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From: jmueller@mathlab24.unl.edu (Jennifer Mueller) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: DeskJet Printers with NextStep Date: 29 Oct 1996 19:47:36 GMT Organization: University of Nebraska--Lincoln Message-ID: <555n0o$bke@crcnis3.unl.edu> Keywords: HP820, HP870, printers Hello! I am planning to buy a color printer to use with NextStep, but before I do, I would like to ask whether anyone out there has successfully used the new HP 820 or HP 870 DeskJet with NextStep and was able to print in color. Please let me know if you have. Thank you! Jennifer Mueller Univ. of NE-Lincoln jmueller@math.unl.edu
From: sbolting@nemonet.com (Stephen Boltinghouse) Subject: Just try this, it will work Newsgroups: comp.dcom.net-analysis,comp.dcom.net-management,comp.os.netware.connectivity,comp.os.netware.misc,comp.os.netware.security,comp.ai.neural-nets,comp.sys.newton.misc,comp.sys.newton.programmer,comp.sys.next,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,comp.soft-sys.nextstep,comp.protocols.nfs,comp.networks.noctools.bugs,comp.networks.noctools.d,comp.sys.northstar Date: Tue, 29 Oct 1996 23:44:01 GMT Message-ID: <32.9952477184124@news.nemonet.com> Take five minutes to read this and it WILL change your life. The Internet has grown tremendously. It doubles in size every 4 months. think about it. You see those 'Make.Money.Fast' posts more and more. That's ... because it WORKS ! So I thought, all those new users might make it work. And I decided to try it out, a few months ago. Besides, whats $5.00, I spend more than that in the morning on my way to work on coffee and cigs for the day. So I sent in my money and posted. Everyone was calling it a scam, but there are SO many new users from AOL, Netcom, etc. they will join in and make it work for you. Well, two weeks later, I began recieving bucks in the mail! I couldn't believe it! Not just a little, I mean big bucks! At first only a few hundred dollars, then a week later, a couple of thousand, then BOOM. By the end of the fourth week, I had recieved nearly $47,000.00. It came from all over the world. And every bit of it perfectly legal and on the up and up. I've been able to pay off all my bills and still had enough left over for a nice vacation for me and my family. Not only does it work for me, it works for other folks as well. Markus Valppu says he made $57,883 in four weeks. Dave Manning claims he made $53,664 in the same amount of time. Dan Shepstone says it was only $17,000 for him. Do I know these folks? No, but when I read how they say they did it, it made sense to me. Enough sense that I'm taking a similar chance with $5 of my own bucks. Not a big chance, I admit--but one with incredible potential, because $5 is all anyone ever invests in this system. Period. That's all Markus, Dave, or Dan invested, yet their $5 netted them tens of thousands of dollars each, in a safe, legal, completely legitimate way. Here's how it works in 3 easy steps: STEP 1. Invest your $5 by writing your name and address on five seperate pieces of paper along with the words: "PLEASE ADD ME TO YOUR MAILING LIST." (In this way, you're not just sending a dollar to someone; you're paying for a legitimate service.) Fold a $1 bill, money order, or bank note inside each paper, and mail them by standard U. S. Mail to the following five addresses: 1- Fern Suarez Mallorca 112 Hato Rey, P.R., USA, 00917 2- Philippe 2104 De Mexico Chomedey, Laval Quebec, Canada H7M 3C6 3- Natalie Jansen Lancveldlaan 18 5671 CN Nuenen Holland 4- Chad Collier 2785 Cold Springs Rd. #49 Placerville, CA 95667 5- Steve Boltinghouse 1009 Bird St. Hannibal, MO 63401 STEP 2. Now remove the top name from the list, and move the other names up.This way, #5 becomes #4 and so on. Put your name in as the fifth one on the list. STEP 3. Post the article to at least 250 newsgroups. There are at least 19000 newsgroups at any given moment in time. Try posting to as many newsgroups as you can. Remember the more groups you post to, the more people will see your article and send you cash! STEP 4. You are now in business for yourself, and should start seeing returns within 7 to 14 days! Remember, the Internet is new and huge. There is no way you can lose. Now here is how and why this system works: Out of every block of 250 posts I made, I got back 5 responses. Yes, thats right,only 5. You make $5.00 in cash, not checks or money orders, but real cash with your name at #5. Each additional person who sent you $1.00 now also makes 250 additional postings with your name at #4, 1000 postings. On average then, 50 people will send you $1.00 with your name at #4,....$50.00 in your pocket! Now these 50 new people will make 250 postings each with your name at #3 or 10,000 postings. Average return, 500 people= $500. They make 250 postings each with your name at #2= 100,000 postings=5000 returns at $1.00 each=$5,000.00 in cash! Finally, 5,000 people make 250 postings each with your name at #1 and you get a return of $60,000 before your name drops off the list.And that's only if everyone down the line makes only 250 postings each! Your total income for this one cycle is $55,000. From time to time when you see your name is no longer on the list, you take the latest posting you can find and start all over again. The end result depends on you. You must follow through and repost this article everywhere you can think of. The more postings you make, the more cash ends up in your mailbox. It's too easy and too cheap to pass up!!! So thats it. Pretty simple sounding stuff, huh? But believe me, it works. There are millions of people surfing the net every day, all day, all over the world. And 100,000 new people get on the net every day. You know that, you've seen the stories in the paper. So, my friend, read and follow the simple instructions and play fair. Thats the key, and thats all there is to it. Print this out right now so you can refer back to this article easily. Try to keep an eye on all the postings you made to make sure everyone is playing fairly. You know where your name should be. If you're really not sure or still think this can't be for real, then don't do it. But please print this article and pass it along to someone you know who really needs the bucks, and see what happens. REMEMBER....HONESTY IS THE BEST POLICY.YOU DON'T NEED TO CHEAT THE BASIC IDEA TO MAKE THE BUCKS! GOOD LUCK TO ALL, AND PLEASE PLAY FAIR AND YOU WILL WIN AND MAKE SOME REAL INSTANT FREE CASH! *** By the way, if you try to deceive people by posting the messages with your name in the list and not sending the bucks to the people already included, you will not get much. I know someone who did this and only got about $150 (and that's after two months). Then he sent the 5 bills, people added him to their lists, and in 4-5 weeks he had over $10,000! TRY IT AND YOU'LL BE HAPPY!!! :o) !!!!!!!!!!
From: Christian Kuhtz <kuhtz@ix.netcom.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Q: NeXTdimension bootstrap Date: 30 Oct 1996 04:18:46 GMT Organization: Netcom Message-ID: <556kv6$5cn@sjx-ixn7.ix.netcom.com> References: <54rdbt$2cc@sjx-ixn7.ix.netcom.com> <550kde$5qb@news.wco.com> <5531cn$bvp@dfw-ixnews3.ix.netcom.com> <E01n5K.Lu8@novice.uwaterloo.ca> dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca (David Evans) wrote: >In article <5531cn$bvp@dfw-ixnews3.ix.netcom.com>, >Christian Kuhtz <kuhtz@ix.netcom.com> wrote: >> >>You mean that quite little PGA socket? The last thing I heard about that >>socket was that it was a proprietary port for a logic analyzer ;-).. Cool, >>that makes sense. All my '030 boards have nothing in that PGA socket. >> > > You sure you aren't getting NeXT confused with Be? ;-) Nope ;-).. I actually have it in a piece of documentation here. Anyway. Obivously crappy documentation ;-) > I wondered about this too. In the Dimension's instructions (that I saw many >years ago) it said that NeXT "strongly recommended" upgrading to an '040, but >that it wasn't a requirement. Howeve, maybe you have to use a newer ROM >version. I don't know what the deal is regarding ROM version compatibility >with '030 and '040 boards. > Actually, come to think of it, it would be nifty to have a list of ROM >versions along with the devices they support, bugs they fix, and so on. I'm >sure the info must exist somwhere, but finding it would be a major pain. Something for the FAQ! ;-) > I've sort-of been interested in this for a while, and I gather there are >none. From what Mike has said before I gather you need some sort of strange >i860 cross-development environment. Well, doesn't bother me. You can build a complete i860 with most of the GNU stuff and some glue. And if I dig deep enough in my gray cells, I can probably the i860 linguistically challenged remainder of it ;-).. or at least I used to be able to speak it quite fluently. I wish there was more information available about this wonderful piece of hardware... a fine piece of engineering it seems, but nobody seems to know much about it... Regards, Chris -- Christian Kuhtz <kuhtz@ix.netcom.com>, office: ckuhtz@paranet.com Network/UNIX Specialist for Paranet, Inc. http://www.paranet.com/ Supercomputing Junkie, et al MIME/NeXTmail accepted -----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK----- Version: 2.6.3ia mQBtAzJ1KUgAAAEDANT2dtFldbUJujgjhkAsIcGqcfVKwbruvWJOum7ENEAB2fld wGC/pcZ7gV6MVI9aRGrHzXe4TTbDDwRMe9LREh6pj/SaABcuueu1gF/wIP8wVvTc c6MIC60gApLtSxRMqQAFEbQlQ2hyaXN0aWFuIEt1aHR6IDxrdWh0ekBpeC5uZXRj b20uY29tPokAdQMFEDJ1KUkgApLtSxRMqQEBfWwC/3OLYMd7Qq99xbwqB4Ln/cAH 7VPJirBIHz0+fi+MLeifb9iBcl0ZhtKSsSDNgvxfAlqG0rTGto5PKiygi/2L3Gmb QqHaOg3E/OT0bxdAww9EODi2U+mSBb2WikFytCPKOQ== =xcbY -----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----
From: xray@cs.brandeis.edu (Nathan Raymond) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.programmer Subject: Need info on implementing a HAL Date: Wed, 30 Oct 1996 14:29:29 -0600 Organization: Brandeis University Message-ID: <xray-ya023080003010961429290001@news.brandeis.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit The best modern example of a Hardware Abstraction Layer (HAL) is Daydream from Quix. Historically, there have been HALs for running Mac on Atari, Amiga, and Apple's own Mac HAL for the Lisa. Apple also did an Apple II HAL for the Apple III (however it only functioned as an Apple II Plus in that mode). SoftWindows for NS Intel is basically a HAL. There is also an Atari HAL for the Mac. My questions are: 1) Is there any literature out there on how to implement a HAL? 2) The main obstacle is hardware mapping - memory mapped I/O and sharing processor registers between environments. Is there any literature on this? 3) Is there any source code for a HAL (modern or otherwise) available? Thanks in advance for any info! -- Nathan Raymond xray@cs.brandeis.edu nraymond@staff.feldberg.brandeis.edu http://www.cs.brandeis.edu/~xray/
From: mpaque@wco.com (Mike Paquette) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: NeXT color monitors - differences? Date: Thu, 31 Oct 1996 00:57:53 GMT Organization: Electronics Service, Unit No. 16 Message-ID: <558tn7$8u2@news.wco.com> References: <5589t2$p3c@dfw-ixnews9.ix.netcom.com> Christian Kuhtz <kuhtz@ix.netcom.com> wrote: >Hi guys: >I noticed that there are generally two types of color monitors advertised.. >21" Hitachi's and 17" Fimi... >What's the difference aside from size? Weight? IMHO the Hitachi monitors last longer and are much easier on the eyes. Mike Paquette -- I don't speak for my employer, and they don't speak for me.
From: mpaque@wco.com (Mike Paquette) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Ram for NextStation Color Date: Thu, 31 Oct 1996 00:57:50 GMT Organization: Electronics Service, Unit No. 16 Message-ID: <558tn4$8u2@news.wco.com> References: <554tlp$gla@newshost.nmt.edu> aalto@uvula.nmt.edu (Eugene Aalto) wrote: >I have a NextStation Color which needs more RAM. What are the largest size I can put in. >This is the machine with 8 72 pin simm sockets, which are too close togeter for double sided >simms. >According to my 2.1 manual, this machines maxes out at 32mb. That would be 8 pieces of 4 meg ea. >Can I do any better than that? Also, is there any point in putting anything faster than 100ns >in this machine? The machine accepts 1 or 4 Mbyte 72 pin SIMMs, for a maximum of 32 Mbytes. SIMMs must be added in identical pairs. Memory speed should be 80 ns or faster. (No advantage to faster memory, as it's always clocked for 80 ns access times.) Mike Paquette -- I don't speak for my employer, and they don't speak for me. mpaque@wco.com mpaque@next.com NeXT business mail only, please
From: kkwan@cs.hku.hk (Kelvin Kwan) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: JAZ drive under NeXTstep / OpenStep Date: 30 Oct 1996 05:35:58 GMT Organization: Department of Computer Science, The University of Hong Kong Message-ID: <556pfu$aeu@hkusuc.hku.hk> References: <5409qt$9ff@ns.dart.de> <54a5u0$hnj@hkusuc.hku.hk> <1996Oct26.074541.28485@amylnd.s.bawue.de> Matthias Zepf (agnus@amylnd.s.bawue.de) wrote: : I think you should buy it (the Jaz drive) because it is fast enough, : it works, and it is available. I am very happy with my Jaz drive. : I would never buy any stuff from SyQuest after seeing all my friends : SyQuest drives dying. The SyJet is available now. At US$500 it's almost exactly the same price as the jaz, and the cartridges, at US$99, are actually cheaper, at least where I can get them. Concerning SyQuest vs. iomega, my experience has been the exact opposite. My first jaz died within two months. The replcement died in about four. The second replacement is still working. I got my SyQuest 3270S back in 1994, I've been using it every day, and it never failed or even did anything weird. It runs cool. The jaz runs so hot it scares me. : > [SyJet] You don't need a disktab entry. It just works (TM). : Is this your assumption or did you test it? Fact, not assumption. I tested it on my machine with a loan unit. -Kelvin
From: kamundse@galaxy.csc.calpoly.edu (Treasure) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Diskless Intel client?? Date: 29 Oct 1996 17:01:41 -0800 Organization: California Polytechnic State University at San Luis Obispo Message-ID: <5569dl$ldt@galaxy.csc.calpoly.edu> References: <54m44l$cm2@galaxy.csc.calpoly.edu> <54n6ge$mok@brachio.zrz.tu-berlin.de> J.-U. Thieme <jut@ukrv.de> wrote: > >Sorry ! Diskless ? and swap over the network ? Yep, just like you would if you added a second board to your Cube... -Kristin -- THIS IS A 100% MATTER PRODUCT: In the Unlikely Event That This Merchandise Should Contact Antimatter in Any Form, a Catastrophic Explosion Will Result. http://www.csc.calpoly.edu/~kamundse/
From: pete@ohm.york.ac.uk (-bat.) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.software Subject: Totally screwed serial ports for output (4.0) Date: 30 Oct 1996 18:24:36 GMT Organization: The University of York, UK Message-ID: <5586h4$b1e@netty.york.ac.uk> Has *anybody* out there got their serial ports to work under NS4.0 ? I am trying to do something very simple - connect a terminal to a PC ryunning NS. I have the 16550 UARTs and am running 4.0. characters comming in from the line are fine - output sent to the line becomes totally mangled by NeXt's drivers for some reason... this worked fine under 3.3 ! As an example I tack on here the restuls fo sending /etc/passwd over the line: The file I sent looked like this: # You probably do NOT want to edit this file, because it is only read # during bootstrap or if YP is enabled. Please use either UserManager or nu # instead. # root::0:1:Operator:/:/bin/csh nobody:*:-2:-2::/private: agent:*:1:1::/private: daemon:*:1:1::/private: uucp:*:4:4::/usr/spool/uucppublic:/usr/lib/uucp/uucico news:*:6:6::/usr/spool/news:/bin/csh sybase:*:8:8:Sybase Administrator:/usr/sybase:/bin/csh me::20:20:My Account:/me:/bin/csh The file I got out at the far end looked like this: HELP!!!! -bat. --- output file ----- # # Yu pobblydo NOT want t eiNO wantt edt tisfile,becue it le beaus it is oly ea i isoly read # duin boostrapurn bosrp or if YP isrp ri P is enabl if Y i nbl fY seal if Y i enbl ifY senaled. Peas useeithPleaseuse ethe UserManaerhrUeranagerhr sraagerher UerMnagr or nu # nsea. root::01:O rot::0:1Operato::::1:Oprto:/:/bn/cshaor/:/bnch noodybnch noboy::-2-2::/priv::-:-2:/rvate: gent*:1:te agent:*:11::/rvate*::::/priate: ae:/riat: demn:::::/rvo:*:1:1:/pivae: ucp:*::4t: ucp*:::/u uc:*::4:usr/sp:*::::/ursp:*:4:::/usrsp::44:/srspo/uuppus/spoo/uuppuli:/sruucppubli:ur/i/ucp/ucic/li/ucpucico n/ucpuuio news::66:/urew:*::6::usrews*66::/urew:*66:/us/pol6:6:/srspol/nws:/i/s sybae:*:8:s ybas:*8:8:Syae e*:8:8Sbae AdministSyaseAdmnisrtr/usrsybase/binch m:::/bn/sh e:20:0:yh me::0:0:My A m::20:2:My A me::2:20:M A me:20:20M Acont:me:bin/sh # /sh # # Y pobblydo N# YupblyoN#Yu poblydo # Yupoblyd NOT antteiO wattedt tiO wantt et tisil,beue it lfl,bcu it lfilebece it le beausit t e baus it i lebasi is oly ea iisolyrly eaiisol read dun boos #dui bos #dunbostraurn bosbostapurn bosrpotrpurnborpotrprn bsp ori YP borporif Y irp r P sY isp riPisYP irp ri P i enali Yi nl fb i Y i nbl fYsalif nb f sa f Y n seal if Y i ebl il ifY ieblif senaed.PasuseitPleaseue eteUeranerrerngrnehrUeanaehrehrUrngerr ragrnagerr sagerhe rhr raaerhr rrsragrer rh raaerer UerMnaageher Uernagr r n r n Magr r u Mag or nu Mar or nu Mnag r n Mag or nu #ns nu #ns u nsea. roo roo roo ot::1O ro::: rt:0: ro:01Oprato:::1:pt::/bn/shar//nch shao/:/nch nar//nh naor/:/bnch nooybnc noboodbnch nbooynh nboy::-2-2::pri::-:-:/rate: :-:rvate: get*e en*e gen*::t get*:1:te gn:*:1:/rvt*:::11:/rvat*::/piarvae*::::priteate:::/prite: ae/rat: dem:::/ro*:1::/pivae: up:*:4: cp:*:4t: up:::4t: up*:::/u uc:*:::::/ uc*::4:usr/ u:*:4:s/ c:*:4:ur/ u::::urs:*:::/urp:*:p:*:::/usp::p:*::::/rsp*:4::usrp::44:/::/urp::4:/sso/uppus/spoo/uuppulpu/po/upuli:s/poouuppl:/sruucppbliuri/ucp/uci/li/ucpucco n/upuuo ews:66:/ue::6:usrws*6::/urew:*66s66:urew*6:/us/po6:6:/66:/uspl6:6:sspo/nws/i/s ss:/i/ sybae::8: bae::8: ybas*8::yae e:s*8::ya e*:8:8Sbae AdmnstSaeAdAdminisSyasedmnsrtruyseAdmirr/uyaseAmnsrtruysAdnstr/ysAdmirt/uyasedmirr/usryaebnr/ssbase/inrursbas/bich m::/nsh e:20:0:yh e:20::h :0:0yh e:200:y :2:0:y me::00:M A me:0::y me:::0:My m::202:M A m:2:2My ::2:2MyA me::2:20:M me:2:0M A me:20:20M A me:2020MAcont:me:bn/sh ot:me:bnsh :bn/h # sh # /h # /sh /sh /sh # Y po
From: tim@vcl.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: IBM 760CD Driver Does Not Work Date: 29 Oct 1996 16:03:22 GMT Organization: Valley City Linen Corp Message-ID: <5559sa$8c5@pravda.aa.msen.com> This is a distress call. Any help that you can give would be greatly appreciated. Earlier this year I wanted to buy a laptop that would be capable of running NEXTSTEP, Win/95 and Win/NT. IBM is of course well known for producing outstanding machines. At the beginning of this year they came out with the 760 series. As soon as I heard the word from NeXT that they were indeed going to write a driver for this machine I placed an order. Four months later I received my machine with Win/95 preloaded on it. I subsequently purchased an additional 1 Gig hard drive upon which I would load NEXTSTEP 3.3 or OpenStep 4.0. I successfully loaded NEXTSTEP with all of the latest drivers obtained from NeXTanswers with alarming ease. Now for the bad news. The system hangs after the boot is complete - right when it tries to load the 760 video display driver. I tried everything and then some. The machine works fine in VGA mode with NS loaded but, I do not! I then decided to give someone else a try. I sent my laptop to a certified NEXTSTEP hardware vendor to load NEXTSTEP 3.3 or OpenStep 4.0 and properly configure the 760 video driver. After 2+ weeks of effort they are giving up. I will say that they were extremely helpful and put a lot of time into this project without charging me any money. I now have $7,300.00 into a laptop that NeXT supposedly supports and I cannot get NS to run on it. (In case you're wondering we did try to load OS 4.0. It doesn't work either) IBM won't touch it because the machine works fine with Win/95. I can't return it to the place I bought it (CDW Inc) because I have had it for more than a month. If anyone has any information that might help I would be very grateful. -- ____________________ Tim Jeltema Valley City Linen Corp. 10 Diamond Ave. S.E. Grand Rapids, MI 49506 Phone: 616 459-6922 E-Mail: tim@vcl.com [NeXT Mail Accepted]
From: steveh@tiresplus.com (Steven J. Hatle) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: 68040 board question Date: Thu, 31 Oct 1996 04:17:17 GMT Organization: Tires Plus Groupe Message-ID: <5599tc$a5k@news.mr.net> I've recently acquired a 68040 cube, and set about adding memory. I filled up the 30 pin slots with no problem. But I do notice what looks like a 72 pin SIMM slot, but haven't been able to find out what it's for. I didn't see anything in the FAQ, and wonder if there's a source of info for the cubes on the 'Net, since I got the machine without docs. TIA, -------------------------------- Steven J. Hatle Systems Administrator Tires Plus Groupe steveh@tiresplus.com --------------------------------
From: lenlutz@dca.net (lenlutz) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.oop.tcl,comp.sys.mac.portables,comp.sys.mac.printing,comp.sys.mac.programmer,comp.sys.mac.programmer.codewarrior,comp.sys.mac.programmer.games,comp.sys.mac.programmer.help,comp.sys.mac.programmer.misc,comp.sys.mac.programmer.tools,comp.sys.mac.scitech,comp.sys.mac.system,comp.sys.mac.wanted,comp.sys.mentor,comp.sys.mips,comp.sys.misc,comp.sys.msx,comp.sys.ncr,comp.sys.newton.misc,comp.sys.newton.programmer,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,comp.sys.northstar,comp.sys.novell,comp.sys.nsc.32k,comp.sys.palmtops,comp.sys.pen,comp.sys.pens,comp.sys.powerpc,comp.sys.powerpc.advocacy,comp Subject: Re: IIIIIIIIII $80 IIIIIIIIII MS OFFICE PROFESSIONAL 95 IIIIIIIIII $80 IIIIIIIIII Date: 31 Oct 1996 02:09:34 GMT Organization: Your Organization Distribution: inet Message-ID: <5591ou$bsn@news.dca.net> References: <32f5e411.9937539@news2.compulink.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=US-ASCII In article <32f5e411.9937539@news2.compulink.com>, noemail@aol.com says... > > >Due to personal financial hardships I find myself >in the unenviable position of trying to get back a >fraction of what I paid for this program. > >My retailer refuses returns on 'opened' software, >even if I haven't installed the package. Microsoft >couldn't care less about my situation, and >numerous pleas for an exception to their return >policy have fallen on deaf ears. > >Believe it or not, I need this money more than any >program, and I thought someone could at least >benefit from this awkward situation. > >To clarify, this is a store-bought full retail package >which contains 2 cd's (unopened), a license agreement >and manual, and includes the full versions of WORD and >EXCEL (versions 7.0) POWERPOINT, SCHEDULE, >ACCESS and BOOKSHELF. This is a stand alone >product and not an upgrade (you don't need older >versions to run it). > >It was my intention to put these programs on a shelf >somewhere until I needed them, but I do not have >that luxury. My resources are extremely limited and >I am at the point where this is the only responsible >thing to do. I'm just hoping there is someone out there >who can use these programs. > >Please contact me if you or someone you know >might be interested. I do not have my own email >address yet, however you can write to me at: > >M. Blank >Box 54 >Toronto, Ontario >M5A 1N1 > >Thank you and God Bless. > DUDE....... you done posted this in the WRONG group
From: drinke@r56h108.res.gatech.edu (Dave Rinker) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: 68040 board question Date: 31 Oct 1996 06:05:27 GMT Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology Message-ID: <559fj7$mcn@smash.gatech.edu> References: <5599tc$a5k@news.mr.net> That's the memory slot for the DSP port, which is of little use AFAIK. It will not add to your system memory. --Dave Steven J. Hatle (steveh@tiresplus.com) wrote: : I've recently acquired a 68040 cube, and set about adding memory. I : filled up the 30 pin slots with no problem. But I do notice what looks : like a 72 pin SIMM slot, but haven't been able to find out what it's : for. : I didn't see anything in the FAQ, and wonder if there's a source of : info for the cubes on the 'Net, since I got the machine without docs. : TIA, : -------------------------------- : Steven J. Hatle : Systems Administrator : Tires Plus Groupe : steveh@tiresplus.com : -------------------------------- -- Dave Rinker Georgia Institute of Technology - Computer Science
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.net-analysis,comp.dcom.net-management,comp.os.netware.connectivity,comp.os.netware.misc,comp.os.netware.security,comp.ai.neural-nets,comp.sys.newton.misc,comp.sys.newton.programmer,comp.sys.next,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,comp.soft-sys.nextstep,comp.protocols.nfs,comp.networks.noctools.bugs,comp.networks.noctools.d,comp.sys.northstar From: sbolting@nemonet.com (Stephen Boltinghouse) Subject: cmsg cancel <32.9952477184124@news.nemonet.com> Control: cancel <32.9952477184124@news.nemonet.com> Message-ID: <cancel.32.9952477184124@news.nemonet.com> Followup-to: junk References: <32.9952477184124@news.nemonet.com> Date: Tue, 29 Oct 1996 23:44:01 GMT Spam-cancel: "Just try this, it will work"
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware From: dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca (David Evans) Subject: Re: Q: Hard Drive & RAM for NeXT Sender: news@novice.uwaterloo.ca (Mr. News) Message-ID: <E01sqJ.HFD@novice.uwaterloo.ca> Date: Tue, 29 Oct 1996 17:32:43 GMT References: <1996Oct28.150131.28626@jarvis.cs.toronto.edu> Organization: University of Waterloo In article <1996Oct28.150131.28626@jarvis.cs.toronto.edu>, Gilbert Wong <gwong@eecg.toronto.edu> wrote: >Hello everyone, > >Do NeXTstation require special configured Hard Drive and RAM, or >do any SCSI hard drive or 72 pin RAM available on the street will >do? > Most disks are fine, although some have problem with reselection (minority) and the machine doesn't support synchronous SCSI. Any RAM will work, provived it has the right number of pins for your hardware. Turbo and Turboid hardware can get a boost if the memory is 70ns or faster. >Also, how big a hard drive would someone recommend for personal use. > I have 650MB in my cube and find it OK, although a little tight at times. -- 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: almoscow@online.ru (Zaporozhets Alexei) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: MegaPixel display for PC Date: Thu, 31 Oct 1996 09:03:29 GMT Organization: Sovam Teleport Message-ID: <559pun$192@news.sovam.com> Hello! I happen to have MegaPixel 17" C1761-NX display, but I have Intel-based PC Is it ever possible to use this display with my computer? I have video card: PCI Mattrox Millennium If some tech. info. about the display, its video signals/pins in connector, cables is available, I would Greatly Appreciate It! Thanks, Alexei
From: Paul Lynch <Paul_Lynch@plsys.co.uk> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Next Modems? - Can I connect any external/serial modem to my NEXT Machine?? Date: Thu, 31 Oct 1996 09:29:17 GMT Organization: P & L Systems Sender: news@seer.demon.co.uk Message-ID: <1996Oct31.092917.10628@seer.demon.co.uk> References: <1996Oct29.205924.17919@rdbois.uucp> In article <1996Oct29.205924.17919@rdbois.uucp> sr@rdbois.fdn.org (serge_ruby) writes: > I bought a Zyxel because it was widely used amongst the NeXT community and I > must admit it works alright. But it costed me a bomb and I was very > disappointed when I opened the box to realize it was masde in Taiwan, when I > thought it was american. Now I am planning to upgrade to a faster modem > (mine is 14400) and I wonder too what to buy. > > Why do you say that "Zyxel is, of course, the best"? > What does it offer that other don't? > Are there still modems around that do not offer faxing functionalities or is > it a problem between NeXTstep and USR modems? ZyXEL modems have typically more features than others, and are better supported by third party softare (for any platform, not just NeXTSTEP). They are also a little more expensive, and offer new, faster protocols only after they have been approved, not before :-). On NeXTSTEP, they work the best for fax with NXFax, and are better supported by B & W. USR modems do not offer a fax standard that is supported by NXFax; a number of other systems work, but are incredibly unreliable. Blame NeXT for their original fax support, or B & W for not including Courier support, if you like. (Usual disclaimer: we are the UK distributor for ZyXEL) Paul -- Paul Lynch (NeXTmail) http://www.plsys.co.uk/~paul
From: j.p.a.baalman@student.utwente.nl (Phi) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.oop.tcl,comp.sys.mac.portables,comp.sys.mac.printing,comp.sys.mac.programmer,comp.sys.mac.programmer.codewarrior,comp.sys.mac.programmer.games,comp.sys.mac.programmer.help,comp.sys.mac.programmer.misc,comp.sys.mac.programmer.tools,comp.sys.mac.scitech,comp.sys.mac.system,comp.sys.mac.wanted,comp.sys.mentor,comp.sys.mips,comp.sys.misc,comp.sys.msx,comp.sys.ncr,comp.sys.newton.misc,comp.sys.newton.programmer,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,comp.sys.northstar,comp.sys.novell,comp.sys.nsc.32k,comp.sys.palmtops,comp.sys.pen,comp.sys.pens,comp.sys.powerpc,comp.sys.powerpc.advocacy,comp Subject: Re: IIIIIIIIII $80 IIIIIIIIII MS OFFICE PROFESSIONAL 95 IIIIIIIIII $80 IIIIIIIIII Date: Thu, 31 Oct 1996 20:14:49 GMT Organization: University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands Distribution: inet Message-ID: <55a1b0$s4l@dinkel.civ.utwente.nl> References: <32f5e411.9937539@news2.compulink.com> <5591ou$bsn@news.dca.net> lenlutz@dca.net (lenlutz) wrote: >In article <32f5e411.9937539@news2.compulink.com>, noemail@aol.com >says... >> >> >>Due to personal financial hardships I find myself >>in the unenviable position of trying to get back a >>fraction of what I paid for this program. >> >>My retailer refuses returns on 'opened' software, >>even if I haven't installed the package. Microsoft >>couldn't care less about my situation, and >>numerous pleas for an exception to their return >>policy have fallen on deaf ears. >> >>Believe it or not, I need this money more than any >>program, and I thought someone could at least >>benefit from this awkward situation. >> >>To clarify, this is a store-bought full retail package >>which contains 2 cd's (unopened), a license agreement >>and manual, and includes the full versions of WORD and >>EXCEL (versions 7.0) POWERPOINT, SCHEDULE, >>ACCESS and BOOKSHELF. This is a stand alone >>product and not an upgrade (you don't need older >>versions to run it). >> >>It was my intention to put these programs on a shelf >>somewhere until I needed them, but I do not have >>that luxury. My resources are extremely limited and >>I am at the point where this is the only responsible >>thing to do. I'm just hoping there is someone out there >>who can use these programs. >> >>Please contact me if you or someone you know >>might be interested. I do not have my own email >>address yet, however you can write to me at: >> >>M. Blank >>Box 54 >>Toronto, Ontario >>M5A 1N1 >> >>Thank you and God Bless. >> >DUDE....... you done posted this in the WRONG group If you need money, sell your PC and buy an MSX. PHIlippus
From: Bernhard Scholz <scholz@informatik.tu-muenchen.de> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: low level hd format software? Date: Thu, 31 Oct 1996 13:14:11 +0100 Organization: Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany Distribution: world Message-ID: <Pine.HPP.3.95.961031130733.22601B-100000@hphalle0.informatik.tu-muenchen.de> References: <54qo13$26j@news4.digex.net> <54re2q$50r@news4.digex.net> <551m1i$m66@news.manassas.ibm.com> <Pine.HPP.3.95.961028124535.17411A-100000@hphalle0.informatik.tu-muenchen.de> <554tn2$7bg@sun3.uni-essen.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII In-Reply-To: <554tn2$7bg@sun3.uni-essen.de> On 29 Oct 1996, H.-R. Oberhage wrote: > It is painful to loose a disk just because a sector/track is > bad - even more so it it's not in a critical zone (mbr, partition > sector or the like) but within plain data. You would only loose > a little bit of disk-capacity. This is something I also would > like to be able to achieve, but don't know how (to). > On the other hand, once a disk begins to develop (sector) defects, > the safest way is to replace it ((E)IDE or SCSI), I know. > An SCSI drive is possible to _map_ out bad sectors and replace them by good one. This is done completely transparent to the drive user (normally and OS driver). You won't loose any bit of disk capacity! As far as I know EIDE drives can't do this. Charles mentioned that he once had a drive which he was able to low level format. This is IMHO not in the specification of (E)IDE drives. BUT: There are EIDE drive producers, who just use their SCSI drives and attach an EIDE controller, therefore this might work for _some_ drives. A second possibility would be that the drive just 'marks' bad sectors and refuses to use them, but can't remap them as SCSI drives do. There is an advantage of SCSI over EIDE which doesn't only affect on speed! Perhaps some more technical advised guy can enlighten us a little bit more, because I'm not too familiar with todays EIDE drives. Greetings, Bernhard. -- Bernhard Scholz (IRC: Boerny) scholzb@pst.informatik.uni-muenchen.de http://peanuts.leo.org/ http://www.leo.org/~scholz/
From: Bernhard Scholz <scholz@informatik.tu-muenchen.de> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: NCR, NeXTSTEP, and Fast SCSI-II. Date: Thu, 31 Oct 1996 13:20:50 +0100 Organization: Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany Distribution: world Message-ID: <Pine.HPP.3.95.961031131435.22601C-100000@hphalle0.informatik.tu-muenchen.de> References: <Pine.HPP.3.95.961025163345.12910C-100000@hphalle0.informatik.tu-muenchen.de> <E02vpG.AM@hurka.UUCP> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII In-Reply-To: <E02vpG.AM@hurka.UUCP> On Wed, 30 Oct 1996, Tomas Hurka wrote: > In article > IMHO The main reason is the fact that all NeXTSTEP drivers are object > oriented. Also the kernel with the mach messages is a little bit slower > that other kernels. Another disadvantage is that most access to the disk > is from the page-in page-out daemons since all files are memory mapped. > This makes the the size of almost all requests to the driver equal to > virtual page size (4096 bytes). I believe this also the reason, why disks > with disabled write cache look much slower that those with write cache on. Where did you get all these 'facts'? None of them is correct! The Mach kernel's messaging system is the fastest I know! NeXT's drivers are mostly _NOT_ object oriented (they are IMHO function basesd, also NeXT provides an object hirarchy)) Memory mapped files are _very_ fast! And the page size isn't 4096bytes (it's 8kB) and on the other hand, drivers won't memory map anything (unless they request to do so). Write cache is cache supplied by the drive. The bus transfers to the drive are usually 4 times faster then the drive can write the data, so it's hopefully obvious to even you know, why a write cache boosts performance significantly on a system like NEXTSTEP which depends more on seek times then read/write times. Greetings, Bernhard.
From: steveh@tiresplus.com (Steven J. Hatle) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: 68040 board question Date: Thu, 31 Oct 1996 13:22:40 GMT Organization: Tires Plus Groupe Message-ID: <55a9uu$f58@news.mr.net> References: <5599tc$a5k@news.mr.net> <559fj7$mcn@smash.gatech.edu> Thanks Dave- I figured it was something like that. . . drinke@r56h108.res.gatech.edu (Dave Rinker) wrote: > That's the memory slot for the DSP port, which is of little use AFAIK. It >will not add to your system memory. >--Dave >Steven J. Hatle (steveh@tiresplus.com) wrote: >: I've recently acquired a 68040 cube, and set about adding memory. I >: filled up the 30 pin slots with no problem. But I do notice what looks >: like a 72 pin SIMM slot, but haven't been able to find out what it's >: for. >: I didn't see anything in the FAQ, and wonder if there's a source of >: info for the cubes on the 'Net, since I got the machine without docs. >: TIA, >: -------------------------------- >: Steven J. Hatle >: Systems Administrator >: Tires Plus Groupe >: steveh@tiresplus.com >: -------------------------------- >-- >Dave Rinker > Georgia Institute of Technology - Computer Science -------------------------------- Steven J. Hatle Systems Administrator Tires Plus Groupe steveh@tiresplus.com --------------------------------
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware From: mattj@invisix.com Subject: Re: Museum lookinig for working NeXT Message-ID: <a1e7cc$142929.50@news.goldengate.net> Date: Thu, 31 Oct 1996 02:41:41 GMT References: <54o5hg$p8q@news.hcl.com> <5529ct$e89@rs18.hrz.th-darmstadt.de> <3275AC5C.2C8C@worldnet.att.net> Is there a web version of the museum online with pics of systems? -- MATT | mailto:mattj@invisix.com NeXTMail Ok jurcich | http://www.invisix.com Silicon Graphics Personal Iris 4D/25G, 16MB, 800MB, 20", Irix 5.3 NeXTstation Turbo Color, 24MB, 250MB, NEC XP21, NEXTSTEP 3.2
From: dwright1@voicenet.com (Darren Wright) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: HELP! Is Station Net autosensing? Date: 31 Oct 1996 14:54:41 GMT Organization: Voicenet - Internet Access - (215)674-9290 Message-ID: <55aejh$a5n@news1.voicenet.com> IS the network on a COlor Station autosensing? If I plus ig into the 10base t, the net works fine, but if I use coax, I can't get out.....how can I check it? I know the cable is fine.... -Darren
From: jbf@frazer.com (James B. Frazer) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Q: Hard Drive & RAM for NeXT Date: Thu, 31 Oct 1996 10:54:05 -0500 Organization: The Internet Access Company, Inc. Message-ID: <jbf-3110961054050001@news.tiac.net> References: <1996Oct28.150131.28626@jarvis.cs.toronto.edu> <E01sqJ.HFD@novice.uwaterloo.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In article <E01sqJ.HFD@novice.uwaterloo.ca>, dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca (David Evans) wrote: > ... although some have problem with reselection What is "reselection"? I've noticed that some Seagate Hawks spin down and then up again during boot on NeXT and Sparc machines, and never been able to find out why. While I've never heard of "reselection", it sounds like it might be a boot time thing ... Barney
From: aisbell@ix.netcom.com (Art Isbell) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: 68040 board question Date: 31 Oct 1996 15:36:47 GMT Organization: Netcom Distribution: world Message-ID: <55ah2f$rt8@sjx-ixn8.ix.netcom.com> References: <5599tc$a5k@news.mr.net> <559fj7$mcn@smash.gatech.edu> drinke@r56h108.res.gatech.edu (Dave Rinker) wrote: > Steven J. Hatle (steveh@tiresplus.com) wrote: > : I've recently acquired a 68040 cube, and set about adding memory. I > : filled up the 30 pin slots with no problem. But I do notice what looks > : like a 72 pin SIMM slot, but haven't been able to find out what it's > : for. > That's the memory slot for the DSP port, which is of little use AFAIK. Unless one makes heavy use of the DSP as some have done synthesizing sounds, music, etc. -- Art Isbell NeXT/MIME Mail: aisbell@ix.netcom.com Trego Systems Voice/Fax: +1 408 335 2515 CaseServ: OPENSTEP Voice Mail: +1 408 335 1154 managed care solutions US Mail: Felton, CA 95018-9442
From: j-beauch@staff.uiuc.edu (beauchamp james w) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Are big drives a problem for NEXTSTEP? Date: 31 Oct 1996 17:54:41 GMT Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana Message-ID: <55ap51$ce7@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> References: <Pine.NXT.3.93.961021191530.7967B-100000@lipschitz> <Pine.SUN.3.95.961021181321.5135E-100000@kira> <326C6DF0.41C6@mpip-mainz.mpg.de> Stefan Ried <ried@mpip-mainz.mpg.de> writes: >Timothy Luoma wrote: >> >> Over 2 gigs is not possible for NeXTStep without partitioning >> >> I believe that OpenStep has done away with this, but don't know for sure. >> >> TjL >> > >Still the same in OpenStep 4.0 >The limit is 2 GB. > >May be you have to reduce a new 2GB drive by one or two MB to fit in the >limit for sure. I shaw the OS4.0 installation splitting a 2GB drive in >two 1GB automatically. Go to fdisk while installing the OS and make a >2GB partition. We have a 9 gig drive partitioned into 4 2 Gig partitions and 1 1 Gig partition. It works fine. Jim Beauchamp
From: jstella@okeefe.com (Seraphim J. Stella) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Experiences with TwinHead or other portables for NS? Date: 31 Oct 1996 18:18:17 GMT Organization: digitalNation Message-ID: <55aqh9$5rs@news2.dn.net> References: <54qpnl$1ol0@news.doit.wisc.edu> giddings@menominee.chem.wisc.edu (Michael Giddings) wrote: > >I am looking to upgrade from my Thinkpad to a portable with a larger screen >and pentium for running OpenStep. > >I am getting a price quote from OptimalObject on a Twinhead. Has anyone had >experience with those? How do they work? A feature missing on my thinkpad >under OS that I would like to have working is Suspend/Resume (i.e. where >everything but power to the memory is suspended). Does that work? > >What about other portables? My minimum criteria are: >- 800x600 color screen with available NS driver >- Pentium >- Functioning suspend/resume (and hibernate - does that ever work in NS/OS?) >and other Power Management features >- Good service & support > >Any information would be appreciated. I have a twinhead 120MHz P5 machine with 800x600 display, 48MB RAM, 1.3GB disk and CD-ROM. I like the machine quite a lot, and the suspend seems to work OK under OS4.1. Definately get a secondary battery if you plan to use it while not on AC since the basic Li battery lasts only about 25-30 min! Hope this helps Josh
From: mpaque@next.com (Mike Paquette) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: HELP! Is Station Net autosensing? Date: 31 Oct 1996 20:19:41 GMT Organization: NeXT Software, Inc. Message-ID: <55b1kt$c71@news.next.com> References: <55aejh$a5n@news1.voicenet.com> In article <55aejh$a5n@news1.voicenet.com> dwright1@voicenet.com (Darren Wright) writes: > IS the network on a COlor Station autosensing? If I plus ig into the > 10base t, the net works fine, but if I use coax, I can't get out.....how > can I check it? > > I know the cable is fine.... You'll need to power cycle the machine to get it to autosense the connection change. Rebooting isn't sufficient. The autosense is done during hardware initialization, before the boot code. As an alternative to power cycling, you could halt the machine and then hard reset it with the <LEFT_ALT><LEFT_CMD><*> three key combination. Mike Paquette -- I don't speak for my employer, and they don't speak for me.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.programmer From: "Erik Walter" <ejw@netmanage.com> Subject: MO for NextStation Message-ID: <AE9E6BE8-69303@156.27.60.108> Date: 31 Oct 96 14:44:50 -0800 nntp://pobox1.bandley1.netmanage.com/comp.sys.next.hardware, nntp://pobox1.bandley1.netmanage.com/comp.sys.next.misc, nntp://pobox1.bandley1.netmanage.com/comp.sys.next.sysadmin, nntp://pobox1.bandley1.netmanage.com/comp.sys.next.programmer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="Cyberdog-AltBoundary-0006918F" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit --Cyberdog-AltBoundary-0006918F Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable For many years I had a Next Cube which was adequate for my needs. I recently moved up to a newer machine and I am very happy. There is only one problem I have all these Optical disks for the Cube that I can't use. Since the drive is a NeXT interface I can't just move it over. Does anyone out there know if there is a MO drive made for SCSI that will work with Next Stations or OpenStep. Erik --Cyberdog-AltBoundary-0006918F Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="Cyberdog-MixedBoundary-00069190" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit --Cyberdog-MixedBoundary-00069190 Content-Type: text/enriched; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <SMALLER><X-FONTSIZE><PARAM>10</PARAM><FONTFAMILY><PARAM>New York</PARAM>For many years I had a Next Cube which was adequate for my needs. I recently moved up to a newer machine and I am very happy. There is only one problem I have all these Optical disks for the Cube that I can't use. Since the drive is a NeXT interface I can't just move it over. Does anyone out there know if there is a MO drive made for SCSI that will work with Next Stations or OpenStep. Erik</FONTFAMILY></X-FONTSIZE></SMALLER> --Cyberdog-MixedBoundary-00069190-- --Cyberdog-AltBoundary-0006918F--
From: jorice@cs.tcd.ie (Jonathan Rice) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: SCSI connection for Zip drive on Cube? Date: 31 Oct 1996 18:33:06 GMT Organization: Dept. of Maths, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland. Message-ID: <55ard2$4ev@synge.maths.tcd.ie> I'm going to be getting a Zip drive in the near future which I want to hook up to an old Cube. I gather that the cable on the Zip is D25 male to D25 male. This means I'll need either (a) A male D25 to male high-density D50 cable, or (b) A female D25 to male high-density D50 adaptor. Can anyone recommend an inexpensive source for one of these parts? Ringing around a few places here in Ireland, they seem like expensive items. The best deal I have found is about $30 for the adaptor. Is that a reasonable price? The only dealer I found with the cable wanted around $75 for it, which I think is a bit ridiculous. Thanks for any pointers, -- Jonathan Rice Dept. Comp. Sci., Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland. --
From: dave@turbocat.de (David Wetzel) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.software Subject: Re: Totally screwed serial ports for output (4.0) Date: 31 Oct 1996 21:11:59 GMT Organization: Turbocat's Development Message-ID: <55b4mv$11o@alice.turbocat.de> References: <5586h4$b1e@netty.york.ac.uk> pete@ohm.york.ac.uk (-bat.) wrote: > Has *anybody* out there got their serial ports to work under NS4.0 ? > I am trying to do something very simple - connect a terminal to a PC > ryunning NS. I have the 16550 UARTs and am running 4.0. characters comming > in from the line are fine - output sent to the line becomes totally mangled > by NeXt's drivers for some reason... this worked fine under 3.3 ! > > As an example I tack on here the restuls fo sending /etc/passwd over > the line: The file I sent looked like this: > (...) Make your .login look like this. # # This file gets executed once at login or window startup. # set noglob; eval `tset -Q -s`; unset noglob set term=$TERM stty decctlq intr "^C" erase "^?" kill "^U" stty pass8 pass8out stty -tabs cd . _ _ _(_)(_)_ David Wetzel, Turbocat's Development, (_) __ (_) Buchhorster Strasse, D-16567 Muehlenbeck/Berlin, FRG, _/ \_ Phone +49 33056 82151, Fax +49 33056 82152 (______) dave@turbocat.de (NeXTMail,MIME)
From: Markus Jantti <markus@demetri.econ.lsa.umich.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: miro 40SV display card not working after installing burst cache Date: 31 Oct 1996 19:55:56 -0500 Organization: University of Michigan, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts Message-ID: <m2iv7qmy5f.fsf@demetri.econ.lsa.umich.edu> Hi -- the subject pretty much summarizes my problem. I recently installed a 512 Pipeline Burst Cache module on my Intel Motherboard with Intel 82430 FX PCIset. After trying to boot into NEXTSTEP 3.3, the boot process seemed to work fine but instead of the login window I got just load of colored lines. I have a miroVIDEO 40SV ergo display card that worked just fine prior to my installing the Burst Cache module. The machine works quite as usual under Linux with XWindows, so the problem only concerns NEXTSTEP. I did try re-installing the NEXTSTEP driver for the miro card (obtained from miro, not NeXT, which did not help. Booting with config=Default works, but changing the video mode had no effect on getting the display to work. Has anyone else expericenced a problem like this? Regards, Markus -- Markus Jantti | Department of Economics markusj@econ.lsa.umich.edu | University of Michigan http://www.abo.fi/~mjantti | 611 Tappan St | Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1220 +1-313-997 0525 (Home/Voice) | +1-313-763 2254 (Office/Voice) | +1-313-764 2769 (Office/Fax)
From: Pak K Yuen <pkyuen@its.brooklyn.cuny.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.oop.tcl,comp.sys.mac.portables,comp.sys.mac.printing,comp.sys.mac.programmer,comp.sys.mac.programmer.codewarrior,comp.sys.mac.programmer.games,comp.sys.mac.programmer.help,comp.sys.mac.programmer.misc,comp.sys.mac.programmer.tools,comp.sys.mac.scitech,comp.sys.mac.system,comp.sys.mac.wanted,comp.sys.mentor,comp.sys.mips,comp.sys.misc,comp.sys.msx,comp.sys.ncr,comp.sys.newton.misc,comp.sys.newton.programmer,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,comp.sys.northstar,comp.sys.novell,comp.sys.nsc.32k,comp.sys.palmtops,comp.sys.pen,comp.sys.pens,comp.sys.powerpc,comp.sys.powerpc.advocacy,comp Subject: Re: IIIIIIIIII $80 IIIIIIIIII MS OFFICE PROFESSIONAL 95 IIIIIIIIII $80 IIIIIIIIII Date: Thu, 31 Oct 1996 16:14:27 -0500 Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.95.961031161358.24011D-100000@atrium24> References: <32f5e411.9937539@news2.compulink.com> <5591ou$bsn@news.dca.net> <55a1b0$s4l@dinkel.civ.utwente.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: Phi <j.p.a.baalman@student.utwente.nl> In-Reply-To: <55a1b0$s4l@dinkel.civ.utwente.nl> What is a MSX ? Thanks, -Superpig __________________________________________________________ = Keep me on the Net = = http://acc6.its.brooklyn.cuny.edu/~pkyuen/public_html/ = = hk1997yu@village.ios.com = = pkyuen@its.brooklyn.cuny.edu = ----------------------------------------------------------
From: aalto@uvula.nmt.edu (Eugene Aalto) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Digital cameras w/ black hardware? Date: 1 Nov 1996 02:04:27 GMT Organization: New Mexico Insitute of Mining and Technology Message-ID: <55blrb$cu4@newshost.nmt.edu> Do any of the digital cameras on the market work with black hardware? I would like to use one with my Nextstation color. Maybe there is one that pretends to be a SCSI scanner? Probably not, I guess, but let me know If there are any. Please reply by email. Eugene Aalto aalto@nmt.edu
From: seran@rayleigh.me.ttu.edu (Seralaathan Hariharesan) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: cyrix Date: 1 Nov 1996 05:22:57 GMT Organization: Texas Tech Academic Computing Services Message-ID: <55c1fh$moc@ttacs7.ttu.edu> Keywords: cyrix, next will nextstep run on a computer with a cyrix 6x86-133 chip? seran
From: Dario Ringach <dario@hobson.cns.nyu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Weitek Power 9100 Data Book Date: Thu, 31 Oct 1996 18:29:42 -0500 Organization: Center for Neural Science, NYU Message-ID: <32793666.41C6@hobson.cns.nyu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Does anyone know where can I get the Weitek Power 9100 Data Book and Programmer's manual? I have already asked Bell Microsystems. Thanks in advance for any help... -- Dr. Dario Ringach | office: (212) 998-7614 lab: (212) 998-7613 Center for Neural Science | home: (212) 727-9346 fax: (212) 995-4011 New York University | e-mail: dario@cns.nyu.edu New York, NY 10003 | WWW: http://www.cns.nyu.edu/home/dario
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware From: dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca (David Evans) Subject: Re: SCSI connection for Zip drive on Cube? Sender: news@novice.uwaterloo.ca (Mr. News) Message-ID: <E06Bpo.9xM@novice.uwaterloo.ca> Date: Fri, 1 Nov 1996 04:12:59 GMT References: <55ard2$4ev@synge.maths.tcd.ie> Organization: University of Waterloo In article <55ard2$4ev@synge.maths.tcd.ie>, Jonathan Rice <jorice@cs.tcd.ie> wrote: >I'm going to be getting a Zip drive in the near future which I >want to hook up to an old Cube. I gather that the cable on the Zip >is D25 male to D25 male. The Zip drive has DB-25 connectors on the back, and comes with a nice DB-25 to DB-25 cable. Useful, but not what you want. >This means I'll need either > (a) A male D25 to male high-density D50 cable, or You can get these; around $15-$30, I think. Mac-type places have them, I gather. > (b) A female D25 to male high-density D50 adaptor. I'd go for the first one. Sorry I can't help more. -- 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: ericb@sci.kun.nl (Eric Boon) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.oop.tcl,comp.sys.mac.portables,comp.sys.mac.printing,comp.sys.mac.programmer,comp.sys.mac.programmer.codewarrior,comp.sys.mac.programmer.games,comp.sys.mac.programmer.help,comp.sys.mac.programmer.misc,comp.sys.mac.programmer.tools,comp.sys.mac.scitech,comp.sys.mac.system,comp.sys.mac.wanted,comp.sys.mentor,comp.sys.mips,comp.sys.misc,comp.sys.msx,comp.sys.ncr,comp.sys.newton.misc,comp.sys.newton.programmer,comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.ne Subject: Re: IIIIIIIIII $80 IIIIIIIIII MS OFFICE PROFESSIONAL 95 IIIIIIIIII $80 IIIIIIIIII Date: 1 Nov 1996 11:32:13 -0000 Organization: University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands Message-ID: <55cn3t$6b2@hera.cs.kun.nl> References: <32f5e411.9937539@news2.compulink.com> <5591ou$bsn@news.dca.net> <55a1b0$s4l@dinkel.civ.utwente.nl> <Pine.SUN.3.95.961031161358.24011D-100000@atrium24> Pak K Yuen <pkyuen@its.brooklyn.cuny.edu> writes: >What is a MSX ? Zilog z80 based home-computer. Great gfx and spiffy memory management (for that time) - should have been what the PC is today. MSX should have become the standard in homecomputers, but helas... BTW: MSX = MicroSoft (Yep, Billy's) eXtended [BASIC] -- Eric Boon <ericb@cs.kun.nl> -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Heel uw VWO tijd zette-ge uw leraar mat, Met "Oevewij niete kenne, Ebbewij nooit gehad" --John O'Mill
From: dave@turbocat.de (David Wetzel) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Next Modems? - Can I connect any external/serial modem to my NEXT Machine?? Date: 1 Nov 1996 10:45:02 GMT Organization: Turbocat's Development Message-ID: <55ckbe$1g6@alice.turbocat.de> References: <1996Oct29.205924.17919@rdbois.uucp> <1996Oct31.092917.10628@seer.demon.co.uk> Paul Lynch <Paul_Lynch@plsys.co.uk> wrote: (...) > ZyXEL modems have typically more features than others, and are better > supported by third party softare (for any platform, not just NeXTSTEP). > They are also a little more expensive, and offer new, faster protocols > only after they have been approved, not before :-). (...) > (Usual disclaimer: we are the UK distributor for ZyXEL) And they still support old modems like the U1496B with new firmware. You can get the EPROMs from ftp.ZyXEL.de for example. Newer modems can be upgraded via XModem-upload from your computer. _ _ _(_)(_)_ David Wetzel, Turbocat's Development, (_) __ (_) Buchhorster Strasse, D-16567 Muehlenbeck/Berlin, FRG, _/ \_ Phone +49 33056 82151, Fax +49 33056 82152 (______) dave@turbocat.de (NeXTMail,MIME)
From: frank@this.net (Frank M. Siegert) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Repairing a Dimension card... Date: 1 Nov 1996 12:31:18 GMT Organization: NO ORGANIZATION, INC. Message-ID: <55cqim$k78@bias.ipc.uni-tuebingen.de> Howdy! Maybe someone at NeXT (Mike?) can tell me a few things about the video input of the Dimension card. It looks like some line transceivers are put before all in/outputs. These 'chips' are smd mounted 'Valor ST3983'. Just behind this stage are two A/D converters (?) 'Phillips TDA8709T'. I suspect either the line transceivers burned up or worse, maybe the analog part of the A/D converters zapped. I am just guessing, and without documentation it's hard. Please can someone provide me with a little hardware information about this card. Surely it should not be a mission critical factor for NeXT or anyone if some circuit diagrams of the long abandoned hardware becomes public (most 'intelligence' is located in the ASICs anyway and quite safe from being scrutinized). It could become crucial for everyone who is still using such an old box or wants to repair it. -- * Frank M. Siegert [frank@this.net] - Home http://www.this.net * NeXTSTEP, Linux, BeOS & PostScript Guy
From: frank@this.net (Frank M. Siegert) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Dimension problem - need help Date: 31 Oct 1996 01:41:39 GMT Organization: NO ORGANIZATION, INC. Message-ID: <55904j$e5f@bias.ipc.uni-tuebingen.de> References: <54t5v0$q7p@bias.ipc.uni-tuebingen.de> <558aqm$3bu@news.wco.com> Cc: mpaque@wco.com In <558aqm$3bu@news.wco.com> Mike Paquette wrote: > > I've gotten this result with a bad video cable. Assuming that you > tried different cables, and were using the input jacks and not the > output jacks, this doesn't bode well for the hardware. It's possible > (but not likely) that the VCR output is too dirty for the hardware to > lock onto. > > You might try running the ScreenScape demo app. This will send a part > of the display on the ND board out to the video outputs. See if this > shows up on your Sony TV. This works and I see a picture on the TV. > Also, by default, the ND video hardware should be in pass-through mode > when the system is first powered up. That is, a video signal on > composite video input A is digitized, pumped over the internal video > bus, and put out the video outputs. Try putting the ND video in the > loop between the VCR and TV and see if anything shows up on the TV. > Yes. I can see the same gray 'pattern' (gray snow with horizontal stripes that jumps, looks like the video gain amplifier pulls up the input signal to maximum, only to amplify the noise on the line) as I see on the NeXTtv on Port A (say Port 1 in NeXTtv), but no picture. I am now sure that my input ports are all burned out by some event in the past (a former user may have connected his washing machine - who knows...) Maybe I can manage to repair the board somehow. I suspect the Y/C input converters to be defect but methinks this will become a major event and is not to be taken lightly. Hardware documentation seems to be non existant so I have to figure out everything myself. Is there a nice soul out there that will trade his or her PAL Dimension board for mine (plus some money of course). Except for the video input ports everything works fine and I need the video capability badly. Anyway thanks a lot, Mike! -- * Frank M. Siegert [frank@this.net] - Home http://www.this.net * NeXTSTEP, Linux, BeOS & PostScript Guy
From: nickel@widget.ecn.purdue.edu (David A Nickel) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Does Seagate ST51080N drive work with NeXT hardware? Date: 1 Nov 1996 12:32:19 GMT Organization: Purdue University Distribution: usa Message-ID: <55cqkj$luo@mozo.cc.purdue.edu> References: <4ttlp4$rtb@panix2.panix.com> <55bueh$s48@csun1.csun.edu> ac11111m@huey.csun.edu (Ed Skochinski) writes: >Ray Chang (chang@panix.com) wrote: >> Hi, >> I was reading the NeXT-FAQ and it lists the Seagate ST51080N as one >> of the scsi drives that don't work with NeXT hardware. However, >> I just bought the same Segate drive (before reading the FAQ,) and >> was able to install from scratch from CDROM on a Color station. >> Everything seems to be working fine so far. Anybody know why >> this drive was listed as incompatible with NeXT hardware, and >> will I have problem later? >> Thanks, >> Ray >> chang@panix.com >I have just purchased that drive for a black slab '040 Next, and I am >unable to install NS3.0 on it. I get incomplete disk transfer and > SCSI block in error = 0 (front porch) >errors. I am curious as to what you did (external drive, internal >drive, SCSI ID setting? termination and termination power source >settings?) to get it to work. Could you let me know what your >jumper settings on the drive are? >Thanks! >Ed Skochinski >edsko@calstate.edu I just finished installing an ST51080N onto a slab. I'm having some problems, so it seems possible that you both may be correct (drive works, but is somewhat sensitive to cabling ...?). Any way, jumper settings were as follows drive ID - 0 to permit system installation remote start - off (no jumper) parity enable - off (no jumper) terminator disable - off (no jumper) terminator power - 21&23 (Power from SCSI bus, per NeXT manual advisory) Setup slab Internal NeXT CD External (ctrlr) ST1480N ST51080N ID 7 ID 1 ID 3 ID 0 | | | | | | ------------------------ -------------- I booted off of the CD-Tools floppy that came with 3.0, booted the CD, then initialized the disk & loaded the operating system (the drive comes formatted). Since installing the O/S, though, I have been installing other software from my Syquest EZ135. I put the EZ drive in the position the CD was shown in above. This has damaged the data on two EZ cartridges and caused a system panic. I'm not sure what's causing this yet (cabling, double termination, ...). This is my recent experience. Any insights as to my current problem would be appreciated. But Ed will be happy to know that the drive will work in some configuration. Dave Nickel nickel@ecn.purdue.edu
From: Roy Keeley <rkeeley@dibbs.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.oop.tcl,comp.sys.mac.portables,comp.sys.mac.printing,comp.sys.mac.programmer,comp.sys.mac.programmer.codewarrior,comp.sys.mac.programmer.games,comp.sys.mac.programmer.help,comp.sys.mac.programmer.misc,comp.sys.mac.programmer.tools,comp.sys.mac.scitech,comp.sys.mac.system,comp.sys.mac.wanted,comp.sys.mentor,comp.sys.mips,comp.sys.misc,comp.sys.msx,comp.sys.ncr,comp.sys.newton.misc,comp.sys.newton.programmer,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,comp.sys.northstar,comp.sys.novell,comp.sys.nsc.32k,comp.sys.palmtops,comp.sys.pen,comp.sys.pens,comp.sys.powerpc,comp.sys.powerpc.advocacy,comp Subject: Re: IIIIIIIIII $80 IIIIIIIIII MS OFFICE PROFESSIONAL 95 IIIIIIIIII $80 IIIIIIIIII Date: Fri, 01 Nov 1996 08:50:06 -0600 Organization: Railway Express, Inc. Distribution: inet Message-ID: <327A0E1E.78AC@dibbs.net> References: <32f5e411.9937539@news2.compulink.com> <5591ou$bsn@news.dca.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit lenlutz wrote: > > In article <32f5e411.9937539@news2.compulink.com>, noemail@aol.com > says... > > > > > >Due to personal financial hardships I find myself > >in the unenviable position of trying to get back a > >fraction of what I paid for this program. > > > >My retailer refuses returns on 'opened' software, > >even if I haven't installed the package. Microsoft > >couldn't care less about my situation, and > >numerous pleas for an exception to their return > >policy have fallen on deaf ears. > > > >Believe it or not, I need this money more than any > >program, and I thought someone could at least > >benefit from this awkward situation. > > > >To clarify, this is a store-bought full retail package > >which contains 2 cd's (unopened), a license agreement > >and manual, and includes the full versions of WORD and > >EXCEL (versions 7.0) POWERPOINT, SCHEDULE, > >ACCESS and BOOKSHELF. This is a stand alone > >product and not an upgrade (you don't need older > >versions to run it). > > > >It was my intention to put these programs on a shelf > >somewhere until I needed them, but I do not have > >that luxury. My resources are extremely limited and > >I am at the point where this is the only responsible > >thing to do. I'm just hoping there is someone out there > >who can use these programs. > > > >Please contact me if you or someone you know > >might be interested. I do not have my own email > >address yet, however you can write to me at: > > > >M. Blank > >Box 54 > >Toronto, Ontario > >M5A 1N1 > > > >Thank you and God Bless. > > > DUDE....... you done posted this in the WRONG group When you are mooching for money, the more groups the merrier. -- 73's Roy KC4IMC rkeeley@dibbs.net rkeeley@MAF.mobile.al.us kc4imc@maf.wa4wbi.ampr.org Snail Mail = 10675 Salt Aire Rd, E., Theodore, AL 36582, USA
From: ac11111m@huey.csun.edu (Ed Skochinski) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Does Seagate ST51080N drive work with NeXT hardware? Date: 1 Nov 1996 04:31:13 GMT Organization: California State University, Northridge Distribution: usa Message-ID: <55bueh$s48@csun1.csun.edu> References: <4ttlp4$rtb@panix2.panix.com> Ray Chang (chang@panix.com) wrote: > Hi, > I was reading the NeXT-FAQ and it lists the Seagate ST51080N as one > of the scsi drives that don't work with NeXT hardware. However, > I just bought the same Segate drive (before reading the FAQ,) and > was able to install from scratch from CDROM on a Color station. > Everything seems to be working fine so far. Anybody know why > this drive was listed as incompatible with NeXT hardware, and > will I have problem later? > Thanks, > Ray > chang@panix.com I have just purchased that drive for a black slab '040 Next, and I am unable to install NS3.0 on it. I get incomplete disk transfer and SCSI block in error = 0 (front porch) errors. I am curious as to what you did (external drive, internal drive, SCSI ID setting? termination and termination power source settings?) to get it to work. Could you let me know what your jumper settings on the drive are? Thanks! Ed Skochinski edsko@calstate.edu
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi,comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: EZ135 -> EZFlyer230: Upgrade (sorta) available Date: Fri, 1 Nov 1996 08:36:08 -0800 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.95.961101075530.4205A-100000@kira> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: dg628@freenet.carleton.ca, Mpwa@ccnet.com, docman@evansville.net, jsamson@istar.ca cc: Tim Luoma <luomat@nerc.com> Return-Receipt-To: luomat@nerc.com Well, in my never-ending quest about the EZFlyer upgrade program, I have been in contact with the SyQuest sales office all week again. I'm not sure exactly why the program has not been officially announced, but when I called yesterday they put me through to a Patricia Chaukwueke (cha-ku-wookie, I believe is the pronunciation) who is taking orders for the upgrade. -- Owners of the EZ135 will be given $100 credit towards the EZFlyer ($299.95). -- when you call they will give you information on how to ship your EZ135 to them. When they receive your drive, they will send you and EZFlyer. You pay shipping for the 135-to-SyQuest, and they pay shipping of the EZFlyer-to-you. I refused this offer. It doesn't make any sense to me. Why not have vendors (like the place that sold me this drive) take back the drives and have them ship them in lumps? I return my drive, get a voucher, send the voucher to SyQuest with the $ and they send me a voucher for the EZFlyer. $.32 shipping versus all that other shipping costs. Of course, that doesn't even mention that under that plan I'd have to be without my drive for what a week? At least? No way. I got the because I need to be able to run backups, and a week is a lot of changes to lose. And finally, I registered my drive at $200. They got a copy of my receipt, etc. I'm getting the same rebate as someone who bought it for $100? Or someone who bought it 2nd hand for less than $100? That's not right either. Anyway, I still await the final program, at which point I will voice these grievances to SyQuest again. Not that it will amount to anything, but at least it will make me feel better. BTW I finally found a 135 cart in a local store. The normal SyQuest case for all of their carts has been done away with for the 135, they are now in a plastic version of the sleeve like the old 5 1/4 floppies used to come in, they don't go in or out very well, and they don't offer as much protection as the old cases. I encourage anyone who is interested in this program to contact SyQuest's sales 800 # : 1-800-245-2278 They have been _very_ helpful through all of this, and the wait has never been very long. Let them know your complaint, maybe we can get some changes made. Or tell them you want to trade in your 135 if you don't have the same misgivings that I have voiced. That's all I know at this point, will keep you updated as I find out anything new. TjL
From: hermes@xanadu.io.com (quest) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: monitor window help (Re: supercrash. help _pleeez._) Date: 29 Oct 1996 12:38:01 -0600 Organization: grapefruit juice Message-ID: <ywlaft54nw6.fsf_-_@xanadu.io.com> References: <ywlwwwak74i.fsf@bermuda.io.com> In-reply-to: hermes@bermuda.io.com's message of 28 Oct 1996 17:21:17 -0600 i have received some useful hints for fixing my giant crash, but i can't seem to bring up a monitor window to start any of them. i have an adb keyboard, and normally the little green power button brings up a monitor window during the boot process. however at the stage in the process that it is now getting stuck on (trying to boot via ethernet, which i'm not connected to), it just turns the computer off, no questions asked. i've tried almost any combination of keys that i can think of, to no avail. dave -- o oo oo oo ooo oo o o hermes@io.com o o oo o o o o starboy@javanet.com o o o http://xochipilli.com/~hermes
From: mpaque@wco.com (Mike Paquette) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Q: Hard Drive & RAM for NeXT Date: Fri, 01 Nov 1996 18:19:11 GMT Organization: Electronics Service, Unit No. 16 Message-ID: <55df41$de6@news.wco.com> References: <1996Oct28.150131.28626@jarvis.cs.toronto.edu> gwong@eecg.toronto.edu (Gilbert Wong) wrote: >Hello everyone, >Do NeXTstation require special configured Hard Drive and RAM, or >do any SCSI hard drive or 72 pin RAM available on the street will >do? Most SCSI disks that support SCSI-1 commands including disconnect and reconnect and implement SCSI spec version 17.4 or later (e.g., almost everything built in the past 5 years) can be made to work. There are some IBM disk models that speak synchronous SCSI only (a technical violation of the spec) that won't work, and there are the usual reliability issues to look out for. NEXTSTEP version 3.2 and earlier require a disktab entry to properly handle disks of 2.0 Gbytes or more. NEXTSTEP 3.3 and later can automatically divide disks lof 2.0 Gbytes or more into partitions less than 2.0 Gbytes. The logic to do this is in the 'disk' program. As far as memory goes, from the FAQ: NeXT Computer (68030-25MHz/68040-25MHz), NeXTcube (68040-25MHz): Number SIMM slots: 16 SIMM group size: 4 SIMM type: 30-pin low profile SIMM access rating: 100 ns SIMM capacity: 1, 4 MB (1x8/1x9, 4x8/4x9) Maximum RAM: 64 MB NeXTdimension boards (i860): Number SIMM slots: 8 SIMM group size: 4 SIMM type: 72-pin SIMM access rating: 80 ns SIMM capacity: 1, 4, 8 MB (256Kx32, 1Mx32, 2Mx32) Maximum RAM: 64 MB (32 MB official NeXT) NeXTstations (68040-25MHz) serial numbers below ABB 002 6300: Number SIMM slots: 8 SIMM group size: 4 SIMM type: 30-pin SIMM access rating: 100 ns SIMM capacity: 1, 4 MB (1x8/1x9, 4x8/4x9) Maximum RAM: 32 MB NeXTstation Color (68040-25MHz): Number SIMM slots: 8 SIMM group size: 2 SIMM type: 72-pin SIMM access rating: 80 ns5 SIMM capacity: 1, 4 MB (256Kx32/256Kx36, 1Mx32/1Mx36) Maximum RAM: 32 MB NeXTcube Turbo (68040-33MHz), NeXTstation Turbo (68040-33MHz), NeXTstation Color Turbo (68040-33MHz), NeXTstations (68040-25MHz) serial numbers above ABB 002 6300: Number SIMM slots: 4 SIMM group size: 2 SIMM type: 72-pin SIMM access rating: 70/100 ns SIMM capacity: 1, 4 ,8, 16, 32 MB (256Kx32/256Kx36, 1Mx32/1Mx36) Maximum RAM: 128 MB >Also, how big a hard drive would someone recommend for personal use. I'd recommend at least 800 Mb for a standalone user system and 1.2 Gb for a standalone developer system. The OS and developer packages don't use anywhere near that, but you can never have enough disk space... Mike Paquette -- I don't speak for my employer, and they don't speak for me. mpaque@wco.com mpaque@next.com NeXT business mail only, please
From: rdubey@cisco.com (Rakesh Dubey) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: NCR, NeXTSTEP, and Fast SCSI-II. Date: 01 Nov 1996 12:05:59 -0800 Organization: Cisco Systems Inc. Sender: rdubey@Fountainhead.Cisco.com Message-ID: <wud8xxshqw.fsf@Fountainhead.Cisco.com> In-reply-to: Bernhard Scholz's message of Thu, 31 Oct 1996 13:20:50 +0100 In article <Pine.HPP.3.95.961031131435.22601C-100000@hphalle0.informatik.tu-muenchen.de> Bernhard Scholz <scholz@informatik.tu-muenchen.de> writes: > On Wed, 30 Oct 1996, Tomas Hurka wrote: > > > In article > > IMHO The main reason is the fact that all NeXTSTEP drivers are object > > oriented. Also the kernel with the mach messages is a little bit slower > > that other kernels. Another disadvantage is that most access to the disk > > is from the page-in page-out daemons since all files are memory mapped. > > This makes the the size of almost all requests to the driver equal to > > virtual page size (4096 bytes). I believe this also the reason, why disks > > with disabled write cache look much slower that those with write cache on. > > Where did you get all these 'facts'? None of them is correct! > The Mach kernel's messaging system is the fastest I know! NeXT's drivers > are mostly _NOT_ object oriented (they are IMHO function basesd, also NeXT > provides an object hirarchy)) Memory mapped files are _very_ fast! And the > page size isn't 4096bytes (it's 8kB) and on the other hand, drivers won't > memory map anything (unless they request to do so). > Write cache is cache supplied by the drive. The bus transfers to the drive > are usually 4 times faster then the drive can write the data, so it's > hopefully obvious to even you know, why a write cache boosts performance > significantly on a system like NEXTSTEP which depends more on seek times > then read/write times. Let me preface this by saying that these are my opinions only. NeXT's drivers on i386/sparc/hppa are object-oriented (depending whatever you mean by object-oriented). Definitely this leads to some slowdown just as in regular user level code (objc vs. C). Now whether this is significant or not is open to question but in personal opinion it was a smart choice. I think the driver performance in general is not bad and one does not have to use object oriented features of driverkit all the time. -Rakesh
From: mpaque@wco.com (Mike Paquette) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: monitor window help (Re: supercrash. help _pleeez._) Date: Fri, 01 Nov 1996 23:03:24 GMT Organization: Electronics Service, Unit No. 16 Message-ID: <55dvor$i8h@news.wco.com> References: <ywlwwwak74i.fsf@bermuda.io.com> <ywlaft54nw6.fsf_-_@xanadu.io.com> hermes@xanadu.io.com (quest) wrote: >i have received some useful hints for fixing my giant crash, >but i can't seem to bring up a monitor window to start any of >them. i have an adb keyboard, and normally the little green >power button brings up a monitor window during the boot >process. however at the stage in the process that it is now >getting stuck on (trying to boot via ethernet, which i'm not >connected to), it just turns the computer off, no questions >asked. i've tried almost any combination of keys that i can >think of, to no avail. On the ADB keyboard, hold down the Command bar, the left ALT key, and press ~ (tilde). This is the normal NMI sequence. Do this during boot right after the 'Testing System' message disappears, and you should be dropped into the ROM monitor. Be patient. This may take a few tries to hit the right time. Power User Tip: Holding down the Power button for more than 1 second is an obscure undocumented bonus way to get to the NMI panel after Mach is up and running. Mike Paquette -- I don't speak for my employer, and they don't speak for me. mpaque@wco.com mpaque@next.com NeXT business mail only, please
From: rdubey@cisco.com (Rakesh Dubey) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: low level hd format software? Date: 01 Nov 1996 11:58:08 -0800 Organization: Cisco Systems Inc. Sender: rdubey@Fountainhead.Cisco.com Message-ID: <wuenidsi3z.fsf@Fountainhead.Cisco.com> References: <54qo13$26j@news4.digex.net> <54re2q$50r@news4.digex.net> <551m1i$m66@news.manassas.ibm.com> <Pine.HPP.3.95.961028124535.17411A-100000@hphalle0.informatik.tu-muenchen.de> <554tn2$7bg@sun3.uni-essen.de> <Pine.HPP.3.95.961031130733.22601B-100000@hphalle0.informatik.tu-muenchen.de> In-reply-to: Bernhard Scholz's message of Thu, 31 Oct 1996 13:14:11 +0100 In article <Pine.HPP.3.95.961031130733.22601B-100000@hphalle0.informatik.tu-muenchen.de> Bernhard Scholz <scholz@informatik.tu-muenchen.de> writes: > On 29 Oct 1996, H.-R. Oberhage wrote: > > > It is painful to loose a disk just because a sector/track is > > bad - even more so it it's not in a critical zone (mbr, partition > > sector or the like) but within plain data. You would only loose > > a little bit of disk-capacity. This is something I also would > > like to be able to achieve, but don't know how (to). > > On the other hand, once a disk begins to develop (sector) defects, > > the safest way is to replace it ((E)IDE or SCSI), I know. > > > An SCSI drive is possible to _map_ out bad sectors and replace them by > good one. This is done completely transparent to the drive user (normally > and OS driver). You won't loose any bit of disk capacity! > As far as I know EIDE drives can't do this. > > Charles mentioned that he once had a drive which he was able to low level > format. This is IMHO not in the specification of (E)IDE drives. BUT: > There are EIDE drive producers, who just use their SCSI drives and attach > an EIDE controller, therefore this might work for _some_ drives. A second > possibility would be that the drive just 'marks' bad sectors and refuses > to use them, but can't remap them as SCSI drives do. > > There is an advantage of SCSI over EIDE which doesn't only affect on > speed! > > Perhaps some more technical advised guy can enlighten us a little bit > more, because I'm not too familiar with todays EIDE drives. > I don't know if I qualify as a technical advised guy but here goes.. It is a bad idea to low-level format IDE/EIDE hard disks. In the best case nothing will happen. However your driver may be rendered useless since some drives store bad sector information etc. SCSI has many advantages over IDE. Remember that 40-pin IDE cable doesn't even have a parity bit. IDE is cheap and reasonably fast and that is pretty much about it. These are the times you feel like quoting of Volker(?) V. about personal computers.. -Rakesh
From: robin@pswtech.com (Robin Wilson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Copying my boot drive to a new hard disk Date: 1 Nov 1996 22:51:46 GMT Organization: PSW Technologies Message-ID: <55duu2$s48@digdug.pswtech.com> References: <54s6p8$cvl@news.digifix.com> <DzyCvK.GH8@novice.uwaterloo.ca> dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca (David Evans) wrote: } In article <54s6p8$cvl@news.digifix.com>, } Scott Anguish <sanguish@digifix.com> wrote: } > By the looks of the man pages, I should be able to use ditto for } >most of the copying... } > } } I've used gnutar for this with reasonable success. dump/restore too. fdisk /dev/rhd1h disk -i /dev/rhd1a mount /dev/hd1a /new dump 0f - / | (cd /new;restore xf -) (NOTE: the "rhd1h" and the "rhd1a" are _not_ accidents (typos)! They are supposed to be this way -- 'fdisk' only works on the entire disk (rhd<x>h), and 'disk -i' is to work on the 'a' partition...) } > How do I write out the boot blocks? } > } } disk should be able to do this. The 'disk -i' will initialize the disk (i.e., wipe out existing data). If you only want to write the boot program, do a: disk -b /dev/rhd<x>a # where <x> is the number of the disk to be # modified. This is _non-destructive_ to the # data on the disk. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- *** These are my opinions... Mine! All Mine! Minemineminemineminemine! *** ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Robin D. Wilson robin@pswtech.com PSW Technologies 701 Canyon Bend Dr. 9050 Capital of Texas Hwy Pflugerville, TX 78660 Austin, TX 78759 (512) 251-1737 (512) 343-6666
From: ashrafi@mit.edu (Babak Ashrafi) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Does Seagate ST51080N drive work with NeXT hardware? Date: 2 Nov 1996 15:54:28 GMT Organization: Massachvsetts Institvte of Technology Message-ID: <55fqrk$pdr@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU> References: <4ttlp4$rtb@panix2.panix.com> <55bueh$s48@csun1.csun.edu> I don't understand. There have been at least three postings recently about the incompatibility of the Seagate ST51080N with NeXT hardware. I just got a turbo slab, installed the ST51080N, with the factory default jumper settings, loaded NS3.3 and lots of other stuff. No problems so far (about a week). Babak Ashrafi
From: akim@cogent.net (Andrew Kim) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: NeXT Monitor Question. Date: Sat, 02 Nov 1996 07:51:30 -0700 Organization: Cogent Software Message-ID: <akim-0211960751300001@mfs-annex1-p3.dsphere.net> Is there anybody know what is pin configuration of NeXT MegaPixel 21" Monitor? Can I use other monitor like Sun, SGI, or Sony or NEC ? Thanks.
