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From: cdl@proxima.ucsd.edu (Carl Lowenstein) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Slab Startup Date: 1 Apr 1997 01:56:27 GMT Organization: University of California at San Diego Message-ID: <5hpq0b$c9d$1@news1.ucsd.edu> References: <hponeill-2703971523360001@ts11-10.dublin.indigo.ie> <Pine.SUN.3.96.970327131137.7690A-100000@kira> Cc: luomat@peak.org In <Pine.SUN.3.96.970327131137.7690A-100000@kira> Timothy Luoma wrote: | | get to the ROM monitor (command+command+~ NOT command+alt+~) and change | the preferences (enter 'p' at the NeXT prompt). | | You'll see it is set to 'en' (the boot command). Change it to 'sd' (for | 'scsi device' or 'scsi drive') Just a quick addendum. If you have an ADB keyboard, the magic combination is <left alt><command bar><tilde>. If you have any of the others, it's <left command><right command><tilde>. -- carl lowenstein marine physical lab u.c. san diego clowenstein@ucsd.edu
From: "gr" <mach1@planet.eon.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: No documentation for slab Date: 1 Apr 1997 03:26:52 GMT Organization: Public Live Access Network (PLAnet) Message-ID: <01bc3e4d$90e10080$52e0b9c7@glen.runzer.home> Can anyone send me or direct me to some specs and schematics for the color NeXT slab. Also bought an external hard drive contained in a black box I presume it is for the slab, the black box has what appears to be two scsi ports on the back and a up/down counter that can be set goes from 0-9 I quess it's used to select the device number. Can anyone tell me if I can use generic 72 pin RAM, hard drives and cdrom drives. Thanks for any help you can give me.
Date: Tue, 01 Apr 1997 02:32:11 -0600 From: rberber@spin.com.mx Subject: Re: help with upgrading modem using 'sx' xmodem commands Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Message-ID: <859882941.8248@dejanews.com> Organization: Deja News USENET Posting Service Timothy Luoma wrote: > > I am trying to use a 'flash' upgrade to allow my modem to become a > 33.6 rather than a 28.8. > > However, to do this I need to use XMODEM transfer, and so far my > attempts have failed. > Have you tried the easy way? With Modulator.app edit the ~~DEFAULT~~ host entry. Set the speed, bits, parity and the device (/dev/cufa or /dev/cufb to use flow control.) You may create another entry just make sure to leave the phone number empty and probably just reset (ATZ) your modem. Push Dial to "connect" and type any AT commands you need in the terminal (you may have to enable echo to see what you are typing, i.e. ATe1) Put the files you want to transfer in the "Out Box" (Command-b if not visible.) Select the file. Send them by selecting in the menu: Transfer -> Send Out Box -> XModem. If you have zmodem installed that should do it (the sb, sx are just links or copies of sz.) Hope this helps, --- Rene Berber rberber@spin.com.mx MIME / NeXT Mail welcomed -------------------==== Posted via Deja News ====----------------------- http://www.dejanews.com/ Search, Read, Post to Usenet
From: dirk@kalium.physik.TU-Berlin.DE (Dirk Schwarzhans) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: SoundBlaster AWE 64 or AWE 32 and NSFIP (PLEASE READ) Date: 1 Apr 1997 08:32:48 GMT Organization: Technical University Berlin, Germany Message-ID: <5hqh7g$r8k$1@brachio.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE> References: <3338EEF4.2DA4@erols.com> <01bc3b95$62e25fe0$42ca92cf@default> In-Reply-To: <01bc3b95$62e25fe0$42ca92cf@default> Hello, On 03/28/97, "Christian Jensen" wrote: >I tried the NS SB16 driver, both versions, on my Intel system, >which has a SB AWE 32 PnP card. Neither driver worked for me. > >I, too, would be interested in tips to make this card work with NS >FIP 3.3. On my Intel system the SB AWE 32 PnP works without problems now! You need the newest EISA-Driver (because of PnP-Support) and the newest SB-16-Driver available from NeXTanswers. Dirk Schwarzhans -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Dirk Schwarzhans Email: dirk@kalium.physik.TU-Berlin.DE (MIME and NeXTMail welcome) WWW: http://pl.physik.TU-Berlin.DE/DZ/Dirk/ ------------------------------------------------------------------
From: gh@smart.net Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Opinions on Micron for NS/Intel? Date: Mon, 31 Mar 1997 18:35:26 -0500 Organization: Smartnet Internet Services [via news] Message-ID: <33404A3E.7273@smart.net> References: <5hhg7a$kvb$2@solaris.cc.vt.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Chuck_Esterbrook@orcacomputer.com > Anyone have any experiences they would to share running NS/Intel on Micron > machines? I had no major problems with the installation. However there are a few minor problems. Micron has audio built into the motherboard which NEXTSTEP does not recognize. Also, the internal Zip drive is IDE, which I have not found a way to get NS to recognize either. I would recommend getting a SCSI controller such as the NCR53c810 which should cost around $70. And have Micron install all SCSI drives, including the CD-ROM, Zip, and hard drives. NS seems to work better with it. --gh
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware From: hugob@tamtam.xs4all (Hugo Burm) Subject: Re: P120 vs P133 Message-ID: <E7yDJ4.Auw@tamtam.xs4all.nl> Sender: hugob@tamtam.xs4all.nl (Hugo Burm) Organization: datagram References: <SHESS.97Mar29001448@slave.one.net> Date: Tue, 1 Apr 1997 09:40:16 GMT In article <SHESS.97Mar29001448@slave.one.net> shess@one.net (Scott Hess) writes: > > Probably a more important consideration is whether you're getting an > HX or Triton I motherboard. HX is sometimes called Triton II, and VX > is sometimes called Triton III. I'm not going to argue VX and HX (_I_ > got HX). Don't buy the VX or its successor, the TX chipset. Although these chipsets allows for 256 Mb RAM, only the first 64 Mb can be cached by the L2 cache. This is a real disaster if you need more than 64 Mb main memory. The 430HX is the best choice. hugob@tamtam.xs4all.nl
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware From: hugob@tamtam.xs4all (Hugo Burm) Subject: Re: really *short* ethernet cables. Message-ID: <E7yEH1.AzK@tamtam.xs4all.nl> Sender: hugob@tamtam.xs4all.nl (Hugo Burm) Organization: datagram References: <5hnbo4$2df$1@news.ptd.net> Date: Tue, 1 Apr 1997 10:00:37 GMT In article <5hnbo4$2df$1@news.ptd.net> hamors@litterbox.org (Sean B. Hamor) writes: > > In this case it's just the opposite. I'm assuming you're using 10BaseT > (coax) to network your machines. 10BaseT works the best with the > shortest possible lengths of cable and with each cable EXACTLY the same > length. If you use all 5" lengths of cable that are exactly the same > length, your network will be extremely fast and efficiant. > I have some docs that recommend a minimum distance of about 20" (0.5 m) between two stations. hugob@tamtam.xs4all.nl
From: jcr@idiom.com (John C. Randolph) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: No documentation for slab Date: 1 Apr 1997 06:34:06 -0800 Organization: A poorly-installed InterNetNews site Message-ID: <jcr.859905213@idiom.com> References: <01bc3e4d$90e10080$52e0b9c7@glen.runzer.home> You can get the FAQ from next-ftp.peak.org. -jcr "gr" <mach1@planet.eon.net> writes: >Can anyone send me or direct me to some specs and schematics for the color >NeXT slab. Also bought an external hard drive contained in a black box I >presume it is for the slab, the black box has what appears to be two scsi >ports on the back and a up/down counter that can be set goes from 0-9 I >quess it's used to select the device number. >Can anyone tell me if I can use generic 72 pin RAM, hard drives and cdrom >drives. >Thanks for any help you can give me.
