INTENTIONALY LEFT BLANK
Linux / Unix hacker|
Hoboken, NJ |
jmcnalle@attila.stevens-tech.edu
From: jamah@dazeclub.stu.rpi.edu.stu.rpi.edu (Jon Mah (JaMah!))
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: HP Deskjet 540 having trouble ...
Date: 11 Sep 1996 01:53:41 GMT
Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy NY, USA
Message-ID: <515635$lp2@usenet.rpi.edu>
To Anyone Who can Please Help:
I have an HP Deskjet 540 and I am running the latest version of
JetPilot on a demo license as a printer driver. Sometimes, it can print a
page or two fine.. and then after that, all jobs sent to the printer
mysteriously just sit on the queue and don't do anything. Even stranger,
after a reboot, sometimes the queue will go through and print, and other
times the jobs in the queue will just keep sitting there. I don't
understand what is wrong. If anyone has any suggestions, please please
e-mail me back.
Thanks very much.
Jon Mah
(jamah@dazeclub.stu.rpi.edu)
From: tal@cs.caltech.edu (Tal Lancaster)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: FS: IBM 1.3G MO
Date: 11 Sep 1996 06:15:59 GMT
Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Message-ID: <515lev$qgc@gap.cco.caltech.edu>
Cc: tal@cs.caltech.edu
For sale:
Internal IBM SCSI-2 H/H 1.3G MO drive. It is less than 1 year old. It has work
flawlessly under NeXTSTEP 3.3, DOS, and Windows. $725 ( plus shipping). The
price includes 1 1.3G carriage.
--
***********************************************************************
Tal Lancaster - tal@cs.caltech.edu (NeXTSTEP, MIME, and regular Email
The RenderMan Repository -- http://pete.cs.caltech.edu/RMR/
************************************************************************
From: ppai@soback.kornet.nm.kr (BongOk Kim (kornet))
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Q: Check the OD in my Cube
Date: 11 Sep 1996 07:55:19 GMT
Organization: KORNET
Message-ID: <515r97$a4l@usenet.kornet.nm.kr>
Hello,
Yesterday, I purchased 256MB optical disk for my NeXT Cube.
Insert disk into the Cube, But my Cube did not work.
But sometime hard disk work.
Is that mean dead my optical drive?
How could I check my optical drive in the Cube?
sorry my poor english.
Thanks.
YoungHoon Kil
From South Korea
ppai@soback.kornet.nm.kr
http://soback.kornet.nm.kr/~ppai
.
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: cmsg cancel <5149f5$3b6@precipice.fdn.fr>
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Date: 10 Sep 1996 17:45:23 GMT
Organization: Individual - France
Message-ID: <5149fj$3b6@precipice.fdn.fr>
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From: pcal@agora.rdrop.com (Patrick Calahan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.graphics,comp.sys.mac.hardware.misc,comp.sys.mac.hardware.storage,comp.sys.mac.hardware.video,comp.sys.mac.hypercard,comp.sys.mac.oop.powerplant,comp.sys.mac.portables,comp.sys.mac.printing,comp.sys.mac.programmer.codewarrior,comp.sys.mac.programmer.help,comp.sys.mac.programmer.misc,comp.sys.mac.programmer.mtools,comp.sys.mac.system,comp.sys.mac.wanted,comp.sys.newton.misc,comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.palmtops,comp.sys.pen,comp.sys.powerpc,comp.sys.powerpc.advocacy,comp.psion.misc,comp.sys.sgi.admin,comp.sys.sgi.graphics,comp.sys.sgi.hardware,comp.sys.sgi.misc,comp.sys.sinclair,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.sun.hardware
Subject: Re: How to react to Money Scam Spam...
Date: Wed, 11 Sep 1996 01:50:53 -0800
Organization: RainDrop Laboratories/Agora(sm)
Message-ID: <pcal-1109960150530001@slip-d2.rdrop.com>
References: <510v1k$9g7@sjx-ixn4.ix.netcom.com> <Pine.LNX.3.95.960909110336.8569C-100000@nerc3.nerc.com> <steve-0909961950330001@brecher.reno.nv.us> <3234BD72.5A3F@primenet.com> <3235C3A4.35CF@ofc005a.sce.com>
In article <3235C3A4.35CF@ofc005a.sce.com>, fischej@ofc005a.sce.com wrote:
> Ronin wrote:
> >
> > I have taken a direct approach to fighting these money scam spammers...
> > today I wrote the names down that were listed in the text (the
> > participants) and sent a postcard to the Postmaster in their area,
> This does not strike me as a particularly smart thing to do. Merely
>...
> committed a crime, you have just committed libel yourself.
I agree that it might be a waste of time, though I doubt it could be
considered libelous, as the complaint isn't really published.
--
Patrick Calahan pcal@agora.rdrop.com
Portland, Oregon http://www.rdrop.com/~pcal
From: david@onestep.co.uk
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Re: Can't print duplex to HPLJ-5M
Date: 11 Sep 1996 08:48:30 GMT
Organization: PSINet UK Public Usenet Site
Message-ID: <515ucu$7pb@pub.news.uk.psi.net>
References: <514rcb$j9e@ncar.ucar.edu>
In article <514rcb$j9e@ncar.ucar.edu> dob@mrd3.mmm.ucar.edu (David O.
Blanchard,,,) writes:
>
> We recently acquired an HP LaserJet 5M with duplexing capability.
> Unfortunately, we cannot print duplex from NextStep. If we save
> the file in PostScript and examine it, the commands for duplexing
> are there. For whatever reason, they are ignored during the actual
> printing.
>
> (We know that the 5M duplexes because the Macintoshes can print to
> it in duplex mode without difficulty.)
>
> I suspect that the problem may lie in the PostScript prolog
commands,
> but do not know enough PostScript to attempt a hack.
>
> Can anyone offer any suggestions? Thanks.
>
>
Hi,
Its because of a conflication in the HP/NEXT way of doing things.
NEXT reselect the paper type (ie Letter, A4) for each page which
causes the HP to throw a page thus giving a blank page on the reverse
side.
We have a superset PPD which avoids the problem by not reselecting
the paper type if the same as already chosen. It also supports higher
speed multiple copies (engine speed), paper type aliasing, custom
print panels, forms overlay etc.
The duplexing version is free, email sales@onestep.co.uk
The full version with all the features is a chargable product, again
email sales@onestep.co.uk
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351 London Road | fax: 01702 551515 | MCCAs, Hardware
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From: dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca (David Evans)
Subject: Re: Turning off NeXT (black) Monitor
Sender: news@novice.uwaterloo.ca (Mr. News)
Message-ID: <DxIw56.Kzz@novice.uwaterloo.ca>
Date: Tue, 10 Sep 1996 15:24:42 GMT
References: <512knr$8qt@nw101.infi.net>
Organization: University of Waterloo
In article <512knr$8qt@nw101.infi.net>,
Peter W. Borders <tcbordp@vbbusnw1.tc.cc.va.us> wrote:
>
>After reading the section of the FAQ detailing the relatively short
lifespan of the NeXT >mono monitors I was wondering, has anyone ever
figured out how to turn off the monitor while leaving the computer
running?
The concensus was that there's no really reliable way to do this. There are
kludges, but who knows what problems they may cause.
--
David Evans (NeXTMail OK) dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca
Computer/Synth Junkie http://bbcr.uwaterloo.ca/~dfevans/
University of Waterloo "Default is the value selected by the composer
Ontario, Canada overridden by your command." - Roland TR-707 Manual
From: Nicholas Alexander Bastin <nbastin@bgnet.bgsu.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.graphics,comp.sys.mac.hardware.misc,comp.sys.mac.hardware.storage,comp.sys.mac.hardware.video,comp.sys.mac.hypercard,comp.sys.mac.oop.powerplant,comp.sys.mac.portables,comp.sys.mac.printing,comp.sys.mac.programmer.codewarrior,comp.sys.mac.programmer.help,comp.sys.mac.programmer.misc,comp.sys.mac.programmer.mtools,comp.sys.mac.system,comp.sys.mac.wanted,comp.sys.newton.misc,comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.palmtops,comp.sys.pen,comp.sys.powerpc,comp.sys.powerpc.advocacy,comp.psion.misc,comp.sys.sgi.admin,comp.sys.sgi.graphics,comp.sys.sgi.hardware,comp.sys.sgi.misc,comp.sys.sinclair,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.sun.hardware
Subject: Re: How to react to Money Scam Spam...
Date: Wed, 11 Sep 1996 10:40:34 -0400
Organization: Bowling Green State University
Message-ID: <Pine.SGI.3.93.960911104002.1769A-100000@sigma.bgsu.edu>
References: <510v1k$9g7@sjx-ixn4.ix.netcom.com> <Pine.LNX.3.95.960909110336.8569C-100000@nerc3.nerc.com> <steve-0909961950330001@brecher.reno.nv.us> <3234BD72.5A3F@primenet.com> <3235C3A4.35CF@ofc005a.sce.com> <pcal-1109960150530001@slip-d2.rdrop.com>
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On Wed, 11 Sep 1996, Patrick Calahan wrote:
> In article <3235C3A4.35CF@ofc005a.sce.com>, fischej@ofc005a.sce.com wrote:
>
> > Ronin wrote:
> > >
> > > I have taken a direct approach to fighting these money scam spammers...
> > > today I wrote the names down that were listed in the text (the
> > > participants) and sent a postcard to the Postmaster in their area,
>
> > This does not strike me as a particularly smart thing to do. Merely
> >...
> > committed a crime, you have just committed libel yourself.
>
> I agree that it might be a waste of time, though I doubt it could be
> considered libelous, as the complaint isn't really published.
> --
> Patrick Calahan pcal@agora.rdrop.com
> Portland, Oregon http://www.rdrop.com/~pcal
Remember, it's only libel if its not true, published or not.
Nick
From: schmidt@radius.mae.cornell.edu (Peter Schmidt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: How to react to Money Scam Spam...
Followup-To: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Date: 11 Sep 1996 14:45:19 GMT
Organization: Cornell University
Sender: ps17@cornell.edu (Verified)
Message-ID: <516j9v$8td@newsstand.cit.cornell.edu>
References: <510v1k$9g7@sjx-ixn4.ix.netcom.com> <Pine.LNX.3.95.960909110336.8569C-100000@nerc3.nerc.com> <steve-0909961950330001@brecher.reno.nv.us> <3234BD72.5A3F@primenet.com> <3235C3A4.35CF@ofc005a.sce.com>
Ronin wrote:
> I have taken a direct approach to fighting these money scam spammers...
How about if rather than going through official channels, you fake some
headers and post one person listed on the list as complaining that another
didn't send him the $1. Next have a different person on the list post a
change of address. Have someone else complain that his name got to #1 on
the list without receiving any money, then post something completely
anonymously saying that you got $35 from the scam without sending anyone any
money. It could be kind of fun sabotaging the reputations of the money
scams, and it seems to me to be the only way to stop it.
By the way, in the interest of not spamming, I am only posting to the NG's
that I read, and not the full spectrum that this thread has been running on.
Jeff Fischer (fischej@ofc005a.sce.com) wrote:
: This does not strike me as a particularly smart thing to do. Merely
: having one's name and address listed in a chain letter is not proof that
: one has participated in using a chain letter to solicit money. If you do
: not have hard proof that those people who you accused of doing so have
: committed a crime, you have just committed libel yourself.
I hate to flame someone, but this guy is weiner. If you had to have hard
proof that someone was committing a crime before reporting it, no one would
ever report anything. "Well, I saw one guy hitting another with a pipe,
but they could have been making a movie, or acting it out for fun. I had
no hard proof that that was blood which was flowing out of his cranium."
Jeff, learn a little about what libel is.
-pete
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
From: Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki)
Subject: Re: Please help: Quantum Atlas 4GB - MEDIA ERROR
Message-ID: <DxKp4K.3Gq@nidat.sub.org>
Sender: nitezki@nidat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki)
Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany
References: <513bqs$enh@winx03.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de>
Date: Wed, 11 Sep 1996 14:48:20 GMT
In article <513bqs$enh@winx03.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de> Sven Droll
writes:
> Hi.
>
> We got a serious problem here (NeXTcube, NS3.3). Our Quantum
> Atlas 4GB-HD worked without problems for the first week (with
> 2.5GB of data on two partitions). But after a few days we got
> messages like
...munch...
> Sep 8 03:20:21 wmax60 mach: SCSI Block in error = 4195298;
> Partition b F.S. sector 674 Sep 8 03:20:21 wmax60 mach: IO error
> on pagein: error = 5.
>
> ... (many many more deleted) ...
>
>
> A handdriven fsck gives something like
>
> ** /dev/sd1b ** Currently Mounted on /Users2 ** Phase 1 - Check
> Blocks and Sizes
>
> CANNOT READ: BLK 1133808 CONTINUE? y
>
> THE FOLLOWING SECTORS COULD NOT BE READ: 1133808, 1133809, 1133810,
> 1133811, 1133812, 1133813, 1133814, 1133815, 1133816, 1133817,
> 1133818, 1133819, 1133820, 1133821, 1133822, 1133823,
>
> CANNOT READ: BLK 1972736 CONTINUE? y
>
> ... (many many more deleted) ...
>
>
This drive develops serious media errors or the head/read electronics is
severely degrading...
Are you sure you don't have thermal problems (overheating?) or vibration
trouble?
>
> And now the questions:
>
> How can I prevent the HD from using the bad blocks?
>
man-page on 'reasb'
> Isn't the system responsible for avoiding those blocks?
>
It is responsible to avoid writing to those blocks, but it can't do very
much about used blocks becoming bad.
> Shouldn't these blocks be marked during a lowlevel-format and
> how can I check if this is done?
>
Yes, for the first. And for the second, there is a trick to do an online
scan of the filesystem (other diagnosis is ony possible on unmounted
partitions/drives - see man-page on 'disk'):
- open the Console window (Command-C in WM)
- start a Terminal window
- enter 'dd if=/dev/rsdXY of=/dev/null' (where X=drive and Y=partition)
- monitor the Console for any bad blocks to be reported
The above procedure will take several hours per GB, be patient!
> How can I do a lowlevel-format (sdformat 1.3 can NOT do this)?
>
Get the scsitools from Peanuts or Peak.
--
Peter Nitezki | Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org # Blessed art thou who knoweth
Staarenbergstr. 44 | Tel.: +49 7251 62495 # not about the pleasure and
D-76703 Kraichtal | Fax : +49 7251 69215 # delight of being hooked
GERMANY | E-mail defunct, sorry # up to the Net. Peter 1,3-5
From: Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Re: RAM for Cube: where to buy?
Date: Wed, 11 Sep 1996 13:50:57 -0400
Organization: Fifth yr. senior, Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
Message-ID: <MmBjk1200WBOQ365Zw@andrew.cmu.edu>
References: <50spgb$6j8@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> <gmATtp_00iWT07kmF=@andrew.cmu.edu>
<5158kp$7ue@apocalypse.dmi.stevens-tech.edu>
In-Reply-To: <5158kp$7ue@apocalypse.dmi.stevens-tech.edu>
Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.hardware: 11-Sep-96 Re: RAM for
Cube: where to .. by James McNalley@attila.st
> But $225 seems to be about right for parity SIMMs. I just bought
> 64MB EDO at about $175/32MB, and parity was about $220 from www.atipa.com.
> non-parity, non edo 32MB 72pin 60ns SIMMs were $169 if memory serves :).
From http://www.thechipmerchant.com/prices.htm
32 MB EDO: $155
32 MB parity: $183
32 MB non-parity $157
-Chuck
Charles Swiger | cs4w@andrew.cmu.edu | standard disclaimer
----------------+---------------------+---------------------
I know you're an optimist if you think I'm a pessimist.
From: jmichel@imtn.dsccc.com (James Michel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Changing Video Refresh Rates?
Date: 11 Sep 1996 19:36:26 GMT
Organization: DSC Communications Corporation, Plano, Texas USA
Message-ID: <5174bq$fik@camelot.dsccc.com>
I have a Diamond Stealth 64 VRAM card and NS 3.3. I am able to run in 1024x768
555/32 resolution but would like to run in 1280x1024 which is an option. However, when I choose this resolution(BW or Color) the screen is unreadable. When I setup X on Linux(same PC) I had to mess with the refresh rates to get it to work in 1280x1024. Where are these configuration files located? Also, does anyone have a sample of the configuration lines they used?
Thanks,
Jason
From: rakesh@arp.com (Rakesh Dubey)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Re: Changing Video Refresh Rates?
Date: 11 Sep 1996 13:12:01 -0700
Organization: GRANITE Systems, Inc.
Sender: rakesh@fountainhead.granite.com
Message-ID: <wud8zsvmjy.fsf@fountainhead.granite.com>
References: <5174bq$fik@camelot.dsccc.com>
In-reply-to: jmichel@imtn.dsccc.com's message of 11 Sep 1996 19:36:26 GMT
In article <5174bq$fik@camelot.dsccc.com> jmichel@imtn.dsccc.com (James Michel) writes:
>
> I have a Diamond Stealth 64 VRAM card and NS 3.3. I am able to run
> in 1024x768 555/32 resolution but would like to run in 1280x1024
> which is an option. However, when I choose this resolution(BW or
> Color) the screen is unreadable. When I setup X on Linux(same PC) I
> had to mess with the refresh rates to get it to work in 1280x1024.
> Where are these configuration files located? Also, does anyone have
> a sample of the configuration lines they used?
Unfortunately, you can not do that in NS. The only options that you
have are enumerated by the Configure application.
XFConfig mechanism in XFree gives one a lot more flexibility. Having
used both NS 3.3 and it, I really prefer it (as long as you know what
you are doing). I wish NS had something like that.
-Rakesh
From: rencsok@channelu.com (Randall J. Rencsok)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Re: Please help: Quantum Atlas 4GB - MEDIA ERROR
Date: 11 Sep 1996 19:36:05 GMT
Organization: Michigan State University
Message-ID: <5174b5$mj6@msunews.cl.msu.edu>
References: <513bqs$enh@winx03.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de>
In <513bqs$enh@winx03.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de> Sven Droll wrote:
> Hi.
>
> We got a serious problem here (NeXTcube, NS3.3). Our Quantum Atlas 4GB-HD
> worked without problems for the first week (with 2.5GB of data on two
> partitions). But after a few days we got messages like
You have a serious problem. I have a Atlas 4.3G on black. Not one error
yet.
You should be under warranty (mine is 5 year) I would endeavor to get my
data off and return the drive.
> And now the questions:
>
> How can I prevent the HD from using the bad blocks?
>
> Isn't the system responsible for avoiding those blocks?
>
> Shouldn't these blocks be marked during a lowlevel-format and how can I
check
> if this is done?
>
> How can I do a lowlevel-format (sdformat 1.3 can NOT do this)?
>
> Thanx for any hind/help
I don't know why sdformat won't work it did on my Conner but it might be
the fact the Quantum is slightly over 4G (never tried).
In terms of bad blocks I'm not sure how one is to deal with those
I started looking for something like reabsorb. Or man -k on
'disk', 'blocks' etc. nothing even remotely like what I was looking
for.
All I know is when one starts to see media errors at the level your seeing
them your choices are 'low-level' reformat, initialize.. Or better send it
back and ask for another.
On a related point, one would want to know what's on your scsi chain
because it is possible (but doubtful) that one might see those kinds of
errors due to various cabling problems (small chance).
Randy
rencsok@channelu.com
BTW: Your reply header has no address field in it.
From: rencsok@channelu.com (Randall J. Rencsok)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Re: FS: IBM 1.3G MO
Date: 11 Sep 1996 19:38:49 GMT
Organization: Michigan State University
Message-ID: <5174g9$mj6@msunews.cl.msu.edu>
References: <515lev$qgc@gap.cco.caltech.edu>
Cc: tal@cs.caltech.edu
In <515lev$qgc@gap.cco.caltech.edu> Tal Lancaster wrote:
> For sale:
>
> Internal IBM SCSI-2 H/H 1.3G MO drive. It is less than 1 year old. It has
work
> flawlessly under NeXTSTEP 3.3, DOS, and Windows. $725 ( plus shipping).
The
> price includes 1 1.3G carriage.
If anyone purchases this drive and would like to purchase some extra
media feel free to contact me.
512Bytes/sector
Price is $30 individually
$25/per 2-5
--
Randy Rencsok
517-371-3327
rencsok@channelu.com
From: Larry Westfall <westfall@netset.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.graphics,comp.sys.mac.hardware.misc,comp.sys.mac.hardware.storage,comp.sys.mac.hardware.video,comp.sys.mac.hypercard,comp.sys.mac.oop.powerplant,comp.sys.mac.portables,comp.sys.mac.printing,comp.sys.mac.programmer.codewarrior,comp.sys.mac.programmer.help,comp.sys.mac.programmer.misc,comp.sys.mac.programmer.mtools,comp.sys.mac.system,comp.sys.mac.wanted,comp.sys.newton.misc,comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.palmtops,comp.sys.pen,comp.sys.powerpc,comp.sys.powerpc.advocacy,comp.psion.misc,comp.sys.sgi.admin,comp.sys.sgi.graphics,comp.sys.sgi.hardware,comp.sys.sgi.misc,comp.sys.sinclair,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.sun.hardware
Subject: Re: How to react to Money Scam Spam...
Date: Wed, 11 Sep 1996 19:13:51 -0400
Organization: NetSet Internet Services -- Columbus, Ohio
Message-ID: <323747AF.5803@netset.com>
References: <510v1k$9g7@sjx-ixn4.ix.netcom.com> <Pine.LNX.3.95.960909110336.8569C-100000@nerc3.nerc.com> <steve-0909961950330001@brecher.reno.nv.us> <3234BD72.5A3F@primenet.com> <3235C3A4.35CF@ofc005a.sce.com>
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Jeff Fischer wrote:
>
> Ronin wrote:
> >
> > I have taken a direct approach to fighting these money scam spammers...
> > today I wrote the names down that were listed in the text (the
> > participants) and sent a postcard to the Postmaster in their area,
> > reporting them as using a chain letter to solicite money via US Mail (a
> > crime). I included all their information (name, address). I also sent
> > them a postcard as well, notifying them that they have been reported.
>
> This does not strike me as a particularly smart thing to do. Merely
> having one's name and address listed in a chain letter is not proof that
> one has participated in using a chain letter to solicit money. If you do
> not have hard proof that those people who you accused of doing so have
> committed a crime, you have just committed libel yourself.
>
> Jeff Fischer
>
> (My opinions are my own and do not represent those of any other
> organization.)
Well I sent the last make money sceme back to root of the server is came
from and this is what came back.
Subject:
Re: make $$$ fast ! THIS IS CRAP
Date:
Wed, 11 Sep 1996 09:45:02 +0200 (MET DST)
From:
swa@ub4b.eunet.be (Swa Frantzen)
To:
westfall@netset.com (Larry Westfall)
> Olivier Arcadipane wrote:
> >
> > Taking 5 minutes to read what follows can change your life :
> >
> > I saw an article in an internet newsgroup telling me I could
> > make $50,000 within a month for an investment of only $5.
[...]
To our regret these things do happen.
We have taken following measures:
- posting account has been blocked for the time being
- management of ping has been notified, removal of account is up to
them.
Both Eunet Belgium and Ping have a clear Acceptable Use Policy against
this.
To my knowledge it is illegal in Belgium.
SWA (news@Belgium.EU.net)
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From: Stephen Peters <speters@cygnus.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Re: RAM for Cube: where to buy?
Date: 11 Sep 1996 11:30:37 -0700
Organization: Cygnus Support
Sender: speters@blues.cygnus.com
Message-ID: <qdhgp429bm.fsf@blues.cygnus.com>
References: <50spgb$6j8@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu>
<gmATtp_00iWT07kmF=@andrew.cmu.edu>
<5158kp$7ue@apocalypse.dmi.stevens-tech.edu>
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Just to make sure I've got this right before I go calling places -- if
I'm looking to add another 16Mb to my NeXTstation Color (which is
reporting that sockets 4-7 are now empty), I need to get 4x32-70. Is
that right? Or am I misunderstanding?
- --
Stephen L. Peters speters@cygnus.com
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"What, do you think soup is a biped?" -- Crow, MST3K
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From: sanguish@digifix.com (Scott Anguish)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Re: RAM for Cube: where to buy?
Date: 12 Sep 1996 03:44:35 GMT
Organization: Digital Fix Development
Message-ID: <5180v3$en6@news.digifix.com>
References: <50spgb$6j8@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> <gmATtp_00iWT07kmF=@andrew.cmu.edu> <MmBjk1200WBOQ365Zw@andrew.cmu.edu>
In-Reply-To: <MmBjk1200WBOQ365Zw@andrew.cmu.edu>
On 09/11/96, Charles William Swiger wrote:
>Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.hardware: 11-Sep-96 Re: RAM for
>Cube: where to .. by James McNalley@attila.st
>> But $225 seems to be about right for parity SIMMs. I just
bought
>> 64MB EDO at about $175/32MB, and parity was about $220 from
www.atipa.com.
>> non-parity, non edo 32MB 72pin 60ns SIMMs were $169 if memory serves
:).
>
>From http://www.thechipmerchant.com/prices.htm
>
>32 MB EDO: $155
>32 MB parity: $183
>32 MB non-parity $157
That $155 price for 32Mb EDO has been sitting at that for at least
two weeks now, I'd love to know if anyone thinks it will drop any further.
I've been waiting for $150 before buying another 64Mb.. :-)
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From: henq@phsoft.knoware.nl (Henk van Tijen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Q: how make slab less noisy ?
Date: Thu, 12 Sep 1996 11:16:22 +0200
Organization: PH Software | 4, W.Pyrmontlaan | 2281VL | Rijswijk | Netherlands
Message-ID: <19960912111622163904@[192.0.2.1]>
Hi,
I've peeped into the faq's, but did not find the thing I -a fresh proud
owner of a vintage turbo slab (with printer)- mostly want to know:
How to make one's slab less noisy ?
Compared to my pentium tower (tucked away under the desk), Steve's pizza
box is like having a vacuum cleaner in front of your face...
So is there a more quit fan ? Or can it run safely half speed ?
Any suggestions ?
Thanx in advance,
-Henk
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
From: thomas@gamelan.shnet.org (Thomas Funke)
Subject: Re: NeXTLaserPrinter -- Felt Cleaning Bar Part #
Message-ID: <1996Sep7.161231.9843@gamelan.shnet.org>
Sender: thomas@gamelan.shnet.org (thomas)
Organization: Disorganization
References: <199609051723.NAA01338@nerc.com>
Date: Sat, 7 Sep 1996 16:12:31 GMT
In article <199609051723.NAA01338@nerc.com> writes:
>
> Just spoke to someone at Hewlett Packard (1-800-752-0900) who found
> out for me that I CAN buy just the toner cleaning bar (that
> felt-lined piece of plastic which goes on the fuser assembly).
>
> Hewlett Packard Laser Printer Paper Cleaner Bar (felt lined)
> part # RG1-0966-030CN
> (for the Toner Cartridge 92295A, the suggested Toner Cartridge for
> NeXT Laser printers)
> Cost: $8, and HP pays for shipping.
>
> Not sure if it will solve the streaking problem (no, my printer is
> not running around nude...) but if spending $8 saves me from having
> to spend $70, I'll be happy.
When I had those streaks I repaired the felt bar but it didn't help. The
only help was a new toner.
Anyway, tell us, if it worked for you !
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C++ is to C as Lung Cancer is to Lung
From: neuss@isa.informatik.th-darmstadt.de.NOSPAM (Christian Neuss)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Re: Q: how make slab less noisy ?
Date: 12 Sep 1996 12:32:06 GMT
Organization: Fachbereich Informatik, TH Darmstadt, Deutschland
Message-ID: <518vs6$mot@rs18.hrz.th-darmstadt.de>
References: <19960912111622163904@[192.0.2.1]>
Henk van Tijen (henq@phsoft.knoware.nl) wrote:
> I've peeped into the faq's, but did not find the thing I -a fresh proud
> owner of a vintage turbo slab (with printer)- mostly want to know:
> How to make one's slab less noisy ?
It has been reported that the Panasonic Hydro-Wave Fan FBA08A12H1A
is a very quit replacement, and could be bought from DIGIKEY (who
have a web site at www.digikey.com) for $11.88. I've tried to obtain
one, but w/out success. Maybe they don't deliver to Europe..
Chris
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From: noguchi@npost1.netspace.or.jp (Hiroshi Noguchi)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Free distribution of Cirrus Logic GD754x driver
Date: Thu, 12 Sep 1996 21:48:16 +0900
Organization: nagoya netspace InterNetNews post site
Message-ID: <noguchi-1209962148160001@npost1.netspace.or.jp>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-2022-jp
I am developping the Cirrus Logic GD754x generic driver, and distributed
my driver with no payment. (Freely!!)
This driver will support many notebook computers which GD754x is used in.
My driver has tested already:
- Sharp "Mebius" (sold only in Japan)
GD7543/8, PCI-bus, 800x600 TFT color (up to 65536 colors)
- Compaq LTE5200
GD7543, PCI-bus, 800x600 TFT color (up to 65536 colors)
- AST Asentia 950N
GD7543, local-bus (not PCI), 800x600 TFT color (up to 65536 colors)
All tested models are 800x600 TFT color.
640x480 LCD and DSTN LCD have not tested yet, but it is possible to work.
Supported modes (version 0.5):
- 640x480 555/16
- 640x480 256/8
- 640x480 BW (8bit gray)
- 800x600 555/16
- 800x600 256/8
- 800x600 BW
With 640x480 LCD, they become virtual screen mode.
- 1024x768 256/8
- 1024x768 BW
With 640x480/800x600 LCD, they become virtual screen mode.
All modes work with LCD, I have the plan to support CRT.
My driver has uploaded onto:
ftp://ftp.stellar.co.jp/pub/NEXTSTEP/Drivers/
[Caution!!]
I forbit re-distributing my driver!!
I am sorry that the English document has not been written yet.
I hope that my driver will be tested by many users and many computers...
Hiroshi Noguchi
Nagoya, Aichi, Japan
E-mail: noguchi@npost1.netspace.or.jp
From: mgilula@gate.net (Marshall Gilula)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Canon OS.41 and GUS snd card difficulties
Date: 12 Sep 1996 09:44:25 -0400
Organization: CyberGate, Inc.
Message-ID: <51943p$ln0@seminole.gate.net>
NNTP-Posting-User: mgilula
My Class GUS Snd Card is giving me a very difficult time in the
Canon OS.41 and I would appreciate any helpx
or advice to my private email address (mgilula@gate.net) if possible.
The Snd card actually goes into the slot in the hi-riser card of the
Object Station which contains the built-in (Oak Technology)Mozart card,
which is very low quality and difficult to disable. The BusLogic SCSI
uses IRQ 11 and I keep getting IRQ incompatibilities when I attempt to
install the GUS, even with W95, which is now running on the Canon with
little problem except for no sound. At some point in the past I was able
to run the GUS in W3.11 but never in DOS. My technical friends are
unable to assist, and they only blather about the Canon machine being a
great machine for running NEXTSTEP (it is) but not a very good machine
for running DOS or W (I hope to disagree). I know that Canon has quit
supporting NEXTSTEP (this is another issue not germane to this post,
though)
Anyone with technical expertise willing to share their experience or
information ? My budget is too bullet-ridden to be able to afford to
replace the quirky Canon CPU with a more standard 486/586/686 at the
present time. I wonder whether disabling the low-quality OAK Technology
Mozart would even help as the SCSI controller appears to be one of the
problems as well.
TIA,
-73-
Marshall (mgilula@gate.net)
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From: juergen@eskimo.bb.bawue.de (Juergen Grieb)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Re: Changing Video Refresh Rates?
Date: 12 Sep 1996 07:38:11 GMT
Organization: "private site"
Message-ID: <518el3$ah9@eskimo.eskimo.bb.bawue.de>
References: <5174bq$fik@camelot.dsccc.com> <wud8zsvmjy.fsf@fountainhead.granite.com>
Cc: rakesh@arp.com
Rakesh Dubey wrote:
> In article <5174bq$fik@camelot.dsccc.com> jmichel@imtn.dsccc.com (James
Michel) writes:
>
> >
> > I have a Diamond Stealth 64 VRAM card and NS 3.3. I am able to run
> > in 1024x768 555/32 resolution but would like to run in 1280x1024
> > which is an option. However, when I choose this resolution(BW or
> > Color) the screen is unreadable. When I setup X on Linux(same PC) I
> > had to mess with the refresh rates to get it to work in 1280x1024.
> > Where are these configuration files located? Also, does anyone have
> > a sample of the configuration lines they used?
>
> Unfortunately, you can not do that in NS. The only options that you
> have are enumerated by the Configure application.
I think there is a possibility. At least that works with my ATI card.
Go where you can change the resolution in configure.app
Then click the expert button and search for the line where the resolution is
set. There should also be a number followed by 'hz'. You should be able to
change the number to a value you would like.
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From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@nerc.com>
Subject: Re: NeXTLaserPrinter -- Felt Cleaning Bar Part #
Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.95.960912154837.21420A-100000@charisma>
Date: Thu, 12 Sep 1996 15:51:25 -0400
References: <199609051723.NAA01338@nerc.com> <1996Sep7.161231.9843@gamelan.shnet.org>
To: Thomas Funke <thomas@gamelan.shnet.org>
In-Reply-To: <1996Sep7.161231.9843@gamelan.shnet.org>
Organization: Princeton Theological Seminary
Return-Receipt-To: luomat@nerc.com
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Unfortunately, it did NOT help.... darn...
Several people suggested that the toner chemistry shelf-life might
have expired (it was several years old).
The only solution is a new toner, which solved the problem
completely.... $70 looked rather cheap after all the hassle of trying
to clean it, etc....
So, does anyone know of a good place to send the old cartridge?
TjL
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On Sat, 7 Sep 1996, Thomas Funke wrote:
> Date: Sat, 7 Sep 1996 16:12:31 GMT
> From: Thomas Funke <thomas@gamelan.shnet.org>
> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
> Subject: Re: NeXTLaserPrinter -- Felt Cleaning Bar Part #
>
> In article <199609051723.NAA01338@nerc.com> writes:
> >
> > Just spoke to someone at Hewlett Packard (1-800-752-0900) who found
> > out for me that I CAN buy just the toner cleaning bar (that
> > felt-lined piece of plastic which goes on the fuser assembly).
> >
> > Hewlett Packard Laser Printer Paper Cleaner Bar (felt lined)
> > part # RG1-0966-030CN
> > (for the Toner Cartridge 92295A, the suggested Toner Cartridge for
> > NeXT Laser printers)
> > Cost: $8, and HP pays for shipping.
> >
> > Not sure if it will solve the streaking problem (no, my printer is
> > not running around nude...) but if spending $8 saves me from having
> > to spend $70, I'll be happy.
>
> When I had those streaks I repaired the felt bar but it didn't help. The
> only help was a new toner.
>
> Anyway, tell us, if it worked for you !
>
>
>
> --
> ----- Thomas Funke ----------------------- thomas@gamelan.shnet.org -----
>
> C++ is to C as Lung Cancer is to Lung
>
>
>
From: tvz@Princeton.EDU (Timothy Van Zandt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Re: Q: how make slab less noisy ?
Date: 12 Sep 1996 14:24:12 GMT
Organization: Princeton University
Message-ID: <5196ec$92n@cnn.Princeton.EDU>
References: <19960912111622163904@[192.0.2.1]>
Cc: henq@phsoft.knoware.nl
In <19960912111622163904@[192.0.2.1]> Henk van Tijen wrote:
> Hi,
>
>
> I've peeped into the faq's, but did not find the thing I -a fresh proud
> owner of a vintage turbo slab (with printer)- mostly want to know:
>
> How to make one's slab less noisy ?
>
> Compared to my pentium tower (tucked away under the desk), Steve's pizza
> box is like having a vacuum cleaner in front of your face...
> So is there a more quit fan ? Or can it run safely half speed ?
I have both an early non-turbo slab and a turbo slab (both mono).
The turbo is noisier because its fan has twice the wattage.
I am guessing this is because (i) the higher speed processor
needs more cooling, and (ii) there were complaints on overheating
of high-capacity disks on early slabs. So it is not a
good idea to just run the fan at slower speed or replace it by
a less powerful fan. You can try the quieter fan recommended
by another poster, but most fan noise comes from unavoidable
air turbulence.
You should also make sure that the noise you hear is not mainly
the hard drive. Disconnect the fan to check how much noise
is left.
Tim
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From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@nerc.com>
Date: Thu, 12 Sep 96 15:26:34 -0400
Subject: SAG (was Re: Hard Drive Failures)
Cc: comp-sys-next-hardware@antigone.com
Organization: Princeton Theological Seminary
Return-Receipt-To: luomat@nerc.com
s0wwchin@atlas.vcu.edu (Weiyuan W Chin) on 10 Sep 1996 wrote:
> I would avoid SAG (aka East Coast Electronics). After sales support
> was horrendous.
I cannot agree with this more....
I bought an internal CD-ROM from them, which came without any
mounting hardware (which would have been fine if I had know that in
advance).
I called them up when I got the drive and asked if they sold such a
bracket (figuring since they knew the drive they would know the
type of bracket it needed).
Quote: "No, we don't sell those brackets, and I've gotten tell you,
we only made $17 selling you that drive, so it really isn't worth
my time to help you find it."
Fine, that's the last time you'll see any $$ from me whatsoever!
I couldn't believe the gall of that statement....
TjL
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From: sanguish@digifix.com (Scott Anguish)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Re: Q: how make slab less noisy ?
Date: 12 Sep 1996 21:42:21 GMT
Organization: Digital Fix Development
Message-ID: <51a03t$lug@news.digifix.com>
References: <19960912111622163904@[192.0.2.1]> <5196ec$92n@cnn.Princeton.EDU>
In-Reply-To: <5196ec$92n@cnn.Princeton.EDU>
On 09/12/96, Timothy Van Zandt wrote:
>In <19960912111622163904@[192.0.2.1]> Henk van Tijen wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>>
>> I've peeped into the faq's, but did not find the thing I -a fresh proud
>> owner of a vintage turbo slab (with printer)- mostly want to know:
>>
>> How to make one's slab less noisy ?
>>
>> Compared to my pentium tower (tucked away under the desk), Steve's
pizza
>> box is like having a vacuum cleaner in front of your face...
>> So is there a more quit fan ? Or can it run safely half speed ?
>
>I have both an early non-turbo slab and a turbo slab (both mono).
>The turbo is noisier because its fan has twice the wattage.
> I am guessing this is because (i) the higher speed processor
>needs more cooling, and (ii) there were complaints on overheating
>of high-capacity disks on early slabs. So it is not a
>good idea to just run the fan at slower speed or replace it by
>a less powerful fan. You can try the quieter fan recommended
>by another poster, but most fan noise comes from unavoidable
>air turbulence.
I can say without a doubt that the noise I'm hearing here isn't
airflow. There is a high pitched revving noise. It gets louder
sometimes, and it is definately loud enough to hear out in the hall, WITH
the door closed.
I've not pulled things apart to determine where the noise is... I
figured I'd do that when I replace the HD in it..
--
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From: vsafran@ukrv.de (Volker Safran)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Re: ASUS Natoma board with NextStep?
Date: 5 Sep 1996 13:33:49 GMT
Organization: Technical University Berlin, Germany
Message-ID: <50mkrt$2qi@brachio.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE>
References: <50kcn1$bi@news.tuwien.ac.at>
Cc: rft@cg.tuwien.ac.at
rft@cg.tuwien.ac.at schrieb in comp.sys.next.hardware:
>
> I'd like to upgrade my NeXTStep PC from a Pentium 133 to a Pentium
> Pro. I intend to buy the following board:
>
> ASUS P6NP5 PENTIUM PRO (Natoma Chipset)
>
> What are the experiences with NeXTstep? I've heard the Asus Pentium
> boards could only cache the lowest 64MB, is this true for the
> PentiumPro boards as well? Thanks for any information.
This wasn't a problem with ASUS Boards, but with Triton chipsets
(which were used by ASUS, too). With NATOMA chipsets there should
be no problem with caching of more than 64MB (up to 512MB AFAIK)
if you have the right cache-modules.
CIAO Volker
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From: vincent chin hsieh <vch2@columbia.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Sound blaster 16 PnP Problem
Date: Thu, 12 Sep 1996 17:54:17 -0400
Organization: Columbia University
Sender: vch2@bonjour.cc.columbia.edu
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I recently purchased a Sound Blaster 16 Value PnP for use with OS 4
(intel). Compact disc playback is fine, but anything else - system alert
sounds and sound playback software - does not function properly, once in a
long while belching forth snipets of sound (preceded by a noticeable
click) but otherwise silent. Preferences.app indicates that volume is up.
Configure.app apparently detected the card and the following settings were
engaged, with no apparent conflicts: [Driver: Sound Blaster 16 (8 bit DMA
PnP)(v 4.00)] [DMA: 1] [IRQ: 5] [Port Address: 0x220].
Also on the system are an Adaptec 2940 U SCSI controller and a Stealth 64
Video VRAM PCI.
Can you help me?
/vince
ps. I also tried installing a Sound Blaster 16 (not plug and play) using
the appropriate driver (I think), and the same problem occured.
From: Vincent Hsieh <vch2@columbia.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Recommendations: Sound on Intel
Date: Thu, 12 Sep 1996 17:57:23 -0400
Organization: Columbia University
Sender: vch2@bonjour.cc.columbia.edu
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Can anyone recommend a sound card solution compatible with OS 4 which is
higher in audio quality than the soundblaster 16 and the other cards which
next supports?
/vince
From: hassan@ssnet.com (Hassan Kelley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: SCSI2 -> SCSI1 How?
Date: 12 Sep 1996 19:07:54 -0400
Organization: SSNet, Inc.
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <51a54a$irk@marlin.ssnet.com>
I just but this MicrApolis 4221 HD and I can't put it in async mode? There
is no info about how to do this on there web site. Does anyone know how
to do this. Or better yet, does anyone know of a good size drive that with
out any doubt works on black hardware?
Hassan
From: gcl@mail.sojourn.com (Gary)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Re: Recommendations: Sound on Intel
Date: 13 Sep 1996 02:30:05 GMT
Organization: Sojourn Systems, Lansing, MI (USA)
Message-ID: <51agvd$sgr@tkhut.sojourn.com>
References: <Pine.SUN.3.95L.960912175425.18660E-100000@bonjour.cc.columbia.edu>
Cc: vch2@columbia.edu
In <Pine.SUN.3.95L.960912175425.18660E-100000@bonjour.cc.columbia.edu>
Vincent Hsieh wrote:
>
> Can anyone recommend a sound card solution compatible with OS 4 which is
> higher in audio quality than the soundblaster 16 and the other cards which
> next supports?
>
> /vince
>
>
MediaTrix AudioTrix Pro.....
you can get it at Computeablity Mail Order
sounds great 8-)
gary
From: aisbell@ix.netcom.com (Art Isbell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Need details about object.station battery replacement
Date: 13 Sep 1996 03:01:21 GMT
Organization: Netcom
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <51aiq1$f32@dfw-ixnews4.ix.netcom.com>
A couple of our object.stations at a location where no technical people
work appear to be displaying the symptoms of clock/BIOS memory battery
failure. Within the past couple of weeks, a posting described battery
replacement somewhat suggesting that the battery is soldered to the CPU
board! Certainly such a component should be user-replaceable, with "user"
not being defined as a computer technician with a soldering iron :-)
I would like to pass on someone's detailed explanation of how to replace
an object.station battery. Your info is appreciated.
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From: sk68@cornell.edu (Sung Ho Kim)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.periphs.scsi
Subject: Re: seagate st1480n disks in next slabs
Date: 13 Sep 1996 06:31:03 GMT
Organization: Cornell University
Sender: sk68@cornell.edu (Verified)
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References: <50nq08$svj@thighmaster.admin.lsa.umich.edu> <50q82l$6tv@news2.snfc21.pacbell.net>
This doesn't have much to do with the topic in hand, but I have been
following the comp.sys.next newgroups for quite a time now (a proud owner
of a dual-head ND system :-) and although I am not very knowledgeable in
depth regarding NeXT hardware and so haven't been able to give much
assistance to my fellow NeXT users, I would like to say that I'm frankly
impressed with fellows like Mike Paquette who have consistently shared
their amazing breadth of knowledge about the now not produced (but still
kicking butt) black hardware. I don't know why I'm doing this (maybe it's
late at night and I have nothing better to do) but I really appreciate all
this generosity and (can I say?) altruism.
In article <50q82l$6tv@news2.snfc21.pacbell.net>, mpaque@pacbell.net (Mike
Paquette) wrote:
> danno@stimpy.us.itd.umich.edu (Dan Pritts) wrote:
>
> >Hi all, I have a bunch of seagate st-1480n disks (out of suns,
> >SUN0424 disks in sun parlance) that i'd like to put in NeXT
> >NeXTstation machines to replace the ailing 200M quantums the
> >nexts came with.
>
> >However, when installed in the slabs (i have tried several, and have
> >tried two different sun disks), the machine will not boot (gives a
> >"scsi bus hung" message), likely because the disk never spins up.
>
> >It's really strange, since when i put the disk in an external
> >enclosure, i can boot from it just fine (don't think i ever tried using
> >the seagate external with no internal disk, which may somehow be
> >relevant).
>
> Terminating resistors.
>
> The Seagate 1480 disks need terminating resistors attached, to provide
> the internal bus termination. There is a row of little Augat sockets
> (teeny little brass-like holes) just above the ribbon cable connector.
> This is where 3 terminating resistor RPACs get plugged in. I don't
> have the specs on the parts, unfortunately. Probably hard to find
> anywhere.
>
> Two cheats to try:
>
> Hook up an external SCSI cable to the SCSI-2 connector on the back
> of the machine and slap a terminator on it. (Good enough for testing,
> but without internal termination there will be an occasional glitch.)
>
> Get a short SCSI ribbon cable with three male connectors (most PC
> clone shops sell these. Plug one end into the slab motherboard, the
> middle connector into the disk drive, and a SCSI ribbon connector
> terminator on the end. (Also pretty common, and used (for example) in
> many expandable Macs.)
>
> Mike Paquette
>
> I don't speak for my employer, and they don't speak for me.