From: jrichmond@i-way.co.uk (Jeff Richmond) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Soundblast 16 Audio CD playthrough? Date: 3 Nov 1996 02:11:48 GMT Organization: Zildjian Software Distribution: world Message-ID: <55gv14$87q@lira.i-way.co.uk> Does the NeXT SoundBlaster driver support play through of an audio CD to speakers? I can't get it to work ... under Win95 it works flawlessly. Any help appreciated. ______________________________________________________ Jeff Richmond email: jrichmond@i-way.co.uk Zildjian Software ............................................................................................................................ "If you enjoyed this half as much as I did, then I enjoyed this twice as much as you!" ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
From: almoscow@online.ru (Alexei Zaporozhets) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: NEXT monitor connected to PC Date: Sun, 03 Nov 1996 16:25:38 GMT Organization: Sovam Teleport Message-ID: <32778e52.1303038@win.news.online.ru> Hello everybody I happen to have a NEXT monitor, C1761-NX MegaPixel 17", Does anyone know, is it ever possible to use it for PC computer? Or, maybe there is somewhere a description of signals/pin numbers on its connector? On my PC I have
From: fliu@uci.edu (Feng Liu) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Help, Display blank with Diamondstealth, busmouse Date: 3 Nov 1996 19:06:49 GMT Organization: University of California, Irvine Message-ID: <55iqg9$bvc@news.service.uci.edu> NS 3.3 Intel, NCR 810 SCSI, DiamondStealth64 S968 chipset. I used to have a PS-2 Mouse, everything works. Yesterday, I changed to a logitec busmouse, things start to go downhill. First, the system kept panicing. Then I rescue the system by booting into default vga, etc. Finally, the system can run, but it will not boot into anything more than VGA. By now I sort of figured out some patterns: 1. If I disable Memory Hole in the CMOS, system will go panic 2. If I enable Memory hole in the CMOS, system will boot with the right resolution(from the boot info or /usr/adm/messages but the screen becomes blank. 3. Sometime I get the message: Unable to allocate memory map: 00090000-000bfffff and the system boots into VGA Notice, I do boot with -v option and the auto-detect IC in the configure.app is set according to NextAnswers for the S968 card. I even tried a Matrox card with the appropriate driver, same problem. I am at a total loss, any help will be greatly appreciated. I think mostly likely, I messed up the CMOS setup. I now even get the same problems with a ps2 mouse. Thank you in advance. -- Feng Liu Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering University of California, Irvine Irvine, CA 92697-3975 phone: 714-824-3105, or 714-824-5406(MAE Department) Fax: 714-824-3105, or 714-824-8585(MAE Department)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco Return-Path: <stefan@huelf.hamburg.com> Message-ID: <9611031827.AA02196@huelf.hamburg.com> Content-Type: text/plain Mime-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 3.3 v118.2) From: Stefan Huelf <stefan@huelf.hamburg.com> Date: Sun, 3 Nov 96 19:27:09 +0100 Subject: Quick Renderman > No. The NeXTdimension is a dedicated accelerator for Display > PostScript, Quick Renderman, and the video mechanism supported by > NXLiveVideoView. All programming for the board is done through the > published API for PostScript, Quick Renderman, and NXLiveVideoView. > > Mike Paquette > -- > I don't speak for my employer, and they don't speak for me. > mpaque@wco.com > mpaque@next.com NeXT business mail only, please > Hi there folks, does anybody know if QuickRenderman is still a supported feature under OPENSTEP 4.0 / 4.1 on black / NT / Solaris 2.5??? Thanx, Later + Greetings from .. Stefan .. 8^) =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Stefan Huelf Life spans many different colors, but voice + 49 - 40 - 40 43 64 --- REAL Computing is black! stefan@huelf.hamburg.com (NeXTmail, MIME and ASCII) =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= ***** PGP key available on request - pretty soon !! *****
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From: cdb@barracuda.precipice.com (christopher) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: ND memory Date: 3 Nov 1996 20:55:39 GMT Message-ID: <55j0sb$jvs@news1-alterdial.uu.net> hey mike, part of your memory specs listed-- ______________________________________ NeXTdimension boards (i860): Number SIMM slots: 8 SIMM group size: 4 SIMM type: 72-pin SIMM access rating: 80 ns SIMM capacity: 1, 4, 8 MB (256Kx32, 1Mx32, 2Mx32) Maximum RAM: 64 MB (32 MB official NeXT) ______________________________________ as an nd owner running 32mb there, i've been curious if there's a reason for the "official" max at 32mb, more than the hypothesis that 8mb was the largest simm size at the time the board came out? also, official or not, and strictly off-record, what pro or con insights have you viz putting 64mb on? much appreciated, christopher borden cdb@thoughtport.com
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From: gcasa@wam.umd.edu (Gregory John Casamento) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Q: Tomcat II Motherboard & NS Date: 4 Nov 1996 00:30:51 GMT Organization: University of Maryland, College Park, MD Message-ID: <55jdfr$f1f@dailyplanet.wam.umd.edu> Has anyone ever had trouble using a Tomcat or Tomcat-II motherboard with NS? I looked at the ASUS boards and they generally don't seem to have a lot of expansion slots. Thanks for any help in advance... -- Gregory John Casamento -- gcasa@wam.umd.edu (c) G. Casamento -- Permission to distribute on MS network denied!! "It is not enough that I should succeed. All others must fail!!" -- G. Kahn
From: svail@next.com (Scott Vail) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: 100/10 Ethernet cards for PCI. Date: 4 Nov 1996 01:22:16 GMT Organization: NeXT Software, Inc. Message-ID: <55jgg8$5mg@news.next.com> References: <553lgp$jhs@chinx10.thoughtport.net> In article <553lgp$jhs@chinx10.thoughtport.net> bbum@friday.com (Bill Bumgarner) writes: > Cool - it sounds like the Cogent's no longer lock up under heavy loads... > that is very good to hear. It was hefty, hefty NFS trafic that would > consistently take out mine. > > The EM960 is based on the 21040-- not the 21140; different chip set, > hopefully better. > > Unless it is a conflict with a 2940 SCSI controller, I can't imagine what > else about my configuration would cause the problem-- maybe a PCI > implementation issue? > > I agree with your assessment of the intel and would avoid them for equally > religious reasons. There is a technical reason, though; the Intel's > implementation of Multicast support is described as 'being from another > planet'. It is considered inferior. > > The 21140's support for Multicast is awesome-- unfortunately, that means > little to the NEXTSTEP/OpenStep community; as far as I am aware, the NeXT > kernel does not support multicasting and won't anytime soon. > > b.bum > Multicast support is a driver issue, not a kernel limitation. I have tested multicast on Nextstep and it works with network drivers which support it. --Scott -- This is not official NeXT stuff, so ignore me if you want. http://www.next.com/~svail/
From: Erle MacDonald <erlem@ix.netcom.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Next Laser Printer Date: Sun, 03 Nov 1996 19:10:10 -0600 Organization: Netcom Message-ID: <327D4272.2FE2@ix.netcom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Is there somewhere I can offer a Next Laser Printer for sale?? Thanks for the help. Erle MacDonald erlem@ix.netcom.com
From: Str8.Man@Nice.Folks.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: @@@>> HOT COLLEGE BI-MALES!!! >PRIVATE< 1-900-825-6000 xt 9794 Date: Mon, 04 Nov 1996 06:19:45 GMT Organization: Sprynet News Service Message-ID: <55k1rt$rd9@juliana.sprynet.com> HOT COLLEGE STR8, BI, AND GAY GUYS NEEDED FOR FRIENDS AND/OR RELATIONSHIPS! ALL AREAS! NOWHERE TO BIG OR SMALL FOR THE LOCATOR! ALL PRIVATE! ALL CONFIDENTIAL! ALL AGES! LADIES WELCOME! THE LOCATOR 1 - 9 0 0 - 8 2 5 - 6 0 0 0 xt 9 7 9 4 1 - 9 0 0 - 8 2 5 - 6 0 0 0 xt 9 7 9 4 1 - 9 0 0 - 8 2 5 - 6 0 0 0 xt 9 7 9 4 2.99/min
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware From: lerche@nxth04.cern.ch (Wolfgang Lerche) Subject: NS with TYAN motherboard ? Message-ID: <E0CKII.4CH@news.cern.ch> Sender: news@news.cern.ch (USENET News System) Organization: CERN European Lab for Particle Physics Date: Mon, 4 Nov 1996 13:08:41 GMT Hello, I like to assemble a PC with a Pentium Pro 200 for use with NS3.3. I didn't see in the FAQ/ hardware compatibility guides whether there are restrictions on the motherboards one can use. To make sure that it will work, I like to ask whether there is a recommendation for a motherboard, eg from TYAN or Intel, and for the chip set. Thanks, Wolfgang Lerche lerche@nxth04.cern.ch
From: bresink@informatik.uni-koblenz.de (Marcel Bresink) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Quick Renderman Date: 4 Nov 1996 09:38:25 GMT Organization: University Koblenz / Germany Message-ID: <55kdih$4nk@newshost.uni-koblenz.de> References: <9611031827.AA02196@huelf.hamburg.com> Stefan Huelf <stefan@huelf.hamburg.com> wrote: > does anybody know if QuickRenderman is still a supported feature > under OPENSTEP 4.0 / 4.1 on black / NT / Solaris 2.5??? The 3DKit is not part of the Openstep specification, so there will be no (Quick) RenderMan support in any Openstep version. However, you CAN use old 3.x RenderMan and QuickRenderMan applications in OpenStep 4.x for _Mach_, because for compatibility reasons all RenderMan utilities and libraries are still included. But you cannot develop new RenderMan programs or modify old ones, because there is no 4.x framework for it. Marcel --- Marcel Bresink, University of Koblenz, Institute for Computer Science Rheinau 1, D-56075 Koblenz, Germany, Fon: +49-261-9119-421 Fax: ...-497 Mail: bresink@informatik.uni-koblenz.de (MIME/NeXT accepted) WWW: http://www.uni-koblenz.de/~bresink
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware From: dsr@lns598.lns.cornell.edu Sender: Str8.Man@Nice.Folks.com Date: 04 Nov 1996 08:14:31 EST Control: cancel <55k1rt$rd9@juliana.sprynet.com> Subject: cmsg cancel <55k1rt$rd9@juliana.sprynet.com> no reply ignore Message-ID: <cancel.55k1rt$rd9@juliana.sprynet.com> Spam cancelled by dsr@lns598.lns.cornell.edu original subject was @@@>> HOT COLLEGE BI-MALES!!! >PRIVATE< 1-900-825-6000 xt 9794
From: David Grindrod <grindrod@mailhost.NMR.EMBL-Heidelberg.DE> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Help, Display blank with Diamondstealth, busmouse Date: Mon, 04 Nov 1996 15:14:31 +0100 Organization: EMBL Distribution: world Message-ID: <327DFA47.15FB@mailhost.NMR.EMBL-Heidelberg.DE> References: <55iqg9$bvc@news.service.uci.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Feng Liu <fliu@uci.edu> The most likely cause is IRQ conflicts with the Busmouse. I had similar problems when I installed my Logitech Serial Busmouse. It wants to use one of the lower IRQ 2,3,5 which are normally setup to be the serial ports and other similar things. I would remove your Busmouse card and it should go back to it's original state. Then sort out thr IRQ's on your system and then change them to make way for the mouse. If you have a Serial Bus mouse you can always use this in the normal serial port and then setup the serial port to be a serial mouse. Use the latest drivers for the serial mouse and also the port servers. Dave -- --------------------------------------------------------------- David grindrod, NMR System Manager, EMBL Heidelberg. Email: mailto:grindrod@EMBL-Heidelberg.DE HTML Home Page: http://www.NMR.EMBL-Heidelberg.DE/grindrod/
From: Christian Mayer <Christian.Mayer@rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Iwill SCSI Motherboard Date: Mon, 04 Nov 1996 18:23:40 +0100 Organization: Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum, Rechenzentrum Message-ID: <327E269C.57EB@rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit hi everybody, i came into trouble installing NEXTSTEP 3.3 on a system based on a Iwill motherboard? (Adaptec 7860 copatible) Any clue? Answers to: christian.mayer@rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de
From: fliu@uci.edu (Feng Liu) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Help, Display blank with Diamondstealth, busmouse Date: 4 Nov 1996 17:24:47 GMT Organization: University of California, Irvine Distribution: world Message-ID: <55l8sv$lj6@news.service.uci.edu> References: <327DFA47.15FB@mailhost.NMR.EMBL-Heidelberg.DE> In article <327DFA47.15FB@mailhost.NMR.EMBL-Heidelberg.DE> David Grindrod <grindrod@mailhost.NMR.EMBL-Heidelberg.DE> writes: > The most likely cause is IRQ conflicts with the Busmouse. I had similar > problems when I installed my Logitech Serial Busmouse. It wants to use > one of the lower IRQ 2,3,5 which are normally setup to be the serial > ports and other similar things. > The busmouse is set to use IRQ 5. Configure.app says, the serial ports are using IRQ 3 and 4, it does not show any conflicts at all. I am sending this using VGA display driver and the bus mouse and it works fine. Thanks for your reply. > I would remove your Busmouse card and it should go back to it's original > state. Then sort out thr IRQ's on your system and then change them to > make way for the mouse. > > If you have a Serial Bus mouse you can always use this in the normal > serial port and then setup the serial port to be a serial mouse. Use the > latest drivers for the serial mouse and also the port servers. > If there is not a simple solution. I guess I will just go and get a PS2 or serial mouse and trash my existing busmouse. -- Feng Liu Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering University of California, Irvine Irvine, CA 92697-3975 phone: 714-824-3105, or 714-824-5406(MAE Department) Fax: 714-824-3105, or 714-824-8585(MAE Department)
From: rdubey@cisco.com (Rakesh Dubey) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Soundblast 16 Audio CD playthrough? Date: 04 Nov 1996 10:55:46 -0800 Organization: Cisco Systems Inc. Sender: rdubey@Fountainhead.Cisco.com Message-ID: <wuafsxsn9p.fsf@Fountainhead.Cisco.com> References: <55gv14$87q@lira.i-way.co.uk> In-reply-to: jrichmond@i-way.co.uk's message of 3 Nov 1996 02:11:48 GMT In article <55gv14$87q@lira.i-way.co.uk> jrichmond@i-way.co.uk (Jeff Richmond) writes: > Does the NeXT SoundBlaster driver support play through of > an audio CD to speakers? I can't get it to work ... under Win95 > it works flawlessly. Any help appreciated. > ______________________________________________________ > Jeff Richmond email: jrichmond@i-way.co.uk > Zildjian Software This is supported though I don't remember from which version of the driver. -Rakesh
From: dkramer@bifrostworks.com (Daniel L. Kramer) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Help, Display blank with Diamondstealth, busmouse Date: 4 Nov 1996 19:16:45 GMT Organization: The Black Box, Houston, Tx (713) 480-2686 Distribution: world Message-ID: <55lfet$dc5@news.blkbox.com> References: <55l8sv$lj6@news.service.uci.edu> Hi all - In article <55l8sv$lj6@news.service.uci.edu> fliu@uci.edu (Feng Liu) writes: > In article <327DFA47.15FB@mailhost.NMR.EMBL-Heidelberg.DE> David Grindrod > <grindrod@mailhost.NMR.EMBL-Heidelberg.DE> writes: > > The most likely cause is IRQ conflicts with the Busmouse. I had similar > > problems when I installed my Logitech Serial Busmouse. It wants to use > > one of the lower IRQ 2,3,5 which are normally setup to be the serial > > ports and other similar things. > > An IRQ conflict of this nature is unlikely to cause kernel panics with no diagnostic messages. > > The busmouse is set to use IRQ 5. > Configure.app says, the serial ports are using IRQ 3 > and 4, it does not show any conflicts at all. > I am sending this using VGA display driver and the > bus mouse and it works fine. > > Thanks for your reply. > This sounds like the memory mapping problem with the DS64. How much RAM do you have in the machine, and where do you have the memory mapping set? Cheers - Dan -- Daniel L. Kramer Bifrost Workstations, Inc. 10850 Richmond Ave., Suite 270 Houston, TX 77042 (713) 952-9949 voice
From: fliu@uci.edu (Feng Liu) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Help, Display blank with Diamondstealth, busmouse Date: 4 Nov 1996 19:51:10 GMT Organization: University of California, Irvine Distribution: world Message-ID: <55lhfe$qdd@news.service.uci.edu> References: <55lfet$dc5@news.blkbox.com> In article <55lfet$dc5@news.blkbox.com> dkramer@bifrostworks.com (Daniel L. Kramer) writes: > An IRQ conflict of this nature is unlikely to cause kernel panics with no > diagnostic messages. > > > This sounds like the memory mapping problem with the DS64. How much RAM > do you have in the machine, and where do you have the memory mapping set? Thanks for your reply. I'd agree with you on this. In fact, as I mentioned in my initial post, the system some times complained about unable to map memory location: 00090000-000bffff. and defaults vga, other times, it will just go panic. Also, I seem to need to set: enalbe memory hole in the CMOS setup. I have 128M EDO memory, the Video card memory is set to whatever the driver defaults are: port address: 48 bytes at: 0x3B0 Mapping memory: 8192K at 0x3800000 In the Expert settings option, I changed Auto Detect IDs from: 0x88f05333 0x88d15333 0x88d05333 to: 0x88d05333 0x88d15333 0x88f05333 per instructions by next ansers for the Diamondstealth64 display driver for S968 chip. Thanks for your help. -- Feng Liu Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering University of California, Irvine Irvine, CA 92697-3975 phone: 714-824-3105, or 714-824-5406(MAE Department) Fax: 714-824-3105, or 714-824-8585(MAE Department)
From: Shea@signalinc.com (Shea Tisdale) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Lost Password Date: 4 Nov 1996 20:34:36 GMT Organization: Signal Interactive Sender: Shea@0.0.0.0 Message-ID: <55lk0s$h88@redstone.interpath.net> I haven't used my cube for about a year and I've lost the password. Anyone know how to get around this???
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware From: dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca (David Evans) Subject: Re: ND memory Sender: news@novice.uwaterloo.ca (Mr. News) Message-ID: <E0Cs0n.J7C@novice.uwaterloo.ca> Date: Mon, 4 Nov 1996 15:50:47 GMT References: <55j0sb$jvs@news1-alterdial.uu.net> Organization: University of Waterloo In article <55j0sb$jvs@news1-alterdial.uu.net>, christopher <cdb@barracuda.precipice.com> wrote: >as an nd owner running 32mb there, i've been curious if there's a reason >for the "official" max at 32mb, more than the hypothesis that 8mb was the >largest simm size at the time the board came out? > I'm not Mike, but... I have no idea about this one. However... >also, official or not, and strictly off-record, what pro or con insights >have you viz putting 64mb on? > I have 36 in mine--four 8s and four 1s. Works fine. Except for heat, I can't think of any cons. -- 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 Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco Return-Path: <stefan@huelf.hamburg.com> Message-ID: <9611041913.AA02573@huelf.hamburg.com> Content-Type: text/plain Mime-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 3.3 v118.2) From: Stefan Huelf <stefan@huelf.hamburg.com> Date: Mon, 4 Nov 96 20:13:49 +0100 Subject: Re: ND memory Cc: cdb@barracuda.precipice.com (christopher) cdb@barracuda.precipice.com (christopher) wrote > hey mike, > part of your memory specs listed-- > ______________________________________ > NeXTdimension boards (i860): > Number SIMM slots: 8 > SIMM group size: 4 > SIMM type: 72-pin > SIMM access rating: 80 ns > SIMM capacity: 1, 4, 8 MB (256Kx32, 1Mx32, 2Mx32) > Maximum RAM: 64 MB (32 MB official NeXT) > ______________________________________ > > as an nd owner running 32mb there, i've been curious if there's a reason > for the "official" max at 32mb, more than the hypothesis that 8mb was the > largest simm size at the time the board came out? > > also, official or not, and strictly off-record, what pro or con insights > have you viz putting 64mb on? > > much appreciated, > > christopher borden > cdb@thoughtport.com > There was saying in this group, that NeXT Turbo Cubes have a limit of 96MB of RAM, but I've my CubeTurbo running with 128MB of RAM with no trouble at all.... Also some people thought, that if they fit 2 64MB-PS/2-modules in a NeXTstation ColorTurbo (equals 128MB) the max. RAM for this machine would be 256MB! But that is stretching it! The NeXTTurbos do run with 2 64MB-sticks, but cannot adress more than 128 Megs. This also holds true for the ND. You might be able to install 16MB-PS/2-modules, but that won't work.......The official max. was based on 4MB - sticks and with 8MB sticks, you're able to hit the 64MB (8 times 8MB-sticks) on the dimension card! It really works - I've already done it!!! - and it ran with 32MB before (4 times 8MB-sticks), leaving another 4 slots empty. But as the SIMM group size above states, they always have to come in packs of 4! Possible config.s 1. 8 x 1 = 8 MB 2. 4 x 4 = 16 MB 3. 4 x 4 + 4 x 1 = 20 MB 4. 8 x 4 = 32 MB (config. mentionesd by NeXT) 5. 4 x 8 + 4 x 1 = 36 MB 6. ...... X... 8 x 8 ^) = 64 MB Have fun!! Thanx, Later + Greetings from .. Stefan .. 8^) =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Stefan Huelf Life spans many different colors, but voice + 49 - 40 - 40 43 64 --- REAL Computing is black! stefan@huelf.hamburg.com (NeXTmail, MIME and ASCII) =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= ***** PGP key available on request - pretty soon !! *****
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From: Scott Mewett <mewett@mpr.ca> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: ISDN Extender as a modem???? Date: Sun, 03 Nov 1996 13:32:40 -0800 Organization: MPR Teltech Ltd., Burnaby, B.C., Canada Message-ID: <327D0F78.7766@mpr.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit A while back in the disscusion of what the Hayes ISDN Extender could do i think i remember a post about someone using it as a 28.8K modem. Is this actually possible? Can this adapter be used on an analog phone line as a standard modem. Any input would be greatly appreciated. Thanks Scott mewett@mpr.ca
From: scott@one.net (Scott Hess) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: NS with TYAN motherboard ? Date: 4 Nov 96 12:57:45 Organization: Is a sign of weakness Message-ID: <SCOTT.96Nov4125745@howard.one.net> References: <E0CKII.4CH@news.cern.ch> In-reply-to: lerche@nxth04.cern.ch's message of Mon, 4 Nov 1996 13:08:41 GMT In article <E0CKII.4CH@news.cern.ch>, lerche@nxth04.cern.ch (Wolfgang Lerche) writes: I like to assemble a PC with a Pentium Pro 200 for use with NS3.3. I didn't see in the FAQ/ hardware compatibility guides whether there are restrictions on the motherboards one can use. To make sure that it will work, I like to ask whether there is a recommendation for a motherboard, eg from TYAN or Intel, and for the chip set. I recently purchase a Pentium motherboard from Asus, a P/I-XP55T2P4. I am _really_ impressed by this motherboard. Everything is well laid out, and well marked on the board. I'd rather install this motherboard without the manual than most other motherboards with their manuals. And the manual is _excellent_, compared to most I've seen. Each jumper is reasonably well described, and each description has a small motherboard map to help locate the jumper. [No more flipping back and forth between the description and the motherboard map!] Of course, you have to ask whether this good experience translates to their PPro motherboards. Well, I also got an ASUS SC-200 NCR810 SCSI card, and it seems to be more-or-less the same level as the motherboard. The manual isn't as slick, but then again there are only one or two jumpers, so perhaps the manual doesn't need as much. Based on my experience thus far, I'll be getting an Asus PPro motherboard sometime next spring/summer for my next machine. Also, you probably want to do a www.dejanews.com search on the specific motherboard you're looking at, to see if there are any general problems with it, beyond NeXTSTEP compatibility. If it's a questionable motherboard for Windows95, NT, or Linux, then it's certainly questionable for NeXTSTEP. Later, -- scott hess <shess@one.net> 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
From: scott@one.net (Scott Hess) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Q: Tomcat II Motherboard & NS Date: 4 Nov 96 12:51:25 Organization: Is a sign of weakness Message-ID: <SCOTT.96Nov4125125@howard.one.net> References: <55jdfr$f1f@dailyplanet.wam.umd.edu> In-reply-to: gcasa@wam.umd.edu's message of 4 Nov 1996 00:30:51 GMT In article <55jdfr$f1f@dailyplanet.wam.umd.edu>, gcasa@wam.umd.edu (Gregory John Casamento) writes: Has anyone ever had trouble using a Tomcat or Tomcat-II motherboard with NS? I looked at the ASUS boards and they generally don't seem to have a lot of expansion slots. Well, the main reason I went with an ASUS on my new system was because I'd heard way too many bad things about Tyan. There are even some vendors on the net who no longer carry Tyan because of the tech support overhead required. I would make sure you examine your need for expansion slots. I found that 4 PCI and 4 ISA slots (one shared) is more than I'm likely to ever need. Then again, I got an ATX motherboard (P/I-XP55T2P4), which puts my mouse, keyboard, and serial ports on-board up near the power supply, and the EIDE and floppy controllers are also on-board, so I lose no slots to them. I've got PCI video and SCSI cards, and an ISA ethernet card. The only additions that come to mind would be another SCSI card at some point. Some people would probably want a sound card, but personally I never used the one on my old machine. The main concern I have is having only four SIMM slots. This means that you are currently effectively limited to 128M, because it's somewhat tough to find 64M simms. I would have thought twice if I had required 128M and more in the future, but even then I'd have probably looked elsewhere than Tyan. Later, -- scott hess <shess@one.net> 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
From: Sven & Jennifer Crouse <svenifer@snet.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: [Q] receiving faxes with internal modem Date: Mon, 04 Nov 1996 20:44:17 -0500 Organization: Customer of SNET Internet: http://www.snet.net/ Message-ID: <327E9B9D.231E1E1A@snet.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Using OPENSTEP 4.0 for Intel, I have tried both included faxmodem drivers (HSD and InterFax) with my Zoom V.34 I, and appear to receive faxes, but upon opening documents am presented w/ large black bands and no discernable text. Remember Next-Answers saying something about these drivers not working for 4.0. Do I require specific drivers for this faxmodem? What faxmodems with supplied/available drivers for OPENSTEP are recommended? Thanks, Sven
From: jstella@okeefe.com (Seraphim J. Stella) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: NeXT color monitors - differences? Date: 4 Nov 1996 20:49:53 GMT Organization: digitalNation Message-ID: <55lkth$cls@news2.dn.net> References: <5589t2$p3c@dfw-ixnews9.ix.netcom.com> Cc: kuhtz@ix.netcom.com In <5589t2$p3c@dfw-ixnews9.ix.netcom.com> Christian Kuhtz wrote: > > Hi guys: > > I noticed that there are generally two types of color monitors advertised.. > 21" Hitachi's and 17" Fimi... > > What's the difference aside from size? > > Thanks, > Chris The resolution is the same between both monitors, so the 21" has bigger pixels. I find the 21" better for bitmap graphic editing, but the 17" better for general computing. Hope this helps Josh Stella
From: klaus@chemlab.unm.edu (Klaus Kunze) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Cable to connect HP 5MP to NeXTStation Date: 4 Nov 1996 23:38:53 GMT Organization: University of New Mexico, Albuquerque Message-ID: <55luqd$j18@lynx.unm.edu> Does anybody know which cable is needed and where it can be bought to connect a HP 5MP LaserJet printer to a Next Station? I have JetPilot 2.3 printer driver software which supports this printer. Klaus ********************************************************* Klaus Kunze, University of New Mexico, Dept. of Chemistry Albuquerque NM 87131, Phone: (505) 272-7483 [ATI] or (505) 277-3246 E-mail (NeXTmail welcome): klaus@chemlab.unm.edu E-mail: kkunze@unm.edu ********************************************************* -- ********************************************************* Klaus Kunze, University of New Mexico, Dept. of Chemistry Albuquerque NM 87131, Phone: (505) 277-3246 E-mail (NeXTmail): klaus@chemlab.unm.edu E-mail: kkunze@carina.unm.edu *********************************************************
From: shawk@panix.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: ND memory Date: 4 Nov 1996 21:51:29 GMT Organization: Digital Telemedia Inc. Message-ID: <55loh1$f3j@maceo.dti.net> References: <55j0sb$jvs@news1-alterdial.uu.net> <E0Cs0n.J7C@novice.uwaterloo.ca> Cc: dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca > >as an nd owner running 32mb there, i've been curious if there's a reason > >for the "official" max at 32mb, more than the hypothesis that 8mb was the > >largest simm size at the time the board came out? > > > > I'm not Mike, but... I have no idea about this one. However... > >also, official or not, and strictly off-record, what pro or con insights > >have you viz putting 64mb on? > > > > I have 36 in mine--four 8s and four 1s. Works fine. Except for heat, I > can't think of any cons. > 64 works.
From: sk68@cornell.edu (Sung Ho Kim) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Lost Password Date: 5 Nov 1996 04:17:58 GMT Organization: Cornell University Sender: sk68@cornell.edu (Verified) Message-ID: <sk68-0101042102100001@cu-dialup-0015.cit.cornell.edu> References: <55lk0s$h88@redstone.interpath.net> Well, back to my NeXTSTEP system admin book... 1.Turn the computer off and then on, using the power key. 2. During the boot process, immediately after the "Testing System" message is replaced by the "locading from disk" message, hold down the command bar and press the ~ key. If you have the old keyboard, hold down the right command key and the ~ key. Then you are in ROM monitor. (You need to know at least the hardware password--if you don't, you're going to do have to do that thing of pulling the EEPROM chip out and "letting it forget what it knows.") 3. start the machine in single user mode by typing in the prompt: bsd -s 4. at the single user prompt, type: sh /etc/rc & 5. wait until all the messages stop 6. Enter: passwd root 6b. YOU MUST REBOOT. 7. Hope this helped. In article <55lk0s$h88@redstone.interpath.net>, Shea@signalinc.com (Shea Tisdale) wrote: > I haven't used my cube for about a year and I've lost the password. > Anyone know how to get around this???
From: roberto.arrocha@wcom.com (Roberto Arrocha) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.software Subject: Sound Blaster 16 driver Date: 4 Nov 1996 22:27:06 GMT Organization: WilTel Distribution: world Message-ID: <55lqjq$b4v@gateway.wiltel.com> I've got a DEC XL5120 PC running NS3.3 with the following sound card and driver: Sound Blaster 16 (8 and 16 bit DMA) (v3.33) This driver does not seem to work with the attached speakers: PRO Sound 3000. Correction, the driver works well for playing music from the CD-ROM drive, but not at all for NeXT-style sound files. What gives? -- Roberto Arrocha Project Manager, Architecture & Distributed Computing Group WorldCom Advanced Software Technology 8665 New Trails Drive The Woodlands, TX 77381 Phone: 713.364.4141 Email: roberto.arrocha@wcom.com Fax: 713.362.6415
From: cwolf@wolfware.com (Christopher Wolf) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: NS with TYAN motherboard ? Date: 5 Nov 1996 02:50:47 GMT Organization: Best Internet Communications Message-ID: <55ma27$fql@nntp1.best.com> References: <E0CKII.4CH@news.cern.ch> In-Reply-To: <E0CKII.4CH@news.cern.ch> On 11/03/96, Wolfgang Lerche wrote: >Hello, > >I like to assemble a PC with a Pentium Pro 200 >for use with NS3.3. I didn't see in the FAQ/ >hardware compatibility guides whether there >are restrictions on the motherboards one can use. >To make sure that it will work, I like to ask >whether there is a recommendation for a motherboard, >eg from TYAN or Intel, and for the chip set. > >Thanks, >Wolfgang Lerche >lerche@nxth04.cern.ch I recently upgraded to a PPro 200 system (from a P100) system for use with OpenStep/Mach. My 1st attempt at the upgrade was with a very expensive high-end Tyan Dual Pentium Pro ATX motherboard (with only 1 processor installed.) I could not get this board to work reliably with OpenStep - I was experiencing frequent crashes and other glitches. I returned the board and exchanged it for an Intel Venus PPro ATX (single processor) motherboard - it has been working flawlessly for several weeks now. Not a single problem, it's just as fast as the Tyan board and it was several hundred dollars less expensive. Your mileage may vary of course. - Chris --
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware From: sr@rdbois.fdn.org (serge_ruby) Subject: Mix parity RAM with no parity RAM on a slab? Message-ID: <1996Nov4.210913.2475@rdbois.uucp> Sender: sr@rdbois.uucp (serge_ruby) Organization: S.RUBY Date: Mon, 4 Nov 1996 21:09:13 GMT My NeXT 68040 workstation has 16 MB RAM made of 4 x 4MB no parity SIMMS. I would like to extend it to 32 MB, but the no parity SIMMS are not very common. I have 4 x 4MB SIMMS with parity in an old PC (30 pins too). Can I use them in my slab along with the no-parity ones, or do they have to be all the same ? Serge
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware From: sr@rdbois.fdn.org (serge_ruby) Subject: Re: Next Modems? - Can I connect any external/serial modem to my NEXT Machine?? Message-ID: <1996Nov4.204914.2359@rdbois.uucp> Sender: sr@rdbois.uucp (serge_ruby) Organization: S.RUBY References: <55ckbe$1g6@alice.turbocat.de> Date: Mon, 4 Nov 1996 20:49:14 GMT In article <55ckbe$1g6@alice.turbocat.de> dave@turbocat.de (David Wetzel) writes: > Paul Lynch <Paul_Lynch@plsys.co.uk> wrote: > (...) > > ZyXEL modems have typically more features than others, and are better > > supported by third party softare (for any platform, not just NeXTSTEP). > > They are also a little more expensive, and offer new, faster protocols > > only after they have been approved, not before :-). > (...) > > (Usual disclaimer: we are the UK distributor for ZyXEL) > > And they still support old modems like the U1496B with new firmware. > You can get the EPROMs from ftp.ZyXEL.de for example. > Newer modems can be upgraded via XModem-upload from your computer. I heard that, but what is the use of it ? Can you upgrade a 14400 modem, to support 28800 ? Probably not, the why upgrade it ? Are they bugs in modems EEPROM like in any other software ? If yes how do they manifest ? My U-1496E seems to be working fine. Would I gain speed or anything else by upgrading its software ? Serge
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.software From: mwang@dr.lucent.com Subject: Re: Sound Blaster 16 driver Message-ID: <umxafsxjhn1.fsf@jeanluc.i-have-a-misconfigured-system-so-shoot-me> Followup-To: comp.sys.next.hardware Sender: mwang@jeanluc Organization: AT&T References: <55lqjq$b4v@gateway.wiltel.com> Date: Tue, 5 Nov 1996 04:22:10 GMT roberto.arrocha@wcom.com (Roberto Arrocha) writes: > > I've got a DEC XL5120 PC running NS3.3 with the following sound card and > driver: Sound Blaster 16 (8 and 16 bit DMA) (v3.33) > > This driver does not seem to work with the attached speakers: PRO Sound > 3000. Correction, the driver works well for playing music from the CD-ROM > drive, but not at all for NeXT-style sound files. What gives? > > -- > Roberto Arrocha > Project Manager, Architecture & Distributed Computing Group > WorldCom Advanced Software Technology > 8665 New Trails Drive > The Woodlands, TX 77381 Phone: 713.364.4141 > Email: roberto.arrocha@wcom.com Fax: 713.362.6415 Same here: I have a no name PC 486DX2 running NS3.2 and SB16(8 and 16 bit DMA) (not PnP). Also I know for sure it is an OEM not a "pretty box" off the shelf of COMPUSA or such. The CD ROM can play music under NS3.2 using a ear phone plugged into the ear phone plug on the front face of the CD ROM drive. The music signal can not get to the ear phone plug,or to the audio out plug on the face plate of the SB16 card. However, under Win3.1 it works fine and I can play music to an external HI FI receiver speaker. I have tried 2 different SB16 drivers for NS OS. Don't remember what version but they were downloaded from the ftp-next.peak.org site 6 month ago. Any help is appreciated. Michael Wang Lucent Technologies, Inc. mwang@dr.lucent.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware From: tom@hukatronic.cz (Tomas Hurka) Subject: Driver speed (was: Re: NCR, NeXTSTEP, and Fast SCSI-II.) Message-ID: <E0Ayq4.DH@hurka.UUCP> Sender: tom@hurka.UUCP (Tomas Hurka) Organization: Hukatronic (H.C.C.) References: <AmRrklq00UhB81fS5n@andrew.cmu.edu> Date: Sun, 3 Nov 1996 16:20:28 GMT In article <AmRrklq00UhB81fS5n@andrew.cmu.edu> Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> writes: > >> First fact: The NeXT drive _is_ slower than other drivers for > >> other systems. E.g. Linux drivers are very fast. This is because > >> e.g. NeXT's NCR driver is lacking command queuing and probably > >> other opmization features. > > [...] > > Woah, Tomas-- you appear to be completely confused. I don't think so. > > IMHO The main reason is the fact that all NeXTSTEP drivers are object > > oriented. > > % otool -o /sdmach ~ > /sdmach: > Objective-C segment > can't print objective-C information no (__OBJC,__module_info) section > > You most certainly can and do have device drivers under NEXTSTEP which > are not object-oriented at all and were written in C, not Objective C. If you can look above, you will see that I was trying to explain why NeXTSTEP driver on Intel hardware was slower that Linux one on the same hardware. So I did not realize that I must explicitly state that I am speaking about Intel hardware. I am positive that _all_ drivers for Intel/Sun/HP are object oriented. Example from my system: ####### /Users/tom> hostinfo Mach kernel version: NeXT Mach 3.3: Mon May 22 17:34:35 PDT 1995; root(rcbuilder):mk-171.12.obj~11/RC_i386/RELEASE_I386 Kernel configured for a single processor only. 1 processor is physically available. Processor type: I386 (Intel 486) Processor active: 0 Primary memory available: 32.00 megabytes. Default processor set: 52 tasks, 110 threads, 1 processors Load average: 6.95, Mach factor: 0.11 /Users/tom> gdb /mach GDB is free software and you are welcome to distribute copies of it under certain conditions; type "show copying" to see the conditions. There is absolutely no warranty for GDB; type "show warranty" for details. GDB 4.7 (NeXT 3.1), Copyright 1992 Free Software Foundation, Inc... Reading symbols from /mach...(no debugging symbols found)...done. (gdb) info classes The following classes match *. AudioChannel AudioCommand AudioStream DriverCmd DriverCmdtr EventDriver EventSrcPCKeyboard EventSrcPCPointer HashTable IOAudio IOBufDevice IOBuffer IOConfigTable IODevice IODeviceDescription IODirectDevice IODisk IODiskPartition IODisplay IOEISADMATransferBuffer IOEISADeviceDescription IOEthernet IOEventSource IOFrameBufferDisplay IOLogicalDisk IONetbufQueue IONetwork IOPCIDeviceDescription IOPCMCIADeviceDescription IOPCMCIATuple IOSCSIController IOSVGADisplay IOTokenRing IOVGADisplay IOVPCodeDisplay InputStream KernBus KernBusInterrupt KernBusItem KernBusItemResource KernBusMemoryRange KernBusMemoryRangeMapping KernBusRange KernBusRangeMapping KernBusRangeResource KernDevice KernDeviceDescription KernDeviceInterrupt KernLock KeyMap List NXConditionLock NXLock NXSpinLock Object OutputStream PCPointer Protocol SCSIDisk SCSIGeneric VGAKernelServerInstance VGAVersion kmDevice (gdb) q /Users/tom> ####### Since the driver are loaded dynamically it is important to look at drivers itself, because in the kernel there are mostly super-classes for the classes used in drivers. Here is a few examples for drivers itself: ####### /Users/tom> gdb /NextLibrary/Devices/PS2Keyboard.config/PS2Keyboard_reloc GDB is free software and you are welcome to distribute copies of it under certain conditions; type "show copying" to see the conditions. There is absolutely no warranty for GDB; type "show warranty" for details. GDB 4.7 (NeXT 3.1), Copyright 1992 Free Software Foundation, Inc... Reading symbols from /NextLibrary/Devices/PS2Keyboard.config/PS2Keyboard_reloc...(no debugging symbols found)...done. (gdb) info classes The following classes match *. PS2Controller PS2Keyboard PS2KeyboardKernelServerInstance PS2KeyboardVersion (gdb) q /Users/tom> gdb /NextLibrary/Devices/EtherLink3.config/EtherLink3_reloc GDB is free software and you are welcome to distribute copies of it under certain conditions; type "show copying" to see the conditions. There is absolutely no warranty for GDB; type "show warranty" for details. GDB 4.7 (NeXT 3.1), Copyright 1992 Free Software Foundation, Inc... Reading symbols from /NextLibrary/Devices/EtherLink3.config/EtherLink3_reloc...(no debugging symbols found)...done. (gdb) info classes The following classes match *. EtherLink3 EtherLink3Buf EtherLink3KernelServerInstance EtherLink3Version (gdb) q /Users/tom> gdb /NextLibrary/Devices/Adaptec2940SCSIDriver.config/Adaptec2940SCSIDriver_re loc GDB is free software and you are welcome to distribute copies of it under certain conditions; type "show copying" to see the conditions. There is absolutely no warranty for GDB; type "show warranty" for details. GDB 4.7 (NeXT 3.1), Copyright 1992 Free Software Foundation, Inc... Reading symbols from /NextLibrary/Devices/Adaptec2940SCSIDriver.config/Adaptec2940SCSIDriver_re loc...(no debugging symbols found)...done. (gdb) info classes The following classes match *. Adaptec2940 Adaptec2940SCSIDriverKernelServerInstance Adaptec2940SCSIDriverVersion SCSIBus (gdb) q /Users/tom> ####### > > Also the kernel with the mach messages is a little bit slower > > that other kernels. > > Mach messaging is efficient-- Mach messaging provides one of the faster > implementations of shared memory and out-of-band messaging for doing IPC > that I've seen. Sure, but mach-messages are also used for example to service hardware interrupts. When the hardware interrupt occur the kernel generates the mach-message, which is send to the appropriate driver thread (each driver had its own thread). In the driver thread the message is accepted, decoded (there are different types of mach-messages sent to driver thread) and Objective-C message is sent to the instance of the driver object to service its interrupt. As you can see this is definitely not very fast. There is at least one context switch and a lot of code the processor must do before your driver can actually service the interrupt. Please, understand me correctly, I don't want to say that this is completely bad idea. There are other reasons to do it that way. I just try to explain, why the NeXTSTEP drivers (and the SCSI ones particularly) are slower than others. > > Another disadvantage is that most access to the disk is from > > the page-in page-out daemons since all files are memory mapped. > > Say what? If you open() a file, and lseek() and read() one byte from > postion 1000000, I assure you that the system will not memory map the > entire file. I am trying to say, if I open 15 MB file and do read(fd,buf,15*1024*1024) the SCSI driver must process 1920 requests with 8K size, instead processing only a few requests depending on the file fragmentation. > > This makes the the size of almost all requests to the driver equal to > > virtual page size (4096 bytes). Yes, you are right, the virtual page size is 8K not 4K. To support my theory, that most requests to the SCSI (or EIDE) driver has 8K size, I modified my BusLogic SCSI driver to print a little statistic every 1024st read/write request. Here it is: ####### Nov 3 16:05:39 hurka mach: BusLogic(11264) - 8625 8K requests, average request size:6696 Nov 3 16:05:48 hurka mach: BusLogic(12288) - 9648 8K requests, average request size:6820 Nov 3 16:06:15 hurka mach: BusLogic(13312) - 10665 8K requests, average request size:6923 Nov 3 16:08:45 hurka mach: BusLogic(14336) - 11601 8K requests, average request size:6973 Nov 3 16:16:32 hurka mach: BusLogic(15360) - 12290 8K requests, average request size:6920 Nov 3 16:51:42 hurka mach: BusLogic(16384) - 13001 8K requests, average request size:6880 ####### First number is the total number of read/write requests. The second is the number of page-size requests and the last one is the average request size. Bye, -- Tomas Hurka tom@hukatronic.cz NeXTMAIL and MIME OK (international mail <50 KB accepted)
From: juergen@eskimo.bb.bawue.de (Juergen Grieb) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Soundblast 16 Audio CD playthrough? Date: 5 Nov 1996 07:20:32 GMT Organization: "private site" Message-ID: <55mps0$apl@eskimo.eskimo.bb.bawue.de> References: <55gv14$87q@lira.i-way.co.uk> <wuafsxsn9p.fsf@Fountainhead.Cisco.com> Cc: rdubey@cisco.com > > Does the NeXT SoundBlaster driver support play through of > > an audio CD to speakers? I can't get it to work ... under Win95 > > it works flawlessly. Any help appreciated. It works fine here since I added the extra cable needed. Although it only works with OmniCD.app and not with CDPlayer.app. -- Juergen _______________________________________________________________________ Juergen Grieb ** 72119 Ammerbuch/Germany ** Tel. +7073 - 5118 e-mail: juergen@eskimo.bb.bawue.de ** NeXTMail and Mime welcome PGP-Key is available (please request it, so mail exchange will be safe)
From: cdb@barracuda.precipice.com (christopher) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: ND memory Date: 5 Nov 1996 00:26:00 GMT Message-ID: <55m1io$f6e@news1-alterdial.uu.net> hey guys (all except silent-mike that is. . .): thanks for the thoughts about dimension memory. to focus-down the discussion: will the board not read 16mb simms? e.g. has anyone tried 4 x 16 = 64? thanks to all in advance, christopher borden cdb@thoughtport.com
From: rencsok@channelu.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: ND memory Date: 5 Nov 1996 05:25:04 GMT Organization: Michigan State University Message-ID: <55mj3h$1m1k@msunews.cl.msu.edu> References: <55j0sb$jvs@news1-alterdial.uu.net> <E0Cs0n.J7C@novice.uwaterloo.ca> <55loh1$f3j@maceo.dti.net> Cc: shawk@panix.com In <55loh1$f3j@maceo.dti.net> shawk@panix.com wrote: > > >as an nd owner running 32mb there, i've been curious if there's a reason > > >for the "official" max at 32mb, more than the hypothesis that 8mb was the > > >largest simm size at the time the board came out? > > > > > > > I'm not Mike, but... I have no idea about this one. However... > > >also, official or not, and strictly off-record, what pro or con insights > > >have you viz putting 64mb on? > > > > > > > I have 36 in mine--four 8s and four 1s. Works fine. Except for heat, I > > can't think of any cons. > > > 64 works. And no doubt you do (or could) have 3 of them with 64 and a Turbo MB with 128 ;} So have you tried the Nitro yet?! Inquiring minds want to know. Actually a couple of things I wanted to know about the ND that relate to the origional posters question and perhaps to Sandy's setup (if indeed he has 3 64MB Dimensions on a 128MB Turbo Cube). Does the 040 MB keep a local copy of an image, and where is most of the DPS work done when someone does a resize (like 150% not a simple 2:1, or 4:1) on the MB or the ND?! Randy
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.oop.tcl,comp.sys.mac.portables,comp.sys.mac.printing,comp.sys.mac.programmer,comp.sys.mac.programmer.codewarrior,comp.sys.mac.programmer.games,comp.sys.mac.programmer.help,comp.sys.mac.programmer.misc,comp.sys.mac.programmer.tools,comp.sys.mac.scitech,comp.sys.mac.system,comp.sys.mac.wanted,comp.sys.mentor,comp.sys.mips,comp.sys.misc,comp.sys.msx,comp.sys.ncr,comp.sys.newton.misc,comp.sys.newton.programmer,comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.ne From: sw5094@harrier.fen.bris.ac.uk (Suriyun M. Whitehead) Subject: Re: IIIIIIIIII $80 IIIIIIIIII MS OFFICE PROFESSIONAL 95 IIIIIIIIII $80 IIIIIIIIII Message-ID: <E09sos.1uL@fsa.bris.ac.uk> Sender: usenet@fsa.bris.ac.uk (Usenet) Organization: University of Bristol, England Date: Sun, 3 Nov 1996 01:12:28 GMT xt.marketplace,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.northstar,comp.sys.novell,comp.sys.nsc.32k,comp.sys.palmtops,comp.sys.pen,comp.sys.pens,comp.sys.powerpc,comp.sys.powerpc.advocacy,comp Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.oop.tcl,comp.sys.mac.portables,comp.sys.mac.printing,comp.sys.mac.programmer,comp.sys.mac.programmer.codewarrior,comp.sys.mac.programmer.games,comp.sys.mac.programmer.help,comp.sys.mac.programmer.misc,comp.sys.mac.programmer.tool Organization: The University of Bristol Distribution: Lines: 15 X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 950824BETA PL0] Microsoft Stock? (But I thought it was MSFT?) Pak K Yuen (pkyuen@its.brooklyn.cuny.edu) wrote: : What is a MSX ? : : Thanks, : -Superpig : : __________________________________________________________ : = Keep me on the Net = : = http://acc6.its.brooklyn.cuny.edu/~pkyuen/public_html/ = : = hk1997yu@village.ios.com = : = pkyuen@its.brooklyn.cuny.edu = : ---------------------------------------------------------- :
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Lost Password Date: Tue, 5 Nov 1996 04:29:35 -0800 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.95.961105042735.7761A-100000@kira> References: <55lk0s$h88@redstone.interpath.net> <sk68-0101042102100001@cu-dialup-0015.cit.cornell.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: Sung Ho Kim <sk68@cornell.edu>, Shea@signalinc.com In-Reply-To: <sk68-0101042102100001@cu-dialup-0015.cit.cornell.edu> Return-Receipt-To: luomat@nerc.com On 5 Nov 1996, Sung Ho Kim wrote: > Date: 5 Nov 1996 04:17:58 GMT > From: Sung Ho Kim <sk68@cornell.edu> > Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware > Subject: Re: Lost Password [snip] > (You need to know at least the hardware password--if you don't, you're > going to do have to do that thing of pulling the EEPROM chip out and > "letting it forget what it knows.") [snip] just remove the battery, no need to remove any chips, unless that's just another name for the 3v battery inside the machine.... TjL
From: scott@one.net (Scott Hess) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Driver speed (was: Re: NCR, NeXTSTEP, and Fast SCSI-II.) Date: 5 Nov 96 08:02:37 Organization: Is a sign of weakness Message-ID: <SCOTT.96Nov5080237@slave.one.net> References: <AmRrklq00UhB81fS5n@andrew.cmu.edu> <E0Ayq4.DH@hurka.UUCP> In-reply-to: tom@hukatronic.cz's message of Sun, 3 Nov 1996 16:20:28 GMT In article <E0Ayq4.DH@hurka.UUCP> tom@hukatronic.cz (Tomas Hurka) writes: In article <AmRrklq00UhB81fS5n@andrew.cmu.edu> Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> writes: > > IMHO The main reason is the fact that all NeXTSTEP drivers are > > object oriented. > > % otool -o /sdmach ~ > /sdmach: > Objective-C segment > can't print objective-C information no (__OBJC,__module_info) section > > You most certainly can and do have device drivers under NEXTSTEP > which are not object-oriented at all and were written in C, not > Objective C. If you can look above, you will see that I was trying to explain why NeXTSTEP driver on Intel hardware was slower that Linux one on the same hardware. Well, I do have to pop in on _that_ point (and as the thread's originator, I have certain priviledges :-). First off, realize that I was noticing a performance plateau at around 5MB/s - which just so happens to be the maximum speed that synchronous SCSI (_not_ "Fast" SCSI) can run at. I'm able to run things at 5MB/s making direct SCSI requests from the disk's cache with system CPU usage around 50%. So the driver _execution_ speed seems to not be the problem. I think it is either the logical arrangement of the driver's requests (ie, it's doing things in the wrong order), or it's something in my setup that is causing NeXTSTEP to run my SCSI card in regular SCSI mode rather than Fast SCSI mode. The speed improvements noted under Linux were small enough to be attributable to either a more efficient filesystem or operator error on my part. [I'm a Linux neophyte.] As of yet, I've not been able to conclusively prove that I can do significantly better with the same hardware. I can do 10% better under Linux, but that really doesn't prove much, because it's still within (extreme) limits of non-Fast synchronous SCSI (I saw a post from a Symbios/NCR person that they'd done 6MB/s without going to Fast SCSI). At some point I'll figure out how to code things so I can read from the drive's cache under Linux, which would allow me to see how fast Linux is running the SCSI bus. > > Also the kernel with the mach messages is a little bit slower > > that other kernels. > > Mach messaging is efficient-- Mach messaging provides one of the > faster implementations of shared memory and out-of-band messaging > for doing IPC that I've seen. Sure, but mach-messages are also used for example to service hardware interrupts. When the hardware interrupt occur the kernel generates the mach-message, which is send to the appropriate driver thread (each driver had its own thread). In the driver thread the message is accepted, decoded (there are different types of mach-messages sent to driver thread) and Objective-C message is sent to the instance of the driver object to service its interrupt. As you can see this is definitely not very fast. There is at least one context switch and a lot of code the processor must do before your driver can actually service the interrupt. Please, understand me correctly, I don't want to say that this is completely bad idea. There are other reasons to do it that way. I just try to explain, why the NeXTSTEP drivers (and the SCSI ones particularly) are slower than others. This overhead should be only a small percentage of the total time spent on moving data around. So long as the logic operations are right, the OO driver should be more-or-less invisible from the user level. Again, IMHO it's the logic, not the implementation that's causing the lower-than-expected speeds. > > Another disadvantage is that most access to the disk is from > > the page-in page-out daemons since all files are memory mapped. > > Say what? If you open() a file, and lseek() and read() one byte > from postion 1000000, I assure you that the system will not > memory map the entire file. I am trying to say, if I open 15 MB file and do read(fd,buf,15*1024*1024) the SCSI driver must process 1920 requests with 8K size, instead processing only a few requests depending on the file fragmentation. Hmm, well, I have to question how this relates to memory mapping. If you use open(2) and read(2), you're using the Unix single server, and Mach memory mapping will have nothing to do with the operation. The Unix single server will be accessing the file just as any other BSD4.3. [Of course, it is probably still going to be slow, since it's old as the hills, but that's another point entirely.] > > This makes the the size of almost all requests to the driver > > equal to virtual page size (4096 bytes). Yes, you are right, the virtual page size is 8K not 4K. To support my theory, that most requests to the SCSI (or EIDE) driver has 8K size, I modified my BusLogic SCSI driver to print a little statistic every 1024st read/write request. Well, I suspect you need to put a _little_ more data in here. The system will indeed be accessing a _lot_ of stuff using memory mapping. For instance, every program you execute, shared libraries, and most reading done by NeXTSTEP apps. 13,000 8k requests only comes out to 10M - you probably read 10M using memory mapping just _booting_ the system. Could you please execute a program which does read(fd,buf,15*1024*1024) (or even 64*1024) enough times to swamp that 10M, and _then_ see what the diagnostics coming back are? Of course, I guess even if it's not involving mmap() with open(2)/read(2)/write(2), it could still be sending 8k requests to the SCSI driver. I mean, it _is_ a power of 2 and all :-). Later, -- scott hess <shess@one.net> 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
From: AMark@ncmi-ny.com (Allen Mark) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: HP T4000s Date: 5 Nov 1996 14:38:51 GMT Organization: NationBanc Capital Markets,Inc.(NY) Message-ID: <55njhr$d7@niven.ncmi-gsl.com> I just got an HP T4000s tape drive on my Intel box, and it works fine under Win95. Trying to get it to work with NS 3.3 on the same machine (dual boot) is problematic. I installed SCSITape 3.2, but /dev/nrst0 does not respond. Does anyone know if this scsi tape drive is incompatible? It would be a shame, since it cost $300 and it can handle 4Gb uncompressed. Allen
From: paul@plsys.co.uk (Paul Lynch) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Next Modems? - Can I connect any external/serial modem to my NEXT Machine?? Date: 5 Nov 1996 14:57:55 GMT Organization: P & L Systems, Ltd. Message-ID: <55nklj$qh1@ironhorse.plsys.co.uk> References: <55ckbe$1g6@alice.turbocat.de> <1996Nov4.204914.2359@rdbois.uucp> Cc: sr@rdbois.fdn.org In <1996Nov4.204914.2359@rdbois.uucp> serge_ruby wrote: > In article <55ckbe$1g6@alice.turbocat.de> dave@turbocat.de (David Wetzel) > writes: > > And they still support old modems like the U1496B with new firmware. > > You can get the EPROMs from ftp.ZyXEL.de for example. > > Newer modems can be upgraded via XModem-upload from your computer. > > I heard that, but what is the use of it ? Can you upgrade a 14400 modem, to > support 28800 ? Probably not, the why upgrade it ? Are they bugs in modems > EEPROM like in any other software ? If yes how do they manifest ? Bugs, new features. You won't get speed upgrades, as these rely on support chips, but new compression types (adding in STAC compression, for example) is a typical example. New configuration menus, customising the country settings, etc. > My U-1496E seems to be working fine. Would I gain speed or anything else by > upgrading its software ? Probably not, the old ones had to replace the ROM rather than download. However, there are relatively new firmware releases for the 1496 to fix bugs and add some features. For example, 6.17 was release a few weeks ago, fixing eight various bugs. Paul -- Paul Lynch (NeXTmail) paul@plsys.co.uk Tel: (01494)432422 P & L Systems Fax: (01494)432478 http://www.plsys.co.uk/~paul
From: dkramer@bifrostworks.com (Daniel L. Kramer) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Sound Blaster 16 driver Date: 5 Nov 1996 15:23:09 GMT Organization: The Black Box, Houston, Tx (713) 480-2686 Message-ID: <55nm4t$gte@news.blkbox.com> References: <umxafsxjhn1.fsf@jeanluc.i-have-a-misconfigured-system-so-shoot-me> In article <umxafsxjhn1.fsf@jeanluc.i-have-a-misconfigured-system-so-shoot-me> mwang@dr.lucent.com writes: > roberto.arrocha@wcom.com (Roberto Arrocha) writes: > > I've got a DEC XL5120 PC running NS3.3 with the following sound card and > > driver: Sound Blaster 16 (8 and 16 bit DMA) (v3.33) > > > > This driver does not seem to work with the attached speakers: PRO Sound > > 3000. Correction, the driver works well for playing music from the CD-ROM > > drive, but not at all for NeXT-style sound files. What gives? > > > Same here: > I have a no name PC 486DX2 running NS3.2 and SB16(8 and 16 bit DMA) > (not PnP). Also I know for sure it is an OEM not a "pretty box" off the > shelf of COMPUSA or such. > > The CD ROM can play music under NS3.2 using a ear phone plugged into > the ear phone plug on the front face of the CD ROM drive. > > The music signal can not get to the ear phone plug,or > to the audio out plug on the face plate of the SB16 card. > > However, under Win3.1 it works fine and I can play music to an external > HI FI receiver speaker. > > I have tried 2 different SB16 drivers for NS OS. Don't remember what version > but they were downloaded from the ftp-next.peak.org site 6 month ago. > > Any help is appreciated. > > Michael Wang > Lucent Technologies, Inc. > mwang@dr.lucent.com Hi all - I've tried to e-mail people with this problem, but I guess I'll put it up here as well. Try the 3.32 SB16 driver (the 8 and 16-bit DMA instance) with the 3.32 EISA/ISA bus driver, _with PnP disabled!_ In order to get the CD-ROM sound out the card, you will also need a separate cable going from the CD-ROM audio-out to the SB CD-ROM-in plug (well, yes...) This works with all of the versions of the card I have run into, but Creative Labs has about 8 versions, not counting OEMS, so your mileage may vary. Cheers! Dan -- Daniel L. Kramer Bifrost Workstations, Inc. 10850 Richmond Ave., Suite 270 Houston, TX 77042 (713) 952-9949 voice
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware From: magnus@darwin.uchicago.edu (Magnus Nordborg) Subject: Re: Sound Blaster 16 driver Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Message-ID: <961105112342.2046AAFcF.magnus@darwin> Sender: news@midway.uchicago.edu (News Administrator) Organization: University of Chicago -- Academic Computing Services References: <55lqjq$b4v@gateway.wiltel.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Generated by Eloquent) Date: Tue, 5 Nov 1996 17:23:42 GMT >From: roberto.arrocha@wcom.com (Roberto Arrocha)>Subject: Sound Blaster 16 driver >Date: 4 Nov 1996 22:27:06 GMT >Reply-To: roberto.arrocha@wcom.com >Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.software > >I've got a DEC XL5120 PC running NS3.3 with the following sound card and >driver: Sound Blaster 16 (8 and 16 bit DMA) (v3.33) > >This driver does not seem to work with the attached speakers: PRO Sound >3000. Correction, the driver works well for playing music from the CD-ROM >drive, but not at all for NeXT-style sound files. What gives? Upgrading to the latest SoundBlaster16 driver (v. 3.34 -- available in NeXTanswers) fixed all my sound problems. Before upgrading, I would constantly get "reset hardware" messages, and usually no sound. -Magnus --- Magnus Nordborg Department of Ecology & Evolution The University of Chicago 1101 E. 57th St. Chicago, IL 60637-1573 USA magnus@darwin.uchicago.edu (NeXT Mail, MIME) +1.312.702-1093 phone (lab) +1.312.667-5331 phone (home) +1.312.702-9740 fax
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware From: tomi@shinto.nbg.sub.org (Thomas Engel) Subject: OS fails on ACER Pentium ?? (endless boot-reset !) Message-ID: <E0Er4p.G0@shinto.nbg.sub.org> Sender: news@shinto.nbg.sub.org Organization: STEPeople's home (A NUGI member) Date: Tue, 5 Nov 1996 17:26:48 GMT Hi, I hate Intel hardware because of all these little nasty mysteries. Did anybody successfully install OPENSTEP (or NeXTSTEP) on a Acer Power 5100DR-BH6 (Bios v.2.0) ?? When I boot with the installer floppy it displays something like: OPENSTEP boot v40 memroy..........16364 then clears the screen prints two short lines of text which are not readable in the short perido before some funky color Acer screen appears (with cycling colors and all) which finally results in a reset and a endless boot-reset loop. Has anybody seen something similar on a different system or know a possible solution. Aloha Tomi
From: Str8.Man@Nice.Folks.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: cmsg cancel <55k1rt$rd9@juliana.sprynet.com> Control: cancel <55k1rt$rd9@juliana.sprynet.com> Date: Tue, 05 Nov 1996 19:01:29 +1 Organization: Sprynet News Service Message-ID: <borra.55k1rt$rd9@juliana.sprynet.com> References: <55k1rt$rd9@juliana.sprynet.com> EMP/ECP spam cancelled by hw@atlantic.fb12.tu-berlin.de. The Breidbart index was 676. See report "LOCATOR" in news.admin.net-abuse.announce. Subject was: @@@>> HOT COLLEGE BI-MALES!!! >PRIVATE< 1-900-825-6000 xt 9794.