From: phillips@alpha1.phoenix.net (Charles Phillips) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Mac Hardware - Off Topic But .. Date: 1 Apr 1997 15:08:12 GMT Organization: C-Com/Phoenix Data Net (281) 486-8337/ http://www.phoenix.net Message-ID: <5hr8cs$7ab$2@gryphon.phoenix.net> Forgive me for posting this information one more time. Some of you may also do work on Mac systems - and someone may ask you to diagnose problems they are having. They may think that a computer is a computer. If those problems include their Mac forgetting the date, starting up in black and white (if they have a color Mac), failing start up at all, etc - it could be a dying logic board battery. This is a simple and fast fix - tho many people have paid for logic board replacements when the problem was a $10 battery. The web site in my .sig (always advertisement-free) tells you the symptoms, gives sources for the batteries, has photos, etc etc etc. I am beginning to look at some 68k NeXT boards and may add a companion NeXT site as well. Hope this information keeps someone's Mac running! -- Charles D Phillips <mailto:phillips@phoenix.net> Check the Macintosh Logic Board Battery Web page at: <http://www.academ.com/info/macintosh> (This page also links to a Totally Unofficial Panorama Page) "I Don't Do Windows, I Have A Macintosh"
From: liuyi@crystalball.com (Yi Liu) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Kinesis Keyboard Update [was Re: Anyone using Kinesis keyboard on Black Hardware?] Date: 1 Apr 1997 16:03:53 GMT Organization: 9h, Inc. Message-ID: <5hrbl9$sgi@library.airnews.net> References: <5heqli$qss@library.airnews.net> <E7vwCv.4Bp@novice.uwaterloo.ca> Cc: dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca Yi Liu <liuyi@crystalball.com> wrote: > I've just ordered a Kinesis keyboard that can switch between PC/MAC-ADB > and QWERTY/Dvorak modes. I've heard that MAC ADB keyboards work on > black hardware, so I'd like to know how well the Kinesis simulates an ADB > NeXT keyboard. Will the "Power" and "Command" work as a NeXT keyboard? > How about "Comman-Alternate-~"? I got it yesterday and now it's working on my ND Turbo Cube! I've checked the following keys and combinations that are specific to the black ADB keyboard: - Power - Command - Alternate - Command-Alternate-~ - Command-Alternate-* and I'm happy to report that all of them work fine with Kinesis MPC in Mac mode. liuyi -- Realife: Liu, Yi <liuyi@crystalball.com> {NeXTMail|MIME|ASCII}
From: "Lee Bennett" <lee@lbsoftware.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: New Problem??? With Network Date: 1 Apr 1997 16:01:48 GMT Organization: L&B Software Message-ID: <01bb1fe4$9ae7aee0$987206c2@carmen> I can`t seem to get them to talk to each other, this is really pissing me off right now. I have 12 Black systems with BNC Thin Ethernet cable`s and BNC T Connectors. But thay dont like to talk to each other. Can anyone help me out here????# Many Thanks lee@hyper-zone.com
From: paulus@nextdown.pe.utexas.edu (Paulus Adisoemarta) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Xconfig for the 21 inch NeXT Monitor ? Date: 1 Apr 1997 20:59:37 GMT Organization: Petroleum and Geosystem Engineering, U of Texas at Austin, Austin TX Distribution: world Message-ID: <5hrsvp$rg4$1@socony.pe.utexas.edu> Hi, I wonder if somebody has done this, use the NeXT 21 inch color monitor under Xfree86. I am looking for the Xconfig file (the section that relates with monitor and modeline particularly), so I can also use this monitor for my linux box. thanks, Paulus -- Paulus Suryono Adisoemarta, N5SNN / YG1QN yono@parokinet.org n5snn@mail.utexas.edu paulus@nextdown.pe.utexas.edu
From: henneber@meds1.MEDCN.UMontreal.CA (Henneberg Kaj-Age) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Which HDs work in 25MHz mono-slab Date: 1 Apr 1997 21:25:26 GMT Organization: Universite de Montreal Distribution: world Message-ID: <5hrug6$7iu@epervier.CC.UMontreal.CA> Originator: henneber@meds1.MEDCN.UMontreal.CA I didn't find a good answer in the FAQs so perhaps someone could give me a list of hard disks that are known to work as the internal boot device in a 25 MHz NextStation (monochrome). My original 400 Mb HD (Seagate ST1480 Rev. 4511) have made grinding noises for a while now and I would like to upgrade it to something bigger. Do I have a choice between SCSI formats (I or II)? Is there a limit to the size (in Mb)? How many partitions can I have? What else should I know to order one that works? Are there problems I should anticipate when putting NS 3.3 back on the new HD? I don't want to spend more than 3-400 $ if possible. Please mail the answer directly to kaj@igb.umontreal.ca. Thank you for your help. ________________________________________ Dr. K. Henneberg Faculte de medecine, Institut de genie biomedical Universite de Montreal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada -- ________________________________________ Dr. K. Henneberg Faculte de medecine, Institut de genie biomedical Universite de Montreal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
From: ddr@quark.phys.ufl.edu (Daniel D. Roscigno) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Display Driver under NS Intel Date: 1 Apr 1997 20:00:35 GMT Organization: National Center for Supercomputing Applications Message-ID: <5hrph3$5ae@nostromo.clas.ufl.edu> References: <5hol21$27g@nostromo.clas.ufl.edu> <3341427f.3968581@news.alt.net> In article <3341427f.3968581@news.alt.net> onparole@halfwayhouse.com (convict) writes: >On 31 Mar 1997 15:25:53 GMT, ddr@hee.phys.ufl.edu (Daniel D. Roscigno) >wrote: > >>I am installing NS 3.3 on a Pentium system. The video card I have is >>a WinFast PCI card which has a Trio64v+ chip. During the install I >>have no problems with video, although it is grayscale. I need to >>select a video driver and do not see the trio 64 as a choice. Is it >>safe to chooses standard vga? This seems to result in a blank screen. >> >>Dan >>-- > >Look in NeXTanswers, document #2382 and #2384. These are generic S3 >drivers which support the Trio64v+ chip for 3.3. Surprisingly, the >driver also works for NS3.2 on PCI bus. >Hope this points you in the right direction. >Bon chance. > ThankS For the suggestions. This is what I had to do: 0) pull out the S3 carD 1) install a isa video card that would work with the default video driver 2) install the driver for the S3 card 3) power down the system 4) install the S3 PCI card again 5) restart the systeM -- --------------------------------------------------------- Dan Roscigno ddr@phys.ufl.edu 392-4028 Physics Dept., University of Florida Bldg 104 Rm. 5 ---------------------------------------------------------
From: Brian Sutherland <rmaniac@onramp.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Micropolis 4421 Fast SCSI-2 in NeXT turbo? Date: Wed, 02 Apr 1997 08:59:16 -0600 Organization: OnRamp Technologies, Inc.; ISP Message-ID: <33427443.5708@onramp.net> References: <5hpgsa$s8q@agate.berkeley.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: John Badanes <john@romdas.HIP.berkeley.edu> John Badanes wrote: > > Anyone have any experience with a Micropolis 4421 (Aries 2) > Fast SCSI 2.1MB hard drive in a NeXT Turbo? It's a 3.5" "low > profile" disk drive, spins at 5400, ~9ns seek, 5MB/s max > transfer asynchronous, etc. > > Is this going to be a 'plug and play' thing or is it going to > be a fussy and troublesome ordeal? I'm especially concerned > with its implementation of SCSI-1 in the Turbo. > > Any experience or thoughts ASAP would be appreciated by e-mail > if possible. I'm thinking of ordering on April Fool's Day and > don't want to be 'the fool.' > > Thanks. > > John The Aires is a SCSI-2 fast drive that should work well. I was going to pick up two for my Turbo Color slab and my Color Dimension Turbo Cube. I have not yet but it all looks good. Tell me if you have any problems or wait until I get mine and I'll tell. -Brian
From: Robert La Ferla <Robert_La_Ferla@hot.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.newton.misc,comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: IrDA Date: 3 Apr 1997 03:56:52 GMT Organization: HTI Message-ID: <5hv9q4$61s@news2.cais.com> I'd like to add an IrDA infrared receiver (or is that transceiver) to my Intel Venus Pentium Pro system. Can someone recommend one? What should I look for? Does it work under OPENSTEP? My understanding is that it's just a serial port with an IR interface, n'est-ce pas? Thanks, Robert -- Robert La Ferla Registered OPENSTEP/Rhapsody Consultant HTI Boston, MA - Washington, DC + 1 (617) 252-0088
From: John Kheit <jkheit@cnj.digex.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: New 120Mb floppy drives? Date: 2 Apr 1997 16:38:46 GMT Organization: monoChrome, Inc., NJ, USA Message-ID: <5hu22m$pkq@news3.digex.net> Has anyone gotten those new 120Mb floppy drives? They can read and write old 3.5" 720k and 1.44Mb floppies, BUT can also read and write to 120Mb on special floppies that go for about 20bux each (it's supposed to be 5X the speed of a normal floppy). The problem seems to be that it's an ATAPI/IDE device...so I'm not sure how this will be handled by the BIOS etc... I also wonder how NEXTSTEP would handle regular and the 120Mb floppies from this drive. Anyone have it? Does it work? If so, it might be an ideal device to have as standard; better than zip b/c it does the standard floppy thing and so I'd need only the one device in my floppy bay... BTW, does it automatically mount and eject the media? -- Thanks, be well, take care, later, John Kheit; Self expressed... __________________________________________________________________ monoChrome, Inc. ASCII, MIME, PGP, SUN, & NeXTmail OK NeXT/OPENSTEP Developer mailto:jkheit@cnj.digex.net Telepathy, It's coming... http://www.cnj.digex.net/~jkheit New York Law School You're dangerous because you're honest
From: Mitch Chapman <mchapman@dnaco.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Nextstation color Soundbox, mouse, monitor cable Date: Thu, 03 Apr 1997 07:08:31 -0500 Organization: The Dayton Network Access Company (DNACo) Message-ID: <33439DBF.50339329@dnaco.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I picked up a gov't surplus Nextstation color. No monitor cable (looks like it would be the same sort of cable as a Sparc 5 uses -- is this true?). No mouse. Keyboard is the non-ADB style (L-shaped return key). No soundbox. Does anyone know where I can find the missing parts? Even if you don't know, can you help this NeXT ignoramus with a description of the soundbox? Thanks for any info. -- Mitch Chapman mchapman@dnaco.net
From: jq@papoose.quick.com (James E. Quick) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Problems with Quantum Fireball 1.2G Date: 3 Apr 1997 07:01:07 -0500 Organization: Quick and Associates Message-ID: <5i0663$89l@papoose.quick.com> References: <5hv7l8$a9e$1@wagner.spc.videotron.ca> In article <5hv7l8$a9e$1@wagner.spc.videotron.ca>, Raymond Lutz <email@end.of.post> wrote: >I'm embarrassed: I can't even install OS4.1 on one of the most popular >drive on csn*, a Quantum Fireball 1.2G... 8^( (munch) >Should I set a jumper to disable synchronous mode? You did not mention platform but I am assuming black. Black hardware only handles asynchronous SCSI, so yes disable synchronous mode. -- ___ ___ | James E. Quick jq@quick.com / / / | Quick & Associates NeXTMail O.K. \_/ (_\/ | Apple, we know the song's not written yet, ) | but could you at least hum a few more bars?
Date: Wed, 02 Apr 1997 11:55:56 -0500 From: "Robb Aley Allan" <rallan@helical.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.marketplace,comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: FS: Next laserprinter Message-ID: <rallan-0204971155560001@slip166-72-219-91.ny.us.ibm.net> Organization: Helical Design Selling original NeXT laserprinter, very lightly used (first cartridge), in original box. Best offer. You pay shipping. Call Robb Aley Allan at 212.605.0555 or rallan@helical.com (will not get email during week of 3.17-3.24).