> mpaque@pacbell.net Personal E-mail
> mpaque@next.com NeXT business mail only, please
From: wilkie@cg.tuwien.ac.at (Alexander Wilkie)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Re: Sound blaster 16 PnP Problem
Date: 13 Sep 1996 08:53:04 GMT
Organization: Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Message-ID: <51b7dg$stm@news.tuwien.ac.at>
References: <Pine.SUN.3.95L.960912175036.18660D-100000@bonjour.cc.columbia.edu>
Cc: vch2@columbia.edu
In <Pine.SUN.3.95L.960912175036.18660D-100000@bonjour.cc.columbia.edu>
vincent chin hsieh wrote:
>
> I recently purchased a Sound Blaster 16 Value PnP for use with OS 4
> (intel). Compact disc playback is fine, but anything else - system alert
> sounds and sound playback software - does not function properly, once in a
> long while belching forth snipets of sound (preceded by a noticeable
> click) but otherwise silent. Preferences.app indicates that volume is up.
Let me guess: 66MHz bus speed with an ASUS (or rather, Triton chipset)
motherboard?
It's somewhat galling that the folks at NeXT found the time to fix the
graphical boot-bug for the S3 chipset display drivers in OS 4 (for which
there was a workaround anyway) and left this "classic" for the enjoyment of
the masses...
IAW: it's not going to work, tough luck.
ys
Alexander Wilkie
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From: Joe Freeman <jfreeman@freemansoft.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Re: Q: how make slab less noisy ?
Date: Fri, 13 Sep 1996 07:51:44 -0400
Organization: FreemanSoft Inc.
Message-ID: <32394AD0.2D90@freemansoft.com>
References: <19960912111622163904@[192.0.2.1]> <518vs6$mot@rs18.hrz.th-darmstadt.de>
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Has anyone else used this fan? I've been thinking of ordering
this fan. Does it come with all of the connector parts that are needed?
<joe>
Christian Neuss wrote:
>
> Henk van Tijen (henq@phsoft.knoware.nl) wrote:
> It has been reported that the Panasonic Hydro-Wave Fan FBA08A12H1A
> is a very quit replacement, and could be bought from DIGIKEY (who
> have a web site at www.digikey.com) for $11.88. I've tried to obtain
> one, but w/out success. Maybe they don't deliver to Europe..
From: sdroll@cip.mathematik.uni-wuerzburg.de
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Re: Please help: Quantum Atlas 4GB - MEDIA ERROR - Thank you
Date: 13 Sep 1996 12:38:00 GMT
Organization: University of Wuerzburg, Germany
Message-ID: <51bkj8$r4u@winx03.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de>
References: <513bqs$enh@winx03.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de> <5174b5$mj6@msunews.cl.msu.edu>
Hello.
Thank you for the hinds and suggestions on my SOS-call. Since the Quantum
4GB-Drive holds all relevant data of our CIP-Pool, I were unable to respond
at an earlier date (the pool was dead :-(( ). Now the solution to our
problem:
Instead of the Quantum Atlas 4GB-HD we bought 2 2GB IBM-HDs. We made a newfs
with the following disktab (only one partition this time):
IBM DORS-32160|DORS-32160:\
:ty=fixed_rw_scsi:nc#6703:nt#5:ns#125:ss#512:rm#3600:\
:fp#160:bp#0:ng#0:gs#0:ga#0:ao#0:\
:os=sdmach:z0#32:z1#96:hn=localhost:ro=a:\
:pa#0:sa#4194304:ba#8192:fa#1024:ca#16:da#4096:ra#10:\
:oa=time:ia:ta=4.3BSD:
and heureka it works. We installed more than 2 GBs on the two HDs, checked
intensively and found no errors.
(The problem with the Quantum was that neither an Intel nor a
Motorola-NeXTcomputer could initialize it, after trying sdformat 1.3 on it.
The format with an old DEC-station took us some hours (one hour?) but seems
to work (for the DEC). Installing a new filesystem and copying to the
Quantum-disk worked on a NeXTcube, too , but during Sunday-backup SaftyNet
shows all the files that where written on bad blocks :-((.)
BTW: Sorry for the problems with the 'From'-Field in my previous postings. It
should work now.
Thanx again
Sven ("I need a vacation") Droll
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From: Bernhard Scholz <scholz@informatik.tu-muenchen.de>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Re: Please help: Quantum Atlas 4GB - MEDIA ERROR - Thank you
Date: Fri, 13 Sep 1996 15:28:27 +0200
Organization: Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany
Distribution: world
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References: <513bqs$enh@winx03.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de> <5174b5$mj6@msunews.cl.msu.edu> <51bkj8$r4u@winx03.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de>
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On 13 Sep 1996 sdroll@cip.mathematik.uni-wuerzburg.de wrote:
> (The problem with the Quantum was that neither an Intel nor a
> Motorola-NeXTcomputer could initialize it, after trying sdformat 1.3 on it.
> The format with an old DEC-station took us some hours (one hour?) but seems
> to work (for the DEC). Installing a new filesystem and copying to the
> Quantum-disk worked on a NeXTcube, too , but during Sunday-backup SaftyNet
> shows all the files that where written on bad blocks :-((.)
>
This makes me think, that there are deeper problems with the Quantum 34300
(4GB) drives. Does anybody know details?
I had a similar problem: sometimes (during long and very very high disk
transfer rates (doing 2 simlutanious copys from one 2GB partition to the
other and starting up BuildDisk on a second drive) IO errors occur. I was
able to reboot and fsck worked fine. But when I onced tried using sdformat
on the drive, this failed. I wasn't able to do further lowlevel formats on
the drive. Only my old Amiga was able to save the drive with an
lowlevel format. (Intel reported a ModeSense failure)....
I'm wondering what's going on here. The Quantum Atlas should be a high-end
drive and is positioned for servers by Quantum ....
I don't have an OEM drive, it's one of the original drives from Quantum,
but if I could, I'd change the drive to another 4GB (although it damned
fast!) ...
Greetings,
Bernhard.
From: Bernhard Scholz <scholz@informatik.tu-muenchen.de>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Re: Q: how make slab less noisy ?
Date: Fri, 13 Sep 1996 15:32:41 +0200
Organization: Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <Pine.HPP.3.95.960913153059.16814B-100000@hphalle0.informatik.tu-muenchen.de>
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On Fri, 13 Sep 1996, Joe Freeman wrote:
> Has anyone else used this fan? I've been thinking of ordering
> this fan. Does it come with all of the connector parts that are needed?
>
Before doing the change on the fan, get sure it is the fan causing the
noise! In most cases the harddrive is the cause for trouble. Just open the
case, disconnect the power from the drive, close the case, and turn it on.
If the noisy is to your satisfaction you shouldn't consider buying a fan
:)
Greetings,
Bernhard.
From: antoine.gautier@fsa.ulaval.ca (Antoine Gautier)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Re: Q: how make slab less noisy ?
Date: 13 Sep 1996 15:05:53 GMT
Organization: Universite Laval
Message-ID: <51bt8h$q6u@athena.ulaval.ca>
References: <19960912111622163904@[192.0.2.1]> <518vs6$mot@rs18.hrz.th-darmstadt.de> <32394AD0.2D90@freemansoft.com> <Pine.HPP.3.95.960913153059.16814B-100000@hphalle0.informatik.tu-muenchen.de>
I just replaced my original seagate 400mb disk by a more recent 1G
seagate, now I can hardly hear the slab running. The fan is the
original one, as is the rest.
-------------------------------------------------------
Antoine Gautier (antoine.gautier@fsa.ulaval.ca)
-------------------------------------------------------
Professeur, De'partement OSD
Faculte' des Sciences de l'Administration
Universite' Laval
http://www.fsa.ulaval.ca/personnel/gautiera/
From: jq@papoose.quick.com (James E. Quick)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Re: Adaptec 3940W and Openstep 4.0 Any Ideas?
Date: 13 Sep 1996 11:24:19 -0400
Organization: PHCS
Message-ID: <51bub3$6p@papoose.quick.com>
References: <515a9m$m9b@news.inc.net>
In article <515a9m$m9b@news.inc.net>, Alec Ellsworth <alec@inc.net> wrote:
>Hello NeXTers,
>
>I'm trying to get this Adaptec 3940 to boot with Openstep and it's giving me
>grief. Any ideas regarding the drivers?
There is no driver for Adaptec 3940.
The 2940* (and 78x0 motherboard chipsets) are supported by the 2940 family driver.
If you want to use NS 3.3 or OS 4.0 you should dump the 3940 and replace it with
something that is supported.
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) | "I don't think so," said Rene Descartes. Just then, he vanished.
From: markdo@mail.myriad.net (Mark A. Doucet)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: 21" Next Monitor on Intel platform
Date: 13 Sep 1996 15:59:49 GMT
Organization: DigiPhone Corporation, Bryan/College Station Texas 409-693-8885
Message-ID: <51c0dl$39p@news.myriad.net>
Is anyone using a 21"Next monitor with their intel hardware? If so,
what is the max resolution of the monitor on that platform? What kind
of monitor cable adapter did you use and where did you get it?
I would like to use it with a #9 Imagine 128 bit graphics card.
Thanks for your help
--
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Dominion Technologies, LLC.
"Communications for the Next Generation"
markdo@mail.myriad.net
409.778.3615
From: cello@mario.harvard.edu (Sean Varah)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Re: Recommendations: Sound on Intel
Date: Fri, 13 Sep 1996 11:27:16 -0500
Organization: Harvard Computer Music Center
Message-ID: <cello-1309961127160001@nh-ts02-18.iconn.net>
References: <Pine.SUN.3.95L.960912175425.18660E-100000@bonjour.cc.columbia.edu> <51agvd$sgr@tkhut.sojourn.com>
In article <51agvd$sgr@tkhut.sojourn.com>, gcl@mail.sojourn.com (Gary) wrote:
> In <Pine.SUN.3.95L.960912175425.18660E-100000@bonjour.cc.columbia.edu>
> Vincent Hsieh wrote:
> >
> > Can anyone recommend a sound card solution compatible with OS 4 which is
> > higher in audio quality than the soundblaster 16 and the other cards which
> > next supports?
> >
> > /vince
I'm currently collaborating with Rob Poor at MIT to have a NeXTStep driver
written for the AdBDigital Multiwav card. There are two versions, one with
only digital i/o (SPDIF, Toslink, AES-EBU) (~=$400), and one with an
additional 18 bit D to A converter for playback(~=$500). The driver should
be released as shareware in the next two months. I will keep you all
posted on the details.
We might actually get professional quality sound on Intel after all. . .
Sean
From: hsla@irene.mit.edu (LA, HOSEONG)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Help: No devices detected at 0x170
Date: 13 Sep 1996 13:54 EST
Organization: MIT Lab for Nuclear Science
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <13SEP199613541552@irene.mit.edu>
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.50
Hi, there.
I just installed OS4.0 on Intel.
Two questions.
Frist, installation went through smoothly, but the same CD-ROM drive is
no longer detected when it is connected to the secondary controller.
I did follow the ISA installation procedure, i.e. configure first, then
connect it.
My system is
Dell Dimension XPS P90,
Two onboard IDE controllers: Primary PCI/EIDE and seconday ISA/IDE,
One EIDE 1.6 GB hard disk as master and one IDE .54 GB hd as slave are
connected to the primary PCI controller.
SB16 soundcard with Panasonic 2X CD-ROM connected to the soundcard
(This CD-ROM drive is not recognized any way)
ATAPI/EIDE Chinon CDS-585 (8X) CD-ROM drive, Mode 1,2, Data transfer 16-bit
PIO Mode, DMA Mode (this is used for installation and now connected to the
onboard secondary ISA controller, but undetected.)
The 1.6 GB HD has two partitions, one with Windows95 installed and another
OPENSTEP4.0, both are operating OK.
By the way, Win95 recognizes all of them(two harddisks and both CD-ROM drives!).
I tried all the possible EIDE drivers, although the system auto-recognized
PCTech RZ1000 PCI controller. I even tried to force-recognize!
None of these succeeded to recognize anything at port 0x170.
Second quesion, the slave 540 MB IDE drive appears at the Workspace only during
the first login. Once I logout and login again, it disappears. If I reboot, it
appears again for first login. Then it goes away. One odd thing is, when I
first login, the console message is something like
"... \dev\rhd1h... \disklabel_2...device busy,...giving up."
This disklabel is precisely the label for the 540 MB IDE slave harddisk.
During the second login, no such messages appear.
If I force-mount, the disk appears as a folder.
I will be really grateful, if anyone can rescue my CD-ROM drive and 540 MB.
Many thanks in advance.
Hoseong La
From: embuck@palmer.cca.rockwell.com (Erik M. Buck)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Printers
Date: 13 Sep 1996 18:12:06 GMT
Organization: Rockwell Avionics - Collins
Message-ID: <51c85m$p5t@castor.cca.rockwell.com>
References: <199609051723.NAA01338@nerc.com> <1996Sep7.161231.9843@gamelan.shnet.org>
<Pine.NXT.3.95.960912154837.21420A-100000@charisma>
Cc: luomat@nerc.com
Can anyone recommend a good color Postscript laser printer for use with
NeXTstep ?
- Erik M. Buck
From: Garance A Drosehn <gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Re: Q: how make slab less noisy ?
Date: 13 Sep 1996 16:11:32 GMT
Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy NY, USA
Message-ID: <51c13k$5jn@usenet.rpi.edu>
References: <19960912111622163904@[192.0.2.1]> <5196ec$92n@cnn.Princeton.EDU> <51a03t$lug@news.digifix.com>
sanguish@digifix.com (Scott Anguish) wrote:
> I can say without a doubt that the noise I'm hearing here
> isn't airflow. There is a high pitched revving noise. It gets
> louder sometimes, and it is definately loud enough to hear out
> in the hall, WITH the door closed.
>
> I've not pulled things apart to determine where the noise
> is... I figured I'd do that when I replace the HD in it..
Chances are good that the noise is *from* the hard disk.
I've had two of my original 400meg disks go out this way,
both of which have been replaced. Both got a lot quieter.
---
Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu
Senior Systems Programmer (MIME & NeXTmail capable)
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Troy NY USA
From: brockway@aone.com (Jared Brockway)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Mac ADB pointing devices on black
Date: 13 Sep 1996 18:15:02 GMT
Message-ID: <51c8b6$i0o@news.aone.com>
Summary: Using non-NeXT ADB pointing devices on black hardware
Keywords: mouse trackball ADB
Anyone know of a way to map the mouse buttons on a black ADB system?
I'm trying to use a Kensington TurboMouse (for Mac) on my NeXT system
and it's got a few quirks--mousing right handed using only the left
button is fine, but the other button, when enabled, is mapped to
what looks like the forward arrow key rather than the pop-up menu.
TIA,
-Jared
From: antoine.gautier@fsa.ulaval.ca (Antoine Gautier)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Re: Q: how make slab less noisy ?
Date: 13 Sep 1996 16:00:42 GMT
Organization: Universite Laval
Message-ID: <51c0fa$q6u@athena.ulaval.ca>
References: <19960912111622163904@[192.0.2.1]> <518vs6$mot@rs18.hrz.th-darmstadt.de> <32394AD0.2D90@freemansoft.com> <Pine.HPP.3.95.960913153059.16814B-100000@hphalle0.informatik.tu-muenchen.de> <51bt8h$q6u@athena.ulaval.ca>
antoine.gautier@fsa.ulaval.ca (Antoine Gautier) wrote:
% I just replaced my original seagate 400mb disk by a more recent 1G
% seagate, now I can hardly hear the slab running. The fan is the
% original one, as is the rest.
Due to popular demand, here is the recipe that i used :
- the 1G was an external disk, I made it a bootable disk
using BuildDisk.app, including all packages that were
on the 400M internal
- Just to check, I did boot from the 1G
- I opened the slab and exchanged the two disks. A bit of
care and a screwdriver were all I needed. (special care
for the little wires that set the scsii id).
- That was it !
-------------------------------------------------------
Antoine Gautier (antoine.gautier@fsa.ulaval.ca)
-------------------------------------------------------
Professeur, De'partement OSD
Faculte' des Sciences de l'Administration
Universite' Laval
http://www.fsa.ulaval.ca/personnel/gautiera/
From: mpaque@pacbell.net (Mike Paquette)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Re: Changing Video Refresh Rates?
Date: Fri, 13 Sep 1996 18:55:07 GMT
Organization: Electronics Service, Unit No. 16
Message-ID: <51caqo$3ed@news2.snfc21.pacbell.net>
References: <5174bq$fik@camelot.dsccc.com> <wud8zsvmjy.fsf@fountainhead.granite.com> <518el3$ah9@eskimo.eskimo.bb.bawue.de>
juergen@eskimo.bb.bawue.de (Juergen Grieb) wrote:
>I think there is a possibility. At least that works with my ATI card.
>Go where you can change the resolution in configure.app
>Then click the expert button and search for the line where the resolution is
>set. There should also be a number followed by 'hz'. You should be able to
>change the number to a value you would like.
This won't work for most drivers unless the edited configuration
string happens to match another valid configuration string. In most
cases, the device driver won't find a configuration match, and will
fall back to a default (low) resolution and refresh rate.
Arbitrary resolution and refresh rates are generally not supported.
The resolution and refresh rates specified in the configuration file
are usually used to map to a table of precomputed, known to work
values to be stuffed into the video card's registers.
Mike Paquette
I don't speak for my employer, and they don't speak for me.
mpaque@pacbell.net Personal E-mail
mpaque@next.com NeXT business mail only, please
From: Dean_Reece@NeXT.com (Dean Reece)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Re: Adaptec 3940W and Openstep 4.0 Any Ideas?
Date: 11 Sep 1996 20:59:04 GMT
Organization: NeXT Software, Inc.
Message-ID: <51796o$d7a@news.next.com>
References: <515a9m$m9b@news.inc.net>
The 3940 is not specifically supported (i.e., QA'd), but it is known to work
if you:
1) Have a machine that properly initializes PCI<->PCI bridges. There is not
really a good way to determine this, except to try it. If your machine
properly sets up bridges (and you complete the steps below), then the 3940
will show up as two 2940's. If NS doesn't detect the 3940, then your
machine probably doesn't set up bridges - try getting a BIOS upgrade
2) D/L the latest version of the 2940 driver from NeXTanswers.
3) Add the IDs "0x82789004 0x82889004" to the "Auto Detect IDs" line of the
Default.table file in /private/Drivers/i386/Adaptec2940SCSIDriver.config.
If you are trying to install using this modified driver, you should make a
"3rd Party Driver Floppy" and insert it when asked during the installation.
- Dean
Alec Ellsworth writes
| Hello NeXTers,
|
| I'm trying to get this Adaptec 3940 to boot with Openstep and it's giving
| me grief. Any ideas regarding the drivers?
|
|
| Thanks,
|
| --
| Alec Ellsworth
| President
| Internet Connect, Inc.
| 10437 Innovation Drive
| Wauwatosa, WI 53226
| 414-476-4266 x 13
| 414-476-2403 Fax
| alec@inc.net
| http://www.inc.net
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From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@nerc.com>
Date: Fri, 13 Sep 96 15:32:38 -0400
Subject: SyQuest EZ135, further info
Organization: Princeton Theological Seminary
Return-Receipt-To: luomat@nerc.com
Just spoke to someone at SyQuest about the EZ135.... here's what he said:
- when they dropped the price to $120 sales went through the roof,
which caused a shortage of disks (ie they are making more and will
have plenty in stock around the country in a few weeks)
- there will be an upgrade path for EZ135 owners who want to get
the EZFlyer. No detailed information is available yet as to how,
how much, etc (I sure hope they take into consideration people who
bought it for $200!)
- there's a sales 800 number "800-245-2278" which I did not find on
their webpage, but then again I was having problems accessing their
site (very slow, probably due to all the hits they are getting) so
maybe I gave up too soon.
TjL
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From: cbose@uvaix3e1.comp.UVic.CA (C J BOSE)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: modem for NeXT
Date: 13 Sep 1996 14:06:45 -0700
Organization: University of Victoria
Distribution: na
Message-ID: <51cid5$2776@uvaix3e1.comp.UVic.CA>
I am looking for advice on setting up a modem to
work with a cube running 2.0 on a 68040 board.
Currently, the machine is running through ethernet.
Does anyone having experience with this care to help out.
I need both hardware and software advice. Alternatively,
is the a FAQ for this group somewhere which might cover
this problem.
thanks. chris bose
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
From: Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki)
Subject: Re: Q: how make slab less noisy ?
Message-ID: <DxnwIr.413@nidat.sub.org>
Sender: nitezki@nidat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki)
Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany
References: <19960912111622163904@[192.0.2.1]>
Date: Fri, 13 Sep 1996 08:20:51 GMT
In article <19960912111622163904@[192.0.2.1]> henq@phsoft.knoware.nl (Henk
van Tijen) writes:
> Hi,
>
>
> I've peeped into the faq's, but did not find the thing I -a fresh proud
> owner of a vintage turbo slab (with printer)- mostly want to know:
>
> How to make one's slab less noisy ?
>
> Compared to my pentium tower (tucked away under the desk), Steve's pizza
> box is like having a vacuum cleaner in front of your face...
> So is there a more quit fan ? Or can it run safely half speed ?
>
From my experience it's not the fan but the disk drive. The mounting
plate is a almost ideal body sound transducer that is perfectly matched to
convert the noise of the bearings into audible sound ;-)
Find a nice and quiet external housing for 3 1/4" disk drives, remove the
internal drive and mount it in the external box. That'll make it really a
calm and sleek machine!
--
Peter Nitezki | Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org # Blessed art thou who knoweth
Staarenbergstr. 44 | Tel.: +49 7251 62495 # not about the pleasure and
D-76703 Kraichtal | Fax : +49 7251 69215 # delight of being hooked
GERMANY | E-mail defunct, sorry # up to the Net. Peter 1,3-5
From: stefaanm@netego.com (Stefaan Meeuws)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: 4.0 on canon obj.st 41
Date: Fri, 13 Sep 1996 16:25:49 -0800
Organization: 101NET, Inc.
Message-ID: <stefaanm-1309961625490001@ppp014-stk0.sirius.com>
Looking to find someone in the SF Bay Area who has 4.0 running on a Canon
object.station 41.
stefaanm@netego.com
--
Stefaan Meeuws
From: jgriffin@spectranet.ca (John Griffin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.graphics,comp.sys.mac.hardware.misc,comp.sys.mac.hardware.storage,comp.sys.mac.hardware.video,comp.sys.mac.hypercard,comp.sys.mac.oop.powerplant,comp.sys.mac.portables,comp.sys.mac.printing,comp.sys.mac.programmer.codewarrior,comp.sys.mac.programmer.help,comp.sys.mac.programmer.misc,comp.sys.mac.programmer.mtools,comp.sys.mac.system,comp.sys.mac.wanted,comp.sys.newton.misc,comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.palmtops,comp.sys.pen,comp.sys.powerpc,comp.sys.powerpc.advocacy,comp.psion.misc,comp.sys.sgi.admin,comp.sys.sgi.graphics,comp.sys.sgi.hardware,comp.sys.sgi.misc,comp.sys.sinclair,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.sun.hardware
Subject: Re: How to react to Money Scam Spam...
Date: Fri, 13 Sep 1996 16:59:09 -0400
Organization: Still Point
Message-ID: <jgriffin-1309961659090001@pmdial33.spectranet.ca>
References: <510v1k$9g7@sjx-ixn4.ix.netcom.com> <Pine.LNX.3.95.960909110336.8569C-100000@nerc3.nerc.com> <steve-0909961950330001@brecher.reno.nv.us> <3234BD72.5A3F@primenet.com> <3235C3A4.35CF@ofc005a.sce.com>
In article <3235C3A4.35CF@ofc005a.sce.com>, fischej@ofc005a.sce.com wrote:
>Ronin wrote:
>>
>> I have taken a direct approach to fighting these money scam spammers...
>> today I wrote the names down that were listed in the text (the
>> participants) and sent a postcard to the Postmaster in their area,
>> reporting them as using a chain letter to solicite money via US Mail (a
>> crime). I included all their information (name, address). I also sent
>> them a postcard as well, notifying them that they have been reported.
>
>This does not strike me as a particularly smart thing to do. Merely
>having one's name and address listed in a chain letter is not proof that
>one has participated in using a chain letter to solicit money. If you do
>not have hard proof that those people who you accused of doing so have
>committed a crime, you have just committed libel yourself.
>
Well I for one think it is a very courageous thing to do!!!
I think we should all vote Ronin a vote of thanks. It¹s about time someone
did something to rid the Internet of this kind of crap! These assholes are
using the Internet like a buzzard uses the desert. To them it is an
invitation to get whatever they can for the least amount of effort or
money.
Surely there is something that the common plain-vanilla Internet user can
do in collective effort to rid the net of these preditors!
John G.
________________________________________________________
| John and | jgriffin@spectranet.ca |
| Valerie | jgriffin@astral.magic.ca |
| Griffin | johnweg@aol.com |
|--------------------------------------------------------|
| "Still Point" | It's Not To Late... |
| Moffat Ontario Canada | To have a Happy Childhood |
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From: jch@cube.philosophy.pitt.edu (John Haugeland)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Any way to read DOS Zip disks on black?
Date: 14 Sep 1996 01:44:20 GMT
Organization: University of Pittsburgh
Message-ID: <51d2lk$o8s@usenet.srv.cis.pitt.edu>
This has been asked before, but I haven't seen an answer. Why can't I
read DOS formatted Zip disks? More to the point, can there / will there
be a way to do that? It's strange and frustrating, since DOS floppies
and CDs work fine. What's up?
John Haugeland
haugelan+@pitt.edu
From: DAN TONG <nikon@ix.netcom.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: HELP: Run MAC programs on IBM compatible ?
Date: Sat, 14 Sep 1996 03:34:24 GMT
Organization: Netcom
Message-ID: <51cund$csm@sjx-ixn5.ix.netcom.com>
Hi,
I want to run Mac applications on my IBM system. Is there any optional card
that allows me to do so. Could you tell me the brand , model ,how do I get one
..If possible could you tell me the price. Thank you. Any recommendation or
suggestion about good or bad points of doing this will be appreciated.
Thank you for your time.
Dan Tong
student at UMASS Lowell.
From: Roland Telfeyan <roland@telf.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: SCSI Scanners
Date: 14 Sep 1996 02:13:19 GMT
Organization: Vnet Internet Access, Inc.
Message-ID: <51d4bv$jvm@ralph.vnet.net>
Can I use any SCSI scanner with a NeXTstation? Is there software for NeXT
hardware that will work with the modern HP scanners?
Best regards,
Roland Telfeyan
roland@telf.com
From: jsamson@istar.ca (Jean-Paul Samson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Re: Any way to read DOS Zip disks on black?
Date: 14 Sep 1996 04:13:06 GMT
Organization: iSTAR Internet Incorporated
Message-ID: <51dbci$fs8@news.istar.ca>
References: <51d2lk$o8s@usenet.srv.cis.pitt.edu>
In-Reply-To: <51d2lk$o8s@usenet.srv.cis.pitt.edu>
On 09/13/96, John Haugeland wrote:
>This has been asked before, but I haven't seen an answer. Why can't I
>read DOS formatted Zip disks?
NEXTSTEP 3.3 introduced DOS support for removable drives. Previous
versions will not recognize DOS formatted removable drives.
--
-===================================================================-
Jean-Paul Samson -==- jsamson@istar.ca -==- NeXTmail welcome, no MIME
-===================================================================-
From: jsamson@istar.ca (Jean-Paul Samson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Re: SCSI Scanners
Date: 14 Sep 1996 04:18:48 GMT
Organization: iSTAR Internet Incorporated
Message-ID: <51dbn8$g0t@news.istar.ca>
References: <51d4bv$jvm@ralph.vnet.net>
In-Reply-To: <51d4bv$jvm@ralph.vnet.net>
On 09/13/96, Roland Telfeyan wrote:
> Can I use any SCSI scanner with a NeXTstation? Is there software for
> NeXT hardware that will work with the modern HP scanners?
Scanomatic offers support for HP 4C scanners. Information can be
found at:
http://www.ipc.de/information/products/data/scanomatic.html
--
-===================================================================-
Jean-Paul Samson -==- jsamson@istar.ca -==- NeXTmail welcome, no MIME
-===================================================================-
From: Roland Telfeyan <roland@telf.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Re: Dead NeXT Laser printer
Date: 14 Sep 1996 05:11:48 GMT
Organization: Vnet Internet Access, Inc.
Message-ID: <51deqk$mo6@ralph.vnet.net>
References: <slrn536009.m2a.ifeulner@xenon.cube.de>
Several German users have reported dead NeXTlaser printers. I wonder if
you've all gotten printers from the USA and are thinking that the printer
has self-adjusting power supply (like the computers do). It does *not*. You
have to set it to to 50 Hz, 220 Volts manually. Could the improper setting
cause the reported behavior?
Best regards,
Roland Telfeyan
roland@telf.com
From: u3731gi@sunmail.lrz-muenchen.de (Jost Blachnitzky)
Newsgroups: at.tuwien.hardware,biz.comp.hardware,comp.hardware,comp.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.publish.cdrom.hardware,comp.publish.cdrom.software,comp.sys.hardware,comp.sys.hardware.ibmpc,comp.sys.ibmpc.hardware,comp.sys.ibmpc.hardware.cd-rom,comp.sys.ibmpc.hardware,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.sgi.hardware,de.alt.cdrom,de.comp.periph.cdrom,fido.ger.hardware,fido.hardware-ger,maus.hardware,microsoft.public.hardware,muc.lists.freebsd.hardware,zer.z-netz.rechner.hardware,zer.z-netz.rechner.cd-rom,zer.z-netz.rechner.ibm.hardware
Subject: Re: SONY CDU920S
Date: Sat, 14 Sep 1996 21:17:36 GMT
Organization: Leibniz-Rechenzentrum, Muenchen (Germany)
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <51e7op$stf@sparcserver.lrz-muenchen.de>
References: <841914200.757753@p133.i-node.at>
On Thu, 05 Sep 1996 08:00:21 GMT, lehner@i-node.at (Alexander Lehner)
wrote:
>Hello / Hallo!
>
>I have a problem!
>I have buy an SONY CDU920S CD-Recorder and I lik to install it under
>Win95.
Falls Du das noch nicht probiert hasst, lad dir Corel Creator 2.0
build>65 runter (von Sony glaub ich oder Corel, und den Treiber fuer
das 920)
From: tal@cs.caltech.edu (Tal Lancaster)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Re: FS: IBM 1.3G MO
Date: 14 Sep 1996 15:38:27 GMT
Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Message-ID: <51ejhj$ksa@gap.cco.caltech.edu>
References: <515lev$qgc@gap.cco.caltech.edu> <5174g9$mj6@msunews.cl.msu.edu>
Cc: rencsok@channelu.com
In <5174g9$mj6@msunews.cl.msu.edu> Randall J. Rencsok wrote:
> In <515lev$qgc@gap.cco.caltech.edu> Tal Lancaster wrote:
> > For sale:
> >
> > Internal IBM SCSI-2 H/H 1.3G MO drive. It is less than 1 year old. It has
> work
> > flawlessly under NeXTSTEP 3.3, DOS, and Windows. $725 ( plus shipping).
> The
> > price includes 1 1.3G carriage.
>
> If anyone purchases this drive and would like to purchase some extra
> media feel free to contact me.
>
> 512Bytes/sector
> Price is $30 individually
> $25/per 2-5
Actually, that would only give one around 512M (assuming the media is double
sided). To get in the 1.2 G area, the media needs to be 1024 Bytes/sector.
Tal
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***********************************************************************
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The RenderMan Repository -- http://pete.cs.caltech.edu/RMR/
************************************************************************
From: Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Re: Dead NeXT Laser printer
Date: Sat, 14 Sep 1996 11:32:08 -0400
Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
Message-ID: <YmCgzsS00WBOA10v0P@andrew.cmu.edu>
References: <slrn536009.m2a.ifeulner@xenon.cube.de>
<51deqk$mo6@ralph.vnet.net>
In-Reply-To: <51deqk$mo6@ralph.vnet.net>
Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.hardware: 14-Sep-96 Re: Dead NeXT
Laser printer by Roland Telfeyan@telf.com
> Several German users have reported dead NeXTlaser printers. I wonder if
> you've all gotten printers from the USA and are thinking that the printer
> has self-adjusting power supply (like the computers do). It does *not*. You
> have to set it to to 50 Hz, 220 Volts manually. Could the improper setting
> cause the reported behavior?
Yes. I've heard people say that not setting the voltage selector
correctly will blow out the fuse and maybe a power transistor in the
power supply module.
-Chuck
Charles Swiger | cs4w@andrew.cmu.edu | standard disclaimer
----------------+---------------------+---------------------
I know you're an optimist if you think I'm a pessimist.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
From: Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki)
Subject: Re: SCSI2 -> SCSI1 How?
Message-ID: <Dxq1FE.B8@nidat.sub.org>
Sender: nitezki@nidat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki)
Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany
References: <51a54a$irk@marlin.ssnet.com>
Date: Sat, 14 Sep 1996 12:02:01 GMT
In article <51a54a$irk@marlin.ssnet.com> hassan@ssnet.com (Hassan Kelley)
writes:
> I just but this MicrApolis 4221 HD and I can't put it in async
> mode? There is no info about how to do this on there web site.
> Does anyone know how to do this. Or better yet, does anyone know
> of a good size drive that with out any doubt works on black
> hardware?
>
Many new SCSI-2 drives automatically detect whether the controller
supports synchronous transfer and downgrade to asynch otherwise.
Anyway, to answer the second part of your question: I run a Fujitsu M2934S
(4GB, 5600rpm) successfully, right out of the the box. Unfortunately, it
is too hot to go into a slab.
--
Peter Nitezki | Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org # Blessed art thou who knoweth
Staarenbergstr. 44 | Tel.: +49 7251 62495 # not about the pleasure and
D-76703 Kraichtal | Fax : +49 7251 69215 # delight of being hooked
GERMANY | E-mail defunct, sorry # up to the Net. Peter 1,3-5
From: andrew_abernathy@omnigroup.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Re: Please help: Quantum Atlas 4GB - MEDIA ERROR - Thank you
Date: 14 Sep 1996 20:24:54 GMT
Organization: Omni Development, Inc.
Message-ID: <51f4am$a8m@gaea.titan.org>
References: <513bqs$enh@winx03.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de> <5174b5$mj6@msunews.cl.msu.edu> <51bkj8$r4u@winx03.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de> <Pine.HPP.3.95.960913152132.16814A-100000@hphalle0.informatik.tu-muenchen.de>
(My apologies for the other, empty message.)
Bernhard Scholz <scholz@informatik.tu-muenchen.de> wrote:
> This makes me think, that there are deeper problems with the Quantum 34300
> (4GB) drives. Does anybody know details?
We've had three or four of these drives for several months now, and so
far haven't had any media problems, though they are harder to setup for
a couple of reasons. (I'm willing to provide some help to anyone
struggling with these drives.) Just to provide another data point.
--
andrew_abernathy@omnigroup.com - NeXTmail & MIME ok
I'm not speaking for Omni.
From: andrew_abernathy@omnigroup.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Re: Please help: Quantum Atlas 4GB - MEDIA ERROR - Thank you
Date: 14 Sep 1996 20:20:45 GMT
Organization: Omni Development, Inc.
Message-ID: <51f42t$a8m@gaea.titan.org>
References: <513bqs$enh@winx03.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de> <5174b5$mj6@msunews.cl.msu.edu> <51bkj8$r4u@winx03.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de> <Pine.HPP.3.95.960913152132.16814A-100000@hphalle0.informatik.tu-muenchen.de>
--
andrew_abernathy@omnigroup.com - NeXTmail & MIME ok
I'm not speaking for Omni.
From: Eiko Kumagai <eiko@chaos.press.jhu.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.marketplace,comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: FREE: Dead cube monitor (mono)
Date: Sat, 14 Sep 1996 17:10:46 -0400
Organization: HCF - Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Message-ID: <323B1F56.5754@chaos.press.jhu.edu>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
If anyone wants to pay me for shipping this dead 21" mono from my old
cube, please contact me at:
kov@chaos.press.jhu.edu
you could simply reply to this message and my friend will forward the
message to me.
cheers,
- Ken Overton
From: Tito <talugtu@slip.net>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: NeXT MotherBoard w/ 72-Pin MEM
Date: Sat, 14 Sep 1996 17:51:44 -0700
Organization: SLIPNET
Message-ID: <323B5320.3FD8@slip.net>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
I have a 25MHz Mono Station Motherboard that uses a 72-pin mem and a
33MHz Mono Station Motherboard ... comparing the motherboards ... very
similar, even model no. ...
Would this mean the only difference is the CPU or Mot 040 chip?
Pls sed info to talugtu@slip.net
thanx
tito
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
From: dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca (David Evans)
Subject: Re: Q: how make slab less noisy ?
Sender: news@novice.uwaterloo.ca (Mr. News)
Message-ID: <DxoMwJ.K6F@novice.uwaterloo.ca>
Date: Fri, 13 Sep 1996 17:50:43 GMT
References: <19960912111622163904@[192.0.2.1]> <518vs6$mot@rs18.hrz.th-darmstadt.de>
Organization: University of Waterloo
In article <518vs6$mot@rs18.hrz.th-darmstadt.de>,
Christian Neuss <neuss@isa.informatik.th-darmstadt.de.NOSPAM> wrote:
>Henk van Tijen (henq@phsoft.knoware.nl) wrote:
>
>> I've peeped into the faq's, but did not find the thing I -a fresh proud
>> owner of a vintage turbo slab (with printer)- mostly want to know:
>
>> How to make one's slab less noisy ?
>
>It has been reported that the Panasonic Hydro-Wave Fan FBA08A12H1A
>is a very quit replacement, and could be bought from DIGIKEY (who
>have a web site at www.digikey.com) for $11.88. I've tried to obtain
>one, but w/out success. Maybe they don't deliver to Europe..
>
Now, what about the fans in the 21" monitors? Mine is *really* annoying...
--
David Evans (NeXTMail OK) dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca
Computer/Synth Junkie http://bbcr.uwaterloo.ca/~dfevans/
University of Waterloo "Default is the value selected by the composer
Ontario, Canada overridden by your command." - Roland TR-707 Manual
From: gclem@dannug.dk
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Re: Please help: Quantum Atlas 4GB - MEDIA ERROR - Thank you
Date: 14 Sep 1996 07:58:38 GMT
Organization: Danish NeXT User Group
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <51doje$g2g@snaps.dannug.dk>
References: <Pine.HPP.3.95.960913152132.16814A-100000@hphalle0.informatik.tu-muenchen.de>
I have also experienced problems in doing sdform on Quantum Atlas
XP34300s, but then I tried do to the low-level format via a BusLogic
BT-940 PCI SCSI controller and that worked fine.
Geert
Bernhard Scholz <scholz@informatik.tu-muenchen.de> writes
>
> On 13 Sep 1996 sdroll@cip.mathematik.uni-wuerzburg.de wrote:
>
> > (The problem with the Quantum was that neither an Intel nor a
> > Motorola-NeXTcomputer could initialize it, after trying sdformat 1.3
on it.
> > The format with an old DEC-station took us some hours (one hour?) but
seems
> > to work (for the DEC). Installing a new filesystem and copying to the
> > Quantum-disk worked on a NeXTcube, too , but during Sunday-backup
SaftyNet
> > shows all the files that where written on bad blocks :-((.)
> >
> This makes me think, that there are deeper problems with the Quantum
34300
> (4GB) drives. Does anybody know details?
> I had a similar problem: sometimes (during long and very very high disk
> transfer rates (doing 2 simlutanious copys from one 2GB partition to the
> other and starting up BuildDisk on a second drive) IO errors occur. I
was
> able to reboot and fsck worked fine. But when I onced tried using
sdformat
> on the drive, this failed. I wasn't able to do further lowlevel formats
on
> the drive. Only my old Amiga was able to save the drive with an
> lowlevel format. (Intel reported a ModeSense failure)....
>
> I'm wondering what's going on here. The Quantum Atlas should be a
high-end
> drive and is positioned for servers by Quantum ....
>
> I don't have an OEM drive, it's one of the original drives from Quantum,
> but if I could, I'd change the drive to another 4GB (although it damned
> fast!) ...
>
> Greetings,
>
> Bernhard.
From: dwright1@voicenet.com (Darren Wright)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Help with Diamond Stealth!
Date: 15 Sep 1996 15:23:21 GMT
Organization: Voicenet - Internet Access - (215)674-9290
Message-ID: <51h719$aiu@gnews2.voicenet.com>
I've just setup an Intel box with a Diamond Stealth Video 3200 VL_BUS board.
I've tried the 3.32 drivers for the 968, 868, and the Generic S3 drivers
(all NS 3.3), and all I get is a black screen. Any suggestions?
-Darren
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
From: Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki)
Subject: Re: Please help: Quantum Atlas 4GB - MEDIA ERROR - Thank you
Message-ID: <Dxs6Cq.tF@nidat.sub.org>
Sender: nitezki@nidat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki)
Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany
References: <Pine.HPP.3.95.960913152132.16814A-100000@hphalle0.informatik.tu-muenchen.de>
Date: Sun, 15 Sep 1996 15:43:38 GMT
In article
<Pine.HPP.3.95.960913152132.16814A-100000@hphalle0.informatik.tu-muenchen.
de> Bernhard Scholz <scholz@informatik.tu-muenchen.de> writes:
>
> On 13 Sep 1996 sdroll@cip.mathematik.uni-wuerzburg.de wrote:
>
> > (The problem with the Quantum was that neither an Intel nor a
> > Motorola-NeXTcomputer could initialize it, after trying sdformat
> > 1.3 on it. The format with an old DEC-station took us some hours
> > (one hour?) but seems to work (for the DEC). Installing a new
> > filesystem and copying to the Quantum-disk worked on a NeXTcube,
> > too , but during Sunday-backup SaftyNet shows all the files that
> > where written on bad blocks :-((.)
> >
> This makes me think, that there are deeper problems with the Quantum
> 34300 (4GB) drives. Does anybody know details? I had a similar
> problem: sometimes (during long and very very high disk transfer
> rates (doing 2 simlutanious copys from one 2GB partition to the
> other and starting up BuildDisk on a second drive) IO errors occur.
> I was able to reboot and fsck worked fine. But when I onced tried
> using sdformat on the drive, this failed. I wasn't able to do
> further lowlevel formats on the drive. Only my old Amiga was able
> to save the drive with an lowlevel format. (Intel reported a
> ModeSense failure)....
>
> I'm wondering what's going on here. The Quantum Atlas should be a
> high-end drive and is positioned for servers by Quantum ....
>
> I don't have an OEM drive, it's one of the original drives from
> Quantum, but if I could, I'd change the drive to another 4GB
> (although it damned fast!) ...
>
Even that I'm not sure this applies to the case at hand, but anyway...
Black machines show similar trouble in high volume disk transfers often
involving slow devices like tape or CD/ROM on the same bus if the disk was
not strictly configured to SCSI-1.
Some drives work perfectly in SCSI-2 mode since they automatically employ
asynch tranfers if the controller doesn't respond to synch mode enquiries.
However, they don't abstain from SCSI-2 features completely. The NEXTSTEP
SCSI driver now gets out of control if it hits a drive that did a
'disconnect' during a slow transfer. Since the NeXT controller doesn"t
support 'reconnect', a write operation might fail in a critical situation,
wreaking havok on the partition that got hit. And sometimes the damage is
even felt down to the lowest level...
--
Peter Nitezki | Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org # Blessed art thou who knoweth
Staarenbergstr. 44 | Tel.: +49 7251 62495 # not about the pleasure and
D-76703 Kraichtal | Fax : +49 7251 69215 # delight of being hooked
GERMANY | E-mail defunct, sorry # up to the Net. Peter 1,3-5
From: edx@cc.usu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Re: SCSI Scanners
Message-ID: <1996Sep15.172017.85004@cc.usu.edu>
Date: 15 Sep 96 17:20:17 MDT
References: <51d4bv$jvm@ralph.vnet.net>
Organization: Utah State University
In article <51d4bv$jvm@ralph.vnet.net>, Roland Telfeyan <roland@telf.com> writes:
> Can I use any SCSI scanner with a NeXTstation? Is there software for NeXT
> hardware that will work with the modern HP scanners?
>
Someone recently reported that you should avoid the Epson ES-1000 and
1200 models. I concur. While it didn't trash my disk as it apparently
did for that fellow, it did wedge my scsi bus completely on both my
cube and my PC running NS3.3.
Do not get an ES-1000 or 1200 for NS.
- HRC -
From: guyt@is.twi.tudelft.nl (A. Guyt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: HELP needed on 3.3 install with EIDE hd + cdrom
Date: 16 Sep 1996 07:10:36 GMT
Organization: Delft University of Technology
Message-ID: <51iuhc$6gp@mo6.rc.tudelft.nl>
Hi,
I tried to install 3.3 on my pentium triton-II system with a 3.2 GB
quantum EIDE drive + a 8x Toshiba cdrom.
I used the EIDE/ATAPI driver (v.3.34).
Installation goes fine; then systems boots itself (normal), the config.app
appears and allows me to inspect the driver settings (normal).
When I save the settings, the hd does something and then the screen goes
black and the systems appears to hang.
Rebooting doesn't work then either, it says " can't find $LBL " (what does
this mean ?).
During the first boot, I can read somewhere a line saying "EIDE config
error", maybe this is connected to the problem.
The HD + CDROM are both connected to the first EIDE port (master+slave). I
had the EIDE port 2 enabled in the BIOS.
Can somebody give me useful advice ? This would be greatly appreciated :)
Abraham.
_____________________________________________________________________
Abraham Guyt P.O.Box 356
Department of Information Systems 2600 AJ Delft
Faculty Technical Mathematics & Informatics The Netherlands
Delft University of Technology tel: +31 15 78 5969
E-mail: guyt@is.twi.tudelft.nl NeXT-mail welcome
From: Bernhard Scholz <scholz@informatik.tu-muenchen.de>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Re: Changing Video Refresh Rates?
Date: Mon, 16 Sep 1996 10:29:31 +0200
Organization: Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany
Distribution: world
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On Fri, 13 Sep 1996, Mike Paquette wrote:
> This won't work for most drivers unless the edited configuration
> string happens to match another valid configuration string. In most
> cases, the device driver won't find a configuration match, and will
> fall back to a default (low) resolution and refresh rate.
>
> Arbitrary resolution and refresh rates are generally not supported.
> The resolution and refresh rates specified in the configuration file
> are usually used to map to a table of precomputed, known to work
> values to be stuffed into the video card's registers.
>
Hm, I have a problem with my Diamond Stealth Driver. There was a beta
which supported 70Hz modi. Then there came the cange which switched to a
new driver model and only 60 and 75Hz modi are supported (without Gamma
correction). Then with OpenStep, gamma correction works again, but still
no 70Hz modi. The OS4.0 S3 driver supports 70Hz modi but fails with the
Diamond Stealth under NS3.3 this works.