From: Karen Gray Edwards <edwards@asanet.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: 11x17/1800 dpi printer? Date: Tue, 05 Nov 1996 13:42:10 -0800 Organization: American Sociological Association Message-ID: <327FB4B2.40D4@asanet.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I am working on NeXTStep 3.3 on black hardware. When I initially purchased the system, a Newgen 1200PST printer was somehow installed. That printer is dead. I desperately need to hook up a printer with 11x17 capabilities, minimum 1200dpi (preferable 1800dpi). We have been trying to connect a LaserMaster Unity 1800XLO, without success. Is anyone successfully working on a similar system with a 11x17 high resolution printer connected to it? If so, please let me know ASAP. I'm in dire straits here . . . PLEASE E-MAIL ME DIRECTLY AT edwards@asanet.org If I successfully solve this, I will definitely post my results! Thanks. Karen Gray Edwards Director of Publications American Sociological Association
From: Christian Kuhtz <kuhtz@ix.netcom.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: ND performance data? (Re: ND memory) Date: 5 Nov 1996 20:18:53 GMT Organization: Netcom Message-ID: <55o7fd$fs0@dfw-ixnews12.ix.netcom.com> References: <9611041913.AA02573@huelf.hamburg.com> Stefan Huelf <stefan@huelf.hamburg.com> wrote: >Possible config.s > >1. 8 x 1 = 8 MB >2. 4 x 4 = 16 MB >3. 4 x 4 + 4 x 1 = 20 MB >4. 8 x 4 = 32 MB (config. mentionesd by NeXT) >5. 4 x 8 + 4 x 1 = 36 MB >6. ...... >X... 8 x 8 ^) = 64 MB Does anyone have performance data on how much this buys in performance under certain characteristic application environments? I'm looking for something like you find for many UNIX platforms, a la "will boot in 8 MB, but unusable; will run in 16MB; starts screaming at 32MB; generally no major performance gains beyond 128MB". Thanks! Regards, Chris -- Christian Kuhtz <kuhtz@ix.netcom.com>, office: ckuhtz@paranet.com Network/UNIX Specialist for Paranet, Inc. http://www.paranet.com/ Supercomputing Junkie, et al MIME/NeXTmail accepted -----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK----- Version: 2.6.3ia mQCNAzJ1JCkAAAEEALzCoYhlxTLI4DID5KpQINF8KM4PUnrZxoL2aRRFAQNX9v9c 8uBySUqVDxfyylB6M/ptUezWIs6DLjz6b8jr8MX40vQf2jU2db6oMDh2axOeXlg2 KCSHryZ9kthnnXOVt0kHLN9XjM9DvwKU28RzvT7umEVmbHFyp64kVG961wkZAAUR tCVDaHJpc3RpYW4gS3VodHogPGt1aHR6QGl4Lm5ldGNvbS5jb20+iQCVAwUQMnUk Ka4kVG961wkZAQFztgP+IgHBCz/d1Sc10Qg0Wmu4KnhNb4E4KsPh96V/olwbQS+e frdWMxSHzX8hGD1p/KbuwlNRrDktmZgVc+n89FGEeGcq3z9WK3o22JsyjJTlzobY qJIZ5bdOx4dOimQ83ha9zjF+bRnw92t1jC/GJ+LRyOEVMzD5TtL7AMdODO8fNC8= =sRe0 -----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----
From: scott@one.net (Scott Hess) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Accessing CPU information on Pentiums Date: 5 Nov 96 14:52:38 Organization: Is a sign of weakness Distribution: comp Message-ID: <SCOTT.96Nov5145238@howard.one.net> I seem to recall at some point reading that the Pentium has facilities for tracking things like cache misses. Is that L1 only or including L2? Is there anything out that which will read this information under NeXTSTEP? This would be an interesting utility for certain types of profiling ... Later, -- scott hess <shess@one.net> 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
From: perkins@cps.msu.edu (Stephen J. Perkins) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Omni PentiumProDriver with DiamondStealth64 Date: 5 Nov 1996 21:28:53 GMT Organization: Michigan State University Distribution: world Message-ID: <55obil$1pjn@msunews.cl.msu.edu> Has anyone successfully used the Omni PentiumProDriver with a DiamondStealth64 video card? If so, could you please let me know your configuration? When I try to load it, my graphics performance drops to a crawl. I have sent Omni a detailed email about the problem. Specifically I have an Intel VS440FX Motherboard with the latest BIOS and /usr/adm/messages says: Display0: S3 864/964 detected Display0: Mode 119 selected: 1280 x 1024 @ 75 Hz (RGB:555/16) and I run the Latest video driver off of NeXTAnswers (version 3.32). Regards, Steve -- ============================================================== Stephen J. Perkins | mailto:perkins@cps.msu.edu Dept. of Comp. Science | NeXT, MIME, finger for PGP Michigan State University | NeXT OS 3.3 using PPP-2.3 NeXT PPP-2.3 info at http://www.thoughtport.com:8080/PPP/
From: Yves Pons <100321.1674@CompuServe.COM> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Two Displays on NS/Intel? Date: 29 Oct 1996 18:23:41 GMT Organization: GENIFI Message-ID: <555i3d$50k$1@mhafc.production.compuserve.com> References: <54l260$oop@brachio.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE> the other option is Number nine 128 version 1 the card which can have 8 MB memory not for the moment the version which support a maximum of 4 MB mem and 3d. NeXT will do a driver for version 2. Best regards. Yves.
From: Robert La Ferla <Robert_La_Ferla@hot.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Next Modems? - Can I connect any external/serial modem to my NEXT Machine?? Date: 6 Nov 1996 01:38:06 GMT Organization: Posted via CAIS Internet <info@cais.com> Message-ID: <55oq5u$mbh@news.cais.com> References: <55ckbe$1g6@alice.turbocat.de> <1996Nov4.204914.2359@rdbois.uucp> In-Reply-To: <1996Nov4.204914.2359@rdbois.uucp> A better modem than the ZyXEL is the Diamond SupraSonic. While the ZyXEL may have more AT settings, you can't beat the SupraSonic features and $249 price. It's also a BLACK modem with a very cool backlit LCD. Robert La Ferla Registered OPENSTEP Consultant On 11/04/96, serge_ruby wrote: >In article <55ckbe$1g6@alice.turbocat.de> dave@turbocat.de (David Wetzel) >writes: >> Paul Lynch <Paul_Lynch@plsys.co.uk> wrote: >> (...) >> > ZyXEL modems have typically more features than others, and are better >> > supported by third party softare (for any platform, not just NeXTSTEP). >> > They are also a little more expensive, and offer new, faster protocols >> > only after they have been approved, not before :-). >> (...) >> > (Usual disclaimer: we are the UK distributor for ZyXEL) >> >> And they still support old modems like the U1496B with new firmware. >> You can get the EPROMs from ftp.ZyXEL.de for example. >> Newer modems can be upgraded via XModem-upload from your computer. > >I heard that, but what is the use of it ? Can you upgrade a 14400 modem, to >support 28800 ? Probably not, the why upgrade it ? Are they bugs in modems >EEPROM like in any other software ? If yes how do they manifest ? > >My U-1496E seems to be working fine. Would I gain speed or anything else by >upgrading its software ? > >Serge > -- Robert La Ferla Registered NEXTSTEP/OPENSTEP Consultant HTI Boston, MA + 1 (617) 252-0088
From: abiogenesis <abiogen@abiogenesis.com> Newsgroups: comp.hardware,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.video,comp.sys.amiga.hardware,comp.sys.mac.hardware.video,comp.sys.mac.hardware,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.sun.hardware Subject: NeXT MegaPixel display on other platforms? Date: Tue, 5 Nov 1996 17:19:27 -0800 Organization: CalWeb Internet Services, Inc. Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95.961105171634.28091A-100000@web1.calweb.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII NNTP-Posting-User: ident=abiogen I have two NeXT monitors that I'd love to be able to use on other machines. Is it possible to use these monitors on Amigas? Macs? PCs? One is a Greyscale MegaPixel 17" Display from a NeXTStation mono. The other is a Color MegaPixel 17" Display from a Color NeXTStation. Both have 13W3-type cable pinout which is standard for NeXT and Sun workstations. Thanks a lot Jonathan jrs@abiogenesis.com
From: Rakesh Dubey <rdubey@cisco.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Drivers for Intel Corsair Date: Wed, 06 Nov 1996 02:16:18 -0800 Organization: Cisco Systems, Inc. Message-ID: <32806571.26CA@cisco.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I know this is not the right newsgroup for this but there are probably several people here who should be familiar with this hardware. Where can I find display and audio drivers for Windows 95? The default windows driver doesn't look too good. Thanks. -Rakesh
From: tzulun@Hawaii.Edu (Tzu-Lun Lin) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Q: Display Drivers Date: 6 Nov 1996 04:03:34 GMT Organization: University of Hawaii Message-ID: <55p2mm$qsj@news.Hawaii.Edu> Does anyone know if the drivers for Thinkpad 755CX or 760CD would work for Thinkpad 701C's TFT display?
From: minuet@indy.net (Minuet) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Question re: zip drives and modem cables Date: Wed, 06 Nov 96 04:44:58 GMT Organization: NeXT - IUG Message-ID: <55p1jq$67g@sjx-ixn9.ix.netcom.com> Hi! Two quick dumb questions: [1] Where can you order a modem cable to connect a NeXTstation to a USRobotics V.Everything? [2] Is there a faq or info sheet on how to sonnect a scsi zip drive to a NeXTstation? Is there any special setup involved? Do NeXT users user them a lot for trading and storage? Thanks!! Min
From: Ray Stricklin <kjaeros@u.washington.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Incomplete SCSI transfers Date: Tue, 5 Nov 1996 20:58:50 -0800 Organization: University of Washington Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.3.95.961105204741.1832B-100000@saul1.u.washington.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII NNTP-Posting-User: kjaeros Predicate: `"Did you eat something that did not agree with you?" asked John' Hey; I had a spare 760 meg Micropolis 1588-15 disk left after upgrading my Solaris/intel box, and I thought I'd replace the old 330 meg CDC in my NeXTcube, which is running NS 3.0. I backed up the old drive across the network and made a NEXTSTEP recovery OD, pulled the old drive, put in the new, and fired up the box. Entering the workspace caused a 'drive not initialized' dialog box to come up, which I expected. However, what I did not expect was to see 'incomplete SCSI transfer' error messages bombard the console. In short, no disk initialization operations succeeded, neither from 'bod -s', nor from allowing it to boot fully from the optical disk and using BuildDisk.app to create the disk. sdform will format the disk fine. scsimodes returns useful information, from which I attempted to build a disktab entry that ended up not helping anything anyway. The disk -does- use 512 byte sectors, but from reading NeXTanswers, I am lead to believe that this is not near the problem I thought it might from reading the comments in /etc/disktab. The error message would always mention it had transferred either '0x400' or '0xe400' (maybe it was '0xe300') bytes. Any ideas? -r http://weber.u.washington.edu/~kjaeros -------------------------------------- [ e x l i b r i s ]
From: drinke@r56h108.res.gatech.edu (Dave Rinker) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Question re: zip drives and modem cables Date: 6 Nov 1996 05:09:29 GMT Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology Message-ID: <55p6i9$rgt@smash.gatech.edu> References: <55p1jq$67g@sjx-ixn9.ix.netcom.com> Minuet (minuet@indy.net) wrote: : [1] Where can you order a modem cable to connect a NeXTstation to a USRobotics : V.Everything? A macintosh cable will work. Any compusa, etc should have them. : [2] Is there a faq or info sheet on how to sonnect a scsi zip drive to a : NeXTstation? Is there any special setup involved? Do NeXT users user them a : lot for trading and storage? I put a zip drive on my NeXT cube and 'it just worked'. I also have a Jaz drive which required the following disktab entry added to /etc/disktab: iomega jaz|iomega jaz 1GB|iomega jaz 1GB G.5512/1:\ :ty=removable_rw_scsi:nc#1021:nt#64:ns#32:ss#512:rm#5394:\ :fp#320:bp#0:ng#0:gs#0:ga#0:ao#0:\ :os=sdmach:z0#64:z1#192:\ :pa#0:sa#2045952:ba#8192:fa#1024:ca#3:da#4096:ra#5:oa=time:\ :ia:ta=4.3BSD:aa: -- Dave Rinker Georgia Institute of Technology - Computer Science
From: giddings@menominee.chem.wisc.edu (Michael Giddings) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Experience with Toshiba Tecras? Date: 6 Nov 1996 06:25:44 GMT Organization: University of Wisconsin, Madison Distribution: world Message-ID: <55pb18$2mqq@news.doit.wisc.edu> I am looking into notebook systems (as evidenced by several posts from me on the subject lately) and have narrowed things down to the point where I'm most seriously interested in a Toshiba Tecra (maybe 720), using the BioFrost driver for display. Does anyone have any experience with these machines they would wish to share? Thanks -- Michael Giddings giddings@chem.wisc.edu giddings@barbarian.com (608)258-1699 or (608) 692-2851
From: andrew@inxpress.net (Andrew M. Priasmoro) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: GateKeeper and PPP Connection? Date: Wed, 06 Nov 1996 02:51:32 -0500 Organization: University of Wisconsin-Madison Message-ID: <andrew-0611960251320001@andrew.inxpress.net> Hi, I am using a GateKeeper and Throughport PPP 2.2 version for my Internet connection. The problem I am having right now is that everytime I unlink my PPP connection through the "Unlink" command from the GateKeeper and want to make a PPP connection again, I have to logout from my account and login as root then empty the contents of my "ppp-2.2.log" file in the usr/adm/ directory. Otherwise, I won't be able to re-establish the PPP connection either from my user or root accounts, since the OS thinks that the PPP is still connected, while actually the modem connection has been disconnected. My question is that does anyone know the ways to make PPP connection more convenient than the above method? In other words, are there solutions for making PPP connection from my user account without having to logout from my user account, login as root and delete the "ppp2.2.log" file? I think the important key here is to be able to delete the "ppp2.2.log" file from any accounts. Does anyone have pointers how to do this? Thanks in advance. Regards, Andrew.
From: Matthias Klose <doko@cs.tu-berlin.de> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,de.comp.sys.next Subject: ASUS2940UW media bus card working Date: 06 Nov 1996 14:51:59 +0100 Organization: Technical University of Berlin, Germany Message-ID: <78iv7j2uww.fsf@cs.tu-berlin.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Thanks to Dean Reece, a former Next employee, for help with the card. Absolutely *NO* thankyou to Next for ignoring my mails after Mr. Reece left the company. Absolutely *NO* thankyou to the postmaster@Next.com for personally rejecting mails and not forwarding them to the right people (but who cares ...) The ASUS2940UW is a card for an extended PCI slot that exists on most ASUS boards, which combines an Adaptec 2940UW (7880 chip) and an Vibra16 PnP Soundblaster card. The card is interesting because of the very low price (much cheaper than an original Adaptec 2940UW). The Soundblaster works fine with the following configuration: - EISA PnP Driver version 4.03 - SoundBlaster Pnp Driver from the 4.0 CD-ROM, with an ID 'CTL0070' (changed with the expert button in configure.app) I didn't try to configure the card with an 3.3 driver. The SCSI adaptor works fine without modifications with the 3.37 (?) (the latest) driver. The card identifies itself with vendor id 9004 and device id 8078. However I had problems with installing it with 4.0; the card does not get detected. - First I tried to install 4.0 with the 4.0 driver -- no success. - Then I installed Win95 without problems - Then I got a mail from Mr. Reece to replace the Id with "0&0"; this did not work as well; the system locks up. - Then I tried it again with the original driver (only to get the correct id of the soundcard) and to my surprise the SCSI adapter gets detected. Now I cannot say what exactly is the reason it didn't work at first with the original configuration and which of the first two steps were necessary to "configure" the card correctly (installing win95 or the trick with the "0&0" id). However I hope this helps as well. If my local dealer orders the card and boards again, I could give it another try. Matthias Klose No longer waiting on 4.1 -- abused as 4.0 beta user and buy another beta product without honoring that I already bought 4.0? No! If Next doesn't like educational customers ...
From: thedrjay@aol.com (The Dr Jay) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Accessing CPU information on Pentiums Date: 6 Nov 1996 09:30:38 -0500 Organization: America Online, Inc. (1-800-827-6364) Sender: root@newsbf02.news.aol.com Message-ID: <55q7ee$92m@newsbf02.news.aol.com> References: <SCOTT.96Nov5145238@howard.one.net> Intel has kept a lot of the information on optimizing code for the Pentium from the public.:-( Try http://www.x86.org as they have posted information on this web site related to L1 optimization. Intel has tried to shut down this site but luckily haven’t been able to.:-)
From: Christian Kuhtz <kuhtz@ix.netcom.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Question re: zip drives and modem cables Date: 6 Nov 1996 15:08:19 GMT Organization: Netcom Message-ID: <55q9l3$fs0@dfw-ixnews12.ix.netcom.com> References: <55p1jq$67g@sjx-ixn9.ix.netcom.com> <55p6i9$rgt@smash.gatech.edu> drinke@r56h108.res.gatech.edu (Dave Rinker) wrote: >Minuet (minuet@indy.net) wrote: > >: [1] Where can you order a modem cable to connect a NeXTstation to a USRobotics >: V.Everything? > > A macintosh cable will work. Any compusa, etc should have them. That's not neccessarily true. I have experimented with several Mac cables and none of them worked. There are several people like Deepspace Tech or I think Spherical Solutions as well who sells NeXT modem cables which are build to spec from zs(4). Built another one myself a couple of days ago and even though soldering wires onto the pins of a mini-DIN 8pin plug is a pain in the neck, I think that's still the best or going out and buying a NeXT specific cable. Regards, Chris -- Christian Kuhtz <kuhtz@ix.netcom.com>, office: ckuhtz@paranet.com Network/UNIX Specialist for Paranet, Inc. http://www.paranet.com/ Supercomputing Junkie, et al MIME/NeXTmail accepted ---- BOYCOTT INTERNET SPAM! See URL http://www.vix.com/spam/ ----
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware From: dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca (David Evans) Subject: Re: Question re: zip drives and modem cables Sender: news@novice.uwaterloo.ca (Mr. News) Message-ID: <E0GJt6.EI1@novice.uwaterloo.ca> Date: Wed, 6 Nov 1996 16:43:54 GMT References: <55p1jq$67g@sjx-ixn9.ix.netcom.com> Organization: University of Waterloo In article <55p1jq$67g@sjx-ixn9.ix.netcom.com>, Minuet <minuet@indy.net> wrote: > >Hi! Two quick dumb questions: > >[1] Where can you order a modem cable to connect a NeXTstation to a USRobotics >V.Everything? > Not sure. You can make one using the instructions in the man page for zs. >[2] Is there a faq or info sheet on how to sonnect a scsi zip drive to a >NeXTstation? Is there any special setup involved? Do NeXT users user them a >lot for trading and storage? > There's something somewhere, but I don't recall where. Something like "Hitchkier's Guide to Zip". I just plugged mine in and it worked. Used blank disks (well, formatted for PC), not the disk it came with. -- 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.misc From: tachang@gsbux1.uchicago.edu (Andrew Chang) Subject: What CD-ROM drive to replace the original SONY NeXT drive? Message-ID: <E0Gprq.Cvu@midway.uchicago.edu> Sender: news@midway.uchicago.edu (News Administrator) Organization: GSB, University of Chicago Date: Wed, 6 Nov 1996 18:52:38 GMT My original NeXT CD-ROM went bad a while ago. I've been looking for an internal drive to put it in the black case. So far, no success. Most of the drives I have seen (like the Toshiba 3601b) have SCSI connector at bottom and have a 3-pin audio connector. I tried to replace the audio cable, but it is soldered to the audio line-outs. Any suggestion? Info? Thanks.
From: mpaque@wco.com (Mike Paquette) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: ND memory Date: Wed, 06 Nov 1996 20:40:39 GMT Organization: Electronics Service, Unit No. 16 Message-ID: <55qta0$6ea@news.wco.com> References: <55j0sb$jvs@news1-alterdial.uu.net> cdb@barracuda.precipice.com (christopher) wrote: >part of your memory specs listed-- >______________________________________ > NeXTdimension boards (i860): > Number SIMM slots: 8 > SIMM group size: 4 > SIMM type: 72-pin > SIMM access rating: 80 ns > SIMM capacity: 1, 4, 8 MB (256Kx32, 1Mx32, 2Mx32) > Maximum RAM: 64 MB (32 MB official NeXT) >______________________________________ >as an nd owner running 32mb there, i've been curious if there's a reason >for the "official" max at 32mb, more than the hypothesis that 8mb was the >largest simm size at the time the board came out? Simple. Marketing types shouldn't publish technical specs without Engineering review. Not even in advertising literature. >also, official or not, and strictly off-record, what pro or con insights >have you viz putting 64mb on? Well, it's a lot of memory. Add memory to the main processor board first, then add to the ND board. This will generally be more useful. Memory on the ND board can only be used by the graphics coprocessor, but memory on the main CPU can be used for everything, including a secondary store for the graphics coprocessor. Mike Paquette -- I don't speak for my employer, and they don't speak for me.
From: mpaque@wco.com (Mike Paquette) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: ND memory Date: Wed, 06 Nov 1996 20:40:47 GMT Organization: Electronics Service, Unit No. 16 Message-ID: <55qta6$6ea@news.wco.com> References: <55m1io$f6e@news1-alterdial.uu.net> cdb@barracuda.precipice.com (christopher) wrote: >hey guys (all except silent-mike that is. . .): I'll answer anyway. >to focus-down the discussion: will the board not read 16mb simms? It willl not read 16 Mbyte SIMMs. >e.g. has anyone tried 4 x 16 = 64? Won't work. Mike Paquette -- I don't speak for my employer, and they don't speak for me. mpaque@wco.com mpaque@next.com NeXT business mail only, please
From: mpaque@wco.com (Mike Paquette) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: ND memory Date: Wed, 06 Nov 1996 20:40:45 GMT Organization: Electronics Service, Unit No. 16 Message-ID: <55qta5$6ea@news.wco.com> References: <55j0sb$jvs@news1-alterdial.uu.net> <E0Cs0n.J7C@novice.uwaterloo.ca> <55loh1$f3j@maceo.dti.net> <55mj3h$1m1k@msunews.cl.msu.edu> rencsok@channelu.com wrote: >Actually a couple of things I wanted to know about the ND that >relate to the origional posters question and perhaps to Sandy's >setup (if indeed he has 3 64MB Dimensions on a 128MB Turbo >Cube). Does the 040 MB keep a local copy of an image, and The Window Server doesn't. An app might, depending on how it's written. >where is most of the DPS work done when someone does a >resize (like 150% not a simple 2:1, or 4:1) on the MB or the >ND?! Once an image is in bitmap form then, yes, resizing, compositing, and whatnot all are done by the i860. Mike Paquette -- I don't speak for my employer, and they don't speak for me. mpaque@wco.com mpaque@next.com NeXT business mail only, please
From: mpaque@wco.com (Mike Paquette) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: ND memory Date: Wed, 06 Nov 1996 20:40:41 GMT Organization: Electronics Service, Unit No. 16 Message-ID: <55qta3$6ea@news.wco.com> References: <9611041913.AA02573@huelf.hamburg.com> Stefan Huelf <stefan@huelf.hamburg.com> wrote: >There was saying in this group, that NeXT Turbo Cubes have a limit >of 96MB of RAM, but I've my CubeTurbo running with 128MB of RAM with >no trouble at all.... Yup. The limit on Turbo chipset systems is 128 Mbytes, non-Turbo slabs handle 32 Mbytes, and non-Turbo Cubes handle 64 Mbytes. >Also some people thought, that if they fit 2 64MB-PS/2-modules in a >NeXTstation ColorTurbo (equals 128MB) the max. RAM for this machine >would be 256MB! But that is stretching it! The NeXTTurbos do run >with 2 64MB-sticks, but cannot adress more than 128 Megs. The Turbo memory controller can't handle more than 32 Mbyte SIMMs, so that last address line on your 64 MByte PS/2 SIMM never gets used. >This also holds true for the ND. You might be able to install >16MB-PS/2-modules, but that won't work.......The official max. was >based on 4MB - sticks and with 8MB sticks, you're able to hit the >64MB (8 times 8MB-sticks) on the dimension card! It really works - >I've already done it!!! - and it ran with 32MB before (4 times >8MB-sticks), leaving another 4 slots empty. 72 pin SIMMs have a front side and a back side. The 4 Mbyte SIMMs have memory hooked to the front side pins, and the 8 Mbyte SIMMs have memory hooked to the front and back side pins. The ND board has 8 SIMM slots. One bank of memory (128 bits wide) requires 4 32 bit/72 pin SIMMs. When loaded with 4 Mbyte SIMMs, you get 2 banks of memory, totalling 32 Mbytes. When loaded with 8 Mbyte SIMMs, you get 4 banks of memory, totalling 64 Mbytes. >But as the SIMM group size above states, they always have to come >in packs of 4! Which makes one bank of memory. While the i860 has only a 64 bit memory bus, we put 128 bits into a bank of memory, and interleaved access so as to maximize burst transfer rates. Mike Paquette -- I don't speak for my employer, and they don't speak for me. mpaque@wco.com mpaque@next.com NeXT business mail only, please
From: tvz@Princeton.EDU (Timothy Van Zandt) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Need help installing new IBM DORS-32160 drive Date: 5 Nov 1996 21:12:27 GMT Organization: Princeton University Message-ID: <55oajr$2jo@cnn.Princeton.EDU> I just got an IBM DORS-32160 (2.16 gig), for a NextStation Turbo. When I try to format it, using disk, BuildDisk, sdformat ... I get an error: boot block extends beyond front porch Once I solve this problem, do I need a new disktab entry? In the past, I have just connected new disks and formatted them with the workspace format menu command, and never needed to do more. Thanks. tim -- Timothy Van Zandt Email: tvz@princeton.edu Department of Economics WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~tvz Princeton University Voice: (609) 258-4050 Princeton, NJ 08544-1021 Fax: (609) 258-6419
From: ISAAC@PHYSICS.UTEXAS.EDU (Isaac M. Mandelberg) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Problem with NeXT printer not recognizing toner cartridge Date: 6 Nov 1996 21:43:16 GMT Organization: University of Texas (Austin) Physics Dept. Distribution: world Message-ID: <55r0pk$s7k@geraldo.cc.utexas.edu> My NeXT printer thinks it doesn't have a toner cartridge in it. I've tried two different cartridges without any luck. Anyone else have this problem? Any suggestions as to how to fix it? Thanks Michael Mandelberg
From: sbolting@nemonet.com (Stephen Boltinghouse) Subject: Just try this, it will work Newsgroups: alt.journalism.newspapers,alt.tv.newsradio,alt.fan.newt-gingrich,fj.sys.newton,comp.sys.newton.misc,comp.sys.newton.programmer,chinese.newsgroups.newusers,comp.sys.next,fj.sys.next,maus.sys.next,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,comp.soft-sys.nextstep,alt.sex.nfs,comp.protocols.nfs,alt.james.nguygen.gook.faggot,soc.culture.nicaragua,soc.singles.nice Date: Tue, 5 Nov 1996 18:44:01 GMT Message-ID: <713.051093963906@news.nemonet.com> Take five minutes to read this and it WILL change your life. The Internet has grown tremendously. It doubles in size every 4 months. think about it. You see those 'Make.Money.Fast' posts more and more. That's ... because it WORKS ! So I thought, all those new users might make it work. 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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware From: deviate@lipschitz.sfasu.edu (J. Kelly Cunningham) Subject: Re: Question re: zip drives and modem cables Message-ID: <b67cc$10317.35b@news.sfasu.edu> Date: Wed, 06 Nov 1996 22:03:23 GMT References: <55p1jq$67g@sjx-ixn9.ix.netcom.com> <E0GJt6.EI1@novice.uwaterloo.ca> Organization: As little as I can get away with... In article <E0GJt6.EI1@novice.uwaterloo.ca>, David Evans <dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca> wrote: >In article <55p1jq$67g@sjx-ixn9.ix.netcom.com>, Minuet <minuet@indy.net> wrote: >> >>Hi! Two quick dumb questions: >> >>[1] Where can you order a modem cable to connect a NeXTstation to a USRobotics >>V.Everything? >> > > Not sure. You can make one using the instructions in the man page for zs. Cables To Go (513 224-8646) made mine. -- -- kc finger deviate@lipschitz.sfasu.edu | pgp -fka 49860926614586AF "The strongest reason for the people to retain their 54105BA338FBF0FB right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government." -- Thomas Jefferson
From: Mark.A.Tarbell@jpl.nasa.gov (Mark Tarbell) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Question re: zip drives and modem cables Date: 6 Nov 1996 21:06:51 GMT Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory - Pasadena CA Message-ID: <55qulb$2d5@netline-fddi.jpl.nasa.gov> References: <55p1jq$67g@sjx-ixn9.ix.netcom.com> <55p6i9$rgt@smash.gatech.edu> <55q9l3$fs0@dfw-ixnews12.ix.netcom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit drinke@r56h108.res.gatech.edu (Dave Rinker) wrote: > > Minuet (minuet@indy.net) wrote: >> [1] Where can you order a modem cable to connect a NeXTstation to a >> USRobotics V.Everything? > > A macintosh cable will work. Any compusa, etc should have them. A Macintosh cable will only work on serial port "A" of a 68030 board. Check out the NeXT Serial Modem Cable FAQ: http://www.radical.com/TheHome/TheSolutions/RadicalSolution6.html Mark
From: sbolting@nemonet.com (Stephen Boltinghouse) Newsgroups: alt.journalism.newspapers,alt.tv.newsradio,alt.fan.newt-gingrich,fj.sys.newton,comp.sys.newton.misc,comp.sys.newton.programmer,chinese.newsgroups.newusers,comp.sys.next,fj.sys.next,maus.sys.next,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,comp.soft-sys.nextstep,alt.sex.nfs,comp.protocols.nfs,alt.james.nguygen.gook.faggot,soc.culture.nicaragua,soc.singles.nice Subject: cmsg cancel <713.051093963906@news.nemonet.com> Control: cancel <713.051093963906@news.nemonet.com> Date: Thu, 07 Nov 1996 00:12:04 +1 Organization: Technical University Berlin, Germany Distribution: inet Message-ID: <cancel.713.051093963906@news.nemonet.com> References: <713.051093963906@news.nemonet.com> MMF chain letter spam cancelled by hw@atlantic.fb12.tu-berlin.de . This is part of an ongoing spam with huge Breidbart indices. See my report "S.Boltinghouse" in news.admin.net-abuse.announce or in de.admin.news.net-abuse.announce. Subject was: Just try this, it will work.
From: Darryl Biggar <bdb0@comms.moc.govt.nz> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Problem with the NeXT printer port Date: Thu, 07 Nov 1996 12:28:29 -0800 Organization: Ministry of Commerce Message-ID: <3282466D.5D02@comms.moc.govt.nz> References: <E0Gprq.Cvu@midway.uchicago.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I recently brought a NeXT laser printer for my NeXT '040 non-Turbo slab. Unfortunately,the printer only produces (at most) a few lines before printing blank pages and then stopping mid-sheet. The problem is not with the printer - it prints fine on another NeXT. Neither is the problem with the software - replacing the operating system (by swapping the hard-disk) didn't help. That leaves the hardware. A problem on the mother-board, perhaps? Has anyone heard of this problem? Any suggestions as to what to do? Wanna buy a perfectly decent printer? Thanks Darryl
From: cdl@proxima.ucsd.edu (Carl Lowenstein) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Question re: zip drives and modem cables Date: 7 Nov 1996 02:01:31 GMT Organization: The Avant-Garde of the Now, Ltd. Message-ID: <55rftr$8nb@news1.ucsd.edu> References: <55p1jq$67g@sjx-ixn9.ix.netcom.com> <55p6i9$rgt@smash.gatech.edu> <55q9l3$fs0@dfw-ixnews12.ix.netcom.com> Cc: kuhtz@ix.netcom.com In <55q9l3$fs0@dfw-ixnews12.ix.netcom.com> Christian Kuhtz wrote: > drinke@r56h108.res.gatech.edu (Dave Rinker) wrote: > >Minuet (minuet@indy.net) wrote: > > > >: [1] Where can you order a modem cable to connect a NeXTstation to a > USRobotics > >: V.Everything? > > > > A macintosh cable will work. Any compusa, etc should have them. > > That's not neccessarily true. I have experimented with several Mac cables > and none of them worked. There are several people like Deepspace Tech or I > think Spherical Solutions as well who sells NeXT modem cables which are > build to spec from zs(4). > > Built another one myself a couple of days ago and even though soldering > wires onto the pins of a mini-DIN 8pin plug is a pain in the neck, I > think that's still the best or going out and buying a NeXT specific cable. Let me second "that's not necessarily true". The only thing that Mac serial cables have in common with NeXT serial cables is the shape of the connectors, and the pinout for Td, Rd, and Ground. All of the handshaking signals are somewhere else. The way to avoid soldering wires on a mini-DIN-8 connector is to buy a Macintosh-to-ImagewriterII cable, and cut it in half. Then you only need to solder wires to the DB25 connector of your choice, and you have another DIN connector for the next time you need to make a serial cable. carl -- carl lowenstein marine physical lab u.c. san diego clowenstein@ucsd.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Connecting a NeXT keyboard to an Intel/Windows Machine - can it be done? Message-ID: <32819B78.5AAC@running-start.com> From: Eric Hermanson <eric@running-start.com> Date: Thu, 07 Nov 1996 00:19:04 -0800 Organization: Running Start, Inc. MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject says it all. Does anyone have information on how this might be accomplished? Thanks, Eric
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Problem with NeXT printer not recognizing toner cartridge Date: Wed, 6 Nov 1996 17:45:57 -0800 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.95.961106174503.26836B-100000@kira> References: <55r0pk$s7k@geraldo.cc.utexas.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: "Isaac M. Mandelberg" <ISAAC@PHYSICS.UTEXAS.EDU> In-Reply-To: <55r0pk$s7k@geraldo.cc.utexas.edu> Return-Receipt-To: luomat@nerc.com Have ya fiddled with anything lately? This happened to me when I had not reconnected a fuse. TjL ps -- don't forget to clean the air filter now and again.... On 6 Nov 1996, Isaac M. Mandelberg wrote: > Date: 6 Nov 1996 21:43:16 GMT > From: "Isaac M. Mandelberg" <ISAAC@PHYSICS.UTEXAS.EDU> > Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware > Subject: Problem with NeXT printer not recognizing toner cartridge > > My NeXT printer thinks it doesn't have a toner cartridge in it. I've > tried two different cartridges without any luck. Anyone else have this problem? > > Any suggestions as to how to fix it? > > Thanks > > Michael Mandelberg > >
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Need help installing new IBM DORS-32160 drive Followup-To: comp.sys.next.hardware Date: Wed, 6 Nov 1996 17:43:20 -0800 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.95.961106173642.26836A-100000@kira> References: <55oajr$2jo@cnn.Princeton.EDU> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: Timothy Van Zandt <tvz@Princeton.EDU> In-Reply-To: <55oajr$2jo@cnn.Princeton.EDU> Return-Receipt-To: luomat@nerc.com I don't know if you need a new disktab entry. It sounds like you need to partition the drive so that each partition is less than 2 gigs. May I suggest making a small partition with the necessary files for booting into single user? You can use this: http://www.next.peak.org/~luomat/next/mailserver/mkmagic.sh (it will need a little editing to point to the right device!) Less than 2gigs should fix your boot block problem... TjL On 5 Nov 1996, Timothy Van Zandt wrote: > Date: 5 Nov 1996 21:12:27 GMT > From: Timothy Van Zandt <tvz@Princeton.EDU> > Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware, comp.sys.next.sysadmin > Subject: Need help installing new IBM DORS-32160 drive > > I just got an IBM DORS-32160 (2.16 gig), for a NextStation Turbo. > When I try to format it, using disk, BuildDisk, sdformat ... I get an > error: > > boot block extends beyond front porch > > Once I solve this problem, do I need a new disktab entry? > In the past, I have just connected new disks and formatted > them with the workspace format menu command, and never > needed to do more. > > Thanks. > > tim > -- > Timothy Van Zandt Email: tvz@princeton.edu > Department of Economics WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~tvz > Princeton University Voice: (609) 258-4050 > Princeton, NJ 08544-1021 Fax: (609) 258-6419 > > >
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware From: tachang@gsbux1.uchicago.edu (Andrew Chang) Subject: Re: Problem with the NeXT printer port Message-ID: <E0HJ6L.Hr8@midway.uchicago.edu> Sender: news@midway.uchicago.edu (News Administrator) Organization: GSB, University of Chicago References: <E0Gprq.Cvu@midway.uchicago.edu> <3282466D.5D02@comms.moc.govt.nz> Date: Thu, 7 Nov 1996 05:27:56 GMT In article <3282466D.5D02@comms.moc.govt.nz>, Darryl Biggar <bdb0@comms.moc.govt.nz> wrote: >I recently brought a NeXT laser printer for my NeXT '040 non-Turbo slab. Unfortunately,the >printer only produces (at most) a few lines before printing blank pages and then stopping >mid-sheet. > >The problem is not with the printer - it prints fine on another NeXT. > >Neither is the problem with the software - replacing the operating system (by swapping the >hard-disk) didn't help. > >That leaves the hardware. A problem on the mother-board, perhaps? > >Has anyone heard of this problem? Any suggestions as to what to do? > >Wanna buy a perfectly decent printer? > Yup, we ran into a similar problem. The problem is with the ROM. Our server printer (NeXT) used to print incomplete pages, then tried to complete the pages. I found some error messages in the console log. We then tried a different ROM and it works fine now. I tried this new ROM with another newer NeXT printer and the printer did not work well! Different versons of ROMs do make difference. I do not know if printers can also be different. In practice, they do.
From: fliu@uci.edu (Feng Liu) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Solved: Display blank with Diamondstealth, busmouse Date: 7 Nov 1996 05:41:34 GMT Organization: University of California, Irvine Message-ID: <55rsqe$ejf@news.service.uci.edu> In article <55lhfe$qdd@news.service.uci.edu> you wrote: : In article <55lfet$dc5@news.blkbox.com> dkramer@bifrostworks.com (Daniel : L. Kramer) writes: : > An IRQ conflict of this nature is unlikely to cause kernel panics with : no : > diagnostic messages. : > > : > This sounds like the memory mapping problem with the DS64. How much RAM : > do you have in the machine, and where do you have the memory mapping : set? : Thanks for your reply. I'd agree with you on this. : In fact, as I mentioned in my initial post, the system some times : complained about unable to map memory location: 00090000-000bffff. and : defaults vga, other times, it will just go panic. : Also, I seem to need to set: enalbe memory hole in the : CMOS setup. I have 128M EDO memory, the Video card memory : is set to whatever the driver defaults are: : port address: : 48 bytes at: 0x3B0 : Mapping memory: 8192K at 0x3800000 : In the Expert settings option, I changed : Auto Detect IDs from: 0x88f05333 0x88d15333 0x88d05333 : to: 0x88d05333 0x88d15333 0x88f05333 : per instructions by next ansers for the Diamondstealth64 : display driver for S968 chip. Thanks to Daniel L. Kramer / dkramer@bifrostworks.com who pointed out that the problem was due to the display and main memory overlapping. My problem was due to the addition of main memory not due to the addition of the busmouse. Settting the mapped memory address to 7F800000 in Config.app for the DiamondDisplay (S3 968) works for me since I have 128MB memory, no conflict with the busmouse at all. If you do not have more than 32MB memory you do not need to change the default memory mapping. But you probably do need to go to the expert option to set the auto-detect ID to 0x88d05333 0x88d15333 0x88f05333 according to nextanswers, otherwise your driver defaults to VGA. -- Feng Liu Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering University of California, Irvine Irvine, CA 92697-3975 phone: 714-824-3105, or 714-824-5406(MAE Department) Fax: 714-824-3105, or 714-824-8585(MAE Department)
From: quinonez@ucla.edu (Gerardo Quinonez) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: turning volume off/down in USR modem and NSFIP3.3 Date: Thu, 07 Nov 96 06:17:30 GMT Organization: Earthlink Network, Inc. Message-ID: <55ruea$fp1@chile.earthlink.net> Could someone please tell me how to turn the volume off for a USR V.34 28.8 internal modem. I am using NSFIP 3.3. Ive done it before. Someone was kind enough to send me the text that needed to be copied to a file. However, I had to reinstall software and lost that capability. If someone knows how to do this please email it to me at quinonez@ucla.edu NeXTMail/SUN/MIME ok Thanks Gerardo
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco Return-Path: <zleo@dns.istsan.interbusiness.it> Message-ID: <1.5.4.32.19961107071637.0066930c@istsan.interbusiness.it> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Thu, 07 Nov 1996 08:16:37 +0100 From: Zanitti Leo <zleo@dns.istsan.interbusiness.it> Subject: CD-ROM and NeXTSTEP/OPENSTEP My CD-ROM NEC 210 is dead, I have buy a Pioneer 10X and this work well But, because the OS check the CD-ROM all second to see if in the drive there is a CD, I'm afraid that my CD-ROM break in this manner. On the other hand if I put always CD on the drive, I'm afraid to stress the drive. What is better for life of my CD-ROM? An CD always in the drive or the OS that check the drive for a CD all second. I don't would that my new drive dead how the previous after only seven months, even if it were used sparingly. Thanks ************************************************************************ * Zanitti Leo * * Viale Regina Elena, 299 * * I-00161 ROME * * * * E-Mail: zleo@istsan.interbusiness.it * * * * TEL +39 6 82.09.70.77 * * TEL +39 6 49.90.24.10 * ************************************************************************
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware From: magnus@darwin.uchicago.edu (Magnus Nordborg) Subject: OmniPentiumPro with ASUS & Elsa anyone? Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Message-ID: <961107112522.354AAFcE.magnus@darwin> Keywords: P6, video Sender: news@midway.uchicago.edu (News Administrator) Organization: University of Chicago -- Academic Computing Services Mime-Version: 1.0 (Generated by Eloquent) Date: Thu, 7 Nov 1996 17:25:22 GMT Hi, I have an ASUS P/I-XP6NP5 motherboard with Natoma (440FX) chipset, BIOS version 1.03 (nx6i0103.zip), and an 4MB VRAM Elsa. Loading the OmniPentiumPro driver slows the system to a crawl. Has anyone managed to get this to work? Thanks, -Magnus --- Magnus Nordborg Department of Ecology & Evolution The University of Chicago 1101 E. 57th St. Chicago, IL 60637-1573 USA magnus@darwin.uchicago.edu (NeXT Mail, MIME) +1.312.702-1093 phone (lab) +1.312.667-5331 phone (home) +1.312.702-9740 fax
From: Michael Taylor <mtaylor@aw.sgi.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Quick Renderman Date: Thu, 07 Nov 1996 13:25:43 -0500 Organization: Alias|Wavefront Message-ID: <328229A7.2781@aw.sgi.com> References: <9611031827.AA02196@huelf.hamburg.com> <55kdih$4nk@newshost.uni-koblenz.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Marcel Bresink wrote: > > Stefan Huelf <stefan@huelf.hamburg.com> wrote: > > does anybody know if QuickRenderman is still a supported feature > > under OPENSTEP 4.0 / 4.1 on black / NT / Solaris 2.5??? > > The 3DKit is not part of the Openstep specification, so there will be no > (Quick) RenderMan support in any Openstep version. > I think that the 3D kit was passed off to the Misc Kit. The Misc Kit is a bunch of freeware libraries for Objective-C. So, it should still be available as far as I know. /\/\ike -- /\/\ike Taylor | Mail: mtaylor@aw.sgi.com Alias|Wavefront Toronto | Voice: (416) 362-8558 x740 Developer, API Team =D--' http://reality.sgi.com/mtaylor
From: altenber@acpub.duke.edu (Lee Altenberg) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: "Trick" with Elsa 4MB Graphics card Date: 7 Nov 1996 18:32:31 -0500 Organization: Duke University, Durham, NC, USA Message-ID: <55trif$5m6@news.duke.edu> I discovered a nice "trick" you can do if you are running NS/I with an Elsa Winner2000 Pro-X/4 MB graphics card. The Elsa driver (under Configure.app) forced me to choose between 32 Bit color at 88 Hz refresh rate and 16 Bit color at 91 Hz refresh rate. For some inscrutable reason, the 88 Hz zapped my eyes, while 91 Hz was o.k. So, I experimented by telling Configure.app that I actually had an 8 MB card, which then gave me the option of 32 Bit color and 94 Hz. I chose it, rebooted, and it worked! For some reason though, when you choose 94 Hz under a variety of settings, you actually get 91 Hz, as my Nanao T2-17TS monitor reveals. So, if you have a similar configuration, and want to push it (make sure you monitor can handle the high refresh rates), you might experiment. -- Lee Altenberg altenber@mhpcc.edu
From: birdrock@well.com (Brian Dear) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.intel Subject: Intel GX Professional -- question Date: 7 Nov 1996 23:47:53 GMT Organization: The Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link, Sausalito, CA Message-ID: <55tsf9$25o@filth.well.com> (This is being cross-posted to some NeXT newsgroups... I thought some NEXT oldtimers might have an answer to this one as well) I own an Intel GX Professional that was originally bought to run NeXTSTEP 3.1. It still has that on it. I was wondering if it's possible to breathe new life into this nice little pizza box machine, by putting in a new motherboard (Pentium/PCI), and using it to run Windows NT 4.0. Anyone know if it's possible to change motherboards into something more recent for this old machine? -- brian -------------------------------------------------------------- Brian Dear brian@birdrock.com Birdrock Media Corporation La Jolla, CA, USA Note: just because I am posting to USENET does not mean I am making my user ID available for SPAM mail. Don't do it.
From: davidwr@geocities.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Anyone ever made a Mac work with a NeXT printer? Date: 8 Nov 1996 00:23:45 GMT Organization: IBM Austin Message-ID: <55tuih$1bho@ausnews.austin.ibm.com> Keywords: NeXT Mac printer driver compatibility help I have an opportunity to buy an original NeXT printer (circa 1988) for $50. If I can get drivers to make it work with my Mac, I'll buy it. Anybody ever tried this? What was necessary?
From: ppai@soback.kornet.nm.kr (BongOk Kim (kornet)) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: [Q] Some questions about the Demension Board Speed Date: 8 Nov 1996 08:40:36 GMT Organization: KORNET Message-ID: <55urm4$ldi@usenet.kornet.nm.kr> [Q] Some questions about the Demension Board Speed. The Demension board has a i860 RISC processor. How much fast compare with Pentium or Pentium Pro When I working Creat, SuperDraw or Virtuoso? And I would like know video performance of the Demension board. Is possible real-time capturing or recording to hard disk? Thanks, YoungHoon Kil ppai@soback.kornet.nm.kr (Cyberdog, Voice Mail OK) http://soback.kornet.nm.kr/~ppai
From: jdevlin@umich.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Scan rate for N4000B monitors? Date: 8 Nov 1996 09:50:50 GMT Organization: University of Michigan Message-ID: <55uvpq$l9o@lastactionhero.rs.itd.umich.edu> The N4000A's had a scan rate of 68Mhz and towards the end of hardware production Color Stations had a scan rate of 72Mhz -- that much I can find in old product litterature or NeXTWorld Extra (November 92). But what was the scan rate for the N400B's on mono ABD Turbos? Anyone know? -- John Devlin Department of Philosophy The University of Michigan Ann Arbor, MI 48109 - 1003
From: bresink@informatik.uni-koblenz.de (Marcel Bresink) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Quick Renderman Date: 8 Nov 1996 09:42:37 GMT Organization: University Koblenz / Germany Message-ID: <55uvad$cb7@newshost.uni-koblenz.de> References: <9611031827.AA02196@huelf.hamburg.com> <55kdih$4nk@newshost.uni-koblenz.de> <328229A7.2781@aw.sgi.com> Michael Taylor <mtaylor@aw.sgi.com> wrote: > I think that the 3D kit was passed off to the Misc Kit. The Misc Kit is > a bunch of freeware libraries for Objective-C. So, it should still be > available as far as I know. There are two teams working on a re-implementation of the 3DKit: The MiscKit team has got the original 3DKit sources from NeXT and is currently porting it to be OpenStep-compliant. The Vision team at the University of Erlangen is working on "Gnu 3DKit". This project is even a bit more ambitious: They want to extend the Quick RenderMan API, and additionally base the new 3DKit on top of OpenGL. So they have to implement a portable OpenGL system first, but this will have the advantage that you can make use of 3D hardware acceleration, e.g. on the NT platform. You can get more information at http://www.misckit.com/ and http://www.gnustep.org/G3DKit/G3DKit.html Both projects are non-trivial, so it will still take some time before any implementations are really available. Marcel --- Marcel Bresink, University of Koblenz, Institute for Computer Science Rheinau 1, D-56075 Koblenz, Germany, Fon: +49-261-9119-421 Fax: ...-497 Mail: bresink@informatik.uni-koblenz.de (MIME/NeXT accepted) WWW: http://www.uni-koblenz.de/~bresink
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware From: aslater@jocko.bri.hp.com (Al Slater) Subject: Re: HP T4000s Sender: news@bri.hp.com (News User) Message-ID: <E0JrMM.467@bri.hp.com> Date: Fri, 8 Nov 1996 10:25:34 GMT References: <55njhr$d7@niven.ncmi-gsl.com> Organization: Hewlett-Packard Allen Mark (AMark@ncmi-ny.com) wrote: : I just got an HP T4000s tape drive on my Intel box, and it works fine : under Win95. Trying to get it to work with NS 3.3 on the same machine : (dual boot) is problematic. I installed SCSITape 3.2, but /dev/nrst0 does : not respond. Does anyone know if this scsi tape drive is incompatible? : It would be a shame, since it cost $300 and it can handle 4Gb : uncompressed. Hmm. AFAIK that's an unsupported OS. When you say it doesn't respond, are you getting any console errors at all? And do you know what firmware rev. you are using? regards, al (not speaking for HP..)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware From: nkawai@postman.riken.go.jp (Nobuyuki Kawai) Subject: ThinkPad 560 and EtherLink3 (3C589C-TP) Message-ID: <E0Jrpp.35s@postman.riken.go.jp> Sender: news@postman.riken.go.jp (News Administrator) Organization: Institute of Physical & Chemical Research (RIKEN) Saitama,Japan Date: Fri, 8 Nov 1996 10:27:24 GMT I cannot make 3COM EtherLink 3 PC Card (3C589C-TP) work with IBM ThinkPad 560. If I use PCMCIABus driver version 3.33, the system boots with no error messages, but 3C589 does not work. It is actually consistent with the statement in NeXTanswer 1801_PCMCIABud_Driver overview, "Version 3.34 or later is required in order to use the EtherLink III PCMCIA adapter." However, if I replace the PCMCIABus driver with version 3.35 (3.34 is not available on NextAnswers), the system hangs in the boot process while configuring drivers. The last messages on the screen are: .... Display: Mode selected: 800 x 600 @ 60 Hz (RGB:256/8) Registering: Display0 Registering: Beep Registering: en0 en0: auto detecting the network interface en0: defaulting to BNC (here the system halts) The NextAnswer states that with EtherLink3 driver ver 3.33 has the connector selection logic disabled. I configured the connector of 3C589C-TP to RJ045 using the utility provided on 3COM disk on DOS, but it did not help. Booting hangs almost at the same location with the last message being "Registering: en0". The same hardware (ThinkPad 560 and 3C589C-TP) works without any trouble on Windows 95. I would appreciate any help on this problem. The drivers in use are shown below. IBM ThikPad 760ED/560 LCD Display (v3.30) PS/2-Style Mouse (v3.33) 3Com EtherLink III PCMCIA Adapter (v3.33) Adaptec PCMCIA to 6360 SCSI Adapter (v3.32) System Beep Driver (v3.30) PCMCIA Bus Support (v3.35) Intel 824X0 PCI Host Bridge (v3.31) Intel 82365 PCMIA Adapter (v3.31) PCI Bus Support (v3.30) Floppy disk Drive (v3.30) On-Board Serial Ports (v3.30) EIDE and ATAPI Device Controller (v3.31) ISA/EISA Bus Support (v3.31) PS/2-Style Keyboard (v3.30) KAWAI, Nobuyuki (RIKEN)
From: kwiesel@pollux.jura.uni-bonn.de (Konstantin Wiesel) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: low level hd format software? Date: 8 Nov 1996 14:28:48 GMT Organization: RHRZ - University of Bonn (Germany) Message-ID: <55vg30$1q3m@news.rhrz.uni-bonn.de> References: <54qo13$26j@news4.digex.net> <54re2q$50r@news4.digex.net> <551m1i$m66@news.manassas.ibm.com> <Pine.HPP.3.95.961028124535.17411A-100000@hphalle0.informatik.tu-muenchen.de> <554tn2$7bg@sun3.uni-essen.de> <Pine.HPP.3.95.961031130733.22601B-100000@hphalle0.informatik.tu-muenchen.de> Bernhard Scholz <scholz@informatik.tu-muenchen.de> wrote: >An SCSI drive is possible to _map_ out bad sectors and replace them by >good one. This is done completely transparent to the drive user (normally >and OS driver). You won't loose any bit of disk capacity! True only for a limited amount of sectors. In the case that all spare-blocks are used up, you will also see errors and will have to re-format the drive and then loose diskcapacity which is used up by the new spare-blocks. >As far as I know EIDE drives can't do this. > I was told the opposite by a drive reseller. --- Konstantin Wiesel Email:kwiesel@pollux.jura.uni-bonn.de
From: jklein@freon.artificial.com (jon klein) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Anyone ever made a Mac work with a NeXT printer? Date: 8 Nov 96 15:28:48 GMT Organization: University of Massachusetts, Amherst Message-ID: <328351b0.0@news.hampshire.edu> References: <55tuih$1bho@ausnews.austin.ibm.com> davidwr@geocities.com wrote: : I have an opportunity to buy an original NeXT printer (circa 1988) for $50. : If I can get drivers to make it work with my Mac, I'll buy it. : Anybody ever tried this? What was necessary? I guess you mean hooking the mac right up to the printer -- I haven't been able to do that. However, I put netatalk on my sparc, which allows me to print to the sparc as a mac printer. On the sparc, I tell it to be a print server for my NeXT -- the result is that I can print from any mac or unix box on the network, and it's surprisingly fast for that type of bouncing around. I would definitely recommend buying the printer if it's $50 -- they go for about $200 normally. However, unless you've got a next and are going to put it on a network like described above, the NeXT printer will not work with a mac -- the NeXT laser printer was designed only to work with the NeXT. All the PS rendering goes on inside the NeXT, which feeds out a bitmap to be printed, as opposed to most postscript printers which render the postscript themselves. -- -jon klein jklein@freon.artificial.com My cat failed the Turing test miserably.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware From: dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca (David Evans) Subject: Re: Anyone ever made a Mac work with a NeXT printer? Sender: news@novice.uwaterloo.ca (Mr. News) Message-ID: <E0K53z.8vr@novice.uwaterloo.ca> Date: Fri, 8 Nov 1996 15:16:47 GMT References: <55tuih$1bho@ausnews.austin.ibm.com> Organization: University of Waterloo Keywords: NeXT Mac printer driver compatibility help In article <55tuih$1bho@ausnews.austin.ibm.com>, <davidwr@geocities.com> wrote: >I have an opportunity to buy an original NeXT printer (circa 1988) for $50. >If I can get drivers to make it work with my Mac, I'll buy it. > >Anybody ever tried this? What was necessary? > You can do it if you also have a NeXT machine around to drive the printer. There's no way to connect it to a Mac (or anything else, for that matter). -- 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: hguijt@inter.nl.net (Hans Guijt) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.oop.tcl,comp.sys.mac.portables,comp.sys.mac.printing,comp.sys.mac.programmer,comp.sys.mac.programmer.codewarrior,comp.sys.mac.programmer.games,comp.sys.mac.programmer.help,comp.sys.mac.programmer.misc,comp.sys.mac.programmer.tools,comp.sys.mac.scitech,comp.sys.mac.system,comp.sys.mac.wanted,comp.sys.mentor,comp.sys.mips,comp.sys.misc,comp.sys.msx,comp.sys.ncr,comp.sys.newton.misc,comp.sys.newton.programmer,comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.ne Subject: Re: IIIIIIIIII $80 IIIIIIIIII MS OFFICE PROFESSIONAL 95 IIIIIIIIII $80 Date: 07 Nov 96 17:25:44 +0100 Organization: Inter.NL.net, The Internet Provider in The Netherlands. Message-ID: <770.6885T1045T2244@inter.nl.net> References: <E09sos.1uL@fsa.bris.ac.uk> >Microsoft Stock? (But I thought it was MSFT?) >Pak K Yuen (pkyuen@its.brooklyn.cuny.edu) wrote: >: What is a MSX ? Next time around, please direct your questions to comp.sys.msx only. MSX is an 8-bit computer system. It has an exceptionally powerful video processor (for it's day), is powered by a Z80 CPU, was produced by lots of (mostly japanese) companies, and was very popular in some countries: Japan, the Netherlands, Spain, and Brazil come to mind. Nowadays good MSX emulators are available for many platforms, including Amiga, PowerMac, PC-DOS, PC-Windows, and diverse UNIXes. Check out www.freeflight.com (follow links to Marat Fayzullins page and from there to MSX). Lots of excellent software is also available over the net. In short, go for it. Hans
From: ISAAC@PHYSICS.UTEXAS.EDU (Isaac M. Mandelberg) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Where are fuses on printer Re: Problem with NeXT printer not recognizi Date: 8 Nov 1996 18:16:54 GMT Organization: University of Texas (Austin) Physics Dept. Distribution: world Message-ID: <55vtem$n93@geraldo.cc.utexas.edu> References: <55r0pk$s7k@geraldo.cc.utexas.edu> <Pine.SUN.3.95.961106174503.26836B-100000@kira> In-Reply-To: luomat@peak.org's message of Wed, 6 Nov 1996 17:45:57 -0800 Okay. Anybody know where I can find the fuses on a NeXT printer? Michael Mandelberg In <Pine.SUN.3.95.961106174503.26836B-100000@kira> luomat@peak.org writes: < < Have ya fiddled with anything lately? This happened to me when I had not < reconnected a fuse. < < TjL < < ps -- don't forget to clean the air filter now and again.... < < < < On 6 Nov 1996, Isaac M. Mandelberg wrote: < < > Date: 6 Nov 1996 21:43:16 GMT < > From: "Isaac M. Mandelberg" <ISAAC@PHYSICS.UTEXAS.EDU> < > Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware < > Subject: Problem with NeXT printer not recognizing toner cartridge < > < > My NeXT printer thinks it doesn't have a toner cartridge in it. I've < > tried two different cartridges without any luck. Anyone else have this problem? < > < > Any suggestions as to how to fix it? < > < > Thanks < > < > Michael Mandelberg < > < > <
From: "Mark Bessey" <MaRK_BeSSeY@NeXT.CoM> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Anyone ever made a Mac work with a NeXT printer? Date: 8 Nov 1996 18:10:32 GMT Organization: NeXT Software, Inc. Message-ID: <01bbcda1$c91b9f40$3e031281@bananajr> References: <55tuih$1bho@ausnews.austin.ibm.com> You'll never get it to work. The NeXT laser printer uses a proprietary high-speed serial interface. There's no way to hook it up to any other computer. On the other hand, if you can find a cheap NeXTcube to attach it to, they make a pretty decent network print server. -Mark davidwr@geocities.com wrote in article <55tuih$1bho@ausnews.austin.ibm.com>... > I have an opportunity to buy an original NeXT printer (circa 1988) for $50. > If I can get drivers to make it work with my Mac, I'll buy it. > > Anybody ever tried this? What was necessary? > > >
From: mpaque@wco.com (Mike Paquette) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: [Q] Some questions about the Demension Board Speed Date: Sat, 09 Nov 1996 00:34:45 GMT Organization: Electronics Service, Unit No. 16 Message-ID: <560jp9$6dh@news.wco.com> References: <55urm4$ldi@usenet.kornet.nm.kr> ppai@soback.kornet.nm.kr (BongOk Kim (kornet)) wrote: >The Demension board has a i860 RISC processor. >How much fast compare with Pentium or Pentium Pro When I working > Creat, SuperDraw or Virtuoso? It does OK, but a high end Pentium and good PCI bus video card will be faster. It's hard for a 33 Mhz, 1 instruction/clock (except in wonky DSP-like mode), not quite 2 parallel functional unit, explicitly pipelined design that's almost 10 years old to keep up with a 200 MHz, 5 parallel functional unit, implicitly pipelined design from last year. >And I would like know video performance of the Demension board. >Is possible real-time capturing or recording to hard disk? Nope. Live, clipped display or output, and single frame grab. A good grab program can do maybe 3-4 frames a second. Mike Paquette -- I don't speak for my employer, and they don't speak for me.