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco Return-Path: <mross> Message-ID: <199704030733.CAA05062@kira.peak.org> Content-Type: text/plain Mime-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 3.3 v118.2) In-Reply-To: <199704020725.BAA00413@spin.com.mx> From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@peak.org> Date: Thu, 3 Apr 97 02:33:26 -0500 Subject: SOLVED (Re: help with upgrading modem using 'sx' xmodem commands) Cc: comp-sys-next-hardware@antigone.com, jim@dep.philo.mcgill.ca, kris@xmission.com References: <859882941.8248@dejanews.com> <199704011554.KAA10655@kira.peak.org> <199704020725.BAA00413@spin.com.mx> Organization: Princeton Theological Seminary A million thanks to Rene Berber <rberber@spin.com.mx> for pointing me in the direction of Modulator and supplying me with the 'rz' and 'sz' commands which I needed (the versions I had didn't work. Although I am not seeing faster connect speeds (this was to make my 28.8 a 33.6, but we have poor line quality here it seems), my modem now has all the current fixes and the newest ROM settings. It also rotates a lot faster between the things which is reports (including connect speed, DC, LP, etc). THANK YOU RENE'! TjL -- TjL <luomat@peak.org> http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/ "Give a man a piece of working code and you solve his problem. Teach a man to write code and you give him a lifetime of new problems" -- me
From: decoy_id@stop_junk_on_the.net (Lee Altenberg) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: 2 GB limit before or after formatting? Date: 3 Apr 1997 03:51:54 GMT Organization: MHPCC Message-ID: <5hv9gq$38c$1@kaopala.mhpcc.edu> I just got a 2.15 GB IBM UltraStar 2ES drive to run under NEXTSTEP 3.3. I know that 3.3 has a 2 GB limit per partition. Is that a limit on the space before or after formatting? I know that the disk will come out under 2GB after formatting. So if the limit applies to space after formatting, I won't have any problem or waste. But if the limit applies on space before formatting, I will want to split off 150 MB into another partition (I'll use it for my primary swapfile). Any answers greatly appreciated. -- ======================================================================= Lee Altenberg, Ph.D. Research Affiliate, University of Hawai`i at Manoa Office: Maui High Performance Computing Center 550 Lipoa Parkway, Suite 100 Kihei, Maui HI 96753 Phone: (808) 879-5077 x 296 (work), (808) 879-5018 (fax) E-mail: altenberATmhpcc.edu <MIME and NeXT Mail o.k.> <Substitute @ for "AT"; done to stop junk e-mail> Web: http://pueo.mhpcc.edu/~altenber/ =======================================================================
From: mikec@tsnext.farallon.com (Mike Carter) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Monitors and exrtra motherboards Date: 3 Apr 1997 17:45:07 GMT Organization: Farallon Computing Inc. Message-ID: <5i0qb3$ien$1@io.farallon.com> Keywords: next cube monitor CPU Hello all... Two questions for whoever knows the answers! :) 1). Any way to get color on black hardware cube? Is there anything I can put in the three additional slots that would then magically allow me to forego 4 shades of gray? This would be soooo nice. :) 2). I have two motherboards: a 68040 which runs the OS and the 68030 that it replaced. I've seen mentioned here the ability to use multiple CPUs with the NeXT architecture. Any way to incorporate the old motherboard into the existing setup, or are multiple-CPU applications handled through the use of special hardware? Oh...a third Q has just come to mind. :) 3). Are any of todays MO drives compatible with the one that originally shipped in the Cube? Mine is dead (well, I haven't even attempted to clean it yet...not until I can get my hands on some detailed instructions at least) and I'd like to be able to use my MO disks by purchasing another MO. If you can help, thank you. Mike Carter Farallon Comm. <mcarter@farallon.com>
From: Paul_Lynch@plsys.co.uk (Paul Lynch) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Monitors and exrtra motherboards Date: Thu, 3 Apr 1997 18:34:06 GMT Organization: P & L Systems Sender: news@seer.demon.co.uk Message-ID: <1997Apr3.183406.955@seer.demon.co.uk> References: <5i0qb3$ien$1@io.farallon.com> In <5i0qb3$ien$1@io.farallon.com> Mike Carter wrote: > 1). Any way to get color on black hardware cube? Is there anything I can > put in the three additional slots that would then magically allow me to > forego 4 shades of gray? This would be soooo nice. :) Yes. Buy a NextDimension board. You can have three in there; you need a cable and monitor for each one; the monitor can be a standard PC MultiSync. > 2). I have two motherboards: a 68040 which runs the OS and the 68030 that > it replaced. I've seen mentioned here the ability to use multiple CPUs > with the NeXT architecture. Any way to incorporate the old motherboard > into the existing setup, or are multiple-CPU applications handled through > the use of special hardware? Yes; there are some hardware hacks required, and you need the NBIC chip. There's an FAQ somewhere :-). > 3). Are any of todays MO drives compatible with the one that originally > shipped in the Cube? Mine is dead (well, I haven't even attempted to clean > it yet...not until I can get my hands on some detailed instructions at > least) and I'd like to be able to use my MO disks by purchasing another > MO. No. But cleaning the MO drive is very likely to resurrect it. Paul -- Paul Lynch (NeXTmail) http://www.plsys.co.uk/~paul
From: spammers@ruin.the.internet Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Cube power problems Date: 3 Apr 1997 19:25:26 GMT Organization: Michigan State University Sender: -Auth- @ascended.channelu.com Message-ID: <5i1076$r62$5@msunews.cl.msu.edu> References: <5hvjl9$fc$2@red-dwarf.ucdavis.edu> Cc: cml@red-dwarf.ucdavis.edu In <5hvjl9$fc$2@red-dwarf.ucdavis.edu> Chris Lambertus wrote: > Hey folks, > > I've got an 040/25 cube which tends to get very cranky when > powered down. Once I power the box down, I usually have to > pull the rear panel off and reseat the logic board a few times > before it'll come back on. Has anyone ever run into this > before? > Could be that the battery on the motherboard is getting old. Why reseating the board etc.would make any difference is beyond me. Randy rencsok at channelu dot com OR at argus dot cem dot msu dot edu -- Randy Rencsok General UNIX, NeXTStep, IRIX Admining, Turbo Software Consulting, Programming, etc.) Note: My reply to header is invalid because parsing spammers are abusing any use of dead@eatthis.spammers.channelu.com type labels in public posts. First it was the easy Reply-To: fields we all know & love. Now it's text itself. I'd love to see a parser that can discern the intended meaning of the word at and the name rencsok (etc) and equate it to channelu dot com to reconstruct my address.. :} But then a parser still has a lot of header fields to play with :(
From: dfs@cs.umd.edu (Daniel F. Savarese) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Black: Mono monitor cable, DB19? Date: 3 Apr 1997 16:47:32 -0500 Organization: U of Maryland, Dept. of Computer Science, Coll. Pk., MD 20742 Message-ID: <5i18hk$mne@googoo.cs.umd.edu> I have a 25MHz NeXTstation with an N4000A MegaPixel monitor but no monitor cable. I know there are a couple of places from which I can order an original NeXT cable, but the prices are kind of ludicrous given the meager sum i paid for the machine itself. (I got the monitor for $10.00 and the slab for $10.00 with only a floppy and no RAM or HD) I got the slab for so cheap because the vendor thought the power supply was bad, but after some fiddling I verified I could get it to work (using borrowed parts from my other NeXTstation). In any case, I am wondering what exact kind of cable would be suitable to use for the monitor. Is any DB19 (male at both ends) cable adequate? If I can't find a DB19 cable (they seem rather rare), can I use an RS-232 DB25 and cut off some pins? If so, where can I find a schematic to do this? I thought this question was a FAQ I had run across at one point, but after scouring the Net I couldn't find an answer. thanks for your help, daniel
From: jcarr37863@aol.com (JCarr37863) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Problems with Quantum Fireball 1.2G Date: 3 Apr 1997 23:19:42 GMT Organization: AOL http://www.aol.com Message-ID: <19970403231900.SAA23755@ladder01.news.aol.com> References: <5hv7l8$a9e$1@wagner.spc.videotron.ca> go to www.quantum.com and make sure you have the right geometry. UPS SUN SCSI Built to order with support GSA schedule Maryland home page http://www.digitalcity.com/powerstar 800-209-5556
From: jcarr37863@aol.com (JCarr37863) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: WTD PCE SCSI card for NS 3.3 intel Date: 3 Apr 1997 23:22:48 GMT Organization: AOL http://www.aol.com Message-ID: <19970403232200.SAA23970@ladder01.news.aol.com> References: <5henng$lpq$2@macaw.cyberport.com> www.qlogic.com, or go to corel, the qlogics we have use corelscsi. UPS SUN SCSI Built to order with support GSA schedule Maryland home page http://www.digitalcity.com/powerstar 800-209-5556
From: klingler@news.rt66.com (Dave Klingler) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: DSP SRAM simm info: anyone have some? Date: 3 Apr 1997 17:36:06 -0700 Organization: Engineering International, Inc. Distribution: world Message-ID: <5i1idm$j3m$1@mack.rt66.com> Hi folks. I have a Turbo Colorstation that came minus its DSP memory. I checked the faq, but there isn't anything there about it. Does anyone know anything about it? A friend of mine suggested that a standard Intel COAST module was 72 pins and might possibly have the same pinouts as the DSP simm. I don't have one myself, and haven't had the opportunity to check. If someone has the DSP simm pinouts, I could check and at least figure out whether it's possible to adapt one. The other possibility might be to take an old 1 meg 72-pin simm and change the ram on board to SRAM and jumper everything that's different (which might mean everything). I don't mind doing this either, but again, the showstopper is my lack of pinout info. Thanks for any information anyone might be able to provide! If I come up with a satisfactory solution, I'll be glad to put it in the faq. Dave Klingler klingler@rt66.com
From: timu@mcs.net Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: NeXT Printer pinouts? Date: 4 Apr 1997 02:54:45 GMT Organization: MCSNet Services Message-ID: <5i1qhl$8t9$1@Nntp1.mcs.net> I just got a NeXT laser printer... minus the cable. Does anyone know the pinouts for the cable? Is it just a straight thru 9 pin, or are there some crossed wires in there. Thanks, Tim Urquhart timu@mcs.net
From: park@ISL.Stanford.EDU (Sang Ju Park) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: [Q] Black Printer for PC ? Date: 4 Apr 1997 02:38:36 GMT Organization: Information Systems Lab, Stanford University Message-ID: <5i1pjc$3es$1@nntp.Stanford.EDU> Hello. Is it possible to use original 400dpi NeXT black printer on IBM PC running Windows95/Linux ? Currently, black Cube running samba is being used as the printer server for Win95, but I want to directly connect the printer to PC. Any help would be appreciated. --- Sang Ju Park