Why 70Hz you may ask: because I invested (for me) a lot of money in a 4MB
VRAM card and the card produces a smeary videosignal at 75Hz but is better
at 70Hz. 70Hz is just the best rate for my 1152x862 true color resultion
and I don't want to fall back to 1024x/75Hz just because I can't use
1152x/70! Now I'm still going with the old Beta driver which supports 70Hz
under OS4.0. (and no: it's not the monitor! The monitor is great with
other even more expensive cards).
Greetings,
Bernhard.
From: Clifford T. Matthews <ctm@ardi.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Re: HELP: Run MAC programs on IBM compatible ?
Followup-To: comp.emulators.mac.executor,comp.sys.next.hardware
Date: 16 Sep 1996 05:29:16 -0600
Organization: ARDI
Sender: ctm@ftp.ardi.com
Message-ID: <uf685e1ywj.fsf@ftp.ardi.com>
References: <51cund$csm@sjx-ixn5.ix.netcom.com>
In-reply-to: DAN TONG's message of Sat, 14 Sep 1996 03:34:24 GMT
>>>>> "Dan" == DAN TONG <nikon@ix.netcom.com> writes:
In article <51cund$csm@sjx-ixn5.ix.netcom.com> DAN TONG <nikon@ix.netcom.com> writes:
Dan> Hi, I want to run Mac applications on my IBM system. Is there
Dan> any optional card that allows me to do so. Could you tell me
Dan> the brand , model ,how do I get one ..If possible could you
Dan> tell me the price. Thank you. Any recommendation or
Dan> suggestion about good or bad points of doing this will be
Dan> appreciated. Thank you for your time. Dan Tong student at
Dan> UMASS Lowell.
Check out Executor at http://www.ardi.com/ -- it has many limitations,
but it's the only product actively being sold that lets you run Mac
programs on a PC. Executor runs under DOS, Linux and NEXTSTEP (m68k
and Intel), although the NEXTSTEP support is on its last legs.
--Cliff
ctm@ardi.com
From: Bernhard Scholz <scholz@informatik.tu-muenchen.de>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Re: Please help: Quantum Atlas 4GB - MEDIA ERROR - Thank you
Date: Mon, 16 Sep 1996 16:36:12 +0200
Organization: Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany
Distribution: world
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References: <513bqs$enh@winx03.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de> <5174b5$mj6@msunews.cl.msu.edu> <51bkj8$r4u@winx03.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de> <Pine.HPP.3.95.960913152132.16814A-100000@hphalle0.informatik.tu-muenchen.de> <51f4am$a8m@gaea.titan.org>
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On 14 Sep 1996 andrew_abernathy@omnigroup.com wrote:
> We've had three or four of these drives for several months now, and so
> far haven't had any media problems, though they are harder to setup for
> a couple of reasons. (I'm willing to provide some help to anyone
> struggling with these drives.) Just to provide another data point.
>
Ok, question one: how do I lowlevel format the drive to 1024kB?
two: how do I customly partition the drive? I got the
hardware references and tried writing a disktab, but it didn't work! I
only could partition the drive by doing a fake installation.
Best regards,
Bernhard.
From: brasherj@zoology.washington.edu (j brasher)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.marketplace
Subject: color monitor repair?
Date: 16 Sep 1996 15:49:30 GMT
Organization: department of zoology, university of washington
Message-ID: <51jsua$78m@nntp5.u.washington.edu>
NNTP-Posting-User: [xyzMoNGwcRO6EGxv9mgd5Ts7idpD9qxQ]
does anyone know where i could get a NeXT color monitor (model N4001)
repaired? we could handle it locally, but so far have been unable to
come up with a workable substitute for a Phillips BUV-26A transistor.
Phillips no longer manufactures the wretched thing, and seems never to
have published the specifications.
j brasher
department of zoology, university of washington
From: Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Re: Q: how make slab less noisy ?
Date: Mon, 16 Sep 1996 13:58:24 -0400
Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
Message-ID: <4mDNJ0y00WBO43n2cv@andrew.cmu.edu>
References: <19960912111622163904@[192.0.2.1]> <518vs6$mot@rs18.hrz.th-darmstadt.de> <32394AD0.2D90@freemansoft.com> <Pine.HPP.3.95.960913153059.16814B-100000@hphalle0.informatik.tu-muenchen.de>
<323D3ABD.585D@freemansoft.com>
In-Reply-To: <323D3ABD.585D@freemansoft.com>
Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.hardware: 16-Sep-96 Re: Q: how make
slab less n.. by Joe Freeman@freemansoft.
> As a side note, I was once told that keeping a hard drive in side
> the slab reduced its lifespan by 25% due to the low case height.
Hmm. I could believe that a drive's lifespan could be reduced due to
inadequate cooling inside the slab.
I have a tough time believing that the "low case height" of a slab has
any effect (except that the physical layout of the slab's interior
obviously affects airflow).
-Chuck
Charles Swiger | cs4w@andrew.cmu.edu | standard disclaimer
----------------+---------------------+---------------------
I know you're an optimist if you think I'm a pessimist.
From: Joe Freeman <jfreeman@freemansoft.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Re: Q: how make slab less noisy ?
Date: Mon, 16 Sep 1996 07:32:13 -0400
Organization: FreemanSoft Inc.
Message-ID: <323D3ABD.585D@freemansoft.com>
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Bernhard Scholz wrote:
> Before doing the change on the fan, get sure it is the fan causing the
> noise! In most cases the harddrive is the cause for trouble. Just open the
> case, disconnect the power from the drive, close the case, and turn it on.
Thanks for the reminder. I"ve yanked the hard drive (Micropolis 2117)
out
of my slab and the higher pitched noise is gone but there is still a lot
of fan noise. It seems that the fan type combined with the small
opening
and the channel out the back is bouncing the fan noise off the wall and
back at me. The question is "will a newer style fan reduce noise given
the slabs cramped design?"
As a side note, I was once told that keeping a hard drive in side
the slab reduced its lifespan by 25% due to the low case height.
<joe>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@nerc.com>
Subject: Re: HELP! Keyboard/mouse!
Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.95.960916151536.19015A-100000@charisma>
Date: Mon, 16 Sep 1996 15:24:49 -0400
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To: fugue@ccp.spc.uchicago.edu
In-Reply-To: <ukvpw3mjqv8.fsf@dura.spc.uchicago.edu>
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On Mon, 16 Sep 1996 fugue@ccp.spc.uchicago.edu wrote:
> Date: Mon, 16 Sep 1996 17:45:31 GMT
> From: fugue@ccp.spc.uchicago.edu
> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
> Subject: HELP! Keyboard/mouse!
> Some odd form of external SCSI adaptor (SCSI-1?) on the backplane, with
> a standard SCSI 50-pin internal.
On the far left (as you are looking at the back)? That's a SCSI-2 as
far as I know, or a Mac connection called DB 25 or something like
that, not 100% sure myself
> 2 ADB-looking serial ports (I assume for mouse/keyboard, but if that's the
> case, does that mean this pizza-box has no external serial?)
No, the keyboard plugs into the back of the monitor and the mouse
plugs into the keyboard...
> A bidirectional DSP port (cool...)
yes
> Oh, and an internal slot I can only assume is for cache.
There a separate DSP slot inside, I think.
> What I'd like to do is to slap some hardware onto this thing and see if I
> can make it run again (I have an annoying tendency to collect and fix old
> "junk" computers...we now have about 15 in the living room...it's amazing
> what people consider 'irreperable' and throw out. :)
Care to buy a Tandy DL 1000? It works (ie boots) but has no HD and no
floppies (which all the software ran off of)
> Anyway, to accomplish this, I've got some spare 30-pins SIMMs, as well as
> some spare SCSI drives. What I'm curious about is the pin specs/compatibility
> of those ADB ports and their use. What kind of keyboard/mouse is acceptable
> for use on this thing? Will a PS/2 keyboard work?
Those ADB ports, I believe, are the serial ports that one would plug
in an external modem, etc (if that's the same thing as what I'm
looking at, marked "A" and "B"). The pinouts should be fairly easy to
find.
> I've tracked down the monitor specs, and don't have anything appropriate, but
> I did find the instructions for booting it without the monitor.
You can't realy make your own monitor. You might be able to find one
on csn.marketplace.
> Lastly, where's the power switch on this thing? I'm assuming it either
> a) powers on automatically when plugged in, assuming enough hardware is
> attached, or
> b) powers on when the kkeyboard or mouse are activated.
It's on the keyboard.
> Whups...ok, so THIS is lastly: Right now, all I've got for media on this
> thing is a floppy, and no SW or manuals...is there someplace where I can
> download a boot floppy for this thing?
Um, is there an internal HD? That might have the OS installed on it.
Otherwise you're in trouble, because NeXTStep can't boot without a
CD-ROM.
Others may be able to give you more, better advice. If what someone
else says contradicts me, believe them, I'm not a hardware expert, by
any means.
TjL
--
Timothy J. Luoma <luomat@nerc.com> http://www.nerc.com/~luomat
NeXTstep Web Page: http://www.nerc.com/~luomat/next
Misc NeXT Info: http://www.nerc.com/~luomat/next/mailserver
From: nospam@---see.real.addr.below (G Brown)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.graphics,comp.sys.mac.hardware.misc,comp.sys.mac.hardware.storage,comp.sys.mac.hardware.video,comp.sys.mac.hypercard,comp.sys.mac.oop.powerplant,comp.sys.mac.portables,comp.sys.mac.printing,comp.sys.mac.programmer.codewarrior,comp.sys.mac.programmer.help,comp.sys.mac.programmer.misc,comp.sys.mac.programmer.mtools,comp.sys.mac.system,comp.sys.mac.wanted,comp.sys.newton.misc,comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.palmtops,comp.sys.pen,comp.sys.powerpc,comp.sys.powerpc.advocacy,comp.psion.misc,comp.sys.sgi.admin,comp.sys.sgi.graphics,comp.sys.sgi.hardware,comp.sys.sgi.misc,comp.sys.sinclair,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.sun.hardware
Subject: Re: How to react to Money Scam Spam...
Date: Mon, 16 Sep 1996 15:30:25 -0400
Organization: Hate junk mail, see real email address
Message-ID: <nospam-ya023080001609961530250001@news.itd.umich.edu>
References: <510v1k$9g7@sjx-ixn4.ix.netcom.com> <Pine.LNX.3.95.960909110336.8569C-100000@nerc3.nerc.com> <steve-0909961950330001@brecher.reno.nv.us> <3234BD72.5A3F@primenet.com>
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In article <3234BD72.5A3F@primenet.com>, Ronin <ronin27@primenet.com> wrote:
> I have taken a direct approach to fighting these money scam spammers...
> today I wrote the names down that were listed in the text (the
> participants) and sent a postcard to the Postmaster in their area,
> reporting them as using a chain letter to solicite money via US Mail (a
> crime). I included all their information (name, address). I also sent
> them a postcard as well, notifying them that they have been reported. It
> took ten minutes and cost .80¢. Please report all future money spammers
> to the US Post Office (they WILL take action). Thank you.
>
> Ronin
Good !
Here are some web references to dealing with junk email:
http://www.ptbo.igs.net/~shawn/junkmail.html
http://www.public.asu.edu/~dtopping/ojen.html
http://www.metareality.com/~nathan/visit.cgi/html.JunkMail
From the us gov:
http://www.usps.gov/websites/depart/inspect/chainlet.htm
"Recently, high-tech chain letters have begun surfacing. They may be
disseminated over the Internet, or may require the
copying and mailing of computer disks rather than paper. Regardless of what
technology is used to advance the scheme, if
the mail is used at any step along the way, it is still illegal. "
Address questionable practices to :
Postal Inspector
Postoffice
Your city, state
--
gbrown@va.med.umich.edu -- real address
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
From: fugue@ccp.spc.uchicago.edu
Subject: Re: HELP! Keyboard/mouse!
In-Reply-To: fugue@ccp.spc.uchicago.edu's message of Mon, 16 Sep 1996 17:45:31 GMT
Message-ID: <ukvybiafdv2.fsf@dura.spc.uchicago.edu>
Sender: fugue@dura.spc.uchicago.edu
Organization: University of Chicago -- Academic Computing Services
References: <ukvpw3mjqv8.fsf@dura.spc.uchicago.edu>
Date: Mon, 16 Sep 1996 19:40:01 GMT
Hmmm...
I've just heard that the keyboard must connect to the monitor. If this is
indeed the case, then how the heck is it possible to boot a pizza box without
a monitor attached (as I've seen instructions for)? Where would the keyboard
connect?!?
Thanks again!
--Mark
--
fugue
"The police used to watch over the people.
Now they're watching the people."
From: sanguish@digifix.com (Scott Anguish)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Reasonable life span for a Color Monitor on a Next?
Date: 16 Sep 1996 19:55:33 GMT
Organization: Digital Fix Development
Message-ID: <51kbbl$p25@news.digifix.com>
Yes, this is a stupid question.
My Nanao T560i is about 5 years old now. It still has a great picture,
but sometimes the screen changes and there is an excessive amount of blue.
It usually goes away by smacking the desk top.
I've also noticed that there is some occasional interference on thin
vertical bands. I'm thinking this is a refresh issue.
But this has gotten me thinking, what is a reasonable lifespan for a
monitor such as this? Its running at a high-refresh rate all the time
that its on (its only on when I'm using the machine, so 10-14 hours a day
easy).
--
Scott Anguish DBS Online - http://www.dbs-online.com/DBS
sanguish@digifix.com Stepwise OpenStep WWW - http://www.stepwise.com
From: beaucham@cmp-rs.cso.uiuc.edu (james beauchamp)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Re: RAM for Cube: where to buy?
Date: 16 Sep 1996 22:22:24 GMT
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Message-ID: <51kjv0$qak@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu>
References: <50spgb$6j8@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> <gmATtp_00iWT07kmF=@andrew.cmu.edu> <5158kp$7ue@apocalypse.dmi.stevens-tech.edu>
Getting back to the original question --
In article <50spgb$6j8@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu>, I wrote:
>Dancing Bear is selling 32MB 72 pin SIMMs for $225, but these are used parts.
>How does this compare with buying new SIMMs? I know that Black NeXT SIMMs
>have to be "low-profile", so does this mean Mac or PC parts won't work?
I received the following helpful informaiton from Art Isbell:
> Some Macs use the same memory as Cubes.
But which ones? It would be nice to know.
>From NeXTanswers:
>1. NeXT does not support the addition of third party memory.
>2. We cannot answer if a given manufacturer's memory product will work in
> your system.
>3. Incorrect installation, incorrect parts or faulty parts can damage your
> CPU board.
>4. Many SIMMs will work, few will fit. Low profile SIMMs (i.e. no taller
> than .9 inches) are required in Cube based products.
>5. You cannot mix page and nibble mode memory within a bank.
>6. An 040 system with mixed parity and non-parity memory installed cannot
> boot automatically, you must boot from the monitor (all memory will be
> treated as non-parity).
>7. The information presented here is subject to change without notice.
Again, it would be nice to know how one can specify "low profile" SIMMs.
Also, it appears that the cube will only take 1 Mbyte or 4 Mbyte SIMMs.
Parity doesn't help you much because it doesn't correct errors and it doesn't
prevent crashes. Since practically all memory today is faster than the 100 ns
minimum requirement for the cube, the only problem is to insure that the memory
chips are not too high. If someone has found 4 Mbyte SIMMs that will actually
work in a CUBE, I'd appreciate them posting the vendor and prices.
Jim Beauchamp
j-beauch@uiuc.edu
From: gcl@mail.sojourn.com (Gary)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Re: RAM for Cube: where to buy?
Date: 16 Sep 1996 22:42:53 GMT
Organization: Sojourn Systems, Lansing, MI (USA)
Message-ID: <51kl5d$96h@tkhut.sojourn.com>
References: <50spgb$6j8@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> <gmATtp_00iWT07kmF=@andrew.cmu.edu>
<5158kp$7ue@apocalypse.dmi.stevens-tech.edu> <51kjv0$qak@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu>
Cc: beaucham@cmp-rs.cso.uiuc.edu
> Also, it appears that the cube will only take 1 Mbyte or 4 Mbyte SIMMs.
> Parity doesn't help you much because it doesn't correct errors and it
doesn't
> prevent crashes. Since practically all memory today is faster than the 100
ns
> minimum requirement for the cube, the only problem is to insure that the
memory
> chips are not too high. If someone has found 4 Mbyte SIMMs that will
actually
> work in a CUBE, I'd appreciate them posting the vendor and prices.
I went to my corner computer store and bought generic 4x3 SIMMS (4meg, 3chip)
and they worked fine... probably 60ns. They were $28 each.
In my cube I have:
(8) 1x8 SIMMS
(4) 4x9 SIMMS
(4) 4x3 SIMMS
The only thing I see that is a problem, is the 4meg SIMMS must be in front,
with the 1meggers
in the back.
DO NOT PAY over $30 for a 4meg SIMMS !!!
Gary
--
________________________________________________________________
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Founder: The NeXTstep for Intel Processors HomeBrew Mailing List
Owner: Network with a NeXT '040 Cube #4173 running NeXTstep v3.3
and a Intel i486dx2-66 running NeXTstep for Intel v3.3
_________________________________________________________________
From: cmckee@i-link.net (Casey McKee)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Mysterious new problem delaying boot
Date: 16 Sep 1996 23:39:07 GMT
Organization: I-Link Inc
Message-ID: <51koer$13k8@news.i-link.net>
In the past few days a problem has cropped up on my NS Intel system
(ASUS Triton MB). Booting is delayed with the following messages
accompanying:
Sep 14 18:35:21 localhost mach: st: major number 1
Sep 14 18:35:21 localhost mach: sd0: I/O Timeout; Retrying.
Sep 14 18:35:21 localhost mach: target:0 lun:0 op:Read block:2866879
blockCount:16
Sep 14 18:35:21 localhost mach: sd0: I/O Timeout; Retrying.
Sep 14 18:35:21 localhost mach: target:0 lun:0 op:Read block:2866879
blockCount:16
Sep 14 18:35:21 localhost mach: sd0: Bus Reset Detected; Retrying.
Sep 14 18:35:21 localhost mach: target:0 lun:0 op:Write
block:2987583 blockCount:16
Sep 14 18:35:21 localhost mach: sd0: Bus Reset Detected; Retrying.
Sep 14 18:35:21 localhost mach: target:0 lun:0 op:Read block:2866879
blockCount:16
Sep 14 18:35:21 localhost mach: sd0: BUSY STATUS; Retrying.
Sep 14 18:35:21 localhost mach: sd0: Target aborted command; FATAL.
Sep 14 18:35:21 localhost mach: target:0 lun:0 op:Write
block:2987583 blockCount:16
Sep 14 18:35:21 localhost mach: st0: SONY SDT-4000 3.30
Sep 14 18:35:21 localhost mach: Registering: st0 at Target 2 LUN 0 at
sc0
sd0 is, of course, my boot disk (Micropolis 4221W). Is there anything
I can do to get rid of this problem (it hangs up booting by about 30
seconds, then everything proceeds normally). What data is the system
trying to read/write without success?
Thanks,
Casey McKee
cmckee@i-link.net
NeXTMail encouraged
From: cw028212@bcm.tmc.edu (C R Wright)
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Subject: Re: How to react to Money Scam Spam...
Date: Mon, 16 Sep 1996 21:18:14 -0500
Organization: BCM
Message-ID: <cw028212-1609962118150001@192.0.2.1>
References: <510v1k$9g7@sjx-ixn4.ix.netcom.com> <Pine.LNX.3.95.960909110336.8569C-100000@nerc3.nerc.com> <steve-0909961950330001@brecher.reno.nv.us> <3234BD72.5A3F@primenet.com> <nospam-ya023080001609961530250001@news.itd.umich.edu>
In article <nospam-ya023080001609961530250001@news.itd.umich.edu (G Brown)
wrote:
> In article <3234BD72.5A3F@primenet.com>, Ronin <ronin27@primenet.com> wrote:
> > I have taken a direct approach to fighting these money scam spammers...
-snip-
> > took ten minutes and cost .80¢. Please report all future money spammers
> > to the US Post Office (they WILL take action). Thank you.
> >
> > Ronin
> Good !
-snip again-
> Address questionable practices to :
> Postal Inspector
> Postoffice
> Your city, state
You both make good points, but it can be added that you shouldn't need to
even trouble yourself with the stamp. "Official business" to the Postal
Inspector goes through the post for free, or you could just drop off the
matrial/names/addresses with your local post office. They are very happy
to have it.
The trouble with some of these (see original posting) is that they
originate from outside the U.S. While chain letters and pyramid schemes
are a U.S. Federal crime, they may not be in all countries involved. A
polite letter to the sys-admin at the foreign Internet site is the best
course of action to discourage the spammer in such a case. The U.S. postal
addresses on his/her list can still go to Uncle Sam's Inspectors, however.
Charlie
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
From: fugue@ccp.spc.uchicago.edu
Subject: HELP! Keyboard/mouse!
Message-ID: <ukvpw3mjqv8.fsf@dura.spc.uchicago.edu>
Sender: fugue@dura.spc.uchicago.edu
Organization: University of Chicago -- Academic Computing Services
Date: Mon, 16 Sep 1996 17:45:31 GMT
Hi all...
My fiancee just got given an old NeXTStation. From what I've gathered from
various sources on the net, this thing is an old NeXTStation (Serial number
ABB0017792, 68040 @ 25MHz, 8 SIMM slots, 4 banks of 2, 30 pin). The
person who gave it to her had it given to him, and he thought it was broken
(of course, he didn't have a monitor, keyboard, or mouse).
I'm a sysadmin, and no stranger to hardware tinkering or UNIX. I know
NeXT boxes have some quirks in their hardware operation. From what I've
been able to figure out, this thing has the following ports:
Some odd form of external SCSI adaptor (SCSI-1?) on the backplane, with
a standard SCSI 50-pin internal.
2 ADB-looking serial ports (I assume for mouse/keyboard, but if that's the
case, does that mean this pizza-box has no external serial?)
A bidirectional DSP port (cool...)
A 19-pin monitor port, a 9-pin printer port, and both built-in 10^2 and 10^T
Ethernet connectors.
Oh, and an internal slot I can only assume is for cache.
(PLEASE correct me in any of my assumptions herein)
What I'd like to do is to slap some hardware onto this thing and see if I
can make it run again (I have an annoying tendency to collect and fix old
"junk" computers...we now have about 15 in the living room...it's amazing
what people consider 'irreperable' and throw out. :)
Anyway, to accomplish this, I've got some spare 30-pins SIMMs, as well as
some spare SCSI drives. What I'm curious about is the pin specs/compatibility
of those ADB ports and their use. What kind of keyboard/mouse is acceptable
for use on this thing? Will a PS/2 keyboard work?
I've tracked down the monitor specs, and don't have anything appropriate, but
I did find the instructions for booting it without the monitor.
Lastly, where's the power switch on this thing? I'm assuming it either
a) powers on automatically when plugged in, assuming enough hardware is
attached, or
b) powers on when the kkeyboard or mouse are activated.
Whups...ok, so THIS is lastly: Right now, all I've got for media on this
thing is a floppy, and no SW or manuals...is there someplace where I can
download a boot floppy for this thing?
Oh, BTW, the ROM is from 1991, Rev 2.4, v65 M.
Any help GREATLY appreciated.
Thanks!
Mark C. Langston
University of Chicago
--
fugue
"The police used to watch over the people.
Now they're watching the people."
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
From: fugue@ccp.spc.uchicago.edu
Subject: Re: HELP! Keyboard/mouse!
In-Reply-To: "Timothy J. Luoma"'s message of Mon, 16 Sep 1996 15:24:49 -0400
Message-ID: <ukv20g1gc0h.fsf@dura.spc.uchicago.edu>
Sender: fugue@dura.spc.uchicago.edu
Organization: University of Chicago -- Academic Computing Services
References: <ukvpw3mjqv8.fsf@dura.spc.uchicago.edu>
<Pine.NXT.3.95.960916151536.19015A-100000@charisma>
Date: Tue, 17 Sep 1996 01:34:38 GMT
Ok...
Using the 470 Ohm resistor hack, I was able to get the black to power up.
It powers the scsi drive, but just sits there. *sigh* I assume it's
waiting for the sound out tests and the keypress, both of which should now
be "y" in the PROM, since I removed the battery to reset it.
Now then...if some kind soul would provide me with:
1) Monitor pinout data, and
2) Default PROM settings,
perhaps I can get this thing to boot headless.
(P.S. - regardless of what your opinion may be re: my success at this, if
you have the info, I'd really appreciate it. Thanks.)
--
fugue
"The police used to watch over the people.
Now they're watching the people."
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@nerc.com>
Subject: Re: Mysterious new problem delaying boot
Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.95.960917025233.1943A-100000@charisma>
Date: Tue, 17 Sep 1996 02:54:19 -0400
References: <51koer$13k8@news.i-link.net>
To: Casey McKee <cmckee@i-link.net>
In-Reply-To: <51koer$13k8@news.i-link.net>
Organization: Princeton Theological Seminary
Return-Receipt-To: luomat@nerc.com
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
you MIGHT want to/should/must reassign that block (2866879)
see 'man reasb'
I'm not sure this will solve the problem, but it might, but use at
your own risk, etc etc etc.
All I will say is that I was having what I think is a similar problem
on one of my disks and the 'reasb' command fixed it, but mine was NOT
the bootdisk, so your situation is different.
Handle will care
TjL
On 16 Sep 1996, Casey McKee wrote:
> Date: 16 Sep 1996 23:39:07 GMT
> From: Casey McKee <cmckee@i-link.net>
> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
> Subject: Mysterious new problem delaying boot
>
> In the past few days a problem has cropped up on my NS Intel system
> (ASUS Triton MB). Booting is delayed with the following messages
> accompanying:
>
> Sep 14 18:35:21 localhost mach: st: major number 1
> Sep 14 18:35:21 localhost mach: sd0: I/O Timeout; Retrying.
> Sep 14 18:35:21 localhost mach: target:0 lun:0 op:Read block:2866879
> blockCount:16
> Sep 14 18:35:21 localhost mach: sd0: I/O Timeout; Retrying.
> Sep 14 18:35:21 localhost mach: target:0 lun:0 op:Read block:2866879
> blockCount:16
> Sep 14 18:35:21 localhost mach: sd0: Bus Reset Detected; Retrying.
> Sep 14 18:35:21 localhost mach: target:0 lun:0 op:Write
> block:2987583 blockCount:16
> Sep 14 18:35:21 localhost mach: sd0: Bus Reset Detected; Retrying.
> Sep 14 18:35:21 localhost mach: target:0 lun:0 op:Read block:2866879
> blockCount:16
> Sep 14 18:35:21 localhost mach: sd0: BUSY STATUS; Retrying.
> Sep 14 18:35:21 localhost mach: sd0: Target aborted command; FATAL.
> Sep 14 18:35:21 localhost mach: target:0 lun:0 op:Write
> block:2987583 blockCount:16
> Sep 14 18:35:21 localhost mach: st0: SONY SDT-4000 3.30
> Sep 14 18:35:21 localhost mach: Registering: st0 at Target 2 LUN 0 at
> sc0
>
> sd0 is, of course, my boot disk (Micropolis 4221W). Is there anything
> I can do to get rid of this problem (it hangs up booting by about 30
> seconds, then everything proceeds normally). What data is the system
> trying to read/write without success?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Casey McKee
> cmckee@i-link.net
> NeXTMail encouraged
>
>
>
>
From: hketola@agsm.ucla.edu (Heikki Ketola)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Replacement for NeXT laser with manual feed in the middle...
Date: 16 Sep 1996 22:26:17 -0700
Organization: The Anderson School at UCLA
Message-ID: <51lcpp$oh8@risc.agsm.ucla.edu>
If one prints on the NeXT laser with manual feed (e.g. envelopes) the
laser's manual feed inputs everything centered (e.g. the envelope goes
in the laser printer in the middle of the paper).
The manual feeding mechanism on a HP 5MP, for instance, inputs the
envelopes not in the middle but against the left edge of the paper path.
I might need a replacement for the NeXT laser in the near future
(paper goes in for an inch or so, and then stops. Manual feed of
heavier items, like envelopes, still works fine but I expect that the
end is near).
One option is to get another NeXT laser printer for about $300 from the
Printer Works (they didn't return my call -are they still in
business?). Another way to go is to get something else compatible. I have
a HP JetDirect box so anything that can be hooked on it should
(might?) work fine...
Any suggestions or advice?
Thanks in advance.. heikki ketola
From: schmidt@radius.mae.cornell.edu (Peter Schmidt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Re: RAM for Cube: where to buy?
Date: 17 Sep 1996 13:25:44 GMT
Organization: CU-HSS Program in Biomechanical Engineering
Sender: ps17@cornell.edu (Verified)
Message-ID: <51m8so$glf@newsstand.cit.cornell.edu>
References: <50spgb$6j8@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> <gmATtp_00iWT07kmF=@andrew.cmu.edu> <5158kp$7ue@apocalypse.dmi.stevens-tech.edu> <51kjv0$qak@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu>
james beauchamp (beaucham@cmp-rs.cso.uiuc.edu) wrote:
:In article <50spgb$6j8@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu>, I wrote:
:> I know that Black NeXT SIMMs
:> have to be "low-profile", so does this mean Mac or PC parts won't work?
:> ....
:> 4. Many SIMMs will work, few will fit. Low profile SIMMs (i.e. no taller
:> than .9 inches) are required in Cube based products.
: Again, it would be nice to know how one can specify "low profile" SIMMs.
Isn't it possible to make the same modifications to the cube bus on the back
plane that would be necessary to install a 2nd CPU board, switch your main
CPU board to the new slot, and wind up able to take any height SIMMs?
-pete
From: worman.2@osu.edu (Rob Worman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: test, please ignore
Date: Tue, 17 Sep 1996 09:34:48 -0400
Organization: Eisenhower National Clearinghouse
Message-ID: <worman.2-1709960934480001@nntp.service.ohio-state.edu>
test. (sorry)
--
--
Nurse, I spy gypsies - run! Pull up if I pull up.
A man, a plan, a canal - Panama.
Ma is as selfless as I am.
From: g9utxe@fnma.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Crashing w/ 64 meg on Intel 3.3
Date: 17 Sep 1996 15:29:02 GMT
Organization: Erol's Internet Services
Message-ID: <51mg3u$b9g@test-sun.erols.com>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
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Every since I moved from 32 meg (2 16meg simms) to 64 (2 32 meg simms I
have been having problems with NeXT crashing or hanging. I suspect it has
something to do with the memory map location for the video driver. I have
a Diamond Stealth64 PCI (2 meg) S3-968 video card. I have tried changing
the memory map location from its default of 0x380000 to: 0x400000,
0x4800000, 0x500000, etc., which is outside of the 64 meg window with no
success. I am currently running version 3.32 of the DiamondStealth64 PCI
(S3 968) device driver. I tried using the Generic S3 driver with the same
results. Other configuration info:
Pentium 166
Adaptec 2940 SCSI
SoundBlaster 16
Thanks in advance for any insight or advise. Please responsed via email
g9utxe@fnma.com
From: dwright1@voicenet.com (Darren Wright)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Re: HELP! Keyboard/mouse!
Date: 17 Sep 1996 17:24:30 GMT
Organization: Voicenet - Internet Access - (215)674-9290
Message-ID: <51mmse$crp@gnews2.voicenet.com>
References: <ukvpw3mjqv8.fsf@dura.spc.uchicago.edu> <ukv20g1gc0h.fsf@dura.spc.uchicago.edu>
fugue@ccp.spc.uchicago.edu wrote:
: Ok...
: Using the 470 Ohm resistor hack, I was able to get the black to power up.
: It powers the scsi drive, but just sits there. *sigh* I assume it's
: waiting for the sound out tests and the keypress, both of which should now
: be "y" in the PROM, since I removed the battery to reset it.
: Now then...if some kind soul would provide me with:
: 1) Monitor pinout data, and
: 2) Default PROM settings,
Well, here we go:
The only way to get a machine to boot headless is to first have it boot
with a head. You have to tell the ROM that serial port a is an alternate
console, and the only way to do that is with a monitor and keyboard.
After you have done that, you can then use the 470 ohm trick to get it to
boot.
The SCSI conenctor is a SCSI-2 connector, but the NeXT is only SCSI-1,
5MB /sec. There is no Sync support at all.
The slot inside that looks like a cache slot is a DSP memory expansion
slot. Not really used for much (maybe if you had Digital Eyes it would
help thruput)
Any more questions, go ahead post
-Darren
From: bhu@top.cis.syr.edu (Bing Hu)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Suitable Hard-drive for NeXT
Date: 17 Sep 1996 21:43:48 GMT
Organization: Syracuse University, CIS Dept.
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <51n62k$po3@newstand.syr.edu>
Hi! I plan to purchase two 3GB Seagate 43400N scsi drives for
two servers in the Math Dept. They are used for system boot disk and
file server.
Any suggestion on the compatiblity of those drives or any partition problems
I should be aware of ?
Thanks
Bing Hu
System Administrator
binghu@math.syr.edu
bhu@top.cis.syr.edu
From: Myoung-Cheol Kim <mckim@online.ru>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Re: Crashing w/ 64 meg on Intel 3.3
Date: Wed, 18 Sep 1996 01:41:31 +0400
Organization: Sovam Teleport
Message-ID: <323F1B0B.75CD@online.ru>
References: <51mg3u$b9g@test-sun.erols.com>
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g9utxe@fnma.com wrote:
>
> Every since I moved from 32 meg (2 16meg simms) to 64 (2 32 meg simms I
> have been having problems with NeXT crashing or hanging. I suspect it has
> something to do with the memory map location for the video driver. I have
> a Diamond Stealth64 PCI (2 meg) S3-968 video card. I have tried changing
> the memory map location from its default of 0x380000 to: 0x400000,
> 0x4800000, 0x500000, etc., which is outside of the 64 meg window with no
> success. I am currently running version 3.32 of the DiamondStealth64 PCI
> (S3 968) device driver. I tried using the Generic S3 driver with the same
> results. Other configuration info:
>
> Pentium 166
> Adaptec 2940 SCSI
> SoundBlaster 16
>
> Thanks in advance for any insight or advise. Please responsed via email
> g9utxe@fnma.com
My configuration is the same like yours. In my case, I solved the
problem - I changed the memory address of Stealth 64 PCI card to
0xa000000 and after this it works fine with me. If it doesn't work,
change the memory address higher.
Myoung-Cheol Kim
From Moscow, Russia
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
From: dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca (David Evans)
Subject: Re: RAM for Cube: where to buy?
Sender: news@novice.uwaterloo.ca (Mr. News)
Message-ID: <Dxvv2w.8GB@novice.uwaterloo.ca>
Date: Tue, 17 Sep 1996 15:30:32 GMT
References: <50spgb$6j8@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> <gmATtp_00iWT07kmF=@andrew.cmu.edu> <5158kp$7ue@apocalypse.dmi.stevens-tech.edu> <51kjv0$qak@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu>
Organization: University of Waterloo
In article <51kjv0$qak@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu>,
james beauchamp <beaucham@cmp-rs.cso.uiuc.edu> wrote:
>
>>From NeXTanswers:
>
>>4. Many SIMMs will work, few will fit. Low profile SIMMs (i.e. no taller
>> than .9 inches) are required in Cube based products.
I bit bit by this. Fortunately I had a friend with a slab handy, so I just
switched the SIMMs. One of the biggest problems with this is that you can
often slide the cube's CPU board *in*, but can't get it *out* again without
removing the drive bay/power supply. THis requires some fancy handwork.
>>6. An 040 system with mixed parity and non-parity memory installed cannot
>> boot automatically, you must boot from the monitor (all memory will be
>> treated as non-parity).
I'm not sure what this is about. On my cube, ROM monitor v66, I have both
parity and non-parity SIMMs. Boots fine.
>>7. The information presented here is subject to change without notice.
>
Ahhh--maybe that's it. :)
--
David Evans (NeXTMail OK) dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca
Computer/Synth Junkie http://bbcr.uwaterloo.ca/~dfevans/
University of Waterloo "Default is the value selected by the composer
Ontario, Canada overridden by your command." - Roland TR-707 Manual
From: godwin@unixg.ubc.ca (Godwin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Re: Help with Diamond Stealth!
Date: Tue, 17 Sep 1996 08:41:55 GMT
Organization: UBC
Message-ID: <323b27a7.6318402@news.ucs.ubc.ca>
References: <51h719$aiu@gnews2.voicenet.com>
type -v at boot to go to verbose mode
From: devine@indigo.ie (Alan Devine)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Help needed! Moving from a PC to an Alpha
Date: Mon, 16 Sep 1996 22:32:27 GMT
Organization: Indigo
Message-ID: <323dc768.7300350@news.indigo.ie>
Hi,
I require some help in choosing which new computer to buy.
I had initially thought about a Pentium but then I saw an
Advertisement for an Alpha 166 21066 (including 24mb ram,
340mb hard disk and numerous extra's, did NOT include
a monitor) for $800.
Although I have never used an Alpha I have heard they
are very powerful. I currently have 486 DX4-100 and use
it mostly for Word Processing, Games (MS-DOS
and Windows95 types) and accessing the Internet.
I know that to run MS-DOS programs I'll have to run them
thru an emulator and this is slower, but is it
actually that much slower, compared to running them
through a Pentium 150?
Do programs wrote for Windows95 (and NT) run at
full speed on an Alpha?
The type of programs I would be running are as follows:
MS-Office 95 and processor hungry games like Quake,
Unreal and Command & Conquer 2. Only one of these
games is designed for Windows 95 and NT (Unreal) so
how would the others run thru the emulator?
What types of hardware are compatible with Alpha's.
I'm talking about IDE Drives, Sound cards, ISA Slots
Memory and Modems.
Finally how does this Alpha running Windows NT
compare to a Pentium Pro running NT?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Alan Devine.
PS: Email reply preferred
From: Jesus M. Izquierdo <72332.3705@CompuServe.COM>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Which motherboard?
Date: 18 Sep 1996 11:44:59 GMT
Organization: KROP AUDIOVISUAL SYSTEMS
Message-ID: <51onbr$1ff$1@mhadg.production.compuserve.com>
Need urgent advice about which motherboard to use for NextStep,
preferably Intel. Endeavour is no longer available.
Any good report for Atlantis (baby AT) or Tucson (ATX). In
principle Tucson seems to be the most suitable, as it can hold up
to 200MHz Pentium.
Please send personal e-mail to the address below.
Thanks so much in advance:
Jesus Izquierdo
KROP Audiovisual Systems
Avenida de Galapagar, 15
Torrejon de Ardoz
28850 Madrid, SPAIN
Tel: 34 1 6779774 Fax: 34 1 6778279
E-mail: 72332.3705@compuserve.com
From: rigler@schullin.co.at (Wolfgang Rigler)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: WANTED : NeXT Laserprinter
Date: 18 Sep 1996 14:59:20 GMT
Organization: EUnet EDV DienstleistungsgesmbH, Wien
Message-ID: <51p2o8$g21@news.Austria.EU.net>
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Hi everyone,
our black next-laserprinter is damaged (paper doesn´t comes out completly, I
have to pull it out manually, otherwise paper is jammed)
Has anyone a next-laserprinter for sale ?
Used or new, please let me know your price !
Does anyone know a company in middle-europe(austria, germany, sitzerland,
etc...) who can service NeXT-Laserprinters ?
Thanks for a quick answer
Yours sincerly,
Wolfgang Rigler
Schullin+Seitner
Kohlmarkt 7
A-1010 Wien
++43-1-5339007-16
++43-1-5355060
rigler@schullin.co.at
From: 0536161416-0001@t-online.de (Frank Grunwald)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Does that work ???
Date: 14 Sep 1996 14:03:51 GMT
Organization: Telekom Online Internet Gateway
Message-ID: <51ee07$t6a@news00.btx.dtag.de>
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Hi !!
Does anybody know if the Cyrix p166+ works on an TMC Motherboard
(PCI54IT) ???? And is the Cyrix chip any good ?? Please help !!
thanks !!
From: csmith@gmu.edu (Christian Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.graphics,comp.sys.mac.hardware.misc,comp.sys.mac.hardware.storage,comp.sys.mac.hardware.video,comp.sys.mac.hypercard,comp.sys.mac.oop.powerplant,comp.sys.mac.portables,comp.sys.mac.printing,comp.sys.mac.programmer.codewarrior,comp.sys.mac.programmer.help,comp.sys.mac.programmer.misc,comp.sys.mac.programmer.mtools,comp.sys.mac.system,comp.sys.mac.wanted,comp.sys.newton.misc,comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.palmtops,comp.sys.pen,comp.sys.powerpc,comp.sys.powerpc.advocacy,comp.psion.misc,comp.sys.sgi.admin,comp.sys.sgi.graphics,comp.sys.sgi.hardware,comp.sys.sgi.misc,comp.sys.sinclair,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.sun.hardware
Subject: Re: How to react to Money Scam Spam...
Date: Sun, 15 Sep 1996 09:51:10 -0500
Organization: Never in my life
Message-ID: <csmith-1509960951420001@192.0.2.1>
References: <510v1k$9g7@sjx-ixn4.ix.netcom.com> <Pine.LNX.3.95.960909110336.8569C-100000@nerc3.nerc.com> <steve-0909961950330001@brecher.reno.nv.us> <3234BD72.5A3F@primenet.com> <3235C3A4.35CF@ofc005a.sce.com> <jgriffin-1309961659090001@pmdial33.spectranet.ca>
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Yes, there is something that YOU can do about this. Every time you see
one of these scam letters, send it to
postamster@where.ever.it.came.from.com
Also, use Internic to get the admin contact for the domain that the email
came from and send it to them. Generally these people will tell the user
not to do this again. If they continue they will generally loose their
email account.
In article <jgriffin-1309961659090001@pmdial33.spectranet.ca>,
jgriffin@spectranet.ca (John Griffin) wrote:
> In article <3235C3A4.35CF@ofc005a.sce.com>, fischej@ofc005a.sce.com wrote:
>
> >Ronin wrote:
> >>
> >> I have taken a direct approach to fighting these money scam spammers...
> >> today I wrote the names down that were listed in the text (the
> >> participants) and sent a postcard to the Postmaster in their area,
> >> reporting them as using a chain letter to solicite money via US Mail (a
> >> crime). I included all their information (name, address). I also sent
> >> them a postcard as well, notifying them that they have been reported.
> >
> >This does not strike me as a particularly smart thing to do. Merely
> >having one's name and address listed in a chain letter is not proof that
> >one has participated in using a chain letter to solicit money. If you do
> >not have hard proof that those people who you accused of doing so have
> >committed a crime, you have just committed libel yourself.
> >
>
> Well I for one think it is a very courageous thing to do!!!
>
> I think we should all vote Ronin a vote of thanks. It¹s about time someone
> did something to rid the Internet of this kind of crap! These assholes are
> using the Internet like a buzzard uses the desert. To them it is an
> invitation to get whatever they can for the least amount of effort or
> money.
>
> Surely there is something that the common plain-vanilla Internet user can
> do in collective effort to rid the net of these preditors!
>
> John G.
> ________________________________________________________
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From: mouser@zercom.net (Martin-Gilles Lavoie)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.graphics,comp.sys.mac.hardware.misc,comp.sys.mac.hardware.storage,comp.sys.mac.hardware.video,comp.sys.mac.hypercard,comp.sys.mac.oop.powerplant,comp.sys.mac.portables,comp.sys.mac.printing,comp.sys.mac.programmer.codewarrior,comp.sys.mac.programmer.help,comp.sys.mac.programmer.misc,comp.sys.mac.programmer.mtools,comp.sys.mac.system,comp.sys.mac.wanted,comp.sys.newton.misc,comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.palmtops,comp.sys.pen,comp.sys.powerpc,comp.sys.powerpc.advocacy,comp.psion.misc,comp.sys.sgi.admin,comp.sys.sgi.graphics,comp.sys.sgi.hardware,comp.sys.sgi.misc,comp.sys.sinclair,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.sun.hardware
Subject: Re: How to react to Money Scam Spam...
Date: 18 Sep 1996 17:50:00 GMT
Organization: Groupimage, inc.
Message-ID: <mouser-1809961350130001@204.191.6.170>
References: <510v1k$9g7@sjx-ixn4.ix.netcom.com> <Pine.LNX.3.95.960909110336.8569C-100000@nerc3.nerc.com> <steve-0909961950330001@brecher.reno.nv.us> <3234BD72.5A3F@primenet.com> <nospam-ya023080001609961530250001@news.itd.umich.edu> <cw028212-1609962118150001@192.0.2.1>
In article <cw028212-1609962118150001@192.0.2.1>, cw028212@bcm.tmc.edu (C
R Wright) wrote:
[snip]
> You both make good points, but it can be added that you shouldn't need to
> even trouble yourself with the stamp. "Official business" to the Postal
> Inspector goes through the post for free, or you could just drop off the
> matrial/names/addresses with your local post office. They are very happy
> to have it.
>
> The trouble with some of these (see original posting) is that they
> originate from outside the U.S. While chain letters and pyramid schemes
> are a U.S. Federal crime, they may not be in all countries involved. A
> polite letter to the sys-admin at the foreign Internet site is the best
> course of action to discourage the spammer in such a case. The U.S. postal
> addresses on his/her list can still go to Uncle Sam's Inspectors, however.
>
Postage is also not necessary if mailing to a canadian post office within
Canada.
Also, such pyramid schemes and chain letters (and any derivative of such)
are also illegal in Canada. I beleive that the US and Canada cooperate on
such issues, so reporting a canadian chain letter to a US post office
(vice et versa) does some good.
We're a bit behind though, as far as electronic mail is concerned, and am
not aware of particular policies regarding uncolicited e-mail (though,
this does not mean there is no policy on this issue).
One thing for sure, US and CANADA residents can fight toguetter on this.
--
Martin-Gilles Lavoie
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@nerc.com>
Subject: Re: WANTED : NeXT Laserprinter
Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.95.960918135148.29624E-100000@charisma>
Date: Wed, 18 Sep 1996 13:53:47 -0400
References: <51p2o8$g21@news.Austria.EU.net>
To: Wolfgang Rigler <rigler@schullin.co.at>
In-Reply-To: <51p2o8$g21@news.Austria.EU.net>
Organization: Princeton Theological Seminary
Return-Receipt-To: luomat@nerc.com
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=ISO-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE
You might have a roller problem, which is fixable.