From: mpaque@wco.com (Mike Paquette) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Connecting a NeXT keyboard to an Intel/Windows Machine - can it be done? Date: Sat, 09 Nov 1996 00:34:37 GMT Organization: Electronics Service, Unit No. 16 Message-ID: <560jp0$6dh@news.wco.com> References: <32819B78.5AAC@running-start.com> Eric Hermanson <eric@running-start.com> wrote: >Subject says it all. Does anyone have information on how this might be >accomplished? Won't work. Wrong signal levels and signalling protocol. Oh, a hard core hacker might do it with some shift registers, latches, and a microcontroller, but it would cost more than a relly good reprogrammable PC keyboard. Mike Paquette -- I don't speak for my employer, and they don't speak for me. mpaque@wco.com mpaque@next.com NeXT business mail only, please
From: mpaque@wco.com (Mike Paquette) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Mix parity RAM with no parity RAM on a slab? Date: Sat, 09 Nov 1996 00:34:33 GMT Organization: Electronics Service, Unit No. 16 Message-ID: <560jot$6dh@news.wco.com> References: <1996Nov4.210913.2475@rdbois.uucp> sr@rdbois.fdn.org (serge_ruby) wrote: >My NeXT 68040 workstation has 16 MB RAM made of 4 x 4MB no parity SIMMS. >I would like to extend it to 32 MB, but the no parity SIMMS are not very >common. >I have 4 x 4MB SIMMS with parity in an old PC (30 pins too). Can I use them in >my slab along with the no-parity ones, or do they have to be all the same ? 30 pin SIMMs implies a system with the non-Turbo chipset. The older chipset doesn't use the parity line, so you can safely mix the parity and non-parity SIMMS. The SIMMs should be installed in banks of 4 identical parts. When installing banks of multiple sizes, put the larger 4 Mbyte SIMMs in the sockets closest to the backplane connector. ROM Trivia: All 68040 ROMs from v63 on print the 'enable parity checking?' question in the ROM preferences setup, even if your system doesn't support parity checking. The code to make the question appear only on parity supporting hardware pushed the ROM past the 128 Kbyte limit! Mike Paquette -- I don't speak for my employer, and they don't speak for me. mpaque@wco.com mpaque@next.com NeXT business mail only, please
From: cwolf@wolfware.com (Christopher Wolf) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Omni PentiumProDriver with Natoma 440FX chipset systems Date: 9 Nov 1996 02:20:33 GMT Organization: Best Internet Communications Message-ID: <560pph$9ua@nntp1.best.com> References: <55obil$1pjn@msunews.cl.msu.edu> <1996Nov8.205857.7553@il.us.swissbank.com> In-Reply-To: <1996Nov8.205857.7553@il.us.swissbank.com> The OmniPentiumPro driver works GREAT on my Intel Venus motherboard with Natoma 440FX chipset and GXE 64 Pro 4M (S3 964) video card. After installing the driver there was a VERY noticable improvement in the speed of window dragging and refreshing. NXBench results improved from 2.6 to 4.9! On 11/08/96, Joseph Yoon wrote: >We've also have had no luck with the Omni driver with Natoma 440FX >systems. It either has no effect on performance or really slow it down to >a crawl. The driver works fine with the older Orion 82450 chipset systems. >There are 3 components involved in the P6 MTRR (Memory Type Range >Register) feature: > > >Stephen J. Perkins writes >> >> Has anyone successfully used the Omni PentiumProDriver with a >> DiamondStealth64 video card? If so, could you please let me know your >> configuration? When I try to load it, my graphics performance drops to >> a crawl. I have sent Omni a detailed email about the problem. >> >> Specifically I have an Intel VS440FX Motherboard with the latest BIOS >> and /usr/adm/messages says: >> Display0: S3 864/964 detected >> Display0: Mode 119 selected: 1280 x 1024 @ 75 Hz (RGB:555/16) >> >> and I run the Latest video driver off of NeXTAnswers (version 3.32). >> >> Regards, >> >> Steve >> > >Magnus Nordborg writes >> Hi, >> >> I have an ASUS P/I-XP6NP5 motherboard with Natoma (440FX) chipset, >> BIOS version 1.03 (nx6i0103.zip), and an 4MB VRAM Elsa. Loading the >> OmniPentiumPro driver slows the system to a crawl. Has anyone managed >to >> get this to work? >> >> Thanks, >> -Magnus >> --
From: paulus@nextdown.pe.utexas.edu (Paulus Adisoemarta) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Question re: zip drives and modem cables Date: 9 Nov 1996 03:34:13 GMT Organization: Petroleum Engineering Dept, U of Texas, Austin Message-ID: <560u3l$3uo@socony.pe.utexas.edu> References: <55p1jq$67g@sjx-ixn9.ix.netcom.com> Cc: In article <55p1jq$67g@sjx-ixn9.ix.netcom.com>, Minuet <minuet@indy.net> wrote: > >Hi! Two quick dumb questions: > >[1] Where can you order a modem cable to connect a NeXTstation to a USRobotics >V.Everything? Last month I went to BestBuy and grab the Macintosh serial cable, that mentioned 'hardware handshaking' on it to connect to a USR Courier. Works fine on my 040 Cube, DTE rate is 57600 bps. Paulus -- Paulus Suryono Adisoemarta, N5SNN / YG1QN yono@parokinet.org n5snn@mail.utexas.edu paulus@nextdown.pe.utexas.edu
From: Matt Eisenberg <meisen@delphi.umd.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Various NeXT hardware questions Date: Fri, 8 Nov 1996 17:19:45 -0500 Organization: University of Maryland, College Park, MD Message-ID: <Pine.ULT.3.95.961108171415.29485A-100000@delphi.umd.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII NeXT'ers: I recently bought a Turbo Slab (N4000B monoitor, adb, 32MB ram, 400MB HD) and am very happy with it. A few questions: (please forgive any stupdity on my part...) 1. The fan seems to be pretty loud. My roomates can hear the slab humming from the living room. Any way to quiet it? 2. When the DSP is active, my picture gets little "wiggly" waves on it. Is this a shielding problem? Right now i have the monitor sitting directly on the slab. 3. Speaking of the DSP, can i do anything cool with this? DSP to Color VGA (ha-ha)? Does anyone sell stuff to plug into it? 4. QuickCams and other digital video cameras. Has anyone tried to get these to work with black hardware? Any help would be great and dandy. Thanks in advance matt
From: Peter Güntzer <peter.guentzer@pn.siemens.de> Newsgroups: alt.journalism.newspapers,alt.tv.newsradio,alt.fan.newt-gingrich,fj.sys.newton,comp.sys.newton.misc,comp.sys.newton.programmer,chinese.newsgroups.newusers,comp.sys.next,fj.sys.next,maus.sys.next,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,comp.soft-sys.nextstep,alt.sex.nfs,comp.protocols.nfs,alt.james.nguygen.gook.faggot,soc.culture.nicaragua,soc.singles.nice Subject: Re: Just try this, it will work Date: Sat, 09 Nov 1996 15:09:46 -0800 Organization: Siemens AG,(Hofmannstr) Munich-Germany-Europe. Distribution: inet Message-ID: <32850F3A.698E@pn.siemens.de> References: <713.051093963906@news.nemonet.com> <glyn.elara-0811961804280001@ppp161.tcom.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Glyn Edwards wrote: > > > Take five minutes to read this and it WILL change your life. > > > > By forwarding that message to me, you have participated in electronic > chain mail, which not only > irritates everyone involved but is also an abuse of the Internet. You have > allowed someone to > exploit you for their purposes. Even worse, you have helped them exploit > even more people and > waste more time, bandwidth, disk space, and money. It's bad enough to be a > victim, but it's worse > to become an accessory. If everyone forwarded every piece of chain mail to > the number of people > requested, normal email delivery would grind to a halt, thanks to the > exponential growth of chain > mail. Please do not ever forward chain mail again." with one word: Netikette... Peter
From: Michel Coste <mic@micmac.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.marketplace,comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Singular Solutions AD64X: still looking for a used one!!! Date: 9 Nov 1996 15:30:31 GMT Organization: Rock It! Message-ID: <56282n$75j@belzebul.imaginet.fr> The title says it all... -- mc ’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’ Michel Coste <mailto:mic@micmac.com> ’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’
From: sugee@imap2.asu.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Best Pure NS PC Suggestion? Date: 10 Nov 1996 00:59:42 GMT Organization: Arizona State University Message-ID: <5639du$ehm@news.asu.edu> Hello Everyone! I am accepting suggestions as to the best pure(high-end) PC that can be either purchased preconfigured, configured with a little modification, or customized. This should be something that provides for at least a 3 year performance window if this is possible at this time. Multiprocessing is something that I am not very interested in at this time and don't see that if will become much of a factor in the next several years, but I am open about this. Therefore, I am looking for primarily a uniprocessor system. I have been looking at HP's XW configured as follows and with a few added thing: * 4.2 GB SCSI II HD * 128 MB of RAM out of a possible 512 MB * 12 X CD-ROM SCSI II Drive (non-standard feature) * LS-120 MB Floppy Drive (non-standard feature) * Maximum Video at 8 MB RAM Getting a system which offers the highest possible performance, integration, quality of parts, warranty and support are key factors. Your recommendations and suggestions are welcomed. Kind Regards- Sue
From: Winners of Washington Director <winners@pobox.com> Newsgroups: alt.journalism.newspapers,alt.tv.newsradio,alt.fan.newt-gingrich,fj.sys.newton,comp.sys.newton.misc,comp.sys.newton.programmer,chinese.newsgroups.newusers,comp.sys.next,fj.sys.next,maus.sys.next,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,comp.soft-sys.nextstep,alt.sex.nfs,comp.protocols.nfs,alt.james.nguygen.gook.faggot,soc.culture.nicaragua,soc.singles.nice Subject: Re: Just try this, it will work Date: Sat, 09 Nov 1996 13:28:28 -0800 Organization: Winners of Washington Distribution: inet Message-ID: <3284F77C.7B44@pobox.com> References: <713.051093963906@news.nemonet.com> <glyn.elara-0811961804280001@ppp161.tcom.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Glyn Edwards <glyn.elara@technocom.com> Glyn Edwards wrote: > > > Take five minutes to read this and it WILL change your life. > > > > By forwarding that message to me, you have participated in electronic > chain mail, which not only > irritates everyone involved but is also an abuse of the Internet. You have > allowed someone to > exploit you for their purposes. Even worse, you have helped them exploit > even more people and > waste more time, bandwidth, disk space, and money. It's bad enough to be a > victim, but it's worse > to become an accessory. If everyone forwarded every piece of chain mail to > the number of people > requested, normal email delivery would grind to a halt, thanks to the > exponential growth of chain > mail. Please do not ever forward chain mail again." Yeah, and it wasn't even very nice! -- From the desk of Ron in Seattle! KC7SQC Visit Seattle Counseling Information: http://pobox.com/~sci
From: shess@one.net (Scott Hess) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Various NeXT hardware questions Date: 9 Nov 96 20:35:34 Organization: Is a sign of weakness Message-ID: <SHESS.96Nov9203534@howard.one.net> References: <Pine.ULT.3.95.961108171415.29485A-100000@delphi.umd.edu> In-reply-to: Matt Eisenberg's message of Fri, 8 Nov 1996 17:19:45 -0500 In article <Pine.ULT.3.95.961108171415.29485A-100000@delphi.umd.edu>, Matt Eisenberg <meisen@delphi.umd.edu> writes: I recently bought a Turbo Slab (N4000B monoitor, adb, 32MB ram, 400MB HD) and am very happy with it. A few questions: (please forgive any stupdity on my part...) 1. The fan seems to be pretty loud. My roomates can hear the slab humming from the living room. Any way to quiet it? It's probably not the fan - it's probably the 400M drive. I have (had) one of these, and it was _loud_. Listen right near the floppy, if it sounds loud ... you can likely replace it with a 1Gig drive, no problem, but I would post to see if any has had problems with particular drives before spending the money. You'll usually be safe with a Seagate or a Quantum, at least as far as compatibility is concerned. Later, -- scott hess <shess@one.net> 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
From: shess@one.net (Scott Hess) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Split this newsgroup into BLACK and WHITE subgroups?? Date: 9 Nov 96 20:44:13 Organization: Is a sign of weakness Message-ID: <SHESS.96Nov9204413@howard.one.net> References: <E0K8LM.2u@midway.uchicago.edu> In-reply-to: tachang@gsbux1.uchicago.edu's message of Fri, 8 Nov 1996 16:32:09 GMT In article <E0K8LM.2u@midway.uchicago.edu>, tachang@gsbux1.uchicago.edu (Andrew Chang) writes: I think this may have been discussed before. I just think that BLACK and WHITE hardwares are not much related and shoud be separated. Any support down there? What! comp.sys.next.* already has more groups per installed copy than any other system on the net! Heck, NeXTSTEP already has 9 groups (10, if you include comp.soft-sys.nextstep), while Linux only has 11. I hardly think adding another group will help our ratio. It's not like there isn't a _significant_ amount of overlap between NeXT hardware and non-NeXT hardware. Most questions here are about non-NeXT hardware anyhow, because we all know that black hardware "Just Works". :-). Later, -- scott hess <shess@one.net> 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
From: YoungHoon Kil <ppai@soback.kornet.nm.kr> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Various NeXT hardware questions Date: Sun, 10 Nov 1996 12:48:07 +0900 Organization: KORNET Message-ID: <3285506A.D0E@soback.kornet.nm.kr> References: <Pine.ULT.3.95.961108171415.29485A-100000@delphi.umd.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=euc-kr Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Matt Eisenberg <meisen@delphi.umd.edu> writes: >4. QuickCams and other digital video cameras. Has anyone tried to get >these to work with black hardware? Maby, the following old document will some help you. YoungHoon Kil ppai@soback.kornet.nm.kr (Cyberdog, Voice Mail OK) http://soback.kornet.nm.kr/~ppai (NEXTSTEP News written by Korean) ====================================== Wed, 07 Aug 1996 15:29:01 comp.sys.next.misc Re: Connectix Quickcam Idea neal@s2.sonnet.com Joshua B. Neal at SONNET Networking - Central Valley & Foot In <4u7je8$al@mojo.eng.umd.edu> Michael D. Nickle wrote: > I was just thinking about how great it would be if I could get video into > my slab. Then I remembered that my quickcam has a din-8 connector just > like my slab. Does anyone know what would be involved in creating the > software (or if anyone has created software) to get these two to work > together? Any comments or questions furthering the idea are apprec. > > -- > _____________________________________________________________________________ > Michael D. Nickle || Bob Dole sings, are ya listening? > nickle@Glue.umd.edu || Step outside, his head is glistening. > www.glue.umd.edu/~nickle || We're happy tonight..walking in a Dole > || Wonderland.... > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Check out http://www.crynwr.com/qcpc/ Some Linux/FreeBSD types have managed to write drivers for the PC version of the QuickCam.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware From: Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Subject: Re: Incomplete SCSI transfers Message-ID: <E0M75K.6p0@nidat.sub.org> Sender: nitezki@nidat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany References: <Pine.OSF.3.95.961105204741.1832B-100000@saul1.u.washington.edu> Date: Sat, 9 Nov 1996 17:56:08 GMT In article <Pine.OSF.3.95.961105204741.1832B-100000@saul1.u.washington.edu> Ray Stricklin <kjaeros@u.washington.edu> writes: Most likely (to an extent that I'd bet on it) the Micropolis is set to SCSI-2 which black hardware doesn"t support. You must set it to SCSI-1, asynch and it'll run fine. A very old FAQ, of course ;-) > Hey; > > I had a spare 760 meg Micropolis 1588-15 disk left after upgrading > my Solaris/intel box, and I thought I'd replace the old 330 meg CDC in > my NeXTcube, which is running NS 3.0. > > I backed up the old drive across the network and made a NEXTSTEP > recovery OD, pulled the old drive, put in the new, and fired up the box. > Entering the workspace caused a 'drive not initialized' dialog box to > come up, which I expected. > > However, what I did not expect was to see 'incomplete SCSI > transfer' error messages bombard the console. In short, no disk > initialization operations succeeded, neither from 'bod -s', nor from > allowing it to boot fully from the optical disk and using BuildDisk.app > to create the disk. > > sdform will format the disk fine. scsimodes returns useful > information, from which I attempted to build a disktab entry that ended > up not helping anything anyway. > > The disk -does- use 512 byte sectors, but from reading > NeXTanswers, I am lead to believe that this is not near the problem I > thought it might from reading the comments in /etc/disktab. > -- 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: CD-ROM and NeXTSTEP/OPENSTEP Message-ID: <E0M7xE.6py@nidat.sub.org> Sender: nitezki@nidat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany References: <1.5.4.32.19961107071637.0066930c@istsan.interbusiness.it> Date: Sat, 9 Nov 1996 18:12:50 GMT In article <1.5.4.32.19961107071637.0066930c@istsan.interbusiness.it> writes: > My CD-ROM NEC 210 is dead, I have buy a Pioneer 10X and this work > well > > But, because the OS check the CD-ROM all second to see if in the > drive there is a CD, I'm afraid that my CD-ROM break in this manner. > On the other hand if I put always CD on the drive, I'm afraid to > stress the drive. > This doesn't make any sense to me! What kind of system is supposed to have such a behaviour? My black machines never ever did such strange things to me. I guess you're runnig some strange software that reads some files/directories periodically. Or is this some crappy PC controller card problem? > What is better for life of my CD-ROM? An CD always in the drive or > the OS that check the drive for a CD all second. > > I don't would that my new drive dead how the previous after only > seven months, even if it were used sparingly. > -- 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: Anyone ever made a Mac work with a NeXT printer? Message-ID: <E0M80y.6qM@nidat.sub.org> Sender: nitezki@nidat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany References: <55tuih$1bho@ausnews.austin.ibm.com> Date: Sat, 9 Nov 1996 18:14:57 GMT In article <55tuih$1bho@ausnews.austin.ibm.com> davidwr@geocities.com writes: > I have an opportunity to buy an original NeXT printer (circa 1988) for > $50. If I can get drivers to make it work with my Mac, I'll buy it. > > Anybody ever tried this? What was necessary? > No way, never! -- Peter Nitezki | Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org # Blessed art thou who knoweth Staarenbergstr. 44 | Tel.: +49 7251 62495 # not about the pleasure and D-76703 Kraichtal | Fax : +49 7251 69215 # delight of being hooked GERMANY | E-mail defunct, sorry # up to the Net. Peter 1,3-5
From: frank@this.net (Frank M. Siegert) Newsgroups: comp.hardware,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.video,comp.sys.amiga.hardware,comp.sys.mac.hardware.video,comp.sys.mac.hardware,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.sun.hardware Subject: Re: NeXT MegaPixel display on other platforms? Date: 8 Nov 1996 17:04:19 GMT Organization: NO ORGANIZATION, INC. Message-ID: <55vp6j$ag9@bias.ipc.uni-tuebingen.de> References: <Pine.BSF.3.95.961105171634.28091A-100000@web1.calweb.com> Cc: abiogen@abiogenesis.com In <Pine.BSF.3.95.961105171634.28091A-100000@web1.calweb.com> abiogenesis wrote: > > I have two NeXT monitors that I'd love to be able to use on other > machines. Is it possible to use these monitors on Amigas? Macs? PCs? > > One is a Greyscale MegaPixel 17" Display from a NeXTStation mono. > The other is a Color MegaPixel 17" Display from a Color NeXTStation. > > Both have 13W3-type cable pinout which is standard for NeXT and Sun > workstations. > I don't think you can use the Grayscale MegaPixel at anything else than a NeXT machine (maybe you should try to sell it as replacement for the people hurt by the DMD (dimming monitor desease)). However you should be able to connect the color monitor to a PC or other system if you can set the video hardware to its fixed frequency AND mix the Vsync and HSync signal in the Green channel (some video cards can do this for you, for others you have to build a mixer... see the Sync-On-Green.FAQ (Ask a Web search machine for 'sync-on-green')). - Frank -- * Frank M. Siegert [frank@this.net] - Home http://www.this.net * NeXTSTEP, Linux, BeOS & PostScript Guy
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware From: tachang@gsbux1.uchicago.edu (Andrew Chang) Subject: Split this newsgroup into BLACK and WHITE subgroups?? Message-ID: <E0K8LM.2u@midway.uchicago.edu> Sender: news@midway.uchicago.edu (News Administrator) Organization: GSB, University of Chicago Date: Fri, 8 Nov 1996 16:32:09 GMT I think this may have been discussed before. I just think that BLACK and WHITE hardwares are not much related and shoud be separated. Any support down there?
From: Shea@signalinc.com (Shea Tisdale) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: New to Next Date: 8 Nov 1996 18:32:46 GMT Organization: Signal Interactive Sender: Shea@0.0.0.0 Message-ID: <55vuce$9eg@redstone.interpath.net> I'm pretty new to NeXT machines. How many different varieties are there? Is there a FAQ that could answer some questions? What kind of RAM does an 040 cube use?
From: mercer@risky.BLaCKSMITH.com (Quinten Mercer) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: ATI Graphics XPression ISA W/2MB support? Date: 8 Nov 1996 16:16:01 GMT Organization: BLaCKSMITH, Inc. Message-ID: <55vmc1$7rq@BLaCKSMITH.com> Does anyone know if the ATI Graphics XPression ISA is supported by NS 3.3 on an Intel Box? If so where can I get the drivers? If not, can someone recomend an ISA video card W/ 1MB or 2MB for around $100 that will work with the above configuration? Quinten Mercer. email: Quitnen_Mercer@BLaCKSMITH.com
From: Will Newton <wnewton@trinity.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Colorstation For Sale! Date: 7 Nov 1996 20:17:24 GMT Organization: Trinity University Message-ID: <55tg4k$2sv@neptune.cs.trinity.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit All, I need to move my NeXT Colorstation soon... here's the config: 25MHz 040/25MHz DSP 32MB RAM, 400MB HD 21" MegaPixel Display 400dpi NeXT Laser Non-ADB Keyboard, Mouse, Sound Box NEXTSTEP 3.3 Installed, CDs for NEXTSTEP, NS Developer, Enterprise Objects Framework, Stone Design Apps (3D Reality, Create, Dataphile), Lighthouse Design Apps (WetPaint, Concurrence, OmniWeb), some Demo CDs and all Manuals. Much of the 3rd Party software is liscensed. I'd like $1100 or reasonable offers... contact me at wnewton@trinity.edu. First bid over $1000 gets it. Regards Will
From: ccoffin@slate.Mines.EDU ( 3032799202) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Suggestions for Black Upgrades Date: 7 Nov 1996 19:35:10 GMT Organization: Colorado School of Mines Message-ID: <55tdle$tgu@magma.Mines.EDU> Hi! I'm currently thinking of updating my old ND system (16MB for CPU - non-turbo, parity) and 8MB on the ND card. I also am looking for a new SCSI drive (I have an enclosure that can handle the 5" size). Can anybody give me any vendors that would sell 100ns parity memory for the cube and 80ns interleaved memory for the ND. I want to upgrade to a 32MB/32MB system. Also any good suggestions for a new SCSI Hard Drive? Thanks, ccoffin@mines.edu .
From: shultzb@cvn.net Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: MONITOR HELP NEEDED Date: 10 Nov 1996 08:56:24 -0800 Organization: Zippo Message-ID: <5651fo$c9@clark.zippo.com> I hope someone can help me. I have a NeXTstation color and 17" color monitor. The monitor was built in 1992. It has convergence problems. But around 6 months ago it started having problems showing an image just after booting, until it "warmed up" for around 5 minutes. Before displaying anything, it would just be blank--like it is when turned off. Recently we had a power outage while I was using the NeXT. I have been unable to get an image on the moniotr since. By the chattering I hear from the slab after turning it on, I think it is booting properly--just the monitor will not show an image, even after letting it warm up for a half hour. Would anyone be able to help me? How do I fix this? Do I have to send it to someone to fix it? Who? Would it be cheaper to just buy another one? All help will be very much appreciated. Thanks, Beverly Shultz
From: "David N. Williams" <David.N.Williams@umich.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Various NeXT hardware questions Date: Sun, 10 Nov 1996 14:35:03 -0500 Organization: UM Physics Dept. Message-ID: <32862E65.28A5@umich.edu> References: <Pine.ULT.3.95.961108171415.29485A-100000@delphi.umd.edu> <E0nHL8.710@nidat.sub.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Peter Nitezki wrote: > > In article <Pine.ULT.3.95.961108171415.29485A-100000@delphi.umd.edu> Matt > Eisenberg <meisen@delphi.umd.edu> writes: > > NeXT'ers: > > > > I recently bought a Turbo Slab (N4000B monoitor, adb, 32MB ram, > > 400MB HD) and am very happy with it. A few questions: (please > > forgive any stupdity on my part...) > > > You're welcome. > > > 1. The fan seems to be pretty loud. My roomates can hear the slab > > humming from the living room. Any way to quiet it? > > > Sort of. You could buy a matching temperature controlled fan and exchange > it against the factory installed model. But I question your assessment > about the noise coming from the fan. Most likely it's the hard disk. The > mounting bracket was not exactly well engineered, noisewise, at least ;-) > Hard core low noise freaks remove the disk drive and put it in an external > enclosure. This doesn't jibe with our experience with 8 NeXTstations, 2 of which are turbo's. The hard drives in 3 out of 4 are simply inaudible, even after several years, and the other two are quiet. I'd say, if the hard drive is making a loud whine, maybe its bearings are about to go. --David _ _________________________________________________________________ (_\(__ _|__) David N. Williams Phone: 1-(313)-764-5236 __|___ University of Michigan Fax: 1-(313)-763-2213 \ |:-) Physics Department Email: David.N.Williams@umich.edu \| Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1120
From: bnd00796@aol.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: $ 295.00 - NeXTstation w/N4000B Monitor !!!! Date: 10 Nov 1996 07:30:58 GMT Organization: America Online, Inc. (1-800-827-6364) (1.10) Sender: news@aol.com Message-ID: <19961110073300.CAA01879@ladder01.news.aol.com> References: <327e3381.20404987@news.daka.com> ...anyone buy one of these machines? Anyone have any problems, etc.? Just curious. ;)
From: zbeckman@hondo.cyberverse.com (Zacharias Beckman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Do OPENSTEP 4.0's serial ports work (ISDN w/ NeXT)? Date: 10 Nov 1996 06:35:41 GMT Organization: Cyberverse Online (310-643-3783) Sender: zac@dreams.com Message-ID: <563t3t$2mf@rodelo.cyberverse.com> I'm trying to set up an OPENSTEP 4.0 system to use an external ISDN modem. I'm running into two really nasty problems (this is disgusting--so far, our Windows95 system has proven a better gateway that OPENSTEP--I can't believe this is happening)! 1. Serial ports don't work Obviously a show-stopper. Has anyone gotten serial ports to work on an OPENSTEP Intel system? Whenever I try to access the ports, I get "no such device" errors. At boot time it looks like the device has been properly detected and configured. The device file (/dev/cu[f]a) exists and has the right permissions... 2. Serial port speed From the documentation, it looks like OPENSTEP's maximum serial speed is going to be around 19K or 36K. This is rediculous. The port is rated at 250K, and the ISDN modem operates at that speed as well--is there no way to use a high-performance serial port with OPENSTEP??? Any suggestions or comments are appreciated! Please respond via email to zac@dreams.com. Thank you! Zacharias zac@dreams.com
From: YoungHoon Kil <ppai@soback.kornet.nm.kr> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: [Q] Search for 1280x1024x32bit or higher graphics card Date: Sun, 10 Nov 1996 15:35:44 +0900 Organization: KORNET Message-ID: <32857797.7A09@soback.kornet.nm.kr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=euc-kr Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit [Q] Search for 1280x1024x32bit or higher graphics card Is there some graphics card supports 1280x1024x32bit or higher for NEXTSTEP 3.3 and OPENSTEP 4.1? I want to get the graphics cards list. Anyone know of any such graphics cards? Thanks a lot in advance. YoungHoon Kil ppai@soback.kornet.nm.kr (Cyberdog, Voice Mail OK) http://soback.kornet.nm.kr/~ppai (NEXTSTEP News written by Korean)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,biz.comp.hardware,comp.linux.setup,comp.soft-sys.nextstep,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.chips,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.misc,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,fido.0-alles_um_den_computer,fido.linux.ger,fras.text.hardware,hannover.uni.comp.linux,maus.sys.next,t-netz.linux,z-netz.alt.linux From: tom ring <tar@pclink.com> Subject: Re: NEXT LINUX-IBM or CYRIX Message-ID: <328648F8.572D@pclink.com> Date: Sun, 10 Nov 1996 15:28:24 -0600 References: <6KYdHWxqCxB@maroudas.on-line.leine.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Maroudas, Xenios wrote: > > Hobbingen (Hannover) 09 Nov 96 Sa > > Hey > > until the next months i want to buy a new computer to work with > Open Step and Linux. > so i want to now if there are any problems when i get a On the CPU front, I have had very good results with a Cyrix 6x86-120 (150+). It compiles the kernel faster and runs X faster than my Pentium (TM) 133 at work. I would estimate (mileage may vary) that it runs Linux about 50% faster than the P133. I have found no compatibility problems, so far. The posts about the FPU are correct, it's not as fast as a Pentium(TM) at floating point, but it's fast enough for anything that I do. And I do a lot of antenna CAD design. My problem with processors lately is that the antenna optimizers are too quick to control, no matter whose you're using. tom WA2PHW
From: pinkse@shazam.econ.ubc.ca (Joris Pinkse) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: HELP! problems with IOMEGA JAZ Date: 10 Nov 1996 21:39:37 GMT Organization: Dept. of Economics - University of British Columbia Message-ID: <565i2p$k70@nntp.ucs.ubc.ca> Hi Folks, I have some problems with an IOMEGA JAZ disk. When I try to format it, it gives me something like Request Sense command failed ioctl(SDIOCSRQ): I/O error When booting I often get "Unexpected 2nd TUR sense data on SCSI ID 1." Does anyone have any idea on what causes this and how I can correct this? Thanks a bundle! Joris
From: jon@mgmt.purdue.edu (Jon Haveman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: 21" Megapixel monitors - do they dim? Date: 10 Nov 1996 14:07:40 GMT Organization: Purdue University Message-ID: <564njc$jod@mozo.cc.purdue.edu> Are 21" megapixel monitors subject to the same dimming that the 17" monitors are? Thanks. -- 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)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,biz.comp.hardware,comp.linux.setup,comp.soft-sys.nextstep,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.chips,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.misc,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,fido.0-alles_um_den_computer,fido.linux.ger,fras.text.hardware,hannover.uni.comp.linux,maus.sys.next,t-netz.linux,z-netz.alt.linux Message-ID: <6KYdHWxqCxB@maroudas.on-line.leine.de> From: X.Maroudas@on-line.leine.de (Maroudas, Xenios) Organization: Maroudas X. Subject: NEXT LINUX-IBM or CRIX Date: Sat, 09 Nov 1996 12:49:00 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Hobbingen (Hannover) 09 Nov 96 Sa Hey until the next months i want to buy a new computer to work with Open Step and Linux. so i want to now if there are any problems when i get a Gigabyte 568 HX with a IBM 6x86 P150 or P166 or it is better to get a intel CPU so on i want to now which Soundcarts, VGA Carts, Harddisks, Motherboards and SCSI carts are recommendable whith this software!! Thanks for help in answers!! - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ** X.Maroudas ** E-Mail XXO@Jumbo1-h.leine.de X.Maroudas@ON-Line.leine.de 8-) :-) ;-) X-) 8-O :-O ;-O X-O ++ Wenn ich deinen Hals berühre deinen Mund zu meinem fuehre ++ ++ ach wie sehne ich mich nach dir du geliebte Flasche Bier ++ ## CrossPoint v3.11 ##
From: tg@chmsr.gatech.edu (T. Govindaraj) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Inkjet printer on Sparc5 running NS 3.3 Date: 10 Nov 1996 14:56:46 GMT Organization: Center for Human-Machine Systems Research - Georgia Tech Distribution: world Message-ID: <564qfe$e1n@smash.gatech.edu> I would like to buy and install an inkjet printer on a Sparcstation 5 running NEXTSTEP 3.3. I guess I need to buy the rather expensive parallel cable from Sun too. Once I have the cable and the printer, how difficult is it to make it all work? I also would like to use the printer with Solaris 2.5 and possibly Linux (on different disks, of course). Any advice and suggestions, especially from people who have this working on their machines will be greatly appreciated. Also, if you have a preference or suggestion for an inkjet printer to buy, I would appreciate hearing about that too. Thank you very much. T. Govindaraj, Georgia Tech, 765 Ferst Drive, Atlanta, GA 30332-0205, USA. http://www.isye.gatech.edu/faculty/T_Govindaraj, +1 404 894 3873
From: dwright1@voicenet.com (Darren Wright) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: [Q] Some questions about the Demension Board Speed Date: 10 Nov 1996 15:00:54 GMT Organization: Voicenet - Internet Access - (215)674-9290 Message-ID: <564qn6$6lp@news1.voicenet.com> References: <55urm4$ldi@usenet.kornet.nm.kr> Wasn't there a JPEG daughterboard that would allow you you capture frames faster than 5fps? -Darren BongOk Kim (kornet) (ppai@soback.kornet.nm.kr) wrote: : [Q] Some questions about the Demension Board Speed. : The Demension board has a i860 RISC processor. : How much fast compare with Pentium or Pentium Pro When I working : Creat, SuperDraw or Virtuoso? : And I would like know video performance of the Demension board. : Is possible real-time capturing or recording to hard disk? : Thanks, : YoungHoon Kil : ppai@soback.kornet.nm.kr (Cyberdog, Voice Mail OK) : http://soback.kornet.nm.kr/~ppai
From: Salvo@AccessOne .COM (Marc Salvatori) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: HELP! problems with IOMEGA JAZ Date: 11 Nov 1996 02:13:28 GMT Organization: AccessOne Message-ID: <566248$8c4@kanga.accessone.com> References: <565i2p$k70@nntp.ucs.ubc.ca> Cc: pinkse@shazam.econ.ubc.ca In <565i2p$k70@nntp.ucs.ubc.ca> Joris Pinkse wrote: > Request Sense command failed > ioctl(SDIOCSRQ): I/O error > > When booting I often get > > "Unexpected 2nd TUR sense data on SCSI ID 1." > > Does anyone have any idea on what causes this and how I can correct this? Just recently, my month-old Jaz drive began giving me "sense" errors whenever I tried to low-level format a disk. I suspect that my drive, as well as yours, is flawed. Is the head movement, for such erros, making unusual noises like mine? -- >< Marc J. Salvatori | >< >< mailto:salvo@accessone.com | MIME & NeXTMail are accepted ><
From: frank@this.net (Frank M. Siegert) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Dimension video hardware (Part Two: "The mist clears - there are the chips...") Date: 11 Nov 1996 02:14:26 GMT Organization: NO ORGANIZATION, INC. Message-ID: <566262$l18@bias.ipc.uni-tuebingen.de> Repairing a Dimension Card (Part Two: "The mist clears - there are the chips...") Howdy! After much hard work and some educated guessing I have now figured out what chips make up the video input of my still defect dimension card and what these little buggers are doing. If your NeXT system breaks due to high voltage on the input lines or similar disasterous events maybe the following information will be helpful: The video input section of a NeXT Dimension card (PAL) is made of - some Valor ST3983 (8 lead small outline) these are most likely transformers/filters to keep HF from entering the video section. (Has anyone out there some data sheets?) - Philips TDA8709T (28 lead small outline, wide) 32 MHz bandwidth video analog input interface - Philips TDA8708T (28 lead small outline, wide) 8 bit video Analog Digital Converter with a bandwidth of 32MHz. - Phillips SAA7191B digital multistandard decoder You see the card only has a single A/D converter and the analog input interface seems to be in charge to switch the input channels (Mike: Feel free to correct me if I say something wrong...), separate the signal in the C/Y domain and feed the A/D converter. If something breaks it is IMHO most likely this analog input interface, so I am now on the quest to find these chips. ... to be continued ... -- * Frank M. Siegert [frank@this.net] - Home http://www.this.net * NeXTSTEP, Linux, BeOS & PostScript Guy
From: Brian Sutherland <rmaniac@onramp.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Is it possible Date: Sun, 10 Nov 1996 09:18:06 -0600 Organization: Onramp Technologies Message-ID: <3285F22E.10@onramp.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Is it passible to put more than one ND board in a NeXTCube and have them all display different things? Brian rmaniac@onramp.net
From: mrbill@texas.net (Bill Bradford) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Various NeXT hardware questions Date: 11 Nov 1996 02:58:41 GMT Organization: Texas Networking, Inc. Message-ID: <5664p1$63r@news2.texas.net> References: <Pine.ULT.3.95.961108171415.29485A-100000@delphi.umd.edu> <E0nHL8.710@nidat.sub.org> <32862E65.28A5@umich.edu> David N. Williams (David.N.Williams@umich.edu) wrote: : This doesn't jibe with our experience with 8 NeXTstations, 2 of which : are turbo's. The hard drives in 3 out of 4 are simply inaudible, even : after several years, and the other two are quiet. I'd say, if the hard : drive is making a loud whine, maybe its bearings are about to go. : --David Loud HD here too - the NeXTStation is louder than the *PDP-11/23+* sitting next to it! 8-) bill -- bill bradford system admin, unix geek, super hero, BOFH mrbill@texas.net texas networking, inc. http://www.texas.net -------------------------------------------------------------------------- "It's important to remember that the creatures of the night aren't simply the people of the day staying up late because they think that makes them cool and interesting. It takes a lot more than heavy makeup and a pale complexion to cross the divide." - Terry Pratchett, _Soul Music_
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware From: Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Subject: Re: Various NeXT hardware questions Message-ID: <E0nHL8.710@nidat.sub.org> Sender: nitezki@nidat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany References: <Pine.ULT.3.95.961108171415.29485A-100000@delphi.umd.edu> Date: Sun, 10 Nov 1996 10:39:08 GMT In article <Pine.ULT.3.95.961108171415.29485A-100000@delphi.umd.edu> Matt Eisenberg <meisen@delphi.umd.edu> writes: > NeXT'ers: > > I recently bought a Turbo Slab (N4000B monoitor, adb, 32MB ram, > 400MB HD) and am very happy with it. A few questions: (please > forgive any stupdity on my part...) > You're welcome. > 1. The fan seems to be pretty loud. My roomates can hear the slab > humming from the living room. Any way to quiet it? > Sort of. You could buy a matching temperature controlled fan and exchange it against the factory installed model. But I question your assessment about the noise coming from the fan. Most likely it's the hard disk. The mounting bracket was not exactly well engineered, noisewise, at least ;-) Hard core low noise freaks remove the disk drive and put it in an external enclosure. > 2. When the DSP is active, my picture gets little "wiggly" waves > on it. Is this a shielding problem? Right now i have the monitor > sitting directly on the slab. > Not an EMC issue of the enclosure, IMHO. Underneath the plastic sits a heavy duty alu-magnesia cover structure. But you could try to place the display as far away from the box as the cables will let you. Just for a try... > 3. Speaking of the DSP, can i do anything cool with this? DSP to > Color VGA (ha-ha)? Does anyone sell stuff to plug into it? > Get the SoundKit from the usual archives (Peak, Peanuts), for instance. And there were A/D converters like DigitalEars, TTY extenders like ttydsp, The mix mini-CTI, and several more. > 4. QuickCams and other digital video cameras. Has anyone tried > to get these to work with black hardware? > Not to my knowledge. -- 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: Salvo@AccessOne .COM (Marc Salvatori) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Jaz Drive: Good Gone Bad? Date: 11 Nov 1996 02:32:54 GMT Organization: AccessOne Message-ID: <56638m$8c4@kanga.accessone.com> My Jaz drive is the third scsi device, with an ID of 4. A month ago, I successfully formatted six disks with this new drive using 'sdformat -v -i4 -f'. Today I tried formatting four more disks, and only successfully(and with difficulty) formatted one of them. Another one errored out(complaining about sense mode) while formatting, whether I used 'sdformat -v -i4 -f' or 'sdform /dev/rsd2a'; 'scsimodes /dev/rsd2a' works fine. My first attempt at formatting the other two failed disks produced audibly unuasual disk activity; thereafter, the Jaz drive could no longer load either of these two disk(ie, the amber light remained on solid), forcing me to power down the drive and physically remove the disk(because the eject button failed to work) via the emergency eject hole. The drive continues to read the good disks without issue. Before I a warranty claim, I thought I'd curry some observations and ideas. -- >< Marc J. Salvatori | >< >< mailto:salvo@accessone.com | MIME & NeXTMail are accepted ><
From: stefanos@Vir.com (Stefanos Kiakas) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: HP T4000s Date: 11 Nov 1996 00:18:33 -0500 Organization: Communications Vir, Internet Access Montreal. Message-ID: <566cv9$kt0@Vir.com> References: <55njhr$d7@niven.ncmi-gsl.com> I have a HP tape backup system (C1533A) that I perform backups on. I had trouble using it it with BusLogic 946C, but no problems with Adaptec 2940 SCSI controller. I haven't had the time to figure out why? stef Allen Mark (AMark@ncmi-ny.com) wrote: : I just got an HP T4000s tape drive on my Intel box, and it works fine : under Win95. Trying to get it to work with NS 3.3 on the same machine : (dual boot) is problematic. I installed SCSITape 3.2, but /dev/nrst0 does : not respond. Does anyone know if this scsi tape drive is incompatible? : It would be a shame, since it cost $300 and it can handle 4Gb : uncompressed. : Allen
From: kline@news.CS.Arizona.EDU (Nick Kline) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.chips,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.systems Subject: need to upgrade nice super eisa motherbard to work with win/95 Date: 11 Nov 1996 01:50:12 -0700 Organization: University of Arizona CS Department, Tucson AZ Message-ID: <566pc4$fa0@cheltenham.CS.Arizona.EDU> I have a nice super eisa motherboard. I used to use it to run nextstep. nextstep can be persnicity, but it worked just fine on this system, so I figured that it would run anything. Especially mainstream stuff like win/95. Now I bought a p6 system for nextstep, and I'm going to give my old system to my mom. I wanted to try win/95. Win/95 won't boot on my system. I can run the initial install, which copies stuff to the hard drive, then when it rebootsd, it dies when it is checking out the hardware. The motherbaord has the ami bios. How can I find a replacement bios? Nice motherboards were made by this company in california called lion computers. They appear to be defunt. Anyone have any information? thanks, nick kline kline@cs.arizona.edu
From: Joakim Johansson <jocke@rat.se> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Omni PentiumProDriver with Natoma 440FX chipset systems Date: 11 Nov 1996 09:17:28 GMT Organization: Research & Trade AB Distribution: world Message-ID: <566qv8$pg1@baldwin.rat.se> References: <560pph$9ua@nntp1.best.com> This is interesting - we've tried it with a Intel VS440FX motherboard (latest bios), Matrox Millenium (4MB, latest bios) and using the same settings as FASTVID uses in DOS (which works, and gives a nice speed improvment for certain non-mission critical applications.... ;-) ). We get the same problem, the system goes to a crawl... (and using the "autodetect" feature, the driver doesn't initialize properly...) The only difference I can think of is that it's an OS machine, not a NS one. (which shouldn't matter I guess) It's nice to see that there's still some people out there hacking together some stuff for NS - a large thanks to the guys at Omni... It'd be intersting to hear what kind of system configurations people have that has this working. Anyone at Omni that has any guess what differences between slow-down configurations and workings ones? Cheers, Joakim -- Joakim Johansson Software Developer, Research & Trade jocke@rat.se <NeXTmail, MIME> http://www.rat.se/ From: cwolf@wolfware.com (Christopher Wolf) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Omni PentiumProDriver with Natoma 440FX chipset systems Date: 9 Nov 1996 02:20:33 GMT Organization: Best Internet Communications The OmniPentiumPro driver works GREAT on my Intel Venus motherboard with Natoma 440FX chipset and GXE 64 Pro 4M (S3 964) video card. After installing the driver there was a VERY noticable improvement in the speed of window dragging and refreshing. NXBench results improved from 2.6 to 4.9! On 11/08/96, Joseph Yoon wrote: >We've also have had no luck with the Omni driver with Natoma 440FX >systems. It either has no effect on performance or really slow it down to >a crawl. The driver works fine with the older Orion 82450 chipset systems. >There are 3 components involved in the P6 MTRR (Memory Type Range >Register) feature: > > >Stephen J. Perkins writes >> >> Has anyone successfully used the Omni PentiumProDriver with a >> DiamondStealth64 video card? If so, could you please let me know your >> configuration? When I try to load it, my graphics performance drops to >> a crawl. I have sent Omni a detailed email about the problem. >> >> Specifically I have an Intel VS440FX Motherboard with the latest BIOS >> and /usr/adm/messages says: >> Display0: S3 864/964 detected >> Display0: Mode 119 selected: 1280 x 1024 @ 75 Hz (RGB:555/16) >> >> and I run the Latest video driver off of NeXTAnswers (version 3.32). >> >> Regards, >> >> Steve >> > >Magnus Nordborg writes >> Hi, >> >> I have an ASUS P/I-XP6NP5 motherboard with Natoma (440FX) chipset, >> BIOS version 1.03 (nx6i0103.zip), and an 4MB VRAM Elsa. Loading the >> OmniPentiumPro driver slows the system to a crawl. Has anyone managed >to >> get this to work? >> >> Thanks, >> -Magnus >>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware From: tomi@shinto.nbg.sub.org (Thomas Engel) Subject: Re: Quick Renderman Message-ID: <E0Jp3r.DA@shinto.nbg.sub.org> Sender: news@shinto.nbg.sub.org Organization: STEPeople's home (A NUGI member) References: <9611031827.AA02196@huelf.hamburg.com> <55kdih$4nk@newshost.uni-koblenz.de> <328229A7.2781@aw.sgi.com> Date: Fri, 8 Nov 1996 09:31:03 GMT Michael Taylor <mtaylor@aw.sgi.com> wrote: > Marcel Bresink wrote: > > > > Stefan Huelf <stefan@huelf.hamburg.com> wrote: > > > does anybody know if QuickRenderman is still a supported feature > > > under OPENSTEP 4.0 / 4.1 on black / NT / Solaris 2.5??? > > > > The 3DKit is not part of the Openstep specification, so there will be no > > (Quick) RenderMan support in any Openstep version. > > > > I think that the 3D kit was passed off to the Misc Kit. The Misc Kit is > a bunch of freeware libraries for Objective-C. So, it should still be > available as far as I know. > Well this whole thing is a little off-topic in .hardware...but: Check out the www.misckit.com and www.gnustep.com websites to find out what wil be happening with 3DKit stuff. Expect some major progress until the end of '96. Aloha Tomi
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.software From: tomi@shinto.nbg.sub.org (Thomas Engel) Subject: Re: Quick Renderman Message-ID: <E0no2p.72@shinto.nbg.sub.org> Sender: news@shinto.nbg.sub.org Organization: STEPeople's home (A NUGI member) References: <9611031827.AA02196@huelf.hamburg.com> <55kdih$4nk@newshost.uni-koblenz.de> <328229A7.2781@aw.sgi.com> <55uvad$cb7@newshost.uni-koblenz.de> Date: Sun, 10 Nov 1996 12:59:12 GMT bresink@informatik.uni-koblenz.de (Marcel Bresink) wrote: > Michael Taylor <mtaylor@aw.sgi.com> wrote: > > I think that the 3D kit was passed off to the Misc Kit. The Misc Kit is > > a bunch of freeware libraries for Objective-C. So, it should still be > > available as far as I know. > > There are two teams working on a re-implementation of the 3DKit: The MiscKit > team has got the original 3DKit sources from NeXT and is currently porting it > to be OpenStep-compliant. > The Vision team at the University of Erlangen is working on "Gnu 3DKit". This > project is even a bit more ambitious: They want to extend the Quick RenderMan > API, and additionally base the new 3DKit on top of OpenGL. So they have to > implement a portable OpenGL system first, but this will have the advantage > that you can make use of 3D hardware acceleration, e.g. on the NT platform. > > You can get more information at > > http://www.misckit.com/ and > http://www.gnustep.org/G3DKit/G3DKit.html > > Both projects are non-trivial, so it will still take some time before any > implementations are really available. > It's quite off topic here in c.s.n.hardware but since OpenGL has some hardware support...why not talk about it here. Just to keep you all up to date (since the Web sites do not reflect the latest changes yet...got to work on them anytime soon) The MiscKti has the 3DKit object layer...but lacks a interactive renderer The Vision / GNU team have a interactive renderer...but lack the object layer. 1 + 1 = 2 :-) We are currently investigating the possibility of bringing both projects to one common level so that they would help each other. If no major unknown complications come around...then we might have working "alpha" releases by the end of the year. The first supported architectures should be OpenStep/Solaris and OpenStep/NT since they have working OpenGL implementations and a finished OpenStep system. If we get Mesa to work properly on MachOS and the C++ compiler from NeXT can deal with our code...then N3D running over OpenGL is within reach too. Since the 3DKit sources are not dependant on PostScript we could get 3D support for GNUstep quite soon too. The Vision's OpenGL subsystem (written by Peter Eberle) has been demoed last friday and does a great job. So folks hold on tight....and start submitting your wishes and ideas about the changes you feel should be folded into the GNU 3DKit. Aloha Tomi
From: cwolf@wolfware.com (Christopher Wolf) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Omni PentiumProDriver with Natoma 440FX chipset systems Date: 11 Nov 1996 10:11:17 GMT Organization: Best Internet Communications Message-ID: <566u45$9h5@nntp1.best.com> References: <560pph$9ua@nntp1.best.com> <566qv8$pg1@baldwin.rat.se> In-Reply-To: <566qv8$pg1@baldwin.rat.se> To follow up on my earlier post... The machine it worked on for me was also running OpenStep. Also, for a few days I had a Matrox Millenium (4MB, no idea what BIOS) installed in the same machine with the Intel Venus board and the OmniPentiumPro driver also worked very well with that. (Oh autodetect didn't work with the Matrox and it took a bit of guesswork to figure out the correct settings but once I manually configured it for the correct memory range it worked fine.) Finally, I briefly had a Tyan Titan Pro dual ATX motherboard (also Natom 440FX chipset) and the OmniPentiumPro driver also worked with that (although the motherboard itself was flakey.) So I dunno what's magic about my configuration but the OmniPentiumPro driver has worked with every configuration I've tried. - Chris On 11/10/96, Joakim Johansson wrote: >This is interesting - we've tried it with a Intel VS440FX >motherboard (latest bios), Matrox Millenium (4MB, latest bios) and >using the same settings as FASTVID uses in DOS (which works, >and gives a nice speed improvment for certain non-mission >critical applications.... ;-) ). > >We get the same problem, the system goes to a crawl... >(and using the "autodetect" feature, the driver doesn't > initialize properly...) > >The only difference I can think of is that it's an OS >machine, not a NS one. (which shouldn't matter I guess) > >It'd be intersting to hear what kind of system configurations >people have that has this working. Anyone at Omni that has >any guess what differences between slow-down configurations >and workings ones? > >Cheers, > >Joakim >The OmniPentiumPro driver works GREAT on my Intel Venus motherboard with >Natoma >440FX chipset and GXE 64 Pro 4M (S3 964) video card. After installing the >driver >there was a VERY noticable improvement in the speed of window dragging and >refreshing. NXBench results improved from 2.6 to 4.9! > >On 11/08/96, Joseph Yoon wrote: >>We've also have had no luck with the Omni driver with Natoma 440FX >>systems. It either has no effect on performance or really slow it down to >>a crawl. The driver works fine with the older Orion 82450 chipset systems. >>There are 3 components involved in the P6 MTRR (Memory Type Range >>Register) feature: >> --
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware From: dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca (David Evans) Subject: Re: [Q] Some questions about the Demension Board Speed Sender: news@novice.uwaterloo.ca (Mr. News) Message-ID: <E0K58q.7Bs@novice.uwaterloo.ca> Date: Fri, 8 Nov 1996 15:19:38 GMT References: <55urm4$ldi@usenet.kornet.nm.kr> Organization: University of Waterloo In article <55urm4$ldi@usenet.kornet.nm.kr>, BongOk Kim (kornet) <ppai@soback.kornet.nm.kr> wrote: >[Q] Some questions about the Demension Board Speed. > >The Demension board has a i860 RISC processor. >How much fast compare with Pentium or Pentium Pro When I working > Creat, SuperDraw or Virtuoso? I haven't used these on an Intel box, but the Dimension board is fairly nice for Create as long as you have lots of memory on it (I have 36MB and am happy). I imagine that a new machine will be faster, though, since NXFactors of 5 are not uncommon; the ND gets an NXFactor of 0.8 or so. >And I would like know video performance of the Demension board. >Is possible real-time capturing or recording to hard disk? > No, you can't. The video is uncompressed and the ND's bus architecture won't let you stuff that much info accross. You can get about 5fps or so. -- David Evans (NeXTMail OK) dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca Computer/Synth Junkie http://bbcr.uwaterloo.ca/~dfevans/ University of Waterloo "Default is the value selected by the composer Ontario, Canada overridden by your command." - Roland TR-707 Manual
From: jcjohnsn@cris.com (Curt Johnson) Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi,comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: EZ135 -> EZFlyer230: Upgrade (sorta) available Date: Mon, 11 Nov 96 20:38:36 GMT Organization: Concentric Internet Services Message-ID: <5682fh$l24@herald.concentric.net> References: <Pine.SUN.3.95.961101075530.4205A-100000@kira> In article <Pine.SUN.3.95.961101075530.4205A-100000@kira>, Tim Luoma <luomat@nerc.com> wrote: > >Well, in my never-ending quest about the EZFlyer upgrade program, I have >been in contact with the SyQuest sales office all week again. >-- Owners of the EZ135 will be given $100 credit towards the EZFlyer >($299.95). > I called Syquest and was told that the 135 carts will work in the flyer. There is also a 55 dollar rebate on the flyer til end of year... I wonder if you can get the rebate and the buyback??? The scsi interface will be scsi 2 on the flyer, but the performance will be the same as the 135?? That is what Syquest said anyway... anyone hear different? > I encourage anyone who is interested in this program to contact >SyQuest's sales 800 # : 1-800-245-2278 They have been _very_ helpful >through all of this, and the wait has never been very long. Let them know >your complaint, maybe we can get some changes made. Or tell them you want >to trade in your 135 if you don't have the same misgivings that I have >voiced. > >That's all I know at this point, will keep you updated as I find out >anything new. > >TjL } Curt Johnson Insert favorite sanctimonious self-righteous thought, vapid pseudo-profundity, or auto-aggrandizing accolade here.
From: shess@one.net (Scott Hess) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: [Q] Search for 1280x1024x32bit or higher graphics card Date: 11 Nov 96 11:01:00 Organization: Is a sign of weakness Message-ID: <SHESS.96Nov11110100@howard.one.net> References: <32857797.7A09@soback.kornet.nm.kr> In-reply-to: YoungHoon Kil's message of Sun, 10 Nov 1996 15:35:44 +0900 In article <32857797.7A09@soback.kornet.nm.kr>, YoungHoon Kil <ppai@soback.kornet.nm.kr> writes: [Q] Search for 1280x1024x32bit or higher graphics card Is there some graphics card supports 1280x1024x32bit or higher for NEXTSTEP 3.3 and OPENSTEP 4.1? I want to get the graphics cards list. Anyone know of any such graphics cards? Thanks a lot in advance. Just for kicks, one day I booted my system to 1600x1200x16bit with a 4M Matrox Millenium. Cool, but I _definitely_ need a 21" monitor next time. I've also run this card at 1152x864x32 under both operating systems, though I usually stick to 16-bits (I don't like 32-bits enough to accept more swapping to get it :-). I would expect it to do 1280x1024x32 with 8M. [Actually, I'm sort of wondering why the drivers don't have an 888/24 mode. Then you could do 1280x1024x24 in 4M, and only need 8M for 1600x1200x32. Does the lack of perfect alignment exact _that_ big of a performance penalty?] Later, -- scott hess <shess@one.net> 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
From: shess@one.net (Scott Hess) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Best Pure NS PC Suggestion? Date: 11 Nov 96 10:53:17 Organization: Is a sign of weakness Message-ID: <SHESS.96Nov11105317@howard.one.net> References: <5639du$ehm@news.asu.edu> In-reply-to: sugee@imap2.asu.edu's message of 10 Nov 1996 00:59:42 GMT In article <5639du$ehm@news.asu.edu> sugee@imap2.asu.edu writes: Hello Everyone! I am accepting suggestions as to the best pure(high-end) PC that can be either purchased preconfigured, configured with a little modification, or customized. This should be something that provides for at least a 3 year performance window if this is possible at this time. Multiprocessing is something that I am not very interested in at this time and don't see that if will become much of a factor in the next several years, but I am open about this. Therefore, I am looking for primarily a uniprocessor system. First, I'm not sure if a 3 year performance window is possible at this time, much less something worth looking at. Not quite three years ago I spent $4500 on a 66Mhz 486 PC, and even after upgrading it to 133Mhz a couple months ago, I can't say that it's usable under NeXTSTEP. It's usable in the sense that you can operate it, but it's pretty clear that the extra cost of a P133 will be paid for very quickly by the time and frustration savings. Of course, it depends on what you plan to do with the system in a couple years. This system would probably make a decent word processing console or news server at this point. That said, I recently purchased a new system with an eye towards keeping it current (ie, upgradability), and went with: Asus P/I-XP55T2P4 Pentium motherboard (can take Pentium 200) Pentium 133 64M EDO RAM Matrox Millenium w/4M Asus PCI SC200 SCSI card 2.1G Seagate Hawk 2XL, with Ultra SCSI support The important points are that I can upgrade to a faster Pentium as their prices fall into line, and then swap out the motherboard when Pentium Pro, Klamath, or Deschutes prices fall into line. I was careful to choose hardware brands which I knew worked with NeXTSTEP _and_ had a product line with a clear upgrade path. I wasn't going to maximum lifespan for the current system, because it would have cost a 50% premium (not counting monitor in system price), and I don't need the performance today. The premium is better for pre-packaged systems, but you usually lose something on the upgradability front. That said, if you want maximum lifespan, you almost have to go with a Pentium Pro 200, a Ultra SCSI controller (probably BusLogic or Adaptec), a 7200RPM SCSI drive, and perhaps more memory. I say perhaps, because most SIMMs are pretty much topping out at 32M right now, so you'd need 4 SIMMS to get 128M. I'd rather get 64M now and wait for 64M SIMMS to become more popular. The Matrox Millenium is a solid card, and 4M should suffice for a good long while - you can't really use the 8M version unless you have a 21" monitor and want 32-bit color at 1600x1200. I don't even know if NeXTSTEP supports that :-). Later, -- scott hess <shess@one.net> 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
From: chris@nice.ch (Christian Limpach) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: cmsg cancel <x7n2wo38pm.fsf@nice.ethz.ch> Control: cancel <x7n2wo38pm.fsf@nice.ethz.ch> Date: 11 Nov 1996 17:37:24 +0100 Organization: A poorly-installed InterNetNews site - NOT Message-ID: <x7loc837wb.fsf@nice.ethz.ch> This is a cancel message from chris@nice.ch (Christian Limpach).