From: paulus@nextdown.pe.utexas.edu (Paulus Adisoemarta) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: NeXT Printer pinouts? Date: 4 Apr 1997 04:40:34 GMT Organization: Petroleum Engineering Dept, U of Texas, Austin Message-ID: <5i20o2$7ri$1@socony.pe.utexas.edu> References: <5i1qhl$8t9$1@nntp1.mcs.net> In article <5i1qhl$8t9$1@nntp1.mcs.net>, <timu@mcs.net> wrote: >I just got a NeXT laser printer... minus the cable. >Does anyone know the pinouts for the cable? >Is it just a straight thru 9 pin, or are there some crossed wires in there. It is a DB9M to DB9M straight thru pin-to-pin connection. As a matter of fact, one of my NeXT printer use the cable that goes with a VGA-Keyboard-Mouse switch box. I use the 9-pin cable (male-male). This cable is shorter than the original black cable, but it works fine (other than the color is white ;) Paulus -- Paulus Suryono Adisoemarta, N5SNN / YG1QN yono@parokinet.org paulus@nextdown.pe.utexas.edu
From: Scott Mewett <mewett@cisco.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: how to open a soundbox? Date: Thu, 03 Apr 1997 19:02:59 -0800 Organization: Cisco Systems, Inc. Message-ID: <33446F63.314C@cisco.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hello All. I would like to repaint the front cover on my sound box. Does anyone know how to open the sound box without wrecking it. Any Suggestions. Thanks Scott
From: Dirk Ertner <vincent@brumfundel.b.eunet.de> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: SoundBlaster AWE 64 or AWE 32 and NSFIP (PLEASE READ) Date: Thu, 03 Apr 1997 00:18:14 +0200 Organization: Customer of EUnet Germany; Info: info@Germany.EU.net Message-ID: <3342DB26.2521@brumfundel.b.eunet.de> References: <3338EEF4.2DA4@erols.com> <01bc3b95$62e25fe0$42ca92cf@default> <5hqh7g$r8k$1@brachio.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit To: Dirk Schwarzhans <dirk@kalium.physik.TU-Berlin.DE> > On my Intel system the SB AWE 32 PnP works without problems now! > You need the newest EISA-Driver (because of PnP-Support) and the > newest SB-16-Driver available from NeXTanswers. Naja, ich dachte so geht's auch ... EISABus 3.31, SB16 3.34 ... leider gefehlt; muß man noch irgendwas eintragen? Oder vielleicht doch EISA 3.35 beta installieren? Um sicherzustellen, ob das funktioniert überprüfe ich immer die Preferences (Systemklänge); Hast Du eine bessere Idee? Ciao und Danke Vince (Antwort bitte per mail, da ich nicht so oft in die NewsGroup schau')
From: mitchell.allen@worldnet.att.net Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Nextstation color Soundbox, mouse, monitor cable Date: Thu, 03 Apr 1997 09:11:00 -0500 Organization: AT&T WorldNet Services Message-ID: <mitchell.allen-0304970911000001@170.detroit-003.mi.dial-access.att.net> References: <33439DBF.50339329@dnaco.net> > > Does anyone know where I can find the missing parts? Try one of the following: www.orb.com www.deepspacetech.com Rob Blessin at bhi1@ix.netcom.com James Mooseman at mooseman@interpath.com (I think. Help me out guys.) > > Even if you don't know, can you help this NeXT ignoramus > with a description of the soundbox? Basically, it's a black metal wedge about 8 inches on a side and contains a speaker and microphone and you plug the keyboard into it. Mitch
From: "Jeffrey S. Dutky" <dutky@wam.umd.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Black: Mono monitor cable, DB19? Date: Fri, 04 Apr 1997 02:33:51 -0500 Organization: University of Maryland Student Body Message-ID: <3344AECC.6B95@wam.umd.edu> References: <5i18hk$mne@googoo.cs.umd.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Daniel F. Savarese wrote: > > I have a 25MHz NeXTstation with an N4000A MegaPixel monitor but > no monitor cable. I know there are a couple of places from which > I can order an original NeXT cable, but the prices are kind of > ludicrous given the meager sum i paid for the machine itself. > <snip> > In any case, I am wondering what exact kind of cable would be > suitable to use for the monitor. Is any DB19 (male at both ends) > cable adequate? If I can't find a DB19 cable (they seem rather > rare), can I use an RS-232 DB25 and cut off some pins? If so, > where can I find a schematic to do this? > I wouldn't try using an unshielded cable for this since it would create a LOT of RF radiation (your neighbors wouldn't be too fond of you for screwing up their TV reception) and the video signal would be seriously degraded as a result (expect a lot of bluring of the picture). The effects might not be TOO bad if the cable were REALLY short, but still. You could try making the cable yourself but I'd bet it would cost about as much as the real thing ($20 from Deepspace Tech <http://www.deepspacetech.com>) especially once you counted in your own time and effort. Of course, I notice that you are from UMD, you could just go by Terrapin Traders and buy one of the spare monitors they have there, I think they might come with the cable. (Terrapin Traders is in the central receiving building across Rt. 1 from North gate. Out behind the Greenhouses and the motorpool, across from the fire-science tower. They're open Tue-Fri from 10:00 am till 3:00 pm. They have LOTS of great deals on all sorts of stuff that has been surplussed by the University) - Jeff Dutky
From: Arthur Ogawa <Ogawa@teleport.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Specs/pinout for N4006 Date: Fri, 04 Apr 1997 02:00:46 -0800 Organization: TeX Consultants Sender: -yp- @ppp4048.stk.inreach.net Message-ID: <3344D13F.7941@teleport.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I have a N4006 monitor on my color turbo NeXTStation that I would like to hook up to a Macintosh or Wintel box occasionally. So I need the pinout of the connector (it has three coax sockets along with a number of other pins in a D-shell connector) and if possible a source for the mating connector. And I'd like to know the specifications of this monitor (by all appearances a Sony Trinitron 17-inch). Any help would be appreciated. -- Arthur Ogawa/TeX Consultants voice: +1 209 561-4585 Fax: +1 209 561-4584 emailto://ogawa@teleport.com http://www.teleport.com/~ogawa ftp://ftp.teleport.com/users/ogawa PGP key: finger -l ogawa@teleport.com
From: Jesus Izquierdo <krop@mad.servicom.es> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: 100Mbps Network Date: Tue, 01 Apr 1997 15:16:32 +0100 Organization: KROP Audiovisual Systems Message-ID: <334118C0.2C2C@mad.servicom.es> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Somebody has any experience in setting up a 100Mbps network with Next? We have installed one but it doesn't perform as expected, just similar to a 10Mbps network. I would appreciate help on that. Regards: Jesus M. Izquierdo KROP Audiovisual Systems Avenida de Galapagar, 15 Torrejon de Ardoz 28850 Madrid, SPAIN Tel: 34 1 6779774 Fax: 34 1 6778279 E-mail: 72332.3705@compuserve.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware From: robert@onevision.de (Robert Wunderer) Subject: Re: SoundBlaster AWE 64 or AWE 32 and NSFIP (PLEASE READ) Message-ID: <E7yuFI.3LE@onevision.de> Sender: news@onevision.de Organization: OneVision Vertriebs-GmbH, Regensburg, Germany References: <01bc3b95$62e25fe0$42ca92cf@default> Date: Tue, 1 Apr 1997 15:45:18 GMT In article <01bc3b95$62e25fe0$42ca92cf@default> "Christian Jensen" <chrsjensen@worldnet.att.net> writes: > I tried the NS SB16 driver, both versions, on my Intel system, which has a > SB AWE 32 PnP card. Neither driver worked for me. > > I, too, would be interested in tips to make this card work with NS FIP 3.3. > > > Does anyone know if either the Creative Labs SoundBlaster AWE 32 or > > the SoundBlaster AWE 64 will work under NSFIP?? Has anyone done > > this?? Hi there, this is what I did to make my SB32PnP card work: First of all, you'll need the latest EISABus (v3.35) and SoundBlaster16 (v3.33 / 3.34) drivers. I am not sure where to get them, perhaps from the Peanuts Archive or via NextAnswers. The EISABus as well as the SoundBlaster16 driver now support the needed PnP features. Install both drivers via Configure (use the SoundBlaster16PnP driver) and reboot your machine. If all's well already, you needn't do the following: Then open /usr/Devices/EISABus.config, execute PnPDump and look for the line that shows you the Id. This Id is used to detect the card. Replace the Auto Detect ID-value in /usr/Devices/SoundBlaster16.config/Instance0.table. Reboot your machine and good luck. ========================================================================= Robert Wunderer OneVision Vertriebs-GmbH Support Zeissstrasse 9 Email:robert@onevision.de 93053 Regensburg (NextMail,MIME welcome) Germany =========================================================================
From: ibhan@student.med.harvard.edu (Ishir Bhan) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Will this CD-ROM drive work w/NeXTCube? Date: Fri, 04 Apr 1997 08:22:22 -0500 Organization: Harvard Medical School Message-ID: <ibhan-0404970822220001@infobhan.med.harvard.edu> I'm looking to get an external CD-ROM drive for use with a NeXT Cube. Someone has offered me a Sony external 4X SCSI CD-ROM, model PJ0036933. Does anyone know if this will work? -- Ishir Bhan Harvard Medical School '00 ibhan@student.med.harvard.edu http://www.digitas.harvard.edu/~ibhan
From: email@end.of.post (Raymond Lutz) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Problems with Quantum Fireball 1.2G Date: 3 Apr 1997 03:20:08 GMT Organization: SPC Message-ID: <5hv7l8$a9e$1@wagner.spc.videotron.ca> Hi there, I'm embarrassed: I can't even install OS4.1 on one of the most popular drive on csn*, a Quantum Fireball 1.2G... 8^( The Workspace correctly initialized it but BuildDisk quits while copying files; this can be found on the Console: sd2: Incomplete disk transfer; bytes moved = 0x0, resid = 0x800, retry 9 sd2: Incomplete disk transfer - FATAL sd2: Incomplete disk transfer; bytes moved = 0x0, resid = 0x800, retry 1 sd2: Incomplete disk transfer; bytes moved = 0x0, resid = 0x800, retry 2 sd2: Incomplete disk transfer; bytes moved = 0x0, resid = 0x800, retry 3 /private/tmp/BD441157: Device busy rotational delay between contiguous blocks changes from 0ms to 4ms BuildDisk[240]: Attempt to remove unrecognized exception handler. Should I set a jumper to disable synchronous mode? Merci! Ray -- Raymond Lutz - lutzray-at-9bit.qc.ca - www.9bit.qc.ca/~lutzray - "Les 400 plus fortunes individus de la planete possedent autant que 2.3 MILLIARDS des plus pauvres reunis"
From: willadams@aol.com (WillAdams) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: DOSFileSysPatch--any alternative for NS3.1? Date: 3 Apr 1997 04:19:21 GMT Organization: AOL http://www.aol.com Message-ID: <19970403041900.XAA29372@ladder01.news.aol.com> References: <SHESS.97Mar29001734@slave.one.net> Darn that expiration date on the free upgrade offer which came in my NS 3.1 box! (which I acquired long after the expiration date I should add). I'm slowly puzzling out how to get Christian Starkjohann's Rumba to work--so I've got a work-around (access the Zipdrive over a network) but would like another option. I've saved the MTOOLS message though, and if I ever pass one of my classes in C, will take a look at it. Thanks! William William Adams http://members.aol.com/willadams Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow.