You might want to checkout:
ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/next/submissions/Swapfile_and_Swapdisk_FAQ_Vers=
ion_2.0.tar.gz
TjL
On 18 Sep 1996, Wolfgang Rigler wrote:
> Date: 18 Sep 1996 14:59:20 GMT
> From: Wolfgang Rigler <rigler@schullin.co.at>
> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
> Subject: WANTED : NeXT Laserprinter
>=20
> Hi everyone,
>=20
> our black next-laserprinter is damaged (paper doesn=B4t comes out complet=
ly, I=20
> have to pull it out manually, otherwise paper is jammed)
>=20
> Has anyone a next-laserprinter for sale ?
> Used or new, please let me know your price !
>=20
> Does anyone know a company in middle-europe(austria, germany, sitzerland,=
=20
> etc...) who can service NeXT-Laserprinters ?
>=20
> Thanks for a quick answer
>=20
> Yours sincerly,
>=20
>=20
> Wolfgang Rigler
> Schullin+Seitner
> Kohlmarkt 7
> A-1010 Wien
> ++43-1-5339007-16
> ++43-1-5355060
> rigler@schullin.co.at
>=20
>=20
>=20
>=20
> =20
>=20
>=20
>=20
From: bomb@localhost.erols.com (Scott Turner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Install Problems-Adaptec 294oUW and floppy disk
Date: 14 Sep 1996 03:10:41 GMT
Organization: Erol's Internet Services
Message-ID: <51d7nh$jn1@test-sun.erols.com>
After installing the version 3.3 stuff an using handmade additional drivers
disk with the new version 3.37 Adaptec PCI 2940 driver. After that the
install program says remove floppy and reboots.
The boot manager comes up and I hit n for nextstep. The screen dianostics
then displays the fact that the 3.37 driver for the 2940 family is not on the
cd-rom and ask that i put into the floppy the additional drivers disk
containing the 3.37 version 2940 family driver used during install. When i
install the floppy disk and hit 1 to read from my created drivers disk , i
get a series of bios read errors and the disk does not read the drivers.
Scott Turner
FirstSight INc.
vision@1stsight.com
http://www.1stsight.com
From: mouser@zercom.net (Martin-Gilles Lavoie)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.graphics,comp.sys.mac.hardware.misc,comp.sys.mac.hardware.storage,comp.sys.mac.hardware.video,comp.sys.mac.hypercard,comp.sys.mac.oop.powerplant,comp.sys.mac.portables,comp.sys.mac.printing,comp.sys.mac.programmer.codewarrior,comp.sys.mac.programmer.help,comp.sys.mac.programmer.misc,comp.sys.mac.programmer.mtools,comp.sys.mac.system,comp.sys.mac.wanted,comp.sys.newton.misc,comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.palmtops,comp.sys.pen,comp.sys.powerpc,comp.sys.powerpc.advocacy,comp.psion.misc,comp.sys.sgi.admin,comp.sys.sgi.graphics,comp.sys.sgi.hardware,comp.sys.sgi.misc,comp.sys.sinclair,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.sun.hardware
Subject: Re: How to react to Money Scam Spam...
Date: 17 Sep 1996 12:15:09 GMT
Organization: Groupimage, inc.
Message-ID: <mouser-1709960815230001@204.191.6.170>
References: <510v1k$9g7@sjx-ixn4.ix.netcom.com> <Pine.LNX.3.95.960909110336.8569C-100000@nerc3.nerc.com> <steve-0909961950330001@brecher.reno.nv.us> <3234BD72.5A3F@primenet.com> <3235C3A4.35CF@ofc005a.sce.com> <jgriffin-1309961659090001@pmdial33.spectranet.ca>
In article <jgriffin-1309961659090001@pmdial33.spectranet.ca>,
jgriffin@spectranet.ca (John Griffin) wrote:
> In article <3235C3A4.35CF@ofc005a.sce.com>, fischej@ofc005a.sce.com wrote:
>
> >Ronin wrote:
> >>
> >> I have taken a direct approach to fighting these money scam spammers...
[...]
> Surely there is something that the common plain-vanilla Internet user can
> do in collective effort to rid the net of these preditors!
I was told by an internet provider that one of his custommers did
something like this (newsgroup spamming). The root@... account received
*hundreds* of quoted replies, enough to get the user kicked out after zero
warning. The users' name, address, and various coordinates where also
kept in a database for futur reference. Apparently, local internet
providers keep a list of undesirable users.
Whenever I get unsolicited e-mail, I always end-up replying to the
sende'rs root@... account. I'm never certain it works, but it leaves me
with an impression that I'm doing something about it.
--
Martin-Gilles Lavoie
From: shess@parka.winternet.com (Scott Hess)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: NeXTSTEP + Mr. BIOS + RAID0 + EIDE versus SCSI
Date: 18 Sep 1996 17:02:29 -0500
Organization: Is a sign of weakness
Sender: shess@parka.winternet.com
Message-ID: <acd8zjzdl6.fsf@parka.winternet.com>
After finally deciding that if I want a Barracuda, I just have to
spend the money, I noticed that Mr. BIOS can do RAID0 on EIDE drives.
For those who don't know, RAID0 stripes data across multiple drives,
which should improve performance by splitting access between the
drives.
Of course, one question is whether Mr. BIOS will work with NeXTSTEP.
Another question is whether there are strong feelings either way about
such a "solution". Two 5400 RPM ATA drives should be quite a bit
cheaper than a 7200 RPM Barracuda with a SCSI controller.
Of course, you take certain hits with the physical configuration of
such a system. SCSI is more flexible there. But for a single-user
system, hey, who cares?
Later,
--
scott hess <shess@winternet.com> (WWW to "http://www.winternet.com/~shess/")
Work: 12550 Portland Avenue South #121, Burnsville, MN 55337 (612)895-1208
<I want to become so famous that people buy tapes of me reading source code>
From: mpaque@pacbell.net (Mike Paquette)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Re: Q: how make slab less noisy ?
Date: Wed, 18 Sep 1996 21:21:39 GMT
Organization: Electronics Service, Unit No. 16
Message-ID: <51ppa7$db4@news2.snfc21.pacbell.net>
References: <19960912111622163904@[192.0.2.1]> <518vs6$mot@rs18.hrz.th-darmstadt.de> <DxoMwJ.K6F@novice.uwaterloo.ca>
dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca (David Evans) wrote:
> Now, what about the fans in the 21" monitors? Mine is *really* annoying...
There's no fan in the NeXT 21" monitor. There IS a flyback
transformer, which can make really annoying whining noises if it's
mounting is loose or the winding has popped loose from the core. (Not
fallen off, just free to vibrate a teeny little noise generating bit.)
A good TV or monitor repair shop should be able to tweak this for you.
(Really high voltage hazards here. Service by unskilled persons is
not recommended.)
Mike Paquette
I don't speak for my employer, and they don't speak for me.
mpaque@pacbell.net Personal E-mail
mpaque@next.com NeXT business mail only, please
From: mpaque@pacbell.net (Mike Paquette)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Re: NeXT MotherBoard w/ 72-Pin MEM
Date: Wed, 18 Sep 1996 21:22:11 GMT
Organization: Electronics Service, Unit No. 16
Message-ID: <51ppb8$db4@news2.snfc21.pacbell.net>
References: <323B5320.3FD8@slip.net>
Tito <talugtu@slip.net> wrote:
>I have a 25MHz Mono Station Motherboard that uses a 72-pin mem and a
>33MHz Mono Station Motherboard ... comparing the motherboards ... very
>similar, even model no. ...
>Would this mean the only difference is the CPU or Mot 040 chip?
Late model 25MHz Mono NeXTStations (Serial # ABB0026300 and later) use
the same chip set as the Turbo systems. The CPU chip is rated at 25
MHz, not 33 MHz, and the clock rate generated by the motherboard is
lower (25 MHz, not 33 MHz).
Mike Paquette
I don't speak for my employer, and they don't speak for me.
mpaque@pacbell.net Personal E-mail
mpaque@next.com NeXT business mail only, please
From: smlin@leland.Stanford.EDU (Sz-Ming Lin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: 3Com Ethernet card (PCI bus)
Date: 18 Sep 1996 21:17:58 GMT
Organization: Stanford University
Message-ID: <51pou6$gfk@nntp.Stanford.EDU>
Hi,
I'd like to buy OpenStep for Intel recently, but I have a
problem with my 3Com EtherLink III 3C590 (PCI). I have browsed
NeXTanswer, the OpenStep only supports the 3Com Ethernet card
for ISA and EISA bus (3C509, 3C579 and 3C589).
Does anyone have experience with 3C590 and NextStep?
I would appreciate your advice.
Thanks.
From: sams@best.com (Samuel G. Streeper)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Re: NeXTSTEP + Mr. BIOS + RAID0 + EIDE versus SCSI
Date: 18 Sep 1996 17:03:48 -0700
Organization: BEST Internet Communications
Message-ID: <sams.843091052@shellx>
References: <acd8zjzdl6.fsf@parka.winternet.com>
shess@parka.winternet.com (Scott Hess) writes:
>Of course, one question is whether Mr. BIOS will work with NeXTSTEP.
Once booted, NS effectively doesn't call the bios; it uses its
own drivers. (It does call 32 bit bios functions for things
like power management but this kind of thing is rare and expensive.)
The NS drivers would be oblivious to the fact that Mr Bios
supplies funky 16-bit bios drivers.
>Another question is whether there are strong feelings either way about
>such a "solution".
I feel strongly that it wouldn't work... 8^)
cheers,
-sam
From: chanhong@igate.iohk.com (Chan Hong)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Keyboard shortcut?
Date: 18 Sep 1996 03:44:35 GMT
Organization: Internet OnLine HK Limited
Message-ID: <51nr73$jou@ibridge.iohk.com>
Hello,
Since the accident removing of the PS2Mouse driver from Configure.app I
lost the mouse in NeXTSTEP. The only thing I should do to recover this
is reinstall the mouse driver but the problem is there's no way to
install it by using keyboard shortcut, or there're some but I dont know.
So can anyone told me how to install the PS2Mouse driver by keyboard or
from Terminal window.
B.R.
Chan Hong
From: yischon@yale.edu (yischon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Does NEXTSTEP work on PowerMac PCI Pentium card?
Date: Wed, 18 Sep 1996 23:49:08 -0500
Organization: Yale University
Message-ID: <yischon-ya023080001809962349080001@news.yale.edu>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
Apple makes a PCI card that has a Pentium CPU on it for PowerMacs. Will I
be able to run NEXTSTEP on it?
yischon
yischon@yale.edu
From: gclem@dannug.dk
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Re: Install Problems-Adaptec 294oUW and floppy disk
Date: 19 Sep 1996 06:42:18 GMT
Organization: Danish NeXT User Group
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <51qq0a$qbc@snaps.dannug.dk>
References: <51d7nh$jn1@test-sun.erols.com>
I have just completed what is described below without any hitch
whatsoever. First shot and it just worked. I installed, by the way, NS 3.3
on a Dell Optiplex GX Pro 180 (180 MHz Pentium Pro) which has 5 available
PCI slots and NS is running quite OK on this machine.
Geert
Scott Turner writes
> After installing the version 3.3 stuff an using handmade additional
drivers
> disk with the new version 3.37 Adaptec PCI 2940 driver. After that the
> install program says remove floppy and reboots.
> The boot manager comes up and I hit n for nextstep. The screen
dianostics
> then displays the fact that the 3.37 driver for the 2940 family is not
on the
> cd-rom and ask that i put into the floppy the additional drivers disk
> containing the 3.37 version 2940 family driver used during install.
When i
> install the floppy disk and hit 1 to read from my created drivers disk ,
i
> get a series of bios read errors and the disk does not read the drivers.
>
>
> Scott Turner
> FirstSight INc.
> vision@1stsight.com
> http://www.1stsight.com
From: wimg@azuur.tn.tudelft.nl (Wim van Geloven)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Re: Help with Diamond Stealth!
Date: 19 Sep 1996 07:55:11 GMT
Organization: Delft University of Technology, Faculty of Applied Physics
Message-ID: <51qu8v$20u@cyber.tn.tudelft.nl>
References: <51h719$aiu@gnews2.voicenet.com> <323b27a7.6318402@news.ucs.ubc.ca>
godwin@unixg.ubc.ca (Godwin) wrote:
>type -v at boot to go to verbose mode
You can still have a problem doing that on the latest ASUSTEK
motherboard with a pentium 166 MHz or 200 MHz chip. There seems to be
a little timing problem when selecting the videomode. The matrox
millenium card seems to be a good alternative for the diamond on
these systems.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco
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Date: Thu, 19 Sep 1996 10:54:24 +0200
From: Zanitti Leo <zleo@dns.istsan.interbusiness.it>
Subject: JAZ ?
Hello
I have a Jaz drive but I cannot format new Dos cartrige in NeXTStep filesystem.
I have NeXTSTEP 3.3, and the cartrige is not the JazTools but a new DOS
cartrige.
- Micropolis 2GB ID 0
- NEC CD-ROM ID 1
- Jaz Drive ID 2 (iomega jaz 1GB G.6002/1)
- HP 1GB ID 3
- Controller Adaptec 1542CF ID 7
I added the following disktab entry to the file /etc/disktab: (Nextanswers 2154)
IOMEGAJAZ-1G!iomega jaz 1GB G.6002/1!iomega jaz 1GB G.60!iomega jaz
1GB!iomega jaz!jaz 1GB!jaz1GB!jaz:\
:ty=removable_rw_scsi:nc#3584:nt#4:ns#72:ss#1024:rm#5400:\
:fp#160:bp#0:\
:os=sdmach:z0#32:z1#96:ro=a\
:pa#0:sa#1032192:ba#8192:fa#1024:ca#16:da#4096:ra#10:oa=time:\
:ia:ta=4.3BSD:aa:
I used the disk command to initialize Jaz disk:
localhost:1# disk -i -t IOMEGAJAZ-1G /dev/rsd2a
disk name: IOMEGAJAZ-1G
disk type: removable_rw_scsi
writing disk label
Writing /usr/standalone/i386/boot
Writing /usr/standalone/i386/boot1
creating new filesystem on /dev/rsd2a
/usr/etc/newfs -n -v /dev/rsd2a
/etc/mkfs /dev/rsd2a 1045365 6534 2 8192 1024 16 10 60 4096 t
Warning: insufficient space in super block for
rotational layout tables with nsect 6534 and ntrak 2.
File system performance may be impaired.
cylinder group too large (16 cylinders); max: 4 cylinders per group
/usr/etc/newfs /dev/rsd2a failed (status 1)
then I used the sdform command to format the disk:
localhost:2# sdform /dev/rsd2a
device = /dev/rsd2a block size = 512 capacity = 1021 MBytes
***FORMATTING THIS DISK CAUSES ALL DISK DATA TO BE LOST***
This will take approximately 34 minutes.
Do you wish to proceed? (Y/anything) y
Format Aborted
When I Initialize the disk from Workspace (NeXTstep filesystem):
probing for DOS
probing for CDROM
probing for mac
probing for cdaudio
/usr/etc/disk -i -h localhost -l "Various_Stuff" -d 1070610432 /dev/rsd2a
disk name: iomega jaz 1GB G.6002/1
disk type: removable_rw_scsi
writing disk label
Writing /usr/standalone/i386/boot
Writing /usr/standalone/i386/boot1
creating new filesystem on /dev/rsd2a
/usr/etc/newfs -n -v /dev/rsd2a
/etc/mkfs /dev/rsd2a 1045365 6534 2 8192 1024 16 10 60 4096 t
Warning: insufficient space in super block for
rotational layout tables with nsect 6534 and ntrak 2.
File system performance may be impaired.
cylinder group too large (16 cylinders); max: 4 cylinders per group
/usr/etc/newfs /dev/rsd2a failed (status 1)
But if I Initialize the disk from Workspace (Macintosh filesystem):
probing for DOS
probing for CDROM
probing for mac
probing for cdaudio
/usr/filesystems/mac.fs/mac.util -i sd2 "Various_Stuff" removable -d 2
device = /dev/rsd2h block size = 512 capacity = 1021 MBytes
Disk Format in progress...
***Format Complete***
probing for DOS
probing for CDROM
probing for mac
Sep 13 21:09:19 Workspace: Mounted scsi disk at /Various_Stuff
After if I use this commands:
localhost:1# disk -F /dev/rsd2a
disk name: iomega jaz 1GB G.6002/1
disk type: removable_rw_scsi
device = /dev/rsd2a block size = 512 capacity = 1021 MBytes
Disk Format in progress...
***Format Complete***
localhost:2# disk -l Various_Stuff -i /dev/rsd2a
disk name: iomega jaz 1GB G.6002/1
disk type: removable_rw_scsi
writing disk label
Writing /usr/standalone/i386/boot
Writing /usr/standalone/i386/boot1
creating new filesystem on /dev/rsd2a
/usr/etc/newfs -n -v /dev/rsd2a
/etc/mkfs /dev/rsd2a 1045365 6534 2 8192 1024 16 10 60 4096 t
Warning: insufficient space in super block for
rotational layout tables with nsect 6534 and ntrak 2.
File system performance may be impaired.
cylinder group too large (16 cylinders); max: 4 cylinders per group
/usr/etc/newfs /dev/rsd2a failed (status 1)
localhost:3#
I tried also:
localhost:2# disk -q /dev/rsd2h
no label on disk
localhost:3# disk -q /dev/rsd2a
no label on disk
localhost:4# disk -F /dev/rsd2a
disk name: iomega jaz 1GB G.6002/1
disk type: removable_rw_scsi
device = /dev/rsd2a block size = 512 capacity = 1021 MBytes
Disk Format in progress...
***Format Complete***
localhost:5# disk -l Various_Stuff -i -t IOMEGAJAZ-1G /dev/rsd2a
disk name: IOMEGAJAZ-1G
disk type: removable_rw_scsi
writing disk label
Writing /usr/standalone/i386/boot
Writing /usr/standalone/i386/boot1
creating new filesystem on /dev/rsd2a
/usr/etc/newfs -n -v /dev/rsd2a
/etc/mkfs /dev/rsd2a 1045365 6534 2 8192 1024 16 10 60 4096 t
Warning: insufficient space in super block for
rotational layout tables with nsect 6534 and ntrak 2.
File system performance may be impaired.
cylinder group too large (16 cylinders); max: 4 cylinders per group
/usr/etc/newfs /dev/rsd2a failed (status 1)
localhost:6#
When boot there are these messages on video (NO cartrige on jaz):
- * -
Sep 17 16:22:44 localhost mach: sd2: iomega jaz 1GB G.60
Sep 17 16:22:44 localhost mach: Registering: sd2 at Target 2 LUN 0 at sc0
Sep 17 16:22:44 localhost mach: Registering: sd2a
Sep 17 16:22:44 localhost mach: sd2: Waiting for drive to come
ready..............
Sep 17 16:22:44 localhost mach: sd2: Disk Not Ready
- * -
I DON'T WANT to use Dos or Macintosh filesystem: the fist has not long
filenames the second has a bug when you have deep directory tree (this is
on NeXT Hardware digest Number 1034).
How can I format a Jaz cartrige in NeXTstep filesystem?
I have purchased the drive because I would use it like Backup, and I
would use the same drive and the backup cartrige when I upgrade to Openstep
for Mach (NeXTSTEP 4.0); I heard this is impossible: cartrige formatted in
NeXTSTEP 3.3 is unreadible on NeXTSTEP 4.0 I hope is not true.
Have somebody experience on this.
Thanks in advance.
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From: root@opus.bloomco.ornl.gov (Operator)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Drivers for Modems?
Date: 18 Sep 1996 22:31:33 GMT
Organization: Oak Ridge National Lab, Oak Ridge, TN
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <51pt85$9tl@stc06.ctd.ornl.gov>
I can only locate two "drivers" listed in the FaxModem setup under the
PrintManager.app, neither seem to apply to my modem. Where can I locate
the modem drivers for a Practical Peripherals PM144MT II so that it will
work correctly under NS 3.3 on a Cube? I've searched NeXTAnswers,
Stepwise, and webcrawler. Can't locate anything addressing adding new
types of Fax Modems.
I've been able to use the modem via tip to connect to another computer, so
I know it works and seems to use Hayes commands. I don't have a manual
either to dig out all the commands. Is there a site where I could locate
the commands for this modem? A phone number for the manufacturer?
Thanks,
From: tjallen@theory1.physics.wisc.edu (Theodore J. Allen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Re: Keyboard shortcut?
Date: 19 Sep 1996 14:12:37 GMT
Organization: University of Wisconsin, Madison
Message-ID: <51rkcl$25rk@news.doit.wisc.edu>
References: <51nr73$jou@ibridge.iohk.com>
chanhong@igate.iohk.com (Chan Hong) wrote:
> So can anyone told me how to install the PS2Mouse driver by keyboard or
> from Terminal window.
At the boot: prompt, type config=Default
(no spaces on either side of the = sign!)
and then run Configure.app. If you've been so
silly as to mess with the Default.table in
the System.config "driver" then you have more
work to do!
In case of this more dire emergency, you should do the following.
Boot into single user mode (-s at the boot: prompt)and edit the file
/private/Drivers/i386/System.config/Instance0.table
using pico or vi. Add to the line "Active Drivers" = " ... ";
an instance of the PS2Mouse:
"Active Drivers" = "PS2Mouse ... ";
This will fix the problem, but be very very careful. Messing
up your copy of this file if its companion file Default.table
is also messed up can make your system unbootable.
--
Ted Allen, Ph.D.
High Energy Physics
University of Wisconsin-Madison
tjallen@wishep.physics.wisc.edu
http://theory1.physics.wisc.edu/~tjallen/
From: Mark.A.Tarbell@jpl.nasa.gov (Mark Tarbell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Re: Q: how make slab less noisy ?
Date: 19 Sep 1996 17:09:21 GMT
Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory - Pasadena CA
Message-ID: <51ruo1$37d@netline-fddi.jpl.nasa.gov>
References: <19960912111622163904@[192.0.2.1]> <518vs6$mot@rs18.hrz.th-darmstadt.de>
<DxoMwJ.K6F@novice.uwaterloo.ca> <51ppa7$db4@news2.snfc21.pacbell.net>
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In <51ppa7$db4@news2.snfc21.pacbell.net> Mike Paquette wrote, in part:
> There's no fan in the NeXT 21" monitor.
So, what's that thing spinning around in the top back of the cage, blowing
air? :-)
Actually, it's a fairly noisy beast, but I haven't yet taken the time to
check out a replacement type for it, though... Looks kinda hard to access.
Mark
From: krice@admin.vhs.davis.k12.ut.us (KEN RICE)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.graphics,comp.sys.mac.hardware.misc,comp.sys.mac.hardware.storage,comp.sys.mac.hardware.video,comp.sys.mac.hypercard,comp.sys.mac.oop.powerplant,comp.sys.mac.portables,comp.sys.mac.printing,comp.sys.mac.programmer.codewarrior,comp.sys.mac.programmer.help,comp.sys.mac.programmer.misc,comp.sys.mac.programmer.mtools,comp.sys.mac.system,comp.sys.mac.wanted,comp.sys.newton.misc,comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.palmtops,comp.sys.pen,comp.sys.powerpc,comp.sys.powerpc.advocacy,comp.psion.misc,comp.sys.sgi.admin,comp.sys.sgi.graphics,comp.sys.sgi.hardware,comp.sys.sgi.misc,comp.sys.sinclair,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.sun.hardware
Subject: Re: How to react to Money Scam Spam...
Date: Thu, 19 Sep 1996 18:39:33 GMT
Organization: DCSD
Message-ID: <51s413$dmb@svc.slc.uen.org>
References: <510v1k$9g7@sjx-ixn4.ix.netcom.com> <Pine.LNX.3.95.960909110336.8569C-100000@nerc3.nerc.com> <steve-0909961950330001@brecher.reno.nv.us> <3234BD72.5A3F@primenet.com> <casper-1009962029580001@oats-20.nb.net>
casper@nb.net (Timothy K Scoff) wrote:
>In article <3234BD72.5A3F@primenet.com>, Ronin <ronin27@primenet.com> wrote:
Congratulations. I would also like to see these Bozos stop
cluttering up the bandwidth with their nonsense.
HOWEVER, I'm very concerned that this approach may establish some
precedent that using the Internet somehow falls under the
jurisdiction of the U.S. Postal Service.
When using the Internet, I don't consider myself as using the U.S.
Mail. For one thing, I don't have to pay $0.32 for shoddy service.
There's nothing the U.S. Postal Service would like more than to be
able to charge a fee for every message going across the Net.
At some future trial, could they drag up those scam complaints
citing the reference of fraudulent activity via the U.S. Mail? And, if
you think that's ridiculous, do a mental replay of the O.J. Simpson
trial
Best regards,
>~I have taken a direct approach to fighting these money scam spammers...
>~today I wrote the names down that were listed in the text (the
>~participants) and sent a postcard to the Postmaster in their area,
>~reporting them as using a chain letter to solicite money via US Mail (a
>~crime). I included all their information (name, address). I also sent
>~them a postcard as well, notifying them that they have been reported. It
>~took ten minutes and cost .80¢. Please report all future money spammers
>~to the US Post Office (they WILL take action). Thank you.
>~
>~Ronin
>Also sending e-mail to the user "postmaster@" and their domain name helps
>stop this cancer.
>--
>Timothy K. Scoff
>casper@nb.net
> "DOS Computers manufactured by companies such as IBM, Compaq, Tandy, and millions of others are by far the most popular, with about 70 million machines in use wordwide. Macintosh fans, on the other hand, may note that cockroaches are far more numerous than humans, and that numbers alone do not denote a higher life form."
>
> ( New York Times, November 26, 1991)
From: scott@bcog.org
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Re: Reasonable life span for a Color Monitor on a Next?
Date: 19 Sep 1996 20:34:40 GMT
Organization: British Columbia OpenStep Group
Message-ID: <51sap0$6nr@news.bctel.net>
References: <51kbbl$p25@news.digifix.com>
From: sanguish@digifix.com (Scott Anguish)
Organization: Digital Fix Development
Subject: Reasonable life span for a Color Monitor on a Next?
Date: 16 Sep 1996 19:55:33 GMT
Yes, this is a stupid question.
My Nanao T560i is about 5 years old now. It still has a great picture, but
sometimes the screen changes and there is an excessive amount of blue. It
usually goes away by smacking the desk top.
I've also noticed that there is some occasional interference on thin vertical
bands. I'm thinking this is a refresh issue.
But this has gotten me thinking, what is a reasonable lifespan for a monitor
such as this? Its running at a high-refresh rate all the time that its on
(its only on when I'm using the machine, so 10-14 hours a day easy).
Scott Anguish DBS Online - http://www.dbs-online.com/DBS
sanguish@digifix.com Stepwise OpenStep WWW - http://www.stepwise.com
---------------------
There may be a problem with you cable....I once had a similar problem with
excessive amounts of blue. My video cable was not properly connected. By
hitting your desktop to solve the problem sounds like a bad connection.
From: scott@bcog.org
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: IDE / SCSI question
Date: 19 Sep 1996 20:40:28 GMT
Organization: British Columbia OpenStep Group
Message-ID: <51sb3s$6nr@news.bctel.net>
On an Intel platform is it possible to use an IDE CD-ROM (either of the two
8x IDE drives that are NEXT compatible) as well as an Adaptec 2940UW with
SCSI drive? or must all devices be either SCSI or IDE?
From: stefanos@Vir.com (Stefanos Kiakas)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NeXTSTEP driver Web site request for driver info.
Date: 19 Sep 1996 15:30:07 -0400
Organization: Communications Vir, Internet Access Montreal.
Message-ID: <51s6vv$bme@Vir.com>
Hello,
I'd like to ask all of you out there who are looking for
a driver or have written a driver and want the NeXTSTEP user community to
know about it to send me an email message at
stefanos@uniscape.com
Those of you who are feeling more generous could
submit a "How I developed a SUPERFOO driver" to help other people learn
to build/modify drivers to customize them to meet their own needs.
(Assuming they know how to program.)
Any help would be appreciated,
stef
From: "Stacy D. Coil" <coil@enc.org>
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.sys.laptops,comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: What's the best laptop for the buck?
Date: Thu, 19 Sep 1996 19:03:52 -0400
Organization: Eisenhower National Clearinghouse
Message-ID: <3241D158.5323@enc.org>
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CC: coil@enc.org
Okay,
I am looking for the best laptop for the money. If I had my wish, I
would order the new IBM 760ED 166 with the 2 gig hard drive. But alas,
by budget is only $5,000.
Here is the criteria.
--Must Haves-----------------
Under $5,000
Extremely Reliable
Pentium 133 or better
12.1 XGA (1024 x768) or larger with 16 bpp or better
16 Megs of memory
16 bit sound with midi/game port
> 1 gig drive (preferably 2 gig)
Vary Expandable
Be able to run Linux with X, Windows 95, and Windows NT
--Would be nice---------------
Great technical Support
3 year warranty or better
Video Capture
Integrated Modem
Ethernet and SCSI
CD-Rom drive
Upgradeable CPU and CD-Rom
Memory expandable to something useful (say 80 Megs)
Good Keyboard layout
Comfortable pointing device
Able to run NeXTSTEP, and MacOS ;-)
-------------------------------
I have been looking at two laptops. One is the EPS-166XL, I haven't
heard much about it, other than a small blurb in the C-Shopper. I hear
that it is not as fast as some other laptops and that tech support
okay. However, it has a 13.3" active matrix screen, and comes with 40
Megs of memory for only $4800.
The other laptop is the IBM 560. I like IBM because in my experience
there tech support is great. But, the 560 has only an SVGA screen.
Does anyone know if IBM is planning to announce a new 560 like 760's?
What are other people's opinions?
Thanks
Stacy D. Coil
coil@enc.org
Eisenhower National Clearinghouse
From: colinj@math.math.unm.edu (Colin Eric Johnson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Re: RAM for Cube: where to buy?
Date: 19 Sep 1996 19:06:14 GMT
Organization: Dept. of Math & Stat, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
Distribution: nm
Message-ID: <51s5j6$qa@lynx.unm.edu>
References: <50spgb$6j8@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> <5158kp$7ue@apocalypse.dmi.stevens-tech.edu> <51kjv0$qak@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> <Dxvv2w.8GB@novice.uwaterloo.ca>
I'm interested in buying some RAM for my cube and I'm wondering where
in Albuquerque would be a good place to buy? Anyone I should stay away
from?
-Colin J.
--
"Now my life is better than an ABBA song" - Muriel, "Muriel's Wedding"
Colin E. Johnson | colinj@unm.edu | http://www.unm.edu/~colinj/
From: leo@BLaCKSMITH.com (Leo Turetsky)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Re: Crashing w/ 64 meg on Intel 3.3
Date: 19 Sep 1996 21:21:24 GMT
Organization: BLaCKSMITH, Inc.
Message-ID: <51sdgk$6d7@BLaCKSMITH.com>
References: <51mg3u$b9g@test-sun.erols.com>
g9utxe@fnma.com writes
> Every since I moved from 32 meg (2 16meg simms) to 64 (2 32 meg simms I
> have been having problems with NeXT crashing or hanging. I suspect it
> has something to do with the memory map location for the video driver.
> I have a Diamond Stealth64 PCI (2 meg) S3-968 video card. I have tried
> changing the memory map location from its default of 0x380000 to:
> 0x400000, 0x4800000, 0x500000, etc., which is outside of the 64 meg
> window with no success. I am currently running version 3.32 of the
> DiamondStealth64 PCI (S3 968) device driver. I tried using the Generic
> S3 driver with the same results. Other configuration info:
We had the same problem... we used 0xD00000 and it worked perfectly.
0xD80000 also worked.
--
+---------------------+---------------------------------+
| Leo Turetsky | BLaCKSMITH, Inc. (NeXTmail OK) |
| leo@blacksmith.com | OPENSTEP Systems Administrator |
+---------------------+---------------------------------+
| Nah-ne kah-sah tahng-tah? <esp> Leo, your mom called. |
+-------------------------------------------------------+
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@nerc.com>
Subject: Re: WANTED : NeXT Laserprinter
Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.95.960919201439.3029A-100000@charisma>
Date: Thu, 19 Sep 1996 20:26:45 -0400
References: <51p2o8$g21@news.Austria.EU.net> <Pine.NXT.3.95.960918135148.29624E-100000@charisma>
To: Wolfgang Rigler <rigler@schullin.co.at>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.NXT.3.95.960918135148.29624E-100000@charisma>
Organization: Princeton Theological Seminary
Return-Receipt-To: luomat@nerc.com
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Ok, I don't know what kind of radiation leak I was being contaminated
with, but this made no sense whatsoever....
The pointer I meant to give was:
http://www.nerc.com/~luomat/next/mailserver/printer-misc
TjL
On Wed, 18 Sep 1996, Timothy J. Luoma wrote:
> Date: Wed, 18 Sep 1996 13:53:47 -0400
> From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@nerc.com>
> To: Wolfgang Rigler <rigler@schullin.co.at>
> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
> Subject: Re: WANTED : NeXT Laserprinter
>=20
> You might have a roller problem, which is fixable.
>=20
> You might want to checkout:
>=20
> ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/next/submissions/Swapfile_and_Swapdisk_FAQ_Ve=
rsion_2.0.tar.gz
>=20
> TjL
>=20
>=20
> On 18 Sep 1996, Wolfgang Rigler wrote:
>=20
> > Date: 18 Sep 1996 14:59:20 GMT
> > From: Wolfgang Rigler <rigler@schullin.co.at>
> > Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
> > Subject: WANTED : NeXT Laserprinter
> >=20
> > Hi everyone,
> >=20
> > our black next-laserprinter is damaged (paper doesn=B4t comes out compl=
etly, I=20
> > have to pull it out manually, otherwise paper is jammed)
> >=20
> > Has anyone a next-laserprinter for sale ?
> > Used or new, please let me know your price !
> >=20
> > Does anyone know a company in middle-europe(austria, germany, sitzerlan=
d,=20
> > etc...) who can service NeXT-Laserprinters ?
> >=20
> > Thanks for a quick answer
> >=20
> > Yours sincerly,
> >=20
> >=20
> > Wolfgang Rigler
> > Schullin+Seitner
> > Kohlmarkt 7
> > A-1010 Wien
> > ++43-1-5339007-16
> > ++43-1-5355060
> > rigler@schullin.co.at
> >=20
> >=20
> >=20
> >=20
> > =20
> >=20
> >=20
> >=20
>=20
>=20
>=20
>=20
From: Pete Spomer <spomer@apple.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.graphics,comp.sys.mac.hardware.misc,comp.sys.mac.hardware.storage,comp.sys.mac.hardware.video,comp.sys.mac.hypercard,comp.sys.mac.oop.powerplant,comp.sys.mac.portables,comp.sys.mac.printing,comp.sys.mac.programmer.codewarrior,comp.sys.mac.programmer.help,comp.sys.mac.programmer.misc,comp.sys.mac.programmer.mtools,comp.sys.mac.system,comp.sys.mac.wanted,comp.sys.newton.misc,comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.palmtops,comp.sys.pen,comp.sys.powerpc,comp.sys.powerpc.advocacy,comp.psion.misc,comp.sys.sgi.admin,comp.sys.sgi.graphics,comp.sys.sgi.hardware,comp.sys.sgi.misc,comp.sys.sinclair,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.sun.hardware
Subject: Re: How to react to Money Scam Spam...
Date: Thu, 19 Sep 1996 18:08:09 -0700
Organization: Apple Computer
Message-ID: <3241EE7A.6CB0@apple.com>
References: <510v1k$9g7@sjx-ixn4.ix.netcom.com> <Pine.LNX.3.95.960909110336.8569C-100000@nerc3.nerc.com> <steve-0909961950330001@brecher.reno.nv.us> <3234BD72.5A3F@primenet.com> <3235C3A4.35CF@ofc005a.sce.com> <jgriffin-1309961659090001@pmdial33.spectranet.ca> <mouser-1709960815230001@204.191.6.170>
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Martin-Gilles Lavoie wrote:
> I was told by an internet provider that one of his custommers did
> something like this (newsgroup spamming). The root@... account received
> *hundreds* of quoted replies, enough to get the user kicked out after zero
> warning. The users' name, address, and various coordinates where also
> kept in a database for futur reference. Apparently, local internet
> providers keep a list of undesirable users.
> Whenever I get unsolicited e-mail, I always end-up replying to the
> sende'rs root@... account. I'm never certain it works, but it leaves me
> with an impression that I'm doing something about it.
What I usually do is send a reply back explaining what they've done
wrong, and why it's wrong. I also explain that I'm cc-ing a copy of the
entire message, including the headers, to their ISP for further action.
I usually never hear from them again, although I have recieved a couple
of messages back that say "sorry, I won't do it any more". You can do
the same for newsgroup spammers.
BTW- If the offender uses Netcom as their ISP, the correct address to
email complaints to is: abuse@netcom.com
Pete
-------
The opinions expressed here are not those of anyone, including myself.
No gerbils were harmed in the making of this message. Your mileage may
vary.
From: Dennis Strickland <wettoad@ix.netcom.com>
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.sys.laptops,comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Re: What's the best laptop for the buck?
Date: Thu, 19 Sep 1996 21:21:36 -0500
Organization: Netcom
Message-ID: <3241FFB0.E5D@ix.netcom.com>
References: <3241D158.5323@enc.org>
Mime-Version: 1.0
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To: coil@enc.org
Stacy D. Coil wrote:
>
> Okay,
>
> I am looking for the best laptop for the money. If I had my wish, I
> would order the new IBM 760ED 166 with the 2 gig hard drive. But alas,
> by budget is only $5,000.
>
> Here is the criteria.
>
> --Must Haves-----------------
>
> Under $5,000
> Extremely Reliable
> Pentium 133 or better
> 12.1 XGA (1024 x768) or larger with 16 bpp or better
> 16 Megs of memory
> 16 bit sound with midi/game port
> > 1 gig drive (preferably 2 gig)
> Vary Expandable
>
> Be able to run Linux with X, Windows 95, and Windows NT
>
> --Would be nice---------------
>
> Great technical Support
> 3 year warranty or better
> Video Capture
> Integrated Modem
> Ethernet and SCSI
> CD-Rom drive
> Upgradeable CPU and CD-Rom
> Memory expandable to something useful (say 80 Megs)
> Good Keyboard layout
> Comfortable pointing device
>
> Able to run NeXTSTEP, and MacOS ;-)
>
> -------------------------------
>
> I have been looking at two laptops. One is the EPS-166XL, I haven't
> heard much about it, other than a small blurb in the C-Shopper. I hear
> that it is not as fast as some other laptops and that tech support
> okay. However, it has a 13.3" active matrix screen, and comes with 40
> Megs of memory for only $4800.
>
> The other laptop is the IBM 560. I like IBM because in my experience
> there tech support is great. But, the 560 has only an SVGA screen.
> Does anyone know if IBM is planning to announce a new 560 like 760's?
>
> What are other people's opinions?
>
> Thanks
>
> Stacy D. Coil
> coil@enc.org
> Eisenhower National Clearinghouse
Look into the Toshiba Tecra 720CDT for about $5400. Although they are
impossible to find, you will be extremely happy even moreso than any IBM
ThinkPad in my opinion.
From: "JaiDeeZ" <jaideez@unix.cde.com>
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.sys.laptops,comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Re: What's the best laptop for the buck?
Date: 20 Sep 1996 03:12:41 GMT
Organization: Da Gen(><)er Alliance ßß
Message-ID: <01bba6a1$a13b8ac0$ceb6a0cd@cde.com.cde.com>
References: <3241D158.5323@enc.org> <3241FFB0.E5D@ix.netcom.com>
> > Okay,
> >
> > I am looking for the best laptop for the money. If I had my wish, I
> > would order the new IBM 760ED 166 with the 2 gig hard drive. But alas,
> > by budget is only $5,000.
> >
> > Here is the criteria.
> >
> > --Must Haves-----------------
> >
> > Under $5,000
> > Extremely Reliable
> > Pentium 133 or better
> > 12.1 XGA (1024 x768) or larger with 16 bpp or better
> > 16 Megs of memory
> > 16 bit sound with midi/game port
> > > 1 gig drive (preferably 2 gig)
> > Vary Expandable
> >
> > Be able to run Linux with X, Windows 95, and Windows NT
> >
> > --Would be nice---------------
> >
> > Great technical Support
> > 3 year warranty or better
> > Video Capture
> > Integrated Modem
> > Ethernet and SCSI
> > CD-Rom drive
> > Upgradeable CPU and CD-Rom
> > Memory expandable to something useful (say 80 Megs)
> > Good Keyboard layout
> > Comfortable pointing device
> >
> > Able to run NeXTSTEP, and MacOS ;-)
> >
> > -------------------------------
> >
> > I have been looking at two laptops. One is the EPS-166XL, I haven't
> > heard much about it, other than a small blurb in the C-Shopper. I hear
> > that it is not as fast as some other laptops and that tech support
> > okay. However, it has a 13.3" active matrix screen, and comes with 40
> > Megs of memory for only $4800.
> >
> > The other laptop is the IBM 560. I like IBM because in my experience
> > there tech support is great. But, the 560 has only an SVGA screen.
> > Does anyone know if IBM is planning to announce a new 560 like 760's?
> >
> > What are other people's opinions?
> >
I am planning to start werk on a lappy that will run ANY OS... it'll have a
Pentium and PowerPC chip... if I actually get it 2 werk, I'll let u know!!!
--
-=:/JaiDeez\:=-
of the GenXer Alliance!
jaideez@unix.cde.com
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
-=(ß/\u[) ß0¥z)=-
From: DanieM@di.denel.co.za (Danie Malan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Strangest installation problem yet - Out of memory ?!!
Date: 12 Sep 1996 13:00:50 GMT
Organization: Rand Afrikaans University
Message-ID: <5191i2$cbr@misty.rau.ac.za>
Keywords: Install memory error
Strangest installation problem yet - Out of memory ?!!
I've just tried to install NEXTSTEP 3.3 on an Intel 486 DX4-100 system
PH4500AM Motherboard (ISA, VL & PCI) with Award BIOS V4.50G.
I boot off the install floppy and get
NEXTSTEP boot1 V 3.3.3.8
Sizing memory .......32768K
Out of memory ..And the machine promptly hangs.
The BIOS reports no problems and picks up the memory OK.
I've also tried various changes to the BIOS setup (disabling cache etc.)
and swapped memory with known good memory from other machines, but no
luck.
For the hell-of-it I tried the OpenStep 4.0 install floppy and this didn't
cause the same error. (Only problem is that I need to install 3.3)
Any ideas ?
Please mail me and I'll summarize to newsgroup - My mail provider is
unreliable
TIA !
Regards
Danie Malan
Mailto: DanieM@di.denel.co.za (NeXTmail, MIME & ASCII welcome)
CAIRO=NT+OPENSTEP !
From: Bernhard Scholz <scholz@informatik.tu-muenchen.de>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Re: Strangest installation problem yet - Out of memory ?!!
Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 13:43:56 +0200
Organization: Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany
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If it's only the bootprogram, just copy your NS3.3. installation disk and
install the OS4.0 bootsektor on this disk and retry.
Greetings,
Bernhard.
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From: jsowers@lehman.com (Justin Sowers)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Using a NeXT kermit session as a console for another box
Date: 20 Sep 1996 09:30:55 -0400
Organization: Lehman Brothers, Inc.
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I'm pleading for help from someone who's done this before because I have
little experience with Sun hardware...
I'm trying to boot a SPARC 1 "headless" (no monitor, no frame buffer) and I
can't seem to get anything from serial port A as a console.
I've hooked my NeXT's serial A (/dev/cua) to the Sun's serial A using a
null-modem cable. In kermit, I connect to /dev/cua and wait for anything to
come through when I power-up the SPARC. I get nothing. As recommended in
the Sun-Hardware-Reference I set line speed to 9600, 8 bits, 1 stop, no
parity, etc. I've tried the same procedure with /dev/ttya, with the same
lack of results.
Does anyone out there have experience using a NeXT in this capacity for
booting a Sun?
Any suggestions/ideas will be greatly appreciated.
-Justin.
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From: dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca (David Evans)
Subject: Re: Q: how make slab less noisy ?
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Date: Thu, 19 Sep 1996 14:48:37 GMT
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In article <51ppa7$db4@news2.snfc21.pacbell.net>,
Mike Paquette <mpaque@pacbell.net> wrote:
>dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca (David Evans) wrote:
>
>> Now, what about the fans in the 21" monitors? Mine is *really* annoying...
>
>There's no fan in the NeXT 21" monitor.
No way--this is a fan noise. And air comes out of the top. :-) Model
number is N4005 (CM2186A3NE). I can't find the manufacturer (although it was
made in July 1991).
--
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Computer/Synth Junkie http://bbcr.uwaterloo.ca/~dfevans/
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Ontario, Canada overridden by your command." - Roland TR-707 Manual
From: Judith Elaine Bush <bush@bohr.physics.upenn.edu>
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Subject: Re: How to react to Money Scam Spam...
Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 10:59:23 -0400
Organization: University of Pennsylvania
Message-ID: <3242B14B.41C6@bohr.physics.upenn.edu>
References: <510v1k$9g7@sjx-ixn4.ix.netcom.com> <Pine.LNX.3.95.960909110336.8569C-100000@nerc3.nerc.com> <steve-0909961950330001@brecher.reno.nv.us> <3234BD72.5A3F@primenet.com> <casper-1009962029580001@oats-20.nb.net> <51s413$dmb@svc.slc.uen.org>
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KEN RICE wrote:
> HOWEVER, I'm very concerned that this approach may establish some
> precedent that using the Internet somehow falls under the
> jurisdiction of the U.S. Postal Service.
The USPS can prosecute because the cash is sent through the US mail.
Now, if the Make Mone Fast changes to something like, "email to me your
credit card number," the USPS can do nothing about it.
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Subject: ne2000 ?
Message-ID: <1996Sep20.090937.25059@roper.uwyo.edu>
From: nor@panoramix.uwyo.edu (norbert pirzkal)
Date: 20 Sep 96 09:09:36 MDT
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Is there an NE2000 ethernet card driver for NeXTstep 3.3 and Openstep for
Mach 4.0? I thought I saw one somewhere ....
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From: tomi@shinto.nbg.sub.org (Thomas Engel)
Subject: Re: Q: how make slab less noisy ?
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Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 14:54:07 GMT
Mark.A.Tarbell@jpl.nasa.gov (Mark Tarbell) wrote:
> In <51ppa7$db4@news2.snfc21.pacbell.net> Mike Paquette wrote, in part:
> > There's no fan in the NeXT 21" monitor.
>
> So, what's that thing spinning around in the top back of the cage, blowing
> air? :-)
>
> Actually, it's a fairly noisy beast, but I haven't yet taken the time to
> check out a replacement type for it, though... Looks kinda hard to access.