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Split this newsgroup into BLACK and WHITE subgroups?? Date: Fri, 8 Nov 1996 09:18:57 -0800 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.95.961108091643.11758B-100000@kira> References: <E0K8LM.2u@midway.uchicago.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: Andrew Chang <tachang@gsbux1.uchicago.edu> In-Reply-To: <E0K8LM.2u@midway.uchicago.edu> Return-Receipt-To: luomat@nerc.com Answers will range from 1) there isn't much traffic here anyway to 2) "I've got both and like only reading one newsgroup" to 3) it is simpler to keep this one than try to create and migrate to 2 new ones. What about Sparcs and HPs? personally it doesn't matter much, but I guess I goo with #1 most... TjL
From: Robert F Tobler <rft@cg.tuwien.ac.at> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: "Trick" with Elsa 4MB Graphics card Date: 8 Nov 1996 17:47:37 GMT Organization: Vienna University of Technology, Austria Message-ID: <55vrnp$ndr@news.tuwien.ac.at> References: <55trif$5m6@news.duke.edu> <55vnf4$r65@tribune.mayo.edu> ray@mayo.edu (Ray Ghanbari) wrote: > Actually, the card can accept an arbitrary range of refresh rates (within > the capabilities of the card of course) If you want a refresh rate that > is in between what is presented in Configure.app, open up the .config > driver wrapper and look for the file that is used to present configuration > options. Just add the configuration you are interested to the list, and > restart Configure.app > > As a word of caution, take care that the configs you add are in between 2 > of the existing configs, so you don't risk messing up your card. I have > no idea what will happen if you spec something out of range, and haven't > been too keen to find out ;-) I have an ELSA Winner Pro-X/8, and I have tried to create a custom video mode that is not in the list of videomodes the driver comes with. I used the procedure described in the driver documentation (using the DOS utility to create the video mode description, adding the description to Instance0.table and then switching to the desired video mode), but this did not work. I have tried 2 or 3 times, with different settings, but it never worked. After your mail, I just tried to specify the video mode in Instance0.table without going through the steps in the documentation, but then the driver just takes that video mode from the list, which is closest to the one desired. Ath the moment I am using: 1536 x 1152 888/32 @ 82 Hz but I really would like to use: 1600 x 1216 888/32 @ 80 Hz which is not in the list of supported modes. Does anyone have any idea as to how make that work? Thanks in advance for any help. -- Robert ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Robert F. Tobler - tel:+43(1)58801-4585,fax:5874932 Institute of Computer Graphics - mailto:rft@cg.tuwien.ac.at Vienna University of Technology - http://www.cg.tuwien.ac.at/~rft/
From: shess@one.net (Scott Hess) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: 21" Megapixel monitors - do they dim? Date: 11 Nov 96 12:03:09 Organization: Is a sign of weakness Message-ID: <SHESS.96Nov11120309@howard.one.net> References: <564njc$jod@mozo.cc.purdue.edu> In-reply-to: jon@mgmt.purdue.edu's message of 10 Nov 1996 14:07:40 GMT In article <564njc$jod@mozo.cc.purdue.edu> jon@mgmt.purdue.edu (Jon Haveman) writes: Are 21" megapixel monitors subject to the same dimming that the 17" monitors are? The legendary dimming of 17" megapixel monitors was only a problem with the mono monitors. It shouldn't happen with 21" monitors, because by definition they are color. Well, let me retract that - if your 21" or 17" NeXT color monitor is dimming, it's probably not the same problem as seen with NeXT's 17" mono monitors. That's not to say that I guarantee your color monitor won't dim :-). Later, -- scott hess <shess@one.net> 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
From: shess@one.net (Scott Hess) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Best Pure NS PC Suggestion? Date: 11 Nov 96 12:01:24 Organization: Is a sign of weakness Message-ID: <SHESS.96Nov11120124@howard.one.net> References: <5639du$ehm@news.asu.edu> <SHESS.96Nov11105317@howard.one.net> In-reply-to: shess@one.net's message of 11 Nov 96 10:53:17 In article <SHESS.96Nov11105317@howard.one.net>, shess@one.net (Scott Hess) writes: That said, I recently purchased a new system with an eye towards keeping it current (ie, upgradability), and went with: Asus P/I-XP55T2P4 Pentium motherboard (can take Pentium 200) Pentium 133 64M EDO RAM Matrox Millenium w/4M Asus PCI SC200 SCSI card 2.1G Seagate Hawk 2XL, with Ultra SCSI support Uh, forgot the most important point. I purchase the CPU+motherboard+RAM+case from ESC, www.einsteinscomputer.com or www.esc-ca.com. Very pleased with their service, they seem to be a top-flight place. Decent technical info on their website, too. I purchased the balance from Cantek, www.cantek.com/cantek. There were delays, and they gave me the runaround on when the delays would be cleared. [The standard "I realize it's a week late, it will ship today", followed by "Would you like to upgrade to overnight shipping?" Of course, it didn't ship that day, and no way was I going to pay extra for overnight when I had ordered it to arrive 2nd day a week ago!] The components all arrived in working order and well packed, though. I have placed another order with them, but it's for non-essentials. If I had to do it all over again, I would try Net Express at www.tdl.com/~netex/. They have good technical info on their site, and they only seem to carry top-flight components - if you order a system from them, it _will_ be a SCSI system, and probably Ultra-SCSI :-). They also cost a tad more than what I paid (%8 or so), but I suspect that having them put the entire system together for you, and having one place to complain to, might be a big gain. I'd certainly go with them before Gateway or Dell. I should mention that I _enjoy_ mucking about with my system. Never again will I order from a vendor without knowing _exactly_ what major components they're putting into my system. I've had too many bad experiences with "plug and pray" systems where the vendor put a system together using the cheap parts of the day, and you don't have a prayer when it comes time to upgrade or fix things. Later, -- scott hess <shess@one.net> 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
From: giddings@menominee.chem.wisc.edu (Michael Giddings) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Experience with Toshiba Tecras? Date: 11 Nov 1996 17:44:25 GMT Organization: University of Wisconsin, Madison Message-ID: <567olp$2pca@news.doit.wisc.edu> References: <55pb18$2mqq@news.doit.wisc.edu> <32831E36.14A3@mpr.ca> Cc: mewett@mpr.ca Thanks to everyone who responded to my query! I just purchased a used Tecra 720 - it seems like a nice machine, and with NeXT's new dual EIDE driver (vers 3.35 found on NextAnswers), I was able to install NS 3.3 without a hitch from the built-in CD-ROM. Finally, a portable that may be adequate for NS! (now I just awaiting a reply from BioFrost so that I can run a video mode besides grayscale 640x480)! -- Michael Giddings giddings@chem.wisc.edu giddings@barbarian.com (608)258-1699 or (608) 692-2851 http://www.barbarian.com
From: giddings@menominee.chem.wisc.edu (Michael Giddings) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: HELP! problems with IOMEGA JAZ Date: 11 Nov 1996 17:54:04 GMT Organization: University of Wisconsin, Madison Message-ID: <567p7s$2pca@news.doit.wisc.edu> References: <565i2p$k70@nntp.ucs.ubc.ca> <566248$8c4@kanga.accessone.com> Cc: Salvo@AccessOne .COM In <566248$8c4@kanga.accessone.com> Marc Salvatori wrote: > In <565i2p$k70@nntp.ucs.ubc.ca> Joris Pinkse wrote: > > Request Sense command failed > > ioctl(SDIOCSRQ): I/O error > > > > When booting I often get > > > > "Unexpected 2nd TUR sense data on SCSI ID 1." > > > > Does anyone have any idea on what causes this and how I can correct this? > > Just recently, my month-old Jaz drive began giving me "sense" errors whenever > I tried to low-level format a disk. I suspect that my drive, as well as > yours, is flawed. Is the head movement, for such erros, making unusual > noises like mine? > I too had a similar problem. I had long system delays due to scsi errors, trouble reading two of my disks, and strange noises coming from the drive, particularly with one disk. Being that this was the second time I had problems with the drive, and seeing that I have had several disks "go bad" with this drive, I returned it. That kind of reliability (or lack thereof) is not good enough for backing up my data! -- Michael Giddings giddings@chem.wisc.edu giddings@barbarian.com (608)258-1699 or (608) 692-2851 http://www.barbarian.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware From: ericb@il.us.swissbank.com (Eric_Brown) Subject: Re: Experience with Toshiba Tecras? Message-ID: <1996Nov11.174611.7727@il.us.swissbank.com> Sender: root@il.us.swissbank.com (Operator) Organization: Swiss Bank Corporation CM&T Division References: <32831E36.14A3@mpr.ca> Date: Mon, 11 Nov 1996 17:46:11 GMT Scott Mewett <mewett@mpr.ca> writes > > The Toshiba just plain works. Although a Little bulkier and maybe not as > nicely refined as the NEC it would make a good choice. > NEC on the other hand if you are able to install NeXTStep with the use > of the external floppy cable, then I would find it to be more enjoyable > to use. It has a nice fit and finish and the Glide Pad for the mouse is > a joy to use. > I have been testing a NEC 6030X with NEXTSTEP (installed with an Adaptec SlimSCSI PCMCIA SCSI adaptor). The video works fine with the driver available from BiFrost (the same one used with the Toshiba 720/730). The main problem I've had so far is that I can't get a PCMCIA ethernet adaptor to work. I've tried both a Xircom psII and a 3COM 3C589. The former fails to initialize properly and the latter locks up the machine when booting. I believe that NeXT has been notified about the problem, but I'm unaware of any efforts to correct it. Has anybody else used the NEC 6030 series with NEXTSTEP and had better luck with PCMCIA ethernet adaptors? It's possible my problems are due to this specific machine. - Eric -- _______________________________________________________________ / Eric Brown | The opinions expressed here \ | NEXTSTEP Consultant | are mine and do not necessarily | | Synectic Design | represent those of my employer | | ericb@il.us.swissbank.com | or SBC. | \___________________________|___________________________________/
From: glyn.elara@technocom.com (Glyn Edwards) Newsgroups: alt.journalism.newspapers,alt.tv.newsradio,alt.fan.newt-gingrich,fj.sys.newton,comp.sys.newton.misc,comp.sys.newton.programmer,chinese.newsgroups.newusers,comp.sys.next,fj.sys.next,maus.sys.next,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,comp.soft-sys.nextstep,alt.sex.nfs,comp.protocols.nfs,alt.james.nguygen.gook.faggot,soc.culture.nicaragua,soc.singles.nice Subject: Re: Just try this, it will work Date: Fri, 08 Nov 1996 18:04:28 +0000 Organization: Elara Associates Limited Distribution: inet Message-ID: <glyn.elara-0811961804280001@ppp161.tcom.co.uk> References: <713.051093963906@news.nemonet.com> > Take five minutes to read this and it WILL change your life. > > By forwarding that message to me, you have participated in electronic chain mail, which not only irritates everyone involved but is also an abuse of the Internet. You have allowed someone to exploit you for their purposes. Even worse, you have helped them exploit even more people and waste more time, bandwidth, disk space, and money. It's bad enough to be a victim, but it's worse to become an accessory. If everyone forwarded every piece of chain mail to the number of people requested, normal email delivery would grind to a halt, thanks to the exponential growth of chain mail. Please do not ever forward chain mail again."
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware From: ericb@il.us.swissbank.com (Eric_Brown) Subject: Re: [Q] Search for 1280x1024x32bit or higher graphics card Message-ID: <1996Nov11.231937.9922@il.us.swissbank.com> Sender: root@il.us.swissbank.com (Operator) Organization: Swiss Bank Corporation CM&T Division References: <SHESS.96Nov11110100@howard.one.net> Date: Mon, 11 Nov 1996 23:19:37 GMT Scott Hess writes > [Actually, I'm sort of wondering why the drivers don't have an 888/24 > mode. Then you could do 1280x1024x24 in 4M, and only need 8M for > 1600x1200x32. Does the lack of perfect alignment exact _that_ big of > a performance penalty?] > The problem is that the DPS server in NEXTSTEP doesn't support the type of pixel packing that you are referring to. I don't know if there would really be a performance penalty or not. In fact, it's possible that it would even be faster since only 75% of the data would have to be blasted to the screen. -- _______________________________________________________________ / Eric Brown | The opinions expressed here \ | NEXTSTEP Consultant | are mine and do not necessarily | | Synectic Design | represent those of my employer | | ericb@il.us.swissbank.com | or SBC. | \___________________________|___________________________________/
From: Ben Konjkav <ben@photonweb.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: NEXT monitor connected to PC Date: Fri, 08 Nov 1996 10:20:09 -0800 Organization: PCG Message-ID: <328379D9.3B11@photonweb.com> References: <32778e52.1303038@win.news.online.ru> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Alexei Zaporozhets <almoscow@online.ru> Alexei Zaporozhets wrote: > > Hello everybody > > I happen to have a NEXT monitor, > C1761-NX MegaPixel 17", > > Does anyone know, is it ever possible > to use it for PC computer? > Or, maybe there is somewhere a description > of signals/pin numbers on its connector? > On my PC I have Check out http://www.photonweb.com/next/ for the video card & the cable that has been designed to run your monitor on a PC Ben
From: mpaque@next.com (Mike Paquette) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Is it possible Date: 11 Nov 1996 20:30:07 GMT Organization: NeXT Software, Inc. Message-ID: <5682cf$5og@news.next.com> References: <3285F22E.10@onramp.net> In article <3285F22E.10@onramp.net> Brian Sutherland <rmaniac@onramp.net> writes: > Is it passible to put more than one ND board in a NeXTCube and have them > all display different things? Yes. The Window Server will lay the workspace out over all the attached displays. The Monitors panel in Preferences.app allows you to change teh layout to match your physical monitor layout. Mike Paquette -- I don't speak for my employer, and they don't speak for me.
From: rdubey@cisco.com (Rakesh Dubey) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: HELP: Problem installing an ATI Mach64 Graphics Adaptor Date: 12 Nov 1996 22:35:08 GMT Organization: Cisco Systems, Inc. Message-ID: <RDUBEY.96Nov12143508@bhim.Cisco.com> References: <567bho$5rp@news.Dortmund.Germany.EU.net> <56a845$att@niven.ncmi-gsl.com> In-reply-to: AMark@ncmi-ny.com's message of 12 Nov 1996 16:20:21 GMT In article <56a845$att@niven.ncmi-gsl.com> AMark@ncmi-ny.com (Allen Mark) writes: [ ..deleted.. ] - - - - - - - - - - - - - Thanks.......yes it definately appears there is a serious bug in the driver. There is a jumper on the ATI card that if removed allows the graphics to be displayed properly, but causes PCI bus interference which makes the computer run extremely slow. If the jumper is connected the bus interference is gone, but the ATI card is not recognized during boot up and the lowest resolution default b/w mode is loaded. The computer only works if the video is configured in the default low res. b&w mode. Anything higher the computer bogs down as to be unuseable. I'm surprised NEXT includes this driver in their compatibilty list, it simply does not work! I'll be swapping my ATI for a Diamond. Scott [end excerpt...] [ .. more stuff deleted ..] May be Dean can elaborate this better but I fail to see how the driver can be at fault. All that the new ATI mach64 driver does is to use the video BIOS to map in the linear framebuffer and to program the hardware in a specific video mode. Once this is done the driver has nothing to do at all. Now the performance can be poor due to hardware limitations (but this can be probably ruled out) or due the fact that the ATI video BIOS is not using the optimal settings. May be some more tweaking after the BIOS is needed.. I guess the best test would be to measure the performance of "old ATI Mach64" driver and compare it with the new one. However the old driver may not work with your hardware. -Rakesh
From: shess@one.net (Scott Hess) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Best Pure NS PC Suggestion? Date: 12 Nov 96 16:50:39 Organization: Is a sign of weakness Message-ID: <SHESS.96Nov12165039@slave.one.net> References: <3288CDF5.652E@eng.sun.com> <56alk2$gm6@news.blkbox.com> In-reply-to: dkramer@bifrostworks.com's message of 12 Nov 1996 20:10:42 GMT In article <3288CDF5.652E@eng.sun.com>, Dean Reece <dean.reece@eng.sun.com> writes: > Scott Hess wrote: > > The Matrox Millenium is a > > solid card, and 4M should suffice for a good long while - you can't > > really use the 8M version unless you have a 21" monitor and want > > 32-bit color at 1600x1200. I don't even know if NeXTSTEP supports > > that :-). > No, it can't. The board will only go up to 1600x1200 at 24-bit > color. NEXTSTEP's DPS code can't deal with 24-bit (packed pixel) > format, so the only mode that 8MB buys you is 1280x1024@32bpp. That's odd. Is this for certain a hardware problem, or is it just that the NeXTSTEP drivers don't know how to do the mode? The footprint for 1600x1200x32 is well within 8M of memory. Perhaps WRAM just doesn't have the bandwidth for the extra memory required. Has anyone tried manually modifying Instance0.table to work it? Anyhow, if this is the case I'm even less concerned about having 2M+2M rather than regular 4M on my card. Not that I ever really expected to need more than 16 bits of color anyhow :-). Later, -- scott hess <shess@one.net> (606) 578-0412 http://w3.one.net/~shess/ <I plan to become so famous that people buy tapes of me reading source code>
From: logic@friley253.res.iastate.edu (???) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Imagine 128 Series II Driver for NeXT Date: 12 Nov 1996 23:35:06 GMT Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa Message-ID: <56b1ja$30o@news.iastate.edu> Hello, Does anyone know if NeXT is going to release the driver for the Imagine Series II card? I have been using the ugly low-res black and white VGA mode for a while and I would like to see the beauty of NeXTSTEP in 32-bit color. The description of the original Imagine 128 said that there would be an updated driver by the third quarter. Does anyone have any info on the status of this driver??? Thanks! Matt
From: awang@plains.nodak.edu (Andy Wang) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Best Pure NS PC Suggestion? Date: 12 Nov 1996 16:54:46 -0600 Organization: North Dakota Higher Education Computing Network (NDHECN) Message-ID: <56av7m$btp@plains.nodak.edu> References: <5639du$ehm@news.asu.edu> <SHESS.96Nov11105317@howard.one.net> <3288CDF5.652E@eng.sun.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In article <3288CDF5.652E@eng.sun.com>, Dean Reece <dean.reece@eng.sun.com> wrote: >Scott Hess wrote: >> >... >> The Matrox Millenium is a >> solid card, and 4M should suffice for a good long while - you can't >> really use the 8M version unless you have a 21" monitor and want >> 32-bit color at 1600x1200. I don't even know if NeXTSTEP supports >> that :-). > >No, it can't. The board will only go up to 1600x1200 at 24-bit color. >NEXTSTEP's DPS code can't deal with 24-bit (packed pixel) format, so the >only mode that 8MB buys you is 1280x1024@32bpp. > >I agree that the Millenium is a solid card. I find the ELSA Winner 2000 Pro/X to be a much nicer card for NEXTSTEP. The card has much better support. Also, the ELSA drivers will support 1600x1280@32bpp with an 8MB card. andy -- ------------------ Dopey (Andy Wang) - NeXT or MIME mail OK ------------------- - Pro-hemp, and proud of it! - finger -l awang@plains.nodak.edu for pgp key - - What the hell is a chicken? - http://space.acm.ndsu.nodak.edu/~awang/ - ------------------------ awang@plains.nodak.edu -------------------------------
From: "Zacharias J. Beckman" <zac@dreams.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Faxing? w/ OPENSTEP? Date: 12 Nov 1996 21:41:37 GMT Organization: Dreams Message-ID: <01bbd0e2$3b3f2180$9ab08ccc@opus.dreams.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Ok, I have a fax modem; I have OPENSTEP 4.0; I have a program called FaxReader.app. Now, surely, there's a way to get these things to work together? I can't find anything about adding a fax modem to the system... --- Zacharias J. Beckman - zac@dreams.com - 310-822-1583 vox, 822-0163 fax 520 Washington Boulevard, Suite #339, Marina del Rey, California 90292 http://www.dreams.com
From: jon@mgmt.purdue.edu (Jon Haveman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: 21" Megapixel monitors - do they dim? Date: 12 Nov 1996 14:33:51 GMT Organization: Purdue University Message-ID: <56a1sf$cgv@mozo.cc.purdue.edu> References: <SHESS.96Nov11120309@howard.one.net> Scott Hess writes > In article <564njc$jod@mozo.cc.purdue.edu> > jon@mgmt.purdue.edu (Jon Haveman) writes: > Are 21" megapixel monitors subject to the same dimming that > the 17" monitors are? > > The legendary dimming of 17" megapixel monitors was only a problem > with the mono monitors. It shouldn't happen with 21" monitors, > because by definition they are color. Excellent! > Well, let me retract that - if your 21" or 17" NeXT color monitor is > dimming, it's probably not the same problem as seen with NeXT's 17" > mono monitors. That's not to say that I guarantee your color monitor > won't dim :-). I'm not having a problem with my 21" monitor dimming. I've been wanting to replace my mono 17 N4000 with an N4000B. I'm hoping to have a good working NS Cube to show my grandchildren - show them what could have been.:) In the process, I've found that the cost of one of those monitors relative to just buying a used color station - w/21" megapixel - makes it worthwhile to go that route. I didn't want to get stuck with another monitor that would dim tho - hence my question. Thanks much - 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)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware From: nkawai@postman.riken.go.jp (Nobuyuki Kawai) Subject: Re: ThinkPad 560 and EtherLink3 (3C589C-TP) Message-ID: <E0sD7I.Cs@postman.riken.go.jp> Sender: news@postman.riken.go.jp (News Administrator) Organization: Institute of Physical & Chemical Research (RIKEN) Saitama,Japan References: <E0Jrpp.35s@postman.riken.go.jp> Date: Wed, 13 Nov 1996 01:52:29 GMT As I posted earlier, I am trying to configure ThinkPad 560 to work with 3C589C-TP ethernet adapter on NEXTSTEP 3.3. Has anybody succeeded in using PCMCIA ethernet card adapter (3Com or any other) on ThinkPad 560 with NEXTSTEP 3.3? I am mostly satisfied with ThinkPad 560, its weight (~2kg), screen (88*600 8-bit TFT color LCD), performance, thickness (or slimness), etc. Its robustness is also advertized (though I have not dared to test it), while I hear some sad stories related with the fragility of Digital's HiNote Ultra. The only thing missing is the network connectivity. NK
From: smackie@smackie-ss20.cisco.com (Scott Mackie) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Internal drive Date: 12 Nov 1996 23:25:14 -0800 Organization: cisco Systems Inc Message-ID: <ygliv7afodh.fsf@smackie-ss20.cisco.com> Hmmm. I just tried to install a oldish HP C3304 3.5" 540Mb drive as the internal drive in my NextStation to no avail. On powerup, the boot monitor complains about an "unexpected scsi cmd:1". The NeXT boots just fine from an external Fujitsu 2263 drive that I have. And it recognised the HP drive just fine too when it was external as I did a successful BuildDisk on to it. Clues? Scott... -- --- Scott Mackie, Engineering Email : smackie@cisco.com cisco Systems Inc, Paper : (408) 526 8282 San Jose, CA 95134 Voice : (408) 526 4642
From: schatt@scf.usc.edu (Drew Schatt) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: What does exception #2 mean? Date: Tue, 12 Nov 1996 21:22:08 -0800 Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA Sender: schatt@comserv-e-69.usc.edu Message-ID: <schatt-ya023180001211962122080001@nnrp.usc.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Hi everybody. I just bought a NeXT cube, and after figuring out that the SCSI bus needed to be terminated, upon booting it comes up with an exception #2 (0x8) at 0x4380012. Does anyone know what this means, and how to fix it? Please respond to me by e-mail, as I don't get to read news that often. Thanks. --Drew Schatt schatt@scf.usc.edu
From: zbir@seven.ucs.indiana.edu (Zachery "Tigger" Bir) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Trouble installing NEXTSTEP 3.3 for Intel Date: 13 Nov 1996 00:47:16 -0500 Organization: Indiana University, Bloomington Message-ID: <mbtwwvqim1n.fsf@seven.ucs.indiana.edu> I'm trying to install NS3.3 for Intel on my machine. It seems happily to go about its business up to the point where I decide which packages to install, and click "install". After that it installs maybe 20 files or so, then freezes. No reaction from mouse, or keyboard. I have to restart the machine. Here's my configuration: Cyrix 6x86 150+ Processor Quantum Fireball 1280 HD Atapi CR-ROM Number 9 Motion 331 Video Card I've followed the instructions in "EIDE and ATAPI Support in NS 3.3" from NeXTanswers, but am now at a loss. If you don't know about this, it says, "NS will treat Atapi CD-ROM's just like SCSI CD-ROM's, but because of a bug, you need to initially tell NS that it's using Adaptec 154x Drivers. Then load the EIDE and Atapi Drivers. After the whole installation, remove the Adaptec Driver." But I can't even get the whole thing installed. Anybody run into this? Solve it? TIA, -- Zachery J. Bir - zbir@indiana.edu UCS Support Center - Knowledge Base Programmer/Editor http://seven.ucs.indiana.edu/~zbir/index.html
From: foltames@power1.snu.ac.kr () Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: ObjectStation41 CPU Upgrade... Date: 13 Nov 1996 07:13:20 GMT Organization: Seoul National University, Korea Message-ID: <56bseg$ibk@snunews.snu.ac.kr> I have the Pentium Overdrive Processor 83Mhz to install on Canon Object Station 41. but I have no manual of that Computer.. Need I change some jumpers?-like vesa type, cpu clock, cpu type.. and Need I update the bios of Computer? If I need to change, or update, How to do it? It's very difficult for me to use OS41 in Korea... Thanks. Suh Yong Jun
From: schwartz@convex.com (Adam E. Schwartz) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Daydream Question: Date: 13 Nov 1996 07:58:45 GMT Organization: Hewlett Packard - Convex Division, Richardson, Tx USA Message-ID: <56bv3l$4ga@news.rsn.hp.com> References: <568sgn$2m6@nnrp1.news.primenet.com> Robert Worne (rworne@primenet.com) wrote: : I have had a Daydream for my Color Turbo Slab for nearly a year now, and : I have one nagging problem: : How do you do a tilde "~"? I have both the "old C-friendly" and "new : C-unfriendly" Non-ADB keyboards, and the Daydream does not recognize : the key. Does Shift-Esc do the trick? This of course types a tilde when booted with nextstep and US keyboard settings. I dunno if it'll work when booted under Daydream etc... I'd be interested to know if it does, tho. (Obviously I do not have Daydream.) cheers, --Adam -- ----- Adam Schwartz, schwartz@convex.hp.com Purgamentum init, exit purgamentum. # # #
From: pwalter@mediahaus.de (Piers Uso Walter) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: HELP: Problem installing an ATI Mach64 Graphics Adaptor Date: 11 Nov 1996 14:00:23 GMT Organization: Customer of EUnet Germany; Info: info@Germany.EU.net Message-ID: <567bho$5rp@news.Dortmund.Germany.EU.net> I've got a PCI Pentium 133 machine with NEXTSTEP 3.3 installed. Unfortunately I can't get the display adaptor (an ATI Mach 64 PCI board with 2 MB VRAM) to work, though. I downloaded the driver from NeXTanswers (#1734) and installed it with Configure.app. I left all entries at their default settings. During system startup I see the following error messages: Display0: ATI BIOS not found _IOProbeDriver: No Such Device, device ATIMach64DisplayDriver unit 0 ... /usr/etc/driverLoader: No display driver added, trying VGA The next thing I tried was taking a look at the manual and configuring *all* I/O ports and memory addresses listed in the manual (I had to use the expert configuration to do this). Same result upon startup (still only VGA). The last thing I tried was ask a colleague who is running the same hardware configuration under Windows NT. He used the hardware device configure app (I don't know the exact Windows terminology) and gave me all I/O ports and memory addresses used by the board under Windows NT. I entered these in Configure.app. Still the ATI BIOS was not found. Did anybody experience (or better yet, solve) this kind of problem before? With kind regards Piers Walter pwalter@mediahaus.de
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Experience with Toshiba Tecras? References: <55pb18$2mqq@news.doit.wisc.edu> From: grettir@njardvik.orem.novell.com (Shawn Lynn) Message-ID: <32877bd2.0@news.provo.novell.com> Date: 11 Nov 96 19:17:38 GMT The Tecra 720, like all Toshibas, has dreadful battery recharge times. With the system on, the battery can (and usually does) take 11 hours to recharge. (Compare this with the IBM ThinkPad's 2 1/2 hour recharge time.) I don't know any other major notebook manufacturer with worse battery recharge times. If you get the Tecra, I would strongly recommend purchasing a second LiIon battery pack and the external battery charger. The Tecra 720 is big, bulky, and heavy. It's not going to win any portability awards. The Tecra doesn't offer any real flexibility when it comes to internal devices. Many other manufacturers' notebooks come with something similar to IBM's UltraBay that allows for an internal floppy drive, CD-ROM drive, second battery, or second hard drive. The Tecra 720's bay only allows for the floppy or CD-ROM drive. Also, (this won't be a concern under NeXTSTEP, but...) the Tecra's suspend mode only lasts 8 hours. After that, all information is lost. ThinkPads can stay in suspend mode for weeks (literally). Don't get me wrong, the Tecra's a decent piece of hardware, but there are some missing pieces in the overall puzzle. And it's nice to know about those missing pieces before you buy the puzzle. Unlike the other gentleman who replied, I would certainly buy a Tecra over an NEC. NEC's service has always been troublesome, and with the recent aquisition of NEC by Packard Bell I don't see much hope of that improving in the future. And throwing Packard Bell into any equation makes me pretty nervous.... giddings@menominee.chem.wisc.edu (Michael Giddings) wrote: >I am looking into notebook systems (as evidenced by several posts from me on >the subject lately) and have narrowed things down to the point where I'm most >seriously interested in a Toshiba Tecra (maybe 720), using the BioFrost >driver for display. > >Does anyone have any experience with these machines they would wish to share? > >Thanks > >-- >Michael Giddings >giddings@chem.wisc.edu >giddings@barbarian.com >(608)258-1699 or (608) 692-2851 >
From: Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: ObjectStation41 CPU Upgrade... Date: Wed, 13 Nov 1996 17:08:24 -0500 Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Message-ID: <kmWYPMy00UzxM2JLlc@andrew.cmu.edu> References: <56bseg$ibk@snunews.snu.ac.kr> In-Reply-To: <56bseg$ibk@snunews.snu.ac.kr> Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.hardware: 13-Nov-96 ObjectStation41 CPU Upgrade... by @power1.snu.ac.kr > I have the Pentium Overdrive Processor 83Mhz to install on > Canon Object Station 41. > but I have no manual of that Computer.. > Need I change some jumpers?-like vesa type, cpu clock, cpu type.. > and Need I update the bios of Computer? When upgrading a similar 486/66 Intel machine to the POP-83, there was a jumper for selecting between "486" and "P24T" or some similar designation which needed to be switched. The "P24T" apparently was Intel's original designation for the Pentium Overdrive. -Chuck Charles Swiger | cs4w@andrew.cmu.edu | standard disclaimer ----------------+---------------------+--------------------- I know you're an optimist if you think I'm a pessimist.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.marketplace From: tachang@gsbux1.uchicago.edu (Andrew Chang) Subject: Where to get NeXT Cube HD mounting bracket? Message-ID: <E0tG9t.ELs@midway.uchicago.edu> Sender: news@midway.uchicago.edu (News Administrator) Organization: GSB, University of Chicago Date: Wed, 13 Nov 1996 15:56:17 GMT I'd like to replace the old internal Maxtor 660MB drive. Can anyone tell me where I can get the mounting bracket? How many 1/2 and/or 1/3 height HDs can I put in? Any consideration on the cooling? Thanks.
From: jburton@nwu.edu (Joshua W. Burton) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Where to get NeXT Cube HD mounting bracket? Date: 14 Nov 1996 00:06:34 GMT Organization: Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, US Message-ID: <56dnqa$kop@news.acns.nwu.edu> References: <E0tG9t.ELs@midway.uchicago.edu> <56da2m$1o06@news.doit.wisc.edu> bestor@cs.wisc.edu (Gareth Bestor) wrote: > The NeXTcube can hold a total of two full height 5+1/4" drives > and has four pairs of hole's on each side of the internal frame > for mounting. So without modification you can install up to four > 1/2 height drives. However, the power supply only has two outlets > for drives - if you want more you'll need an additional splitter > and should check you don't exceed the power supply's rated output. > I'm assuming of course that you don't already have an optical > drive or floppy (note, the floppy does _not_ require one of the > power cords becauses it is powered through the interface cable). Here's a question for people who know something about normal PCs (I graduated directly from one fifteenth of a VAX 8600 to my own NeXT in 1989, so I don't know much about the real world). Is there a standard placement for the slot in the front of an internal SCSI device, and how does it correspond to the MO slot on the front of the NeXT cubes? In particular, if I buy a CD-ROM drive, which I clearly need Real Soon Now, or a Jaz or EZ drive, which I'm thinking about now that my MO drive is flaking out, can I buy the internal style and put one of them in a cube bay? The large size of the slot should allow for a bit of fudging, but if the drive slot is half an inch too high or low, I guess the plan is hopeless. Anyone know? The good thing about making |================================================ a mistake twice is that you | Joshua W Burton (847)677-3902 jburton@nwu.edu know just where to cringe. |================================================
From: YoungHoon Kil <ppai@soback.kornet.nm.kr> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Best Pure NS PC Suggestion? Date: Thu, 14 Nov 1996 03:45:02 +0900 Organization: KORNET Message-ID: <328A1725.6EA2@soback.kornet.nm.kr> References: <5639du$ehm@news.asu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=euc-kr Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Andy Wang (awang@plains.nodak.edu) wrote: >I find the ELSA Winner 2000 Pro/X to be a much nicer card for NEXTSTEP. >The card has much better support. >Also, the ELSA drivers will support 1600x1280@32bpp with an 8MB card. I could not find the ELSA WINNER 2000PRO/X 4BM or 8MB in the famous internet shops. Where is the shop in the Internet? and How much? Please give me some info. YoungHoon Kil ppai@soback.kornet.nm.kr (Cyberdog, Voice Mail OK) http://soback.kornet.nm.kr/~ppai (NEXTSTEP News written by Korean)
From: YoungHoon Kil <ppai@soback.kornet.nm.kr> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: [Q] Command+Control+Power keys in the NeXT ADB Keyboard Date: Thu, 14 Nov 1996 04:03:30 +0900 Organization: KORNET Message-ID: <328A1B76.5096@soback.kornet.nm.kr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=euc-kr Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I have a NeXT ADB Keyboard with PowerMac. When my system is frozen, I could not find the Command+Control+Power key in the NeXT ADB Keyboard. Anyone know of such key action? Thanks a lot in advance. YoungHoon Kil ppai@soback.kornet.nm.kr (Cyberdog, Voice Mail OK) http://soback.kornet.nm.kr/~ppai (NEXTSTEP News written by Korean)
From: YoungHoon Kil <ppai@soback.kornet.nm.kr> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Nikon scanner ? Date: Thu, 14 Nov 1996 04:18:02 +0900 Organization: KORNET Message-ID: <328A1EDB.5D9D@soback.kornet.nm.kr> References: <569cn5$m23@winx03.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=euc-kr Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Bergmann Winfried wrote: > I could get a cheap NIKON scanner (scsi) (don't know which model) > and I'd like to know, if anybody has experience with this. Is there > software available for it? If you have a Nikon 35mm film scanner like LS-1000(or FS-1000), You will use it with interpersonal-computing's ScanOmatic2.3 driver. More Info, ----------------------------------------------------------- interpersonal-computing Imagination. Made in Europe. NeXT Center Munich Jens Ch. Gloede - CEO ipc - Oettingenstrasse 2 http://www.ipc.de/ 80538 Munich Tel.: ++49 (0)89 219975-0 GERMANY / Bavaria Fax.: ++49 (0)89 223376 E-Mail: info@interpc.de NeXT & MIME Mail ok (int.< 1 MB) ----------------------------------------------------------- YoungHoon Kil ppai@soback.kornet.nm.kr (Cyberdog, Voice Mail OK) http://soback.kornet.nm.kr/~ppai (NEXTSTEP News written by Korean)
From: AMark@ncmi-ny.com (Allen Mark) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: HP T4000s Date: 13 Nov 1996 14:54:50 GMT Organization: NationBanc Capital Markets,Inc.(NY) Message-ID: <56cnfq$g53@niven.ncmi-gsl.com> References: <56a73f$aro@niven.ncmi-gsl.com> I solved the problem with the tape drive by updating the firmware from ver 1.02 to 1.06. Thanks to Al Slater (aslater@jocko.bri.hp.com) for spotting the error in the log and suggesting a firmware fix. The new version can be found at HP's website (http://www.hp.com:80/isgsupport/cms/00index.html). Allen
From: uzs198@ibm.rhrz.uni-bonn.de (Nik Wiesel) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: AWE32 PNP and NS3.3? Date: 13 Nov 1996 18:18:37 GMT Organization: RHRZ - University of Bonn (Germany) Message-ID: <56d3dt$11f6@news.rhrz.uni-bonn.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=US-ASCII Hi, What is necessary to get the SB AWE32 PNP run with NS3.3? Answers please to: uzs198@ibm.rhrz.uni-bonn.de
From: root@dpls.dacc.wisc.edu (Operator) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Where to get NeXT Cube HD mounting bracket? Date: 13 Nov 1996 20:12:06 GMT Organization: University of Wisconsin, Madison Distribution: world Message-ID: <56da2m$1o06@news.doit.wisc.edu> References: <E0tG9t.ELs@midway.uchicago.edu> In article <E0tG9t.ELs@midway.uchicago.edu> tachang@gsbux1.uchicago.edu (Andrew Chang) writes: > I'd like to replace the old internal Maxtor 660MB drive. Can anyone tell > me where I can get the mounting bracket? How many 1/2 and/or 1/3 height > HDs can I put in? Any consideration on the cooling? Thanks. If you replace the drive with another 5+1/4" form factor drive then you don't need a mounting bracket, although more than likely you'll repalce it with a 3+1/2" drive in which case you'll need an adapter. Any reasonable computer hardware store should have these for <=$10. Ask for a 3+1/2" mounting bracket adapter. The NeXTcube can hold a total of two full height 5+1/4" drives and has four pairs of hole's on each side of the internal frame for mounting. So without modification you can install up to four 1/2 height drives. However, the power supply only has two outlets for drives - if you want more you'll need an additional splitter and should check you don't exceed the power supply's rated output. I'm assuming of course that you don't already have an optical drive or floppy (note, the floppy does _not_ require one of the power cords becauses it is powered through the interface cable). - Gareth bestor@cs.wisc.edu PS - when you take the back off the cube and pull out the power supply and disk cage this will all be obvious!
From: Dean Reece <dean.reece@eng.sun.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Millennium & Packed Pixel (was Re: Best Pure NS PC Suggestion?) Date: Wed, 13 Nov 1996 12:30:51 -0800 Organization: JavaSoft Message-ID: <328A2FFB.270F@eng.sun.com> References: <5639du$ehm@news.asu.edu> <SHESS.96Nov11105317@howard.one.net> <3288CDF5.652E@eng.sun.com> <56am9n$pj6@majipoor.cygnus.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit John Rudd wrote: > > In <3288CDF5.652E@eng.sun.com> Dean Reece wrote: > > Scott Hess wrote: > > > > > ... > > > The Matrox Millenium is a > > > solid card, and 4M should suffice for a good long while - you can't > > > really use the 8M version unless you have a 21" monitor and want > > > 32-bit color at 1600x1200. I don't even know if NeXTSTEP supports > > > that :-). > > > > No, it can't. The board will only go up to 1600x1200 at 24-bit color. > > NEXTSTEP's DPS code can't deal with 24-bit (packed pixel) format, so the > > only mode that 8MB buys you is 1280x1024@32bpp. > > > > I agree that the Millenium is a solid card. > > Cheers, > > - Dean > > At one point, someone from NeXT posted that the 8mb support is in the driver, > it's just not in the Default.table. That was me (dean.reece@eng.sun.com), in a former life (Dean_Reece@NeXT.com). > You can edit it to add the 1280x1024x32 > and 1600x1280x32 modes (note: I'm just trying to regurgitate from memory, > don't come to me if it doesn't work). The reason it wasn't added in > originally was that the _card_ had a bug in it that didn't work propperly. > They left the 8mb modes in the driver in case Matrox fixed it (which they > did, but by then NeXT wasn't pursuing Nextstep/OpenstepMach as vigorously). Close, but not exactly correct... 1) We (NeXT) thought the board should be able to do 1600x1200@32 in 8MB; Matrox, thinking "Packed Pixel", said it could. We were unable to get that mode to work, but we didn't want to hold up release of the driver, so we dropped the 8MB personality and shipped it. (this is about when I posted the message you mention). 2) While trying to resolve the bug, we finally discovered the source of the confusion. The Matrox Millennium does not support* 32bpp at 1600x1200. The Windows drivers use packed pixel (24bpp), so most people logically assume that mode should be available under NS. It is neither a bug in their hardware nor NeXT's driver - it is simply an incompatibility. 3) Some time later, NeXT rev'd the Matrox Millennium driver, adding the 8MB personality back (sans 1600x1200@32), and added multiheaded support to the driver. It looks like NeXTanswers is a bit out of date, as neither the 3.3 nor the 4.x overview mention these changes, but I believe that v3.31 and v4.00 (and later) include them. Cheers, - Dean - - - - - - - - - - - - support* ... In the world of video adapters, "support" is not a yes-or-no concept. Basically, a video board is a complicated pixel pump with dozens of programmable counters & dividers. There is a master pixel clock from which most other signals are derived. Some modes & pixel rates may push some particular component past its design speed. That doesn't mean it won't work, but that it isn't designed to work. I think the Matrox Millennium is spec'd to do something like 56Hz(NI) at 1600x1200@32. NeXT's policy was not to include any interlaced modes, nor modes below 60Hz, so out it went. Obviously, you can push the system beyond its design limits, but you risk flakey video performance, and in extreme cases, thermal dammage (I have actually seen this in one case). This is the reason for the various grim warnings in NeXT's on-line help. - - - - - - - - - - - - Regarding "Packed Pixel"... If any of you are confused about what that means, I'll try to clear it up. From a user's perspective 32bpp = 24bpp = 16.7MColors - no visible difference. From the OS's perspective, there is a difference: 32bpp uses 8bits per color channel (RGB) and one byte wasted(-). In memory, this looks like: Address: 0123456789abcdef Data: RGB-RGB-RGB-RGB- Pixel#: 0 1 2 3 It is not very memory efficient, as it wastes 25% of the framebuffer, but it is faster to do pixel math, since every pixel starts on a long-word boundary in memory. Also, this is the native format used for the backing store in NeXT's window server (though the wasted byte is used for alpha in the backing store). This means copying data from the backing store to the framebuffer is fast and simple. 24bpp, also called packed Pixel simply skips the wasted byte. In memory, it looks like: Address: 0123456789abcdef Data: RGBRGBRGBRGBRGBR Pixel#: 0 1 2 3 4 5 Obviously, it lets you fit more pixels into the same sized framebuffer. Also, it lowers the bandwidth requirements in the video card, because you are slinging 25% fewer bits around to get the same video quality. The downside is that it requires a more complicated RAMDAC (which is why you haven't seen Packed Pixel much until recently). Also NeXT's window server would have to convert pixels on-the-fly as they were copied out of the backing store, which would be a performance hit.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.periphs.scsi From: Timothy J Luoma <luomat@nerc.com> Subject: EZ135 Upgrade Info and EZFlyer rebate Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.95.961113162523.1563A-100000@charisma> Date: Wed, 13 Nov 1996 16:28:29 -0500 To: jsamson@istar.ca, docman@evansville.net, dg628@freenet.carleton.ca Organization: Princeton Theological Seminary Return-Receipt-To: luomat@nerc.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII I contacted SyQuest this afternoon. 1) still no "official" upgrade program announcement (so I assume that the un-official $100 is still in place). 2) when I asked if the trade-in program could be used in conjunction with the $55 rebate for the EZFlyer, I was told "Absolutely not. It clearly states on the coupon that this is not to be used in conjunction with any other offer." I had them transfer me over to the office of the guy running this whole shebang, and got voicemail for his secretary. I left her a message asking her to call me.
From: ancar@mindspring.com (Andrea Johnson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: NextStep on a pentium? Date: Wed, 13 Nov 1996 23:33:57 GMT Organization: MindSpring Enterprises, Inc. Message-ID: <56dltt$c5h@camel2.mindspring.com> Can a Pentium support NEXTSTEP ver 3 and it's revisions. How does it run? What are the most basic requirements? I am interested in installing a REAL O/S on my laptop. Win95 is a joke in my opinion and I wanted a nice os with a LOOk and FEEL to it. SolarisX86 is nice but better suited to a SPARC platform and OS2WARP is still unproven. The only other alternative is LINUX and there are so many versions and flavors of this that I am a little confused. However i did see a little demo of NEXTSTEP and I like it. I'll await a reply form anyone. thanks!
From: 3mpa@qlink.queensu.ca (Marco Anglesio) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: ObjectStation41 CPU Upgrade... Date: 14 Nov 1996 07:51:27 GMT Organization: Hell-by-the-Lake Message-ID: <56ej1v$s4f@knot.queensu.ca> References: <56bseg$ibk@snunews.snu.ac.kr> <kmWYPMy00UzxM2JLlc@andrew.cmu.edu> Charles William Swiger (cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu) wrote: : Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.hardware: 13-Nov-96 ObjectStation41 : CPU Upgrade... by @power1.snu.ac.kr : > I have the Pentium Overdrive Processor 83Mhz to install on : > Canon Object Station 41. : > but I have no manual of that Computer.. : > Need I change some jumpers?-like vesa type, cpu clock, cpu type.. : > and Need I update the bios of Computer? : : When upgrading a similar 486/66 Intel machine to the POP-83, there was a : jumper for selecting between "486" and "P24T" or some similar : designation which needed to be switched. The "P24T" apparently was : Intel's original designation for the Pentium Overdrive. Alternately you have a set of jumpers which refer to processor speed and make; there will be a combination for a P24T/Pentium Overdrive. Most importantly - check your manual. marco marco anglesio:mpa@cyberus.ca:cspo.queensu.ca/~anglesio You're a doctor, Juliet. You kill people all the time
From: paul@pth.com (Paul Haddad) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: 3Com 3c595 Network Card Date: 13 Nov 1996 23:28:59 GMT Organization: InternetMCI Message-ID: <56dljr$e5a@news.internetmci.com> Hi, Does anyone have any idea when/if a driver for the 3Com 3C595 network card will be available? -- Paul Haddad
From: Scott Mewett <mewett@mpr.ca> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Experience with Toshiba Tecras? Date: Thu, 14 Nov 1996 13:25:22 +0000 Organization: MPR Teltech Ltd. Message-ID: <328B1DC2.55F8@mpr.ca> References: <55pb18$2mqq@news.doit.wisc.edu> <32877bd2.0@news.provo.novell.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Shawn Lynn wrote: > Unlike the other gentleman who replied, I would certainly buy a Tecra over an NEC. NEC's service > has always been troublesome, and with the recent aquisition of NEC by Packard Bell I don't see much > hope of that improving in the future. And throwing Packard Bell into any equation makes me pretty > nervous.... Sorry i didn't include this with my other post but.... I had the same concern about Packard Bell too when I first heard that they joined up with NEC. However a Systems Engineer from NEC in Vancouver assured me that mostly this acquisition by Packard Bell was for increased buying power and distribution. The Products and Engineering departments would remain seperate. Scott
From: Scott Mewett <mewett@mpr.ca> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Experience with Toshiba Tecras? Date: Thu, 14 Nov 1996 13:19:42 +0000 Organization: MPR Teltech Ltd. Message-ID: <328B1C6E.78CF@mpr.ca> References: <55pb18$2mqq@news.doit.wisc.edu> <32877bd2.0@news.provo.novell.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Shawn Lynn wrote: > > Unlike the other gentleman who replied, I would certainly buy a Tecra over an NEC. NEC's service > has always been troublesome, and with the recent aquisition of NEC by Packard Bell I don't see much > hope of that improving in the future. And throwing Packard Bell into any equation makes me pretty > nervous.... > > giddings@menominee.chem.wisc.edu (Michael Giddings) wrote: > You do make some excellent points about the battery life. I found that to be a real problem during my eval. Also before I had a long hard look at the NEC I felt the same way you do about there products and Support. However NEC has made some great strides in those departments. There has been a real departure from there former way of thinking (that they know better) and I really do think that unless one looks at all the players they can really miss out. I recently did experience a failure of one of NEC notebooks. And i do have to say that there support in that respect is unsurpassed. They have been doing this for years now. Only just last week did Toshiba announce there plans to implement a similar warrenty system. NEC Battery charge time also is similar to that of the ThinkPad. I have found that there are a number of people in the NeXT community that seem to be running on IBM Thinkpads. I hope that things are working out well for them. We have about a half dozen ThinkPads here and everyone of them has problems. Usually due to proprietary parts of the notebook.(Card Services, MWave stuff.) But all that said. You put it well in the Following: >Don't get me wrong, the Tecra's a decent piece of hardware, but there >are some missing pieces in >the overall puzzle. And it's nice to know about those missing pieces >before you buy the puzzle. And when it comes down to it. NEC, Toshiba and IBM ThinkPads kick butt on anything else out there. ;-) Scott
From: shess@one.net (Scott Hess) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Tyan Yorktown (NCR825) and ST32155N Date: 14 Nov 96 12:40:36 Organization: Is a sign of weakness Distribution: comp Message-ID: <SHESS.96Nov14124036@slave.one.net> References: <SHESS.96Nov13232336@howard.one.net> <SHESS.96Nov14094450@howard.one.net> In-reply-to: shess@one.net's message of 14 Nov 96 09:44:50 In article <SHESS.96Nov14094450@howard.one.net>, shess@one.net (Scott Hess) writes: The next hurdle was getting things booting with both the NCR810 and NCR825 card. Had to reenable the on-board BIOS - again, nothing changed, so I'm not certain what exactly this accomplished. Again, it was finding the drives, and appeared to find them all on the right path, but when it went to "Registering sc0", it hung for a good long time, and then said "Unable to mount root". This was fixed by swapping the order of the cards. Now they both work at the same time. Both boot into NeXTSTEP and NT. I spoke too soon. I've found a _very_ interesting interaction. If I put the cards in their slots in one order, I can boot NeXTSTEP3.3, and it sees all the devices fine. In the other order it hangs when booting. Unfortunately, in the order required for booting NeXTSTEP, I can't boot OpenStep4.0pr2. If I swap the cards, I can boot OpenStep - but not NeXTSTEP! Fun, fun, fun! In either non-booting case, it hangs at "Registering sc0". At that point, it has seen both cards in some sense, and id'ed all of the drivers, but it has only registered the Instance0 driver. Any ideas on that? I've tried removing the drivers and adding them back from Configure, so that both drivers have a good "Location" entry in their Instance?.table. I've also tried clearing the "Location" entries from the Instance?.table. Beyond that, I could try fixing the IRQ's in the BIOS and in Configure.app, but so far it's just easier to hook up another machine and run OpenStep on _it_. Later, -- scott hess <shess@one.net> (606) 578-0412 http://w3.one.net/~shess/ <I plan to become so famous that people buy tapes of me reading source code>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.periphs.scsi From: Timothy J Luoma <luomat@nerc.com> Subject: SyQuest: New Info, Trade in of all sorts of drives (incl Zip)!!! (Re: EZ135 Upgrade Info , and EZFlyer rebate) Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.95.961114174100.16588A-100000@charisma> Date: Thu, 14 Nov 1996 18:00:39 -0500 References: <Pine.NXT.3.95.961113162523.1563A-100000@charisma> To: jsamson@istar.ca, docman@evansville.net, dg628@freenet.carleton.ca In-Reply-To: <Pine.NXT.3.95.961113162523.1563A-100000@charisma> Organization: Princeton Theological Seminary Return-Receipt-To: luomat@nerc.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Hello yet again. Got a call from the guy at SyQuest today who is heading up this program. He gave me some interesting tidbits to pass along: - they are in active production of the 135 cart, "You WILL be able to find these cartridges, we are working on that problem" - the upgrade program should be official today. - You can trade in your EZ135 drive and get a credit for $99 towards EITHER the EZFlyer or the SyJet drive (1.5 gig). *NEW* - You can also turn in other drives (ie Zip drives, etc) towards the purchase of ANY SyQuest drive (he didn't have exact trade-in price/drive). Contact them at 1-800-245-2278 for more details *NEW* - whether or not the $55 coupon/rebate for the EZFlyer can be used with the trade-in program has NOT been finally decided. Stay tuned. - there is no set deadline to the program (ie: it is NOT limited to the end of the year, etc). - I expressed fear that the EZFlyer would be stopped as the EZ135 was, and I'd have an obsolete drive once again. He assured me that the EZFlyer is going to be an important product for them over the long-term. I've had just great contact with SyQuest. It is a good feeling to deal with a company that seems to care about their customers. They have returned my phone calls and the wait on their 800 number has not been very long. Anyway, just another update. TjL
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Where's the FAQ ? Date: Thu, 14 Nov 1996 18:13:45 -0800 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.95.961114181212.28519A-100000@kira> References: <rr-1211961913050001@ztm03-08.dial.xs4all.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: RrR <rr@xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <rr-1211961913050001@ztm03-08.dial.xs4all.nl> Return-Receipt-To: luomat@nerc.com You can find it at http://www.next.peak.org/~luomat/next/mailserver/clean-cube or send me email with the SUBJECT of send-ascii clean-cube or send-mime clean-cube (the body of the message will be ignored) TjL -- Timothy J. Luoma <luomat@peak.org> New Submissions Coordinator/PEAK FTP Site Personal/NeXT Web Page: http://www.next.peak.org/~luomat NeXTStep/OpenStep FTP area: ftp://ftp.next.peak.org/pub/next http://www.next.peak.org/ftp/pub/next On Tue, 12 Nov 1996, RrR wrote: > Date: Tue, 12 Nov 1996 19:13:05 +0100 > From: RrR <rr@xs4all.nl> > Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware > Subject: Where's the FAQ ? > > Stupid me, can find the faq on the Next Cube, supposing there is one.... > Can someone help me out here ? > > r > >
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Jaz Drive: Good Gone Bad? Date: Mon, 11 Nov 1996 06:23:11 -0800 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.95.961111062000.10199A-100000@kira> References: <56638m$8c4@kanga.accessone.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: salvo@accessone.com In-Reply-To: <56638m$8c4@kanga.accessone.com> Return-Receipt-To: luomat@nerc.com Don't know if this is similar... I had an ez135 that would give me sense errors, and complained about "something else" which I can't remember exactly. Anyway, it turned out to be a bad block. Using 'reasb' on the bad block solved all the errors I had been having, and now I couldn't tell you which of my carts was that one, and I've got 6 (none of the others have had the problem). The drive made terrible noises when it hit that bad block too, I've not heard it since. However, you seem to be having a more general problem, less likely that you have bad blocks on all of them. Just a datapoint TjL
From: bradf95@acd.tusk.edu (Brett Bradford) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.periphs.scsi Subject: Re: SyQuest: New Info, Trade in of all sorts of drives (incl Zip)!!! (Re: EZ135 Upgrade Info , and EZFlyer rebate) Date: Fri, 15 Nov 1996 07:37:35 -0400 Organization: Oak Ridge National Lab, Oak Ridge, TN Message-ID: <bradf95-ya023180001511960737350001@stc06.ctd.ornl.gov> References: <Pine.NXT.3.95.961113162523.1563A-100000@charisma> <Pine.NXT.3.95.961114174100.16588A-100000@charisma> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In article <Pine.NXT.3.95.961114174100.16588A-100000@charisma>, Tim Luoma <luomat@nerc.com> wrote: > > - I expressed fear that the EZFlyer would be stopped > as the EZ135 was, and I'd have an obsolete drive > once again. He assured me that the EZFlyer is going > to be an important product for them over the > long-term. > > Friend, were I you, I would not place too much worth in the weight of this guy's assurances. Don't get me wrong for I am looking at buying an EZFlyer. However, I realize that in light of recent discontinuations, the Flyer could go the way of the 135. Remember, such products are motivated by market response and obligations to the stockholder and company profit, not by any person's (not even the CEO) 'assurances.'
From: giddings@menominee.chem.wisc.edu (Michael Giddings) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: How to soft reboot/interrupt on portable? Date: 11 Nov 1996 19:34:00 GMT Organization: University of Wisconsin, Madison Message-ID: <567v38$2oug@news.doit.wisc.edu> Hi I used to have a Thinkpad and now I have a Tecra, and I have had the same problem with both: I can't soft interrupt/reboot! The problem is, on many portables the NumLock key not standard or is missing altogether. Advice or suggestions would be appreciated. -- Michael Giddings giddings@chem.wisc.edu giddings@barbarian.com (608)258-1699 or (608) 692-2851 http://www.barbarian.com
From: Stefano Pagiola <spagiola@worldbank.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: NeXT Laser Printer problem Date: Mon, 11 Nov 1996 14:02:18 -0500 Organization: World Bank Message-ID: <3287783A.1B07@worldbank.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit My NeXT Laser Printer has recently taken to printing things with little or no bottom margin and a large top margin. For example, if I do a printer test from the Printer Manager, the bottom of the image runs off the bottom of the page, but there's a margin at the top. The same applies to printing from any application. Did I somehow nuke a default somewhere? How do I change it back? Thanks for any suggestions. Stefano
From: giddings@menominee.chem.wisc.edu (Michael Giddings) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Experience with Toshiba Tecras? (how to soft interrupt?) Date: 15 Nov 1996 17:30:36 GMT Organization: University of Wisconsin, Madison Message-ID: <56i9bs$3ldm@news.doit.wisc.edu> References: <55pb18$2mqq@news.doit.wisc.edu> <32877bd2.0@news.provo.novell.com> Cc: grettir@njardvik.orem.novell.com It is interesting to see the continuing discussion about the Tecras generated by my initial query - however, I now have one, and though it is large and slow to recharge, I am quite happy with it compared to the Thinkpad 755ce I had, which had a 640x480 screen. However, there is one thing I can't figure out: if I need to force a halt or reboot, I can't figure out a key combination that will do this. The only way seems to be by using the hard reset button on the side, which forces a long fsck-reboot cycle. Is there any way of accessing the soft interrupt with this keyboard? If not, can it be set up to do so using the keyboard driver? Also, does anyone else out there long for a working suspend/resume? I do, and if I can get hold of further info I may try to figure out how to write an LKS to make this work. -- Michael Giddings giddings@chem.wisc.edu giddings@barbarian.com (608)258-1699 or (608) 692-2851 http://www.barbarian.com
From: 3mpa@qlink.queensu.ca (Marco Anglesio) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: ObjectStation41 CPU Upgrade... Date: 15 Nov 1996 16:00:12 GMT Organization: Hell-by-the-Lake Message-ID: <56i42c$m72@knot.queensu.ca> References: <56bseg$ibk@snunews.snu.ac.kr> <kmWYPMy00UzxM2JLlc@andrew.cmu.edu> Charles William Swiger (cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu) wrote: : Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.hardware: 14-Nov-96 Re: : ObjectStation41 CPU Upg.. by Marco Anglesio@qlink.que : >:> I have the Pentium Overdrive Processor 83Mhz to install on : >:> Canon Object Station 41. : >:> but I have no manual of that Computer.. : ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ : [ ... ] : > : > Alternately you have a set of jumpers which refer to processor speed : > and make; there will be a combination for a P24T/Pentium Overdrive. Most : > importantly - check your manual. : : He can't check his manual-- see above. I'm sure Canon (or a Canon distrib. in his area) has one lying around. m. marco anglesio:mpa@cyberus.ca:cspo.queensu.ca/~anglesio You're a doctor, Juliet. You kill people all the time
From: paul@pth.com (Paul Haddad) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: ObjectStation41 CPU Upgrade... Date: 15 Nov 1996 17:55:54 GMT Organization: InternetMCI Message-ID: <56iara$e3r@news.internetmci.com> References: <56bseg$ibk@snunews.snu.ac.kr> <kmWYPMy00UzxM2JLlc@andrew.cmu.edu> <56i42c$m72@knot.queensu.ca> Hi, So has anyone actually upgraded their ObjectStations? Did it make any noticeable difference in performance? -- Paul Haddad
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware From: cdouty@netcom.com (Chris Douty) Subject: Re: Where to get NeXT Cube HD mounting bracket? Message-ID: <cdoutyE0xFoI.Dy4@netcom.com> Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 261-4700 guest) References: <E0tG9t.ELs@midway.uchicago.edu> <56da2m$1o06@news.doit.wisc.edu> Date: Fri, 15 Nov 1996 19:33:54 GMT Sender: cdouty@netcom16.netcom.com In article <56da2m$1o06@news.doit.wisc.edu>, Operator <root@dpls.dacc.wisc.edu> wrote: >In article <E0tG9t.ELs@midway.uchicago.edu> tachang@gsbux1.uchicago.edu >(Andrew Chang) writes: >> I'd like to replace the old internal Maxtor 660MB drive. Can anyone tell >> me where I can get the mounting bracket? How many 1/2 and/or 1/3 height >> HDs can I put in? Any consideration on the cooling? Thanks. > >The NeXTcube can hold a total of two full height 5+1/4" drives and has >four pairs of hole's on each side of the internal frame for mounting. >So without modification you can install up to four 1/2 height drives. One possible fly in the ointment is that old cubes only have mounting holes for two drives. I have an upgraded '030 cube (now running Turbo '040 and an ND :-) which only supports two internal drives. I don't know when NeXT changed hard drive cages to the style you describe. I'd speculate that any cube which shipped with a floppy supports >2 drives. Cheers, Chris Douty -- Christopher Douty - Rogue Engineer trapped in a land of software cdouty@netcom.com "Frequently the messages have meaning; that is they refer to or are correlated according to some system with physical or conceptual entities. These semantic aspects of communication are irrelevant to the engineering problem." -Shannon
From: David Lawson <dlawson@cftnet.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: NS 3.2 on HP Vectra XU 5/90 Date: Fri, 15 Nov 1996 16:04:43 -0500 Organization: CFTnet Message-ID: <328CDAEB.3D84@cftnet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To All: Will NS 3.2 run on the following platform: HP Vectra XU 5/90 with 540 MB HD 32MB ram Integrated S3 video I've been unable to find the 3.2 hardware compatibility guides on the Next site although I did find a beta 3.3 video driver for the machine. Will this driver work under 3.2. Thanks in advance, Dave Lawson dlawson@cftnet.com
From: Ray Stricklin <kjaeros@u.washington.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Where to get NeXT Cube HD mounting bracket? Date: Fri, 15 Nov 1996 19:05:47 -0800 Organization: University of Washington Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.3.95.961115190404.20282B-100000@saul3.u.washington.edu> References: <E0tG9t.ELs@midway.uchicago.edu> <56da2m$1o06@news.doit.wisc.edu> <cdoutyE0xFoI.Dy4@netcom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII NNTP-Posting-User: kjaeros In-Reply-To: <cdoutyE0xFoI.Dy4@netcom.com> Predicate: `"Did you eat something that did not agree with you?" asked John' On Fri, 15 Nov 1996, Chris Douty wrote: > One possible fly in the ointment is that old cubes only have mounting > holes for two drives. I have an upgraded '030 cube (now running Turbo > '040 and an ND :-) which only supports two internal drives. I don't know > when NeXT changed hard drive cages to the style you describe. I'd > speculate that any cube which shipped with a floppy supports >2 drives. Some '030 cubes may have had four sets of holes. I have an upgraded '030 cube (serial nr. 999) that supports 4 drives. I find it unlikely that the person who owned the cube before I did 'upgraded' the drive tower, too... -r http://weber.u.washington.edu/~kjaeros -------------------------------------- [ e x l i b r i s ]
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi,comp.sys.next.hardware From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@nerc.com> Subject: Re: SyQuest: New Info, Trade in of all sorts of drives (incl Zip)!!! (Re: EZ135 Upgrade Info , and EZFlyer rebate) Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.95.961115104222.15483B-100000@nerc3.nerc.com> Date: Fri, 15 Nov 1996 11:05:35 -0500 To: Brett Bradford <bradf95@acd.tusk.edu> In-Reply-To: <199611151339.IAA21457@cosmail5.ctd.ornl.gov> Return-Receipt-To: luomat@nerc.com Organization: Princeton Theological Seminary MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII A number of people have sent comments indicating they think it is fooolish to trust this guy I've been talking with at SyQuest. Of course, he could be yanking me around. I understand that as a possibility. However, I don't think he's gone through as much trouble as he has just to give me misleading information. In fact, he's been very up-front with me about a number of things, enough that I'm willing to accept his assurances. I've had a lot of conversations with this guy, and he has proven himself trustworthy to me. That may or may not change anyone's mind, but is enough to assure me that I've had contact with a bright light in the midst of a very dark industry... TjL
From: caljouwr@cadvision.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Unknown System Date: 16 Nov 1996 03:34:09 GMT Organization: GS/X Computing Corporation Distribution: World Message-ID: <56jcnh$2g6u@elmo.cadvision.com> Hi all. I'm thinking of buying an Intel machine for use with NS 3.3. I came across a pentium machine that looks like it should run NS just fine from looking at the specs but I have never heard of the brand. It's called a Global??? Has anyone ever heard of or used one of these? It looks like a pretty good deal but I was wondering if anyone had any experience with one. Thanks.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware From: dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca (David Evans) Subject: Re: [Q] Some questions about the Demension Board Speed Sender: news@novice.uwaterloo.ca (Mr. News) Message-ID: <E0xoH2.KHo@novice.uwaterloo.ca> Date: Fri, 15 Nov 1996 22:43:50 GMT References: <55urm4$ldi@usenet.kornet.nm.kr> <564qn6$6lp@news1.voicenet.com> <568m13$1dui@msunews.cl.msu.edu> Organization: University of Waterloo In article <568m13$1dui@msunews.cl.msu.edu>, <rencsok@channelu.com> wrote: > >Yeah contact Sandy Hawkins the current daughter card hoarder (he only has >2 out of what 5-10 that were produced). The problem with the card was that >it ran extremely hot, and the FIFO on the CL550 chip was extremely small >making for lots of interrupts to service to clear the FIFO. Apparently the "official" solution from C-Cubed was to use the host CPU (in the ND's case the i860) to "throttle back" the pixel clock, thereby preventing the FIFO from overflowing. Then, you would hope that you could catch up durring vertical blank. This is likely why the PowerVideo card from Parallax can record real-time MJPEG video only at 320 x 200 or so. Above that you have to do the encoding later in software. >Frankly I thought the CL560 was near enough to the CL550 in terms of >pin compatiblity to make if feasible. The problem is that there arn't >enough >ND boards out there to justify the expense of making a daughter card.. > Apparently there were about 8000 ND boards made, but I don't know what percentage of owners would want an MJPEG daughterboard. Not to mention what those who *would* want it would be willing to pay. Parallax charges about $8K for the PowerVideo. -- David Evans (NeXTMail OK) dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca Computer/Synth Junkie http://bbcr.uwaterloo.ca/~dfevans/ University of Waterloo "Default is the value selected by the composer Ontario, Canada overridden by your command." - Roland TR-707 Manual
From: hill@cpsc.ucalgary.ca (David Hill) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: CD-R writers, Power Drive 2, and NeXTSTEP Date: 16 Nov 1996 04:39:10 GMT Organization: University of Calgary CPSC Message-ID: <56jghe$ggb@linux.cpsc.ucalgary.ca> Anyone out there have experience using CD-R writers or the Panasonic Power Drive 2 (or look-alikes) on an original black next. Maybe you have a working disktab entry for one or the other? As my news server seems to pass on an arbitrary selection of news articles received, I'd appreciate an email version of your posted response. Thanks. david --- -- David R. Hill, CS & Psych Depts., U. Calgary | Imagination is more Calgary, AB, Canada T2N 1N4 Ph: 604-947-9362 | important than knowledge. hill@cpsc.ucalgary.ca OR david@firethorne.com| (Albert Einstein) http://www.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/~hill (^NeXTMail)| Kill your television!