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Monitors and exrtra motherboards Date: Thu, 3 Apr 1997 11:55:25 -0800 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970403115348.12515B-100000@kira> References: <5i0qb3$ien$1@io.farallon.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: Mike Carter <mikec@tsnext.farallon.com> In-Reply-To: <5i0qb3$ien$1@io.farallon.com> You can get the instructions on how to clean it at http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/mailserver/MagOpticalDrive.FAQ.gz I only pass along this info, not stand behind it and say it will work. I didn't write it and I've never done it and as many other disclaimers as you need. TjL -- TjL <luomat@peak.org> http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/ "Give a man a piece of working code and you solve his problem. Teach a man to write code and you give him a lifetime of new problems" -- me
From: m_mocker@amg.de. (Martin Mocker) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Faxing-Problem Date: 4 Apr 1997 08:54:45 GMT Organization: AMG Industrieconsulting GmbH Message-ID: <5i2fkl$41@hagen.amg.de> Hi there again, I got a problem with my modem used as a fax: I have got a 'Dr. Neuhaus Cybermod 28800' installed as a HSD FaxModem in the PrinterManager. When I want to send a fax, the modem dials the phone-number, I hear that the other fax is responding (you know these strange sounds...;-)), but it does not send anything, I think, because the LED's for sending or receiving to not flash, only the LED for connection and on-line is flashed out. What am I doing wrong ?? Thanks, Martin Mocker (mm@amg.de)
From: jcarr37863@aol.com (JCarr37863) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Which HDs work in 25MHz mono-slab Date: 3 Apr 1997 23:20:55 GMT Organization: AOL http://www.aol.com Message-ID: <19970403232000.SAA23837@ladder01.news.aol.com> References: <5hrug6$7iu@epervier.CC.UMontreal.CA> we have st 1480n for $80 each, used but quiet and working. 90 day warranty UPS SUN SCSI Built to order with support GSA schedule Maryland home page http://www.digitalcity.com/powerstar 800-209-5556
From: Paul_Lynch@plsys.co.uk (Paul Lynch) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Faxing-Problem Date: Fri, 4 Apr 1997 19:46:47 GMT Organization: P & L Systems Sender: news@seer.demon.co.uk Message-ID: <1997Apr4.194647.2259@seer.demon.co.uk> References: <5i2fkl$41@hagen.amg.de> In <5i2fkl$41@hagen.amg.de> Martin Mocker wrote: > I got a problem with my modem used as a fax: > > I have got a 'Dr. Neuhaus Cybermod 28800' installed as a HSD FaxModem in the > PrinterManager. That's the problem, right there. Your modem isn't an HSD facmodem, and is rather unlikely to follow the same, 1990 version of the class 2 protocol. Get NXFax (or use one of the free fax drivers) and hope that it works with your modem. Paul -- Paul Lynch (NeXTmail) http://www.plsys.co.uk/~paul
From: David Green <david@legion.apana.org.au> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Q: Recommendation for PCI Video card Date: 5 Apr 1997 02:51:17 GMT Organization: Australian Public Access Network Association Message-ID: <5i4en5$eeb$1@hock.apana.org.au> Organisation: Sargood Manor People, I have bitten the bullet today and purchased a replacement motherboard for my aging Intel 486/66. I have a Gigabyte Triton II HX PCI motherboard with a whole bunch of modern bells and whistles. My question is: What is the best comprimise between power and price in the PCI video card market? Ideally, I'd probably go for a Matrox Millenium 4Mb, but at around A$500 I'd like something more affordable right now. Please let me know what your experiences have been. Regards. -- David Green | Tel: +61 3 9827-6283 | david@legion.apana.org.au Melbourne, Australia| Fax: +61 3 9827-5876 | (NeXTMail & MIME accepted) PGP key from: pgp-public-keys@sw.oz.au ----------------------------------------------------------------------- What opinions?
From: "Athanasios Sideris" <sideris@euclid.eng.uci.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Problems with 17" NeXT Megapixel Color monitor Date: 5 Apr 1997 02:51:21 GMT Organization: University of California Message-ID: <01bc416c$3b390fc0$12c5d783@psaltis-ppp.caltech.edu> I have had the following problem with my NeXT monitor (17" MegaPixel Color) since I bought it new in 1991: sometimes it would not turn on unless I pushed the switch several times; some other times the picture would disappear all of a sudden. A couple of days ago this problem became so bad that I can turn on the monitor anymore. At first I suspected that the problem is with the switch but after I tested it, the switch seems to be fine. (There are two pairs of wires coming to the switch, a blue pair on one side and a brown pair on the other... when the switch is in the on position the blue wires connect together as well as the brown ones---I am assuming that this is the correct function of the switch). I would appreciate if someone that has more insight into this can give me any pointers as to what to do. Can you suggest where I can have my monitor fixed? A repair facility in the Los Angeles area would be much preferred. Can I still find parts for it? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Please respond by email to: sideris@euclid.eng.uci.edu Many thanks in advance. Thanasis Sideris UCI
From: alcmaeon@one.net Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Adding New Drive Date: 5 Apr 1997 03:02:30 GMT Organization: OneNet Communications HUB News Server Message-ID: <5i4fc6$ssg@news.one.net> I'm having a problem here. I added a new Quantum Fireball 1.2 to my Cube, did a build disk, no problem loads up just fine as a secondary drive. I would now like to make it the primary boot drive. i ahve done everything I can figure and cannot get it to boot. The machine will always default to the old drive. I have changed the ROM Monitor settings so that the machine will boot from the second device, which is the new drive and not the first device (the old drive). All to no avail. Does this have something to do with the NetInfo DB? Any suggestions would be appreciated. Mitch
From: gcasamen@erols.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Matrox Millenium (BLACK SCREEN ON BOOT) Date: 5 Apr 1997 04:47:50 GMT Organization: Erol's Internet Services Distribution: world Message-ID: <5i4lhm$bhl@boursy.news.erols.com> Keywords: Matrox NeXTSTEP blank The above address is not correct, please send replies to gcasamen@erols.com.... thanks. Hi, I am having the following problem. I own a Matrox Millenium video card. Recently upon booting up the machine I have been experiencingoccasions when the login screen will not come up and the monitor remainsdark. One of the lights on the front of the monitor flashes as ifit is not recieving a signal. I have no idea what might be causing this. I (unfortunately) also have Windows 95 on my machine and I have never had any problems with the display coming up with it. The "Boot Graphics" option is set to "Yes" currently. I am going to try setting it to "No" to see if that makes a difference. What confuses me the most is that this is only an occasional problem. My System is configured as follows: P200 w/ 512kb cache and 32MB RAM Matrox Millenium w/ 4MB WRAM SoundBlaster 16 (non-PnP) 33.6 KBps US Robotics Modem 1.6GB EIDE Hard Disk Drive 8x Mitsumi ATAPI compliant CD-ROM CTX 17" Monitor .25 dot pitch (max res 1600x1200) usually runs at 1280x1024 w/65536 colors. Thanks in advance for any advice or help regarding this problem. Greg C. Please e-mail me back at gcasamen@erols.com, or post to this newsgroup.