>
It definitly is a fan...and it is noisy. I feel like there were different
types of 21'' monitors. So not all of them do have to have a fan.
Any solution to this Monitor-Fan problem would be interesting because it
without it this could be a really quite place to work.
Aloha
Tomi
From: lola@next.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: STB Velocity Drivers NS 3.3
Date: Sat, 21 Sep 1996 02:29:49 +0200
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Hi,
I am looking for a solution to this dilemma :
I have an excellent STB Velocity with 4 MB and Linux Drivers but no NS
3.3 support . I am about switching with a millennium that does not have
linux support ( yet! ;) ).
Has anybody managed making this STB work under NS ?
Thanx
P.S. I have tried the generic S3 but no Luck :(((
Ciao
From: hkorb@worldbank.org (Hans Korb)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Sens810 Notebook
Date: 20 Sep 1996 18:16:32 GMT
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I am interested in buying a Samsung Sens810 notebook (32MB) to run
Openstep.
Any comments on this setup?
Hans
From: slynn@novell.com (Shawn Lynn)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.sys.laptops,comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Re: What's the best laptop for the buck?
Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 16:46:14 GMT
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Dennis Strickland <wettoad@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
>Stacy D. Coil wrote:
>>
>> Okay,
>>
>> I am looking for the best laptop for the money. If I had my wish, I
>> would order the new IBM 760ED 166 with the 2 gig hard drive. But alas,
>> by budget is only $5,000.
<clip, clip, clip>
>Look into the Toshiba Tecra 720CDT for about $5400. Although they are
>impossible to find, you will be extremely happy even moreso than any IBM
>ThinkPad in my opinion.
But beware of the Tecra if battery life is a priority for you. You'll
only see about 2 - 2 1/2 hours max of real-world use, it only supports
one battery, and it can take up to 11 HOURS to recharge the battery
when the system is on.
The other day I had 28% battery power at the beginning of the day,
plugged in my system at 8:00am, worked on it all day, and when I left
at 5:00pm battery power was only up to 69%.
From: mpaque@pacbell.net (Mike Paquette)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Re: IDE / SCSI question
Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 23:28:49 GMT
Organization: Electronics Service, Unit No. 16
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scott@bcog.org wrote:
>On an Intel platform is it possible to use an IDE CD-ROM (either of the two
>8x IDE drives that are NEXT compatible) as well as an Adaptec 2940UW with
>SCSI drive? or must all devices be either SCSI or IDE?
You can have both SCSI and IDE devices present. I've run a system
with IDE hard disk and CD-ROM, and an external SCSI disk on an Adaptec
1540C with no problems. The system insisted on booting from the IDE
hard disk, though.
The biggest problem you might have is getting the PC's BIOS to boot
from the hard disk, although the Adaptec firmware is pretty good about
patching it's way into the boot chain.
Mike Paquette
I don't speak for my employer, and they don't speak for me.
mpaque@pacbell.net Personal E-mail
mpaque@next.com NeXT business mail only, please
From: chris@polaris.scicntr.ortn.edu (Operator)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: DSP as ParallelPort
Date: 21 Sep 1996 01:23:13 GMT
Organization: Oak Ridge National Lab, Oak Ridge, TN
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I'm trying to figure out if it is possible to use a NeXT's DSP port as a
straight parallel port.
Has anyone ever done something like this ? I'm looking for an example to work
with.
Thanks for any replies -
CB
From: dicosmo@localhost (Roberto Di Cosmo)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Re: JAZ ?
Date: 21 Sep 1996 09:30:30 GMT
Organization: Ecole Normale Superieure
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In-reply-to: Zanitti Leo's message of Thu, 19 Sep 1996 10:54:24 +0200
As is explained (even if in a passing remark) in NextAnswers
about Jaz drives, a DOS preformatted Jaz disk needs a low
level format (using sdform) before you can initialize it.
I have a Jaz drive, under 3.3, and I really did exactly this:
+ sdform (in your log, you answered y, not Y to sdform, so the
format was aborted: do it again!)
+ normal disk initialization
This worked without a flaw on a DOS cartridge and on the Tools
cartridge (that, by the way, I could not get to work under Windows!!!!)
Hope this helps
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From: "Oscar M. Herrera" <oscarmh@netcom.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Re: Drivers for Modems?
Date: 22 Sep 1996 00:40:24 GMT
Organization: Oscar M. Herrera
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I would love to know how you got that modem working I have been trying for
a week with no success.
Oscar Herrera.
Operator <root@opus.bloomco.ornl.gov> wrote in article
<51pt85$9tl@stc06.ctd.ornl.gov>...
> I can only locate two "drivers" listed in the FaxModem setup under the
> PrintManager.app, neither seem to apply to my modem. Where can I locate
> the modem drivers for a Practical Peripherals PM144MT II so that it will
> work correctly under NS 3.3 on a Cube? I've searched NeXTAnswers,
> Stepwise, and webcrawler. Can't locate anything addressing adding new
> types of Fax Modems.
>
> I've been able to use the modem via tip to connect to another computer,
so
> I know it works and seems to use Hayes commands. I don't have a manual
> either to dig out all the commands. Is there a site where I could locate
> the commands for this modem? A phone number for the manufacturer?
>
> Thanks,
>
From: Ken Kopp <ken@koppelectronics.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.marketplace
Subject: Re: color monitor repair?
Date: Sat, 21 Sep 1996 18:20:10 -0700
Organization: InfoMine of the Rockies, Inc.
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To: j brasher <brasherj@zoology.washington.edu>
j brasher wrote:
>
> does anyone know where i could get a NeXT color monitor (model N4001)
> repaired? we could handle it locally, but so far have been unable to
> come up with a workable substitute for a Phillips BUV-26A transistor.
> Phillips no longer manufactures the wretched thing, and seems never to
> have published the specifications.
>
> j brasher
> department of zoology, university of washington
Hi I'll bet we may be able to help you, feel free to check out our web
sight for more info: http://www.koppelectronics.com ......Ken
From: jimbrown@mcs.com
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.sys.laptops,comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Re: What's the best laptop for the buck?
Date: 22 Sep 1996 01:53:50 GMT
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In <3241D158.5323@enc.org>, "Stacy D. Coil" <coil@enc.org> writes:
>Okay,
>
>I am looking for the best laptop for the money. If I had my wish, I
>would order the new IBM 760ED 166 with the 2 gig hard drive. But alas,
>by budget is only $5,000.
>
>Here is the criteria.
>
>--Must Haves-----------------
>
>Under $5,000
>Extremely Reliable
>Pentium 133 or better
>12.1 XGA (1024 x768) or larger with 16 bpp or better
>16 Megs of memory
>16 bit sound with midi/game port
>> 1 gig drive (preferably 2 gig)
>Vary Expandable
>
>Be able to run Linux with X, Windows 95, and Windows NT
>
>--Would be nice---------------
>
>Great technical Support
>3 year warranty or better
>Video Capture
>Integrated Modem
>Ethernet and SCSI
>CD-Rom drive
>Upgradeable CPU and CD-Rom
>Memory expandable to something useful (say 80 Megs)
>Good Keyboard layout
>Comfortable pointing device
>
>Able to run NeXTSTEP, and MacOS ;-)
>
>
>-------------------------------
>
>I have been looking at two laptops. One is the EPS-166XL, I haven't
>heard much about it, other than a small blurb in the C-Shopper. I hear
>that it is not as fast as some other laptops and that tech support
>okay. However, it has a 13.3" active matrix screen, and comes with 40
>Megs of memory for only $4800.
>
>The other laptop is the IBM 560. I like IBM because in my experience
>there tech support is great. But, the 560 has only an SVGA screen.
>Does anyone know if IBM is planning to announce a new 560 like 760's?
>
>What are other people's opinions?
>
>Thanks
>
>Stacy D. Coil
>coil@enc.org
>Eisenhower National Clearinghouse
From: jimbrown@mcs.com
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.sys.laptops,comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Re: What's the best laptop for the buck?
Date: 22 Sep 1996 01:58:50 GMT
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In <3241D158.5323@enc.org>, "Stacy D. Coil" <coil@enc.org> writes:
>Okay,
>
>I am looking for the best laptop for the money. If I had my wish, I
>would order the new IBM 760ED 166 with the 2 gig hard drive. But alas,
>by budget is only $5,000.
>
>Here is the criteria.
>
>--Must Haves-----------------
>
>Under $5,000
>Extremely Reliable
>Pentium 133 or better
>12.1 XGA (1024 x768) or larger with 16 bpp or better
>16 Megs of memory
>16 bit sound with midi/game port
>> 1 gig drive (preferably 2 gig)
>Vary Expandable
>
>Be able to run Linux with X, Windows 95, and Windows NT
>
>--Would be nice---------------
>
>Great technical Support
>3 year warranty or better
>Video Capture
>Integrated Modem
>Ethernet and SCSI
>CD-Rom drive
>Upgradeable CPU and CD-Rom
>Memory expandable to something useful (say 80 Megs)
>Good Keyboard layout
>Comfortable pointing device
>
>Able to run NeXTSTEP, and MacOS ;-)
>
>
>-------------------------------
>
>I have been looking at two laptops. One is the EPS-166XL, I haven't
>heard much about it, other than a small blurb in the C-Shopper. I hear
>that it is not as fast as some other laptops and that tech support
>okay. However, it has a 13.3" active matrix screen, and comes with 40
>Megs of memory for only $4800.
>
>The other laptop is the IBM 560. I like IBM because in my experience
>there tech support is great. But, the 560 has only an SVGA screen.
>Does anyone know if IBM is planning to announce a new 560 like 760's?
>
>What are other people's opinions?
>
>Thanks
>
>Stacy D. Coil
>coil@enc.org
>Eisenhower National Clearinghouse
I think the Micron is the winner, but don't know about compatibility with other
OS's. I'm running OS/2 on it with 100% compatibility. Screen is 800x600, 12.1",
and does 1024x768 to ext monitor. It also does 1280x1024x16 with ACAD R12
DOS! See my reply to "What are the pros/cons..." for more details of my ex-
perience. It comes real close to your price point for the features you want, and,
according to PC Mag, is quite close in speed to the 760 P133.
Jim
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From: mcgrant@wheezer.stanford.edu (Michael C. Grant)
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Subject: Re: What's the best laptop for the buck?
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slynn@novell.com (Shawn Lynn) writes:
> But beware of the Tecra if battery life is a priority for you. You'll
> only see about 2 - 2 1/2 hours max of real-world use, it only supports
> one battery, and it can take up to 11 HOURS to recharge the battery
> when the system is on.
> The other day I had 28% battery power at the beginning of the day,
> plugged in my system at 8:00am, worked on it all day, and when I left
> at 5:00pm battery power was only up to 69%.
Indeed, if recharge time is a priority then you have to figure in the
cost of an external charger with the Tecras. Charging the battery while
you're using the unit takes a long time; when you're not, it's pretty
speedy.
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From: Matt Jurcich <invisix@goldengate.net>
Subject: NeXT Black Computer Info Needed!
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Date: Sat, 21 Sep 1996 01:43:39 -0700
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Hey there,
I am very unknowledgable with NeXT computers, but am interested in
possibly purchasing one--the OS is supposed to be nice and
non-Microsoft.
A few (actually a bunch) basic questions, then:
NeXT had their own hardware in the black cases. 030 and 040 systems
were made (I found the Hardware-FAQ), at various speeds. Is there any
one system that is recommended over another? Fastest is probably best,
but that is not always true.
Does anyone have pictures of the NeXTcube or NeXTstation? I believe
I've seen them before, but I can't remember, as I think it was a few
years ago. Take a quick picture and zap it in for me.
Is there a "classic" model (like a classic car). The Indigo is the
classic model from Silicon Graphics. What is, if any, the NeXT
equivilent?
How common are color video systems? Seems they made a lot of
black-and-white systems, and some were possibly upgradable with the
NeXTdimension board. Are there any of those boards around? I guess
it would be weird to buy a box that wasn't color. :)
If anyone has screen shots, I would be interested in seeing them as
well.
What is the latest version of the OS? On what media was it distributed?
Is NeXT still making it for it's own hardware, or have they totally
abandoned it for Intel platforms? Is media available?
Is the optical drive a CD-ROM drive or something different? Writable?
I believe there is built-in ethernet networking hardware. Is it a
10baseT connector, AUI, or what?
I have a NEC XP21 monitor with the BNC connectors that works on an SGI
PI 4D/25G. I'll guess and say it will work on a NeXT. Opinions?
It is very cool that NeXT boxes use 30-pin or 72-pin SIMMS and standard
SCSI drives. A great sigh of relief as compared to older SGI boxes--
very proprietary and very expensive to upgrade. Does most 30-pin/72-pin
memory work in these things?
How's the Novell Netware connectivity?
I thought I saw someone had X Mosiac for NeXT. I also saw a listing
of three other browsers for NeXT (SpiderWoman, NetSurfer, and one
other). Are these for NeXT hardware or Intel hardware with OPENSTEP?
Base question, what are the web browser options for a black NeXT box?
I hope these questions weren't too FAQ-able--I did look. Thanks for any
info. If there is a web site other than
http://biomech.mae.cornell.edu/~schmidt/next/
or links off that page let me know!
Later.
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From: ashley@digalt.com (Ashley Campbel)
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Subject: Re: How to react to Money Scam Spam...
Date: Sat, 21 Sep 1996 09:55:46 -0500
Organization: Digital Alternatives
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> You both make good points, but it can be added that you shouldn't need to
> even trouble yourself with the stamp. "Official business" to the Postal
> Inspector goes through the post for free, or you could just drop off the
> matrial/names/addresses with your local post office. They are very happy
> to have it.
>
> The trouble with some of these (see original posting) is that they
> originate from outside the U.S. While chain letters and pyramid schemes
> are a U.S. Federal crime, they may not be in all countries involved. A
> polite letter to the sys-admin at the foreign Internet site is the best
> course of action to discourage the spammer in such a case. The U.S. postal
> addresses on his/her list can still go to Uncle Sam's Inspectors, however.
>
My response is much easier. I just forward copies to the postmaster, root,
hostmaster, and webmaster of their domain. And then, I forward them ten.
It works each time. The masters (usually one or two people) get quite
irked, and the problem user is quickly gone. It sounds a little extreme,
but I'm getting sick of junk mail.
-Ash
From: nirvana@interport.net (Moonlit Knight)
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Subject: NeXT TurboStation for Sale
Date: 22 Sep 1996 10:15:36 -0400
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I have this for sale simply since I don't have time to use it. It's in
beautiful cindition... looks brand new. Here's the specs:
33mhz 68040
16 mb ram
250 mb Hard drive
17" MegaPixel Mono Display
Keyboard & mouse
Screen is very bright. Asking $1000. Willing to negotiate... especially if
you're in the Philly area, then you could just pick it up and I'd be
willing to give a price break because of the sheer convenience of not
having to ship it.
Please e-mail responses to nirvana@interport.net
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From: Eric Levenez <levenez@club-internet.fr>
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Subject: Pioneer CD-ROM X10 on NeXT
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Just for information :
The "PIONEER CD-ROM DR-U10X Rev 1.07" works very well on my
NeXTstation. It is a very speed CD-ROM reader. I use it to
reinstall NS 3.3 on my internal hard disk with success. And
I can read CD-Photo (my old Toshiba XM-3401B doesn't) !
Eric.
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From: Eric Levenez <levenez@club-internet.fr>
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Subject: IBM HD 4GB on NeXT
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Just for information :
I put the hard disk "IBM DFRSS4F Rev 4B4B", a 4 GB in external
on my NeXTstation. And it works fine.
I put a jumper on "D TI SY" and on "DIS PAR", and I build 3 partitions
with a disktab :
DFRSS4F|DFRSS4F-512|IBM DFRSS4F:\
:ty=fixed_rw_scsi:nc#4392:nt#16:ns#135:ss#512:rm#7200:\
:fp#320:bp#0:ng#0:gs#0:ga#0:ao#0:\
:os=sdmach:z0#64:z1#192:hn=tasha:rw=a:rw=b:\
:pa#0:sa#3997696:ba#8192:fa#1024:ca#32:da#4096:ra#3:oa=time:\
:ia:ta=4.3BSD:\
:pb#3997696:sb#3997696:bb#8192:fb#1024:cb#32:db#4096:rb#3:ob=time:\
:ib:tb=4.3BSD:\
:pc#7995392:sc#811008:bc#8192:fc#1024:cc#32:dc#4096:rc#10:oc=time:\
:ic:tc=4.3BSD:
I have warning with "disk", but it works. I have two 2 GB and one 400 MB
partitions.
Eric.
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From: dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca (David Evans)
Subject: Re: DSP as ParallelPort
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Date: Sun, 22 Sep 1996 02:30:31 GMT
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Organization: University of Waterloo
In article <51vg21$e0f@stc06.ctd.ornl.gov>,
Operator <chris@polaris.scicntr.ortn.edu> wrote:
>
>I'm trying to figure out if it is possible to use a NeXT's DSP port as a
>straight parallel port.
>
>Has anyone ever done something like this ? I'm looking for an example to work
>with.
>
Could likely be done. I don't recall which DSP signals get spat out the
port, but there should be enough there to get a parappel port together.
So all you'd have to do would be to write the loadable kernel server to get
/dev/parallal (or whatever) and then write the 56k code for the DSP side. :)
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Ontario, Canada overridden by your command." - Roland TR-707 Manual
From: uli@zoodle.robin.de (Ulrich Grepel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Re: NeXT-Intel PPro Configuration: feedback pleeeeeze!!!
Date: 22 Sep 1996 14:46:35 GMT
Organization: meow!!! (private site)
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On 09/22/96, Steven M. Boker wrote:
> >Screen : EIZO T67, 53cm (20)
> >
> Don't know anything about the EIZO.
For those who don't know: EIZO = Nanao for the USA.
Their high end 21" monitor is one of the best regularly available screens.
Unfortunately it's also incredibly expensive...
Bye,
Uli
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From: Joe Barello <joeba@jbc.com>
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Subject: Prob with Objectstation floppy drive...
Date: Sun, 22 Sep 1996 14:29:05 -0400
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My Canon Object.Station41 (early demo unit) #424AO00015
Has a floppy drive problem that needs to be repaired.
(running DOS 6.2 - not running NextStep)
(1)diskette drive sometimes is not recognized on bootup - machine will
hang at bootup - it really wants a disk drive...(swapped drive and cable
- looks like motherboard problem) (problem goes away after period of
time with machine turned off???)
(2)when working, drive does not reread new disks between a disk eject
event - lists cached info from first disk(drive will re-examine ONLY if
a <cntl-C> is issued during listing - then putting in new disk)(can't
install any software: installs think next disk is first disk...)
This is an early demo unit #424AO00015. It has been in for repair in
1994 with problem #1 - which did not appear during repair. Problem #2
is new...
- Is there any SETUP parameters or motherboard switches that would
create problem #2?
- Is it possible to get a replacement motherboard and riser board to
solve problem #1?
Any contacts for getting support/parts?
<other than the Canon.usa webpage>
Joe Barello
212-580-8366
NY, NY
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From: Randy Jay Yarger <randy@hs1.hst.msu.edu>
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Subject: 3GB IDE Drive on Intel NS3.3
Date: Sun, 22 Sep 1996 15:35:42 -0400
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Hi,
I'm trying to install NS3.3 onto a 3.2GB Quantum Fireball hard drive.
NeXTAnswers says that the filesystem doesn't support partitions greater
than 2GB. But fdisk will only let me have 1 NeXTSTEP partition.
Is there any way to have more than one NS partition? I suppose I could
format the remaining 1GB as DOS, but then I'd lose long filename ability
and performance.
TIA,
Randy Jay Yarger | Department of Physics, Michigan State University
randy@hs1.hst.msu.edu | http://hs1.hst.msu.edu/randy/randy.html
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Subject: 3GB IDE Drive on Intel NS3.3
Date: Sun, 22 Sep 1996 15:35:42 -0400
Hi,
I'm trying to install NS3.3 onto a 3.2GB Quantum Fireball hard drive.
NeXTAnswers says that the filesystem doesn't support partitions greater than
2GB. But fdisk will only let me have 1 NeXTSTEP partition.
Is there any way to have more than one NS partition? I suppose I could format
the remaining 1GB as DOS, but then I'd lose long filename ability and
performance.
TIA,
Randy Jay Yarger | Department of Physics, Michigan State University
randy@hs1.hst.msu.edu | http://hs1.hst.msu.edu/randy/randy.html
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
What about BuildDisk? Can't it make multiple partitions?
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From: izumi@pinoko.berkeley.edu (Izumi Ohzawa)
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Subject: Re: DSP as ParallelPort
Date: 22 Sep 1996 22:34:23 GMT
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In article <Dy44Av.nIF@novice.uwaterloo.ca> dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca (David Evans) writes:
>In article <51vg21$e0f@stc06.ctd.ornl.gov>,
>Operator <chris@polaris.scicntr.ortn.edu> wrote:
>>
>>I'm trying to figure out if it is possible to use a NeXT's DSP port as a
>>straight parallel port.
>>
>>Has anyone ever done something like this ? I'm looking for an example to work
>>with.
> Could likely be done. I don't recall which DSP signals get spat out the
>port, but there should be enough there to get a parappel port together.
> So all you'd have to do would be to write the loadable kernel server to get
>/dev/parallal (or whatever) and then write the 56k code for the DSP side. :)
It's been a while since I worked on DSP programming on the black hardware.
You can get up to 9 lines of TTL level signals (Port C) which may be programmed
individually for input or output. I haven't done it but it can be done.
It will work fine as a generic 9-bit I/O port. It is probably all the
matter of initializing operating mode, and working with on-chip peripheral
registers X:$FFE1, X:$FFE3, and X:$FFE5 on the DSP side.
For the host commnunication, there is no need to write a loadable
kernel server for custom DSP work, like controlling switches or
sensing TTL levels. All of that can be sone via old snddriver_*
calls.
However, this port cannot be used as a parallel _printer_ port as there aren't
enough lines avaialble for that purpose on the DSP port. So it can't be a
/dev/pp0. And if you are thinking about driving a printer, forget it.
Instead, buy an Ethernet->parallel port box or card like HP's JetDirect for
high throughput printing.
I suggest that you start with:
ftp://ccrma-ftp.stanford.edu/pub/NeXT/DSP/dspexamples.next_hardware_or_ilink_board.tar.Z
ftp://ccrma-ftp.stanford.edu/pub/DSP/JeanLaroche.tar.Z
and the Moto manual at:
http://www.mot.com/SPS/DSP/home/eng/tec/56001um.html
especially:
http://www.mot.com/SPS/DSP/pdf/tech_doc/56001/001_User_Manual/as_printed/11.pdf
The doc for snddriver_* funcitons should also be somewhere at the CCRMA site.
Also, the old NeXT Mandelbrot source that used DSP was helpful
as a guide for implementing complex controls and the use of DMA.
Izumi Ohzawa
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From: John Kheit <jkheit@cnj.digex.net>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Re: NeXT-Intel PPro Configuration: feedback pleeeeeze!!!
Date: 22 Sep 1996 23:30:58 GMT
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sboker@calliope.uucp (Steven M. Boker) wrote:
> >RAM : 64 MB EDO
> >
> RAM is always good the more the better and its cheap. You might be able
to bump up the RAM with what you save on the MB.
Good general rule of thumb... However, I might suggest getting parity
memory. EDO offers only a 1% boost to machines that have a ram cache. But
parity, on at least some pentium pro motherboards, offers ECC (error
correcting) features that make it worthwhile for me anyway....
> >Graphik : HERCULES PCI 4 MB Terminator S3 968, VRAM
> I went with a Matrox Millenium. I'm very happy with the results. I can
run 1600x1200 at 75 hz. I went with 8 MB of RAM. I'd recommend that over
4 MB if you have the money. The screen is the point of interface between
you and the machine. If you are good to the machine here, you will be
thankful in the long run. I don't know anything about the Hercules card.
Yes, I too reccomend getting 8megs if you at all can. BTW, can the Matrox
do 1600X1200 at 32 bits under NEXTSTEP/OPENSTEP? The drivers don't seem to
support it...seem to only support 1600X1200 at 16bit... I know the 8meg #9
Imagine 128 supports 32bit 1600X1200 display.
> >SCSI-Adapter : Adaptec AHA 2940 U
> Good choice.
I reccomend getting the ultra wide dpt's...they are great.
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From: stefanos@Vir.com (Stefanos Kiakas)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: NeXTSTEP driver Web site.
Date: 23 Sep 1996 00:20:56 -0400
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(I posted this about a week ago but I haven't seen it on Altavista
so I thought I would post it again. - stef )
Hello,
I'd like to ask all of you out there who are looking for
a driver or have written a driver and want the NeXTSTEP user community to
know about it to send me an email message at
stefanos@uniscape.com
Those of you who are feeling more generous could
submit a "How I developed a SUPERFOO driver" to help other people learn
to build/modify drivers to customize them to meet their own needs.
(Assuming they know how to program.)
Any help would be appreciated,
stef
From: amr@farben.latrobe.edu.au (Alistair Riddell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Re: DSP as ParallelPort
Date: 23 Sep 1996 04:02:28 GMT
Organization: La Trobe University
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <52524k$gnd@lugb.latrobe.edu.au>
References: <51vg21$e0f@stc06.ctd.ornl.gov>
In article <51vg21$e0f@stc06.ctd.ornl.gov> chris@polaris.scicntr.ortn.edu
(Operator) writes:
>
> I'm trying to figure out if it is possible to use a NeXT's DSP port as a
> straight parallel port.
>
> Has anyone ever done something like this ? I'm looking for an example to
work
> with.
>
> Thanks for any replies -
>
> CB
Some years ago I did this. I needed to communicate with some special
hardware. In the test stages, I hooked the DSP port up to an old IBM dot
matrix printer on which I checked the output data. Worked fine.
The major problem is that the DSP on has only 9 pins that can be used and
you really need 10 (9 out, 1 in - 8 data lines, 1 valid data line and an
input busy line). However, it depends on your application. You might get
away with 8 data and a valid data line and not require a return busy line.
I found that I could just introduce a wait before sending more data and
that seemed adequate although I would test it thoroughly. The 56000 code
is trivial to write.
--
Alistair Riddell
Post-Doctoral Research Fellow
Department of Music, La Trobe University
Bundoora 3083
Victoria Australia
http://farben.latrobe.edu.au/alistair/
From: tyf@sirius.com (Tin-Yau Fung)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Jaz Disk as Boot Disk?
Date: 23 Sep 1996 06:20:00 GMT
Organization: Sirius Connections
Message-ID: <525a6g$15v@sun.sirius.com>
Hi,
I am wondering has anyone attempted to make the Jaz disk the bootup
disk? Can I simply format the Jaz disk with BuildDisk.app and put in the
disktab entry?
Any pitfalls I should avoid? Thanks...
--
---------------------------
Tin-Yau Fung @ UC Berkeley : tyf@ucsee.eecs.berkeley.edu.
MIME / NeXT mail welcome! http://www-ucsee.eecs.berkeley.edu/~tyf
From: rhca80@fsrams.sps.mot.com (Henry Melton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.graphics,comp.sys.mac.hardware.misc,comp.sys.mac.hardware.storage,comp.sys.mac.hardware.video,comp.sys.mac.hypercard,comp.sys.mac.oop.powerplant,comp.sys.mac.portables,comp.sys.mac.printing,comp.sys.mac.programmer.codewarrior,comp.sys.mac.programmer.help,comp.sys.mac.programmer.misc,comp.sys.mac.programmer.mtools,comp.sys.mac.system,comp.sys.mac.wanted,comp.sys.newton.misc,comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.palmtops,comp.sys.pen,comp.sys.powerpc,comp.
Subject: Re: How to react to Money Scam Spam...
Date: Mon, 23 Sep 1996 09:41:29 -0600
Organization: Semiconductor Products Sector
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <9609230941.AA29882@melton-henry-1.sps.mot.com>
References: <ashley-2109960955460001@news.gate.net>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
In article <ashley-2109960955460001@news.gate.net>, ashley@digalt.com (Ashley
Campbel) writes:
>
>
> My response is much easier. I just forward copies to the postmaster,
> root, hostmaster, and webmaster of their domain. And then, I forward
> them ten.
> It works each time. The masters (usually one or two people) get
> quite irked, and the problem user is quickly gone. It sounds a
> little extreme, but I'm getting sick of junk mail.
>
> -Ash
Let me tell you a little story, from the other side.
I am helping a small school in Texas host a web site. To make it
prettier, we applied for, and received a mint-new *.edu domain name
and my ISP set up the virtual domain on its machines. In addition
to the web site, we also got the whole email feed for that domain
into one mail box. Since there are no real email addresses for that
domain, I forwarded all email to my newton, which I could check via
PPP and POP once a week or so. Everything worked fine.
Over in California, a MMF spammer prepared a notice for many, many
usenet newsgroups. Through a mis-configured header, it appeared as
if the email address of the spammer was from my domain.
Unsuspecting admin, (me), connected his newton and began to download the
mailbox. When my newton crashed due to memory exhaustion, I began to suspect
that something was wrong.
After a day or so getting my newton back in working order, and unsuccessful
attempts to deduce the real email address of the culprit, I just gave up
and /dev/null'ed all the irate user mail.
My point: Some people take the tack "I can't hurt the spammer, so I'll
spam the admin." I no longer have any sympathy for that point of view.
ONE email to me detailing the problem would have been enough. The
header and first few lines of the offending message is all that is needed,
no one looks at the rest of it anyway, especially after the first one.
From: steffi@dgs.dgsys.com (Robert Nicholson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: NeXTSTEP/OpenStep on a AST Ascentia 950N?
Date: 20 Sep 1996 18:35:13 -0400
Organization: Digital Gateway Systems
Message-ID: <51v671$e4h@DGS.dgsys.com>
Anybody got NS running on one of these machines?
From: leigh@cs.uwa.edu.au (Leigh Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Probable FAQ: 686 Chip support on NS3.3?
Date: 23 Sep 1996 11:49:11 GMT
Organization: The University of Western Australia
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <525tfn$c5q@enyo.uwa.edu.au>
I guess this is an FAQ but I've not seen an answer to the question which
has just become relevant to me...
NS3.3 (Intel) Compat guide from NeXT doesn't mention the IBM 686 chips as
supported. Will a 133MHz version function ok with NS?
TIA
--
Leigh Smith Computer Science, University of Western Australia
+61-9-380-1945 leigh@cs.uwa.edu.au (NeXTMail/MIME)
"In a world where success means gaining time, thinking has a single but
irredeemable fault: it's a waste of time" - J-F. Lyotard
From: stefanos@Vir.com (Stefanos Kiakas)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Re: Strangest installation problem yet - Out of memory ?!!
Date: 23 Sep 1996 08:40:26 -0400
Organization: Communications Vir, Internet Access Montreal.
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <5260fq$qlm@Vir.com>
References: <5191i2$cbr@misty.rau.ac.za> <Pine.HPP.3.95.960920134258.24861A-100000@hphalle0.informatik.tu-muenchen.de>
Bernhard Scholz (scholz@informatik.tu-muenchen.de) wrote:
: If it's only the bootprogram, just copy your NS3.3. installation disk and
: install the OS4.0 bootsektor on this disk and retry.
: Greetings,
: Bernhard.
: --
: Bernhard Scholz (IRC: Boerny)
: scholzb@pst.informatik.uni-muenchen.de http://peanuts.leo.org/
: http://www.leo.org/~scholz/
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware
From: fugue@ccp.spc.uchicago.edu
Subject: Re: Hardware mod to turn NeXT cube on after power failure?
In-Reply-To: croehrig@cs.ubc.ca's message of 23 Sep 1996 15:10:06 GMT
Message-ID: <ukv20fti5h7.fsf@dura.spc.uchicago.edu>
Sender: fugue@dura.spc.uchicago.edu
Organization: University of Chicago -- Academic Computing Services
References: <52698e$998@nnrp.cs.ubc.ca>
Date: Mon, 23 Sep 1996 16:03:16 GMT
croehrig@cs.ubc.ca (Chris Roehrig) said:
>
>
> Is there a hardware modification I can do to get my 25 MHz cube to
> automatically power on after a power failure?
Ewwwww! Now THIS would be tricky. My off-the-cuff suggestion would be
a seperate controller plugged into the same outlet as the cube. You'd need
to set up something capable of operating what would be, in essence, an
electronic momentary switch to temporarily shunt pins 6 and 19 on the
monitor connector whenever power is applied to the controller.
****WARNING!!!!!!******
I am no electronics wizard, and I take ABSOLUTELY NO RESPONSIBILITY for
ANYTHING that happens if you follow any part of the ideas below. If it
works, great. If something goes wrong, it's not my fault.
***********************
I'm not sure of the exact setup (check one of the electronics
newsgroups...), but it sounds like you'd need a stepdown transformer to
change the 120VAC to 12V (or even 5V)DC, and then have that voltage charge
a capacitor. The cap would be connected to a relay (hopefully
opto-isolated...we don't want voltage on those pins, other than what's
already there), and the relay would sit between pins 6 and 19, in series
with a 470-Ohm resistor. When the cap charges to capacity (caused by power
being applied to the circuit), it would discharge, causing the relay to
momentarily close, thus completing the circuit between pins 6 and 19
temporarily, causing the cube to power up. The BIG trick would be to use
that same cap discharge to OPEN a relay in front of the cap, so that this
only occurs once (the AC power will continue to be fed to the transformer).
A possibility would be to use a normally-closed relay, which would open and
stay open after it receives a certain amount of voltage. That amount would
be the output of the transformer plus the output of the cap discharge.
Either one by itself would not be sufficient to break the circuit,
therefore allowing the cap to charge once.
When powered up, the relay before the cap would close, the cap would charge
and subsequently discharge, temporarily closing the optoisolated relay bridging
the resistor between pins 9 and 19, and simultaneously forcing the relay in
front of the cap to open, breaking the circuit. The device would sit in this
state until power was again applied to it (e.g., once the AC line came back on
after a power outage).
Alternately, you could use other pins providing voltage from the monitor port
to hold the pre-cap relay open. Of course, you're now stuck with a device
that would in effect refuse to let you turn off your cube for an extended
period of time. :)
Hope it was interesting, if not helpful. :)
--Mark C. Langston
University of Chicago
--
fugue
"The police used to watch over the people.
Now they're watching the people."
From: mmalcolm crawford <m.crawford@shef.ac.uk>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.hardware,comp.ibm.pc.hardware,copy.sys.ibm.hardware,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,
Subject: Re: Prob with Objectstation floppy drive...
Date: 23 Sep 1996 16:53:44 GMT
Organization: University of Sheffield, UK
Message-ID: <526fao$af0@bignews.shef.ac.uk>
References: <32458571.4A4C@jbc.com>
In-Reply-To: <32458571.4A4C@jbc.com>
Hi Joe,
Good to see a post from you after so long -- sad that it's on such a topic...
On 09/22/96, Joe Barello wrote:
> My Canon Object.Station41 (early demo unit) #424AO00015
> Has a floppy drive problem that needs to be repaired.
> (running DOS 6.2 - not running NextStep)
>
This is almost certainly a motherboard problem, although it might also be due
to a tired battery (I'll send you more info, gratefully received originally
from TheDrJay --
> - Is it possible to get a replacement motherboard and riser board to
> solve problem #1?
>
Yup, spend lots of money and try track down a new one from Canon.
Else plan B -- buy a new case, motherboard and whatever other pieces you
need, and make an even better machine with whatever you salvage (RAM, h/d,
maybe SCSI card etc).
> Any contacts for getting support/parts?
> <other than the Canon.usa webpage>
>
Hahahaha.
<sigh>
Where have you tried?
Best wishes,
mmalc.
--
From: croehrig@cs.ubc.ca (Chris Roehrig)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Hardware mod to turn NeXT cube on after power failure?
Date: 23 Sep 1996 15:10:06 GMT
Organization: Computer Science, University of B.C., Vancouver, B.C., Canada
Message-ID: <52698e$998@nnrp.cs.ubc.ca>
Is there a hardware modification I can do to get my 25 MHz cube to
automatically power on after a power failure?
--
Chris Roehrig (croehrig@House.ORG or croehrig@sns.cs.ubc.ca)
Neuroscience and Computer Science at University of British Columbia, Vancouver
http://www.House.ORG/chris http://www.sns.cs.ubc.ca/chris
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
From: dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca (David Evans)
Subject: Re: NeXT Black Computer Info Needed!
Sender: news@novice.uwaterloo.ca (Mr. News)
Message-ID: <Dy5tns.355@novice.uwaterloo.ca>
Date: Mon, 23 Sep 1996 00:35:52 GMT
References: <3243AABB.4287@goldengate.net>
Organization: University of Waterloo
In article <3243AABB.4287@goldengate.net>,
Matt Jurcich <invisix@goldengate.net> wrote:
>A few (actually a bunch) basic questions, then:
>
OK.
>NeXT had their own hardware in the black cases. 030 and 040 systems
>were made (I found the Hardware-FAQ), at various speeds. Is there any
>one system that is recommended over another? Fastest is probably best,
>but that is not always true.
>
It depends what you want.
In my eyes a Turbo Cube with Dimension board, RAM all maxed out, with ADB
keyboard/mouse would be ideal. Mono and colour monitors, of course. Might as
well stick a Nitro in there while I'm dreaming. :)
The NeXTstation Turbo Color is the snapiest black machine around, although
I'd rather have the 32-bit colour of the Dimension (and I do ;)).
>Is there a "classic" model (like a classic car). The Indigo is the
>classic model from Silicon Graphics. What is, if any, the NeXT
>equivilent?
>
Indigo is SGI's "classic"? I would have thought it was the 1400. (just
kidding.)
Cubes look nicer than slabs IMHO, and the Nitro machines are something of a
holy grail, but there are only about 5 Nitros in the world, so they're pretty
much a non-issue.
>How common are color video systems? Seems they made a lot of
>black-and-white systems, and some were possibly upgradable with the
>NeXTdimension board. Are there any of those boards around? I guess
>it would be weird to buy a box that wasn't color. :)
>
The mono monitors, provided you get an N4000A that's in good condition, are
very nice. Mono cubes can be upgraded to colour with a Dimension board and a
colour monitor; you can keep the mono monitor for two-headed operation or you
can forego it for a sound box. Mono slabs are not upgradable to colour.
Dimension boards are seen for sale from time to time.
>What is the latest version of the OS? On what media was it distributed?
4.0, on CD.
>Is NeXT still making it for it's own hardware, or have they totally
>abandoned it for Intel platforms? Is media available?
>
Yep--4.0 runs on black. I haven't seen it, though.
>Is the optical drive a CD-ROM drive or something different? Writable?
>
It's different. Holds 256MB on custom cartridges. A little unreliable, but
fun nevertheless. Only non-Turbo cubes ('030 and '040) can use the optical
drive--support was removed from the Turbo chipset.
>I believe there is built-in ethernet networking hardware. Is it a
>10baseT connector, AUI, or what?
>
'040-based systems (cubes and slabs) have 10baseT and 10base2. '030 cubes
only have 10base2.
>It is very cool that NeXT boxes use 30-pin or 72-pin SIMMS and standard
>SCSI drives. A great sigh of relief as compared to older SGI boxes--
>very proprietary and very expensive to upgrade. Does most 30-pin/72-pin
>memory work in these things?
>
Cubes and most non-Turbo mono slabs use 30-pin SIMMs *ONLY*. All Turbo
machines use 72-pin SIMMs. Colour stations use 72-pin SIMMs. Some non-Turbo
slabs (that I call Turboid) use the Turbo chipset and therefore use 72-pin
SIMMs. The NeXTdimension board uses 72-pin SIMMs (4 at a time--128 bit data
path!)
I've had very good luck with memory. You have to make sure you get "low
profile" SIMMs for non-Turbo cubes, as the higher ones will run into the power
supply/drive chassis. Slabs don't have this problem.
>How's the Novell Netware connectivity?
>
I played with it a little. I could get files, but that's about all I tried.
>I thought I saw someone had X Mosiac for NeXT. I also saw a listing
>of three other browsers for NeXT (SpiderWoman, NetSurfer, and one
>other).
>Are these for NeXT hardware or Intel hardware with OPENSTEP?
>Base question, what are the web browser options for a black NeXT box?
>
You could run an X server and use Mosaic or remote-display Netscape. However
the native browsers are nice (although a little slow). OmniWeb and Netsurfer
are the main ones; Spider Woman is a little old. I like OmniWeb.
>I hope these questions weren't too FAQ-able--I did look. Thanks for any
>info. If there is a web site other than
>
Hope I got most of them. :)
--
David Evans (NeXTMail OK) dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca
Computer/Synth Junkie http://bbcr.uwaterloo.ca/~dfevans/
University of Waterloo "Default is the value selected by the composer
Ontario, Canada overridden by your command." - Roland TR-707 Manual
From: daniels@mindspring.com (Alan Daniels)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.graphics,comp.sys.mac.hardware.misc,comp.sys.mac.hardware.storage,comp.sys.mac.hardware.video,comp.sys.mac.hypercard,comp.sys.mac.oop.powerplant,comp.sys.mac.portables,comp.sys.mac.printing,comp.sys.mac.programmer.codewarrior,comp.sys.mac.programmer.help,comp.sys.mac.programmer.misc,comp.sys.mac.programmer.mtools,comp.sys.mac.system,comp.sys.mac.wanted,comp.sys.newton.misc,comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.palmtops,comp.sys.pen,comp.sys.powerpc,comp.
Subject: Re: How to react to Money Scam Spam...
Date: Mon, 23 Sep 1996 17:24:54 GMT
Organization: Mindspring Enterprises, Inc.
Message-ID: <5262v8$1b3@camel0.mindspring.com>
References: <ashley-2109960955460001@news.gate.net> <9609230941.AA29882@melton-henry-1.sps.mot.com>
rhca80@fsrams.sps.mot.com (Henry Melton) wrote:
[snip...]
>My point: Some people take the tack "I can't hurt the spammer, so I'll
>spam the admin." I no longer have any sympathy for that point of view.
>ONE email to me detailing the problem would have been enough. The
>header and first few lines of the offending message is all that is needed,
>no one looks at the rest of it anyway, especially after the first one.
Depending on the newsgroup, a full *ten percent* of the traffic is
related to Make Money Fast (MMF) scams. Stamping out the MMFs is as
futile as trying to get rid of cockroaches: Sure, you can step on
them, but what happens when you have a million cockroaches?
Over the last year or so, the percentage of postings with substance in
them has dropped off noticeably. Between the MMFs, the finance and
insurance ads, the sex-related web site ads, the "me too" postings,
and so on and so on, its gotten pretty damn noisy in here. An estimate
in PCWeek said that the Internet was going to grow by 60% next year.
It's only going to get worse.
It isn't going to last forever, though. Between Java-enabled pages,
the web-enabled version of Notes, and the next version of Netscape
that will integrate Collabra, web-based discussion sites will be
common within a year. There are a few out there already, but they are
still in the experimental stage.
All the intelligent discussions will eventually move off of Usenet and
onto the Web. The downside of this is that most discussions will be
moderated. Also, with everything centralized on the web, no one will
say "comp.lang.c++" anymore, but rather "The c++ discussion site at
MIT". I can live with this, though. Look on the good side: No more
ads, no more MMFs, and no more of someone jumping into a group about
topic A and yelling "topic A sucks!". Also, no obvious way for a third
party to collect a thousand e-mail addresses to send spam to.
I'll miss Usenet, but it is in the middle of being killed off by
advertisers and MMF spammers. Once the exodus begins, it will snowball
until there's nothing left but ads.
Usenet will be dead in three years.
--
============
Alan Daniels
daniels@mindspring.com
From: scott@bcog.org
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: 3COM EtherLink XL 3C900-Combo
Date: 23 Sep 1996 15:03:35 GMT
Organization: British Columbia OpenStep Group
Message-ID: <5268s7$l25@news.bctel.net>
Has anyone had any success in using the 3Com EtherLink XL 3C900-Combo card
with Openstep 4.0?
If so what driver is used?
The latest model NEXT specifies in their list is the 3Com EtherLink III
3C589C-COMBO (BNC, RJ-45)
Any help is appreciated.
From: Amaro Jose Rica da Silva <amaro@klein.ist.utl.pt>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: NeXT printer Problem
Date: Mon, 23 Sep 1996 16:11:57 +0000
Organization: Physics Dept
Message-ID: <3246B6CD.41C6@klein.ist.utl.pt>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Hello all,
After one month of inactivity, my NeXT printer now repeats an error
message "printer cover is open" no matter what I do to close it.
It still recognizes that paper tray is in or out, and the fan works too,
but I cannot get the other engines to work.
Any suggestions ?
Thanks anyway
Amaro Rica da Silva
Physics Dept. IST
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware
From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@nerc.com>
Subject: Re: Hardware mod to turn NeXT cube on after power failure?
Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.95.960923143049.7292A-100000@charisma>
Date: Mon, 23 Sep 1996 14:35:52 -0400
References: <52698e$998@nnrp.cs.ubc.ca>
To: Chris Roehrig <croehrig@cs.ubc.ca>
In-Reply-To: <52698e$998@nnrp.cs.ubc.ca>
Organization: Princeton Theological Seminary
Return-Receipt-To: luomat@nerc.com
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
I don't think so.... Some of the later turbos and some nonturbos with
the turbo chipsets had this capacity, but I don't think any of the
cubes had them.
I think I remember sometime back about some keyboard hack that would
fool the NeXT into thinking the power button was always pressed (ie
you were always telling it to power on, even when it was) but I didn't
really like that idea, so I don't think I kept the article.
Aslo, at least around here, the power is notorious for going out,
coming back on for a few seconds, and going out again (probably
because the instant it comes back online there is a huge demand for
power because of all the people who didn't turn their electrical
equipment OFF when the power went down (ie: when the power goes off,
you should turn off everything that will ask for power the second the
power comes back on, or you could have a very large surge.)
My uncle works for an electrical company, and says this is a very
common problem (a few attempts needed before power really comes back
on).... even seen a few surges->fires over the years....
Moral of the story is that I think I'd rather turn it back on manually
about 15 minutes after I am _sure_ the power is back to stay....
Of course, you may have other ideas....
TjL
On 23 Sep 1996, Chris Roehrig wrote:
> Date: 23 Sep 1996 15:10:06 GMT
> From: Chris Roehrig <croehrig@cs.ubc.ca>
> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin, comp.sys.next.hardware
> Subject: Hardware mod to turn NeXT cube on after power failure?
>
> Is there a hardware modification I can do to get my 25 MHz cube to
> automatically power on after a power failure?