From: rr@xs4all.nl (RrR) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Where's the FAQ ? Date: Tue, 12 Nov 1996 19:13:05 +0100 Organization: XS4ALL, networking for the masses Message-ID: <rr-1211961913050001@ztm03-08.dial.xs4all.nl> Stupid me, can find the faq on the Next Cube, supposing there is one.... Can someone help me out here ? r
From: Dean Reece <dean.reece@eng.sun.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Best Pure NS PC Suggestion? Date: Tue, 12 Nov 1996 11:20:21 -0800 Organization: JavaSoft Message-ID: <3288CDF5.652E@eng.sun.com> References: <5639du$ehm@news.asu.edu> <SHESS.96Nov11105317@howard.one.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Scott Hess wrote: > ... > The Matrox Millenium is a > solid card, and 4M should suffice for a good long while - you can't > really use the 8M version unless you have a 21" monitor and want > 32-bit color at 1600x1200. I don't even know if NeXTSTEP supports > that :-). No, it can't. The board will only go up to 1600x1200 at 24-bit color. NEXTSTEP's DPS code can't deal with 24-bit (packed pixel) format, so the only mode that 8MB buys you is 1280x1024@32bpp. I agree that the Millenium is a solid card. Cheers, - Dean
From: Dean Reece <dean.reece@eng.sun.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: HELP: Problem installing an ATI Mach64 Graphics Adaptor Date: Tue, 12 Nov 1996 11:15:45 -0800 Organization: JavaSoft Message-ID: <3288CCE1.4DFD@eng.sun.com> References: <567bho$5rp@news.Dortmund.Germany.EU.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit The Mach64 driver calls into a protected mode BIOS entry point that ATI makes available on all their products. The driver is telling you that it can't find that entry point. If you can move the video BIOS around via your system setup software, try moving it to C8000 (That is the _normal_ video BIOS address, right?). It is possible that the OEM that produces your motherboard didn't include that BIOS, or changed it in some way. There is an older version of the ATI Mach64 driver floating around that does not use this interface. It doesn't support as manny different Mach64 models, since it doesn't go through the BIOS, but it may work for you. Good luck, - Dean Piers Uso Walter wrote: > > I've got a PCI Pentium 133 machine with NEXTSTEP 3.3 installed. > Unfortunately I can't get the display adaptor (an ATI Mach 64 PCI board > with 2 MB VRAM) to work, though. > > I downloaded the driver from NeXTanswers (#1734) and installed it with > Configure.app. I left all entries at their default settings. > > During system startup I see the following error messages: > Display0: ATI BIOS not found > _IOProbeDriver: No Such Device, device ATIMach64DisplayDriver unit 0 > ... > /usr/etc/driverLoader: No display driver added, trying VGA > > The next thing I tried was taking a look at the manual and configuring > *all* I/O ports and memory addresses listed in the manual (I had to use > the expert configuration to do this). > Same result upon startup (still only VGA). > > The last thing I tried was ask a colleague who is running the same > hardware configuration under Windows NT. He used the hardware device > configure app (I don't know the exact Windows terminology) and gave me all > I/O ports and memory addresses used by the board under Windows NT. I > entered these in Configure.app. > Still the ATI BIOS was not found. > > Did anybody experience (or better yet, solve) this kind of problem before? > > With kind regards > > Piers Walter > pwalter@mediahaus.de
From: Dean Reece <dean.reece@eng.sun.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: [Q] Search for 1280x1024x32bit or higher graphics card Date: Tue, 12 Nov 1996 10:58:03 -0800 Organization: JavaSoft Message-ID: <3288C8BB.565D@eng.sun.com> References: <SHESS.96Nov11110100@howard.one.net> <1996Nov11.231937.9922@il.us.swissbank.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Eric_Brown wrote: > > Scott Hess writes > > [Actually, I'm sort of wondering why the drivers don't have an 888/24 > > mode. Then you could do 1280x1024x24 in 4M, and only need 8M for > > 1600x1200x32. Does the lack of perfect alignment exact _that_ big of > > a performance penalty?] > > > > The problem is that the DPS server in NEXTSTEP doesn't support the type of > pixel packing that you are referring to. I don't know if there would really be > a performance penalty or not. In fact, it's possible that it would even be > faster since only 75% of the data would have to be blasted to the screen. Well, it actually would be a bit slower. The DPS code is optimized to transfer data from the backing store to the framebuffer line-by-line; having to translate pixels on the fly means that you have some logic in the path of the transfer. You are moving less data to the framebuffer, but you are doing pointer math for each pixel. Cheers, - Dean
From: dkramer@bifrostworks.com (Daniel L. Kramer) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Best Pure NS PC Suggestion? Date: 12 Nov 1996 20:10:42 GMT Organization: The Black Box, Houston, Tx (713) 480-2686 Message-ID: <56alk2$gm6@news.blkbox.com> References: <3288CDF5.652E@eng.sun.com> In article <3288CDF5.652E@eng.sun.com> Dean Reece <dean.reece@eng.sun.com> writes: > Scott Hess wrote: The Matrox Millenium is a > > solid card, and 4M should suffice for a good long while - you can't > > really use the 8M version unless you have a 21" monitor and want > > 32-bit color at 1600x1200. I don't even know if NeXTSTEP supports > > that :-). > No, it can't. The board will only go up to 1600x1200 at 24-bit color. > NEXTSTEP's DPS code can't deal with 24-bit (packed pixel) format, so the > only mode that 8MB buys you is 1280x1024@32bpp. > > I agree that the Millenium is a solid card. > Cheers, > - Dean Hmmm, but the ELSA 8 MB card will do 1600x1281 in 888/32 at 78 Hz, as well as a bunch of other slightly lower rezzes and refreshes. Is this because of a different RAMDAC/video chipset, I suppose? Odd that they wouldn't put a video chipset on the card that's happy with the modes one would expect to use with 8 MB.... Blessed be - (just got back from the Texas Renaissance Festival...) Dan -- Daniel L. Kramer Bifrost Workstations, Inc. 10850 Richmond Ave., Suite 270 Houston, TX 77042 (713) 952-9949 voice
From: swb@mercury.campbell-mithun.com (Shawn Barnhart) Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi,comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: SyQuest: New Info, Trade in of all sorts of drives (incl Zip)!!! (Re: EZ135 Upgrade Info , and EZFlyer rebate) Date: Sat, 16 Nov 1996 09:33:17 -0600 Organization: Chaos Message-ID: <19961116093317224591@[192.159.32.2]> References: <Pine.LNX.3.95.961115104222.15483B-100000@nerc3.nerc.com> Timothy Luoma <luomat@nerc.com> wrote: > A number of people have sent comments indicating they think it is > fooolish to trust this guy I've been talking with at SyQuest. > > Of course, he could be yanking me around. I understand that as a > possibility. However, I don't think he's gone through as much trouble as > he has just to give me misleading information. In fact, he's been very > up-front with me about a number of things, enough that I'm willing to > accept his assurances. Has he been up front about Syquest's financial situation and their ability to market SyJet and EZflyer drives and meet demand? Provide adequate volumes of cartridges? Potential licensing deals with other manufacturers to make drives and cartriges? I like the idea of someone other than Iomega making a comperable (did someone say better?) high capacity removable drive. However, I've been reluctant to buy a Syjet because of Syquest's precarious position in the market. It's one thing to say "Syquest will be actively supporting the Syjet/Ezflyer.." when there could be no Syquest to supply it. I'm surprised they haven't licensed it to other drive manufacturers and structured the pricing to undercut Jaz by $100. That would be commitment. Parity pricing with a competitor who has had a shipping drive in the market for at least six months is not good way to help ensure your drive's sucess. It might also make sense to tap into the existing desktop publishing base which has a huge investment in the old {44, 88, etc} Syquest cartridges. Maybe offer a trade in or something. -- Shawn Barnhart swb@mercury.campbell-mithun.com
From: Paul_Lynch@plsys.co.uk (Paul Lynch) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: ObjectStation41 CPU Upgrade... Date: Sat, 16 Nov 1996 14:44:59 GMT Organization: P & L Systems Sender: news@seer.demon.co.uk Message-ID: <1996Nov16.144459.9656@seer.demon.co.uk> References: <56i42c$m72@knot.queensu.ca> In article <56i42c$m72@knot.queensu.ca> 3mpa@qlink.queensu.ca (Marco Anglesio) writes: > Charles William Swiger (cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu) wrote: > : Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.hardware: 14-Nov-96 Re: > : ObjectStation41 CPU Upg.. by Marco Anglesio@qlink.que > : >:> I have the Pentium Overdrive Processor 83Mhz to install on > : >:> Canon Object Station 41. > : >:> but I have no manual of that Computer.. > : ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > : [ ... ] > : > > : > Alternately you have a set of jumpers which refer to processor speed > : > and make; there will be a combination for a P24T/Pentium Overdrive. > > I'm sure Canon (or a Canon distrib. in his area) has one lying around. If Canon = Canon, that would be true. However, Canon ATO sold the object.station, and Canon CSI are the small computer people. They were having a bit of a feud, and so... A Technical manual was shipped with all (?) object.stations, with jumpers, etc. And finally, the correct settings: DX/DX2/DX4: JP34: 2,3; JP35: 1,2; JP36: 1,2. SX/P24T: JP34: open; JP35: 2,3; JP36: open. SX?? Oh boy. Paul -- Paul Lynch (NeXTmail) http://www.plsys.co.uk/~paul
From: jrudd@cygnus.com (John Rudd) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Best Pure NS PC Suggestion? Date: 12 Nov 1996 20:22:14 GMT Organization: Cygnus Support Message-ID: <56am9n$pj6@majipoor.cygnus.com> References: <5639du$ehm@news.asu.edu> <SHESS.96Nov11105317@howard.one.net> <3288CDF5.652E@eng.sun.com> Cc: dean.reece@eng.sun.com In <3288CDF5.652E@eng.sun.com> Dean Reece wrote: > Scott Hess wrote: > > > ... > > The Matrox Millenium is a > > solid card, and 4M should suffice for a good long while - you can't > > really use the 8M version unless you have a 21" monitor and want > > 32-bit color at 1600x1200. I don't even know if NeXTSTEP supports > > that :-). > > No, it can't. The board will only go up to 1600x1200 at 24-bit color. > NEXTSTEP's DPS code can't deal with 24-bit (packed pixel) format, so the > only mode that 8MB buys you is 1280x1024@32bpp. > > I agree that the Millenium is a solid card. > Cheers, > - Dean > At one point, someone from NeXT posted that the 8mb support is in the driver, it's just not in the Default.table. You can edit it to add the 1280x1024x32 and 1600x1280x32 modes (note: I'm just trying to regurgitate from memory, don't come to me if it doesn't work). The reason it wasn't added in originally was that the _card_ had a bug in it that didn't work propperly. They left the 8mb modes in the driver in case Matrox fixed it (which they did, but by then NeXT wasn't pursuing Nextstep/OpenstepMach as vigorously). Note: I haven't tried this myself. I only have the 4mb card myself. -- John "kzin" Rudd jrudd@cygnus.com (ex- kzin@email.sjsu.edu) =========Intel: Putting the backward in backward compatible.============ Spammers: I charge you for my time, disk, and bandwidth if you post off- topic solicitations for money in the groups I read. $500/post/group.
From: "Audun Grotterod" <agrotter@online.no> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: I would like a norwegian keyboard to my NeXT Date: 16 Nov 1996 16:39:15 GMT Organization: Office Message-ID: <01bbd3dc$a4aba9c0$2cced5c1@excalibur> I would like a norwegian keyboard to my NeXTstation TurboColor I hope that somebody have this item and are willing to ship it to me for a resonable price! Audun agrotter@online.no
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi,comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: SyQuest: New Info, Trade in of all sorts of drives (incl Zip)!!! (Re: EZ135 Upgrade Info , and EZFlyer rebate) Date: Sat, 16 Nov 1996 11:43:18 -0800 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.95.961116114101.17272A-100000@kira> References: <Pine.LNX.3.95.961115104222.15483B-100000@nerc3.nerc.com> <19961116093317224591@[192.159.32.2]> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: Shawn Barnhart <swb@mercury.campbell-mithun.com> In-Reply-To: <19961116093317224591@[192.159.32.2]> Return-Receipt-To: luomat@nerc.com On Sat, 16 Nov 1996, Shawn Barnhart wrote: > Date: Sat, 16 Nov 1996 09:33:17 -0600 > From: Shawn Barnhart <swb@mercury.campbell-mithun.com> > Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi, comp.sys.next.hardware > Subject: Re: SyQuest: New Info, Trade in of all sorts of drives (incl Zip)!!! (Re: EZ135 Upgrade Info , and EZFlyer rebate) > > It might also make sense to tap into the existing desktop publishing > base which has a huge investment in the old {44, 88, etc} Syquest > cartridges. Maybe offer a trade in or something. I believe that these will be eligible for the trade-in offer I have been speaking of... Someone could contact SyQuest and find out for sure... TjL
From: sugee@imap2.asu.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Experience with Toshiba Tecras? Date: 16 Nov 1996 20:40:00 GMT Organization: Arizona State University Message-ID: <56l8r0$fd3@news.asu.edu> References: <55pb18$2mqq@news.doit.wisc.edu> <32831E36.14A3@mpr.ca> I have been following this thread and found the comments and impressions by everyone to be interesting. However, there is an observation which Scott reports in his comparison between the Tecra 730CDT & the NEC 6030X about the disparity of the graphics displays and what the reasons for it are. Based on what I understand about the design of these two machines, it is not the built-in hardware MPEG I compression which is responsible for the faster display of the NEC 6030X. It is the fact that NEC uses a true 64-bit PCI video accelerator & memory bus where as the Tecras have a 64-bit video accelerator but only a 32 bit memory interface. Also, and looking at the complete puzzle, the NEC's require a special adaptor for making a RJ-11 connection because of the cellular-ready capability of the modem. So you can't just plug it in without having this on-hand. I would think that most people would be inclined to use a landline more often than a cellular line. (Please note that I haven't checked the specs on these systems in the last 30 days so if something has been changed, please excuse my ignorance.) Another limitation is the RAM of the NEC 6030X. Only being able to support 48 MB's of RAM (80 MB's for the ThinkPad's when I last checked) is very limiting. Both units don't support the 4 Mbps IrDA standard. There is another oddity about the Versa 6030X and its VersaBay and has to do with use of the FD and CD-ROM although I can't recall what it is at them moment. Another personal objection I have to having built-in MPEG I is that MPEG II us really where the action is and what the system should be configured with and this simply would become a waste. All in all, Comdex is now here and NEC, among others, will hopefully be releasing 13.3" or so active matrix 18-bit LCD's along with 4 MB VRAM, 8x CD-ROM, and maybe even other nice things like an USB port. Cheers! Sue Scott Mewett (mewett@mpr.ca) wrote: : Michael Giddings wrote: : > : > I am looking into notebook systems (as evidenced by several posts from me on : > the subject lately) and have narrowed things down to the point where I'm most : > seriously interested in a Toshiba Tecra (maybe 720), using the BioFrost : > driver for display. : > : > Does anyone have any experience with these machines they would wish to share? : > : > Thanks : > : > -- : > Michael Giddings : > giddings@chem.wisc.edu : > giddings@barbarian.com : > (608)258-1699 or (608) 692-2851 : Recenlty I evaluated serveral high end notebooks for deployment to our : traveling sales people. : Toshiba gave me a 730CDT and NEC gave me a 6030X to try out. I have to : say that both of them were great notebooks. The 730CDT is the same as : the 720CDT except it has a 2.1G Drive a is a 150MHz Pentium. : Both the NEC and Toshiba have the CHIPS and Technologies Display : adapter. However NEC has built on a few aspects of hardware MPEG : Decompression. This really made a difference. Over all the NEC was : faster and not by just a couple of percent. It was noticably faster. : The Active Matrix display also had a better field of vision than the : Toshiba. : Toshiba's 730CDT weighs in at 8.6lbs and is noticably bulkier than the : NEC. The 6030X is a little lighter at 6.9lbs. Both have an external AC : adapter. NEC's is smaller that Toshiba's. : The only draw back that I have found with the NEC is that it does not : come with the capability of using the Floppy drive outside the notebook : right out of the box. You have to buy that extra. Maybe that will : change. : The Toshiba just plain works. Although a Little bulkier and maybe not as : nicely refined as the NEC it would make a good choice. : NEC on the other hand if you are able to install NeXTStep with the use : of the external floppy cable, then I would find it to be more enjoyable : to use. It has a nice fit and finish and the Glide Pad for the mouse is : a joy to use. : I also think that the NEC is a little Cheaper. But not by much : considering the price range these Notebooks are in. : Both offer a 3 year warrenty. NEC also include 1 year of that warrenty : as UltraCare. They will pickup and deliver your fixed notebook within a : 3 day window. That warrenty is also extendable to 3 years for only about : $150. : Hope this helps in your decision process. : Scott : mewett@mpr.ca
From: shess@one.net (Scott Hess) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: NeXTSTEP and Fast SCSI-II, part deux. Date: 14 Nov 96 09:52:39 Organization: Is a sign of weakness Distribution: comp Message-ID: <SHESS.96Nov14095239@howard.one.net> Some readers may have connected my recent post about not being able to get more than 5MB/s from my NCR810 Fast SCSI-II card with my even more recent post about getting an NCR825 card working. Indeed, there is a connection - since I was annoyed by the speed results, and am going to be purchasing another system Real Soon Now _anyhow_, I figured I could just get the SCSI card and have some fun in the meanwhile. So I got the NCR825 card, which has a wide connector, in the hopes of either Figuring It Out, or as a consolation prize buying wide devices next time (which I would guess could get 10MB/s even if not running at Fast speeds). Anyhow, testing indicates that with devices on different busses, I'm able to surpass 5MB/s with ease - but, each card still has that tasty 5MB/s upper bound. So, now I'm pretty well confident that it's the NeXTSTEP NCR driver that's at fault. From a quick review of a Linux driver's source code, I would guess that the 40Mhz clock divider is being set wrong, or perhaps the clock speed is being detected incorrectly. Now I wish I knew how things worked with wide SCSI! Assuming wide SCSI works with the NCR825 (I have no reason to think it doesn't - but I had no reason to think it wouldn't to 10MB/s, either), then if you want to have fast disks on a cheap card, the Tyan Yorktown appears to work under NeXTSTEP. ON THE OTHER HAND, the Yorktown was about 10x more work to get _right_ than my NCR810 ASUS PCI-SC200 was. If you don't _enjoy_ screwing with jumpers, but still need the speed, you'd probably want to move up to a BusLogic or Adaptec. Later, -- scott hess <shess@one.net> (606) 578-0412 http://w3.one.net/~shess/ <I plan to become so famous that people buy tapes of me reading source code>
From: ici@ijexa.osk.threewebnet.or.jp (Toshinao Ishii) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: PD for NEXTSTEP 3.3 (Intel) Date: 16 Nov 1996 15:57:03 GMT Organization: 3WEB corp. Message-ID: <ICI.96Nov17005703@ijexa.osk.threewebnet.or.jp> Hi. Does someone have experience to use PD in NEXTSTEP 3.3 (Intel) ? Please let me know about it. Thanks in advance. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Toshinao Ishii email: ici@osk.threewebnet.or.jp (NeXTMail/MIME Welcome) -- -*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* $B@P0f=SD>(B Toshinao Ishii email: ici@osk.threewebnet.or.jp (NeXTMail/MIME Welcome)
From: "Christopher J. Barden" <bardencj@jmu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: NS 3.2 CD-ROM Reqs? Date: Sat, 16 Nov 1996 19:18:43 -0500 Organization: James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA Sender: bardencj@JMU.EDU Message-ID: <Pine.HPP.3.93.961116191602.20011A-100000@falcon.jmu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII I know nothing about NextStep, so I have not been able to get the installation disk to recognize my CD-ROM drive. What do I need to do to get a Sony CDU-31A hooked to a Sound Blaster 16 recognized as a drive? -------------------------------------------------------------------- Chris Barden (bardencj@jmu.edu) | "What you own is your own kingdom James Madison University | What you do is your own glory Visit my homepage at: | What you love is your own power http://falcon.jmu.edu/~bardencj/| What you live is your own story" -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=--RUSH
From: jburton@nwu.edu (Joshua W. Burton) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: ObjectStation41 CPU Upgrade... Date: 17 Nov 1996 02:41:22 GMT Organization: Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, US Message-ID: <56lu0i$2no@news.acns.nwu.edu> References: <56i42c$m72@knot.queensu.ca> <1996Nov16.144459.9656@seer.demon.co.uk> Paul_Lynch@plsys.co.uk (Paul Lynch) wrote: > 3mpa@qlink.queensu.ca (Marco Anglesio) writes: > > I'm sure Canon (or a Canon distrib. in his area) has one lying around. > > If Canon = Canon, that would be true. Oops. I think you mean, "If Canon == Canon". If you use an assignment instead of a test, it will always return true. Buses stop at a bus station. |============================================= Trains stop at a train station.| Joshua W Burton 847/677-3902 jburton@nwu.edu On my desk is a workstation....|=============================================
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware From: nasta@actcom.co.il (Rossinski) Subject: NEW SOFTWARE!!! readme!! HTTP://www.actcom.co.il/~nasta Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=US-ASCII Message-ID: <E0zw87.1EH@actcom.co.il> Sender: news@actcom.co.il (News) Organization: Your Organization Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: Sun, 17 Nov 1996 03:26:31 GMT Dear Sirs, "ROSSI-AL" Israeli & Russian Joint Venture established on the basis of the former USSR defence complex's design bureau and staffed with highly gualified programmers, is engaged in developing software and is ready to propose programs as follows: 1. SLOTEX The program presents a text editor possessing principally new abilities. In addition to the possibility of regular keying in you can dictate your text to a computer as if it were your personal secretary. A computer executes spelling correction and may work in an automated mode of punctuation marks arangement. Other commands may be issued to a computer in voice. 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There also exists the possibility to imitate a voice according to a pattern given, i.e. you are to introduce a pattern of any voice (two or three tape-recorder phrases) , and a computer will speak in this very voice. Voice editing function is also available, e.g. if you speak any language with an accent, the program is able to eliminate the accent. The transducing quality is ideal. All the transformations are performed in a real time mode, i.e. that a sound entering a sounblaster, e.g. by means of a microphone, is immediately transformed and output either to an out device or to a dynamic installation. By means of this program you can speak over the telephone in a stranger's voice and even sing in Michale Jackson's voice. A computer of a 486 or a higher type, a soundblaster, a memory in the volume of 3mb, and Windows 3.1 or 95 are demanded for operating this program. You may purchase it either in the shape of a compact disc or a floppy disc. 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From: "Christopher Nimsky" <nimsky@osn.de> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: help for an old system Date: 17 Nov 1996 11:57:21 GMT Organization: OSN, Onlineservice Nuernberg, Germany Message-ID: <01bbd476$45097de0$4d654dc2@thes.osn.de> I need help for my old Nextdimension system. At startup the fan goes on and you hear the hard drive spinning, but the screen stays grey and system checkup/start-up routine is not performed. Cant start the hardware monitor. Does anyone have any help? Furthermore i would like to know whether its possible to connect the 17-inch Color- MegaPixel-Display to a regular PC? Is there an adaptor? The same would be interesting for the old Nextprinter, any possibility to use it with regular PC's? Thank you for your help!!
From: ivanwee@cyberway.com.sg (Mad MAd Man) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: NeXt's Power on -password .. How to get rid of it? Date: Sat, 16 Nov 1996 16:38:24 GMT Organization: MadDrumsORg Message-ID: <3293cce4.4967786@news.cyberway.com.sg> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi. I'm working in a company that has a NeXt machine complete with laser printer. There's a power-on password upon boot and I can't get further than that. (password is lost for a long time ) The company says to throw the machine away (circa 1992 odd) along with the laser printer. Now, I feel that this would be a waste, esp the monitor is a 17'' B/w with such a clear resolution. and the laser printer would make such a fine addition to my home network (heh heh heh..) If anyone has any reccomended idea on how to reset the comp password, could you mail be the appriopriate steps?? I'll keep looking out on this newsgrp also. (Btw, I'm quite well versed in ibm clone's hardware, but not on this system.) I'm a total dunce when it comes to this black box.. Weighs a ton too. Thanks a million
Date: 18 Nov 1996 10:14:21 EST Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Message-ID: <cancel.E0zw87.1EH@actcom.co.il> Control: cancel <E0zw87.1EH@actcom.co.il> From: clewis@ferret.ocunix.on.ca Sender: news@actcom.co.il (News) Subject: cmsg cancel <E0zw87.1EH@actcom.co.il> EMP/ECP (aka SPAM) cancelled by clewis@ferret.ocunix.on.ca. See news.admin.net-abuse.announce, report 19961118.42 for further details
From: akim@cogent.net (Andrew Kim) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Help Finding 33.6KB Modem for NeXTstation. Date: Mon, 18 Nov 1996 07:43:12 -0800 Organization: Cogent Software Message-ID: <akim-1811960743130001@mfs-annex1-p5.dsphere.net> Can I use Supra Sonic for Macintosh on my NeXTstation? Since NeXTstation uses RS-423, I am not sure I can use it or not. Thank you. PS. If I can not use Supra Sonic, then which modem is best for NeXTstation?
From: phy070@spo10.power.uni-essen.de (H.-R. Oberhage) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Help - Can't access tape drive (/dev/nrst0)? Followup-To: comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Date: 18 Nov 1996 11:39:19 GMT Organization: Universitaet Essen GH, Germany Message-ID: <56pht7$gu3@sun3.uni-essen.de> References: <01bbd4ca$91031040$9ab08ccc@opus.dreams.com> But I remember, that under NS3.3 (after getting and installing the correct(ing) tapedriver package) you had to 'add' the tapedriver in Configure(.app) under the 'miscellanous' compartment. Have you done that, too? Then I wouldn't know why it doesn't work and could also not correct the bug. Greetings, Ruediger -- H.-R. Oberhage Mail: Univ.-GH Essen E-Mail: phy070@sp2.power.Uni-Essen.DE Fachbereich 7 (Physik) ruediger@Theo-Phys.Uni-Essen.DE S05 V07 E88 Universitaetsstrasse 5 Phone: (+49) 201 / 183-2493 D-45117 Essen, Germany FAX: (+49) 201 / 183-2120
From: shess@one.net (Scott Hess) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Tyan Yorktown (NCR825) and ST32155N Date: 13 Nov 96 23:23:36 Organization: Is a sign of weakness Distribution: comp Message-ID: <SHESS.96Nov13232336@howard.one.net> I've just received a Tyan Yorktown Fast/Wide SCSI-II controller based on the NCR825 chipset. My plan was to test it out before going forward and getting wide drives ... unfortunately, it doesn't work with the drives I have currently. When I swap out my Asus NCR810 card and put the Yorktown in its place, I am able to boot DOS from my ST32155N - but not NeXTSTEP or NT3.51 or NT4.0. When booting NeXTSTEP, it is able to recognize the bus, and does an initial ID of the drives (a Conner CFA450S and a Seagate ST31230N), but when it should do the more ID (type, label, size info), things just hang. Now, here's the weird part - if I have only the CFA450S connected to the bus, it gets further, though it still won't boot all the way. When booting NT, it gives me a full screen with something on the order of "Can't locate boot device". At the initial BIOS screen, it is able to tell me everything that's on my bus. In DOS, I can access all of the disks, and I was even able to access an external CD-ROM fine. Termination should be fine. I've found the hints that the manual may document the termination jumpers exactly _backwards_, but I've tried it both ways, doesn't make a difference. Specifically, I've tried all four possibilities of the wide/narrow termination jumpers open/closed. I can boot from the Asus card with the Tyan card in another slot under NT, but it has _severe_ problems. The "Explorer" file browser takes a _very_ long time to show the list of drives. Further, when I click on the CD-ROM hooked to the Tyan card, it hangs for a long time thinking, and comes back saying it couldn't access the drive ("incorrect parameter" or somesuch). Anyone had similar problems? Ideas for solving it? I had hoped this card would be as simple to install as the Asus NCR810 card was. Specifically, since the card claimed that if the motherboard had an onboard NCR BIOS, the card's BIOS wouldn't come into play, so it would be _just_ the same, but with wide support. It's becoming clear that the chip it is based on isn't the end of the story :-). Later, -- scott hess <shess@one.net> (606) 578-0412 http://w3.one.net/~shess/ <I plan to become so famous that people buy tapes of me reading source code>
From: herrmann@math.tamu.edu (joe herrmann) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: NeXT laser printer problems Date: 18 Nov 1996 17:29:48 GMT Organization: Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas Message-ID: <56q6ec$gpj@news.tamu.edu> Keywords: printer I have a NeXT laser printer that will print the page (sometimes) but will not eject it folding it back and forth into 1/2 inch strips which you must then pull out of the printer. At other times it says the paper is jammed. Before this it worked but ejected all but the last inch of the paper which you had to pull out manually. I had to print all documents a page at a time. Is there an easy way to fix this? Otherwise are there companies that will fix this at a reasonable price? Thanks. Joseph M. Herrmann Department of Mathematics, Texas A&M University College Station, Texas 77843-3368 (409) 845-1474 herrmann@math.tamu.edu
From: stefan.boehringer@rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de (Stefan Boehringer) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: IWill on board SCSI-Controller? Date: 18 Nov 1996 17:39:40 GMT Organization: Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum, Rechenzentrum Message-ID: <56q70s$b74@sun168.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de> I've vainly tried to install NS3.3 on a Pentium-board (running a cyrix166+) form IWill namely "IWill P55TV". The on board SCSI-controller claims to be a Adaptec 2940/7860. However none of the drivers from NeXTAnswers or the install disks work. Either they won't recognice the controller or crashes result. Did anybody get NS running on the above board? Thanks. - Stefan
From: shess@one.net (Scott Hess) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Tyan Yorktown (NCR825) and ST32155N Date: 14 Nov 96 09:44:50 Organization: Is a sign of weakness Distribution: comp Message-ID: <SHESS.96Nov14094450@howard.one.net> References: <SHESS.96Nov13232336@howard.one.net> In-reply-to: shess@one.net's message of 13 Nov 96 23:23:36 In article <SHESS.96Nov13232336@howard.one.net>, shess@one.net (Scott Hess) writes: I've just received a Tyan Yorktown Fast/Wide SCSI-II controller based on the NCR825 chipset. My plan was to test it out before going forward and getting wide drives ... unfortunately, it doesn't work with the drives I have currently. Well, things got further in the light of day, or at least the dim light of an overcast morning. One respondent suggested disabling the motherboard SCSI BIOS. This didn't seem to make a difference (I'm not certain how one could tell if it was really disabled, since the BIOS versions are both the same!) But, I did that, and pulled _everything_ off the bus, and went back to a game of "enumerate the jumpers". It was more fun than annoying a vendor into accepting the return :-). In any case, I managed to get it to boot. I think it has both termination jumpers open, whereas the manual suggested just narrow open, wide closed. [Damn, I'd like to look and make certain, but I'd have to take the entire thing back apart to see the jumpers under their little SCSI cable.] I don't even want to think about the fun I'll have if I want to put on both internal and external devices, or internal wide and internal narrow devices. But that won't happen today ... The next hurdle was getting things booting with both the NCR810 and NCR825 card. Had to reenable the on-board BIOS - again, nothing changed, so I'm not certain what exactly this accomplished. Again, it was finding the drives, and appeared to find them all on the right path, but when it went to "Registering sc0", it hung for a good long time, and then said "Unable to mount root". This was fixed by swapping the order of the cards. Now they both work at the same time. Both boot into NeXTSTEP and NT. The only real question left is why I can only boot off the NCR810 card when both are installed. The ordering of the cards seems to make no difference in this case, nor does disabling the on-board SCSI bios. I'm wondering if it's the numbering of the device ID's - the NCR810 is apparently 00h, 825 is 03h, and the manufacturer ID is 1000h in both cases. But that's a minor problem, since I _can_ boot off of either in isolation, and eventually they'll move into seperate machines as intended. Later, -- scott hess <shess@one.net> (606) 578-0412 http://w3.one.net/~shess/ <I plan to become so famous that people buy tapes of me reading source code>
From: jklein@freon.artificial.com (jon klein) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Anyone ever made a Mac work with a NeXT printer? Date: 8 Nov 96 15:28:48 GMT Organization: University of Massachusetts, Amherst Message-ID: <328351b0.0@news.hampshire.edu> References: <55tuih$1bho@ausnews.austin.ibm.com> davidwr@geocities.com wrote: : I have an opportunity to buy an original NeXT printer (circa 1988) for $50. : If I can get drivers to make it work with my Mac, I'll buy it. : Anybody ever tried this? What was necessary? I guess you mean hooking the mac right up to the printer -- I haven't been able to do that. However, I put netatalk on my sparc, which allows me to print to the sparc as a mac printer. On the sparc, I tell it to be a print server for my NeXT -- the result is that I can print from any mac or unix box on the network, and it's surprisingly fast for that type of bouncing around. I would definitely recommend buying the printer if it's $50 -- they go for about $200 normally. However, unless you've got a next and are going to put it on a network like described above, the NeXT printer will not work with a mac -- the NeXT laser printer was designed only to work with the NeXT. All the PS rendering goes on inside the NeXT, which feeds out a bitmap to be printed, as opposed to most postscript printers which render the postscript themselves. -- -jon klein jklein@freon.artificial.com My cat failed the Turing test miserably.
Newsgroups: alt.good.news,desy.h1.news,fj.sys.news,swnet.internet.news,uk.net.news,alt.fan.news-admins,alt.tv.news-shows,uk.net.news.config,de.admin.news.groups,de.admin.news.misc,de.admin.news.net-abuse.misc,de.admin.news.software,de.alt.newsgroups,fj.news.newsite,relcom.mn.newspaper,alt.journalism.newspapers,alt.tv.newsradio,alt.fan.newt-gingrich,fj.sys.newton,comp.sys.newton.misc,comp.sys.newton.programmer,chinese.newsgroups.newusers,comp.sys.next,fj.sys.next,maus.sys.next,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,comp.soft-sys.nextstep,alt.sex.nfs,comp.protocols.nfs,alt.james.nguygen.gook.faggot,soc.culture.nicaragua,soc.si Subject: Re: Just try this, it will work From: rscott@fcc.com_ (R. Scott Perry) Organization: Computerized Horizons References: <133.353194369934@news.nemonet.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=US-ASCII Message-ID: <329101fc.0@207.41.47.8> Date: 19 Nov 96 00:40:28 GMT In article <133.353194369934@news.nemonet.com>, sbolting@nemonet.com (Steve Boltinghouse of 1009 Bird St., Hannibal, MO 63401) says... > By the end of the fourth week, I had recieved nearly $47,000.00. No, you didn't... you made perhaps $5. And, considering you could be fined $1,000 and go to jail for 5 years, would making $47,000 be worth it? Not only are chain letters illegal in the U.S. (2 year jail term for first offence, see below), they CAN NOT WORK. There would have to be over 1,000,000,000,000 people participating for them to work. Here's PROOF: --- The chain letters claim that you will make at least $10,000 (often they claim $20,000 or $50,000), by people sending you $1 bills. If the person who originally wrote the chain letter made $10,000 off of it, then there are at least 10,000 people who have joined so far. That's obvious; if someone made $10,000 from people sending him $1, then 10,000 people have joined so far. In order for each of those 10,000 people to make $10,000, there would need to be 100,000,000 people joining (10,000 people already in the program, each causing another 10,000 to join; 10,000 times 10,000 is 100,000,000). That, too, is quite obvious. So, if you saw this chain letter and joined it, according to the way the chain letter claims it works, there would be 100,000,000 other people joining. For all of you to make your $10,000, you would each need to cause another 10,000 people to sign up. How many are we at now? It's simple: 100,000,000 people times 10,000 new people each. That's 1,000,000,000,000 (1 trillion) people joining. That's about 200 times as many people as there are on this planet. Now do you understand why chain letters won't work? --- Chain letters are illegal if the chain letter or money is transferred via U.S. Mail, and can get you a $1,000 fine and a 2 YEAR jail sentence for your first offense. The second offence can get you in jail for 5 years. Even if transmitted via the Internet, they violate Title 18 USC Section 1302, the Postal Lottery Statute. For verification, you can currently go to http://www.usps.gov/websites/depart/inspect/ chainlet.htm to see that it is illegal, and go to http://www.usps.gov/ websites/depart/inspect/usc18/lottery.htm for the text of the law). --- Feel free to copy this in response to any chain letters you see, hopefully as enough people see this, the chain letters will stop. -Scott RSP
From: scott@leorg.ucdavis.edu (Ryan Scott) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Help Finding 33.6KB Modem for NeXTstation. Date: 18 Nov 1996 17:51:33 GMT Organization: University of California, Davis Message-ID: <56q7n5$ot1@mark.ucdavis.edu> References: <akim-1811960743130001@mfs-annex1-p5.dsphere.net> akim@cogent.net (Andrew Kim) wrote: >Can I use Supra Sonic for Macintosh on my NeXTstation? >Since NeXTstation uses RS-423, I am not sure I can use it or not. >Thank you. > >PS. >If I can not use Supra Sonic, then which modem is best for NeXTstation? I am using the External Supra Sonic modem for PCs on my NeXTstation. I do not know the differences between the mac model and the PC model. I have heard the Zyxel modems are good as well. --RS
From: tvz@Princeton.EDU (Timothy Van Zandt) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: IBM DORS 2.1GB: does it work in black hardware? Date: 18 Nov 1996 21:49:25 GMT Organization: Princeton University Message-ID: <56qll5$onn@cnn.Princeton.EDU> References: <32903864.6F9E@kafka.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de> Cc: brouwer@kafka.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de In <32903864.6F9E@kafka.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de> Klaus Brouwer wrote: > Hello everybody! > > I've an urgent need for more disk space and the DORS 32160 seems to be > adequate. Unfortunatly I don't know whethter this disk has this ugly > can't-turn-off-synchronous-transfer-problem or not. I don't know about the ugly ctostp, but: This is a quiet 5400 rpm drive that was rated highest within a peer group in a recent issue of computer shopper. It was recommended to me by several people when I posted about quiet drives. I have installed this drive in a NextStation turbo running NS 3.2. This drive is just over the 2048meg's that NS 3.2 can handle properly, but there is an easy workaround described on NextAnswers #1533: http://www.next.com/NeXTanswers/HTMLFiles/1533.htmld/1533.html There was a posting on Sept 2 by Steven Boker about problems installing an IBM DFHSS4UF 4 gig drive, which required changing the ASPDE bit. However, I checked with IBM, and the DORS 32160 does not even have an ASPDE bit on its page 0. So this problem does not arise with this drive. I paid $380 for my drive (internal) from LaCie. NCA advertised them for $350 on their home page, but did not have them in stock. So far, I'm quite happy with this drive. Tim -- Timothy Van Zandt Email: tvz@princeton.edu Department of Economics WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~tvz Princeton University Voice: (609) 258-4050 Princeton, NJ 08544-1021 Fax: (609) 258-6419
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: Joseph McWilliams <mcwilljg@euler.sfasu.edu> Subject: Boot up error--need advice Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.95.961118151502.2385C-100000@euler> Date: Mon, 18 Nov 1996 15:44:01 -0600 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Motorola 68080 25MHZ NeXTStation When booting this computer, the boot process is quickly halted and thrown into the NMI mini monitor. Rebooting from the NeXT ROM monitor, the boot process follows its normal procedure through all the floppy and SCSI checks, etc. The last successful check it makes it the ethernet card and returns: =================== en0: Ethernet address 00:00:0f:01:45:ed IP protocol enabled for interface en0, type "10MB Ethernet" =================== On a normal boot the next check is the DSP chip. It is precisely at this point that my machine jumps back into the NMI mini monitor. Occasionally, and unpredictably, I am able to get logged on in single-user-mode from the ROM monitor. When this happens, the boot process has smoothly completed the DSP check and moved on. Once there, "exit" will cause the boot process to continue from the point it left off when it entered single-use-mode. Thus it doesn't have to recheck the DSP. Next time I try a reboot, it may or may not get past the DSP check. My question: Is the DSP chip a simply plug in chip? Could it be loose and thus be causing intermittent operation? (I've tried firmly pushing it into its socket with no improvement). Could the DSP chip be intermittently bad? Is the DSP chip even the cause of this problem? This may or may not be related: On boot up, the 3rd or forth line in verbose mode is "sc: scintr program error". What does this mean? "Help, help I'm being repressed!" Thanks for your help. Joe McWilliams
From: hoefer@citrus.ucr.edu (Carl Hoefer) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: getting CD-ROM recognized -- what do I need? Date: 18 Nov 1996 22:19:12 GMT Message-ID: <56qnd0$mcp$1@rumors.ucr.edu> I am running NS 3.3 on a Dell OptiPlex GL 5100 (slow pentium). I have an Adaptec SCSI host adapter card, on which my old slow black NeXT CD-ROM is parked. BUT, I also have a nice fast internal CD-ROM, which doesn't seem to be recognized at boot-up or any other time. 1) The old NeXT will serve up data CD's just fine, but music only comes through the headphone out, not my speakers (I have a SoundBlaster 16 Vibra card, and system sounds, recorded .snd files play just fine). Why doesn't the CD audio sound come through the system speakers, and can I fix it? 2) How can I get my internal CD-ROM recognized? I have no idea of the brand, nor whether it is "ATAPI" (whatever that means), though I *might* be able to find out. I suppose it is controlled by my IDE controller. Any help will be greatly appreciated. Carl Hoefer UC Riverside hoefer@citrus.ucr.edu
From: Eric Levenez <levenez@club-internet.fr> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: IBM DORS 2.1GB: does it work in black hardware? Date: 18 Nov 1996 22:04:58 GMT Organization: Grolier Interactive Europe Message-ID: <56qmia$h7t@speedy.grolier.fr> References: <32903864.6F9E@kafka.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Klaus Brouwer <brouwer@kafka.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de> wrote: >I've an urgent need for more disk space and the DORS 32160 seems to be >adequate. Unfortunatly I don't know whethter this disk has this ugly >can't-turn-off-synchronous-transfer-problem or not. The IBM 4GB disk "DFRSS4F Rev 4B4B" works fine in external on my NeXTstation. -- -------------------------------------------------------------------- Éric Lévénez "Felix qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas" mailto:levenez@club-internet.fr Publius Vergilius Maro, (NeXTMail, MIME) Georgica, II-489 --------------------------------------------------------------------
From: jsn@audiospeech.ubc.ca Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: NEXTSTEP laptop recommendations Date: 18 Nov 1996 22:59:38 GMT Organization: The University of British Columbia Message-ID: <56qpoq$fs3@nntp.ucs.ubc.ca> Are there any NEXTSTEP-compatible laptops available for less than U$ 2000? Thanks for any assistance that can be provided. ... John -- John Nicol School of Audiology and Speech Sciences University of British Columbia Electronic mail: jsn@audiospeech.ubc.ca (NeXTmail welcome)
From: trey@hsv.tybrin.com (Trey McClendon) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Help Finding 33.6KB Modem for NeXTstation. Date: 18 Nov 1996 19:00:13 -0600 Organization: TYBRIN Corporation Message-ID: <56r0qt$8ls@figaro.hsv.tybrin.com> References: <akim-1811960743130001@mfs-annex1-p5.dsphere.net> <56q7n5$ot1@mark.ucdavis.edu> Ryan Scott (scott@leorg.ucdavis.edu) wrote: : akim@cogent.net (Andrew Kim) wrote: : >Can I use Supra Sonic for Macintosh on my NeXTstation? : >Since NeXTstation uses RS-423, I am not sure I can use it or not. : >Thank you. : > : >PS. : >If I can not use Supra Sonic, then which modem is best for NeXTstation? : I am using the External Supra Sonic modem for PCs on my NeXTstation. I do : not know the differences between the mac model and the PC model. I have : heard the Zyxel modems are good as well. : --RS On a related note, can one use an internal model such as the USR sportster or the internal Diamond with NEXTSTEP? I only have experience using the external type. Trey -- Trey McClendon TYBRIN Corporation trey@hsv.tybrin.com Huntsville, AL NeXT / MIME Mail Accepted Fax: 205-837-3472
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware From: agnus@amylnd.s.bawue.de (Matthias Zepf) Subject: JAZ Drive Mystery - Disktab Guru Wanted Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Message-ID: <1996Nov18.102333.14223@amylnd.s.bawue.de> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Organization: Agnus' Home, Leonberg/Warmbronn, Germany Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: Mon, 18 Nov 1996 10:23:33 GMT For several months I own an Iomage JAZ drive. It is connected to my standard NeXTstation. For initializing my JAZ disks I used the following disktab entry (found on the net): iomega jaz|iomega jaz 1GB|iomega jaz 1GB G.6002/1:\ :ty=removable_rw_scsi:nc#1021:nt#64:ns#32:ss#512:rm#5394:\ :fp#320:bp#0:ng#0:gs#0:ga#0:ao#0:\ :os=sdmach:z0#64:z1#192:\ :pa#0:sa#2045952:ba#8192:fa#1024:ca#8:da#4096:ra#5:oa=time:\ :ia:ta=4.3BSD:aa: Everything works great. The transfer rates are a little low but this is normal due to the old SCSI host adapter inside the black hardware. Testing the drive using "iozone 64" (twice main memory) showed up ~550kb/s for writing and ~680kb/s for reading. Some days ago I discovered that NeXT is offering its own disktab entry. It looks a little different, but basically the same. Here it is: iomega jaz|iomega jaz 1GB|iomega jaz 1GB G.6002/1:\ :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#5:oa=time:\ :ia:ta=4.3BSD:aa: Because a friend of mine got very good transfer rates using this disktab entry with his white (!) hardware (~3mb/s for reading, ~1.2mb/s for writing -- with verify switched off) I thought I should give this new disktab entry a try. I reformatted one of my JAZ disks using NeXT's disktab entry. The disk became bigger (998,124 blocks vs. 988,322 blocks before) and shows up very different transfer rates (same test as above): ~810kb/s for writing and ~425kb/s for reading. (This is _NOT_ a typo; it makes twice the speed when writing.) So, what's the deal? What can I do to get the best transfer rates possible with black hardware? Thanks for your help, Matthias -- ** Matthias Zepf, Riegeläckerstraße 27, 71229 Leonberg, Germany ** ** +49 7152 97772 E-Mail (NeXTmail/MIME): agnus@amylnd.s.bawue.de **
Date: 19 Nov 1996 09:54:52 EST Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Message-ID: <cancel.329100D8.14E8@atmnet.net> Control: cancel <329100D8.14E8@atmnet.net> From: clewis@ferret.ocunix.on.ca Sender: ebrady@atmnet.net Subject: cmsg cancel <329100D8.14E8@atmnet.net> EMP/ECP (aka SPAM) cancelled by clewis@ferret.ocunix.on.ca. See news.admin.net-abuse.announce, report 19961119.13 for further details
From: "Noam H. Arzt, Ph.D." <arzt@isc.upenn.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Problems formatting new hard drive Date: Tue, 19 Nov 1996 12:21:42 -0500 Organization: University of Pennsylvania Message-ID: <3291ECA6.6C38@isc.upenn.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Folks, I have an original Color NeXTstation. I am replacing my internal 1GB drive with a new Quantum Fireball 3.2GB drive. The automatic format that NeXTstep 3.3 does when detecting the drive (in an external case for now) only seems to yield @1.3GB of space, so I know something is wrong (even adjustingfor the 10% overhead). Do I need a special disktab entry to use a drive this big? Any advice is welcomed. Please respond via email. Regards, Noam (arzt@isc.upenn.edu)
From: scott@leorg.ucdavis.edu (Ryan Scott) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Spurious DMA interrupt error Date: 18 Nov 1996 22:47:32 GMT Organization: University of California, Davis Message-ID: <56qp24$c08@mark.ucdavis.edu> Hi all, I am hoping somebody might have some idea as to what the root cause of the following error might be: spurious DMA interrupt: state 0x1000000 channel 0x2000110 This error appears in the Console window (and /usr/adm/messages) at seemingly random intervals from the time my NeXTstation is booted. The only thing that seemed to isolate the problem was when I disconnected the NeXT from the 10BaseT network and rebooted without the network the errors did not appear. But, when I again connected to the network and rebooted the errors reappeared. Could this be the onboard network adapter is near death? Or possibly some nasty network traffic? System: NeXTstation color 10BaseT network Any help is much appreciated. Thanks, Ryan Scott
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco Return-Path: <stefan@huelf.hamburg.com> Message-ID: <9611181853.AA02101@huelf.hamburg.com> Content-Type: text/plain Mime-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 3.3 v118.2) From: Stefan Huelf <stefan@huelf.hamburg.com> Date: Mon, 18 Nov 96 19:53:46 +0100 Subject: ND startup prob. (was: Re: help for an old system) Cc: <nimsky@osn.de> Christopher Nimsky <nimsky@osn.de> wrote: > >I need help for my old Nextdimension system. > >At startup the fan goes on and you hear the hard drive spinning, but the > >screen stays > >grey and system checkup/start-up routine is not performed. Cant start the > >hardware monitor. Does anyone have any help? > > I've seen this happen when the memory on the ND board is hosed/wrong. > Open up the cube a check to see that all the SIMMs are properly > inserted. If you have extra SIMMs around, try those. > Hi Christopher, did you check with Preferences (NeXTApps) if the StartupScreen is placed on the ColorMPD??? If it's not the Startup-Pictures will show on the parallel connected monochrome 17" MPD. That could be another possible cause of this prob.. (If anybody did not mention it before? ;-) Thanx, Later + Greetings from .. Stefan .. 8^) =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Stefan Huelf Life spans many different colors, but voice + 49 - 40 - 40 43 64 --- REAL Computing is black! stefan@huelf.hamburg.com (NeXTmail, MIME and ASCII) =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= ***** PGP key available on request - pretty soon !! *****
From: Klaus Brouwer <brouwer@kafka.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: IBM DORS 2.1GB: does it work in black hardware? Date: Tue, 19 Nov 1996 10:53:39 +0100 Organization: Informatik, Uni Stuttgart, Germany Message-ID: <329183A3.3891@kafka.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de> References: <32903864.6F9E@kafka.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de> <56qll5$onn@cnn.Princeton.EDU> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Timothy Van Zandt <tvz@Princeton.EDU> Timothy Van Zandt wrote: > I don't know about the ugly ctostp, but: Explanation: SCSI2 supports synchronous and asynchronous data transfer, SCSI1 only asynchronous. Although the NeXT has a SCSI2 connector, it is still an SCSI1 device. Modern drives use synchronous transfer mode by default - and there had been the rumour, that some drives are unable to turn off this mode. This kind of drive is not SCSI1 backward compatible and so can't be used with a NeXT. At least this is what I heard.... [tips deleted] > > So far, I'm quite happy with this drive. Good to hear...well, you have a Turbo machine....does anybody know, whether these machines have a different SCSI-Interface (compared to the old slabs)? Anyway, THANK YOU! Have a nice day, Klaus Brouwer > Tim > -- > Timothy Van Zandt Email: tvz@princeton.edu > Department of Economics WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~tvz > Princeton University Voice: (609) 258-4050 > Princeton, NJ 08544-1021 Fax: (609) 258-6419
From: Klaus Brouwer <brouwer@kafka.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: IBM DORS 2.1GB: does it work in black hardware? Date: Tue, 19 Nov 1996 11:26:47 +0100 Organization: Informatik, Uni Stuttgart, Germany Message-ID: <32918B67.44A4@kafka.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de> References: <32903864.6F9E@kafka.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de> <56qmia$h7t@speedy.grolier.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Eric Levenez wrote: > > Klaus Brouwer <brouwer@kafka.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de> wrote: > >I've an urgent need for more disk space and the DORS 32160 seems to be > >adequate. Unfortunatly I don't know whethter this disk has this ugly > >can't-turn-off-synchronous-transfer-problem or not. > > The IBM 4GB disk "DFRSS4F Rev 4B4B" works fine in external on my > NeXTstation. Thanks for your reply. Unfortunately I found the following yesterday: IBM IB06H8891 (Fast SCSI-2, 512 Cache, 10ms, 1GB) (I had a lot of problems with this drive on black hardware. I.e. don't buy it! According to IBM tech support, all new IBM drives only support synchronous bus transfers.) Admittingly I'm a little confused now...it seems to be an antimony. Can anybody explain this?
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Experience with Toshiba Tecras? References: <55pb18$2mqq@news.doit.wisc.edu> <32831E36.14A3@mpr.ca> <56l8r0$fd3@news.asu.edu> From: grettir@njardvik.orem.novell.com (Shawn Lynn) Message-ID: <328ec5e4.0@news.provo.novell.com> Date: 17 Nov 96 07:59:32 GMT sugee@imap2.asu.edu wrote: [snip,snip] >Another limitation is the RAM of the NEC 6030X. Only >being able to support 48 MB's of RAM (80 MB's for the ThinkPad's when I >last checked) is very limiting. [snip,snip] The ThinkPad is up to 104-MB max with the Apricorn's third-party carrier. The Tecra can still beat them both with 144-MB max. -- Shawn Lynn "Naked people have little or grettir@njardvik.orem.novell.com no influence in society." - Mark Twain
From: gcasamen@eos.hitc.com (Greg Casamento) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: HELP!! URGENT!! NS Installation Problems!! DON'T IGNORE!!! Date: 19 Nov 1996 16:55:39 GMT Organization: Hughes Team (EOSDIS) Message-ID: <56soqb$61n@newsroom.hitc.com> Hi! I just built a new machine to run NeXTSTEP. Here is the configuration: Intel Pentium 200MHz Diamond Stealth 64 Video Card SoundBlaster 16 (Non-PnP) CTX-1765 Monitor Here's *exactly* what happens... First I start up the machine with the installation disk in it. I perform the NEXTSTEP installation procedures. I first proceed to load the SCSI device driver, then load the ATAPI/EIDE driver for the CD-ROM drive. Then I try to go on to install NS. Up to this point the display has been text. After this point it should go to the DefaultVGA setting and display the NeXTSTEP boot window (graphic). But instead of doing this the screen goes BLACK and I can seem to to anything. I am not exactly sure what seems to be going on here. Could someone please help me out of this jam?? Thanks very much in advance for any help!! -- Gregory John Casamento UNIX/NeXTSTEP/OPENSTEP C++ Software Engineer No DOS/WINDOWS PLEASE!!! -------------------------------------------------------------------------- NOTICE!! Permission to distribute on Microsoft network is denied. NOTICE!! ------++++++======Save the world from the Evil Microsoft======++++++------
From: scott@leorg.ucdavis.edu (Ryan Scott) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Spurious DMA interrupt error (solved) Date: 19 Nov 1996 16:57:27 GMT Organization: University of California, Davis Message-ID: <56sotn$p7k@mark.ucdavis.edu> References: <56qp24$c08@mark.ucdavis.edu> scott@leorg.ucdavis.edu (Ryan Scott) wrote: >Hi all, > >I am hoping somebody might have some idea as to what the root cause >of the following error might be: > > spurious DMA interrupt: state 0x1000000 channel 0x2000110 > >This error appears in the Console window (and /usr/adm/messages) at >seemingly random intervals from the time my NeXTstation is booted. >The only thing that seemed to isolate the problem was when I >disconnected the NeXT from the 10BaseT network and rebooted without >the network the errors did not appear. But, when I again connected >to the network and rebooted the errors reappeared. Could this be the >onboard network adapter is near death? Or possibly some nasty network >traffic? > >System: > >NeXTstation color >10BaseT network > >Any help is much appreciated. > >Thanks, > >Ryan Scott Well, it turns out that one of the network hubs had gone bad. I guess it was sending out bogus packets and the NeXT was interpreting them as an internal hardware problem. Weird... --Ryan
From: rdubey@cisco.com (Rakesh Dubey) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: HELP!! URGENT!! NS Installation Problems!! DON'T IGNORE!!! Date: 19 Nov 1996 12:47:27 -0800 Organization: Cisco Systems, Inc. Sender: rdubey@Fountainhead.Cisco.com Message-ID: <nr5iv717qxs.fsf@Fountainhead.Cisco.com> References: <56soqb$61n@newsroom.hitc.com> In-reply-to: gcasamen@eos.hitc.com's message of 19 Nov 1996 16:55:39 GMT In article <56soqb$61n@newsroom.hitc.com> gcasamen@eos.hitc.com (Greg Casamento) writes: | | Hi! I just built a new machine to run NeXTSTEP. Here is the configuration: | | Intel Pentium 200MHz | Diamond Stealth 64 Video Card | SoundBlaster 16 (Non-PnP) | CTX-1765 Monitor | | Here's *exactly* what happens... | | First I start up the machine with the installation disk in it. I perform | the NEXTSTEP installation procedures. I first proceed to load the | SCSI device driver, then load the ATAPI/EIDE driver for the CD-ROM | drive. Then I try to go on to install NS. Up to this point the display | has been text. After this point it should go to the DefaultVGA setting | and display the NeXTSTEP boot window (graphic). But instead of doing | this the screen goes BLACK and I can seem to to anything. | | I am not exactly sure what seems to be going on here. Could someone | please help me out of this jam?? Are you installing 3.3? There was some S3/Triton interaction in 3.3 which could cause symptoms similar to this. Check NextAnswers for workarounds. -Rakesh
From: mike@hge.com (Michael Boadway) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Sony CD-Writer with NeXT Date: 19 Nov 1996 20:42:22 GMT Organization: H.G. Engineering Message-ID: <56t63e$p8v@news.inforamp.net> I have a Sony SCSI CD-Writer; used mainly on a PC network, and a NeXT Cube network. Does anyone know what needs to be done to enable the CD-Writer to be used on the NeXT network?
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco Return-Path: <stefan@huelf.hamburg.com> Message-ID: <9611191303.AA02387@huelf.hamburg.com> Content-Type: text/plain Mime-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 3.3 v118.2) From: Stefan Huelf <stefan@huelf.hamburg.com> Date: Tue, 19 Nov 96 14:03:51 +0100 Subject: Q: NEXTSTEP with Matrox Mystique 2MB Hi there, does anyone out there have an PCI Matrox Mystique 2MB with NEXTSTEP3.3 running??? Thanx, Later + Greetings from .. Stefan .. 8^) =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Stefan Huelf Life spans many different colors, but voice + 49 - 40 - 40 43 64 --- REAL Computing is black! stefan@huelf.hamburg.com (NeXTmail, MIME and ASCII) =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= ***** PGP key available on request - pretty soon !! *****
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware From: dsr@lns598.lns.cornell.edu Sender: love Date: 19 Nov 1996 11:00:39 EST Control: cancel <10004832.22CC@anonymous.com> Subject: cmsg cancel <10004832.22CC@anonymous.com> no reply ignore Message-ID: <cancel.10004832.22CC@anonymous.com> Spam cancelled by dsr@lns598.lns.cornell.edu original subject was >>> ARE YOU READY FOR LOVE? <<<
From: powell@aoml.noaa.gov (Mark Powell) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: ObjectStation41 CPU Upgrade... Date: 20 Nov 1996 13:34:49 GMT Organization: U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA/AOML Message-ID: <56v1dp$j3a@nil.aoml.noaa.gov> References: <56bseg$ibk@snunews.snu.ac.kr> <kmWYPMy00UzxM2JLlc@andrew.cmu.edu> <56i42c$m72@knot.queensu.ca> <56iara$e3r@news.internetmci.com> Here's a response I got a while back from someone who should know. From: "Ian H. Stewart" <ian@nyro.com> Date: Tue, 12 Sep 95 13:03:52 -0700 To: powell@tropic.aoml.erl.gov Subject: Re: Upgrading CPU and adding CD to O'station41 Reply-To: ian_stewart@nyro.com As the former Canon ATO NEXTSTEP Technical support and driver provider for the OS41, let me make a couple of comments. The only Pentuim upgrade is the Overdrives. These are not real Pentiums, so putting a 100MHZ Pent in it is not possible. I wouldn't waste you money on the over-drive either as we tested this at ATO and there was barely a 5% increase. (most of the time the 100MHZ 486 outperformed due to the cache differences on the overdrive.) Ian H. Stewart http://www.nyro.com/ian_stewart/ --- NYRO Technix, Inc. 236 W. Portal Ave Suite 341 San Francisco CA 94127 415 664-1170 voice -- Dr. Mark D. Powell powell@aoml.noaa.gov Research Meteorologist, (Member, NOAA '96 Olympics Marine Forecast Team) (Swimmer, IMCO Windsurfer, NEXTSTEP advocate) NOAA Hurricane Research Division (appropriate disclaimers apply) Miami, Fl 33149
From: gfin@psych.ualberta.ca (Gary Finley) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: HELP!! URGENT!! NS Installation Problems!! DON'T IGNORE!!! Date: 20 Nov 1996 15:59:19 GMT Organization: University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada Message-ID: <56v9sn$qps@pulp.ucs.ualberta.ca> References: <56soqb$61n@newsroom.hitc.com> <nr5iv717qxs.fsf@Fountainhead.Cisco.com> In-Reply-To: <nr5iv717qxs.fsf@Fountainhead.Cisco.com> On 11/19/96, Rakesh Dubey wrote: >In article <56soqb$61n@newsroom.hitc.com> gcasamen@eos.hitc.com (Greg Casamento) writes: >...(boot screen) has been text. After this point it should go to the > DefaultVGA setting >| and display the NeXTSTEP boot window (graphic). But instead of > doing | this the screen goes BLACK and I Yes, this sounds like the Triton/S3 bug. You need to use "boot -v" to avoid graphics-mode boot, and as soon as you have Config.app running, use expert mode to set "Boot Graphics" to "No". These systems work fine (I'm using one now), once you get rid of the boot graphics mode. However, it's a bit tricky to get such a system built while avoiding it. In particular, I seem to recall that NS goes into that mode (meaning that the screen goes blank on S3/Triton systems) after the initial run of Config.app, when you first select a video mode other than straight VGA. -- ---------------------------------------------- Gary Finley, Psychology Dept. Univ. of Alberta Network manager, Web manager, and postmaster. gfin@psych.ualberta.ca (NeXTmail welcome) http://web.psych.ualberta.ca/staff_bios/gary.finley.htmld/
From: root@nxs.math.wisc.edu (Operator) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Problems formatting new hard drive Date: 20 Nov 1996 16:06:21 GMT Organization: University of Wisconsin, Madison Message-ID: <56va9t$2k52@news.doit.wisc.edu> References: <3291ECA6.6C38@isc.upenn.edu> In article <3291ECA6.6C38@isc.upenn.edu> "Noam H. Arzt, Ph.D." <arzt@isc.upenn.edu> writes: > Folks, > > I have an original Color NeXTstation. I am replacing my internal 1GB > drive with a new Quantum Fireball 3.2GB drive. The automatic format that > NeXTstep 3.3 does when detecting the drive (in an external case for now) > only seems to yield @1.3GB of space, so I know something is wrong (even > adjustingfor the 10% overhead). Do I need a special disktab entry to use > a drive this big? Any advice is welcomed. Please respond via email. > NS can only handle partitions <=2GB. If you have a drive larger than this, say 3.2 GB, it will by default cut it in half into two 1.6GB partitions unless you specify otherwise. I suspect this is what happened to you - did you check how many partitions are now on this drive? I suspect you'll find two of about 1.3GB (including all the overhead). You can specify a different partitioning scheme either by setting the relative partition size in BuildDisk or by writing a custom disktab for the drive and manually initializing it with the "disk" command. I'd suggest re-running BuildDisk on it, click the Partiton button and set it to a 2GB and 1.2GB partition. - Gareth PS: for future refernce NS 3.3 (and OS 4.0?) can only make two partitions, so if you have a REALLY big >4GB disk you can't use BuildDisk to initialize it correctly and must write/copy a disktab for it instead.