From: gcasamen@erols.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Matrox Millenium (BLACK SCREEN) Date: 5 Apr 1997 04:50:02 GMT Organization: Erol's Internet Services Distribution: world Message-ID: <5i4llq$cid@boursy.news.erols.com> Keywords: Matrox NeXTSTEP blank The above address is not correct, please send replies to gcasamen@erols.com.... thanks. Hi, I am having the following problem. I own a Matrox Millenium video card. Recently upon booting up the machine I have been experiencingoccasions when the login screen will not come up and the monitor remainsdark. One of the lights on the front of the monitor flashes as ifit is not recieving a signal. I have no idea what might be causing this. I (unfortunately) also have Windows 95 on my machine and I have never had any problems with the display coming up with it. The "Boot Graphics" option is set to "Yes" currently. I am going to try setting it to "No" to see if that makes a difference. What confuses me the most is that this is only an occasional problem. My System is configured as follows: P200 w/ 512kb cache and 32MB RAM Matrox Millenium w/ 4MB WRAM SoundBlaster 16 (non-PnP) 33.6 KBps US Robotics Modem 1.6GB EIDE Hard Disk Drive 8x Mitsumi ATAPI compliant CD-ROM CTX 17" Monitor .25 dot pitch (max res 1600x1200) usually runs at 1280x1024 w/65536 colors. Thanks in advance for any advice or help regarding this problem. Greg C. Please e-mail me back at gcasamen@erols.com, or post to this newsgroup.
From: gcasamen@erols.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Matrox Millenium (BLACK SCREEN ON BOOT) Date: 5 Apr 1997 04:47:08 GMT Organization: Erol's Internet Services Distribution: world Message-ID: <5i4lgc$b8m@boursy.news.erols.com> Keywords: Matrox NeXTSTEP blank Reply-To: gcasamen@erols.com Hi, I am having the following problem. I own a Matrox Millenium video card. Recently upon booting up the machine I have been experiencingoccasions when the login screen will not come up and the monitor remainsdark. One of the lights on the front of the monitor flashes as ifit is not recieving a signal. I have no idea what might be causing this. I (unfortunately) also have Windows 95 on my machine and I have never had any problems with the display coming up with it. The "Boot Graphics" option is set to "Yes" currently. I am going to try setting it to "No" to see if that makes a difference. What confuses me the most is that this is only an occasional problem. My System is configured as follows: P200 w/ 512kb cache and 32MB RAM Matrox Millenium w/ 4MB WRAM SoundBlaster 16 (non-PnP) 33.6 KBps US Robotics Modem 1.6GB EIDE Hard Disk Drive 8x Mitsumi ATAPI compliant CD-ROM CTX 17" Monitor .25 dot pitch (max res 1600x1200) usually runs at 1280x1024 w/65536 colors. Thanks in advance for any advice or help regarding this problem. Greg C. Please e-mail me back at gcasamen@erols.com, or post to this newsgroup.
From: gcasamen@erols.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Sorry about multiple postings... Date: 5 Apr 1997 06:17:06 GMT Organization: Erol's Internet Services Distribution: world Message-ID: <5i4qp2$hcm@boursy.news.erols.com> I apologize for my multiple postings to this and the sysadmin group. I was getting an error from newsgrazer saying "posting failed". I suppose it actually did work. Thanks for your patience. Greg C.
From: Oliver König <oliverk@promo.de> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Black Hardware: Cube with ADB? Date: Fri, 04 Apr 1997 16:41:35 +0100 Organization: Pelikan & Partner, Hamburg, Germany Message-ID: <334520E8.56CD@promo.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Hi, I´m not so familiar with Black Hardware and didn´t find any detailed infos. I got an offer for a NeXTcube and from another side a 17" Mono Monitor with ADB also from NeXT. Does anyone know if the NeXTcube with 68040/25 has a ADB connect. Are there any differences in the ROM with supporting ADB and non ADB Machines. Second question is the speed of the machine, does anyone took advantage of some kind of speed acceleration? I have heard about a card called NITRO or like that. What is the latest software release which runs on that cube with a acceptable speed without having to much trouble with bugs of betasor alpha releases. Sorry for the poor information I have, it´s a long time ago that I saw such a machine. Regards Oliver
From: michael@rumah.pc.my (Michael Olan) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: keyboard gone berserk Date: 5 Apr 1997 06:31:55 GMT Organization: Personal Message-ID: <5i4rkr$5l3@rumah.pc.my> Yesterday, when I tried to log in to my slab, I had a very strange problem with 'c's. For example pressing the 'm' displayed 'mc'. Several keys had this problem, and pressing 'delete' also displayed 'c'. Then sometimes it would just start printing 'c's as if the key was stuck. It made it almost impossible to log in. I rebooted, & no change but I was able to log into a different account I have set up. Its been ok since then on all accounts. Occasionally I'll get a double strike, or key that needs to be whacked hard to print. Is my keyboard dying? Will spraying it with some electrical contact cleaner help? Awhile ago there was talk about giving the keyboard a bath. How about that? TIA. ------ Mike
From: jan@scapa.cs.ualberta.ca (Jan Sacharuk) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: ATI 3D-pro Turbo drivers? Date: 6 Apr 1997 17:22:01 GMT Organization: University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada Message-ID: <5i8m3p$10r6@pulp.ucs.ualberta.ca> Do drivers for NeXT/Openstep exist for this type of video card exist? I want to buy one, but I don't want to buy it before I know I can get a driver for it. I've looked at the ATI homepage, and through NeXTanswers, but turned up nothing. Usually, this means that it's not out there, but I'd like to know for sure. Thanks. Jan Sacharuk
From: "Dr Max" <ax@interpc.fr> Subject: Vds Cube dimension + deux 17" + imprim laser Message-ID: <01bc42af$d58c8f40$15fb33c2@dr-max> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Date: Sun, 06 Apr 1997 19:29:20 +0200 ma que bella machina! ax@interpc.fr
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.marketplace,comp.sys.next.hardware From: tachang@gsbux1.uchicago.edu (Andrew Chang) Subject: Anyone dealt with Tito A. Lugtu before? Message-ID: <E88uEK.JsL@midway.uchicago.edu> Sender: news@midway.uchicago.edu (News Administrator) Organization: GSB, University of Chicago Date: Mon, 7 Apr 1997 01:20:44 GMT Hi, I have some unfinished business with Tito A. Lugtu, an engineering PhD who lives in Daly City, California. I have sent several e-mails to his e-mail address "talugtu@slip.net", but he refused to respond. I just wonder if anyone in this newsgroup has dealt with him before, or has any information about him? The last time I could remember, he was trying to sell a NeXT system with a NeXT printer. Thanks for any help you can provide.
From: purdy@mugu.navy.mil (purdy) Newsgroups: comp.sys.newton.misc,comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: IrDA Date: 4 Apr 1997 19:16:32 GMT Organization: Your Organization Message-ID: <5i3k2g$q3p@lana.zippo.com> References: <5hv9q4$61s@news2.cais.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 check out actisys - they have several types of receiver/transmitters. However, good luck using it with your Newton. David In article <5hv9q4$61s@news2.cais.com>, Robert_La_Ferla@hot.com says... > >I'd like to add an IrDA infrared receiver (or is that transceiver) to >my Intel Venus Pentium Pro system. Can someone recommend one? What >should I look for? Does it work under OPENSTEP? My understanding is >that it's just a serial port with an IR interface, n'est-ce pas? > >Thanks, >Robert > >-- >Robert La Ferla >Registered OPENSTEP/Rhapsody Consultant >HTI >Boston, MA - Washington, DC >+ 1 (617) 252-0088 >
From: ** Craig Cook ** <cookca@cs.purdue.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: What kind of RAM for my slab? Date: Sun, 6 Apr 1997 22:21:29 -0500 Organization: Department of Computer Sciences, Purdue University Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.95.970406221757.26812A-100000@lore.cs.purdue.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Hi I just bought a color slab and when I turn it on I get no video. I think I might be trying the wrong kind of memory. It has 72pin slots and is a 25mHz board. 68040. What kind of ram do I need to use in it and where exactly do I put it (ie close to power supply or farthest from power supply)
From: Robert La Ferla <Robert_La_Ferla@hot.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.newton.misc,comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: IrDA Date: 7 Apr 1997 03:56:57 GMT Organization: HTI Message-ID: <5i9ra9$1uu@news2.cais.com> References: <5hv9q4$61s@news2.cais.com> <5i3k2g$q3p@lana.zippo.com> In-Reply-To: <5i3k2g$q3p@lana.zippo.com> Here are two IrDA devices that I've found. I ordered the ACTiSYS one. I will let everyone know if it works or not. Robert ACTiSYS Corp Tel: +1 510-490-8024, Fax:+1 510-623-7268 irda-sales@actisys.com or pda-acc-sales@actisys.com http://www.actisys.com ACT-IR2000L ¤ ACT-IR2000L: IrDA-1.0, IrDA-1.1 (1.15M - 4M bps), ASK-SIR (9.6K-19.2K bps) and TV remote control $59.99 ====================================================================== ====== Tekram Other models in the IRmate Series include the IRmate IR-410 and IR-420 Fast Infrared Adapters. These products support connection speeds of up to 4Mbps to meet the needs of today's newest IR-equipped notebook computers. The IR-410 comes with its own ISA card, whereas the IR-420 requires an Infrared Header Connector on the computer's mainboard. ƒ IR-420 Fast IR Adapter supports speeds up to 4Mbps and requires an IR Header Connector on the mainboard ƒ Effective range: 1 Meter http://www.tekram.com/ -- Robert La Ferla Registered OPENSTEP/Rhapsody Consultant HTI Boston, MA - Washington, DC + 1 (617) 252-0088
From: jkeenan@next.com (Joe Keenan) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: how to open a soundbox? Date: 5 Apr 1997 16:23:23 GMT Organization: NeXT Software, Inc. Message-ID: <5i5u9s$sui@news.next.com> References: <33446F63.314C@cisco.com> In article <33446F63.314C@cisco.com> Scott Mewett <mewett@cisco.com> writes: > Hello All. > > I would like to repaint the front cover on my sound box. Does anyone > know how to open the sound box without wrecking it. The screws holding the base on are under the stick-on rubber feet on the bottom. Peel back the feet and undo the screws. I think it takes the same hex wrench as the cube back, but it's been a long time since I did that and I'm not positive. joe
From: Garance A Drosehn <gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: New 120Mb floppy drives? Date: 3 Apr 1997 00:47:56 GMT Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy NY, USA Message-ID: <5huuns$rbu@usenet.rpi.edu> References: <5hu22m$pkq@news3.digex.net> John Kheit <jkheit@cnj.digex.net> wrote: > Has anyone gotten those new 120Mb floppy drives? They can read > and write old 3.5" 720k and 1.44Mb floppies, BUT can also read > and write to 120Mb on special floppies that go for about 20bux > each (it's supposed to be 5X the speed of a normal floppy). Personally I think it's too late for these floppy drives, unless it's noticably faster or more reliable than ZIP drives. My guess is that it will take awhile to find that out, and by then everyone will have ZIP drives anyway. If distributed software is handled via the internet or CD-ROM, and you have a ZIP drive, there may be little reason to have any floppy drive. --- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer (MIME & NeXTmail capable) Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Troy NY USA
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Next or Intel? References: <hponeill-2003972140450001@ts12-05.dublin.indigo.ie> <5gsqnp$boo@news1-alterdial.uu.net> <33322DCC.A93@mysolution.com> From: Darren Reely <dreely@cyberstore.ca> Message-ID: <3346b5ae.0@scipio.cyberstore.ca> Date: 5 Apr 97 20:27:26 GMT Tommy Hwang <me@mysolution.com> wrote: >to use higher speed modem connection(s)... The serial port on the NeXT >cube and stations can only handle up to 38,400bps... Even my laptop tops >that. If the turbo-station or cube systems have serial ports that can >handle X2 speed over voice ISDN channels (56K upload & 56K download in >"host mode" confirmed on my laptop), Please tell me immediately - so I >can buy one NOW. I've set my NextStation to 56K for PPP connections. Of course the modem to modem connection is only 28K. I don't have a X2 modem. To new and currently not supported by my ISP. Darren
From: seran@rayleigh.me.ttu.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: NeXT printer and WIN95 Date: 7 Apr 1997 16:16:47 GMT Organization: Texas Tech Academic Computing Services Message-ID: <5ib6lf$11q@ttacs7.ttu.edu> i have a NeXT Turbo station and another computer running win95 and i am planning to buy me a NeXT printer. is there any way to get win95 to print on the NeXT printer? any pointers would be appreciated. thanks in advance. hs.