>
>
> --
> Chris Roehrig (croehrig@House.ORG or croehrig@sns.cs.ubc.ca)
> Neuroscience and Computer Science at University of British Columbia, Vancouver
> http://www.House.ORG/chris http://www.sns.cs.ubc.ca/chris
>
>
>
From: jon@mgmt.purdue.edu (Jon Haveman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Re: Hardware mod to turn NeXT cube on after power failure?
Date: 23 Sep 1996 18:58:44 GMT
Organization: Purdue University
Message-ID: <526ml4$1p6@mozo.cc.purdue.edu>
References: <ukv20fti5h7.fsf@dura.spc.uchicago.edu>
fugue@ccp.spc.uchicago.edu writes
> croehrig@cs.ubc.ca (Chris Roehrig) said:
>
> >
> >
> > Is there a hardware modification I can do to get my 25 MHz cube to
> > automatically power on after a power failure?
>
>
> Ewwwww! Now THIS would be tricky. My off-the-cuff suggestion would be
> a seperate controller plugged into the same outlet as the cube. You'd need
> to set up something capable of operating what would be, in essence, an
> electronic momentary switch to temporarily shunt pins 6 and 19 on the
> monitor connector whenever power is applied to the controller.
>
> ****WARNING!!!!!!******
> I am no electronics wizard, and I take ABSOLUTELY NO RESPONSIBILITY for
> ANYTHING that happens if you follow any part of the ideas below. If it
> works, great. If something goes wrong, it's not my fault.
> ***********************
Whoa! Have a look around preferences. There is a button in there, I forget
where it is, but if you hit it, your computer will automatically power on after
a power off (including power outage).
Way, way, way easier than the clipped off suggestion.
Cheers - Jon
--
Jon Haveman http://intrepid.mgmt.purdue.edu/
Asst. Prof. of Economics ,_~o jon@mgmt.purdue.edu
Krannert School of Mgmt _-\_<, (317) 494-6156 (Office)
Purdue University (*)/'(*) (317) 494-9658 (Fax)
W. Lafayette, IN 47907-1310 (317) 742-7961 (Home)
From: Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Re: Hardware mod to turn NeXT cube on after power failure?
Date: Mon, 23 Sep 1996 14:40:00 -0400
Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
Message-ID: <omFha0W00UzxE214Ei@andrew.cmu.edu>
References: <52698e$998@nnrp.cs.ubc.ca>
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Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.hardware: 23-Sep-96 Hardware mod to
turn NeXT c.. by Chris Roehrig@cs.ubc.ca
> Is there a hardware modification I can do to get my 25 MHz cube to
> automatically power on after a power failure?
Your cube may already be able to do that. On my NeXTstation Turbo,
there is a 'Startup Preferences' module in Preferences.app which
includes a checkbox for "turn the computer on after power off or
failure".
I forget which generation of black hardware first had this
functionality, but if you've upgraded your cubes' motherboard to an '040
and have a recent revision of the ROM, perhaps your system can do this
too.
Of course, you could do an end-run around the problem and get yourself a
UPS, which will prevent your computer from going down when the power
blinks.
-Chuck
Charles Swiger | cs4w@andrew.cmu.edu | standard disclaimer
----------------+---------------------+---------------------
I know you're an optimist if you think I'm a pessimist.
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From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@nerc.com>
Subject: Re: How to react to Money Scam Spam...
Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.95.960923143727.7292B-100000@charisma>
Date: Mon, 23 Sep 1996 14:50:20 -0400
References: <ashley-2109960955460001@news.gate.net> <9609230941.AA29882@melton-henry-1.sps.mot.com>
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> Date: Mon, 23 Sep 1996 09:41:29 -0600
> From: Henry Melton <rhca80@fsrams.sps.mot.com>
> Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.graphics, comp.sys.mac.hardware.misc,
> comp.sys.mac.hardware.storage, comp.sys.mac.hardware.video,
> comp.sys.mac.hypercard, comp.sys.mac.oop.powerplant,
> comp.sys.mac.portables, comp.sys.mac.printing,
> comp.sys.mac.programmer.codewarrior, comp.sys.mac.programmer.help,
> comp.sys.mac.programmer.misc, comp.sys.mac.programmer.mtools,
> comp.sys.mac.system, comp.sys.mac.wanted, comp.sys.newton.misc,
> comp.sys.next.advocacy, comp.sys.next.hardware,
> comp.sys.next.sysadmin, comp.sys.palmtops, comp.sys.pen,
> comp.sys.powerpc, comp.
> Subject: Re: How to react to Money Scam Spam...
>
> In article <ashley-2109960955460001@news.gate.net>, ashley@digalt.com (Ashley
> Campbel) writes:
> >
> >
> > My response is much easier. I just forward copies to the postmaster,
> > root, hostmaster, and webmaster of their domain. And then, I forward
> > them ten.
> > It works each time. The masters (usually one or two people) get
> > quite irked, and the problem user is quickly gone. It sounds a
> > little extreme, but I'm getting sick of junk mail.
Oh yes, this seems to make sense: "This person (the sysadmin) gave an
account to someone who happened to be an idiot, so I'm going to abuse
my email capabilities to show them how much it upsets me when someone
abuses email."
If you think you're sick of getting junk mail, how sick do you think
the sysadmins are at having to respond to mail about it? I sent one
report to a sysadmin (the same day the spam appeared on my newsfeed)
who reported to me that I was the 457th *different* person to have
sent them a copy of the entire message.
Moral of the story: the sysadmins get hassled plenty by legimate
complaints without people sending them multiple copies of the
message.
TjL
From: "Oscar M. Herrera" <oscarmh@netcom.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Re: Drivers for Modems?
Date: 22 Sep 1996 00:40:24 GMT
Organization: Oscar M. Herrera
Message-ID: <R.01bba77c$fde9c580$b1cab7c7@oscarmh>
References: <51pt85$9tl@stc06.ctd.ornl.gov>
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I would love to know how you got that modem working I have been trying for
a week with no success.
Oscar Herrera.
Operator <root@opus.bloomco.ornl.gov> wrote in article
<51pt85$9tl@stc06.ctd.ornl.gov>...
> I can only locate two "drivers" listed in the FaxModem setup under the
> PrintManager.app, neither seem to apply to my modem. Where can I locate
> the modem drivers for a Practical Peripherals PM144MT II so that it will
> work correctly under NS 3.3 on a Cube? I've searched NeXTAnswers,
> Stepwise, and webcrawler. Can't locate anything addressing adding new
> types of Fax Modems.
>
> I've been able to use the modem via tip to connect to another computer,
so
> I know it works and seems to use Hayes commands. I don't have a manual
> either to dig out all the commands. Is there a site where I could locate
> the commands for this modem? A phone number for the manufacturer?
>
> Thanks,
>
From: jimbrown@mcs.com
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.sys.laptops,comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Re: What's the best laptop for the buck?
Date: 22 Sep 1996 01:53:50 GMT
Organization: MCSNet Services
Message-ID: <R.52267e$a17@Nntp1.mcs.net>
References: <3241D158.5323@enc.org>
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In <3241D158.5323@enc.org>, "Stacy D. Coil" <coil@enc.org> writes:
>Okay,
>
>I am looking for the best laptop for the money. If I had my wish, I
>would order the new IBM 760ED 166 with the 2 gig hard drive. But alas,
>by budget is only $5,000.
>
>Here is the criteria.
>
>--Must Haves-----------------
>
>Under $5,000
>Extremely Reliable
>Pentium 133 or better
>12.1 XGA (1024 x768) or larger with 16 bpp or better
>16 Megs of memory
>16 bit sound with midi/game port
>> 1 gig drive (preferably 2 gig)
>Vary Expandable
>
>Be able to run Linux with X, Windows 95, and Windows NT
>
>--Would be nice---------------
>
>Great technical Support
>3 year warranty or better
>Video Capture
>Integrated Modem
>Ethernet and SCSI
>CD-Rom drive
>Upgradeable CPU and CD-Rom
>Memory expandable to something useful (say 80 Megs)
>Good Keyboard layout
>Comfortable pointing device
>
>Able to run NeXTSTEP, and MacOS ;-)
>
>
>-------------------------------
>
>I have been looking at two laptops. One is the EPS-166XL, I haven't
>heard much about it, other than a small blurb in the C-Shopper. I hear
>that it is not as fast as some other laptops and that tech support
>okay. However, it has a 13.3" active matrix screen, and comes with 40
>Megs of memory for only $4800.
>
>The other laptop is the IBM 560. I like IBM because in my experience
>there tech support is great. But, the 560 has only an SVGA screen.
>Does anyone know if IBM is planning to announce a new 560 like 760's?
>
>What are other people's opinions?
>
>Thanks
>
>Stacy D. Coil
>coil@enc.org
>Eisenhower National Clearinghouse
From: chin@bznet.com (Bill Chin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Re: Sens810 Notebook
Date: 22 Sep 1996 05:30:15 GMT
Organization: US Net, Incorporated
Message-ID: <R.522it7$ln2@news.us.net>
References: <51un20$3ka@ka.worldbank.org>
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hkorb@worldbank.org (Hans Korb) wrote:
>I am interested in buying a Samsung Sens810 notebook (32MB) to run
>Openstep.
These look like great laptops, especially with the split keyboard and
the terrific pricing for a major brand.
JCIS (http://www.jcis.com/), who makes these in the U.S. for Samsung
offers these and they said that they ran NEXTSTEP 3.3 on them without
any problems. However, there is currently no display driver other
than VGA for them. The laptop uses a Cirrus Logic GD7548 and
therefore DeepSpace Technologies' Cirrus Logic GD7541/3 driver might
work. Unfortunately, this hasn't been tried as of a week or so ago.
DeepSpace (http://www.deepspacetech.com/) offers that driver for the
Twinhead and Compaq LTE through a variety of resellers and they said
they would be interested in modifying the driver to work if they
received a demo unit. Give'em both a call and see if they have and
register your interest.
--
Bill Chin - bchin@us.net - NeXTmail/MIME welcomed
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From: fugue@ccp.spc.uchicago.edu
Subject: Re: Hardware mod to turn NeXT cube on after power failure?
In-Reply-To: jon@mgmt.purdue.edu's message of 23 Sep 1996 18:58:44 GMT
Message-ID: <ukvzq2hgghd.fsf@dura.spc.uchicago.edu>
Sender: fugue@dura.spc.uchicago.edu
Organization: University of Chicago -- Academic Computing Services
References: <ukv20fti5h7.fsf@dura.spc.uchicago.edu>
<526ml4$1p6@mozo.cc.purdue.edu>
Date: Mon, 23 Sep 1996 19:48:30 GMT
jon@mgmt.purdue.edu (Jon Haveman) said:
>
> fugue@ccp.spc.uchicago.edu writes
> > croehrig@cs.ubc.ca (Chris Roehrig) said:
> >
> > >
> > >
> > > Is there a hardware modification I can do to get my 25 MHz cube to
> > > automatically power on after a power failure?
> >
> >
> > Ewwwww! Now THIS would be tricky. My off-the-cuff suggestion would be
> > a seperate controller plugged into the same outlet as the cube. You'd need
> > to set up something capable of operating what would be, in essence, an
> > electronic momentary switch to temporarily shunt pins 6 and 19 on the
> > monitor connector whenever power is applied to the controller.
> >
> > ****WARNING!!!!!!******
> > I am no electronics wizard, and I take ABSOLUTELY NO RESPONSIBILITY for
> > ANYTHING that happens if you follow any part of the ideas below. If it
> > works, great. If something goes wrong, it's not my fault.
> > ***********************
>
> Whoa! Have a look around preferences. There is a button in there, I
> forget where it is, but if you hit it, your computer will automatically
> power on after a power off (including power outage). Way, way, way
> easier than the clipped off suggestion. Cheers - Jon -- Jon Haveman
Oh, well, sure. I mean, if you want to take the *easy* way out. ;^)
--
fugue
"The police used to watch over the people.
Now they're watching the people."
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From: phr@netcom.com (Paul Rubin)
Subject: Re: What's the best laptop for the buck?
Message-ID: <phrDy7CEI.4Kp@netcom.com>
Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 261-4700 guest)
References: <3241D158.5323@enc.org>
Date: Mon, 23 Sep 1996 20:18:17 GMT
Sender: phr@netcom8.netcom.com
In article <3241D158.5323@enc.org>, Stacy D. Coil <coil@enc.org> wrote:
>I am looking for the best laptop for the money. If I had my wish, I
>would order the new IBM 760ED 166 with the 2 gig hard drive. But alas,
>by budget is only $5,000. >Here is the criteria.
>
>--Must Haves-----------------
>Under $5,000
>Extremely Reliable
>Pentium 133 or better
>12.1 XGA (1024 x768) or larger with 16 bpp or better
>16 Megs of memory
>16 bit sound with midi/game port
>> 1 gig drive (preferably 2 gig)
>Vary Expandable
The 760ED has an 800x600 display, I'm pretty sure. IBM doesn't have a
1024x768 model yet. Toshiba and NEC have them and IBM probably will
pretty soon. Also, the 760 uses the IBM Mwave sound system which is
not compatible with standard sound hardware unless you load special
Soundblaster emulation firmware into it which you can only do under
DOS.
Be really sure that you need 16 bpp before you insist on having it.
My 755cx supports 16 bpp, but it is so much slower than 8 bpp that
I run in 8 bit mode all the time and am perfectly happy.
If I were buying a laptop now, I'd probably get a 120 mhz TP 560.
From: chris@polaris.scicntr.ortn.edu (Operator)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: DSP as ParallelPort
Date: 21 Sep 1996 01:23:13 GMT
Organization: Oak Ridge National Lab, Oak Ridge, TN
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <R.51vg21$e0f@stc06.ctd.ornl.gov>
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I'm trying to figure out if it is possible to use a NeXT's DSP port as a
straight parallel port.
Has anyone ever done something like this ? I'm looking for an example to work
with.
Thanks for any replies -
CB
From: ashley@digalt.com (Ashley Campbel)
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Subject: Re: How to react to Money Scam Spam...
Date: Sat, 21 Sep 1996 09:55:46 -0500
Organization: Digital Alternatives
Message-ID: <R.ashley-2109960955460001@news.gate.net>
References: <510v1k$9g7@sjx-ixn4.ix.netcom.com> <Pine.LNX.3.95.960909110336.8569C-100000@nerc3.nerc.com> <steve-0909961950330001@brecher.reno.nv.us> <3234BD72.5A3F@primenet.com> <nospam-ya023080001609961530250001@news.itd.umich.edu> <cw028212-1609962118150001@192.0.2.1> <mouser-1809961350130001@204.191.6.170>
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> You both make good points, but it can be added that you shouldn't need to
> even trouble yourself with the stamp. "Official business" to the Postal
> Inspector goes through the post for free, or you could just drop off the
> matrial/names/addresses with your local post office. They are very happy
> to have it.
>
> The trouble with some of these (see original posting) is that they
> originate from outside the U.S. While chain letters and pyramid schemes
> are a U.S. Federal crime, they may not be in all countries involved. A
> polite letter to the sys-admin at the foreign Internet site is the best
> course of action to discourage the spammer in such a case. The U.S. postal
> addresses on his/her list can still go to Uncle Sam's Inspectors, however.
>
My response is much easier. I just forward copies to the postmaster, root,
hostmaster, and webmaster of their domain. And then, I forward them ten.
It works each time. The masters (usually one or two people) get quite
irked, and the problem user is quickly gone. It sounds a little extreme,
but I'm getting sick of junk mail.
-Ash
From: John Kheit <jkheit@cnj.digex.net>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Re: NeXT Black Computer Info Needed!
Date: 23 Sep 1996 15:04:06 GMT
Organization: monoChrome, Inc., NJ, USA
Message-ID: <5268t6$bdc@news3.digex.net>
References: <3243AABB.4287@goldengate.net>
Matt Jurcich <invisix@goldengate.net> wrote:
> NeXT had their own hardware in the black cases. 030 and 040 systems were
made (I found the Hardware-FAQ), at various speeds. Is there any one
system that is recommended over another? Fastest is probably best, but
that is not always true.
Generally an 040 will do fine. However, if you want to run the newest
operating system, not only will the extra megahertz from the turbo machines
help, but really the extra RAM capacity. If you are getting a mono
machine, 32 megs under OPENSTEP4.0 might be ok, if you are getting a color
machine, you need 64megs or more, and so you need machines with either the
turbo cpu (33mhz) or the turbo memory chipset allowing up to 128megs of
ram.
> Is there a "classic" model (like a classic car). The Indigo is the
classic model from Silicon Graphics. What is, if any, the NeXT equivilent?
To me the cube with the optical drive is classic. THE DREAM NEXT MACHINE
(which I had for a while till my job took it away *sniffle*) is a TurboCube
with an optical slot, into which I put in a SCSI optical drive, with a
NeXTdimension video card (heck while I'm dreamin, 3 of them :), and the adb
keyboard and mouse. Add on the coooool laser printer, and it's an awfully
pretty combination.
> How common are color video systems? Seems they made a lot of
black-and-white systems, and some were possibly upgradable with the
NeXTdimension board. Are there any of those boards around? I guess it
would be weird to buy a box that wasn't color. :)
The dimension boards aren't all too common...you might have a hard time
finding one, and getting it for a decent price..
> If anyone has screen shots, I would be interested in seeing them as well.
Sure, here are some: http://cnj.digex.net/~jkheit/
> What is the latest version of the OS? On what media was it distributed?
Is NeXT still making it for it's own hardware, or have they totally
abandoned it for Intel platforms? Is media available?
The latest OS comes on CD, and it's called OPENSTEP 4.0, and if you have a
color machine you want 64megs or more to feel ok with it....
> Is the optical drive a CD-ROM drive or something different? Writable?
The optical drive is a read & write opto magnetic drive. Kinda like a
fujitsu DyNaMo but bulkier.
> I believe there is built-in ethernet networking hardware. Is it a
> 10baseT connector, AUI, or what?
The old 030 cubes just have thick and thin, the 040 machines have thin and
10baseT built in....
> I have a NEC XP21 monitor with the BNC connectors that works on an SGI PI
4D/25G. I'll guess and say it will work on a NeXT. Opinions?
It likely will if you get a special cable, NeXT's use a weird video cable.
> It is very cool that NeXT boxes use 30-pin or 72-pin SIMMS and standard
SCSI drives. A great sigh of relief as compared to older SGI boxes-- very
proprietary and very expensive to upgrade. Does most 30-pin/72-pin memory
work in these things?
Yea, most memory works fine. Parity will work too.
> How's the Novell Netware connectivity?
I believe since 3.0, Novell software is part of the release...
> I thought I saw someone had X Mosiac for NeXT. I also saw a listing of
three other browsers for NeXT (SpiderWoman, NetSurfer, and one other). Are
these for NeXT hardware or Intel hardware with OPENSTEP? Base question,
what are the web browser options for a black NeXT box?
The browser offerings, and most software offerings, are identical on intel
and next hardware. Netsurfer, and OmniWeb are the best browsers under ns,
they really are very nice. Though if you want, you can get X and run
things through that...
--
Thanks, be well, take care, later, John Kheit )^> %^) =^)
monoChrome, Inc. | New York Law School
NEXTSTEP Developer | Opinions expressed represent me only
MIME, SUN, & NeXTmail OK | mailto:jkheit@cnj.digex.net
Telepathy...It's coming... | http://cnj.digex.net/~jkheit
From: scott@bcog.org
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Intel EtherExpress PRO/100 PCI $49.00!!!!!!!!!
Date: 23 Sep 1996 22:51:26 GMT
Organization: British Columbia OpenStep Group
Message-ID: <52749e$l25@news.bctel.net>
Chech out Intel's promo offer.....
Intel EtherExpress PRO/100 PCI LAN Adapter (PILA8465BX) (10Base-T,
100Base-TX) only $49.00 each
Max 2 cards per customer.
Category 5 wiring, RJ45 jack.
NEXT Compatible.....
From: Randy Jay Yarger <randy@hs1.hst.msu.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Sound (and other) Drivers...
Date: Mon, 23 Sep 1996 17:44:35 -0400
Organization: Michigan State University
Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.92.960923174213.17275B-100000@hs1>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
Hi,
Does anyone know of a driver for the integrated sound on
the Dell Dimension XPS motherboard? It's a Creative Labs chip,
so I tried SoundBlaster 16, but that didn't work.
Also is there a driver for the 3Com 3c590 (10/100Mbs PCI) card?
Randy Jay Yarger | Department of Physics, Michigan State University
randy@hs1.hst.msu.edu | http://hs1.hst.msu.edu/randy/randy.html
From: dicosmo@localhost (Roberto Di Cosmo)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Re: JAZ ?
Date: 21 Sep 1996 09:30:30 GMT
Organization: Ecole Normale Superieure
Message-ID: <R.DICOSMO.96Sep21113030@localhost>
References: <1.5.4.32.19960919085424.0066c05c@istsan.interbusiness.it>
In-reply-to: Zanitti Leo's message of Thu, 19 Sep 1996 10:54:24 +0200
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As is explained (even if in a passing remark) in NextAnswers
about Jaz drives, a DOS preformatted Jaz disk needs a low
level format (using sdform) before you can initialize it.
I have a Jaz drive, under 3.3, and I really did exactly this:
+ sdform (in your log, you answered y, not Y to sdform, so the
format was aborted: do it again!)
+ normal disk initialization
This worked without a flaw on a DOS cartridge and on the Tools
cartridge (that, by the way, I could not get to work under Windows!!!!)
Hope this helps
--
Roberto Di Cosmo <dicosmo@dmi.ens.fr>, http://www.ens.fr/users/dicosmo/index.html
LIENS
Ecole Normale Superieure
45, Rue d'Ulm
75005 Paris FRANCE
From: briggman@universe.digex.net (Dave Briggman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Re: Intel EtherExpress PRO/100 PCI $49.00!!!!!!!!!
Date: 23 Sep 1996 23:42:17 GMT
Organization: Express Access Online Communications, Greenbelt, MD USA
Message-ID: <52778p$g2v@news3.digex.net>
References: <52749e$l25@news.bctel.net>
scott@bcog.org wrote:
: Chech out Intel's promo offer.....
:
: Intel EtherExpress PRO/100 PCI LAN Adapter (PILA8465BX) (10Base-T,
: 100Base-TX) only $49.00 each
:
: Max 2 cards per customer.
:
: Category 5 wiring, RJ45 jack.
Those are for resellers ONLY I think...
From: mpaque@pacbell.net (Mike Paquette)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Re: IDE / SCSI question
Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 23:28:49 GMT
Organization: Electronics Service, Unit No. 16
Message-ID: <R.51v9gv$nd3@news2.snfc21.pacbell.net>
References: <51sb3s$6nr@news.bctel.net>
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scott@bcog.org wrote:
>On an Intel platform is it possible to use an IDE CD-ROM (either of the two
>8x IDE drives that are NEXT compatible) as well as an Adaptec 2940UW with
>SCSI drive? or must all devices be either SCSI or IDE?
You can have both SCSI and IDE devices present. I've run a system
with IDE hard disk and CD-ROM, and an external SCSI disk on an Adaptec
1540C with no problems. The system insisted on booting from the IDE
hard disk, though.
The biggest problem you might have is getting the PC's BIOS to boot
from the hard disk, although the Adaptec firmware is pretty good about
patching it's way into the boot chain.
Mike Paquette
I don't speak for my employer, and they don't speak for me.
mpaque@pacbell.net Personal E-mail
mpaque@next.com NeXT business mail only, please
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From: dr@ripco.com (David Richards)
Subject: Re: How to react to Money Scam Spam...
Sender: news@rci.ripco.com
Message-ID: <R.Dy44I7.M5J@rci.ripco.com>
Date: Sun, 22 Sep 1996 02:34:54 GMT
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Organization: Ripco Communications Inc.
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In article <51s413$dmb@svc.slc.uen.org>,
KEN RICE <krice@admin.vhs.davis.k12.ut.us> wrote:
> HOWEVER, I'm very concerned that this approach may establish some
>precedent that using the Internet somehow falls under the
>jurisdiction of the U.S. Postal Service.
Don't worry- that's not the reason you send these to the Postal Service.
> When using the Internet, I don't consider myself as using the U.S.
>Mail. For one thing, I don't have to pay $0.32 for shoddy service.
> At some future trial, could they drag up those scam complaints
>citing the reference of fraudulent activity via the U.S. Mail? And, if
>you think that's ridiculous, do a mental replay of the O.J. Simpson
>trial
The reason you send these posts to the USPS is because the money is being
sent to the participants via Postal Mail, making it a Federal 'mail fraud'
crime.
If the letter was being distributed by fax, that wouldn't give the Postal
Service authority over phone lines.
--
David Richards Ripco, since Nineteen-Eighty-Three
My opinions are my own, Public Access in Chicago
But they are available for rental Shell/SLIP/PPP/UUCP/ISDN/Leased
dr@ripco.com (312) 665-0065 !Free Usenet/E-Mail!
From: Amy Clark <amclark@infinet.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: External HD for 040 NeXT Cube
Date: Sat, 21 Sep 1996 18:05:07 -0500
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I am looking for information on purchasing a ~2 Gig External HD for a
040 NeXT Cube. Any info would be greatly appreciated.
From: jimbrown@mcs.com
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.sys.laptops,comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Re: What's the best laptop for the buck?
Date: 22 Sep 1996 01:58:50 GMT
Organization: MCSNet Services
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In <3241D158.5323@enc.org>, "Stacy D. Coil" <coil@enc.org> writes:
>Okay,
>
>I am looking for the best laptop for the money. If I had my wish, I
>would order the new IBM 760ED 166 with the 2 gig hard drive. But alas,
>by budget is only $5,000.
>
>Here is the criteria.
>
>--Must Haves-----------------
>
>Under $5,000
>Extremely Reliable
>Pentium 133 or better
>12.1 XGA (1024 x768) or larger with 16 bpp or better
>16 Megs of memory
>16 bit sound with midi/game port
>> 1 gig drive (preferably 2 gig)
>Vary Expandable
>
>Be able to run Linux with X, Windows 95, and Windows NT
>
>--Would be nice---------------
>
>Great technical Support
>3 year warranty or better
>Video Capture
>Integrated Modem
>Ethernet and SCSI
>CD-Rom drive
>Upgradeable CPU and CD-Rom
>Memory expandable to something useful (say 80 Megs)
>Good Keyboard layout
>Comfortable pointing device
>
>Able to run NeXTSTEP, and MacOS ;-)
>
>
>-------------------------------
>
>I have been looking at two laptops. One is the EPS-166XL, I haven't
>heard much about it, other than a small blurb in the C-Shopper. I hear
>that it is not as fast as some other laptops and that tech support
>okay. However, it has a 13.3" active matrix screen, and comes with 40
>Megs of memory for only $4800.
>
>The other laptop is the IBM 560. I like IBM because in my experience
>there tech support is great. But, the 560 has only an SVGA screen.
>Does anyone know if IBM is planning to announce a new 560 like 760's?
>
>What are other people's opinions?
>
>Thanks
>
>Stacy D. Coil
>coil@enc.org
>Eisenhower National Clearinghouse
I think the Micron is the winner, but don't know about compatibility with other
OS's. I'm running OS/2 on it with 100% compatibility. Screen is 800x600, 12.1",
and does 1024x768 to ext monitor. It also does 1280x1024x16 with ACAD R12
DOS! See my reply to "What are the pros/cons..." for more details of my ex-
perience. It comes real close to your price point for the features you want, and,
according to PC Mag, is quite close in speed to the 760 P133.
Jim
From: Scott Mewett <mewett@mpr.ca>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Re: NeXT Black Computer Info Needed!
Date: Mon, 23 Sep 1996 20:11:23 -0700
Organization: MPR Teltech Ltd.
Message-ID: <3247515A.35A0@mpr.ca>
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John Kheit wrote:
>
> To me the cube with the optical drive is classic. THE DREAM NEXT MACHINE
> (which I had for a while till my job took it away *sniffle*) is a TurboCube
> with an optical slot, into which I put in a SCSI optical drive, with a
> NeXTdimension video card (heck while I'm dreamin, 3 of them :), and the adb
> keyboard and mouse. Add on the coooool laser printer, and it's an awfully
> pretty combination.
>
You know .. the other day I was wondering about that.(more that one
dimension board) Has anyone tried that? I was specifically thinking
about an 040 with an NTSC NeXTDimension and a PAL NeXTDimension.
Could you bring in a Video signal through the PAL video input and out
through the NTSC Video output. And vice versa. I think that would be
really cool. Then i could easily convert the tapes my cousin in
Australia sends me and play them on my PAL VCR and record it on my NTSC
VCR.
Thanx
Scott
From: Ken Kopp <ken@koppelectronics.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.marketplace
Subject: Re: color monitor repair?
Date: Sat, 21 Sep 1996 18:20:10 -0700
Organization: InfoMine of the Rockies, Inc.
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To: j brasher <brasherj@zoology.washington.edu>
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j brasher wrote:
>
> does anyone know where i could get a NeXT color monitor (model N4001)
> repaired? we could handle it locally, but so far have been unable to
> come up with a workable substitute for a Phillips BUV-26A transistor.
> Phillips no longer manufactures the wretched thing, and seems never to
> have published the specifications.
>
> j brasher
> department of zoology, university of washington
Hi I'll bet we may be able to help you, feel free to check out our web
sight for more info: http://www.koppelectronics.com ......Ken
From: sboker@calliope.uucp (Steven M. Boker)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Re: NeXT-Intel PPro Configuration: feedback pleeeeeze!!!
Date: 21 Sep 1996 23:45:24 GMT
Organization: University of Virginia, Department of Psychology
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>CPU : Intel Pentium Pro 200 Mhz / 256 Kb Cache
>Motherboard : Mainboard ASUS I-P6NP5
>
I chose the Intel Venus here. It works fine and I paid $310 for
the motherboard. I think the ASUS is a bit more.
>RAM : 64 MB EDO
>
RAM is always good the more the better and its cheap. You might
be able to bump up the RAM with what you save on the MB.
>Graphik : HERCULES PCI 4 MB Terminator S3 968, VRAM
>
I went with a Matrox Millenium. I'm very happy with the results.
I can run 1600x1200 at 75 hz. I went with 8 MB of RAM. I'd
recommend that over 4 MB if you have the money. The screen is
the point of interface between you and the machine. If you are
good to the machine here, you will be thankful in the long run.
I don't know anything about the Hercules card.
>SCSI-Adapter : Adaptec AHA 2940 U
>
Good choice.
>Hard-Disk : IBM DFHS 34320 S4F, 4100MB
>
As it happens, I chose this disk too. It's a good disk: fast and
quiet. However, as it is shipped from the factory, it won't
work on a NeXTstation. It probably will work on the Adaptec, I
haven't tried it. If you run into trouble on this disk, email
me. I've got a solution for it. I've only got one of these disks and
its only been running for a month, so I can't comment on reliability.
All in all, once I got the zero page set right, I'm quite pleased
with this disk.
>Screen : EIZO T67, 53cm (20)
>
Don't know anything about the EIZO. I went with the Hitachi UX 4721.
Its a 21" monitor that can do 1600x1200x75Hz. Don't forget that
last number! Most of the monitors that are sold as doing 1600x1200
really look bad because they can only scan at 55 or 60 Hz at the
high resolution. For me, they flicker like crazy! It would drive
me screaming from the room if I had to look at a 55 Hz monitor for
very long. Moral: Check to make sure that your monitor of choice
can do the high scan rate and that the display card can generate
a matching scan rate. Don't accept anything under 70 Hz!
To summarize, I'd spend extra money in two areas and try to get by
in the others to make up the difference:
1. RAM RAM RAM RAM (and more RAM)
2. Monitor and display card. Be good to your eyes, they're the only
ones you've got!
Steve
--
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boker@nd.edu 219-631-8883 (fax)
http://kiptron.psyc.virginia.edu/steve_boker/ 219-257-2956 (home)
Dept. of Psychology, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN 46556
From: colinj@math.math.unm.edu (Colin Eric Johnson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: putting that 68030 board in my cube with the 68040
Date: 24 Sep 1996 02:17:53 GMT
Organization: University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <527gch$29j@lynx.unm.edu>
I'd like to try and put the 68030 board that I have in my cube. I have
the information on making the changes to the backplane and such and I
think that I can handle that. I'm interested in suggestions on how I
can change the monitor settings so that it will boot w/o a head and
such. Basically the FAQ says that I sould:
NOTE: Before beginning the procedure, I went into the NeXT Monitor
on the 68030 and disabled the Sound out, SCSI tests and verbose
test mode and enabled serial port A as a console terminal. I also
made "en" the default boot device. I setup the 68040 as a boot
server and taught it about the 68030 (which took some time in
getting it setup properly).
My problem is that I don't have the 68030 board in a machine to do
that with. I haven't tried just putting it in slot 0 and seeing if it
will boot, will this work? Is there something else I can do to get at
the monitor and change these settings? And, I'm running OpenStep on
the 68040 will that affect things? From what I have read this part of
the FAQ is fairly old and may not take NS 4.0 into consideration.
Any insight or experience with this would be appreciated.
--
"Now my life is better than an ABBA song" - Muriel, "Muriel's Wedding"
Colin E. Johnson | colinj@unm.edu | http://www.unm.edu/~colinj/
From: shan0029@gold.tc.umn.edu (Sharad J Shanbhag)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Re: Prob with Objectstation floppy drive...
Date: 23 Sep 1996 16:02:29 -0500
Organization: University of Minnesota
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Joe,
I don't know about what's causing you're problems,
but I will have a motherboard+riser card available
for sale as soon as I get the parts for the Pentium
system which I am building.
BTW, mail to joeba@jbc.com bounced.
Let me know if you're interested.
================================================================
Sharad J. Shanbhag phone: (612) 626-9215
Graduate Program in Neuroscience and fax: (612) 626-9201
Department of Neurosurgery shanbhag@neuro.med.umn.edu
University of Minnesota (NeXT & MIME) sharad@next1.neuro.umn.edu
================================================================
You wrote:
> My Canon Object.Station41 (early demo unit) #424AO00015
> Has a floppy drive problem that needs to be repaired.
> (running DOS 6.2 - not running NextStep)
>
> (1)diskette drive sometimes is not recognized on bootup -
> machine will hang at bootup - it really wants a disk
> drive...(swapped drive and cable - looks like motherboard
> problem) (problem goes away after period of time with machine
> turned off???)
>
> (2)when working, drive does not reread new disks between a
> disk eject event - lists cached info from first disk(drive
> will re-examine ONLY if a <cntl-C> is issued during listing -
> then putting in new disk)(can't install any software: installs
> think next disk is first disk...)
>
> This is an early demo unit #424AO00015. It has been in for
> repair in 1994 with problem #1 - which did not appear during
> repair. Problem #2 is new...
>
> - Is there any SETUP parameters or motherboard switches that
> would create problem #2?
> - Is it possible to get a replacement motherboard and riser
> board to solve problem #1?
>
> Any contacts for getting support/parts?
> <other than the Canon.usa webpage>
>
> Joe Barello
> 212-580-8366
> NY, NY
>
From: scott@bcog.org
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Re: Intel EtherExpress PRO/100 PCI $49.00!!!!!!!!!
Date: 24 Sep 1996 06:00:13 GMT
Organization: British Columbia OpenStep Group
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From: briggman@universe.digex.net (Dave Briggman)
Organization: Express Access Online Communications, Greenbelt, MD USA
Subject: Re: Intel EtherExpress PRO/100 PCI $49.00!!!!!!!!!
Date: 23 Sep 1996 23:42:17 GMT
scott@bcog.org wrote:
: Chech out Intel's promo offer.....
:
: Intel EtherExpress PRO/100 PCI LAN Adapter (PILA8465BX) (10Base-T,
: 100Base-TX) only $49.00 each
:
: Max 2 cards per customer.
:
: Category 5 wiring, RJ45 jack.
Those are for resellers ONLY I think...
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - -- - - - -
Not anymore.....I just ordered 2 today...total $98.00!
From: hermes@swamp.li.com (beanbag amerika)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: question: logicode modems and black hardware
Date: 23 Sep 1996 19:08:50 -0400
Organization: grapefruit juice
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having never hooked a modem up to my next, i'm enquiring
as to the compatibility of logicode fax/modems and an
'040 cube. will the cable from a mac modem work? questions
questions.
bean
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From: jq@papoose.quick.com (James E. Quick)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Re: 3GB IDE Drive on Intel NS3.3
Date: 24 Sep 1996 08:06:07 -0400
Organization: PHCS
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In article <52491h$lu4@news.bctel.net>, <scott@bcog.org> wrote:
>From: Randy Jay Yarger >Organization: Michigan State University
>Subject: 3GB IDE Drive on Intel NS3.3
>Date: Sun, 22 Sep 1996 15:35:42 -0400
>
>
>
>Hi,
> I'm trying to install NS3.3 onto a 3.2GB Quantum Fireball hard drive.
>NeXTAnswers says that the filesystem doesn't support partitions greater than
>2GB. But fdisk will only let me have 1 NeXTSTEP partition.
>
>Is there any way to have more than one NS partition? I suppose I could format
>the remaining 1GB as DOS, but then I'd lose long filename ability and
>performance.
There are partitions and partitions. When they say it supports
only 1 NS partition, they are talking about the low level PC disk
partitions that fdisk lays down. Not about the filesystem partitions
that Mach/Unix use (disk/disktab/newfs/et al).
If you create an fdisk partition that spans the entire drive, you
will be allowed to break this into several unix partitions for
NS or OS to use. If you are doing a full installation with this as
you only NS drive, the NS fdisk partition disk will be broken into
2 or 3 filesystem for you during installation. If this fails (though
I've only seen it fail for drives larger than 4GB) or you want more
control over the size and placement of your partitions, you will need
to boot from another partition, create a disktab entry specifying
how you would like to configure the drive, and use disk -i to initialize
the system. At that point you would then re-install NS.
You can find more information on how to do custum partitioning in
NeXTanswers #1533 Initializing and Partitioning Big Disks.
--
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) | "I don't think so," said Rene Descartes. Just then, he vanished.
From: Orio Athos <szhoat@wsgilera.flur.zuerich.ubs.ch>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Do not read it
Date: Tue, 24 Sep 1996 14:14:26 +0200
Organization: Union Bank of Switzerland
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From: Steve Haynes <sghaynes@widomaker.com>
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Subject: Laser Jet 5M PPD???
Date: Tue, 24 Sep 1996 11:09:48 +0000
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Hello,
Does anyone know where one would find a PPD for a HP 5M that would allow
me to use the options such as duplexing and and envelope feeder?
Many thanks in advance.
Steve Haynes
From: Jon Cohen <J_Cohen@hp4700.desk.hp.com>
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Subject: Re: How to react to Money Scam Spam...
Date: Tue, 24 Sep 1996 10:16:13 -0700
Organization: HP -- Commercial Systems Division
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Ashley Campbel wrote:
>
> <snip>
> but I'm getting sick of junk mail.
>
> -Ash
I, too, hate junk mail, especially e-mail & wasteful newsgroup
postings.
However, there are some distinctions. A company can legally
send me junk mail using the U.S. Post Office and the mailbox
on my house's door. However, it is ILLEGAL (in the U.S.) for
the same company to send me junk mail to my e-mail address or
to my fax machine. The distinction is as follows: when a
company sends junk mail to my door, that company incurs the
full cost of the delivery of the junk mail; when that company
sends to my e-mail or fax machine, I bear some of the cost of
the delivery -- I pay my ISP for e-mail; I pay for my fax
machine's paper; I pay for the electricity used to deliver
either.
So, make no mistake junk e-mail is not legal in the U.S. I
have a canned pitch quoting the relevant U.S. laws that I use
to reply to all such e-mail. I like cc'ing their postmasters,
too.
--
Jon Cohen
jon_cohen@hp.com
Hewlett Packard -- Commercial Systems Division
(The opinions expressed here gotta be mine, 'cause no
one else will own up to 'em.)
From: Stephen Peters <speters@cygnus.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Jaz disks and black hardware?
Date: 24 Sep 1996 11:33:48 -0700
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Is it possible to get a Jaz disk to work with a NeXTstation Color?
Has anyone tried this?
- --
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From: katman@uchicago.edu (Eileen 'Lee' Katman)
Subject: Re: How to react to Money Scam Spam...
Message-ID: <katman-2409961413390001@bio-8.bsd.uchicago.edu>
Summary: Pet a dog to lower blood pressure (the dog's bp too)
Sender: news@midway.uchicago.edu (News Administrator)
Organization: looseness
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Date: Tue, 24 Sep 1996 20:13:39 GMT
Keyword: R. Dog Kate
HI,
I think it's just going to get worse. Newbies get on and don't know that
these pyramid schemes can't work, or that Craig Shergold recovered, or
that you can't get GOOD TIMES. Unfortunately, at least the directed
advertising spams must work, or they wouldn't do it. Service bureaus are
now being set up to send out e-mail for you, or sell you addresses etc.
I've gotten directed spams for Pooper Scoopers and for Beef (who knows
why) among other things.
It seems like those phone calls you get at dinner asking you to give to
charity of the week. A friend who is on staff of one here in Chicago says
that the calls really work. I NEVER give that way (though I am always
polite to the poor person having to do the call) but lots of people must.
Lee
Lee Katman
katman@uchicago.edu
Think - Vote
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From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@nerc.com>
Subject: Re: How to react to Money Scam Spam...
Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.95.960924205142.1486A-100000@charisma>
Date: Tue, 24 Sep 1996 20:58:31 -0400
References: <ashley-2109960955460001@news.gate.net> <9609230941.AA29882@melton-henry-1.sps.mot.com> <Pine.NXT.3.95.960923143727.7292B-100000@charisma> <katman-2409961413390001@bio-8.bsd.uchicago.edu>
Followup-To: alt.current-events.net-abuse
To: Eileen 'Lee' Katman <katman@uchicago.edu>
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It is a good time to learn how to use 'procmail'.
It is very simple to setup a program which will bounce mail messages
which come from hosts/people who you know are spammers.
Once you have it setup, adding new names is as easy as
echo "spamguy@baddomain.com" >> ~/.procmail.spamlist
I'd suggest adding "@interramp.com" to that spamlist, as they have
advertised as being willing to spam people for a price.
TjL
From: kdb@pegasus.ece.utexas.edu (Kurt D. Bollacker)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Re: DSP as ParallelPort
Date: 24 Sep 1996 23:55:58 GMT
Organization: The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <529see$58d@geraldo.cc.utexas.edu>
References: <51vg21$e0f@stc06.ctd.ornl.gov> <52524k$gnd@lugb.latrobe.edu.au>
Alistair Riddell (amr@farben.latrobe.edu.au) wrote:
: In article <51vg21$e0f@stc06.ctd.ornl.gov> chris@polaris.scicntr.ortn.edu
: (Operator) writes:
: >
: > I'm trying to figure out if it is possible to use a NeXT's DSP port as a
: > straight parallel port.
: >
: > Has anyone ever done something like this ? I'm looking for an example to
: work
: > with.
: >
: > Thanks for any replies -
: >
: > CB
: Some years ago I did this. I needed to communicate with some special
: hardware. In the test stages, I hooked the DSP port up to an old IBM dot
: matrix printer on which I checked the output data. Worked fine.
: The major problem is that the DSP on has only 9 pins that can be used and
: you really need 10 (9 out, 1 in - 8 data lines, 1 valid data line and an
: input busy line). However, it depends on your application. You might get
: away with 8 data and a valid data line and not require a return busy line.
: I found that I could just introduce a wait before sending more data and
: that seemed adequate although I would test it thoroughly. The 56000 code
: is trivial to write.
If you could make this code available, perhaps others might be interested
in extended (or at least using) it.
......................................................................
: Kurt D. Bollacker University of Texas at Austin :
: kdb@pine.ece.utexas.edu P.O. Box 8566, Austin, TX 78713 :
:....................................................................:
From: John Preskill <preskill@theory.caltech.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: modem for NeXTstation
Date: Tue, 24 Sep 1996 17:56:37 -0700
Organization: Caltech
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I have a NeXTstation (68040-based) and I am trying to use
an external MacClass 288 modem with it (from Practical
Peripherals). I don't care about PPP or faxing; I just
want a good data modem. I am currently using a DoveFax 2400
for thee NeXT, and it works okay. I just want something faster.
I'm trying to drive it with kermit, and I always get modem
initialization errors. I am not sure, but I suspect that the
problem is the cable. The cable shipped with the modem is for
an RS-232 serial port (standard on a Mac), and I know from the
NeXT manual that the serial port is RS-423. But I have not been
able to locate an RS-423 cable---I have called various electronics
suppliers, but no one carries them anymore. Unfortunately the
cable on the DoveFax is not detachable, so I can't use it on
another modem.
So my question is: am I right to believe that my problems will
be solved if I can find an RS-423 serial cable? If so, where might
I get one? Or might I be able to modify the RS-232 cable so it
will work with the NeXT?
Thanks.
John Preskill
preskill@theory.caltech.edu
From: peter@eline.com (peter marinac)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Re: Hardware mod to turn NeXT cube on after power failure?
Date: Wed, 25 Sep 1996 08:26:06 GMT
Organization: Slip.Net
Message-ID: <52a1f9$cib@news1.slip.net>
References: <52698e$998@nnrp.cs.ubc.ca> <omFha0W00UzxE214Ei@andrew.cmu.edu>
>> Is there a hardware modification I can do to get my 25 MHz cube to
>> automatically power on after a power failure?
Sure, sell your cube and by a slab (or another cube) that supports the
feature. With slabs going for as little as 200 bucks it is probably
the least expensive solution
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
From: dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca (David Evans)
Subject: Re: DSP as ParallelPort
Sender: news@novice.uwaterloo.ca (Mr. News)
Message-ID: <Dy809F.4rv@novice.uwaterloo.ca>
Date: Tue, 24 Sep 1996 04:53:39 GMT
References: <Dy44Av.nIF@novice.uwaterloo.ca> <524etf$53q@agate.berkeley.edu>
Organization: University of Waterloo
In article <524etf$53q@agate.berkeley.edu>,
Izumi Ohzawa <izumi@pinoko.berkeley.edu> wrote:
>It's been a while since I worked on DSP programming on the black hardware.
>
Me too. :)
>You can get up to 9 lines of TTL level signals (Port C) which may be programmed
>individually for input or output. I haven't done it but it can be done.
>It will work fine as a generic 9-bit I/O port. It is probably all the
>matter of initializing operating mode, and working with on-chip peripheral
>registers X:$FFE1, X:$FFE3, and X:$FFE5 on the DSP side.
>
You'd also have to manage the communication with the host (the '040), but
that's pretty easy as long as you don't get fancy. Then it can become harder,
like when you crash the DMA controller and have to reboot the machine...