From: root@nxs.math.wisc.edu (Operator) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: getting CD-ROM recognized -- what do I need? Date: 20 Nov 1996 16:12:24 GMT Organization: University of Wisconsin, Madison Message-ID: <56val8$8cc@news.doit.wisc.edu> References: <56qnd0$mcp$1@rumors.ucr.edu> In article <56qnd0$mcp$1@rumors.ucr.edu> hoefer@citrus.ucr.edu (Carl Hoefer) writes: > 1) The old NeXT will serve up data CD's just fine, but music only comes > through the headphone out, not my speakers (I have a SoundBlaster 16 Vibra > card, and system sounds, recorded .snd files play just fine). Why doesn't > the CD audio sound come through the system speakers, and can I fix it? The original NeXT CD-ROMs don't support sending music over the SCSI bus so it can only play via the headphone or line-out jacks on the back. So you're SOL, sorry. Can't be fixed - buy a newer drive that supports it like a Toshiba. - Gareth
From: humanist@interport.net (Michael Howard) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: nextstep + cyrix 6x86 = OK??? Date: Mon, 18 Nov 1996 05:20:34 GMT Organization: Humanist Movement Message-ID: <56orbl$3rk@park.interport.net> I'm planning to upgrade to a Cyrix, but am not sure if my NextStep 3.30 will work with it. Any reason it shouldn't?? ------------------- "Computers are like people; the old generation can never figure out the software in the newer generations. "
From: robin@pswtech.com (Robin Wilson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: How to soft reboot/interrupt on portable? Date: 20 Nov 1996 22:27:49 GMT Organization: PSW Technologies Message-ID: <5700l5$idv@digdug.pswtech.com> References: <567v38$2oug@news.doit.wisc.edu> giddings@menominee.chem.wisc.edu (Michael Giddings) wrote: } Hi } I used to have a Thinkpad and now I have a Tecra, and I have had the same } problem with both: } } I can't soft interrupt/reboot! The problem is, on many portables the NumLock } key not standard or is missing altogether. } } Advice or suggestions would be appreciated. The Tecra has a keyboard combination that equates to the right "Alt" key. Use the "Fn-(Left)Alt" combination to simulate the (Right)Alt key on your normal keyboard. Pressing this and F11 works for me. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- *** These are my opinions... Mine! All Mine! Minemineminemineminemine! *** ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Robin D. Wilson robin@pswtech.com PSW Technologies 701 Canyon Bend Dr. 9050 Capital of Texas Hwy Pflugerville, TX 78660 Austin, TX 78759 (512) 251-1737 (512) 343-6666
From: Paul Lynch <Paul_Lynch@plsys.co.uk> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Help Finding 33.6KB Modem for NeXTstation. Date: Wed, 20 Nov 1996 09:33:20 GMT Organization: P & L Systems Sender: news@seer.demon.co.uk Message-ID: <1996Nov20.093320.22674@seer.demon.co.uk> References: <56r0qt$8ls@figaro.hsv.tybrin.com> In article <56r0qt$8ls@figaro.hsv.tybrin.com> trey@hsv.tybrin.com (Trey McClendon) writes: > Ryan Scott (scott@leorg.ucdavis.edu) wrote: > : akim@cogent.net (Andrew Kim) wrote: > : >If I can not use Supra Sonic, then which modem is best for NeXTstation? > > : I am using the External Supra Sonic modem for PCs on my NeXTstation. I do > : not know the differences between the mac model and the PC model. I have > : heard the Zyxel modems are good as well. Yes, although ZyXEL don't yet do V34bis (33.6). They should release models with this standard supported in December. It is worth pointing out that the standard was only ratified on 18 October, so models released before then may not actually be compatible with the proper standard. ANY data modem will work with NeXTSTEP. ZyXEL has the best fax support, through NXFax and am, but Supra should work equally well with NXFax. > On a related note, can one use an internal model such as the USR > sportster or the internal Diamond with NEXTSTEP? I only have experience > using the external type. You can, but I hate using them. No flashing lights, for one thing; have you ever had a modem stay on line for 48 hours to a long distance number after you thought you had disconected? Some internal modems generate rather a lot of interrupts, killing performance on your multitasking OS. It doesn't matter for Windows, of course. Paul -- Paul Lynch (NeXTmail) http://www.plsys.co.uk/~paul
From: allanmac@blueprint.com (Allan MacKinnon) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: ObjectStation41 CPU Upgrade... Date: 20 Nov 1996 16:50:41 GMT Organization: <<<>>> Message-ID: <56vct1$jau@news.ziplink.net> References: <56bseg$ibk@snunews.snu.ac.kr> <kmWYPMy00UzxM2JLlc@andrew.cmu.edu> <56i42c$m72@knot.queensu.ca> <56iara$e3r@news.internetmci.com> <56v1dp$j3a@nil.aoml.noaa.gov> Cc: powell@aoml.noaa.gov In <56v1dp$j3a@nil.aoml.noaa.gov> Mark Powell wrote: > These are not real Pentiums, so putting a 100MHZ Pent in it is not possible. > I wouldn't waste you money on the over-drive either as we tested this at ATO > and there was barely a 5% increase. (most of the time the 100MHZ 486 > outperformed due to the cache differences on the overdrive.) I would agree with that. Take a look at the AMD 5x86-133. These are essentially 133 MHz 486's with 16K of internal cache. They give better performance than a P75 and worse than a P90. They can be found for less than $40. The caveats with this chip are: - it's 3.3/3.45V, so your mobo needs to support this - not all chipsets support its write-back cache mode, in which case the chip needs to be run in write-through mode (not so bad). ASM -- Allan MacKinnon (C) 1996 mailto:allanmac@blueprint.com Boston, MA (617) 424-0615
From: robin@pswtech.com (Robin Wilson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Experience with Toshiba Tecras? Date: 20 Nov 1996 20:01:46 GMT Organization: PSW Technologies Message-ID: <56vo3a$idv@digdug.pswtech.com> References: <55pb18$2mqq@news.doit.wisc.edu> <1996Nov8.205858.7565@il.us.swissbank.com> } Michael Giddings writes } > I am looking into notebook systems (as evidenced by several posts from } me on } > the subject lately) and have narrowed things down to the point where I'm } most } > seriously interested in a Toshiba Tecra (maybe 720), using the BioFrost } > driver for display. } > } > Does anyone have any experience with these machines they would wish to } share? I am using a Tecra 720CDT (even now to write this response). I have the BiFrost driver (we actually have _3_ Tecra 720's here -- all using the BiFrost driver). It works great! I have a pretty nice setup. We got a DeskStation V "docking station", so that I could use a Matrox PCI video card while sitting at my desk. I have a 17" monitor, separate keyboard and trackball, so it is really slick to just pop the machine into the dock and power-up when I get back from a trip. I've also configured the boot sequence to install appropriate drivers/netinfo configurations depending on where I'm at (it prompts me for a selection). Very handy... The reasons we chose Tecra over other models: 1) The driver works and we were able to verify it. 2) Tecra has a docking station with PCI slots. We use this for adding a Matrox Millenium video card when the machine is docked -- which gives us 1280x1024 resolutions (or better if we wanted). 3) Machine can support up to 144MB of RAM. The closest competition seemed to be 48MB of RAM. 4) Bigger disk (when we bought the first one, the disk size was 1.2GB). Now I've upgraded to a a 2.1GB disk. 5) 1024x768 on the 12.1 inch screen. Several models have the 12.1" screen, but don't support 1024x768 resolutions. For running NEXTSTEP, the 1024x768 was a _minimum_ requirement. Now, the drawbacks: 1) 2 of 3 LCD screens went out within 3 weeks of purchase. _AND_ it took over 1 month to replace them (each one took more than 1 month!). The replacement screens have worked fine for 2-4 months now, and the one that didn't fail has worked fine for about 2 months. My guess is this was a Quality Control problem which has since been fixed (the one that never failed is also the newest one we got). 2) Slower than the NEC. (This is all based on rumors and magazine articles.) I read that the Tecra was outperformed by several other brands -- including the NEC. No telling how much this would affect performance in NEXTSTEP (the magazines were all comparing Windows benchmarks), but my guess is that NEC would still be faster. The Pentium 133 performs about as fast as a Pentium-90 "desktop" machine would (at least by our measurements here). Still, that is adequate for our needs -- so this wasn't a killer issue for us. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- *** These are my opinions... Mine! All Mine! Minemineminemineminemine! *** ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Robin D. Wilson robin@pswtech.com PSW Technologies 701 Canyon Bend Dr. 9050 Capital of Texas Hwy Pflugerville, TX 78660 Austin, TX 78759 (512) 251-1737 (512) 343-6666
From: jonl@geom.umn.edu (Jonathan B. Leffert) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: 3c595 supported? Date: 21 Nov 1996 02:59:10 GMT Organization: University of Minnesota Message-ID: <570ghu$2cp@epx.cis.umn.edu> I have a 3c595 10/100base-tx pci ethernet card made by 3com and was wondering if this is supported (or will soon be supported) by openstep. anyone know? jon -- Jon Leffert <jonl@geom.umn.edu> <jbleffert@mmm.com> "In the long run we are all dead." -- John Maynard Keynes "Profits are like fumbled footballs, they draw a crowd real fast." - D.M. "Life is what happens while you're busy making other plans." -- John Lennon
From: shess@one.net (Scott Hess) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Help Finding 33.6KB Modem for NeXTstation. Date: 20 Nov 96 12:23:45 Organization: Is a sign of weakness Message-ID: <SHESS.96Nov20122345@howard.one.net> References: <56r0qt$8ls@figaro.hsv.tybrin.com> <1996Nov20.093320.22674@seer.demon.co.uk> In-reply-to: Paul Lynch's message of Wed, 20 Nov 1996 09:33:20 GMT In article <1996Nov20.093320.22674@seer.demon.co.uk>, Paul Lynch <Paul_Lynch@plsys.co.uk> writes: In article <56r0qt$8ls@figaro.hsv.tybrin.com>, trey@hsv.tybrin.com (Trey McClendon) writes: > On a related note, can one use an internal model such as the USR > sportster or the internal Diamond with NEXTSTEP? I only have > experience using the external type. You can, but I hate using them. No flashing lights, for one thing; have you ever had a modem stay on line for 48 hours to a long distance number after you thought you had disconected? Not to mention that you usually can't do a hard reset of an internal modem. In theory, you should never have to power cycle your modem to get it out of whatever wedged mode it's managed to find. In practice, it's really handy sometimes to be able to read around the back of the modem and flip it off for a couple seconds, flip it back on, and expect it to be in a sane state. Certainly much more convenient than powering down your entire system, waiting a couple seconds, and then powering it back up ... Later, -- scott hess <shess@one.net> (606) 578-0412 http://w3.one.net/~shess/ <I plan to become so famous that people buy tapes of me reading source code>
From: Konstantin Wiesel <kwiesel@pollux.jura.uni-bonn.de> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Symbios Logic 8751SP supported? Date: Wed, 20 Nov 1996 16:14:10 +0000 Organization: RHRZ - University of Bonn (Germany) Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.95.961120161236.3119A-100000@pollux> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Does the NCR/Symbios driver currently available for NextStep work with the Symbios Logic 8751SP Ultra-Wide Hostadapter? Regards --- Konstantin Wiesel Email:kwiesel@pollux.jura.uni-bonn.de
From: steve@math.tamu.edu (Steve Johnson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: recommendation wanted: tape backup for black hw Date: 21 Nov 1996 05:04:15 GMT Organization: Dept of Mathematics, Texas A&M University Message-ID: <570nsf$rf5@news.tamu.edu> Keywords: tape I have a non-turbo NeXTstation running 3.3 in need of an external SCSI tape drive. I'm looking for > 500MB capacity, at a reasonable cost for both the drive and the media. Any pointers would be greatly appreciated. - Steve -- Steve Johnson E: Steve.Johnson@math.tamu.edu Dept of Mathematics P: 409-845-4267 Texas A&M University F: 409-862-4190
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From: Ian_Stewart@nyro.com (Ian H. Stewart) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: ObjectStation41 CPU Upgrade... Date: 21 Nov 1996 08:57:03 GMT Organization: VeriFone ICD Distribution: world Message-ID: <5715gv$g2u@pornstorm.eit.com> References: <56v1dp$j3a@nil.aoml.noaa.gov> Thank you Mark for following up with my message. I still believe this to be true, but was sad to find a typo. It should read... "I wouldn't waste YOUR money on the over-drive either as we tested this at ATO and there was barely a 5% increase." Anything else about the OS41, let me know. Ian H. Stewart Former NeXT and Canon ATO employee :^) Hi NSX Bob! :^) --- "One person's noise, is another person's sonata" - Ian Stewart - 1996
From: shess@one.net (Scott Hess) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: [Q] Search for 1280x1024x32bit or higher graphics card Date: 12 Nov 96 00:21:53 Organization: Is a sign of weakness Message-ID: <SHESS.96Nov12002153@howard.one.net> References: <SHESS.96Nov11110100@howard.one.net> <1996Nov11.231937.9922@il.us.swissbank.com> In-reply-to: ericb@il.us.swissbank.com's message of Mon, 11 Nov 1996 23:19:37 GMT In article <1996Nov11.231937.9922@il.us.swissbank.com>, ericb@il.us.swissbank.com (Eric_Brown) writes: Scott Hess writes > [Actually, I'm sort of wondering why the drivers don't have an > 888/24 mode. Then you could do 1280x1024x24 in 4M, and only need > 8M for 1600x1200x32. Does the lack of perfect alignment exact > _that_ big of a performance penalty?] The problem is that the DPS server in NEXTSTEP doesn't support the type of pixel packing that you are referring to. Ah, so you couldn't get it even if you wrote your own driver. [Well, unless you somehow did the translation on-the-fly, and we can all imagine how quick _that_ would make things.] [Well, I wonder ... you'd lose on the copy, of course, but if you coded a loop to translate, say, 4 32-bit pixels in 16 bytes to 4 24-bit pixels in 12 bytes each iteration, it might not be that bad. Unfortunately, it would also require that you somehow periodically copy data between a "fake" screen and the real screen, which would wreak havoc with the interface.] I don't know if there would really be a performance penalty or not. In fact, it's possible that it would even be faster since only 75% of the data would have to be blasted to the screen. It would probably slow things down, because pixels would not be aligned on 32-bit boundaries. I doubt the reduction in volume transferred would be enough reimbursement for that. On the other hand, you might not _lose_ much, for the gain in a couple more free display modes. Oh, well, it's probably one of those things we won't see on NeXTSTEP ... Later, -- scott hess <shess@one.net> (606) 578-0412 http://w3.one.net/~shess/ <I plan to become so famous that people buy tapes of me reading source code>
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Multi-speed CD ROM with Black hardware Date: Wed, 20 Nov 1996 16:58:06 -0800 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.95.961120164310.27310A-100000@kira> References: <JLSCOTT.96Nov19083138@netcom20.netcom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: James Scott <jlscott@netcom20.netcom.com> In-Reply-To: <JLSCOTT.96Nov19083138@netcom20.netcom.com> Return-Receipt-To: luomat@nerc.com SONY 4x CD-ROM CDU-76S (internal) $100 if you don't have an internal spot open anywhere, get a case ($47): Their item # is CS-EXTDR1, "External drive case, 1 HH 5.25" for CD-ROM" Call 1-800-REAL-PCS ASAComputers, Inc. (http://www.asacomputers.com). It's listed there for $114, but PC Week add had it for $101, so that's what I'm getting it for... I've been using this for a year+... installed 3.2 and 3.3 with it on my non-turbo slab... TjL
From: Timothy Reed <treed@gun.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Connecting Next 20" monitor to a PC? Date: Wed, 20 Nov 1996 20:38:19 -0500 Organization: Black Market Technologies, Inc. Message-ID: <3293B28B.4A21@gun.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi, I have a PC that needs a monitor, and an unused Next 20" color monitor. Does anyone know if there's a way to use these two things together? Thanks, Tim treed@gun.com
From: wli@pluto (Dr. Wei Li) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Help: Configuring NeXTStation as print server Date: 21 Nov 1996 01:52:05 GMT Organization: The University of Alabama in Huntsville Message-ID: <570ck5$iej@info.uah.edu> I need help on configuring my NeXT station as a printer server for a Win95 machine. Specifically, I would like to print out MS Word and Excel documents from my NeXT laser printer via a thin ethernet connection between the Win95 machine and my NeXT station running NeXTStep. Any experience and advice are greatly appreciated. Thanks. -wei, wli@cs.uah.edu
From: DanieM@di.denel.co.za (Danie Malan) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: How to configure multiple boot-up options (Was: Exp. with Toshiba Tecras) Date: 21 Nov 96 12:01:22 GMT Organization: pipex-sa.net Message-ID: <32944492.0@newsiax.denel.co.za> Robin Wilson, PSW Technologies wrote in regard to the Toshiba Tecra 720: >I've also configured the boot sequence to install appropriate drivers/netinfo >configurations depending on where I'm at (it prompts me for a selection). >Very handy... Would it be possible to post details on how you accomplished this - I've often wished for this feature in my NEXTSTEP setup ! Regards Danie Malan Mailto: DanieM@di.denel.co.za (NeXTmail, MIME & ASCII welcome) CAIRO=NT+OPENSTEP !
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco Return-Path: <stefan@huelf.hamburg.com> Message-ID: <9611201750.AA02868@huelf.hamburg.com> Content-Type: text/plain Mime-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 3.3 v118.2) From: Stefan Huelf <stefan@huelf.hamburg.com> Date: Wed, 20 Nov 96 18:50:26 +0100 Subject: Max. 104 MB RAM for IBM ThinkPads Cc: grettir@njardvik.orem.novell.com (Shawn Lynn) Hi there Shawn Lynn, on the Net you wrote: > The ThinkPad is up to 104-MB max with the Apricorn's third-party carrier. > The Tecra can still beat them both with 144-MB max. > > -- > Shawn Lynn "Naked people have little or > grettir@njardvik.orem.novell.com no influence in society." > - Mark Twain > Can you give me a pointer as where to get this 3rd-Party carrier up to 104 MB RAM for the TP?? Holds this true for the 760 or the 560 or both?? Thanx in advance Thanx, Later + Greetings from .. Stefan .. 8^) =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Stefan Huelf Life spans many different colors, but voice + 49 - 40 - 40 43 64 --- REAL Computing is black! stefan@huelf.hamburg.com (NeXTmail, MIME and ASCII) =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= ***** PGP key available on request - pretty soon !! *****
From: cmitch2@aol.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Iomega Zip Drive with NeXT 3.2 on Intel Date: 21 Nov 1996 03:49:18 GMT Organization: AOL http://www.aol.com Message-ID: <19961121035100.WAA01466@ladder01.news.aol.com> Anybody know where I can get Zip Drive drivers for NeXTSTEP 3.2? cmitch2@aol.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware From: Joseph McWilliams <mcwilljg@euler.sfasu.edu> Subject: Replacement of DSP chip?? Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.95.961120221650.3952A-100000@euler> Date: Wed, 20 Nov 1996 22:25:24 -0600 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Does anyone know where to look for a replacement DSP chip? I have a 25 MHZ 68040 board with a defective DSP. The boot process usually hangs at the DSP check and jumps into the NMI mini monitor. Every so often the machine will successfully boot and when it does it runs fine, except it _sometimes_ crashes if I try to use Sound.app to play a sound.
From: rdieter@math.unl.edu (Rex Dieter) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Symbios Logic 8751SP supported? Date: 21 Nov 1996 14:37:35 GMT Organization: University of Nebraska--Lincoln Message-ID: <571pff$38f@crcnis3.unl.edu> References: <Pine.NXT.3.95.961120161236.3119A-100000@pollux> In article <Pine.NXT.3.95.961120161236.3119A-100000@pollux> Konstantin Wiesel <kwiesel@pollux.jura.uni-bonn.de> writes: > Does the NCR/Symbios driver currently available for NextStep work with the > Symbios Logic 8751SP Ultra-Wide Hostadapter? Presumably yes, since JCIS is selling NEXTSTEP adapters based on the new Symbios 875 chip. I have no concrete confirmation of this, however. -- Rex A. Dieter rdieter@math.unl.edu (NeXT/MIME OK) Computer System Manager http://www.math.unl.edu/~rdieter/ Mathematics and Statistics University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware From: Joseph McWilliams <mcwilljg@euler.sfasu.edu> Subject: Re: Replacement of DSP chip?? Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.95.961121120435.4861A-100000@euler> Date: Thu, 21 Nov 1996 12:07:14 -0600 References: <Pine.NXT.3.95.961120221650.3952A-100000@euler> <E187M9.5vw@novice.uwaterloo.ca> In-Reply-To: <E187M9.5vw@novice.uwaterloo.ca> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Thu, 21 Nov 1996, David Evans wrote: > > Is the DSP even socketed? I don't recall it being so... > I don't have many suggestions, beyond Bell Atlantic or one of the > used hardware dealers (Spherical, Dancing Bear, and so on). > The DSP is soldered onto the board. The machine runs well other than the problems at bootup when the DSP is checked. Is there some way to prevent the DSP check at bootup? Is there a file that the system reads for a list of boot steps?
From: jrudd@cygnus.com (John Rudd) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Iomega Zip Drive with NeXT 3.2 on Intel Date: 21 Nov 1996 18:02:03 GMT Organization: Cygnus Support Message-ID: <5725er$1dr@majipoor.cygnus.com> References: <19961121035100.WAA01466@ladder01.news.aol.com> Cc: cmitch2@aol.com In <19961121035100.WAA01466@ladder01.news.aol.com> cmitch2@aol.com wrote: > Anybody know where I can get Zip Drive drivers for NeXTSTEP 3.2? > > cmitch2@aol.com > The Zip drive shouldn't need drivers. (The Jazz does) It should just be recognized as a removable scsi drive. If you want to format the zip disks, you need to jump through some hoops though. When you load the disk, if you don't want it to stay a mac or dos formatted disk, before you use workspace manager to format the disk, you need to use "sdform" to format it. If you have other scsi disks, I'm not sure what arguments you'll need to use.. the only system I've used my Zip drive on had IDE drives (and a scsi cdrom..but nextstep seemed to recognize that that wasn't the system I was trying to format ;-) But I don't know if it would be as smart about choosing between a scsi hard drive and a zip drive). Note, also, that this is for the SCSI Zip drives. I don't think a driver exists, nor will exist, for the parallel Zip. -- John "kzin" Rudd jrudd@cygnus.com (ex- kzin@email.sjsu.edu) =========Intel: Putting the backward in backward compatible.============ Spammers: I charge you for my time, disk, and bandwidth if you post off- topic solicitations for money in the groups I read. $500/post/group.
From: Barbara Dosher <bar@aris.ss.uci.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: monitor help Date: Thu, 21 Nov 1996 10:31:01 +0000 Organization: university of california at irvine Message-ID: <32942F64.E02@aris.ss.uci.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit We have a next color station (the black box). Our monitor just developed problems, and we are wondering about the availability of replacement monitors or about repair sources that you might know about. If you have any information, please email bdosher@uci.edu .
From: Barbara Dosher <bar@aris.ss.uci.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: monitor help Date: Thu, 21 Nov 1996 10:31:39 +0000 Organization: university of california at irvine Message-ID: <32942F8A.2A9A@aris.ss.uci.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit We have a next color station (the black box). Our monitor just developed problems, and we are wondering about the availability of replacement monitors or about repair sources that you might know about. If you have any information, please email bdosher@uci.edu .
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware From: dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca (David Evans) Subject: Re: Iomega Zip Drive with NeXT 3.2 on Intel Sender: news@novice.uwaterloo.ca (Mr. News) Message-ID: <E187K9.K8o@novice.uwaterloo.ca> Date: Thu, 21 Nov 1996 15:12:09 GMT References: <19961121035100.WAA01466@ladder01.news.aol.com> Organization: University of Waterloo In article <19961121035100.WAA01466@ladder01.news.aol.com>, <cmitch2@aol.com> wrote: >Anybody know where I can get Zip Drive drivers for NeXTSTEP 3.2? > You don't need any. At least for formatting and using NeXT-format disks, It Just Works. -- 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: Replacement of DSP chip?? Sender: news@novice.uwaterloo.ca (Mr. News) Message-ID: <E187M9.5vw@novice.uwaterloo.ca> Date: Thu, 21 Nov 1996 15:13:20 GMT References: <Pine.NXT.3.95.961120221650.3952A-100000@euler> Organization: University of Waterloo In article <Pine.NXT.3.95.961120221650.3952A-100000@euler>, Joseph McWilliams <mcwilljg@euler.sfasu.edu> wrote: > >Does anyone know where to look for a replacement DSP chip? I have a 25 >MHZ 68040 board with a defective DSP. The boot process usually hangs at >the DSP check and jumps into the NMI mini monitor. Every so often the >machine will successfully boot and when it does it runs fine, except it >_sometimes_ crashes if I try to use Sound.app to play a sound. > Is the DSP even socketed? I don't recall it being so... I don't have many suggestions, beyond Bell Atlantic or one of the used hardware dealers (Spherical, Dancing Bear, and so on). -- 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: cmitch2@aol.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Installing NeXTSTEP 3.2 with ATAPI CDROM Date: 21 Nov 1996 17:16:26 GMT Organization: AOL http://www.aol.com Message-ID: <19961121171800.MAA11552@ladder01.news.aol.com> Been checking the next.com site: Documentation says that the kernel should see ATAPI devices as SCSI (boot: sd()mach_kernel), which in my case seems to happen: the screen goes blank, and the busy light on my Sony 760E 4x CD reader goes on...then there's a beep and the system reboots. Documentation also says to make the CD a slave to the primary IDE drive, which i have also done. When the kernel boots and resets what it sees as the SCSI bus, it registers a device 'hc0', which doesnt respond when i set it as rootdev. Do you know what this is? Note: have Pentium PCI with Award BIOS dated 6/96; onboard IDE is IRQ 14.
From: cmitch2@aol.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Installing NeXTSTEP 3.2 with ATAPI CDROM Date: 21 Nov 1996 17:27:35 GMT Organization: AOL http://www.aol.com Message-ID: <19961121172900.MAA11760@ladder01.news.aol.com> References: <19961121171800.MAA11552@ladder01.news.aol.com> ADDENDUM: i have a Cirrus Logic 2MB PCI video card.
From: "ndl products, inc." <ndl@thenet.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: [Q] Command+Control+Power keys in the NeXT ADB Keyboard Date: Thu, 21 Nov 1996 16:20:17 -0400 Organization: Thenet Message-ID: <3294B96E.3D4F@thenet.net> References: <328A1B76.5096@soback.kornet.nm.kr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit hi i'm a PPC user too and i also use the ADB keyboard and to respond your question there is nothing for that power key on this keyboard... hey but i still use it it's the best keyboard & mouse i've ever owned don't you think!? 8)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware From: Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Subject: Re: NeXT laser printer problems Message-ID: <E17tMu.Aqu@nidat.sub.org> Sender: nitezki@nidat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany References: <56q6ec$gpj@news.tamu.edu> Date: Thu, 21 Nov 1996 10:11:18 GMT In article <56q6ec$gpj@news.tamu.edu> herrmann@math.tamu.edu (joe herrmann) writes: > I have a NeXT laser printer that will print the page (sometimes) > but will not eject it folding it back and forth into 1/2 inch strips > which you must then pull out of the printer. At other times it > says the paper is jammed. Before this it worked but ejected all > but the last inch of the paper which you had to pull out manually. > I had to print all documents a page at a time. Is there an easy > way to fix this? Otherwise are there companies that will fix this > at a reasonable price? Thanks. > This printer seems to have had a bad time lately ;-) At least two problems: 1. The gear of the last paper path axle is most likely broken. A technically apt person can replace it on his own. Canon used to sell a replacement at about 10$. 2. The rubber surface of the paper transport rollers seems to be dirty and hardned. You could try to get some rubber revitalizer and try to revive your thing. Or you could try to call the PrinterWorks who used to sell replacements on a turn in basis. -- 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: cdl@proxima.ucsd.edu (Carl Lowenstein) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Replacement of DSP chip?? Date: 22 Nov 1996 01:16:12 GMT Organization: The Avant-Garde of the Now, Ltd. Message-ID: <572uss$qsp@news1.ucsd.edu> References: <Pine.NXT.3.95.961120221650.3952A-100000@euler> <E187M9.5vw@novice.uwaterloo.ca> <Pine.NXT.3.95.961121120435.4861A-100000@euler> Cc: mcwilljg@euler.sfasu.edu In <Pine.NXT.3.95.961121120435.4861A-100000@euler> Joseph McWilliams wrote: |> On Thu, 21 Nov 1996, David Evans wrote: | | > | > Is the DSP even socketed? I don't recall it being so... | > I don't have many suggestions, beyond Bell Atlantic or one of the | > used hardware dealers (Spherical, Dancing Bear, and so on). | > | > | The DSP is soldered onto the board. | | The machine runs well other than the problems at bootup when the DSP is | checked. Is there some way to prevent the DSP check at bootup? Is there | a file that the system reads for a list of boot steps? Can't you turn off the sound-out check at bootup? By setting the ROM monitor preferences. Also this symptom can be caused by a defective sound board, in the CRT Monitor or the SoundBox, depending on what kind of NeXT you have. -- carl lowenstein marine physical lab u.c. san diego clowenstein@ucsd.edu
From: thedrjay@aol.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: HELP!! URGENT!! NS Installation Problems!! DON'T IGNORE!!! Date: 22 Nov 1996 01:36:22 GMT Organization: America Online, Inc. (1-800-827-6364) (1.13) Message-ID: <19961122013800.UAA20502@ladder01.news.aol.com> References: <56soqb$61n@newsroom.hitc.com> How much ram do you have? It could be the 48 meg or over ram bug that causes conflicts with the video frame address on some video cards. If you have more try reducing the ram to 32 or less and if it works do this. Login as root. Go to NextAdmin and start up the Config.app. Go to display and you should see a field called "Mapped Memory" or "Memory Mapped" ( I can't remember which) on the display panel. You should see a hexadecimal number like 0x2000000. Change the hexadecimal number to 0xA000000. Make sure that you hit the enter or return key so that the change takes effect. Then logout and restart the system. Should be smooth sailing. This change allows your video memory to be mapped to the appropriate area of your base RAM w/out conflict.
From: Mycroft <mycroft@datasphere.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Porting OpenBSD to NeXT Black Hardware Date: Thu, 21 Nov 1996 15:37:34 -0800 Organization: Simple Access Message-ID: <3294E7BE.303B@datasphere.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Greetings- I'm going to be porting OpenBSD (http://www.openbsd.org) to NeXT black hardware. If there is anyone out there interested in helping, drop me a line... .mycroft
From: mitch@digitalcastle.com (Mitch Roider) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Problem With SCSITape Driver Date: 22 Nov 1996 06:36:47 GMT Organization: PSI Public Usenet Link Message-ID: <573hlv$25@client2.news.psi.net> Hello, Recently I had to move a SCSI DAT tape drive from a NeXT machine to an intel box. After installing the tape drive NEXTSTEP was not able to load the driver. Config info: Adaptec 2940UW controller ( the drive comes up in the Adaptec bootup hardware) HP DAT Drive 15?? Software NEXTSTEP 3.3 I have attempted this with both the original driver and the latest driver. Mitchel Roider
From: akim@cogent.net (Andrew Kim) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software Subject: HP ScanJet 4C TWAIN Driver? Date: Thu, 21 Nov 1996 23:09:39 -0800 Organization: Cogent Software Message-ID: <akim-2111962309400001@mfs-annex1-p3.dsphere.net> Where can I find twain device for NEXTSTEP/OPENSTEP for mach? I would like to use my HP Scanner with Lighthouse WetPaint. But I just can not find way to scan it. HELP!
From: scollarw@cadvision.com (guzzibill) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: recommendation wanted: tape backup for black hw Date: 22 Nov 1996 02:59:16 GMT Organization: CADVision Development Corp. Message-ID: <5734u4$1fb8@elmo.cadvision.com> In-Reply-To: <570nsf$rf5@news.tamu.edu> On 11/20/96, Steve Johnson composed a News article about recommendation wanted: tape backup for black hw: ~I have a non-turbo NeXTstation running 3.3 in need of an external SCSI ~tape drive. I'm looking for > 500MB capacity, at a reasonable cost for ~both the drive and the media. Any pointers would be greatly appreciated. Hi Steve: the following is output from my usr/adm/messages file indicating the EXABYTE tape drive I have attached. It has performed *very* well for 2+ years in a rather dusty environment. That + SafetyNet have saved my bacon after countless *panics*. Nov 18 22:48:55 guzzibill mach: EXABYTE EXB-8200 Rev 263H as st0 at sc0 target 5 lun 0 capacity is over 2 gig (I only have 1.6 hanging around). Good quality 8mm video camera casette tapes can be used as the medium. -- Bill Scollard - Scollard Holdings Ltd. Computer Systems : Cradle-to-Grave Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware From: dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca (David Evans) Subject: Re: Iomega Zip Drive with NeXT 3.2 on Intel Sender: news@novice.uwaterloo.ca (Mr. News) Message-ID: <E1979u.EKJ@novice.uwaterloo.ca> Date: Fri, 22 Nov 1996 04:03:30 GMT References: <19961121035100.WAA01466@ladder01.news.aol.com> <5725er$1dr@majipoor.cygnus.com> Organization: University of Waterloo In article <5725er$1dr@majipoor.cygnus.com>, John Rudd <jrudd@cygnus.com> wrote: >In <19961121035100.WAA01466@ladder01.news.aol.com> cmitch2@aol.com wrote: >> Anybody know where I can get Zip Drive drivers for NeXTSTEP 3.2? >> >> cmitch2@aol.com >> > >The Zip drive shouldn't need drivers. (The Jazz does) > Well, if you call a disktab entry a "driver"... ;-) >If you want to format the zip disks, you need to jump through some hoops >though. >When you load the disk, if you don't want it to stay a mac or dos formatted >disk, >before you use workspace manager to format the disk, you need to use "sdform" >to format it. I didn't need to do this, with "IBM"-formatted Zip disks. I'm not talking about the funky tools disk, though. I just converted that to a Mac disk and forgot about it. -- David Evans (NeXTMail OK) dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca Computer/Synth Junkie http://bbcr.uwaterloo.ca/~dfevans/ University of Waterloo "Default is the value selected by the composer Ontario, Canada overridden by your command." - Roland TR-707 Manual
From: ploeger@pedcard.uni-kiel.de (Andreas Ploeger) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: IWill on board SCSI-Controller? Date: 22 Nov 1996 09:01:40 GMT Organization: Rechenzentrum der Universitaet Kiel, Germany Message-ID: <573q5k$el@infosrv.rz.uni-kiel.de> References: <56q70s$b74@sun168.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de> Cc: stefan.boehringer@rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de In <56q70s$b74@sun168.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de> Stefan Boehringer wrote: > I've vainly tried to install NS3.3 on a Pentium-board (running a cyrix166+) > form IWill namely "IWill P55TV". The on board SCSI-controller claims to be a > Adaptec 2940/7860. However none of the drivers from NeXTAnswers or the > install disks work. Either they won't recognice the controller or crashes > result. Did anybody get NS running on the above board? Not on this one but on the I-Will P6NS with this Adaptec chip on board. I used the Adaptec 2940 driver. No problems at all. -- Andreas Ploeger E-Mail: ploeger@tpki.toppoint.de Kiel University Phone: (49) 431 597 1757 Clinic for Pediatric Cardiology FAX: (49) 431 597 1828 Schwanenweg 20, 24105 Kiel, Germany *** NeXT Mail welcome ***
From: kinau@zimmer.csufresno.edu (Kin Hung Au) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.marketplace Subject: NeXT cube motherboard upgrade Date: 20 Nov 1996 21:46:35 GMT Organization: California State University, Fresno Message-ID: <56vu7r$5b0@shadow.CSUFresno.EDU> Hi folks, We are interesting to install two old NeXT cube to Turbo machine. Does anyone know any vendor to provide motherboard upgrade service? I heard about Pyro accelerator board? Did anyone have some information for old NeXT cube upgrade? If you have any information, would you email me at kinau@csufresno.edu. Thanks in advance. --Kin ****************************************************************************** Kin Hung Au Internet Address: 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/ ******************************************************************************
From: Wiesel <wiesel@next1.rhrz.uni-bonn.de> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Symbios Logic 8751SP supported? Date: Fri, 22 Nov 1996 13:58:51 +0000 Organization: RHRZ - University of Bonn (Germany) Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.95.961122135817.880D-100000@next1.rhrz.uni-bonn.de> References: <Pine.NXT.3.95.961120161236.3119A-100000@pollux> <571pff$38f@crcnis3.unl.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: Rex Dieter <rdieter@math.unl.edu> In-Reply-To: <571pff$38f@crcnis3.unl.edu> On 21 Nov 1996, Rex Dieter wrote: > In article <Pine.NXT.3.95.961120161236.3119A-100000@pollux> Konstantin Wiesel > <kwiesel@pollux.jura.uni-bonn.de> writes: > > > Does the NCR/Symbios driver currently available for NextStep work with the > > Symbios Logic 8751SP Ultra-Wide Hostadapter? > > Presumably yes, since JCIS is selling NEXTSTEP adapters based on the new > Symbios 875 chip. I have no concrete confirmation of this, however. > Where on the net can i contact JCIS? Regards --- Konstantin Wiesel
From: rdieter@math.unl.edu (Rex Dieter) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Installing NeXTSTEP 3.2 with ATAPI CDROM Date: 22 Nov 1996 13:54:01 GMT Organization: University of Nebraska--Lincoln Message-ID: <574b9p$543@crcnis3.unl.edu> References: <19961121171800.MAA11552@ladder01.news.aol.com> In article <19961121171800.MAA11552@ladder01.news.aol.com> cmitch2@aol.com writes: > Been checking the next.com site: > Documentation says that the kernel should see ATAPI devices as > SCSI (boot: sd()mach_kernel), >.... Nope, won't work with NS-3.2. NS-3.3 is required for ATAPI CDROMS with the newest EIDE.config driver from NeXTanswers. With 3.2, you're stuck with SCSI CDROMS. -- Rex A. Dieter rdieter@math.unl.edu (NeXT/MIME OK) Computer System Manager http://www.math.unl.edu/~rdieter/ Mathematics and Statistics University of Nebraska-Lincoln
From: shess@one.net (Scott Hess) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Replacement of DSP chip?? Date: 21 Nov 96 19:47:30 Organization: Is a sign of weakness Message-ID: <SHESS.96Nov21194730@howard.one.net> References: <Pine.NXT.3.95.961120221650.3952A-100000@euler> <E187M9.5vw@novice.uwaterloo.ca> <Pine.NXT.3.95.961121120435.4861A-100000@euler> In-reply-to: Joseph McWilliams's message of Thu, 21 Nov 1996 12:07:14 -0600 In article <Pine.NXT.3.95.961121120435.4861A-100000@euler>, Joseph McWilliams <mcwilljg@euler.sfasu.edu> writes: The machine runs well other than the problems at bootup when the DSP is checked. Is there some way to prevent the DSP check at bootup? Is there a file that the system reads for a list of boot steps? When is it checked? If it's in the initial hardware check, you may be able to turn the check off from the monitor. Just say "halt" as root, or hit Command-Keypad-~ right away at boot, and do 'p' (I think - 'p'references), and tell it no if it gives you the option. Otherwise, start poking through /etc/rc* files and look for anything suspicious. And turn on visual beep in Preferences. I'm not sure if you can disable sound entirely - I don't doubt you can, I'm just not sure where you'd do it at. Later, -- scott hess <shess@one.net> (606) 578-0412 http://w3.one.net/~shess/ <I plan to become so famous that people buy tapes of me reading source code>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware From: dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca (David Evans) Subject: Re: Porting OpenBSD to NeXT Black Hardware Sender: news@novice.uwaterloo.ca (Mr. News) Message-ID: <E1A08t.4v9@novice.uwaterloo.ca> Date: Fri, 22 Nov 1996 14:29:15 GMT References: <3294E7BE.303B@datasphere.net> Organization: University of Waterloo In article <3294E7BE.303B@datasphere.net>, Mycroft <mycroft@datasphere.net> wrote: >Greetings- > > I'm going to be porting OpenBSD (http://www.openbsd.org) >to NeXT black hardware. If there is anyone out there interested in >helping, drop me a line... > My question is, do you have low-level hardware documentation for the drivers? The only OS that I know of that has source and drivers is Plan 9, and those drivers are only for mono machines (they say slabs, but I imagine it would mostly work on cubes as well). -- 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: daspinall@gects.ge.com (David Aspinall) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Tape Backup Drives Date: 22 Nov 1996 16:47:20 GMT Organization: GE Capital TMS Message-ID: <574leo$d5a@gein.ge.com> I just received a Sony DDS Drive SDT-S5000, 4mm DAT tape drive, and I am having some difficulty with Nextstep 3.3. The first time I tried to use it I got kernel panics, so I updated all my SCSI drivers and the problem seem to go away. Then last night the problem returned. I have further update ALL my drivers (including video, PCI, and EIDE) but the problem persists. Has anyone else experienced this? I'm going to try it again tonight after I remove the CDROM from the chain ... Adaptec 2940 v3.37 SCSI Tape v3.32 EISA v3.35 David David Aspinall ---------------- GE Capital Technology Management Services vMail : (905) 507-5039 5990 Avebury Road, Fax : (905) 507-4903 Mississauga, Ontario, Canada, eMail : daspinall@gects.ge.com L5R 3R2
From: leigh@cs.uwa.edu.au (Leigh Smith) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Octek Rhino 9 Motherboard compatibility with NS/I 3.3? Date: 22 Nov 1996 17:39:38 GMT Organization: The University of Western Australia Distribution: world Message-ID: <574ogq$olp@enyo.uwa.edu.au> Keywords: Octek Rhino 9 Hi all, Is anyone successfully running NS Intel 3.3 on a Octek Rhino 9 motherboard? I'm running it with a 133Mhz 6x86 and an ISA ET4000 video card. The system boots fine and will run for quite some time (fully through NXBench) but then suddenly freezes. I realise the ISA video board is a pretty dumb move, but at the moment, I can't get a PCI Diamond Stealth Trio 64 to allow me to boot, hanging with a blank screen when the white background boot display should appear. I've already tried setting BootGraphics = No and have the latest PCI and EISA bus drivers & 3.32 of the Diamond Stealth Driver. Any other suggestions? I suspect the ISA card is hanging because of the fast processor, but until I get another video board running to confirm it, I'm checking if anyone else is having better luck than I. Many Thanks --- Leigh Smith Computer Science, University of Western Australia +61-9-380-1945 leigh@cs.uwa.edu.au (NeXTMail/MIME) "In a world where success means gaining time, thinking has a single but irredeemable fault: it's a waste of time" - J-F. Lyotard
From: jrudd@cygnus.com (John Rudd) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Porting OpenBSD to NeXT Black Hardware Date: 22 Nov 1996 17:38:36 GMT Organization: Cygnus Support Message-ID: <574oes$q9d@majipoor.cygnus.com> References: <3294E7BE.303B@datasphere.net> <E1A08t.4v9@novice.uwaterloo.ca> Cc: dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca In <E1A08t.4v9@novice.uwaterloo.ca> David Evans wrote: > In article <3294E7BE.303B@datasphere.net>, > Mycroft <mycroft@datasphere.net> wrote: > >Greetings- > > > > I'm going to be porting OpenBSD (http://www.openbsd.org) > >to NeXT black hardware. If there is anyone out there interested in > >helping, drop me a line... > > > > My question is, do you have low-level hardware documentation for the drivers? > The only OS that I know of that has source and drivers is Plan 9, and those > drivers are only for mono machines (they say slabs, but I imagine it would > mostly work on cubes as well). > > And last I checked, Plan 9 never figured out how to use the NeXT mouse. They required you using a serial mouse. -- John "kzin" Rudd jrudd@cygnus.com (ex- kzin@email.sjsu.edu) =========Intel: Putting the backward in backward compatible.============ Spammers: I charge you for my time, disk, and bandwidth if you post off- topic solicitations for money in the groups I read. $500/post/group.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware From: rbp@investor.pgh.pa.us (Bob Peirce #305) Subject: Monitors - what can you swap? Message-ID: <1996Nov22.200249.10358@investor.pgh.pa.us> Date: Fri, 22 Nov 96 20:02:49 GMT Organization: Cookson, Peirce & Co., Pittsburgh, PA I frequently see that the type 'B' monitor is recommended. However, I have been told that those monitors are for "adb" systems and cannot be swapped into a non adb system. Is that correct or am I missing something? -- Bob Peirce Pittsburgh, PA 412-471-5320 rbp@investor.pgh.pa.us [OFFICE] me@venetia.pgh.pa.us [HOME (NeXT)] There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences. -- P.J. O'Rourke
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware From: tachang@gsbux1.uchicago.edu (Andrew Chang) Subject: Re: recommendation wanted: tape backup for black hw Message-ID: <E185u1.DwI@midway.uchicago.edu> Keywords: tape Sender: news@midway.uchicago.edu (News Administrator) Organization: GSB, University of Chicago References: <570nsf$rf5@news.tamu.edu> Date: Thu, 21 Nov 1996 14:34:49 GMT In article <570nsf$rf5@news.tamu.edu>, Steve Johnson <steve@math.tamu.edu> wrote: >I have a non-turbo NeXTstation running 3.3 in need of an external SCSI >tape drive. I'm looking for > 500MB capacity, at a reasonable cost for >both the drive and the media. Any pointers would be greatly appreciated. > I know many people use Exabyte drives. They are good.
From: "Davor Barcan" <dbarcan@cia.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Cannot Mount NeXT CD-ROM Drive Date: 22 Nov 1996 22:32:23 GMT Organization: Cybersurf Network Services Message-ID: <01bbd8be$215f4c20$706ebace@davorbar> I just recently pulled my 040 NeXT Cube out of retirement, and connected the NeXT CD-ROM drive to it. It boots fine, but the Workspace Manager refuses to recognize that there is a CD in the CD-ROM drive (the Eject option is grayed out). Is there a way to get it to mount? It's been a while and I've since forgotten how to diagnose such problems. I haven't changed anything since last time I used it (and it used to work fine). Is there something I can try to figure out what the problem is? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks! Davor Barcan dbarcan@cia.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware From: tachang@gsbux1.uchicago.edu (Andrew Chang) Subject: NS 3.3 on Compaq Prosignia 300 Message-ID: <E18M0v.En3@midway.uchicago.edu> Sender: news@midway.uchicago.edu (News Administrator) Organization: GSB, University of Chicago Date: Thu, 21 Nov 1996 20:24:31 GMT I'm trying to load the NS 3.3 onto a Compaq Prosignia 300. It's a P150 machine with build-in SCSI controller (what they called SMART controller). Because the SCSI controller is not standard, I had hard time to find the driver for the SCSI controller. Has anyone had a similar problem? The next thing I can do is to borrow a Adaptec SCSI controller and connect everything to the supported Adaptec controller. Any other suggestion? Thanks.
From: mpaque@wco.com (Mike Paquette) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: [Q] Some questions about the Demension Board Speed Date: Fri, 22 Nov 1996 19:48:55 GMT Organization: Electronics Service, Unit No. 16 Message-ID: <5750bg$fo0@news.wco.com> References: <55urm4$ldi@usenet.kornet.nm.kr> <564qn6$6lp@news1.voicenet.com> <568m13$1dui@msunews.cl.msu.edu> <E0xoH2.KHo@novice.uwaterloo.ca> dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca (David Evans) wrote: >In article <568m13$1dui@msunews.cl.msu.edu>, <rencsok@channelu.com> wrote: >> >>Yeah contact Sandy Hawkins the current daughter card hoarder (he only has >>2 out of what 5-10 that were produced). The problem with the card was that >>it ran extremely hot, and the FIFO on the CL550 chip was extremely small >>making for lots of interrupts to service to clear the FIFO. > Apparently the "official" solution from C-Cubed was to use the host CPU (in >the ND's case the i860) to "throttle back" the pixel clock, thereby preventing >the FIFO from overflowing. Then, you would hope that you could catch up >durring vertical blank. This means that the chip can't accept video at full video clock rates, so a dual-ported field store must then be installed between the CL550 pixel port and the pixel bus. Then some clever soul needs to set up the throttled 'clock' and addressing for the output of the field store, and provide a mechanism to detect when the field store has been 'lapped' (when the CL550 couldn't complete a frame during the blanking period). (Figure on using 10-12 chips for this...) If you are using the i860 to do this, don't forget to service the output of the Huffman encoder every 48 usec or less. You'll need to poll this because the i860 interrupt overhead is too high to reliably do this interrupt driven. Alternatively, you could put an external FIFO on the output side of the CL550. (A few more chips...) > This is likely why the PowerVideo card from Parallax can record real-time >MJPEG video only at 320 x 200 or so. Above that you have to do the encoding >later in software. Yup. >>Frankly I thought the CL560 was near enough to the CL550 in terms of >>pin compatiblity to make if feasible. The problem is that there arn't >>enough >>ND boards out there to justify the expense of making a daughter card.. >> Nope. Not quite pin compatible, and definitely not signal-compatable or register-compatible. > Apparently there were about 8000 ND boards made, but I don't know what >percentage of owners would want an MJPEG daughterboard. Not to mention what >those who *would* want it would be willing to pay. Parallax charges about $8K >for the PowerVideo. Yup. There's a reason for that price... Mike Paquette -- I don't speak for my employer, and they don't speak for me.
From: Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Replacement of DSP chip?? Date: Fri, 22 Nov 1996 14:48:21 -0500 Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Message-ID: <UmZUC5O00Uzx82_W8f@andrew.cmu.edu> References: <Pine.NXT.3.95.961120221650.3952A-100000@euler> <E187M9.5vw@novice.uwaterloo.ca> <Pine.NXT.3.95.961121120435.4861A-100000@euler> <SHESS.96Nov21194730@howard.one.net> In-Reply-To: <SHESS.96Nov21194730@howard.one.net> Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.hardware: 21-Nov-96 Re: Replacement of DSP chip?? by Scott Hess@one.net > Otherwise, start poking through /etc/rc* files and look for anything > suspicious. And turn on visual beep in Preferences. I'm not sure if > you can disable sound entirely - I don't doubt you can, I'm just not > sure where you'd do it at. 'kl_util -u audio' maybe? Probably one should prevent kern_loader from ever loading the audio server.... -Chuck Charles Swiger | cs4w@andrew.cmu.edu | standard disclaimer ----------------+---------------------+--------------------- I know you're an optimist if you think I'm a pessimist.
From: bnd00796@aol.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: How do you open a NeXT ADB Mouse? Date: 23 Nov 1996 04:24:08 GMT Organization: AOL http://www.aol.com Message-ID: <19961123042600.XAA16273@ladder01.news.aol.com> I was wondering if someone can tell me how to open up a Black NeXT ADB Mouse. It seems that the cursor is not moving very smoothly, and I've tried the old cotton swab w/alcohol routine. I have unscrewed the two bottom screws, but it seems that it is *still* hard to open. Is there another screw somewhere? If not, how exactly do I lift off the top without cracking it? Thanks! Bill
From: yong@charlie.cns.iit.edu (Yong J. Yoo) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.question Subject: Question: about external modem and SCSI driver. Date: 22 Nov 1996 22:57:45 -0600 Organization: Illinois Institute of Technology Message-ID: <576089$nbq@charlie.cns.iit.edu> Hi, I am running OpenStep 4.0 on Pentium 133Mhz with Adaptec 2940UW SCSI. So far it works great but I can't seem to figure out how to make my external Motorola 28.8K modem to work. When I used to have internal modem, i would just modify the /etc/gettytab and /etc/ttys to make the modem work but it doesn't seem to work same with external modem. And one more, the driver for Adaptec 2940 that came with OpenStep 4.0, is that the only driver out there for entire Adaptec 2940 Family or is there a driver just for 2940UW that I can get? thanks in advance Yong Yoo yong@charlie.cns.iit.edu P.S. does anyone knows how to use PPP in OpenStep?
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware From: mattj@invisix.com Subject: Monitor question Message-ID: <b167cc$16915.15@news.goldengate.net> Date: Sat, 23 Nov 1996 04:09:20 GMT My question, I have a turbo color station that I put my NEC XP21 monitor on. So, I have a 17" Fimi monitor sitting on the floor, unused. My thoughts are possibly buy a mono NeXT box and have a little fun with the networking. Can I buy a mono station or cube with no monitor and use my Fimi on it? Can I use my 13W3 adapter (currently on the XP21) to connect the XP21 to a mono station/cube? Now that the winter has hit us in Minnesota, I need more computers. :) Thanks for the info.... -- MATT | mailto:mattj@invisix.com NeXTMail Ok jurcich | http://www.invisix.com Silicon Graphics Personal Iris 4D/25G, 16MB, 800MB, 20", Irix 5.3 NeXTstation Turbo Color, 24MB, 250MB, NEC XP21, NEXTSTEP 3.2
From: af@biomath.jussieu.fr (Alain FAUCONNET) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Help: Configuring NeXTStation as print server Date: 23 Nov 96 09:20:50 GMT Organization: Universites Paris VI/Paris VII - France Distribution: world Message-ID: <af.848740850@iaka> References: <570ck5$iej@info.uah.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit wli@pluto (Dr. Wei Li) writes: >I need help on configuring my NeXT station as a printer server for >a Win95 machine. Specifically, I would like to print out >MS Word and Excel documents from my NeXT laser printer via >a thin ethernet connection between the Win95 machine and >my NeXT station running NeXTStep. Any experience and >advice are greatly appreciated. You will probably want to install SAMBA on your NeXT box. It's a free SMB server for Unix. Works very nicely. Check your favourite ftp search service. The README file says: The main anonymous ftp distribution site for this software is nimbus.anu.edu.au in the directory pub/tridge/samba/. The distributed Makefile seems to have an entry for NeXT's brain-challenged Unix, so that shouldn't be quite difficult. Good luck, _Alain_ -- Alain FAUCONNET Ingenieur systeme - System Manager AP-HP/SIM Public Health 91 bld de l'Hopital 75013 PARIS FRANCE Medical Computing Research Labs Mail: af@biomath.jussieu.fr Tel: (+33) (0)1-40-77-96-19 Fax: (+33) (0)1-45-86-80-68 I've RTFMed. It says: "Refer to your system administrator" But... I *am* the system administrator :-]
From: Mario Giammarco <giammarc@cs.unibo.it> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Intel nextstep not print Date: Sat, 23 Nov 1996 11:50:22 -0800 Organization: Cineca Message-ID: <3297557E.82@cs.unibo.it> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hello to all readers, I have a pcibm compatible with nextstep3.3. I have also a Epson Stylus Color Pro inkjet printer. I can print with windows, ghostscript in linux, and linux lpd/lpr, but not in nextstep (I have tried demo versions of dots and jetpilot). In linux, if I use lpr/lpd I have to use a program called tunelp to increase the strobe signal, using directly ghostscript I do not have to do anything. Please Help me! Thank You in advance for your reply. Please reply me to giammarc@cs.unibo.it
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From: paulus@nextdown.pe.utexas.edu (Paulus Adisoemarta) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: recommendation wanted: tape backup for black hw Date: 24 Nov 1996 07:44:55 GMT Organization: Petroleum Engineering Dept, U of Texas, Austin Message-ID: <578udn$puh@socony.pe.utexas.edu> References: <570nsf$rf5@news.tamu.edu> <E185u1.DwI@midway.uchicago.edu> Keywords: tape Cc: In article <E185u1.DwI@midway.uchicago.edu>, Andrew Chang <tachang@gsbux1.uchicago.edu> wrote: >In article <570nsf$rf5@news.tamu.edu>, >Steve Johnson <steve@math.tamu.edu> wrote: >>I have a non-turbo NeXTstation running 3.3 in need of an external SCSI >>tape drive. I'm looking for > 500MB capacity, at a reasonable cost for >>both the drive and the media. Any pointers would be greatly appreciated. >> >I know many people use Exabyte drives. They are good. > > I use both the internal and external version of the Wangtek 51000H tape drives. This tape drive uses either QIC 5525 or Magnus 1 GB tapes. Paulus -- Paulus Suryono Adisoemarta, N5SNN / YG1QN yono@parokinet.org paulus@nextdown.pe.utexas.edu
From: g3736020@mucc.mahidol.ac.th (Niwat Punanwarakorn ) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: How different type of Mainbod version FX,VX,HX,ATX ? Date: 23 Nov 1996 15:41:15 GMT Organization: Mahidol University, Thailand Message-ID: <5775ur$nn3@mars.mahidol.ac.th> Dear, I would like to know about this,How the different type of Mainboard version ? How to select it ? I would like to use it with Pt120 and Ram 32 Mb. Thanks for your kind. With regards, WAT. -- ______________________________________ / /\ :@>0--->------- / Mr.Niwat Pununanwarakorn _/ /\ Mahidol University, / E-mail : g3736020@mahidol.ac.th / \/ Bangkok, Thailand. / http://www.mahidol.ac.th/~g3736020 /\ --------------------- /_____________________________________/ / 826 Soi Pracharatch 13 \_____________________________________\/ Bangkok-Nontaburee Rd. \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ Bangkok, Thailand. 10800 "It is never too late to start working towards your dream.."
From: YoungHoon Kil <ppai@soback.kornet.nm.kr> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software Subject: Re: HP ScanJet 4C TWAIN Driver? Date: Mon, 25 Nov 1996 07:41:25 +0900 Organization: KORNET Message-ID: <3298CF12.26C3@soback.kornet.nm.kr> References: <akim-2111962309400001@mfs-annex1-p3.dsphere.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=euc-kr Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Andrew Kim wrote: > > Where can I find twain device for NEXTSTEP/OPENSTEP for mach? > I would like to use my HP Scanner with Lighthouse WetPaint. > But I just can not find way to scan it. > HELP! Yes. You can use the ScanOmatic.2.3 with your scaner. Supports Scaners: HP ScanJet: II, IIc, IIcx, IIp, 3c/4c Umax: UG80, UC300, UC630, UC840, UC1200S, UC1260, VISTA S6, VISTA S8, PS2400 PowerLook, T630 EPSON: GT-6000, GT-9000(verified), 300,600,800,1000,4000,6500,8000(not tested) HSD: color, mono XRS: RSU-1, x-ray scanner Oce: G60XX and G60XX-S series AGFA: Arcus II NIKON: FS-1000 slide scanner RICOH: IS410, IS420 A3 large size Bell+Howell: 4000 F, 5000 F A3 large size For more Infomation: interpersonal-computing GmbH ++49 (0) 89-219975. info@ipc.de http://www.ipc.de/ ftp: ftp://ftp.informatik.uni-muenchen.de/pub/comp/platforms/next/Commercial/hardware/scanner/ScanOmatic.2.3.NIHS.b.tar.gz ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/next/binaries/demos/graphics/ScanOmatic.2.3.NIHS.b.tar.gz ftp://ftp.informatik.uni-muenchen.de/pub/comp/platforms/next/Commercial/hardware/scanner/ScanOcopy.1.3.NIHS.b.tar.gz ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/next/binaries/demos/graphics/ScanOcopy.1.3.NIHS.b.tar.gz YoungHoon Kil ppai@soback.kornet.nm.kr (Cyberdog, Voice Mail OK) http://soback.kornet.nm.kr/~ppai (NEXTSTEP News written by Korean)
From: Romain Eude <ROM1.E2@prodigy.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.marketplace,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.software Subject: What's best ? start on Next Cube or Next Station ? Date: Sun, 24 Nov 1996 15:28:31 -0500 Organization: Self-made Man Message-ID: <3298AFEF.3B50@prodigy.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 23 years old, I am a french Engineer, just arrived in the USA, 1 month ago. I intend to look for a Next machine to buy because it has been a dream for years. I would like to purchase a Next machine to discover why it is said to be one of the best comp ever build. I would like to discover programming on it (I know C, C++, PROLOG, PASCAL) as I have heard it is particulary enjoyable. I don't really know what config to buy, where to buy it, and what soft to request to achieve my expectations. Cold anyone brief/advice me in that quest ? Are there WWW where I could find general info on next machine, development environnement, soft so that I can quickly recover my lack of knowledge ? Regards and thank you. Romain.
From: Romain Eude <ROM1.E2@prodigy.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.marketplace,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: what best to start Next Cube or Station ? Date: Sun, 24 Nov 1996 15:31:24 -0500 Organization: Self-made Man Message-ID: <3298B09C.5D6B@prodigy.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 23 years old, I am a french Engineer, just arrived in the USA, 1 month ago. I intend to look for a Next machine to buy because it has been a dream for years. I would like to purchase a Next machine to discover why it is said to be one of the best comp ever build. I would like to discover programming on it (I know C, C++, PROLOG, PASCAL) as I have heard it is particulary enjoyable. I don't really know what config to buy, where to buy it, and what soft to request to achieve my expectations. Cold anyone brief/advice me in that quest ? Are there WWW where I could find general info on next machine, development environnement, soft so that I can quickly recover my lack of knowledge ? Regards and thank you. Romain.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware From: Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Subject: Re: Monitor question Message-ID: <E1DErz.CH@nidat.sub.org> Sender: nitezki@nidat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany References: <b167cc$16915.15@news.goldengate.net> Date: Sun, 24 Nov 1996 10:35:58 GMT In article <b167cc$16915.15@news.goldengate.net> mattj@invisix.com writes: > > My question, > > I have a turbo color station that I put my NEC XP21 monitor on. > So, I have a 17" Fimi monitor sitting on the floor, unused. My > thoughts are possibly buy a mono NeXT box and have a little fun > with the networking. Can I buy a mono station or cube with no > monitor and use my Fimi on it? Can I use my 13W3 adapter (currently > on the XP21) to connect the XP21 to a mono station/cube? > No! Mono systems have very different graphics controllers that won't match the needs of a color monitor. But you could use any kind of Color model with it. -- MATT | mailto:mattj@invisix.com NeXTMail Ok jurcich | http://www.invisix.com Silicon Graphics Personal Iris 4D/25G, 16MB, 800MB, 20", Irix 5.3 NeXTstation Turbo Color, 24MB, 250MB, NEC XP21, NEXTSTEP 3.2 -- Peter Nitezki | Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org # Blessed art thou who knoweth Staarenbergstr. 44 | Tel.: +49 7251 62495 # not about the pleasure and D-76703 Kraichtal | Fax : +49 7251 69215 # delight of being hooked GERMANY | E-mail defunct, sorry # up to the Net. Peter 1,3-5
From: Andrew Adamian <aadamian@ix.netcom.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Sound Blaster under NS3.3 Date: Sun, 24 Nov 1996 21:58:42 -0500 Organization: Netcom Message-ID: <32990B62.26FF@ix.netcom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi, Can anyone tell me if SB32 AWE PnP works with NS 3.3 ? And where are the drivers ? Thank's. Much appreciated. Andrew Adamian aadamian@ix.netcom.com
From: mitch@digitalcastle.com (Mitch Roider) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Problems With SCSITape Driver Date: 25 Nov 1996 00:37:05 GMT Organization: PSI Public Usenet Link Message-ID: <57apnh$e4v@client2.news.psi.net> Hello, I was just wondering if anyone has experienced the same problems with the SCSITape driver. Problem: I moved a DAT tape drive from a cube running 3.2 to an Intel box running 3.3 and now during boot up the SCSITape driver does not load. Configuration: NEXTSTEP 3.3 (old and new SCSITape Driver) Adaptec 2940UW HP 15?? tape drive Any help would be greatly appreciated. Mitch Roider mitch@digitalcastle.com
From: hill@cpsc.ucalgary.ca (David Hill) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Cannot Mount NeXT CD-ROM Drive Date: 25 Nov 1996 00:55:41 GMT Organization: University of Calgary CPSC Message-ID: <57aqqd$a69@linux.cpsc.ucalgary.ca> References: <01bbd8be$215f4c20$706ebace@davorbar> In article <01bbd8be$215f4c20$706ebace@davorbar>, Davor Barcan <dbarcan@cia.com> wrote: >I just recently pulled my 040 NeXT Cube out of retirement, and connected >the NeXT >CD-ROM drive to it. It boots fine, but the Workspace Manager refuses to >recognize >that there is a CD in the CD-ROM drive (the Eject option is grayed out). > >Is there a way to get it to mount? It's been a while and I've since >forgotten how to >diagnose such problems. I haven't changed anything since last time I used >it (and >it used to work fine). Is there something I can try to figure out what the >problem >is? > >Any help would be greatly appreciated. > >Thanks! > >Davor Barcan >dbarcan@cia.com > These may be rather simplistic suggestions but it is simple things that sometimes get overlooked. (1) Do you have a non-conflicting SCSI ID set on the CD_ROM drive; (2) is the drive switched on; (3) have you got a terminator at the end of the SCSI chain, and no terminator at an intermediate position (note that the external floppy likely has a *switched* terminator so it may have a terminator there without being obvious); (4) is there a SCSI device between the cube and the CD_ROM drive that is *not* switched on (the power connection for the floppy easily pulls out); (5) is there a power cord connecting the CD_ROM drive to mains power; (6) are all the SCSI cables properly chained together (it is possible to connect cables in such a way that everything is connected to a connector, but the cable is looped somewhere, thus effectively isloating part of the chain. What state are your system files in? Good luck. david -- David R. Hill, CS & Psych Depts., U. Calgary | Imagination is more Calgary, AB, Canada T2N 1N4 Ph: 604-947-9362 | important than knowledge. hill@cpsc.ucalgary.ca OR david@firethorne.com| (Albert Einstein) http://www.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/~hill (^NeXTMail)| Kill your television!
From: Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: OVERDRIVE FOR NeXTcube/station ? Date: Mon, 25 Nov 1996 14:27:59 -0500 Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Message-ID: <wmaTAzq00UzxM2ChkQ@andrew.cmu.edu> References: <57cgt7$aeb@scsing.switch.ch> In-Reply-To: <57cgt7$aeb@scsing.switch.ch> Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.hardware: 25-Nov-96 OVERDRIVE FOR NeXTcube/stat.. by Lionel Tinguely@cyberlab > Is there any overdrive cpu to upgrade my NeXTcube and Station with > a 68040 25Mhz CPU !! The cheapest way to improve the performance of those systems is to max out their memory (take them to 32 MB at a min, and 64+ MB if the motherboards will do it). Sam Goldberger of Spherical Solutions made an upgrade called the Pyro board for about $900 (USD). I recall that it roughly doubled CPU performance using a clocked doubled M68060 or some such. However, I heard that some people encountered systems panics a lot, and there wasn't enough of a market, so the Pyro is no longer being sold. You may be able to find one used, though. And, of course, you could upgrade to the 33 MHz '040 Turbo motherboard (which is significantly faster, uses 72 pin SIMMs and a faster memory architecture, and is an overall win). > Will NeXT make an upgrade for his hardware Besides the Turbo motherboard and the never-released Nitro (40 MHz '040) or NeXT RISC Workstation (prototyped as a [dual?] M88K design), you mean? I'd bet lots of money against it, unfortunately. :-( -Chuck Charles Swiger | cs4w@andrew.cmu.edu | standard disclaimer ----------------+---------------------+--------------------- I know you're an optimist if you think I'm a pessimist.