From: werner@ip.cubenet.de (Dr. Werner Eberl) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: NeXT printer and WIN95 Date: 7 Apr 1997 18:49:37 GMT Organization: CUBENet Munich Message-ID: <5ibfk1$2dj$1@salyko.cube.net> References: <5ib6lf$11q@ttacs7.ttu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit seran@rayleigh.me.ttu.edu wrote: >i have a NeXT Turbo station and another computer running win95 and i am >planning to buy me a NeXT printer. is there any way to get win95 to print >on the NeXT printer? > >any pointers would be appreciated. > >thanks in advance. > >hs. I have the same hardware configuration with both color and laser printer connected to my NeXT. I installed samba on the NeXT and used the Kodak printer driver on W95. It works really great. I also can access my NeXT files from W95. Have fun with samba, Werner
From: stefan.boehringer@rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de (Stefan Boehringer) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: S3Virge black screen problem Date: 7 Apr 1997 19:36:29 GMT Organization: Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum, Rechenzentrum Message-ID: <5ibibt$nfp$1@sun579.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de> Hello all, using a DiamondStealth3D2000 under NS3.3 I experience the black screen when switching to vga mode syndrome. I tried the "Boot Graphics"=No and "Shutdown graphics"=No work around. However while shutting down is now working the boot process still sucks. Since the console which shows up with "Boot Graphics"=No is also in vga mode I wonder how this worked to others. Has anybody experienced this on S3Virge as well? Even better- is a workaround known? Thank you very much. Best wishes, Stefan
From: stefan.boehringer@rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de (Stefan Boehringer) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: NE2000 installation Date: 7 Apr 1997 19:36:11 GMT Organization: Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum, Rechenzentrum Message-ID: <5ibibb$nfn$1@sun579.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de> Hello all, first of all I know that better cards are available to use with NextStep - I have to get this work though. I'm at the point that the NEx000 driver installed and recognized the card. While starting up I see the message: NE2000 timeout occured, pushing next packet this repeats 3 times in the course of starting up. After that I login root and ping the local IP which works without problems. With SNS I set up the machine as NI-master. However a MonoStation set up to receive it's information from the server can't see it on the network. Also pinging doesn't work in either direction. Thank you very much for any hints. Best wishes, Stefan
From: cdodson@cac.stratus.com***(Craig Dodson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Spurious DMA interrupts... help Date: 7 Apr 1997 19:32:29 GMT Organization: Stratus Computer Inc, Marlboro MA Message-ID: <5ibi4d$i6d@transfer.stratus.com> References: <5i1862$13po@pulp.ucs.ualberta.ca> In article <5i1862$13po@pulp.ucs.ualberta.ca> Doug.Booth@UAlberta.ca (Doug Booth) writes: > I have an old pizza box NeXT which has recently started to hang itself. > The machine has 32 MB of RAM and is running 3.3 > Looking in the system messages the following appear.... > > machine-name mach: spurious DMA interrupt: channel 0x2000110 > machine-name mach: spurious DMA interrupt: state 0x1000000 channel 0x2000110 > > occasionally this one also shows up: > machine-name mach: en0: transmitter not ready > > I had an another machine and swapped the hard-disk and memory to it thinking > the problem may be on the motherboard. The same errors appeared. > > Could this be a memory chip problem or is it a corrupted system or ....???? > Any ideas would be welcome. These errors (if memory serves) were usually the NeXT's way of telling you all is not well on the network. Now whether these indicate excess traffic, broadcasts, physical errors, etc, I can't say for sure. Better get out the sniffer and see what's going on with your enet. Craig Dodson (Stratus Computer) cdodson@cac.stratus.com
From: rencsok@channelu.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Adding New Drive Date: 7 Apr 1997 21:31:28 GMT Organization: Michigan State University Sender: -Auth- @ascended.channelu.com Message-ID: <5ibp3g$env$4@msunews.cl.msu.edu> References: <5i4fc6$ssg@news.one.net> Cc: alcmaeon@one.net In <5i4fc6$ssg@news.one.net> alcmaeon@one.net wrote: > I'm having a problem here. I added a new Quantum Fireball 1.2 to my Cube, did a build disk, no problem loads up just fine as a secondary drive. I would now like to make it the primary boot drive. i ahve done everything I can figure and cannot get it to boot. The machine will always default to the old drive. I have changed the ROM Monitor settings so that the machine will boot from the second device, which is the new drive and not the first device (the old drive). All to no avail. Does this have something to do with the NetInfo DB? > > Any suggestions would be appreciated. > > Mitch You need to set the SCSI ID number of the new boot drive (Quantum) to 0 or 1 and the old boot drive to something higher. I prefer to set the boot drive to ID 1 (especially if it's internal) and all other devices higher than 1 since if for any reason I need to boot off another drive I can just set the ID to 0 (I use a MO drive for this purpose) attach it to the bus and boot away. Black hardware (depending on how you have the PROM parameters set) will try to boot off the lowest SCSI ID. Randy rencsok@channelu.com
From: paulus@nextdown.pe.utexas.edu (Paulus Adisoemarta) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: NeXT printer and WIN95 Date: 7 Apr 1997 22:42:21 GMT Organization: Petroleum Engineering Dept, U of Texas, Austin Message-ID: <5ibt8d$lml$1@socony.pe.utexas.edu> References: <5ib6lf$11q@ttacs7.ttu.edu> In article <5ib6lf$11q@ttacs7.ttu.edu>, <seran@rayleigh.me.ttu.edu> wrote: >i have a NeXT Turbo station and another computer running win95 and i am >planning to buy me a NeXT printer. is there any way to get win95 to print >on the NeXT printer? > What I did: - install Samba on NeXT - browse on the Windows Explorer in W95, you'll see your NeXT hostname over there, - click on the NeXT laser printer, attach as a 'Apple LaserWriter NT' (I just happened to click on that particular model ;) - do a test print from W95, just to make sure ;) Paulus -- Paulus Suryono Adisoemarta, N5SNN / YG1QN yono@parokinet.org paulus@nextdown.pe.utexas.edu paulus@ttu.edu
From: Atindra Chaturvedi <usb00378@interramp.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Next or Intel? Date: Sat, 05 Apr 1997 20:03:22 +0000 Organization: PSI Public Usenet Link Message-ID: <3346B003.7E6A@interramp.com> References: <hponeill-2003972140450001@ts12-05.dublin.indigo.ie> <5gsqnp$boo@news1-alterdial.uu.net> <33322DCC.A93@mysolution.com> <3346b5ae.0@scipio.cyberstore.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Darren Reely wrote: > > Tommy Hwang <me@mysolution.com> wrote: > >to use higher speed modem connection(s)... The serial port on the NeXT > >cube and stations can only handle up to 38,400bps... Even my laptop tops > >that. If the turbo-station or cube systems have serial ports that can > >handle X2 speed over voice ISDN channels (56K upload & 56K download in > >"host mode" confirmed on my laptop), Please tell me immediately - so I > >can buy one NOW. > > I've set my NextStation to 56K for PPP connections. Of course the modem to > modem connection is only 28K. I don't have a X2 modem. To new and currently > not supported by my ISP. > > Darren One way around it is to use an ISDN router like an Ascend Pipeline 25 Px which hooks into ethernet (cost approx $400). This will let you use all the NeXT cpu for processing, with the Ascend dial on demand/ISDN which takes 2 seconds to connect, running PPP/Multilink PPP upto 128Kb onboard. Nice, clean and simple for major Internet access. The Ascend also comes with a crossover Ethernet cable, so you dont need a hub or anything else, and provides dynamic PPP adressing from your ISP. I use this setup with my Mac Performa 6300CD which has 56K limit on the serial port as well. Atindra.