>For the host commnunication, there is no need to write a loadable
>kernel server for custom DSP work, like controlling switches or
>sensing TTL levels. All of that can be sone via old snddriver_*
>calls.
But if you want to do the printer thing (see below) you'd likely want a
special file through which to talk to it.
>However, this port cannot be used as a parallel _printer_ port as there aren't
>enough lines avaialble for that purpose on the DSP port. So it can't be a
>/dev/pp0.
If you just want text you could use 7-bit ASCII and wire the 8th bit low
in your cable. Or get fancy and use some encoding technique.
>And if you are thinking about driving a printer, forget it.
>Instead, buy an Ethernet->parallel port box or card like HP's JetDirect for
>high throughput printing.
>
Well, yeah. But nowhere near as much fun.
>
>I suggest that you start with:
>
...all good references. The info that comes with the MusicKit isn't bad
either. Nice host<->DSP examples, although be careful if you go about changing
the DMA transfer size (did I mention crashing the DMA controller?)
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From: dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca (David Evans)
Subject: Re: NeXT Black Computer Info Needed!
Sender: news@novice.uwaterloo.ca (Mr. News)
Message-ID: <Dy8sBD.p6B@novice.uwaterloo.ca>
Date: Tue, 24 Sep 1996 14:59:37 GMT
References: <3243AABB.4287@goldengate.net> <5268t6$bdc@news3.digex.net>
Organization: University of Waterloo
In article <5268t6$bdc@news3.digex.net>,
John Kheit <jkheit@cnj.digex.net> wrote:
>
>> I believe there is built-in ethernet networking hardware. Is it a
>> 10baseT connector, AUI, or what?
>
>The old 030 cubes just have thick and thin, the 040 machines have thin and
>10baseT built in....
>
Not quite right. '030 cubes had *only* thin; no thick.
>
>> I have a NEC XP21 monitor with the BNC connectors that works on an SGI PI
>4D/25G. I'll guess and say it will work on a NeXT. Opinions?
>
>It likely will if you get a special cable, NeXT's use a weird video cable.
>
13W3 is the name of the connector. Not uncommon in the workstation world.
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From: "PENG, KUANG-YAO" <K0P7185@acs.tamu.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: newbie's question: dual boot nextstep and NT
Date: Tue, 24 Sep 1996 21:53:37 +0000
Organization: Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas
Message-ID: <Pine.VMS.3.91-vms-b4-acs.960924215003.518C@VMS1.TAMU.EDU>
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Hi,
Can anybody tell me how to dual boot NT and nextstep on a Pentium PC?
Thanks,
Peng
From: jq@papoose.quick.com (James E. Quick)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Re: Hardware mod to turn NeXT cube on after power failure?
Date: 25 Sep 1996 08:10:19 -0400
Organization: PHCS
Message-ID: <52b7fb$nug@papoose.quick.com>
References: <52698e$998@nnrp.cs.ubc.ca> <Pine.NXT.3.95.960923143049.7292A-100000@charisma>
In article <Pine.NXT.3.95.960923143049.7292A-100000@charisma>,
Timothy J. Luoma <luomat@nerc.com> wrote:
>Aslo, at least around here, the power is notorious for going out,
>coming back on for a few seconds, and going out again (probably
>because the instant it comes back online there is a huge demand for
>power because of all the people who didn't turn their electrical
>equipment OFF when the power went down (ie: when the power goes off,
>you should turn off everything that will ask for power the second the
>power comes back on, or you could have a very large surge.)
I have very flakey power where I live. The power will brownout
once or twice a month, and during winter storms I'l get a power
outage several time per year. I simple bought an uninterruptible
power supply for $250. With the monitor off I can go for between
1/2 hour and 45 minutes.
This is enough to ride out all but 1 power failure per year. Since
I set this up 3 years ago, I have had longer power failures only 3
times, luckily, I was home for two of these and could do a graceful
powerdown. For the third, I was at work when I learned that the power
had gone down (I work in the next town over). I simply used rlogin
to get the the host from work (my modem is also on the UPS) , and
did a shutdown from the shell.
I do not like the idea of having the system automatically reboot
when it gets power, unless you have multiple levels of power isolation
between the system and the incoming lines. Like Timothy mentioned,
you are more likely to get a power surge soon after the power returns,
than during normal operation.
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From: wgaboria@iut-lr.univ-lr.fr (wilfrid Gaboriaud)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: LaserWriter 16 600PS
Date: 25 Sep 1996 14:46:56 GMT
Organization: Universite de La Rochelle
Message-ID: <52bgl0$2oj@hpuniv.univ-lr.fr>
Hello,
Has anybody a LaserWriter 16 600 on NextStep ?
There isn't driver fot it!
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From: kinau@lennon.csufresno.edu (Kin Hung Au)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: HELP: Put Sun Ext. HD on NeXTStation
Date: 23 Sep 1996 17:06:29 GMT
Organization: Californi State University, Fresno
Message-ID: <526g2l$oj5@zimmer.CSUFresno.EDU>
Hi,
I am thinking to move Sun Ext. HD and connect to NeXTStation. I thought
NeXT uses SCSI-2 because it has a SCSI-2 port. However, I am wrong.
NeXTStation only recognizes SCSI HD not SCSI-2 HD. And our Sun Ext
HD is SCSI-2 device. Will it be ok to run in asynchronous mode on Sun
Ext. HD? Do we need to open case of external HD and play around jumper?
Second, I read FAQ and it says:
>Subject: M14. Are there any alternative sources for the SCSI-II to SCSI-I
>cable required to attach external SCSI devices to the 040 NeXTs?
>
>Yes. This cable is the same as the one used by Sun SparcStations
>andDecStation 5000's (but not DecStation 3100's which use 68-pin
>microrather than the 50pin micro connector used on NeXT 040, Suns and
>DecStation 5000).
>
>[Carl Lowenstein adds]
>
>The implication that a Sun SparcStation cable can be used with NeXT
>peripherals is generally false. NeXT themselves, and DEC, and nearly
>everyone else who makes SCSI peripherals, puts Telco-50 (centronics)
>connectors on their devices. Sun in their infinite wisdom uses DD50
>which are quite different. Telco-50 is an approved connector type in
>the SCSI spec.
>
>Probably the original point was that the 50-pin microSCSI on the NeXT
>and Sun and some DecStations was different from the 68-pin microSCSI on
>the DecStation 5000. But this does not address the other end of the
>cable.
I am curious can we use Sun SCSI-2 cable for NeXTStation?
Please help.... Thanks.
--Kin
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From: jmichel@imtn.dsccc.com (James Michel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Testing
Date: 25 Sep 1996 17:57:07 GMT
Organization: DSC Communications Corporation, Plano, Texas USA
Message-ID: <52brpj$pva@camelot.dsccc.com>
Testing my connections ability to post to newsgroups.
From: jmichel@imtn.dsccc.com (James Michel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Monitor Resolution?
Date: 25 Sep 1996 18:08:12 GMT
Organization: DSC Communications Corporation, Plano, Texas USA
Message-ID: <52bsec$q7d@camelot.dsccc.com>
I have a Diamond Stealth 64VRAM video card a 17" KDS monitor which can display
resolution 1280x1024 in OS/2 Warp, Windows95, and Linux/X. However, the best
I am able to do in NS 3.3 is 1024x768. Whenever I choose a higher resolution
I either get 800x600 or the higher resolution but overlapped with lines running
every which way. I think it has to do with my monitor's horizontal and vertical
refresh rates. So I have edited the settings in the NS setup for the video.
Trying different refresh rates but all this does is give me 800x600 resolution
even though the resolution I have chosen is 1280x1024. I know that I can easily
destroy my monitor this way but I need more room on my dock.:-) Anyway, could someone point me in the proper direction for getting NS to display the higher resolution(i.e. URL's with info, rc or configuration files, driver locations, etc...)
Thanks,
Jason
From: mpaque@pacbell.net (Mike Paquette)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Re: NeXT Black Computer Info Needed!
Date: Wed, 25 Sep 1996 18:57:20 GMT
Organization: Electronics Service, Unit No. 16
Message-ID: <52bvgo$h7@news2.snfc21.pacbell.net>
References: <3243AABB.4287@goldengate.net> <5268t6$bdc@news3.digex.net> <3247515A.35A0@mpr.ca>
Scott Mewett <mewett@mpr.ca> wrote:
>You know .. the other day I was wondering about that.(more that one
>dimension board) Has anyone tried that?
Yup. Works fine. The Preferences monitor layout panel will grow to
show up to 4 monitors (3 ND and monochrome), and you can then lay them
out nay way you like.
Be forwarned that with that many video sources, cables, and monitors
attached, your system might not meet FCC Class B specs any more. :-)
(Under strict interpretation, the rules require something to be
plugged into EVERY connector, and measurement of emissions from the
entire system, including plugged in peripherals.)
>I was specifically thinking
>about an 040 with an NTSC NeXTDimension and a PAL NeXTDimension.
>Could you bring in a Video signal through the PAL video input and out
>through the NTSC Video output. And vice versa.
Nope. The Video I/O and DMA channels are strictly per-board. There's
no efficient or practical way to move the digitized video between ND
boards. Sorry.
Mike Paquette
Mike Paquette
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From: mpaque@pacbell.net (Mike Paquette)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Re: putting that 68030 board in my cube with the 68040
Date: Wed, 25 Sep 1996 18:58:11 GMT
Organization: Electronics Service, Unit No. 16
Message-ID: <52bvib$h7@news2.snfc21.pacbell.net>
References: <527gch$29j@lynx.unm.edu>
colinj@math.math.unm.edu (Colin Eric Johnson) wrote:
>I'd like to try and put the 68030 board that I have in my cube. I have
[munch]
>My problem is that I don't have the 68030 board in a machine to do
>that with. I haven't tried just putting it in slot 0 and seeing if it
>will boot, will this work?
Yes. You don't even need it to boot. All you want is for it to start
up and let you use the ROM monitor.
>Is there something else I can do to get at
>the monitor and change these settings?
No.
>And, I'm running OpenStep on
>the 68040 will that affect things? From what I have read this part of
>the FAQ is fairly old and may not take NS 4.0 into consideration.
OPENSTEP for Mach 4.0 will work on a 68030. "It won't be fast", he
said, with a tone of mild understatement.
Mike Paquette
I don't speak for my employer, and they don't speak for me.
mpaque@pacbell.net Personal E-mail
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From: Bibhuti Bhusan Patel <patel@cco.caltech.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Need help with Next Cubes in LA area
Date: Wed, 25 Sep 1996 11:57:16 -0700
Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
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Hi,
I need help in retriving some data from an optical disk. And my Next does not have an optical
drive. So, if anyone has a Next machine with an optical drive(Next Cube) or has access to one,
could you please send me a mail at patel@cco.caltech.edu. I am in urgent need to retrive the data
and would appreciate any help.
Thank you very much.
Bibhuti
From: kamundse@galaxy.csc.calpoly.edu (Treasure)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: 2 memory questions for black hardware
Date: 25 Sep 1996 12:28:23 -0700
Organization: Computer Science Department, Cal Poly SLO
Message-ID: <52c14n$bhq@galaxy.csc.calpoly.edu>
I have a 040 and an 030 board for my cube.
Both take 30 pinn SIMMs
1) What is the largest size SIMM the machine can use? I was told 32MB but
I am not sure.
2) What is the minimum amount of memory I need on the boards to make them
useable? Right now the 030 has none (I just got it) and the 040 has 16MB,
which I want to increase.
Thanks
-Kristin
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From: mpainter@wam.umd.edu (Bob Leung)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: model n1100
Date: Wed, 25 Sep 96 18:07:01 GMT
Organization: University of Maryland, College Park, MD
Message-ID: <52bsch$pc7@dailyplanet.wam.umd.edu>
Does anyone know of a web page where I can get diagnostic software
and software to make a boot disk for a model n1100 NeXTstation?
Thanks
The Y-Man
From: gaunce@ichthus.syr.edu (L Gaunce Lewis Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: zip drive
Date: 26 Sep 1996 01:32:47 GMT
Organization: Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY (USA)
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <52cmfv$f0a@newstand.syr.edu>
Keywords: zip drive, DOS file system
I'm running Nextstep 3.2 on a Nextstation Turbo. I have just attached a zip drive. It
seems to work fine for Next and Mac filesystems, but I can't get it to read DOS formatted
zip disks. I really want to do this because I want to port stuff between my PC at home and
my next in the office. Has anyone had any luck on this?
Thanks,
Gaunce
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
From: js@euler.han.de (Juergen Sell)
Subject: Nextstep on Omnibook 600/800 ?
Message-ID: <DyA0G2.2ps@euler.han.de>
Sender: js@euler.han.de (Juergen Sell)
Organization: Ink Unknown
Date: Wed, 25 Sep 1996 06:52:50 GMT
Hi,
the HP Omnibook 600 and 800 series is not mentioned in the hw list.
Does it work nevertheless or does it not ?
Any info welcome.
Juergen
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From: hans@onevision.de (Johann Adalbert Stoeger)
Subject: 100 MBit Network
Message-ID: <DyAnDz.Bnw@onevision.de>
Sender: news@onevision.de
Organization: OneVision GmbH, Regensburg, Germany
Date: Wed, 25 Sep 1996 15:08:23 GMT
Hello!
we are just starting to test NEXTSTEP machines in 100MBit networks, and it
seems that the performance is very bad ( 30 KB - 1.5 MB/s).
Any other results out there?
Hans
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
From: Matt Jurcich <invisix@goldengate.net>
Subject: NeXTstation Opinions Needed!
Message-ID: <324A3235.6488@goldengate.net>
Date: Thu, 26 Sep 1996 00:35:17 -0700
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I have a few questions for NeXTstation users in the know:
I'm currently looking at purchasing this system:
NeXTstation Turbo Color
16MB RAM
250MB HD
17" NeXT monitor
Non-ADB soundbox, keyboard, and mouse
All needed cables to connect everything to everything
NeXTSTEP 3.2 w/media
WordPerfect w/media
Lotus Improv w/media
For just under $1000.
I have a 1gb drive I can throw on and I can get 32MB RAM for
about $200 (I believe).
Questions:
1. How fast is this box going to be? Am I going to be disapointed
with the speed right off (even with the expanded RAM and HD) ? How
does it really perform with 4.0 (if anyone knows yet) ?
2. How's the price for what I'm getting? From what I've seen at
resellers and in the newsgroups, I'm getting a decent deal.
3. How long is NeXT Software planning on supporting black hardware?
Will users with black hardware be "out of the loop" of software upgrades
after 4.0?
4. I really like the original hardware for what it is--cosmetically and
technically. But should I be taking a look at 4.0 on a Pentium or
something? I don't want to do anything overy stressfull, lots of internet
stuff, some graphics, and lots of screwing around with everything. You
don't really need a fast box to screw around on, but I don't want to
fall asleep in the meantime.
5. How does the computer with the 48MB RAM And gigger HD compare
speed-wise to Intel/Windows or Macintosh systems? I'm guessing the speed
is about the same as a mid- to fast-486 system or Mac 840AV (040). If
anyone has done testing, please post your results, as it might give me an
idea of what I'm getting into.
Well, that's about it right now. I'm leaving tomorrow, Thursday, at about
3pm central time to go look at the system. Hopefully this message will
duplicate around to everyone's news server overnight. :)
Thanks for any insight you can offer!
Later.
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jurcich | http://www.goldengate.net/~invisix ** free lifestyle **
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NeXTstation Turbo Color, 32MB, 1.5GB, NEC XP21, NEXTSTEP 3.2
--SOON!
From: wendling@next (Fabrice Wendling)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Sound Blaster 16 on 3.3
Date: 26 Sep 1996 07:35:37 GMT
Organization: Universite de Rennes 1, France
Message-ID: <52dbo9$ps3@news.univ-rennes1.fr>
Hello !
Does anybody knows how to install a SB16 on 3.3 ?
I think I adjusted the right parameters (A220, DMA 1 and IRQ 5) since
this card works well under MS windows with these parameters.
However, when I boot in verbose mode, I get a message saying that no
SB device is recognized at address 220H.
I also tried with the later drivers (found on www.next.com) without succes.
My plateform is an Intel P166, NextStep 3.3.
Thanks for your help.
From: Robert Wong <rwong@direct.cq>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Cirrus Logic 5446 video driver needed
Date: Thu, 26 Sep 1996 12:58:22 -0700
Organization: Totally Disorganized Inc.
Message-ID: <324AE05E.717@direct.cq>
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Hi,
I'm looking for a driver for my Cirrus Logic 5446 PCI video card.
The Cirrus Logic 542x and the 5434 driver didn't seem work. This
is for NS/Intel v3.3.
RWW.
From: michael@rumah.pc.my (Michael Olan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: This is SCARY!
Date: 26 Sep 1996 11:49:12 GMT
Organization: Unconfigured
Message-ID: <52dqjo$2ku@jaring.my>
A couple times recently, when I power up my slab, the only thing that seems
to be working is the fan... nothing on the monitor, no noise from the HD, no
response from the keyboard. Pull the plug, and then try again, and it fires
up ok. Anyone ever experience this. Please don't die on me now!
BTW, I changed some SIMMs a week earlier, but otherwise nothing new in the HW
department.
Mike
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.dec.micro
From: benoit@quest.fdn.org (Benoit Marchant)
Subject: Update a DECpc XL Server 590
Message-ID: <1996Sep26.132149.6182@quest.fdn.org>
Sender: news@quest.fdn.org
Organization: Quest International / Unilever - Neuilly, France
Date: Thu, 26 Sep 1996 13:21:49 GMT
Hi all,
Does anyone tried to update a DECpc XL Server 590 ? I know I can use intel
150 MHz overdrive, but is it possible to go to fastest Pentium without
changing the mother board ? Does the standard motherboard can be
configured for a 66 MHz PCI Bus ?
Thanks in advance for any help
Benoit
benoit@quest.fdn.fr
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
From: dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca (David Evans)
Subject: Re: NeXT Black Computer Info Needed!
Sender: news@novice.uwaterloo.ca (Mr. News)
Message-ID: <DyAM7H.97q@novice.uwaterloo.ca>
Date: Wed, 25 Sep 1996 14:42:52 GMT
References: <3243AABB.4287@goldengate.net> <5268t6$bdc@news3.digex.net> <3247515A.35A0@mpr.ca>
Organization: University of Waterloo
In article <3247515A.35A0@mpr.ca>, Scott Mewett <mewett@mpr.ca> wrote:
>
>You know .. the other day I was wondering about that.(more that one
>dimension board) Has anyone tried that?
I've seen it done, although the heat from all that hardware can be quite
impressive.
>I was specifically thinking
>about an 040 with an NTSC NeXTDimension and a PAL NeXTDimension.
>Could you bring in a Video signal through the PAL video input and out
>through the NTSC Video output. And vice versa. I think that would be
>really cool. Then i could easily convert the tapes my cousin in
>Australia sends me and play them on my PAL VCR and record it on my NTSC
>VCR.
>
I'm not so sure about this. I've never done experiments with ScreenCast and
NeXTtv to see if the NXLiveVideoView is sent to the video out ports. I have a
hunch that it isn't, but I'd be happy to be wrong.
--
David Evans (NeXTMail OK) dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca
Computer/Synth Junkie http://bbcr.uwaterloo.ca/~dfevans/
University of Waterloo "Default is the value selected by the composer
Ontario, Canada overridden by your command." - Roland TR-707 Manual
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
From: dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca (David Evans)
Subject: Re: putting that 68030 board in my cube with the 68040
Sender: news@novice.uwaterloo.ca (Mr. News)
Message-ID: <DyAM4E.A6n@novice.uwaterloo.ca>
Date: Wed, 25 Sep 1996 14:41:02 GMT
References: <527gch$29j@lynx.unm.edu>
Organization: University of Waterloo
In article <527gch$29j@lynx.unm.edu>,
Colin Eric Johnson <colinj@unm.edu> wrote:
>I'd like to try and put the 68030 board that I have in my cube. I have
>the information on making the changes to the backplane and such and I
>think that I can handle that. I'm interested in suggestions on how I
>can change the monitor settings so that it will boot w/o a head and
>such. Basically the FAQ says that I sould:
>
...
>My problem is that I don't have the 68030 board in a machine to do
>that with. I haven't tried just putting it in slot 0 and seeing if it
>will boot, will this work? Is there something else I can do to get at
>the monitor and change these settings?
Yeah. Just stick it in a slot 0, plug your monitor into it, and change the
ROM settings that way.
>And, I'm running OpenStep on
>the 68040 will that affect things? From what I have read this part of
>the FAQ is fairly old and may not take NS 4.0 into consideration.
>
It should still work, but 4.0 on an '030.....<shudder> Unless you're setting
up the '030 with its own disk, or have enough disk space on the '040 to have a
3.x installation for the '030 to use.
--
David Evans (NeXTMail OK) dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca
Computer/Synth Junkie http://bbcr.uwaterloo.ca/~dfevans/
University of Waterloo "Default is the value selected by the composer
Ontario, Canada overridden by your command." - Roland TR-707 Manual
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
From: Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki)
Subject: Re: 2 memory questions for black hardware
Message-ID: <DyCKsA.Fq@nidat.sub.org>
Sender: nitezki@nidat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki)
Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany
References: <52c14n$bhq@galaxy.csc.calpoly.edu>
Date: Thu, 26 Sep 1996 16:07:22 GMT
In article <52c14n$bhq@galaxy.csc.calpoly.edu>
kamundse@galaxy.csc.calpoly.edu (Treasure) writes:
> I have a 040 and an 030 board for my cube.
>
> Both take 30 pinn SIMMs
>
> 1) What is the largest size SIMM the machine can use? I was told
> 32MB but I am not sure.
>
They take 1Mx8, 1Mx9, 4Mx8, and 4Mx9 SIMMs in groups of four sticks of
equal size. The larger ones must come first to be recognized correctly.
x9 sticks must be installed exclusively to enable parity checks (boot
monitor 'p'-command).
> 2) What is the minimum amount of memory I need on the boards to
> make them useable? Right now the 030 has none (I just got it)
> and the 040 has 16MB, which I want to increase.
>
8M for mono, and 12M for color, though it's absolutely no fun using such a
minimal conf. My idea of "usability" requires at least 16MB more ;-)
--
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Staarenbergstr. 44 | Tel.: +49 7251 62495 # not about the pleasure and
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From: Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki)
Subject: Re: modem for NeXTstation
Message-ID: <DyCL3u.GF@nidat.sub.org>
Sender: nitezki@nidat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki)
Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany
References: <32488345.41C67EA6@theory.caltech.edu>
Date: Thu, 26 Sep 1996 16:14:18 GMT
In article <32488345.41C67EA6@theory.caltech.edu> John Preskill
<preskill@theory.caltech.edu> writes:
...munch...
> So my question is: am I right to believe that my problems will
> be solved if I can find an RS-423 serial cable? If so, where might
> I get one? Or might I be able to modify the RS-232 cable so it
> will work with the NeXT?
>
Yes, definitely (if you don't make any other errors, of course ;-)
Mine was made with the help of a soldering iron and a simple cable tester
using the guidance of the owners manual of my NeXT. But if you lack any
of that try Dancing Bear. The used to sell NeXT related hardware.
--
Peter Nitezki | Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org # Blessed art thou who knoweth
Staarenbergstr. 44 | Tel.: +49 7251 62495 # not about the pleasure and
D-76703 Kraichtal | Fax : +49 7251 69215 # delight of being hooked
GERMANY | E-mail defunct, sorry # up to the Net. Peter 1,3-5
From: stefanos@Vir.com (Stefanos Kiakas)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Help installing a HP 4G tape drive.
Date: 26 Sep 1996 12:00:29 -0400
Organization: Communications Vir, Internet Access Montreal.
Message-ID: <52e9at$v5h@Vir.com>
Hello all,
I'm trying to install a HP C1533A 4Gig tape backup. But I'm having
a few problems.
On a ThinkPad 755CX, with an Adaptec SlimSCSI PCMCIA card the computer can
see the tape drive on windows 3.11, but when I boot with NeXTSTEP 3.3
Intel the computer does not see the tape back up.
Can NeXTSTEP deal with 4Gig tape backup system? Are there any special
drivers I need to install?
I've checked the termination.
Any help would be appreciated,
stef
From: rencsok@argus.cem.msu.edu (Randall J. Rencsok)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Re: Any way to read DOS Zip disks on black?
Date: 26 Sep 1996 17:12:18 GMT
Organization: Michigan State University
Message-ID: <52edhi$crt@msunews.cl.msu.edu>
References: <51d2lk$o8s@usenet.srv.cis.pitt.edu> <51dbci$fs8@news.istar.ca>
Cc: jsamson@istar.ca
In <51dbci$fs8@news.istar.ca> Jean-Paul Samson wrote:
> On 09/13/96, John Haugeland wrote:
> >This has been asked before, but I haven't seen an answer. Why can't I
> >read DOS formatted Zip disks?
>
> NEXTSTEP 3.3 introduced DOS support for removable drives. Previous
> versions will not recognize DOS formatted removable drives.
Oh really. I tried putting in a dos formatted MO disk and it coughed it back
out after testing for NeXT, Mac, DOS, and audio. This is on black..
Is there some patch I'm unaware of.. and yes I'm running 3.3..
Also the answer to the origional posters question is to get Opener
from the archives. It will open everything except your pocketbook ;)
(A hearty thanks to Denise Howard, and Michael Hawley)
Randy
From: esteban <esteban@cerf.net>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Hard Drives
Date: Thu, 26 Sep 1996 10:32:17 -0700
Organization: El Grande Slime-o mold.
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I need to buy a new hard drive for my Next Server (black box). I wanted
something in the 2 gig range. Does anyone have any recommendations for
brand etc...?
--
esteban
___________________________________________________________
esteban@cerf.net
webmaster@rcr.com
mucus@slime.com
___________________________________________________________
From: i1927@alunos.uportu.pt (Joao Oliveira)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: How good cyrix 6x86 166+ for nexstep 3.3 X86
Date: Thu, 26 Sep 1996 16:53:42 GMT
Message-ID: <324ab4e1.2487196@news.telepac.pt>
Anyone knows if it is any good for a workstation ???
Cyrix works bad width nt4 and nextstep ???
_/_/_/_/ _/_/_/_/ _/_/_/_/ _/_/_/_/
_/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/
_/ _/ _/ _/ _/_/_/_/ _/ _/
_/_/_/ _/_/_/_/ _/ _/ _/_/_/_/
Joao Pedro Cruz Antunes de Oliveira
i1927@alunos.uportu.pt
http://www2.uportu.pt/~i1927
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Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco
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From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@nerc3.nerc.com>
Date: Tue, 24 Sep 96 00:59:10 -0400
Subject: SHIPPING: Suggestions for boxing/packing
Cc: ron@optimal-object.com, tim@dancingbear.com
Organization: Princeton Theological Seminary
Return-Receipt-To: luomat@nerc.com
Just curious what people who ship slabs use for their packing, boxes
of those dimensions seem hard to find.
I'm in rather dire need of this information
Thanks
TjL
From: shess@tundra.winternet.com (Scott Hess)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Re: SHIPPING: Suggestions for boxing/packing
Date: 26 Sep 1996 13:24:51 -0500
Organization: Is a sign of weakness
Sender: shess@tundra.winternet.com
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References: <199609240459.AAA03261@nerc3.nerc.com>
In-reply-to: "Timothy J. Luoma"'s message of Tue, 24 Sep 96 00:59:10 -0400
In article <199609240459.AAA03261@nerc3.nerc.com>,
"Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@nerc3.nerc.com> writes:
Just curious what people who ship slabs use for their packing, boxes
of those dimensions seem hard to find.
I'm in rather dire need of this information
Mine came in this nice little box with styrofoam inserts to hold it
tightly in place. Wait! You didn't _save_ your original box? How do
you expect to ship it anywhere?
[Heheh. I'd offer you my box, but it's already been from Redwood City
to Minnesota to New Jersey to Minnesota to Portland to Minnesota,
around about in Minnesota, and now to Cinceinnati. That box is
getting worn down.]
Another option is to go with the tried and true "El Cheapo PC Vendor
Solution". Find a box which is bigger on all dimensions, and fill the
space between the unit and the box with foam chunks until it seems
safe to ship. Perhaps purchase one of those foam mattress pads or
something. Doesn't do much for the _inside_ of the box, but on a
NeXTstation that's not a very big problem.
Later,
--
scott hess <shess@winternet.com> (WWW to "http://www.winternet.com/~shess/")
Work: 288 Rampart Ct #105, Ft Mitchell, KY 41017 (606) 578-0412
<I want to become so famous that people buy tapes of me reading source code>
From: swill@asic.sc.ti.com (Scott Williams)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Manuals for NeXT Slab?
Date: 26 Sep 1996 14:23:07 -0500
Organization: Texas Instruments, Inc.
Message-ID: <52el6r$ibj@phaser.asic.sc.ti.com>
I just recently aquired a NeXT Slab with a 25 Mhz 68040.
I did not get any user/owner/network sys admin manuals and
would like to know if there is anyplace i can get a copy
of the manuals. Any help is apreciated.
-Scott
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From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@nerc.com>
Subject: Re: NeXTstation Opinions Needed!
Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.95.960926155328.14291A-100000@charisma>
Date: Thu, 26 Sep 1996 16:05:16 -0400
References: <324A3235.6488@goldengate.net>
To: Matt Jurcich <invisix@goldengate.net>
In-Reply-To: <324A3235.6488@goldengate.net>
Organization: Princeton Theological Seminary
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> 1. How fast is this box going to be? Am I going to be disapointed
> with the speed right off (even with the expanded RAM and HD) ? How
> does it really perform with 4.0 (if anyone knows yet) ?
I'm running 3.2 with 32 ram through a 28.8 modem via PPP.
The speed is not bad. Although if I could add more RAM I would (you
might want to see if 32 ram is the max on the system you are looking
at)
> 2. How's the price for what I'm getting? From what I've seen at
> resellers and in the newsgroups, I'm getting a decent deal.
Seems like a good price.
> 3. How long is NeXT Software planning on supporting black hardware?
> Will users with black hardware be "out of the loop" of software upgrades
> after 4.0?
No one knows. They don't even know. I would expect that 4.1 would
run on m68k if 4.1 is a next-year bug fix release. I wouldn't bet on
it, and I wouldn't be too sure about it, but then again if you are
interested in OS then you should get an Intel. I know, I love the
NeXTStation et al but 3.2 and 3.3 are really the max for the mach 040
processor. They do feel the strain at times (I still remember that
day I compiled 3 programs at once ;-)
> 4. I really like the original hardware for what it is--cosmetically and
> technically. But should I be taking a look at 4.0 on a Pentium or
> something? I don't want to do anything overy stressfull, lots of internet
> stuff, some graphics, and lots of screwing around with everything. You
> don't really need a fast box to screw around on, but I don't want to
> fall asleep in the meantime.
If it were me and I was you, I'd buy the machine. I'd also expect
that in a couple years I'd be buying an Intel to do my really serious
stuff through that new wire that comes into my house and brings cable
TV, wired in AM/FM stereo sound, much better than ISDN connections,
spring water, the mail et al (What I'm saying is that pretty soon the
bandwidth rate will improve because some fiber-optic Ethernet ISDN
some-otherbuzzword-here beating connection will be invented and you'll
look at the NeXT and say "Gosh that's still one of the most beautiful
things I've ever seen and I'll keep it always, but from now on it will
be networked with my new 3gazzillion MHz PentiumProPlusConditioner
> 5. How does the computer with the 48MB RAM And gigger HD compare
> speed-wise to Intel/Windows or Macintosh systems? I'm guessing the speed
> is about the same as a mid- to fast-486 system or Mac 840AV (040). If
> anyone has done testing, please post your results, as it might give me an
> idea of what I'm getting into.
1) make sure you can go above 32 ram
2) use the 250 meg drive as a swapdrive. Don't know how? Email me
with the SUBJECT
send-ascii swapfaq.txt
That will improve performance.
Remember, it might not be as fast as a machine running Windows or
MacOs..... but it is better. No I don't want to discuss the "which OS
is better" thing again, so I'm leaving...
TjL
From: Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Re: SHIPPING: Suggestions for boxing/packing
Date: Thu, 26 Sep 1996 16:21:46 -0400
Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
Message-ID: <4mGiLOy00Uzx82Indr@andrew.cmu.edu>
References: <199609240459.AAA03261@nerc3.nerc.com>
In-Reply-To: <199609240459.AAA03261@nerc3.nerc.com>
Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.hardware: 24-Sep-96 SHIPPING:
Suggestions for b.. by "Timothy J. Luoma"@nerc3
> Just curious what people who ship slabs use for their packing, boxes
> of those dimensions seem hard to find.
If you didn't save your original packing (which you should do for
expensive things like computers), perhaps try taking it to a MailBoxes,
Etc. They've got all sorts of packing materials, and they'll even pack
your machine for your for a reasonably cheap fee.
-Chuck
Charles Swiger | cs4w@andrew.cmu.edu | standard disclaimer
----------------+---------------------+---------------------
I know you're an optimist if you think I'm a pessimist.
From: Scott Mewett <mewett@mpr.ca>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: NeXT Memory Config!
Date: Thu, 26 Sep 1996 15:01:48 -0700
Organization: MPR Teltech Ltd.
Message-ID: <324AFD4C.5A06@mpr.ca>
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I was browsing Kingston Memory's Web Site and Came across this. I was
pleasently surprised to see that it contains the capacity's for each
machine.
http://www.kingston.com/catalog/memory/nex-idx.htm
Scott
mewett@mpr.ca
From: Ken Kopp <ken@koppelectronics.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: Re: This is SCARY!
Date: Thu, 26 Sep 1996 16:07:01 -0700
Organization: Kopp Electronics
Message-ID: <324B0C95.2CE7@koppelectronics.com>
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To: Michael Olan <michael@rumah.pc.my>
Michael Olan wrote:
>
> A couple times recently, when I power up my slab, the only thing that seems
> to be working is the fan... nothing on the monitor, no noise from the HD, no
> response from the keyboard. Pull the plug, and then try again, and it fires
> up ok. Anyone ever experience this. Please don't die on me now!
>
> BTW, I changed some SIMMs a week earlier, but otherwise nothing new in the HW
> department.
>
> Mike
> --
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> Dr. Michael Olan Email: michael@rumah.pc.my (NeXT Mail OK)
> Senior Lecturer - Computer Science michael@ppp.itm.my
> American Degree Program Fax: 6-03-5482329
> Institut Teknologi MARA Section 17, Shah Alam, Malaysia
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
It sounds like the switching power supply is not reliably starting. The
usual cause is bad capacitors in the startup portion of the supply......
Ken @ http://www.koppelectronics.com/
From: jsamson@istar.ca (Jean-Paul Samson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Re: Any way to read DOS Zip disks on black?
Date: 26 Sep 1996 22:34:53 GMT
Organization: iSTAR Internet Incorporated
Message-ID: <52f0ed$imt@news.istar.ca>
References: <51d2lk$o8s@usenet.srv.cis.pitt.edu> <51dbci$fs8@news.istar.ca> <52edhi$crt@msunews.cl.msu.edu>
In-Reply-To: <52edhi$crt@msunews.cl.msu.edu>
On 09/26/96, Randall J. Rencsok wrote:
>In <51dbci$fs8@news.istar.ca> Jean-Paul Samson wrote:
>> NEXTSTEP 3.3 introduced DOS support for removable drives. Previous
>> versions will not recognize DOS formatted removable drives.
>
> Oh really. I tried putting in a dos formatted MO disk and it
> coughed it back out after testing for NeXT, Mac, DOS, and audio.
Unfortunately, I only have NEXTSTEP 3.2 so I can't confirm that 3.3
does indeed feature DOS-formatted removable drive support. I received
this information second-hand. Would any of the more up-to-date users
like to confirm or deny that NEXTSTEP 3.3/OPENSTEP 4.0 supports
DOS-formatted removable cartridge drives?
--
-===================================================================-
Jean-Paul Samson -==- jsamson@istar.ca -==- NeXTmail welcome, no MIME
-===================================================================-
From: Scott Mewett <mewett@mpr.ca>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: Re: This is SCARY!
Date: Thu, 26 Sep 1996 16:02:47 -0700
Organization: MPR Teltech Ltd.
Message-ID: <324B0B97.595A@mpr.ca>
References: <52dqjo$2ku@jaring.my>
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Michael Olan wrote:
>
> A couple times recently, when I power up my slab, the only thing that seems
> to be working is the fan... nothing on the monitor, no noise from the HD, no
> response from the keyboard. Pull the plug, and then try again, and it fires
> up ok. Anyone ever experience this. Please don't die on me now!
>
> BTW, I changed some SIMMs a week earlier, but otherwise nothing new in the HW
> department.
>
> Mike
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Mine did and still does do something similar. Sometimes when i power on
I hear the Disk spin up, I hear the fan, But nothing show up on the
screen, and no keyboard command do anything. If I unplug the system
about 30 sec after turning it on and plug it in and then try powering on
again ... it will then power up sometimes. Most of the time it still
won't show anything on the screen. If i let the system sit there with
the power on and the screen blank for a few minutes and then do the
unpluging thing again then it will powerup perfectly everytime. As long
as i have let it wait that extra bit.
If the system is on and booted up I can power it of and then on again
without any problems what so ever.
The suggestions that i got centered around replacing the battery. Which
i did to no avail. I think that that solution is good for if the system
doesn't even turn on.
I also did test like holding down the power key longer or less.... still
didn't work.
So ... Is this like what you are experiencing too.
I know you are probably thinking ... I don't want to hear about other
peoples problems I just what a fix for it. :)
But ... Hey I am still dealing with it .... so now i just leave the
system on all the time. Fortunatly i have a color system so i can turn
of the monitor. ;)
I hope we can find a solution for it soon.
I also hope that this message makes sense.
Scott
From: Brian Kronberg <kronberg@mail.lax.net>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Dual processors
Date: Thu, 26 Sep 1996 19:04:40 -0500
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I have a Tyan Tomcat II with dual P-166s, though I initially installed
the OS with one CPU. Must I reinstall the NS 3.3 to have it recognize
both processors or is there an easier method?
Brian Kronberg
La Crosse, WI
From: eric@skatter.USask.Ca
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: HELP! Openstep 4.0 and #9GXE video
Date: 27 Sep 1996 01:25:29 GMT
Organization: University of Saskatchewan
Message-ID: <52fae9$419@tribune.usask.ca>
I'm having troubles wth my video display since ugrading my machine
from NEXTSTEP 3.3 to OPENSTEP 4.0/MACH.
My computer is a 486DX2/66 with a #9GXE VL-bus video card. I checked
NeXTAnswers about this card and found in answer number 2343 that:
General Overview notes: This driver is obsolete, and
has been replaced by the S3GenericDisplay Driver.
See _NeXTanswer #1737__S3_Generic_Driver_Overview.rtf
I upgraded to OS4.0 and ran Configure.app to select this driver (VL-BUS
version). When I rebooted the machine I got the following messages:
May 11 19:11:18 localhost mach: Display0: S3 801/805/805i/928/928PCI detected
May 11 19:11:18 localhost mach: Display0: Display Mode 116 is not supported by BIOS
May 11 19:11:18 localhost mach: Display0: Display Mode 116 is not supported by BIOS
May 11 19:11:18 localhost mach: VGADisplay: Mode Selected: 640 x 480 @ 60 Hz (BW:2)
May 11 19:11:18 localhost mach: Registering: VGADisplay0
From this I infer that the driver is able to find my card, but that
something is preventing it from selecting the mode I want. Using my
machine in 640x480x2-bit mode is *not* what I had in mind!
I then copied /usr/Devices/Number9.config/* and /usr/bin/vpconnector
from my NS3.3 system. This is version 3.30 of the driver and was working
perfectly well under NS3.3. This time I got:
May 11 17:28:43 localhost mach: Registering: Display0
May 11 17:28:43 localhost mach: About to receive 1514 bytes of VPCode!
May 11 17:28:43 localhost mach: Received 512 bytes of VPCode!
May 11 17:28:43 localhost mach: Received 512 bytes of VPCode!
May 11 17:28:43 localhost mach: Received 490 bytes of VPCode!
May 11 17:28:43 localhost mach: Display0: IOVPCodeDisplay: Initialized.
This all seemed the same as under NS3.3, but the display is *HORRIBLE*.
The horizontal offset of the even-numbered display lines is about a
quarter inch different than the horizontal offset of the
odd-numbered display lines. This gives an effect something like a TV
set sufferering severe ghosting! Totally unusable.
I would be very grateful to anyone who can explain how to make either of
these drivers work properly under OPENSTEP 4.0 on my machine!
Thanks,
Eric Norum eric@skatter.usask.ca
Saskatchewan Accelerator Laboratory Phone: (306) 966-6308
University of Saskatchewan FAX: (306) 966-6058
Saskatoon, Canada. NeXTMail accepted.
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From: robert@onevision.de (Robert Wunderer)
Subject: Re: newbie's question: dual boot nextstep and NT
Message-ID: <DyCLq8.E1F@onevision.de>
Sender: news@onevision.de
Organization: OneVision GmbH, Regensburg, Germany
References: <Pine.VMS.3.91-vms-b4-acs.960924215003.518C@VMS1.TAMU.EDU>
Date: Thu, 26 Sep 1996 16:27:44 GMT
In article <Pine.VMS.3.91-vms-b4-acs.960924215003.518C@VMS1.TAMU.EDU>
"PENG, KUANG-YAO" <K0P7185@acs.tamu.edu> writes:
> Hi,
> Can anybody tell me how to dual boot NT and nextstep on a Pentium PC?
>
> Thanks,
> Peng
Just install NextStep normally; when you're asked for the size of the
NextStep partition during installation, choose the menu item to reserve
some space for dos; NS will then create a dos partition on the same drive
it is installed to, and another one for NS itself. Continue installing NS,
and when you are finished, you'll see two lines before the NS boot loader
loads NS, asking you wheter to load dos or NS. Now start installing NT
(either first install dos on the dos partition and then create a harddisk
image of NT, or boot from your NT installation disk). When NT asks for the
partition to use, choose the created dos partition (I'm not sure if you
have to choose user defined installation mode in order to get there, but
NT I believe will automatically choose the dos partition as its
destination). If you want to use NTFS, choose to convert the partition
into NTFS. After installing NT, you should be able to boot NS by pressing
n and NT by pressing d during boot.
This, unfortunately, only works when both NT and NS are installed onto the
same physical drive.
Hope this works,
Robert.
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From: dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca (David Evans)
Subject: Re: 2 memory questions for black hardware
Sender: news@novice.uwaterloo.ca (Mr. News)
Message-ID: <DyCGq2.L0J@novice.uwaterloo.ca>
Date: Thu, 26 Sep 1996 14:39:37 GMT
References: <52c14n$bhq@galaxy.csc.calpoly.edu>
Organization: University of Waterloo
In article <52c14n$bhq@galaxy.csc.calpoly.edu>,
Treasure <kamundse@galaxy.csc.calpoly.edu> wrote:
>
>I have a 040 and an 030 board for my cube.
>
>Both take 30 pinn SIMMs
>
>1) What is the largest size SIMM the machine can use? I was told 32MB but
>I am not sure.
>
4MB.
>2) What is the minimum amount of memory I need on the boards to make them
>useable? Right now the 030 has none (I just got it) and the 040 has 16MB,
>which I want to increase.
>
I've seen a slab boot with 4MB, but swapping was continuous, literally--if
you just let the workspace sit there it would swap.
I like 16MB on a mono machine and 32 on a colour one, with my experiences
under 3.2.
--
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Computer/Synth Junkie http://bbcr.uwaterloo.ca/~dfevans/
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Ontario, Canada overridden by your command." - Roland TR-707 Manual
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Re: Hardware mod to turn NeXT cube on after power
Message-ID: <1996Sep27.111036.46928@yogi.urz.unibas.ch>
From: frank@ifi.unibas.ch
Date: 27 Sep 96 11:10:36 MET
References: <ukv20fti5h7.fsf@dura.spc.uchicago.edu> <526ml4$1p6@mozo.cc.purdue.edu>
jon@mgmt.purdue.edu (Jon Haveman) wrote:
> fugue@ccp.spc.uchicago.edu writes
> > croehrig@cs.ubc.ca (Chris Roehrig) said:
> >
> > >
> > >
> > > Is there a hardware modification I can do to get my 25 MHz
cube to
> > > automatically power on after a power failure?
> >
> >
> > Ewwwww! Now THIS would be tricky. My off-the-cuff suggestion
would be
> > a seperate controller plugged into the same outlet as the cube.
You'd need
> > to set up something capable of operating what would be, in
essence, an
> > electronic momentary switch to temporarily shunt pins 6 and 19
on the
> > monitor connector whenever power is applied to the controller.
> >
> > ****WARNING!!!!!!******
> > I am no electronics wizard, and I take ABSOLUTELY NO
RESPONSIBILITY for
> > ANYTHING that happens if you follow any part of the ideas
below. If it
> > works, great. If something goes wrong, it's not my fault.
> > ***********************
>
> Whoa! Have a look around preferences. There is a button in
there, I forget
> where it is, but if you hit it, your computer will automatically
power on after
> a power off (including power outage).
>
> Way, way, way easier than the clipped off suggestion.
>
> Cheers - Jon
... except that it does this only once. After the next boot, you'll
have to reselect the option ....
Besides, not all NeXT machines are capable of doing this.
-Robert
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From: dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca (David Evans)
Subject: Re: zip drive
Sender: news@novice.uwaterloo.ca (Mr. News)
Message-ID: <DyCtw9.DD1@novice.uwaterloo.ca>
Date: Thu, 26 Sep 1996 19:24:08 GMT
References: <52cmfv$f0a@newstand.syr.edu>
Organization: University of Waterloo
Keywords: zip drive, DOS file system
In article <52cmfv$f0a@newstand.syr.edu>,
L Gaunce Lewis Jr <gaunce@ichthus.syr.edu> wrote:
>I'm running Nextstep 3.2 on a Nextstation Turbo. I have just attached a zip drive. It
>seems to work fine for Next and Mac filesystems, but I can't get it to read DOS formatted
>zip disks. I really want to do this because I want to port stuff between my PC at home and
>my next in the office. Has anyone had any luck on this?
>
I think support for DOS removable SCSI disks wasn't added until 3.3.
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Ontario, Canada overridden by your command." - Roland TR-707 Manual
From: jq@papoose.quick.com (James E. Quick)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Help installing a HP 4G tape drive.
Date: 27 Sep 1996 08:09:46 -0400
Organization: PHCS
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References: <52e9at$v5h@vir.com>
In article <52e9at$v5h@vir.com>, Stefanos Kiakas <stefanos@Vir.com> wrote:
>Hello all,
>
>I'm trying to install a HP C1533A 4Gig tape backup. But I'm having
>a few problems.