From: Andrew Adamian <aadamian@ix.netcom.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Modem under NS3.3 Date: Sun, 24 Nov 1996 22:04:08 -0500 Organization: Netcom Message-ID: <32990CA8.5CD9@ix.netcom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi, Has anyone got US Robotics Sportster 28.8 PnP Voice Mail modem working under NS 3.3 ? Thank's Andrew aadamian@ix.netcom.com
From: klui@cup.hp.com (Ken Lui) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: How to install CD-ROM drive in a Cube Date: 24 Nov 1996 17:18:20 GMT Organization: Hewlett-Packard Company Message-ID: <57a00s$qts@hpax.cup.hp.com> I've wanted to do this for the longest time and finally, yesterday... Perhaps this should go into the FAQ? Disassembled my Apple external CD-300 and my '040 Cube. Took out my 1/2 height 5-1/4 Seagate. Installed my CD-ROM drive using the OD holes, lower screw holes of my CD-ROM drive, using a set of smaller screws. Standard screws holding HDs in my Cube won't fit the CD-ROM drive's holes. Replaced my Seagate w/ a 1-GB 1/3 height HD. HD now just "sits" on top of CD-ROM drive. Reinstalled NS from CD-ROM, and copied needed files from my Seagate to my Fujitsu. Works like a charm. Initially, it didn't look like CD caddies will insert or eject but it works fine though the drive looks a bit low. Due to the opening's design on the Cube, I even have access to the eject button via a paper clip, but no access to manual eject nor headphone/volume--no matter, I have my other computer for stuff like that. I think my Cube runs cooler due to the extra opening. Oh yeah, need: power splitter and SCSI cable w/ at least 3 connectors. CD-ROM drive isn't terminated so make it 1st physical drive in chain. Tried some experimentation on my non-Turbo Cube. With my HD at id 0, floppy at id 3 and CD-ROM drive at id 4, I can't boot a CD-ROM w/out the special boot floppy; but if my CD-ROM drive is at id 0, and my HD something else (like 2), CDs will boot--but my HD won't boot. Tried bsd(x,0,0)sdmach rootdev=sdx for HD and CD. Does anyone know what's exactly needed (besides a Turbo upgrade, I don't want to lose my OD) to make my CD-ROM bootable? I've heard that the latest Firmware ROM _isn't_ the answer. I have v63 or some old version like that. Anyone out there w/ intimate NeXT hw experience they'd like to share?? Regards, Ken
From: dwright1@voicenet.com (Darren Wright) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Monitor question Date: 25 Nov 1996 19:55:23 GMT Organization: Voicenet - Internet Access - (215)674-9290 Message-ID: <57ctjb$4m0@news1.voicenet.com> References: <b167cc$16915.15@news.goldengate.net> mattj@invisix.com wrote: : My question, : I have a turbo color station that I put my NEC XP21 monitor on. So, I have a : 17" Fimi monitor sitting on the floor, unused. My thoughts are possibly buy : a mono NeXT box and have a little fun with the networking. Can I buy a mono : station or cube with no monitor and use my Fimi on it? Can I use my 13W3 : adapter (currently on the XP21) to connect the XP21 to a mono station/cube? : Now that the winter has hit us in Minnesota, I need more computers. :) If you get the pinouts of your mono station, hook the video pin to your Green / composite on your monitor, and the horiz to the horiz and the vert to the vert, and you should get a picture. I did it with a Hitachi Superscan pro. -Darren
From: mdadgar@auspex.com (Mark Dadgar) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Problems using an Exabyte with NeXT station/NS3.1 Date: 25 Nov 1996 18:56:21 GMT Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara Message-ID: <57cq4l$b92@alpha1.auspex.com> References: <32996A15.7483@aar.alcatel-alsthom.fr> In article <32996A15.7483@aar.alcatel-alsthom.fr> Yvan Herreros <herreros@aar.alcatel-alsthom.fr> writes: > At boot time, the station recognises the drive (prints things like > "scsi target 2 : Exabyte, ..., st0"). > > After that, I can do things like rewind or eject the tape > ("mt -f /dev/rst0 rewind/offline"), but can't do anything that > involves tape IO : writing or reading (with tar, dd, etc) fails, > things like "mt -f /dev/rst0 fsf" fail too. The drive heads don't even > spin to try to read data, which makes me think that the tape drive > simply doesn't understand the commands sent by the slab. The > returned sense key is 'media flaw'. Same things apply to /dev/rxt0. > > Is there a special thing to do to pilot an Exabyte from the NeXT, > like a specific driver, or special ioctls to be sent to the drive ? > You definitely needs to use the xt* devices. The xt drivers do some intialization that the Exabyte drives require. Do you have a Sun or something that you cam test this tape drive with? - Mark -- Mark Dadgar - Systems Engineer - Auspex Systems - http://www.auspex.com mark_dadgar@auspex.com - (408) 986-2429 (office) - (408) 980-0121 (fax) "I had nothing on but the radio" - Marilyn Monroe, on modeling NeXTMail and MIME happily accepted
From: Jarrid Hall <jarrid@fygir.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.marketplace,comp.sys.next.programmer Subject: Do you install Nextstep? Date: Mon, 25 Nov 1996 16:27:19 -0500 Organization: Fygir, Inc. Message-ID: <329A0F37.6952@fygir.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I amlooking for someone who can: 1 rent me a unit with nextstep installed (intel based) 2. install nextstep on a Toshiba Tecra 720CDT. I need the rental for 11/27/96 and an install of the same week. I am in Boston, Mass. You can reach me at: jarrid@fygir.com or 617-270-0601 Jarrid Hall
From: shess@one.net (Scott Hess) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: [Q] The 32Bit Color mode problem with Mga Millennium 4mega Ram Date: 25 Nov 96 11:59:45 Organization: Is a sign of weakness Message-ID: <SHESS.96Nov25115945@howard.one.net> References: <01bbdada$83964650$27f2e7cb@easters> In-reply-to: "yoonsik KANG"'s message of 25 Nov 1996 14:09:01 GMT In article <01bbdada$83964650$27f2e7cb@easters>, "yoonsik KANG" <easters@nuri.net> writes: I currently use the nextstep 3.3j with matrox mga millennium 4mega wram. The problem is that the NeXTSTEP's screen looks really ugly.. Looks like not 32 bit mode,, just looks 16bit.. I think that the problem is a gamma-correction, or contrast.. Is there anybody experience same problem as me? If so, just tell me the solution.. please.. Well, not sure what you're seeing, since you don't describe what "ugly" means. The only time I've seen displays to be immediately noticably "ugly" is when you're in 8-bit mode. Unless you have much better eyes than I do, 16-bit mode looks fine for almost everything, and is hard to distinguish from 32-bit mode unless you're doing graphics manipulations of some sort. [To put it another way, when running Workspace, Mail, and other basic apps, 8-bit vs 16-bit is easy to see, 16-bit vs 32-bit you have to look more closely.] To see where you're running, go to /NextAdmin/Configure.app and check the display portion. You'll have a bunch of options, but I've found that you don't get the 4M options by default. At a command-line, you can go into /usr/Devices/MatroxMGA2064WDisplayDriver.config and move Display.modes to PCI2MB.modes and PCI4MB.modes to Display.modes, and then you have more options in Configure.app. [I'm not clear on why this doesn't just happen automatically.] Later, -- scott hess <shess@one.net> (606) 578-0412 http://w3.one.net/~shess/ <I plan to become so famous that people buy tapes of me reading source code>
From: dwright1@voicenet.com (Darren Wright) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: NeXTStation Color SIMMS Date: 25 Nov 1996 19:56:26 GMT Organization: Voicenet - Internet Access - (215)674-9290 Distribution: world Message-ID: <57ctla$4m0@news1.voicenet.com> References: <57c8gf$1dc1@fidoii.cc.lehigh.edu> ATL2@lehigh.edu wrote: : Hi All, : I have a 25MHz NeXTStation Color, one of the older models with 8 72-pin SIMM : slots. I currently have eight 4MB SIMMS. : Not finding anything in NeXTAnswers or elsewhere to suggest a problem, I : attempted to replace one pair of SIMMS with 16MB modules. However, both were : recognized (at boot-up and subsequently) as 4MB SIMMs, and total system RAM was : still reported at 32MB, not 56. : Is 32MB indeed the maximal RAM configuration for this model of 'station? : Anything I haven't tried? : Regards, : Alex Levine : ATL2@lehigh.edu Yes, 32MB is the max. no ifs ands or butts. -Darren
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc From: dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca (David Evans) Subject: Re: getting a zip drive to work on black hardware Sender: news@novice.uwaterloo.ca (Mr. News) Message-ID: <E1HIs5.7xp@novice.uwaterloo.ca> Date: Tue, 26 Nov 1996 15:52:52 GMT References: <57dr7u$q9@lynx.unm.edu> Organization: University of Waterloo In article <57dr7u$q9@lynx.unm.edu>, Colin Eric Johnson <colinj@unm.edu> wrote: >So I have my zip drive, and I have a DB-25 to SCSI-2 (mini-centronics) >cable, it's plugged into my NeXT cube and the cube has been rebooted. >Why can't I seem to see any of the Zip disks? Is there a disktab entry >I need to add? Is there something special I should do? Any help anyone >can offer is appreciated. > I didn't have to do anything special, apart from the usual SCSI things (non- conflicting IDs, correct termination). Does your machine identify the Zip drive when you boot up in verbose mode? If you stick a blank disk in, what happens? Nothing? The disk that came with the drive won't work, BTW. You have to use either a Mac or a PC to turn off the write-protect. -- David Evans (NeXTMail OK) dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca Computer/Synth Junkie http://bbcr.uwaterloo.ca/~dfevans/ University of Waterloo "Default is the value selected by the composer Ontario, Canada overridden by your command." - Roland TR-707 Manual
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware From: dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca (David Evans) Subject: Re: OVERDRIVE FOR NeXTcube/station ? Sender: news@novice.uwaterloo.ca (Mr. News) Message-ID: <E1HIM4.DII@novice.uwaterloo.ca> Date: Tue, 26 Nov 1996 15:49:16 GMT References: <57cgt7$aeb@scsing.switch.ch> <E1GHDo.J8E@novice.uwaterloo.ca> <329AAF98.5D1C@imib.rwth-aachen.de> Organization: University of Waterloo In article <329AAF98.5D1C@imib.rwth-aachen.de>, Sebastian Niesen <sniesen@imib.rwth-aachen.de> wrote: >Actually I never encountered any problem with the Pyro board I bought >from >Sam and use in my Cube. For sure. Some poeple had really good luck with them. Unfortunately, not all did. And those of is without socketed '040s are in for a real chore if we want to install one... >It's really cool and as far as Sam's webpage >tell >it is still available. Take a look at http://www.orb.com. I think the web page is old--Sam posted a press release a while ago saying that it had been discontinued. -- 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: colinj@math.math.unm.edu (Colin Eric Johnson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: getting a zip drive to work on black hardware Date: 26 Nov 1996 17:41:28 GMT Organization: Dept. of Math & Stat, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque Distribution: world Message-ID: <57fa48$keh@lynx.unm.edu> References: <57dr7u$q9@lynx.unm.edu> In article <57dr7u$q9@lynx.unm.edu>, Colin Eric Johnson <colinj@unm.edu> wrote: >So I have my zip drive, and I have a DB-25 to SCSI-2 (mini-centronics) >cable, it's plugged into my NeXT cube and the cube has been rebooted. >Why can't I seem to see any of the Zip disks? Is there a disktab entry >I need to add? Is there something special I should do? Any help anyone >can offer is appreciated. Just so it is said, I am running OS4.0. This is a 68040 cube. When the machine boots it recognizes the internal SCSI HD and the Optical Drive. It makes no mention of the Zip Drive. I have bot the SCSI tests and Verbose mode turned on. any thoughts anyone? -- Why must I feel like that? Why must I chase the cat? Colin E. Johnson | colinj@unm.edu | http://www.unm.edu/~colinj/ NeXTMail, MIMEmail, textmail, send it all, I'm easy.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware From: mattj@invisix.com Subject: Re: OVERDRIVE FOR NeXTcube/station ? Message-ID: <b197cc$111b37.265@news.goldengate.net> Date: Mon, 25 Nov 1996 23:27:55 GMT References: <57cgt7$aeb@scsing.switch.ch> <wmaTAzq00UzxM2ChkQ@andrew.cmu.edu> Aren't there upgrade CPU's for Motorola 68XXX Macintoshes? Would one of those work in a station/cube? (Going out on a limb here) Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> wrote: >Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.hardware: 25-Nov-96 OVERDRIVE FOR >NeXTcube/stat.. by Lionel Tinguely@cyberlab >> Is there any overdrive cpu to upgrade my NeXTcube and Station with >> a 68040 25Mhz CPU !! > >The cheapest way to improve the performance of those systems is to max >out their memory (take them to 32 MB at a min, and 64+ MB if the >motherboards will do it). > >Sam Goldberger of Spherical Solutions made an upgrade called the Pyro >board for about $900 (USD). I recall that it roughly doubled CPU >performance using a clocked doubled M68060 or some such. However, I >heard that some people encountered systems panics a lot, and there >wasn't enough of a market, so the Pyro is no longer being sold. You may >be able to find one used, though. > >And, of course, you could upgrade to the 33 MHz '040 Turbo motherboard >(which is significantly faster, uses 72 pin SIMMs and a faster memory >architecture, and is an overall win). > >> Will NeXT make an upgrade for his hardware > >Besides the Turbo motherboard and the never-released Nitro (40 MHz '040) >or NeXT RISC Workstation (prototyped as a [dual?] M88K design), you mean? > >I'd bet lots of money against it, unfortunately. :-( > >-Chuck > > > Charles Swiger | cs4w@andrew.cmu.edu | standard disclaimer > ----------------+---------------------+--------------------- > I know you're an optimist if you think I'm a pessimist. > > -- MATT | mailto:mattj@invisix.com NeXTMail Ok jurcich | http://www.invisix.com Silicon Graphics Personal Iris 4D/25G, 16MB, 800MB, 20", Irix 5.3 NeXTstation Turbo Color, 24MB, 250MB, NEC XP21, NEXTSTEP 3.2 Novell Netware 3.12-10 Server, 486DX2-66, 240MB, 8MB
From: Marcel Schneider <masc0001@stud.uni-sb.de> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Wanted: H-disk, 2,5'' Date: Tue, 26 Nov 1996 10:48:54 +0100 Organization: University of Saarland, Computing Center, Germany. Message-ID: <Pine.SGI.3.95.961126104758.27752C-100000@stud.uni-sb.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 2,5'', 80-120MB for AST-laptop(386SX)
From: rencsok@channelu.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Problems With SCSITape Driver Date: 26 Nov 1996 22:57:23 GMT Organization: Michigan State University Message-ID: <57fskj$vs7@msunews.cl.msu.edu> References: <57apnh$e4v@client2.news.psi.net> Cc: mitch@digitalcastle.com In <57apnh$e4v@client2.news.psi.net> Mitch Roider wrote: > > Hello, > > > I was just wondering if anyone has experienced the same problems > with the SCSITape driver. > > Problem: > I moved a DAT tape drive from a cube running 3.2 to an Intel box > running 3.3 and now during boot up the SCSITape driver does not load. > > > Configuration: > NEXTSTEP 3.3 (old and new SCSITape Driver) > Adaptec 2940UW > HP 15?? tape drive > > Any help would be greatly appreciated. > > Mitch Roider > mitch@digitalcastle.com You probably have the common problem of little endian vs. big endian. I don't remember if black was big or little. PC it little endian I think. You could probably try to do a dd if=/dev/nrst0 (or whatever the default tape device is) conv=swab and pipe it to tar -xvf - and see if something comes through.. I can find exact form of command if you can't ferret it out from dd man pages.. (It's been a while) Randy
Date: 26 Nov 1996 12:50:12 EST Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Message-ID: <cancel.329af399.71739220@news.inet-direct.com> Control: cancel <329af399.71739220@news.inet-direct.com> From: clewis@ferret.ocunix.on.ca Sender: Steffin Subject: cmsg cancel <329af399.71739220@news.inet-direct.com> EMP/ECP (aka SPAM) cancelled by clewis@ferret.ocunix.on.ca. See news.admin.net-abuse.announce, report 19961126.25 for further details
From: troch@lonestar.texas.com (Rod Troch) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: OS Versions and Magneto Optical format for a Cube Date: 27 Nov 1996 11:15:24 -0600 Organization: Don't mess with TEXAS Sender: troch@lonestar.texas.com Message-ID: <m3d8wzwjbm.fsf@lonestar.texas.com> Howdy, I am in the process of acquiring an original NeXT Cube. I know the current HD is dead. Therefore, I will be installing a new drive. According to the seller the original OS on MO disk is no longer available, something about 'tar' wiping it out. :-( So.. What versions of the OS are available in MO format, and then the second question, where can I get a copy from? On a side note, I do have the CD-ROM copies of NeXTSTEP 3.1 (I think). I was planning on building an Intel machine to run NeXTSTEP so I purchased the academic version. (User and Developer). Then scrapped the idea of the Intel based system when I realized the cost of SCSI, Top end video card, etc. (This was a number of years ago as a student). Is that version of NeXTSTEP runnable on black hardware? And then, how would I boot the cube to get to do an install over a LAN to a machine with the CD-ROMS mounted (via NFS)? Is this feasible? I really would appreciate any and all information and advice. As you can tell these are very basic questions. I did play with a NeXT Cube for a while many years ago (1989?, 1990?), so am not afraid of the hardware just can't remember some basic things. :-( Thanks a million, Have a great day.. And Thanksgiving for those of you NeXT fans here in the USA. -Rod -- Rod Troch N2ZVV | troch@texas.com | Don't mess with TEXAS. http://www.texas.com/ | FTP for Pgp key "Don't ever ask anybody if they are from Texas; if they are, you'll know it. If they aren't, you'll just make 'em feel bad." -Anonymous
From: "Andrew Kim" <akim@cogent.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Help!!! Bootup problems Date: 26 Nov 96 12:05:35 -0800 Organization: Cogent Software Message-ID: <AEC08DEA-F5E8@207.13.170.17> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit nntp://news.cogent.net/comp.sys.next.sysadmin, nntp://news.cogent.net/comp.sys.next.bugs, nntp://news.cogent.net/comp.sys.next.hardware Everytime I turn on my NeXTstation Color it boots up until when it checks for network connection. Then it waits for about 10 sec and then it ask me to press "control + c" to continue. I did configure network but it keep looking for connection. Here is what NeXT rom monitor displayed. "No response from network configuration server. Type Control-C to start up computer without a network connection" Is there any suggestion?
From: dkramer@bifrostworks.com (Daniel L. Kramer) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Can't find $LBL message on boottime Date: 27 Nov 1996 16:24:00 GMT Organization: The Black Box, Houston, Tx (713) 480-2686 Message-ID: <57hpv0$9rj@news.blkbox.com> References: <57hl8u$2an@brachio.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE> Hi all - In article <57hl8u$2an@brachio.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE> vsafran@ukrv.de (Volker Safran) writes: > I have the folowing problem while trying to install NEXTSTEP 3.3 on > the following machine: > > - Soyo MB (BIOS from Sep. 1996) <snip> > - Miro 22SD > > The first installation step works, but when the system reboots from > harddisk and I have configured the base configuration (e.g. standard > VGA) with Configure.app the screen goes black and the machine hangs. I've had this happen occasionally with all kinds of configs, but reliably with Triton III (440HX?) chipset motherboards and non-current versions of video card BIOSes. I would recommend trying it again (give up if it occurs three times in a row - I know it's a pain in the butt :-) ), then try to get either a new BIOS from Miro or try a newer card. > > The next reboot failes with this myterious "Can't find $LBL"- > message. Anybody knows, what this means? It IMH(if fairly experienced)O has something to do with trying to boot from a dirty file system with the config files unsaved or corrupt. > > I fear, it has something to do with Plug and Pray, but I was unable > to switch off PNP completely on this BIOS (I can only disable PNP > for single IRQs or DMAs for PCI and use them by ISA). Well, PnP isn't even attempted with the shipped drivers for 3.3. PnP config (there's a wonderful term, huh?) is an after-install driver problem. > > Any suggestion? I hope this helps. Let me know how it goes - Cheers and have a good weekend everyone - I'm outta here for Thanksgiving- Dan -- Daniel L. Kramer Bifrost Workstations, Inc. 10850 Richmond Ave., Suite 270 Houston, TX 77042 (713) 952-9949 voice
From: colinj@math.math.unm.edu (Colin Eric Johnson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: getting a zip drive to work on black hardware Date: 27 Nov 1996 19:45:43 GMT Organization: Dept. of Math & Stat, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque Distribution: world Message-ID: <57i5p7$7ql@lynx.unm.edu> References: <57dr7u$q9@lynx.unm.edu> <57fa48$keh@lynx.unm.edu> <57hcrv$dgr@sun3.uni-essen.de> Well it turned out to be a bad SCSI cable. After a quick bus ride back to the "Cable Place" (no really) and an exchange of cables I'm up and running just fine. And as everyone said it would it just worked. Thanks to everyone who offered assistance with this, your help was much appreciated. -- Why must I feel like that? Why must I chase the cat? Colin E. Johnson | colinj@unm.edu | http://www.unm.edu/~colinj/ NeXTMail, MIMEmail, textmail, send it all, I'm easy.
From: taweil <taweil@skat.usc.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Porting OpenBSD to NeXT Black Hardware Date: 27 Nov 1996 16:00:56 -0800 Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA Sender: taweil@skat.usc.edu Message-ID: <c4aiv6rrsuw.fsf@skat.usc.edu> References: <3294E7BE.303B@datasphere.net> <E1A08t.4v9@novice.uwaterloo.ca> <574oes$q9d@majipoor.cygnus.com> <E1E6BF.B8u@novice.uwaterloo.ca> dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca (David Evans) writes: > John Rudd <jrudd@cygnus.com> wrote: > > > >And last I checked, Plan 9 never figured out how to use the NeXT mouse. > >They required you using a serial mouse. > > > > The rational they gave on the web site was that they required a 3 button > mouse, and the NeXT mouse has only two. But perhaps that was just > hiding the fact that they couldn't get it to work. :-) > I am running Plan 9 on a Cube with NeXT mouse. It works fine. The third mouse button is simulated by the left mouse button and shift key. -- Ta-Wei Li
From: mpd@gulf.net (Mark Pappas) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: NeXT Novice Hoses Himself, PLEASE HELP Date: Wed, 27 Nov 1996 16:49:18 -0500 Organization: Mark Pappas Development Message-ID: <mpd-ya023180002711961649180001@news.gulf.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit I think I kinda hosed myself. Ok here goes. The system came with a 105meg drive internal with 3.2 loaded. I have a extra Maxtor 500meg drive. So I run builddisk on the 500meg drive everthing goes great. Now I pull the 105 internal and put the 500meg in its place SCSI ID 0 :)....The system boots to just a regular user, so I logout to boot as root and it crashes. After crashing it ask me for a hardware key, we'll guess what I don't have the hardware key. I read the NeXT faq and ah it says pull the battery to reset the machine. I did that and now the NeXT is stuck on "Loading from network" I guess I know enough to be dangerous :) Please help. -- Thanks Mark Pappas ----------------------------------------------------------------- Mark Pappas Development E-mail: mpd@gulf.net Consultant http://www.gulf.net/~mpd/ 3915 Lynn Ora Dr. Phone: (904) 476-3773 Pensacola, FL 32504 Specializing in Macintosh Databases & NMI's Microbrew
From: YoungHoon Kil <ppai@soback.kornet.nm.kr> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Imagine 128 Series II Driver for NeXT Date: Thu, 28 Nov 1996 10:57:40 +0900 Organization: KORNET Message-ID: <329CF16C.1F35@soback.kornet.nm.kr> References: <56b1ja$30o@news.iastate.edu> <57hlan$gov@digdug.pswtech.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=euc-kr Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Robin Wilson wrote: > > logic@friley253.res.iastate.edu (???) wrote: > } Hello, > } Does anyone know if NeXT is going to release the driver for the > } Imagine Series II card? I have been using the ugly low-res black and white > } VGA mode for a while and I would like to see the beauty of NeXTSTEP in > 32-bit > } color. The description of the original Imagine 128 said that there would > be > } an updated driver by the third quarter. Does anyone have any info on the > } status of this driver??? Thanks! > > Check out the following web site: Hope this helps. 2488_Number9Imagine128S2DisplayDriver.pkg.compressed: http://www.next.com/NeXTanswers/HTMLFiles/2488.htmld/2488.html Overview: http://www.next.com/NeXTanswers/HTMLFiles/2489.htmld/2489.html YoungHoon Kil From South Korea ppai@soback.kornet.nm.kr (Cyberdog, Voice Mail OK) http://soback.kornet.nm.kr/~ppai (NEXTSTEP News written by Korean) I don't think there is a driver "yet"... (And I doubt that there will be > one.) When we get these with our Dell systems, we simply advertise them on > the net and sell them for ~$370 (with 4MB of RAM)... Then we go get a Matrox > Millenium for ~$350 (4MB)... Solves the problem, and works better to boot.
From: "Sila Yardee" <syardee@mail.execpc.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: [Q}:Modem Problems on OPENSTEP 4.0 Date: 28 Nov 1996 05:38:54 GMT Organization: Exec-PC BBS Internet - Milwaukee, WI Message-ID: <01bbdcef$160b62c0$410ccfa9@shadowforge> Hi folks, After a few years of doing the black hardware, I decided to take the plunge on an Intel PPro box (32MB, Natoma, 2940UW, all-scsi, yada-yada...). Everything seems to work just dandy (sound, video, etc) except for recognition of my internal modem. At this point in the game, I just want to use it for online activities such as PPP and whatnot. FAX capability is a back-burner issue. It's an Apache 33.6 internal modem...I didn't choose it...it just came with my system. It's set on COM2 (0x2F8) IRQ 3. I've tried using the serial port driver (#2) under Config on those locations to no avail. The comm program I'm using (for now, anyway) is TipTop, and it wants a device on /dev/cufa, but I wouldn't know what major and minor numbers to give to mknod anyway. I really don't know where to go from here. For what it's worth, Linux and NT see and use the modem just fine. I can mail hardware specifics to anyone who has the foggiest idea of what to do. Any suggestions? Thanks. Sila syardee@mail.execpc.com
From: ineedthrpy@aol.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Will THIS PC run NeXTSTEP 3.2 - I have the OS Date: 28 Nov 1996 04:44:26 GMT Organization: AOL http://www.aol.com Message-ID: <19961128044600.XAA13092@ladder01.news.aol.com> Here is my system Intel Venus 440FX Motherboard w/64 MB RAM Petum Pro 200 CPU Matrox Millenium PCI Graphics card Sounblaster AWE 32 sound card US Robotics 28800 bps modem Adaptec 2940 UW SCSI Controller IBM DORS32160W 2.1 Gb HD - ultra wide scsi NEC Multiscan CDROM 3X SCSI II NEX 4620 8X CDROM SCSI II 1.44 MB IDE FLOPPY What will/wont work with my NeXTSTEP 3.2 User/Developer Thanks for any help. David
From: Darren Reely <dreely@cyberstore.ca> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Help: Configuring NeXTStation as print server Date: 23 Nov 1996 23:30:03 GMT Organization: Cyberstore Systems Inc. Message-ID: <5781dr$loq@scipio.cyberstore.ca> References: <570ck5$iej@info.uah.edu> wli@pluto (Dr. Wei Li) wrote: > >I need help on configuring my NeXT station as a printer server for >a Win95 machine. Specifically, I would like to print out >MS Word and Excel documents from my NeXT laser printer via >a thin ethernet connection between the Win95 machine and >my NeXT station running NeXTStep. Any experience and >advice are greatly appreciated. Look at my NS page at http://www.bcog.org/~dreely/openstep.html Hope it helps, Darren
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware From: dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca (David Evans) Subject: Re: OS Versions and Magneto Optical format for a Cube Sender: news@novice.uwaterloo.ca (Mr. News) Message-ID: <E1K9wu.Ftx@novice.uwaterloo.ca> Date: Thu, 28 Nov 1996 03:34:06 GMT References: <m3d8wzwjbm.fsf@lonestar.texas.com> Organization: University of Waterloo In article <m3d8wzwjbm.fsf@lonestar.texas.com>, Rod Troch <troch@lonestar.texas.com> wrote: > >Howdy, > >I am in the process of acquiring an original NeXT Cube. I know the >current HD is dead. Therefore, I will be installing a new drive. >According to the seller the original OS on MO disk is no longer >available, something about 'tar' wiping it out. :-( > >So.. What versions of the OS are available in MO format, and then the >second question, where can I get a copy from? > 2.something was the last version available on optical as I recall. You don't really want this, I imagine. Well, that's a little unfair, but it's been so long since I've used 2.x that I don't recall anything about it. If you want 3.x, it will come on CD. You'll have to find a way to boot the CD-ROM-specific bootblock, which is easy if you can boot the machine but harder otherwise. Much easier is to find someone else with black hardware who can help you with the installation. >On a side note, I do have the CD-ROM copies of NeXTSTEP 3.1 (I >think). I was planning on building an Intel machine to run NeXTSTEP >so I purchased the academic version. (User and Developer). Then >scrapped the idea of the Intel based system when I realized the cost >of SCSI, Top end video card, etc. (This was a number of years ago as >a student). > 3.1 is yucky. >Is that version of NeXTSTEP runnable on black hardware? And then, how >would I boot the cube to get to do an install over a LAN to a machine >with the CD-ROMS mounted (via NFS)? Is this feasible? > You need different installation media--black and Intel wern't bundled until 3.3. If you can get the black CDs then, yes, you can do a netboot. It's the usual BOOTP/tftp stuff. -- 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: otto@olcs.com (Otto Lind) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Running a color slab with no monitor Date: 28 Nov 1996 06:45:52 GMT Organization: Softwire Corporation Message-ID: <57jcf0$hjq@olcs.olcs.com> Hi, I've converted all of my applications to use a Solaris machine with Afterstep as the window manager, and no longer need my color NeXTStation to perform any user interface "duties". The Next will still operate to provide following tasks in a server capacity: NeXT printer, INN news, SMAIL mail, POP3 mail, Samba, Xdm, DDS tape backup, and NFS (I love Unix!). I was wondering if there are any problems with running the slab with no monitor. I have a 21" color monitor on it right now, and would like to put the thing in storage, and stick the slab under the NeXT printer. I assume there would be no problems in running the machine with no monitor cable hook up to it, correct? It's on an UPS system, and has been running for 140 days (since I last reconfigured it; it has never crashed on me). I'm just a little worried that the slab's video electronics might wig out if no monitor is attached. Any info would be appreciated, Otto -- Otto Lind Softwire Corporation (North office) otto@olcs.com 12125 285th street, Lindstrom, MN 55045 skypoint!olcs!otto voice:(612)257-1259 fax:(612)257-0923
From: rherni@pi.net (Rob Herni) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: PCI problem with Nexgen 110 Date: Thu, 28 Nov 1996 13:57:04 GMT Organization: Planet Internet Message-ID: <57k5qk$mtk@halley.pi.net> Hello, I am the proud owner of Nexgen-110 MHZ PCI, but I recentely ran in to a problem. My PCI VGA adapter stopped working, so I bought a new VGA adapter but that didn't work either. I tried all PCI slots but none of them worked. And an old ISA VGA adapter does work!! When I put in the adapter the VGA adapter (and take all the other cards out) nothing works (not even the BIOS beeps) and my monitor gives the sign of 'computer is off'. Only my harddisk starts (because of the power). There must someting wrong with my PCI slots but I cannot detect the problem. Finaly I loaded the BIOS default of my AMIBIOS version p06y034q, but still nothing happens. I haven't got any other PCI cards so I try anything else. If you have any idea why a PCI VGA adapter doesn't work please let me know, as I have tried everything I could think of. Thanks, Rob E-mail: rherni@pi.net
From: vsafran@ukrv.de (Volker Safran) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Can't find $LBL message on boottime Date: 28 Nov 1996 14:24:34 GMT Organization: Technical University Berlin, Germany Message-ID: <57k7b2$5v@brachio.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE> References: <57hl8u$2an@brachio.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE> Cc: vsafran@ukrv.de Hi, following to my own posting from yesterday: I managed to install NEXTSTEP on this machine by booting single- user after the first installation step and copying Default.table to Instance0.table in System.config. It seems, that Configure.app was unable to write Instance0.table - I don't know, why ... The machine then booted, let me do the second installation step and after this, I was able to configure the system with Configure.app (everything was empty - even Floppy, PCI Bus etc.) Then I had to remove the double entries in Instance0.table, because the graphic card blocks itself with the VGA memory configuration. At the moment, everything works fine besides the problem, that I can't install the newer 3.37 version of the Adaptec driver. When I do this, I am always prompted to insert a disk with this driver at boottime. There must be some difference between 3.32 and 3.37 version in recognizing it as the same one (and only newer version) by the system. I was unable to find out this point in the config files. When I reinstall 3.32, no question at boottime. OK, it works with 3.32, but I would like to know the reason for this ... Any hints? CIAO Volker > I have the folowing problem while trying to install NEXTSTEP 3.3 on > the following machine: > > - Soyo MB (BIOS from Sep. 1996) > - Pentium 100 > - 32 MB RAM > - Adaptec 2940 > - 3COM EtherLink3 ISA > - Miro 22SD > > The first installation step works, but when the system reboots from > harddisk and I have configured the base configuration (e.g. standard > VGA) with Configure.app the screen goes black and the machine hangs. > > The next reboot failes with this myterious "Can't find $LBL"- > message. Anybody knows, what this means? > > I fear, it has something to do with Plug and Pray, but I was unable > to switch off PNP completely on this BIOS (I can only disable PNP for > single IRQs or DMAs for PCI and use them by ISA). -- Volker Safran, Berlin, Germany ___________________________________ --- / Phone: +49 30 45482196 (private) volker@abulafia.in-berlin.de / +49 30 45058062 (at work) vsafran@ukrv.de (at work) / FAX : +49 30 45482198 (private) ______________________________/ +49 30 45058904 (at work)
From: neuss@informatik.th-darmstadt.de.nospam (Christian Neuss) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NeXT Novice Hoses Himself, PLEASE HELP Followup-To: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Date: 28 Nov 1996 11:47:59 GMT Organization: Technische Hochschule Darmstadt Message-ID: <57ju5f$1daa@rs18.hrz.th-darmstadt.de> References: <mpd-ya023180002711961649180001@news.gulf.net> Mark Pappas (mpd@gulf.net) wrote: > The system came with a 105meg drive internal with 3.2 loaded. I have a > extra Maxtor 500meg drive. So I run builddisk on the 500meg drive everthing > goes great. Now I pull the 105 internal and put the 500meg in its place > SCSI ID 0 :)....The system boots to just a regular user, so I logout to > boot as root and it crashes. After crashing it ask me for a hardware key, > we'll guess what I don't have the hardware key. I read the NeXT faq and ah > it says pull the battery to reset the machine. I did that and now the NeXT > is stuck on "Loading from network" I guess I know enough to be dangerous :) Sounds like you didn't do anything weird - theoretically, it should have booted without any problems. Funny thing is that it asked for the passwd, at a normal boot (just "b") this is normally not the case. What you can do is the following: at the boot prompt, type "b sd". It will boot your machine of the first SCSI device in the chain, which should be your Maxtor drive. If at some later point in the boot process you should get stuck, boot as single user "b -s" (after "b sd" it will store sd as the default boot device, so that subsequent "b" commands will load from disk) and try to fix the setup. If necessary, copy netinfo and hostconfig from /usr/template (instructions are in NextAnswers, or send me private email. Remove the "nospam" from my mailid of course). Alternatively, put the 105 device back in and re-do the builddisk. One Cthing to make your life easier: Use SCSI id 1 for your internal drive, not 0. This way, you can always attach an external device, set its id to zero, and boot from that. Makes troubleshooting a lot easier. Yes, you can always explicitely boot off another device, but its simply more hassle. Hope this helps. Chris -- // Christian Neuss "static typing? how quaint.." // http://www.informatik.th-darmstadt.de/~neuss/ // fax: (+49) 6151 16 5472
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware From: dsr@lns598.lns.cornell.edu Sender: trythis@money.com Date: 28 Nov 1996 16:44:49 EST Control: cancel <329e05c6.91426239@news.inet-direct.com> Subject: cmsg cancel <329e05c6.91426239@news.inet-direct.com> no reply ignore Message-ID: <cancel.329e05c6.91426239@news.inet-direct.com> Spam cancelled by dsr@lns598.lns.cornell.edu original subject was Please Help!!!
From: colinj@math.math.unm.edu (Colin Eric Johnson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc,abq.misc,nm.general Subject: SCSI cable 'tween Cube and a Zip drive Date: 25 Nov 1996 04:07:19 GMT Organization: University of New Mexico, Albuquerque Distribution: world Message-ID: <57b61n$hnb@lynx.unm.edu> so the kind folks at work gave me a Mac and a Zip drive to work at home. So with this Zip drive sitting next to my NeXT I'm wanting to attach it. I'm having a devil of a time finding a SCSI-2 (NeXT) to DB-25 (Zip) cable. Anyone have any suggestions where this kind of thing might be found? A store local to Albuquerque NM would be nice but mail order will suffice. -- Why must I feel like that? Why must I chase the cat? Colin E. Johnson | colinj@unm.edu | http://www.unm.edu/~colinj/ NeXTMail, MIMEmail, textmail, send it all, I'm easy.
From: Sebastian Niesen <sniesen@imib.rwth-aachen.de> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Porting OpenBSD to NeXT Black Hardware Date: Mon, 25 Nov 1996 12:10:23 +0100 Organization: NaixT - The NEXTSTEP User Group Aachen Message-ID: <32997E9F.2793@imib.rwth-aachen.de> References: <3294E7BE.303B@datasphere.net> <E1A08t.4v9@novice.uwaterloo.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Shouldn't we be able to get the low-level information from NeXT itself by now. I mean, they don't have anything to hide anymore, since they're not in the hardware business anymore. Just my humble opinion, Sebastian P.S.: I'm really interested in a fast unix with x for my cube. _______________________________________________________________________________ Sebastian Niesen sniesen@pool.informatik.rwth-aachen.de Student Of Computer Science sniesen@imib.rwth-aachen.de RWTH Aachen http://www-users.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/~sniesen
From: Koplien@vnet.IBM.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Q: NEXTSTEP with Matrox Mystique 2MB Date: Mon, 25 Nov 96 11:49:49 Organization: Lockheed Martin Federal Systems in Manassas, VA, USA Message-ID: <57btkv$jlg@news.manassas.ibm.com> References: <9611191303.AA02387@huelf.hamburg.com> I don't think that my answer gives You the desired solution but the Mystique and the Mill. uses the same chip set W2064 (If I remind correct). So with 99% the Mystique should run under the Mill. driver. (One percent left, that's Murphy...) Henry
From: Christian Schildwaechter Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Q: miroCRYSTAL 16Si/Millenium with >= 64MB RAM Date: 29 Nov 1996 01:05:00 GMT Organization: RMI Net - EUnet EUregio POP Aachen Distribution: world Message-ID: <57lcrs$h@fuchur.rmi.de> Hi, I'm still running a miroCRYSTAL 16Si with the release 1.01 of the drivers supplied by miro for NS >=3.2 under NSfIP 3.3. It's a slow one, but worked in my old machine, a 486DX2 with 32MB RAM. Now it sits in a PPRO 180 with 80 MB and unfortunatly doesn't work any longer. The graphics collapse when NS has finished to reboot and changes from VGA to the higher resolution (1152*870*12/16). The screen turns blue with the top 20% being red. Fortunatly the system still works, so I can shut it down. It doesn't display the 'Please wait until you can ...' message in VGA properly, but shows some weird colored panel (five times on the screen). I can see that it is okay to power off only from the sudden change in the pixels organisation on the screen ;-) The problem vanishes when I reset the cards video address to something below 64MB (where it was in the old machine), but this implies I cannot use the extra RAM (trying this will cause a kernel panic during the boot process) and have to stay with 32 MB. I tried to use Next's generic S3 driver (v3.30), but it wouldn't work at all. And a call to miro's hotline only proved that they don't support NS any longer (they didn't even remember that they did support it in the past and had no clue of what was going wrong). Reconfiguring the board BIOS very conservative didn't help either. If anybody has any hint how to get the miro to work with a base address above 64 MB I'd love to hear (read) it. If nobody has, maybe you could tell me if this system is going to work: PPRO 180/256 ASUS P/I-P6NP5 64 MB EDO 60ns + 16 MB FP 60ns NCR 810 SCSI controller Conner and Quantum SCSI HD's, Fujitsu 2513A6 MO, Toshiba 4101 CDROM !!! Matrox Millenium 4 MB WRAM !!! This config works with the miro if I replace the 64 MB by another 16 MB FP and readjust the cards membase as I said above. So the question is: Has anybody had any problems with the Matrox Millenium 4MB and 64 MB or more? Thanks in advance Christian --- Christian Schildwaechter http://www.farbeduciel.com/chriss Rosstr. 38-40 chriss@farbeduciel.com (MIME fine) 52064 Aachen/Germany (+49)241-2809- 3(voice/am)/5(fax) !!! New phone and fax numbers, email and web addresses !!!
From: Yvan Herreros <herreros@aar.alcatel-alsthom.fr> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Problems using an Exabyte with NeXT station/NS3.1 Date: Mon, 25 Nov 1996 10:42:45 +0100 Organization: Alcatel Alsthom Recherche, Marcoussis, France Message-ID: <32996A15.7483@aar.alcatel-alsthom.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi, I'm trying to get an Exabyte tape drive working on my slab running NS 3.1, but all tape IO operations fail. At boot time, the station recognises the drive (prints things like "scsi target 2 : Exabyte, ..., st0"). After that, I can do things like rewind or eject the tape ("mt -f /dev/rst0 rewind/offline"), but can't do anything that involves tape IO : writing or reading (with tar, dd, etc) fails, things like "mt -f /dev/rst0 fsf" fail too. The drive heads don't even spin to try to read data, which makes me think that the tape drive simply doesn't understand the commands sent by the slab. The returned sense key is 'media flaw'. Same things apply to /dev/rxt0. Is there a special thing to do to pilot an Exabyte from the NeXT, like a specific driver, or special ioctls to be sent to the drive ? Thanks for your help, Y.H. -- +===========================================+ | | | Yvan Herreros | +---------------+ | Alcatel Alsthom Recherche | | A L C A T E L | | Route de Nozay | +---------------+ | 91460 Marcoussis | | A L S T H O M | | FRANCE | +===============+ | | RECHERCHE | tel: 33-(0)1-69.63.11.94 | | fax: 33-(0)1-69.63.18.12 | | e-mail: herreros@aar.alcatel-alsthom.fr | | | +===========================================+
From: woo@opus.bloomco.ornl.gov (John W. Wooten) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: OD cause system not to boot Date: 29 Nov 1996 02:05:45 GMT Organization: Oak Ridge National Lab, Oak Ridge, TN Distribution: world Message-ID: <57lgdp$olh@stc06.ctd.ornl.gov> I have an OD drive on my NeXTCube, that if I connect the small black cable from it to the board above it, causes my system to wait for the SCSI drive to mount. If I disconnect the top (last) part of the cable from right beside the SCSI cable on the board that is mounted above the OD and below the HD, then the system boots and runs fine (no OD of course). The OD won't lock a disk into place and I get some error #58 if I tried to boot from it when it was connected. Any suggestions as to what the problem might be? It was working fine, I unplugged it to add some memory (being very careful about static, etc.) and then when plugged back in, it didn't work. -- J. W. Wooten <jwooten@korrnet.org> NEXTSTEP / OpenStep Software Development & Network Consulting Services NeXTmail preferred, MIME is welcome Please finger woo@160.91.216.2 for PGP public key
From: Michael Robinson <mike@soccbook.demon.co.uk> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Imagine 128 Series II Driver for NeXT Date: Thu, 28 Nov 1996 11:05:24 +0000 Organization: Soccer Book Publishing Ltd. Distribution: world Message-ID: <x3HyRCA0HXnyEwd1@soccbook.demon.co.uk> References: <56b1ja$30o@news.iastate.edu> <57hlan$gov@digdug.pswtech.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 In article <57hlan$gov@digdug.pswtech.com>, Robin Wilson <robin@pswtech.com> writes >logic@friley253.res.iastate.edu (???) wrote: >} Hello, >} Does anyone know if NeXT is going to release the driver for the >} Imagine Series II card? I have been using the ugly low-res black and white >} VGA mode for a while and I would like to see the beauty of NeXTSTEP in >32-bit >} color. The description of the original Imagine 128 said that there would >be >} an updated driver by the third quarter. Does anyone have any info on the >} status of this driver??? Thanks! > >I don't think there is a driver "yet"... (And I doubt that there will be >one.) When we get these with our Dell systems, we simply advertise them on >the net and sell them for ~$370 (with 4MB of RAM)... Then we go get a Matrox >Millenium for ~$350 (4MB)... Solves the problem, and works better to boot. > There is a driver out - I've not got around to installing it yet (I am still using a Matrox from my old machine). I downloaded it last week from Nextanswers > 2488_Number9Imagine128S2DisplayDriver.pkg.compressed -- Michael Robinson
From: cnyap@dcs.shef.ac.uk (Chih Nam Yap) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: NeXT on Acer notebook Date: 25 Nov 1996 13:26:58 GMT Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of Sheffield Message-ID: <57c6r2$qgt@bignews.shef.ac.uk> Hi there, Does anyone have problems installing NeXT 3.3 to an Acer notebook before ? Do I need to buy any display drivers for the notebook ? Thank for your advice. Cheers, C.Yap
From: michael@rumah.pc.my (Michael Olan) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Quantum Firebal TM Date: 22 Nov 1996 21:49:24 GMT Organization: Personal Message-ID: <575754$hn0@rumah.pc.my> I have a slab and am wondering if a Quantum Fireball TM 3.2GB with Ultra SCSI-3 interface is compatible (is the Fast ATA-2 a PC interface?). If it can be used, what is a good price for one? what is the best best partitioning, block size, etc. to use when formatting? -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr. Michael Olan Email: michael@rumah.pc.my (NeXT Mail OK) Senior Lecturer - Computer Science michael@ppp.itm.my American Degree Program Fax: 6-03-5482329 Institut Teknologi MARA Section 17, Shah Alam, Malaysia PGP Key available ---------------------------------------------------------------------
From: neuss@informatik.th-darmstadt.de.nospam (Christian Neuss) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Jaz vs. MOD (Was: Re: Where to get NeXT Cube HD mounting bracket?) Date: 25 Nov 1996 11:46:47 GMT Organization: Technische Hochschule Darmstadt Message-ID: <57c0v7$v49@rs18.hrz.th-darmstadt.de> References: <56dnqa$kop@news.acns.nwu.edu> <56fkjv$mfo@news.doit.wisc.edu> Operator (root@nxs.math.wisc.edu) wrote: > PS - I've heard very mixed reports about the reliability of Jaz drives. > Some people swear by them, others have taken them back for a refund > within the warranty period. I'm still not convinced that "open air" > hard disks have overcome their obvious reliabaility questions, but maybe > that's just me... :-) Yip - looks like these drives are not as reliable as you would wish. I'd just like to state (again :-) that I and many of my friends have made excellent experiences with the new 3.5 MOD drives. Do not confuse these with the slow MO drives that came with the original black HW! The form factors are pretty much alike the Zip/Jaz "disks" and drives, speed is pretty decent, especially with the new 640 MB versions, which have a larger Cache and no longer need 3 rotations when writing. Unlike Jaz and Syquest drives, I've never experienced or heard of any problems or failures. Highly recommended. Kind regards, Chris -- // Christian Neuss "I ride tandem with a random.." // http://www.informatik.th-darmstadt.de/~neuss/ // fax: (+49) 6151 16 5472
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware From: dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca (David Evans) Subject: Re: Porting OpenBSD to NeXT Black Hardware Sender: news@novice.uwaterloo.ca (Mr. News) Message-ID: <E1FJH6.IoB@novice.uwaterloo.ca> Date: Mon, 25 Nov 1996 14:12:42 GMT References: <3294E7BE.303B@datasphere.net> <E1A08t.4v9@novice.uwaterloo.ca> <32997E9F.2793@imib.rwth-aachen.de> Organization: University of Waterloo In article <32997E9F.2793@imib.rwth-aachen.de>, Sebastian Niesen <sniesen@imib.rwth-aachen.de> wrote: >Shouldn't we be able to get the low-level information from NeXT itself >by now. I mean, they don't have anything to hide anymore, since they're >not >in the hardware business anymore. > Nope. Been tried before (although trying again can't possibly hurt). I'd love to be proven 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
From: lionel@cyberlab.ch (Lionel Tinguely) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: OVERDRIVE FOR NeXTcube/station ? Date: 25 Nov 1996 16:18:47 GMT Organization: SWITCH, Swiss Academic & Research Network Message-ID: <57cgt7$aeb@scsing.switch.ch> Hello There ! Is there any overdrive cpu to upgrade my NeXTcube and Station with a 68040 25Mhz CPU !! Will NeXT make an upgrade for his hardware LiONEL -- >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>CYBERLaB NeTWORK<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< lionel@cyberlab.ch (MiME & NeXTmail WELCOME !!) Tel: +41 (0)21 623.66.10 http://www.cyberlab.ch Fax: +41 (0)21 626.40.00 Ask for or my PGP public key ------------------------------------------------------- The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offence E.W. Dijkstra Teaching C++ should be sentenced to life imprisonment Me
From: "yoonsik KANG" <easters@nuri.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: [Q] The 32Bit Color mode problem with Mga Millennium 4mega Ram Date: 25 Nov 1996 14:09:01 GMT Organization: MBK GROUPS COMPANY Message-ID: <01bbdada$83964650$27f2e7cb@easters> Hi, there I currently use the nextstep 3.3j with matrox mga millennium 4mega wram. The problem is that the NeXTSTEP's screen looks really ugly.. Looks like not 32 bit mode,, just looks 16bit.. I think that the problem is a gamma-correction, or contrast.. Is there anybody experience same problem as me? If so, just tell me the solution.. please..
From: ATL2@lehigh.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: NeXTStation Color SIMMS Date: 25 Nov 1996 13:55:27 GMT Organization: Lehigh University Distribution: world Message-ID: <57c8gf$1dc1@fidoii.cc.lehigh.edu> Hi All, I have a 25MHz NeXTStation Color, one of the older models with 8 72-pin SIMM slots. I currently have eight 4MB SIMMS. Not finding anything in NeXTAnswers or elsewhere to suggest a problem, I attempted to replace one pair of SIMMS with 16MB modules. However, both were recognized (at boot-up and subsequently) as 4MB SIMMs, and total system RAM was still reported at 32MB, not 56. Is 32MB indeed the maximal RAM configuration for this model of 'station? Anything I haven't tried? Regards, Alex Levine ATL2@lehigh.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware From: ebaranz@muscat.pr.net.ch (E. Baranzini) Subject: Re: Problems using an Exabyte with NeXT station/NS3.1 Message-ID: <1996Nov25.172659.671@muscat.pr.net.ch> Sender: ebaranz@muscat.pr.net.ch References: <32996A15.7483@aar.alcatel-alsthom.fr> Date: Mon, 25 Nov 1996 17:26:59 GMT Try /dev/[n]rxt0 for 8mm Exabytes, /dev/[n]rst0 for QIC tapes. In article <32996A15.7483@aar.alcatel-alsthom.fr> Yvan Herreros <herreros@aar.alcatel-alsthom.fr> writes: > Hi, > > I'm trying to get an Exabyte tape drive working on my slab > running NS 3.1, but all tape IO operations fail. > > At boot time, the station recognises the drive (prints things like > "scsi target 2 : Exabyte, ..., st0"). > > After that, I can do things like rewind or eject the tape > ("mt -f /dev/rst0 rewind/offline"), but can't do anything that > involves tape IO : writing or reading (with tar, dd, etc) fails, > things like "mt -f /dev/rst0 fsf" fail too. The drive heads don't even > spin to try to read data, which makes me think that the tape drive > simply doesn't understand the commands sent by the slab. The > returned sense key is 'media flaw'. Same things apply to /dev/rxt0. > > Is there a special thing to do to pilot an Exabyte from the NeXT, > like a specific driver, or special ioctls to be sent to the drive ? > > Thanks for your help, > Y.H. > > -- > > +===========================================+ > | | > | Yvan Herreros | +---------------+ > | Alcatel Alsthom Recherche | | A L C A T E L | > | Route de Nozay | +---------------+ > | 91460 Marcoussis | | A L S T H O M | > | FRANCE | +===============+ > | | RECHERCHE > | tel: 33-(0)1-69.63.11.94 | > | fax: 33-(0)1-69.63.18.12 | > | e-mail: herreros@aar.alcatel-alsthom.fr | > | | > +===========================================+ -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- Erminio BARANZINI, Muehlemattstr. 53, CH-3007 Berne, Switzerland ebaranz@muscat.pr.net.ch ---------------------------------------------------------------------
From: michael@nexus1.tng.oche.de (Michael Pieper) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NeXT Novice Hoses Himself, PLEASE HELP Date: 29 Nov 1996 19:03:26 GMT Organization: I.N.-Regionaldomain oche.de, Aachen, Germany Message-ID: <57nc1u$kif@nexusgate.tng.oche.de> References: <mpd-ya023180002711961649180001@news.gulf.net> mpd@gulf.net (Mark Pappas) wrote: >The system came with a 105meg drive internal with 3.2 loaded. I have a >extra Maxtor 500meg drive. So I run builddisk on the 500meg drive everthing >goes great. Now I pull the 105 internal and put the 500meg in its place >SCSI ID 0 :)....The system boots to just a regular user, so I logout to >boot as root and it crashes. After crashing it ask me for a hardware key, >we'll guess what I don't have the hardware key. I read the NeXT faq and ah >it says pull the battery to reset the machine. I did that and now the NeXT >is stuck on "Loading from network" I guess I know enough to be dangerous :) There has to be one disk that supplies termpower to the SCSI bus. The SCSI adapter in a NeXTstation does not supply termpower (which is absolutly abnormal for a SCSI adapter). Normally the built in disk is configured to supply termpower. So if you simply change it and do not attach the old disk externally, you have a problem. Ther is AFAIK nothing about this in the Online Documentation of NS 3.2 an later. I have found it in the handbooks some day. Michael -- Michael Pieper, Bluecherplatz 14, D-52068 Aachen, Tel. : +49 - (0)241 - 902455 Fax: +49 - (0)241 - 902456 Mail : michael@nexus1.tng.oche.de (NeXTmail and MIME welcome) PGP : Public Key on demand
From: rdieter@math.unl.edu (Rex Dieter) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Symbios Logic 8751SP supported? Date: 25 Nov 1996 15:26:05 GMT Organization: University of Nebraska--Lincoln Message-ID: <57cdqd$9el@crcnis3.unl.edu> References: <Pine.LNX.3.95.961122135817.880D-100000@next1.rhrz.uni-bonn.de> In article <Pine.LNX.3.95.961122135817.880D-100000@next1.rhrz.uni-bonn.de> Wiesel <wiesel@next1.rhrz.uni-bonn.de> writes: > Where on the net can i contact JCIS? http://www.jcis.com/ mailto:info@jcis.com Enjoy. -- Rex A. Dieter rdieter@math.unl.edu (NeXT/MIME OK) Computer System Manager http://www.math.unl.edu/~rdieter/ Mathematics and Statistics University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware From: jeff@bio132.uni-bielefeld.de (Jeff Dean) Subject: OD Problem: mount failure Sender: news@hermes.hrz.uni-bielefeld.de (News Administrator) Message-ID: <E1FKos.LCt@hermes.hrz.uni-bielefeld.de> Date: Mon, 25 Nov 1996 14:38:51 GMT Organization: Universitaet Bielefeld, Rechenzentrum Keywords: OD, bug, hardware, repair, mount Up until three weeks ago we have been using Canon 502M ODs for backups in an OD-Drive in a NeXt cube with only an occasion format/repair disk problem. Now the drive refuses to mount most of our ODs, ejecting them after a cursory attempt to read and without an error message. This is true both for attempts to mount via the next file system and via the unix command. On one occasion, an error message was given to the effect that the system was unable to start to drive motor. Does anyone have any suggestions concerning the diagnosis or software for diagnosing the problem? Does anyone in Germany close to Bielefeld have an OD reader, so we could get the data, or know addresses of places in Germany that might be able to do repairs? Still hopeful to get at that data.... Jeff +------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Jeff Dean | Universitaet Bielefeld | Fakultaet fuer Biologie/Abt. 4 (Biokybernetik) | Postfach 10 01 31 | D-33501 Bielefeld | email: jeff@bio128.uni-bielefeld.de
From: minuet@indy.net (Minuet) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Yikes...the kidz hosemonkeyed my 3.2 boot!! Date: Sat, 30 Nov 96 17:15:32 GMT Organization: is a state of mind Message-ID: <57pmj5$275@sjx-ixn3.ix.netcom.com> Got a small problem! My kids were playing around with my slab (running 3.2) and apparently got into the rom monitor as it was booting up. The boot command was set to "y" and a few other things were changed, and after that the system would not boot. I have tried changing the boot command to "b" and "bsd" but nothing seems to work, and it still halts in the bootup process saying "default boot device not found". I have no other drives than the internal, so it will not let me set it from the preferences panel. If I type "bsd" manually from the prompt though, it boots and everything is fine. *sigh* Any ideas? Thanks!!
From: colinj@math.math.unm.edu (Colin Eric Johnson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc,abq.misc,nm.general Subject: Re: SCSI cable 'tween Cube and a Zip drive Date: 25 Nov 1996 19:40:22 GMT Organization: Dept. of Math & Stat, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque Message-ID: <57csn6$eac@lynx.unm.edu> References: <57b61n$hnb@lynx.unm.edu> <57bh6d$47ls@callisto.unm.edu> In article <57bh6d$47ls@callisto.unm.edu>, Mark F. Mitcham <markm@unm.edu> wrote: >In article <57b61n$hnb@lynx.unm.edu>, >Colin Eric Johnson <colinj@unm.edu> wrote: >>so the kind folks at work gave me a Mac and a Zip drive to work at >>home. So with this Zip drive sitting next to my NeXT I'm wanting to >>attach it. I'm having a devil of a time finding a SCSI-2 (NeXT) to >>DB-25 (Zip) cable. Anyone have any suggestions where this kind of >>thing might be found? >> >>A store local to Albuquerque NM would be nice but mail order will >>suffice. > >Try Hallmark Cables; I've gotten not only cables like that, but small >adapters that will convert scsi II to the centronics style interface, >etc. If they don't have it in stock, they've got the tools to either >make it, or get it else where... > >Mark Thanks to all the folks that sent me answers. In the case of Albuquerque the correct answer is Hallmark Computer Supplies. I just got off the phone with them and they have exactly the cable that I need (for about $30). I'll check to see if they do mail order in case folks are interested. -- Why must I feel like that? Why must I chase the cat? Colin E. Johnson | colinj@unm.edu | http://www.unm.edu/~colinj/ NeXTMail, MIMEmail, textmail, send it all, I'm easy.
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Yikes...the kidz hosemonkeyed my 3.2 boot!! Date: Sat, 30 Nov 1996 08:48:48 -0800 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.95.961130084513.17453A-100000@kira> References: <57pmj5$275@sjx-ixn3.ix.netcom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: Minuet <minuet@indy.net> In-Reply-To: <57pmj5$275@sjx-ixn3.ix.netcom.com> Return-Receipt-To: luomat@nerc.com > Got a small problem! My kids were playing around with my slab (running 3.2) > and apparently got into the rom monitor as it was booting up. Time to set a hardware password, no? > The boot command was set to "y" and a few other things were changed, and > after that the system would not boot. I have tried changing the boot > command to "b" and "bsd" but nothing seems to work, and it still halts > in the bootup process saying "default boot device not found". I have no > other drives than the internal, so it will not let me set it from the > preferences panel. If I type "bsd" manually from the prompt though, it > boots and everything is fine. *sigh* Any ideas? Hmm... Very strange. Have you gone through the preferences ("p" in the ROM monitor) and checked to make sure everything was OK? I might even go and take out the battery, allow the settings to reset themselves, and then manually reset the ROM preferences (note: after removing the battery the boot command will be "en" which you will want to change unless it is on a network 24/7) Then when you get it working, go get this : ftp://ftp.next.peak.org/pub/next/apps/utils/misc/HardwarePassword.N.b.tar.gz ftp://ftp.next.peak.org/pub/next/apps/utils/misc/HardwarePassword.README TjL
From: "Arnstein Tranøy" <arnie@sandefjordnett.no> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: FS:Next Station & Next Monitor with Next Post Script Printer Date: 30 Nov 1996 17:00:40 GMT Organization: GlobalOne Norway Message-ID: <01bbdedf$d9100680$3974c6c2@tranoy> >>> Cato@cato.hypercon.com: Next Station & Next Monitor with Next Post Script Printer For Sale 880 Hardrive 8 Meg RAM Next Step 3.1 Lotus Improv Soft PC All Cables, and Books Very nice!! Price $800 Please contact Cato Hagen\ cato@hyperson.com USA 713 933-4283 --
From: pbrown@ashkhabad.berkeley.edu (Paul R. Brown) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: NeXTstep on Thinkpad 365x? Date: 30 Nov 1996 17:45:23 GMT Organization: University of California, Berkeley Message-ID: <slrn5a0sbk.6io.pbrown@ashkhabad.berkeley.edu> The subject is largely self explanatory. I'v got Linux and Xfree86 going just fine, but I'd rather have parallel filesystems on the laptop and on my slabs. Paul -- _____________________________________________________________________ Paul Brown Grad student, UCB mathematics (510)-843-7817 pbrown@math.berkeley.edu http://math.berkeley.edu/~pbrown/ NeXTmail preferred. _____________________________________________________________________
From: jsamson@istar.ca (Jean-Paul C. Samson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: How to decode this panic? Date: 26 Nov 1996 02:51:31 GMT Organization: iSTAR Internet Incorporated Message-ID: <57dlvj$bp3@news.istar.ca> References: <57dbgd$92v@Venus.mcs.net> In-Reply-To: <57dbgd$92v@Venus.mcs.net> On 11/25/96, Font wrote: >I've recently moved from a NeXTstation mono to a NeXTstation color. >The mono was rock solid and not that slow running 3.3p1. ... >I've been getting panics twice a week, and I'm not sure what's >causing them. ... >Is it my memory? Is it my serial port? I've either been running ppp >or was just starting ppp the last two times panics have occurred. I don't know how to decipher the system panic error, but it could be a combination of PPP and the serial ports. I have a NeXTstation mono running OPENSTEP 4.0 and I frequently get similar system panic errors whenever using PPP. (So frequently, in fact, that I don't even bother using PPP on that machine anymore.) I'm told this has to do with the CPU being too slow at handling serial port interrupts and the serial port buffer overflowing. Hopefully someone with more knowledge than I can tell you specifically what the problem is. -- -===================================================================- Jean-Paul C. Samson -=- jsamson@istar.ca -=- NeXTmail & MIME welcome -============- http://www.cs.ualberta.ca/~jeanpaul/ -=============- -===================================================================-
From: colinj@math.math.unm.edu (Colin Eric Johnson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: getting a zip drive to work on black hardware Date: 26 Nov 1996 04:21:18 GMT Organization: University of New Mexico, Albuquerque Distribution: world Message-ID: <57dr7u$q9@lynx.unm.edu> So I have my zip drive, and I have a DB-25 to SCSI-2 (mini-centronics) cable, it's plugged into my NeXT cube and the cube has been rebooted. Why can't I seem to see any of the Zip disks? Is there a disktab entry I need to add? Is there something special I should do? Any help anyone can offer is appreciated. -- Why must I feel like that? Why must I chase the cat? Colin E. Johnson | colinj@unm.edu | http://www.unm.edu/~colinj/ NeXTMail, MIMEmail, textmail, send it all, I'm easy.
From: Rainer Frohnhöfer Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Yikes...the kidz hosemonkeyed my 3.2 boot!! Date: 30 Nov 1996 19:15:56 GMT Organization: University of Wuerzburg, Germany Message-ID: <57q15c$idm@winx03.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de> References: <57pmj5$275@sjx-ixn3.ix.netcom.com> <Pine.SUN.3.95.961130084513.17453A-100000@kira> Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> wrote: > > > Got a small problem! My kids were playing around with my slab (running 3.2) > > and apparently got into the rom monitor as it was booting up. [snip] > > preferences panel. If I type "bsd" manually from the prompt though, it > > boots and everything is fine. *sigh* Any ideas? > > Hmm... Very strange. [snip] Try "sd" as boot command. The the 'b' will be added by the system. -- ------------------------------------- "Um Energie zu sparen, wird das Licht am Ende des Tunnels vorlaeufig abgeschaltet." rainer@mathematik.uni-wuerzburg.de (finger cip@mathematik for public key ...)
From: gcasa@wam.umd.edu (Gregory John Casamento) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Any trouble using Matrox Millenium?? Date: 30 Nov 1996 19:14:57 GMT Organization: University of Maryland, College Park, MD Message-ID: <57q13h$7n8@dailyplanet.wam.umd.edu> Has anyone had any trouble using the Matrox Millenium video card under NeXTSTEP?? I need to run it at resolutions up to 1280x1024x256 @ 60Hz. Does anyone know of *ANY* bugs with this card and NEXT's drivers?? Thanks, P.S. If your reply bounces, please send to gcasamen@eos.hitc.com. My access at school is about to be cut off since I am no longer a student. -- Gregory John Casamento -- gcasa@wam.umd.edu (c) G. Casamento -- Permission to distribute on MS network denied!! "It is not enough that I should succeed. All others must fail!!" -- G. Kahn
From: font@MCS.COM (Font) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: How to decode this panic? Date: 25 Nov 1996 17:52:45 -0600 Organization: MCSNet Services Message-ID: <57dbgd$92v@Venus.mcs.net> I've recently moved from a NeXTstation mono to a NeXTstation color. The mono was rock solid and not that slow running 3.3p1. The color is rather slow using the same software, but that's the price of moving around more data on the screen, I suppose. I've been getting panics twice a week, and I'm not sure what's causing them. I finally did get something in /usr/adm/messages today, and I would like to know if I can narrow the problem down. System: NeXTstation color running NEXTSTEP 3.3p1, NeXT ROM Monitor 2.3 v64, with 32M parity RAM (80 ns in 0-3, 60 ns in 4-7) Panic looks like: Nov 25 16:59:23 font syslogd: going down on signal 15 Nov 25 17:00:12 font mach: unexpected kernel page fault failure Nov 25 17:00:12 font mach: trap: type 0x410 fcode 6 rw 1 faultaddr 0xe5b40070 Nov 25 17:00:12 font mach: trap: pc 0xe5b40074 sp 0x7ff9b0 sr 0x2300 Nov 25 17:00:12 font mach: trap: cpu 0 th 0x10187b00 proc 0x101875c0 pid 231 pcb 0x10187d00 Nov 25 17:00:12 font mach: traceback: fp 0x23040405 Nov 25 17:00:12 font mach: last fp 0x23040405 Nov 25 17:00:12 font mach: panic: (Cpu 0) MMU invalid descriptor during table walk Nov 25 17:00:12 font mach: NeXT ROM Monitor 2.3 v64 Nov 25 17:00:12 font mach: panic: NeXT Mach 3.3: Mon May 22 17:56:06 PDT 1995; root(rcbuilder):mk-171.12.obj~11/RC_m68k/RELEASE_M68K Nov 25 17:00:12 font mach: Nov 25 17:00:12 font mach: Killing all processes <4>zs1: recv uart overrun Nov 25 17:00:12 font mach: .. Nov 25 17:00:12 font mach: continuing Nov 25 17:00:12 font mach: unmounting swapfile.front ... done Nov 25 17:00:12 font mach: unmounting glare ... done Nov 25 17:00:12 font mach: unmounting stare ... done Nov 25 17:00:12 font mach: unmounting blink ... done Nov 25 17:00:12 font mach: unmounting wink ... done Nov 25 17:00:12 font mach: rebooting Mach... Nov 25 17:00:12 font mach: Is it my memory? Is it my serial port? I've either been running ppp or was just starting ppp the last two times panics have occurred. If it's my memory, should I take out half at a time and run the system like that for a week to see which bank is causing trouble? Or can I tell from the panic message which SIMMs may be causing trouble? Or would more panic message sets be needed to pinpoint this? Or should I be reading a panic FAQ somewhere? :-) Thanks and be well. Wait, that's someone else's signoff. :-) -- font@mcs.net Wishes are like dishes.
From: gcasa@wam.umd.edu (Gregory John Casamento) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: [Q}:Modem Problems on OPENSTEP 4.0 Date: 30 Nov 1996 19:25:20 GMT Organization: University of Maryland, College Park, MD Message-ID: <57q1n0$7n8@dailyplanet.wam.umd.edu> References: <01bbdcef$160b62c0$410ccfa9@shadowforge> Sila Yardee (syardee@mail.execpc.com) wrote: : Hi folks, [ modem woes deleted... ] I had this problem w/ a modem that came with my previous system. It was a WinModem. are you sure you don't have a winmodem?? If you do, NS will never see it. Given that it works under Linux and NT, I could be wrong. Later, -- Gregory John Casamento -- gcasa@wam.umd.edu (c) G. Casamento -- Permission to distribute on MS network denied!! "It is not enough that I should succeed. All others must fail!!" -- G. Kahn
From: mpd@gulf.net (Mark Pappas) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: NeXT Station SCSI Problem Date: Sat, 30 Nov 1996 15:57:00 -0500 Organization: Mark Pappas Development Message-ID: <mpd-ya023180003011961557000001@news.gulf.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Hi All, This is a NeXTstation ADB 040 w/ Quantum 105 running NeXtStep 3.2. When I run Build Disk on my External HD to make it a boot drive I get this in the console. Can someone tell me what this means: rotation delay between contiguous blocks changes from 0ms to 4ms then a bunch of: sd1: Incomplete disk transfer; bytes moved = 0x400, resid = 0x400, retry 1 sd1: Incomplete disk transfer; bytes moved = 0x400, resid = 0x400, retry 2 sd1: Incomplete disk transfer; bytes moved = 0x400, resid = 0x400, retry 3 sd1: Incomplete disk transfer; bytes moved = 0x400, resid = 0x400, retry 4 sd1: Incomplete disk transfer; bytes moved = 0x400, resid = 0x400, retry 5 sd1: Incomplete disk transfer; bytes moved = 0x400, resid = 0x400, retry 6 sd1: Incomplete disk transfer; bytes moved = 0x400, resid = 0x400, retry 7 sd1: Incomplete disk transfer; bytes moved = 0x400, resid = 0x400, retry 8 Now if your going to say the Quantum is toast thats cool. But my next question is..... I have NeXTSTEP Release 3 on CDROM. If I make the CDROM id0 and try to boot it, no good it chokes. So where do I go from here. -- Thanks Mark Pappas ----------------------------------------------------------------- Mark Pappas Development E-mail: mpd@gulf.net Consultant http://www.gulf.net/~mpd/ 3915 Lynn Ora Dr. Phone: (904) 476-3773 Pensacola, FL 32504 Specializing in Macintosh Databases & NMI's Microbrew
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