>
>On a ThinkPad 755CX, with an Adaptec SlimSCSI PCMCIA card the computer can
>see the tape drive on windows 3.11, but when I boot with NeXTSTEP 3.3
>Intel the computer does not see the tape back up.
>
>Can NeXTSTEP deal with 4Gig tape backup system? Are there any special
>drivers I need to install?
You need to install the SCSITape driver.
In Configure.app go into the SCSI section, and show all drivers.
The tape driver should show up in the window. Install it, and
reboot. The tape devices will then show up as /dev/rst0 and
/dev/nrst0.
You do not mention what rev of the OS you are running. The latest
version is 3.32, and I know there were several minor problems with
the earlier versions on both 3.2 and 3.3. (I call them minor because
most people did not seem to ancounter them, not because they weren't
show-stoppers for those who ran into them).
Check NeXTanswers to download a copy if the one on your CD is not
the latest, but give the one from CD a try first.
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From: Joe_Keenan@next.com (Joe Keenan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Re: Dual processors
Date: 27 Sep 1996 15:46:43 GMT
Organization: NeXT Software, Inc.
Message-ID: <52gst3$cl0@news.next.com>
References: <324B1A18.6372@mail.lax.net>
In article <324B1A18.6372@mail.lax.net> Brian Kronberg
<kronberg@mail.lax.net> writes:
#I have a Tyan Tomcat II with dual P-166s, though I initially installed
#the OS with one CPU. Must I reinstall the NS 3.3 to have it recognize
#both processors or is there an easier method?
NextStep doesn't support mult-processor systems, so putting the second
processor in will have absolutely no effect.
joe
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
From: Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki)
Subject: Re: Manuals for NeXT Slab?
Message-ID: <DyDHu2.Mo@nidat.sub.org>
Sender: nitezki@nidat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki)
Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany
References: <52el6r$ibj@phaser.asic.sc.ti.com>
Date: Fri, 27 Sep 1996 04:01:14 GMT
In article <52el6r$ibj@phaser.asic.sc.ti.com> swill@asic.sc.ti.com (Scott
Williams) writes:
>
> I just recently aquired a NeXT Slab with a 25 Mhz 68040.
> I did not get any user/owner/network sys admin manuals and
> would like to know if there is anyplace i can get a copy
> of the manuals. Any help is apreciated.
>
They're expected to show up in /NextLibrary/Bookshelves. If someone
deleted them from there get them from the distribution CD.
--
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Staarenbergstr. 44 | Tel.: +49 7251 62495 # not about the pleasure and
D-76703 Kraichtal | Fax : +49 7251 69215 # delight of being hooked
GERMANY | E-mail defunct, sorry # up to the Net. Peter 1,3-5
From: jferreira@cfn.ist.utl.pt (Jorge S. Ferreira)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Lost Hardware Password
Date: Fri, 27 Sep 1996 19:22:56 +0100
Organization: CFN
Message-ID: <MPG.cb62bd6cccf5763989683@news.ist.utl.pt>
I have a old-NeXTstation and I lost the hardware password.
Is it possible to erase it? I need to do a fsck (in monitor)
because there is a problem (media error) with the harddisk.
Please, email me some solutions to solve the problem.
Thanks,
Jorge Ferreira
From: mpaque@pacbell.net (Mike Paquette)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Re: 2 memory questions for black hardware
Date: Fri, 27 Sep 1996 18:54:07 GMT
Organization: Electronics Service, Unit No. 16
Message-ID: <52h832$72o@news2.snfc21.pacbell.net>
References: <52c14n$bhq@galaxy.csc.calpoly.edu>
kamundse@galaxy.csc.calpoly.edu (Treasure) wrote:
>I have a 040 and an 030 board for my cube.
>Both take 30 pinn SIMMs
>1) What is the largest size SIMM the machine can use? I was told 32MB but
>I am not sure.
4 Mbyte SIMM rated at 100 nanoseconds or faster. You can install up
to 16 of these for a total of 64 Mb of memory. The non-Turbo boards
take 30 pin SIMMs in either 1 or 4 Mbyte size. The SIMMs should be
installed in sets of four identical parts (that is, there are 4 SIMMs
per bank).
>2) What is the minimum amount of memory I need on the boards to make them
>useable? Right now the 030 has none (I just got it) and the 040 has 16MB,
>which I want to increase.
Depends on what you want to do. I'd suggest 24 Mb as a bare minimum
for running OPENSTEP 4.0 User + Developer, with 32-48 Mb as a
comfortable lower end. I'll suggest at least 16 Mb for running
NEXTSTEP 3.3 User.
Mike Paquette
I don't speak for my employer, and they don't speak for me.
mpaque@pacbell.net Personal E-mail
mpaque@next.com NeXT business mail only, please
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From: fuguen@paris.fdn.fr (Francois UGUEN)
Subject: Re: LaserWriter 16 600PS
In-Reply-To: <52bgl0$2oj@hpuniv.univ-lr.fr>
Message-ID: <DyExIx.99t@paris.fdn.fr>
Sender: news@paris.fdn.fr
Organization: Individual - PARIS - Francois UGUEN
References: <52bgl0$2oj@hpuniv.univ-lr.fr>
Date: Fri, 27 Sep 1996 22:37:45 GMT
On 09/25/96, wilfrid Gaboriaud wrote:
>Has anybody a LaserWriter 16 600 on NextStep ?
>There isn't driver fot it!
Va faire un tour sur www.gscorp.com et www.ipc.de, il y a des drivers.
A +
Francois
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From: <David W. Gotthold> blumoose@bardosaur.mer.utexas.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Problem with 430VX motherboard
Date: 27 Sep 1996 23:59:35 GMT
Organization: The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas
Message-ID: <52hpp7$ha1@geraldo.cc.utexas.edu>
My machine recently started to crash and after many trials, I finally
managed to determine that it was a bad motherboard. I have now replaced
the board, but a new problem has shown up.
The new board is an Asus P/I-P55TVP4 with the Intel 430VX (I think it's
called the Triton II or III) PCI chipset. This replaces a Tyan Titan III
motherboard (Triton I chipset)
My computer no longer crashes during normal use, but it crashes every
time I try to turn it off or reboot it using the logout confirmation
or login panel buttons. The screen goes black, flickers once, and then
the machine is hung. By using a different video board, I was able to
get the shutdown screen to show up, but the machine still hung.
I can shut the machine down without crashing it by using Cmd Cmd ~, which
will work for now, but it doesn't seem to be a graceful solution.
The system:
Motherboard: Asus P/I-P55TVP4 MB w/256 PBcache
Processor: Intel Pentium 100Mhz
Memory: 48MB FPM 60ns RAM
Video: #9 GXE64 Pro w/2MB VRAM
ATI Mach64 w/2MB DRAM (alternate test board)
SCSI: Adaptec 2940W
Network: SMC EtherEZ 10base-T
Sound: Soundblaster Pro (8bit)
OS's: NS 3.3 (just reinstalled)
Windows 95 (seems to work fine, including
shutting down)
If anybody has any ideas, I would love to hear them - I've spent
two weeks tracing down problems and I'm about at the end of my
rope.
Thanks,
David
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From: thedrjay@aol.com (The Dr Jay)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Re: Prob with Objectstation floppy drive...
Date: 27 Sep 1996 22:12:14 -0400
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I’m starting to see a trend of floppy controller failures on Canon Object
Stations. Although I haven’t come across any personally I have run across
a few that where giving floppy errors from dead batteries. Most of the
times floppy problems are from weak batteries or failed floppies, but I
have heard of a lot of verified failed floppy controllers on the Canons. I
have never liked Chips and Technologies chip sets that much but there are
no reports of having undependable floppy controllers chips (at least I
haven’t heard of any). After thinking about why this is happening I can
make some guesses what may be causing the failures. I think that it may
still be related to battery problems, but not from a weak or dead battery.
It might be because of circuit corrosion from a leaking battery. The
batteries in computers have a tendency to leak acid when they get old and
damage the circuitry around where they are soldered to the mother board.
Most often the real-time clock circuitry, and or the CMOS back up
circuitry are next to the battery on most PCs. So they are the most common
ones to fail from battery leakage. Considering Canon designed them with
little regard to conventional PC design it would not surprise me that they
placed the battery in a location unrelated to the circuitry it powers. I’m
starting to think that the chip(s) for the floppy controller, and or the
traces for it are next to the battery. If this is the case a leaking
battery would cause this type of failure. Unfortunately this type of
damage can’t be repaired on multilayered boards most of the time. Next
time I open up a Canon Object Station I’ll have to see if this is the
case. You could try looking to see if the traces from the floppy ribbon
connector run by the battery or to some IC next to it. If this is the case
look for corrosion on the leads from the battery and circuit traces that
have turned black. This would confirm my suspicions as to why the floppy
controllers are failing. This might not help much if this is the reason
for your floppy problems because it would be to late to help you. It might
save someone else from having this happening by passing on warnings to
replace the battery before this happens to them.
From: jsamson@istar.ca (Jean-Paul Samson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Lost Hardware Password
Date: 28 Sep 1996 03:15:02 GMT
Organization: iSTAR Internet Incorporated
Message-ID: <52i57m$482@news.istar.ca>
References: <MPG.cb62bd6cccf5763989683@news.ist.utl.pt>
In-Reply-To: <MPG.cb62bd6cccf5763989683@news.ist.utl.pt>
On 09/27/96 in the group comp.sys.next.hardware you wrote:
> I have a old-NeXTstation and I lost the hardware password.
> Is it possible to erase it?
If you can login as root, then an application called "Hardware
Password" can retrieve the password setting. You can find this
program at:
ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/next/binaries/util/
HardwarePassword.N.b.tar.gz
The other option is to open the cover of the computer and detach the
battery for a few moments. This will reset and turn off the hardware
password.
Jean-Paul Samson
jsamson@istar.ca
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From: kozmic <kozmic@nol.net>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Affordable Notebooks - Pentium
Date: Fri, 27 Sep 1996 22:31:38 -0500
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From: kozmic <kozmic@nol.net>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: 8X ACER CD-ROMs $109.00
Date: Sat, 28 Sep 1996 00:44:47 -0500
Organization: Networks On-Line
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Low Low pricing passed directly to you! THE CONSUMER! imagine that.
we can supply the following items at the following prices while supplies
last. all products are NEW, NOT USED!
CD-ROMS (IDE/ATAPI):
ACER 6X $99.00
ACER 8X $109.00
ACER 10X $139.00
HARD DRIVES (IDE):
1.08Gb Max/Eagle $169.00
1.08Gb Seagate $179.00
1.27Gb Seagate $189.00
1.60Gb Maxtor $209.00
1.60Gb Western Dig. $249.00
2.00Gb Maxtor $269.00
2.00Gb Western Dig. $299.00
2.50Gb Western Dig. $339.00
HARD DRIVES (SCSI-II):
1.00Gb IBM $299.00
1.00Gb Quantum $299.00
1.00Gb Seagate $319.00
2.00Gb IBM $359.00
if any of the above interests you, please feel free to e-mail me at
kozmic@nol.net
--for C.O.D. orders, please state the products you want along with your
full name and address.
--for CREDIT CARD orders, DO NOT INCLUDE YOUR CC NUMBER!, please e-mail
me with a phone number you can be reached at between 9am-7pm CST, and we
will get back to you as soon as possible
From: ŸŸŸŸŸúlŸŸŸŸŸrubsamen@pro-audio.freinet.de (Marcus Rübsamen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
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Date: 27 Sep 1996 22:18:39 GMT
Organization: pro audio
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From: manki.ping.de!root (Operator)
Subject: test1
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Sender: root@manki.toppoint.de (Operator)
Organization: NeXT Club Schwerte, Germany
Date: Sat, 28 Sep 1996 13:26:47 GMT
test - please ignore
From: 057335482-0001@t-online.de (thu)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: NeXT for Sale
Date: 27 Sep 1996 19:34:26 GMT
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For sale:
NeXTcube Color
NeXTdimension Board,
40 MB RAM, 1500 MB HD,
68040, NeXTstep v.3.2
Keyboard, Soundbox, 17" Screen
NeXTstation Color
24 MB RAM, 500 MB HD,
68040, NeXTstep v.3.2
Keyboard, Soundbox, 17" Screen
NeXTstation Mono
20 MB RAM, 100 MB HD,
68040, NeXTstep v.3.2
Keyboard, 17" Screen
NeXTstation Mono
16 MB RAM, 100 MB HD,
68040, NeXTstep v.3.1
Keyboard, 17" Screen
NeXTstation Mono
20 MB RAM, 100 MB Festplatte,
68040, NeXTstep v.3.1
Keyboard, 17" Monitor
NeXTstation Mono
20 MB RAM, 100 MB Festplatte,
68040, NeXTstep v.3.1
Keyboard, 17" Monitor
Streamer 59505
NeXT-Laserprinter
MixFax
Software:
Framemaker v.3.0
Lotus Improv v.1.0
WordPerfect
SoftPC v.2.0
Varidata v.2.51 3 Plätze
Concurrence v.1.0
Diagramm 2 v.2.0
Informix DB v.4.1
Mesa v.1.5
Tooldisk Forty-Two
HSD OCR Servant v.1.0.3
Mathematica v.2.1
ScanX Prof. v.2.1
Tel. 05733 / 7271
Fax. 05733 / 5482
Germany
From: pb141@columbia.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: scanner HW+SW
Date: 28 Sep 1996 19:01:42 GMT
Organization: Columbia University
Message-ID: <52jsmm$eee@apakabar.cc.columbia.edu>
What are people using for full-sheet scanners with Black hardware and
what don't you like about it? I'm thinking about picking something up
very soon. Please comment if you are doing any OCR work.
--
_________________________________________
Paul Buckley
515 W 59th St., Apt. 22K
New York, NY 10019
E-mail: pb141@columbia.edu
Tel/Fax: 212-333-3382
_________________________________________
I'm like a dog with a bone; I gnaw on it
until I understand the dynamics.
Helen Caldicot, NPR interview
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
From: Matt Jurcich <invisix@goldengate.net>
Subject: Re: scanner HW+SW
Message-ID: <324DB77B.446B@goldengate.net>
Date: Sat, 28 Sep 1996 16:40:43 -0700
References: <52jsmm$eee@apakabar.cc.columbia.edu>
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pb141@columbia.edu wrote:
>
> What are people using for full-sheet scanners with Black hardware and
> what don't you like about it? I'm thinking about picking something up
> very soon. Please comment if you are doing any OCR work.
>
I'd be interested in this information as well...!
--
MATT | mailto:invisix@goldengate.net ** living a microsoft **
jurcich | http://www.goldengate.net/~invisix ** free lifestyle **
Silicon Graphics Personal Iris 4D/25G, 16MB, 800MB, 20", Irix 5.3
NeXTstation Turbo Color, 32MB, 1.5GB, 17" Fimi, NEXTSTEP 3.2
From: nextsale@ibgi.com (Ed C.)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: 4SALE -> NeXTstations <-
Date: Sun, 29 Sep 1996 04:49:37 GMT
Organization: IBGi
Message-ID: <52kror$bev@swifty.cfa.org>
*** *** ***
Major U.S. Company went out of business making
the following NeXTstation units available for sale.
(Original count 92)
Available for sale: As of 9/28/96
___________________________________________________________
Processor Mem Disk Cond Qty. Price
68040 (25mhz) 8 100mb Exc. 33 450.00
68040 (25mhz) 16 100mb Exc. 10 550.00
68040 TURBO 16 247mb Exc. 2 750.00
____________________________________________________________
PRICE DOES NOT INCLUDE SHIPPING or INSURANCE.
____________________________________________________________
Payment Methods:
VISA / MC
COD - Cash, Certified or Bank Check. (+$5.00 cod charge)
Pre-Paid.
Purchase Orders accepted from the following:
Universities & Gov't agencies only.
------------------------------------------------------------
*******All units come with the following:*******
17" MegaPixel Display (Mono). Model # N4000B !!!!
monitors are bright .. bright ... bright ..bright.
Keyboard. Mouse. All Cables. User Guides.
Ver 3.0 or better CD with basic V 3.2 O/S loaded on hard drive.
All memory modules are 4MB 70ns. (4MB x 2 or 4MB x 4).
Units are fully checked and in working condition at
time of shipment. All sales are final; BAD
units may be exchanged within ten (10) business
days of receipt.
(Out of 47 sold till date none have been damaged
during shipment OR exchanged - That's SATISFACTION !!).
______________________________________________________________
Shipping charges (From our NY Location) + Insurance
Approximate weight: 64-67 Lb. * UPS GROUND *
$ 30.00 EAST OF MISSISSIPPI RIVER.
$ 45.00 WEST OF MISSISSIPPI RIVER.
DUE TO VERY HIGH SHIPPING COSTS, RIDICULOUS AMOUNT
OF PAPER WORK & BUREAUCRACY, WE CAN NOT SELL OR SHIP UNITS
OUTSIDE OF THE US TERRITORY (50 US STATES ONLY).
______________________________________________________________
To order or for more information please email or call.
EMAIL TO: nextsale@ibgi.com
visit our web page
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Information: .... 1-914-928-3076
ORDER NUMBER ONLY ... 1-800-927-3076 (USA)
Please leave msg. if no answer.
___________________________________________________________
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(914) 928-3076 Bus.
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___________________________________________________________
From: dwy@walrus.com (David Young)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Re: NeXTstation Opinions Needed!
Date: 29 Sep 1996 05:06:12 GMT
Organization: Intellitech Corporation
Message-ID: <52l044$h4l@alice.walrus.com>
References: <324A3235.6488@goldengate.net>
Matt Jurcich (invisix@goldengate.net) wrote:
[snip]
: For just under $1000.
If you judge from the newsgroups, this is a pretty good deal.
Also, if you contact some of the NeXT hardware brokers I've seen mentioned,
this is a *really* good deal. I got a similar system with a larger hard
disk (520MB) and 32MB of RAM plus a NeXT laser printer for the same price,
but I've been told that I got a _great_ deal. :)
: 1. How fast is this box going to be? Am I going to be disapointed
: with the speed right off (even with the expanded RAM and HD) ? How
: does it really perform with 4.0 (if anyone knows yet) ?
68040 at 33MHz. Doesn't sound like much, but the interactive performance is
very good. I prefer my TurboColor to the 167MHz sparc servers for work at
the office as a console machine.
: 4. I really like the original hardware for what it is--cosmetically and
: technically. But should I be taking a look at 4.0 on a Pentium or
: something? I don't want to do anything overy stressfull, lots of internet
: stuff, some graphics, and lots of screwing around with everything. You
: don't really need a fast box to screw around on, but I don't want to
: fall asleep in the meantime.
If you're looking to just browse and run the occasional WetPaint and stuff
like that, you'll be okay.
: 5. How does the computer with the 48MB RAM And gigger HD compare
: speed-wise to Intel/Windows or Macintosh systems? I'm guessing the speed
: is about the same as a mid- to fast-486 system or Mac 840AV (040). If
: anyone has done testing, please post your results, as it might give me an
: idea of what I'm getting into.
AFAICT, the TurboColors dhrystone about on par with a 486/66.
This is, naturally, a meaningless benchmark.
---
. . . . .. david young / ace.net internet technologies //
. . . . .. dwy@ace.net / 1.201.798.5217 / 1.917.923.6461 //
. . . .. www.ace.net: a playground for the truly digital //
From: kinau@lennon.csufresno.edu (Kin Hung Au)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Please Help: Problem with NeXT Laser Printer
Date: 25 Sep 1996 18:15:45 GMT
Organization: Californi State University, Fresno
Message-ID: <52bssh$5b4@zimmer.CSUFresno.EDU>
Hi Folks,
We have a problem with one of our printers. The print out shifts
downward. So, part of print out near bottom of paper can not print out.
Did anyone has similar problem and can't give me a direction to fix? If
you know solution, could you email me at kinau@csufresno.edu .
Thanks!!
--Kin
******************************************************************************
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kinau@csufresno.edu
Instructional Computing Consultant
California State University, Fresno Tel# 209-278-3915
School of Natural Science FAX# 209-278-7139
Office of Dean, MS #90
Fresno CA 93740
http://maxwell.phys.csufresno.edu:8001/~kinau/
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From: ts110@pmms.cam.ac.uk (Tomaz Slivnik)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Plextor 8X CD-ROM on NeXT
Date: 29 Sep 1996 08:50:22 GMT
Organization: Cambridge University, Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics
Message-ID: <52ld8e$n8a@lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk>
Has anyone successfully connected a Plextor 8Plex CD-ROM to a NextStation?
It works mostly fine for me, but at boot I get the following error
message:
sd3: UNIT ATTENTION
Waiting for the drive to come ready........................................
Any advice would be much appreciated.
Tomaz Slivnik
Message-ID: <324EE30E.32B0@hort.cri.nz>
Date: Mon, 30 Sep 1996 08:59:16 +1200
From: Andrew McNaughton <amcnaughton@hort.cri.nz>
Organization: No junk mail please
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Subject: Re: How to react to Money Scam Spam...
References: <510v1k$9g7@sjx-ixn4.ix.netcom.com> <Pine.LNX.3.95.960909110336.8569C-100000@nerc3.nerc.com> <steve-0909961950330001@brecher.reno.nv.us> <3234BD72.5A3F@primenet.com> <nospam-ya023080001609961530250001@news.itd.umich.edu> <cw028212-1609962118150001@192.0.2.1> <mouser-1809961350130001@204.191.6.170> <R.ashley-2109960955460001@news.gate.net> <3248175D.2C49@hp4700.desk.hp.com>
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Jon Cohen wrote:
> However, there are some distinctions. A company can legally
> send me junk mail using the U.S. Post Office and the mailbox
> on my house's door. However, it is ILLEGAL (in the U.S.) for
> the same company to send me junk mail to my e-mail address or
> to my fax machine. The distinction is as follows: when a
> company sends junk mail to my door, that company incurs the
> full cost of the delivery of the junk mail; when that company
> sends to my e-mail or fax machine, I bear some of the cost of
> the delivery -- I pay my ISP for e-mail; I pay for my fax
> machine's paper; I pay for the electricity used to deliver
> either.
This is interesting. Is it illegal under US law for a US person to
inflict such costs on users in other countries?
Under New Zealand law (privacy act), it is Illegal for a company to
divulge personal details, including any form of address, without written
consent from the individual to who the information pertains. Is there
any parallel legislation in the US?
From: owolf@net66.com (Zaphod Beetlebrox)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Re: Manuals for NeXT Slab?
Date: Sun, 29 Sep 1996 03:06:15 -0600
Organization: Net66
Message-ID: <owolf-2909960306160001@stlouis-113.net66.com>
References: <52el6r$ibj@phaser.asic.sc.ti.com>
In article <52el6r$ibj@phaser.asic.sc.ti.com>, swill@asic.sc.ti.com (Scott
Williams) wrote:
>I just recently aquired a NeXT Slab with a 25 Mhz 68040.
>I did not get any user/owner/network sys admin manuals and
>would like to know if there is anyplace i can get a copy
>of the manuals. Any help is apreciated.
>
I'd be intersted in that information too (Color Turbo). The NeXT manuals
online keep mentioning a "User's Manual" which I assume is a printed
manual.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
From: dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca (David Evans)
Subject: Re: Manuals for NeXT Slab?
Sender: news@novice.uwaterloo.ca (Mr. News)
Message-ID: <DyE5Aq.GKD@novice.uwaterloo.ca>
Date: Fri, 27 Sep 1996 12:28:02 GMT
References: <52el6r$ibj@phaser.asic.sc.ti.com>
Organization: University of Waterloo
In article <52el6r$ibj@phaser.asic.sc.ti.com>,
Scott Williams <swill@asic.sc.ti.com> wrote:
>
>I just recently aquired a NeXT Slab with a 25 Mhz 68040.
>I did not get any user/owner/network sys admin manuals and
>would like to know if there is anyplace i can get a copy
>of the manuals. Any help is apreciated.
>
The documentation is included with the operating system (you can chose to
install it or not). Provided you can get it plugged in and an OS installed
on it, you just need to look in /NextLibrary/Documentation.
--
David Evans (NeXTMail OK) dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca
Computer/Synth Junkie http://bbcr.uwaterloo.ca/~dfevans/
University of Waterloo "Default is the value selected by the composer
Ontario, Canada overridden by your command." - Roland TR-707 Manual
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
From: dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca (David Evans)
Subject: Re: NeXTstation Opinions Needed!
Sender: news@novice.uwaterloo.ca (Mr. News)
Message-ID: <DyE54B.8EF@novice.uwaterloo.ca>
Date: Fri, 27 Sep 1996 12:24:11 GMT
References: <324A3235.6488@goldengate.net> <Pine.NXT.3.95.960926155328.14291A-100000@charisma>
Organization: University of Waterloo
In article <Pine.NXT.3.95.960926155328.14291A-100000@charisma>,
Timothy J. Luoma <luomat@nerc.com> wrote:
>
>
>> 1. How fast is this box going to be? Am I going to be disapointed
>> with the speed right off (even with the expanded RAM and HD) ? How
>> does it really perform with 4.0 (if anyone knows yet) ?
>
>I'm running 3.2 with 32 ram through a 28.8 modem via PPP.
>
>The speed is not bad. Although if I could add more RAM I would (you
>might want to see if 32 ram is the max on the system you are looking
>at)
>
It's a Turbo, so 128MB is the maximum. I'm fairly happy with 32 on a
Dimension cube; I wasn't so happy with 16. 32 should do for a good start on
the Turbo Color.
>> 2. How's the price for what I'm getting? From what I've seen at
>> resellers and in the newsgroups, I'm getting a decent deal.
>
>Seems like a good price.
>
I concur.
>> 3. How long is NeXT Software planning on supporting black hardware?
>> Will users with black hardware be "out of the loop" of software upgrades
>> after 4.0?
>
>No one knows. They don't even know. I would expect that 4.1 would
>run on m68k if 4.1 is a next-year bug fix release.
There is at least one heavy engineering guy at NeXT who really likes black
hardware, so that counts for a little. Still, Timothy's right. We don't
really know.
>> 4. I really like the original hardware for what it is--cosmetically and
>> technically. But should I be taking a look at 4.0 on a Pentium or
>> something? I don't want to do anything overy stressfull, lots of internet
>> stuff, some graphics, and lots of screwing around with everything. You
>> don't really need a fast box to screw around on, but I don't want to
>> fall asleep in the meantime.
>
>If it were me and I was you, I'd buy the machine.
As would I. It's a fun machine, something of a classic, and a good price.
As for the rest of Timothy's article, "uhhhh....what he said."
>my new 3gazzillion MHz PentiumProPlusConditioner
>
Reminds me of one of the "names" of the DEC Alpha Demonstration Unit (the
experimental Alpha-based multiprocessor): the DECoffeemate 5000.
--
David Evans (NeXTMail OK) dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca
Computer/Synth Junkie http://bbcr.uwaterloo.ca/~dfevans/
University of Waterloo "Default is the value selected by the composer
Ontario, Canada overridden by your command." - Roland TR-707 Manual
From: John Kheit <jkheit@cnj.digex.net>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.graphics,comp.sys.mac.hardware.misc,comp.sys.mac.hardware.storage,comp.sys.mac.hardware.video,comp.sys.mac.hypercard,comp.sys.mac.oop.powerplant,comp.sys.mac.portables,comp.sys.mac.printing,comp.sys.mac.programmer.codewarrior,comp.sys.mac.programmer.help,comp.sys.mac.programmer.misc,comp.sys.mac.programmer.mtools,comp.sys.mac.system,comp.sys.mac.wanted,comp.sys.newton.misc,comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.pen,comp.sys.powerpc,comp.sys.powerpc.advocacy,comp.psion.misc,comp.sys.sgi.admin,comp.sys.sgi.graphics,comp.sys.sgi.hardware,comp.sys.sgi.misc,comp.sys.sinclair,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.sun.hardware
Subject: Re: How to react to Money Scam Spam...
Date: 29 Sep 1996 17:33:59 GMT
Organization: monoChrome, Inc., NJ, USA
Message-ID: <52mbu7$92p@news3.digex.net>
References: <510v1k$9g7@sjx-ixn4.ix.netcom.com> <Pine.LNX.3.95.960909110336.8569C-100000@nerc3.nerc.com> <steve-0909961950330001@brecher.reno.nv.us> <3234BD72.5A3F@primenet.com> <nospam-ya023080001609961530250001@news.itd.umich.edu> <cw028212-1609962118150001@192.0.2.1> <mouser-1809961350130001@204.191.6.170> <R.ashley-2109960955460001@news.gate.net> <3248175D.2C49@hp4700.desk.hp.com> <324EE30E.32B0@hort.cri.nz>
Andrew McNaughton <amcnaughton@hort.cri.nz> wrote:
> This is interesting. Is it illegal under US law for a US person to
inflict such costs on users in other countries?
> Under New Zealand law (privacy act), it is Illegal for a company to
divulge personal details, including any form of address, without written
consent from the individual to who the information pertains. Is there any
parallel legislation in the US?
I don't know this for sure, but I think it's different in the US. At the
very least, I think there might not be anything to stop people from
distributing the same information that is found in a phone directory. I.E.
Your name, address, and phone number. Now if other bits of information are
added there, like your age, social security number, etc., that may violate
the persons privacy and the company would be liable for invasion of
privacy...
Of course all the above is just speculation on my part...I don't know for
sure.
--
Thanks, be well, take care, later, John Kheit )^> %^) =^)
monoChrome, Inc. | New York Law School
NEXTSTEP Developer | Opinions expressed represent me only
MIME, SUN, & NeXTmail OK | mailto:jkheit@cnj.digex.net
Telepathy...It's coming... | http://cnj.digex.net/~jkheit
From: Scott Mewett <mewett@mpr.ca>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Re: Plextor 8X CD-ROM on NeXT
Date: Sun, 29 Sep 1996 11:09:54 -0700
Organization: MPR Teltech Ltd.
Message-ID: <324EBB72.3BC0@mpr.ca>
References: <52ld8e$n8a@lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk>
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Tomaz Slivnik wrote:
>
> Has anyone successfully connected a Plextor 8Plex CD-ROM to a NextStation?
> It works mostly fine for me, but at boot I get the following error
> message:
>
> sd3: UNIT ATTENTION
> Waiting for the drive to come ready........................................
>
> Any advice would be much appreciated.
>
> Tomaz Slivnik
If you don't have a CD in the drive at boot up then it will give you
this message. AFAICT this seems normal if you don't have a disk in
there.
I use a Plextor 6x and it works great.
Scott
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
From: Matt Jurcich <invisix@goldengate.net>
Subject: CD Audio through Soundbox
Message-ID: <324F0C2D.794B@goldengate.net>
Date: Sun, 29 Sep 1996 16:54:21 -0700
Organization: transwarp
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Hey there,
In using the CD Player program for audio CD's, I noticed the audio
doesn't play out of the Soundbox on my turbo color slab. The NeXT
plays the disc and I can hear the music through headphons plugged into
the CD-ROM drive itself so it seems to be working at all.
So, is this supposed to play over the Soundbox speaker? (audio over
the SCSI bus, I take it, is that I'm trying to do here). I have
a Toshiba 3301 CD-ROM drive, which seems to work for everything else
on the NeXT. What do I need to do to get it to work like that if
it can works that way?
Thanks for the info.
--
MATT | mailto:invisix@goldengate.net ** living a microsoft **
jurcich | http://www.goldengate.net/~invisix ** free lifestyle **
Silicon Graphics Personal Iris 4D/25G, 16MB, 800MB, 20", Irix 5.3
NeXTstation Turbo Color, 32MB, 1.5GB, 17" Fimi, NEXTSTEP 3.2
From: John Kheit <jkheit@cnj.digex.net>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Re: CD Audio through Soundbox
Date: 29 Sep 1996 23:22:28 GMT
Organization: monoChrome, Inc., NJ, USA
Message-ID: <52n0bk$bqs@news3.digex.net>
References: <324F0C2D.794B@goldengate.net>
Matt Jurcich <invisix@goldengate.net> wrote:
> In using the CD Player program for audio CD's, I noticed the audio
doesn't play out of the Soundbox on my turbo color slab. The NeXT plays
the disc and I can hear the music through headphons plugged into the CD-ROM
drive itself so it seems to be working at all.
You could either get OmniCD, but that only lets you record directly over
the SCSIbus... The other solution is, CD_evil.app. It lets you play, and
record audio over the SCSI bus. It should work on Toshiba CD roms...
Look for them on the next archives...
--
Thanks, be well, take care, later, John Kheit )^> %^) =^)
monoChrome, Inc. | New York Law School
NEXTSTEP Developer | Opinions expressed represent me only
MIME, SUN, & NeXTmail OK | mailto:jkheit@cnj.digex.net
Telepathy...It's coming... | http://cnj.digex.net/~jkheit
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From: rmah@angel.net (Robert S. Mah)
Subject: Re: How to react to Money Scam Spam...
Organization: Angel Networks, Inc.
Message-ID: <rmah-3009960028330001@axe.angel.net>
References: <510v1k$9g7@sjx-ixn4.ix.netcom.com> <Pine.LNX.3.95.960909110336.8569C-100000@nerc3.nerc.com> <steve-0909961950330001@brecher.reno.nv.us> <3234BD72.5A3F@primenet.com> <nospam-ya023080001609961530250001@news.itd.umich.edu> <cw028212-1609962118150001@192.0.2.1> <mouser-1809961350130001@204.191.6.170> <R.ashley-2109960955460001@news.gate.net> <3248175D.2C49@hp4700.desk.hp.com> <324EE30E.32B0@hort.cri.nz>
Date: Mon, 30 Sep 1996 04:28:33 GMT
amcnaughton@hort.cri.nz wrote:
> Under New Zealand law (privacy act), it is Illegal for a company
> to divulge personal details, including any form of address, without
> written consent from the individual to who the information pertains.
> Is there any parallel legislation in the US?
Hell, in the U.S. companies SELL such information to third parties.
It is a very common practice in many industries. A noteable example
would include most publishers.
Cheers,
Rob
.....................................................................
Robert S. Mah 212-366-0881
Angel Networks, Inc. rmah@angel.net
From: shess@shell.one.net (Scott Hess)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Re: Plextor 8X CD-ROM on NeXT
Date: 30 Sep 1996 00:06:31 -0400
Organization: Is a sign of weakness
Sender: shess@shell.one.net
Message-ID: <veepw344pfc.fsf@shell.one.net>
References: <52ld8e$n8a@lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk>
In-reply-to: ts110@pmms.cam.ac.uk's message of 29 Sep 1996 08:50:22 GMT
In article <52ld8e$n8a@lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk>,
ts110@pmms.cam.ac.uk (Tomaz Slivnik) writes:
Has anyone successfully connected a Plextor 8Plex CD-ROM to a NextStation?
It works mostly fine for me, but at boot I get the following error
message:
sd3: UNIT ATTENTION
Waiting for the drive to come ready........................................
That's not an error. The machine is trying to read the disk's boot
block or something of the sort, and since there's no disk, it doesn't
work. It's always annoyed me that the operating system doesn't check
to see if it's a removable disk before doing that ... anyhow, you can
put a disk in before booting and it won't wait for the timeout. Or
you can just ignore it. This should happen with all removable media
under NeXTSTEP.
Later,
--
scott hess <shess@winternet.com> http://www.winternet.com/~shess/
Work: 288 Rampart Court #105, Ft Mitchell, KY, 41017 (606) 578-0412
(Was) 12550 Portland Avenue South #121, Burnsville, MN 55337 (612)895-1208
<address and phone work now, I am already in Cincinnati. No new email, yet.>
From: al604724@campus.cegs.itesm.mx (G. Cortizo)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.video,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.chips,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.cd-rom,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.systems,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.networking,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.comm,comp.sys.ibm.ps2.hardware,comp.sys.mac.hardware,comp.sys.sun.hardware,comp.sys.amiga.hardware,comp.sys.sgi.hardware,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.publish.cdrom.hardware,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.setup.hardware
Subject: --Need some money? Read me!
Date: 30 Sep 1996 10:29:32 GMT
Organization: Antrax corp.
Message-ID: <52o7ec$pp8@news.mty.itesm.mx>
$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
Taking 3 minutes to read what follows can change your life :
I saw an article in an internet newsgroup telling me I could make $50,000
within a month for an investment of only $5.
I decided that even if I had to throw 5$ into the fire, I wouldn't care
that much, and gave it a try . After all I wanted a
LOT more than five dollars.
Two weeks later, I began receiving money in the mail! I couldn't believe
it! Soon, hundreds, and then thousands of
dollars began to roll in. Within 4 weeks, I had received a total of
$59,354! I bought myself a car and things I wanted
for a long long time! I only had to follow three steps!
If you follow the three steps below, there is no reason why the same
shouldn't happen to you! This is a legitimate
investment opportunity. You invest $5, and you receive a return on your
investment. So does the next investor.
This is NOT ILLEGAL, NOT A CHAIN LETTER, AND IT IS PERFECTLY LEGITIMATE. If
you don't keep track of
the people that send you dollar bills, it is illegal. People are paying you
to be on a mailing list.
If you are not interested, then don't participate, but
please print this article and pass it on to someone who may
be interested, so they can take advantage.
The procedure is simple:
1) Write your name and address on 5
sheets of paper. Below that, write the words, "Please add
me to your mailing list." Fold $1 note in each piece of
paper and mail them to the following 5 addresses.:
1. Billy Stevens
P.O.Box 5022
Dallas, TX 75379-5022
2. Sam Roberts
4200 East Fletcher Ave. #227
Tampa, Fl. 33613-4902
3. Greg Stein
8790 Davis Blvd.
NRH, TX 76180
4. Jesse Ivey
11325 I.H. 37 Suite#1802
Corpus Christi, TX. 78410
5. G. Antonio Cortizo
Geminis 129-6 Colonia Contry
C.P. 64860
Monterrey N.L.
Mexico
If you're mailing overseas, it's best to write "Air Mail" on the envelope.
Otherwise it'll land on a boat and it'll take forever.
2) Now remove the top name from the list, and move the other four names
up. In other words, #5 becomes #4 and
so on. Put your name as the fifth one on the list. Use a simple text
editor such as Notepad. Any editor will do.
3) Post the article to at least 200 newsgroups. There are 17,000, so it
shouldn't be hard to find that many. Try posting
to as many newsgroups as you can, and the bigger the newsgroup is, the more
people are to see your message!
You are now in the mail order investment business, and should start seeing
returns within a week or two. Of course,
the more newsgroups you post to, the greater your return is. Whatever but
make sure your address is correct.
Now, here is why the system works:
-Of every 200 posts I made, I received 5 responses. Yes, only 5. You make
$5 for every 200 posts with your name at #5.
-Each person who sent you $1 now also makes 200 additional postings with
your name at #4. ie. 1000 postings. On average
therefore, 50 people will send you $1 with your name at #4. $50.
-Your 50 new agents make 200 postings each with your name at #3 or 10,000
postings. Average return 500 people = $500.
They make 200 postings each with your name at #2=100,000 postings=5000
return at $1 each=$5000.
-Finally, 5,000 people make 200 postings with your name at #1 and you get a
return of $50,000 before your name drops
off the list. AND THATS IF EVERYONE DOWN THE LINE MAKES 200 POSTINGS! Total
income in one cycle=$55,000.
From time to time, when you see your name no longer on the list, you take
the latest posting that appears in the
newsgroups, and send out another $5, and put your name at #5, and start
posting again. Remember, 200 postings is only
a guideline. the more you post, the greater the return.
Lets review why you should do this. THE ONLY COST IS $5, AND 5 STAMPS, AND
5 ENVELOPES. Anyone can afford $5 for such an
effortless investment with such SPECTACULAR RETURNS.
Some people have said to me, "what happens if the scheme is played out and
no one sends me any money? "Big Deal, so you
lose $5-but what are the chances of that happening ?? Do you Realize that
NOBODY cares for the LEGAL chance of winning
such a BIG money as 50,000.00 $$$$ ???? and all for a microscopic
investment of five separate dollars? just think
of all of the new Internet users that join the net every day!!!
There are millions of internet users, and millions of new net surfers
every month!!! This is the great plus of the
Internet, people all over the world can hear you and listen carefully if
you talk reasonably. Everyone will take that
chance!
REMEMBER-HONESTY IS THE BEST POLICY. YOU DO NOT NEED TO CHEAT THIS IDEA TO
MAKE MONEY!!
BESIDES,NOT PLAYING THE GAME FAIRLY IS ILLEGAL. SO LET'S BE REASONABLE AND
PLAY FAIRLY, SO WE
CAN ALL ENJOY THE INTERNET GOLD MINE.
GOOD LUCK FOR YOU ALL, and remember, play fair and you'll win!!
From: al604724@campus.cegs.itesm.mx (G. Cortizo)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.video,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.chips,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.cd-rom,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.systems,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.networking,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.comm,comp.sys.ibm.ps2.hardware,comp.sys.mac.hardware,comp.sys.sun.hardware,comp.sys.amiga.hardware,comp.sys.sgi.hardware,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.publish.cdrom.hardware,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.setup.hardware
Control: cancel <52o7ec$pp8@news.mty.itesm.mx>
Subject: cmsg cancel <52o7ec$pp8@news.mty.itesm.mx>
Date: 30 Sep 96 12:36:47 GMT
Organization: Antrax corp.
Message-ID: <cancel.52o7ec$pp8@news.mty.itesm.mx>
Article cancelled by news@service3.uky.edu.
From: shess@shell.one.net (Scott Hess)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: DEC DSP 3105S in a NeXTstation
Date: 30 Sep 1996 12:38:35 -0400
Organization: Is a sign of weakness
Sender: shess@shell.one.net
Message-ID: <veed8z40xh0.fsf@shell.one.net>
I've finally decided that I'm annoyed by the amount of noise generated
by my NeXTstation with a DEC DSP 3105S in an external enclosure and my
station with the NeXT-shipped 400M drive inside. (Seagate 1480?)
Since the NeXT drive was the noisiest component, it's going to go
somewhere else.
The DEC DSP seems quite enough for now, so I'm thinking of putting it
internal ... but it won't work. I suspect termination problems, but
for the life of me I can't find anywhere to place terminating
resistors. Is there a jumper which fixes things? Does anyone have or
know where to find online spec sheets for this drive? It's more than
three years old, and I think DEC is out of the drive business these
days, but I am under the impression that DEC had someone else building
the drives in the first place ... sigh, sounds like real fun to figure
that out.
Thanks,
--
scott hess <shess@winternet.com> http://www.winternet.com/~shess/
Work: 288 Rampart Court #105, Ft Mitchell, KY, 41017 (606) 578-0412
(Was) 12550 Portland Avenue South #121, Burnsville, MN 55337 (612)895-1208
<address and phone work now, I am already in Cincinnati. No new email, yet.>
From: Kari Karhi <kkarhi@austin.ibm.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Black mouse problem & WTB: Black Mouse
Date: Mon, 30 Sep 1996 17:48:13 +0000
Organization: PSW Technologies
Message-ID: <325007DD.167E@austin.ibm.com>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Hi,
I have a Color NeXTStation at home and its mouse has started to
act up. The cursor keeps freezing, but I can usually make it
work again by shaking it some. Trying to drag icons does not
seem to work at all as the icon is released after a short while
dragging.
I took it apart, cleaned the ball and insides, looked at the
rollers and cleaned them, all to no effect. The cord does
not seem to be broken.
Any ideas? I have seen some people saying the micro switches
go out on these mice. Are they easy to fix? Also, I am sure
I saw a couple of mice on sale on this list just recently but
cannot, of course, find the articles any more. If you have
a mouse to sell, please email me with the price.
Cheers,
Kari
Kari Karhi
PSW Technologies
kari@pswtech.com or kkarhi@austin.ibm.com
(512)343-6666 or (512)838-0616
From: mow@navigator.de (Markus Wenzel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Re: Dual processors
Date: 29 Sep 1996 09:32:56 GMT
Organization: Navigator
Message-ID: <52lfo8$69e@marsu.navigator.de>
References: <324B1A18.6372@mail.lax.net>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
Cc: kronberg@mail.lax.net
In <324B1A18.6372@mail.lax.net> Brian Kronberg wrote:
> I have a Tyan Tomcat II with dual P-166s, though I initially installed
> the OS with one CPU. Must I reinstall the NS 3.3 to have it recognize
> both processors or is there an easier method?
Neither NS 3.3 nor OS/Mach 4.0 will ever recognize the second CPU, the kernel
does not support multiprocessing.
--
Navigator Markus Wenzel info@navigator.de
IT Consulting & System Administration http://www.navigator.de/
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.periphs.scsi
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@nerc.com>
Subject: UPDATE (sorta): SyQuest 135 EZ -> EzFlyer upgrade
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.95.960930133413.12003A-100000@nerc3.nerc.com>
Date: Mon, 30 Sep 1996 13:39:16 -0400
Return-Receipt-To: luomat@nerc.com
Organization: Princeton Theological Seminary
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
Well, just got off the phone with SyQuest, who told me 2 weeks ago to call
back at the end of the month about the upgrade program for owners of the
EZ135 to EZFlyer230.
The salesguy said they don't have anything in place yet, but he took down
my email address and said he would contact me in a few days.
So nothing yet, but it looks close.
Either a) I'm going to be very happy because the plan includes a provision
for those of us unfortunate enough to buy at $200 (vs $120) OR b) which is
the opposite of A in this case.
TjL
From: Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Re: Dual processors
Date: Mon, 30 Sep 1996 18:28:14 -0400
Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
Message-ID: <UmI4Zyy00UhBM2j4hV@andrew.cmu.edu>
References: <324B1A18.6372@mail.lax.net>
<52lfo8$69e@marsu.navigator.de>
In-Reply-To: <52lfo8$69e@marsu.navigator.de>
Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.hardware: 29-Sep-96 Re: Dual
processors by Markus Wenzel@navigator.
> In <324B1A18.6372@mail.lax.net> Brian Kronberg wrote:
>> I have a Tyan Tomcat II with dual P-166s, though I initially installed
>> the OS with one CPU. Must I reinstall the NS 3.3 to have it recognize
>> both processors or is there an easier method?
>
> Neither NS 3.3 nor OS/Mach 4.0 will ever recognize the second CPU, the
kernel > does not support multiprocessing.
Mach ("the kernel") was designed to support SMP-- NeXT has never
released a version of NEXTSTEP with the kernel configured for with SMP
support.
There's a difference. :-)
-Chuck
Charles Swiger | cs4w@andrew.cmu.edu | standard disclaimer
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I know you're an optimist if you think I'm a pessimist.
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