From: Scott Mewett <mewett@cisco.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: NeXT printer and WIN95 Date: Mon, 07 Apr 1997 17:59:29 -0700 Organization: Cisco Systems, Inc. Message-ID: <33499871.A05@cisco.com> References: <5ib6lf$11q@ttacs7.ttu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit seran@rayleigh.me.ttu.edu wrote: > > i have a NeXT Turbo station and another computer running win95 and i am > planning to buy me a NeXT printer. is there any way to get win95 to print > on the NeXT printer? > > any pointers would be appreciated. > > thanks in advance. > > hs. I use samba. Works great but takes a little to get configured. You run it on your nextstation and it makes your next look like a windows server. You can share files and printers. Use that with the driver that adobe makes for the NeXT printer. Driver information available at: http://www.adobe.com/supportservice/custsupport/LIBRARY/326e.htm I think samba is somewhere on one of the ftp sites around. Scott
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware From: dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca (David Evans) Subject: Re: Black Hardware: Cube with ADB? Sender: news@novice.uwaterloo.ca (Mr. News) Message-ID: <E872yF.Fw1@novice.uwaterloo.ca> Date: Sun, 6 Apr 1997 02:30:15 GMT References: <334520E8.56CD@promo.de> Organization: University of Waterloo In article <334520E8.56CD@promo.de>, Oliver Kvnig <oliverk@promo.de> wrote: >Hi, > >I4m not so familiar with Black Hardware and didn4t find any detailed >infos. >I got an offer for a NeXTcube and from another side a 17" Mono Monitor >with ADB also from NeXT. >Does anyone know if the NeXTcube with 68040/25 has a ADB connect. Are >there any differences in the ROM with supporting ADB and non ADB >Machines. > Boards that do not use the Turbo chipset cannot handle ADB. >Second question is the speed of the machine, does anyone took advantage >of some kind of speed acceleration? I have heard about a card called >NITRO or like that. > The Nitro board only works in Turbo machines. There's something called the Pyro that works in (some) 25MHz machines, but I've never seen one. >What is the latest software release which runs on that cube with a >acceptable speed without having to much trouble with bugs of betasor >alpha releases. > I run 3.2 and am happy. Many run 3.3 and are happy. Some run 4.x and are happy. -- 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: sanguish@digifix.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.announce,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.programmer Subject: NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Resources on the Net Supersedes: <7486859698032@digifix.com> Date: 6 Apr 1997 05:00:24 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <28108860302827@digifix.com> Topics include: Stepwise NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Information WWW site eduSTEP WWW site NeXT Computer, Inc. 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From: font@MCS.COM (Font) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Matrox Millenium (BLACK SCREEN ON BOOT) Date: 7 Apr 1997 21:27:20 -0500 Organization: MCSNet Services Message-ID: <5icae8$of2$1@Venus.mcs.net> References: <5i4lhm$bhl@boursy.news.erols.com> <5i94n9$p1b@Masala.CC.UH.EDU> When I used a CTX 1785GMe monitor with a Matrox Millenium, I would occasionally experience the black screen phenomenon, which never occurred in W95. Since the CTX didn't support high refresh rates very well under NEXTSTEP I just replaced it with an Apple Multiple Scan 20 instead, which has never given me the black screen problem, and looks much better in general at 1280x1024. When I had the CTX attached, I could sometimes get the picture back by cold-booting the machine. I always boot with -v, so I can't verify Dr Rao's workaround, though it certainly would be a good tack to try. It may be that the CTX is marginal at certain refresh rates. I am not planning to buy another CTX monitor. Oddly enough, when I moved the CTX to a dedicated W95 machine, it came up at 118X x 8XX without being so shimmery or dim, though in every other 1024+ horizontal resolution it was shimmery or dim. rao@supermod.egr.uh.edu (Dr. Jagannatha Rao) writes: >I am having the exact same problems. In my case, the problem seems to go >away when I reboot without the -v option, i.e., with graphics on. However, >on many (but not all) occasions when I boot with -v option, everything >goes fine until I expect to see the login window but instead see all >black, with my Nanao monitor apparently in a state indicating that there >is no incoming video signal from the card. >What is going on? >In article <5i4lhm$bhl@boursy.news.erols.com> gcasamen@erols.com writes: >> Hi, I am having the following problem. I own a Matrox Millenium >> video card. Recently upon booting up the machine I have been >> experiencingoccasions when the login screen will not come up and the >> monitor remainsdark. One of the lights on the front of the monitor >> flashes as ifit is not recieving a signal. I have no idea what might be >> causing this. >> >> I (unfortunately) also have Windows 95 on my machine and I have never >> had any problems with the display coming up with it. The "Boot >> Graphics" option is set to "Yes" currently. I am going to try setting >> it to "No" to see if that makes a difference. What confuses me the most >> is that this is only an occasional problem. >> >> My System is configured as follows: >> >> P200 w/ 512kb cache and 32MB RAM >> Matrox Millenium w/ 4MB WRAM >> SoundBlaster 16 (non-PnP) >> 33.6 KBps US Robotics Modem >> 1.6GB EIDE Hard Disk Drive >> 8x Mitsumi ATAPI compliant CD-ROM >> CTX 17" Monitor .25 dot pitch (max res 1600x1200) >> usually runs at 1280x1024 w/65536 colors. -- font@mcs.net Wishes are like dishes.
From: anon@anon.com (anon) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Why does a 3.3 PCI Video Driver Work On 3.2? Date: Tue, 08 Apr 1997 07:24:20 GMT Organization: IPGKiller Message-ID: <3349f067.3234218@news.alt.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Although these groups haven't been a furious cauldron of activity lately, I thought I might as well ask anyway. I'm running 3.2 on a Pentium with PCI. Although everyone has always said 3.3 drivers will not work under 3.2 the generic S3 (3.3) certainly does. This begs the obvious question -- WHY? I've also messed around a bit with other drivers (serial port stuff) with incomplete success (ie. not complete failure). Comments, suggestions, etc. please.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware From: hhoff@schwaben.de.NOSPAM (Holger Hoffstaette) Subject: Re: Why does a 3.3 PCI Video Driver Work On 3.2? Sender: news@flop.schwaben.de Organization: NeXT Ghetto People feat. St.Eve Message-ID: <E8BI6E.1A3@flop.schwaben.de> References: <3349f067.3234218@news.alt.net> Date: Tue, 8 Apr 1997 11:49:26 GMT anon wrote: > Although these groups haven't been a furious cauldron of activity > lately, I thought I might as well ask anyway. I'm running 3.2 on a > Pentium with PCI. Although everyone has always said 3.3 drivers will > not work under 3.2 the generic S3 (3.3) certainly does. This begs the > obvious question -- WHY? The 3.2 DriverKit didn't support PCI interrupts - graphics drivers don't need PCI interrupts (they're 'dumb' devices under NS). > I've also messed around a bit with other drivers (serial port stuff) > with incomplete success (ie. not complete failure). Comments, > suggestions, etc. please. Even if you can get the driver to load, as soon as you hit something 3.3-specific, like the new interrupt handling, problems are likely to occur. Holger -- hhoff@schwaben.de.NOSPAM LOAD "MACH_KERNEL",8,1
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware From: borad@oca.com (Donald Bora) Subject: SCSI Zip drive woes Message-ID: <1997Apr8.135006.29310@il.us.swissbank.com> Followup-To: borad@il.us.swissbank.com Keywords: scsi zip drive Sender: root@il.us.swissbank.com (Operator) Organization: Swiss Bank Corporation Date: Tue, 8 Apr 1997 13:50:06 GMT Help! When I started this whole process I had plugged in the scsi zip drive in alone and it worked like a champ. I then tried to get it working with two internal harddrives a cdrom drive and a scsi scanner. The system refused to see the second internal hard drive or just got a scsi error. The scsi id's are all unique and the termination on everything is cool. Now, after much experimentation, I can no longer boot from my first internal hard drive and I can't even see/mount my second internal hd (all of the external scsi devices have been disconnected) and am getting the following error: BAD SUPER BLOCKS: MAGIC NUMBER WRONG USE -b OPTION TO FSCK TO SPECIFY LOCATION OF AN ALTERNATE..... which I have done but to no avail. Further more both sd0 and sd1 are responding with the first internal hard drive. Any clues out there???? -Don Bora
From: scott@leorg.ucdavis.edu (Ryan Scott) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: SCSI Zip drive woes Date: 8 Apr 1997 16:17:42 GMT Organization: University of California, Davis Message-ID: <5idr36$9al$1@mark.ucdavis.edu> References: <1997Apr8.135006.29310@il.us.swissbank.com> borad@oca.com (Donald Bora) wrote: >Help! > >When I started this whole process I had plugged in the scsi >zip drive in alone and it worked like a champ. > >I then tried to get it working with two internal harddrives >a cdrom drive and a scsi scanner. The system refused to see >the second internal hard drive or just got a scsi error. >The scsi id's are all unique and the termination on everything >is cool. > >Now, after much experimentation, I can no longer boot from my first >internal hard drive and I can't even see/mount my second internal hd >(all of the external scsi devices have been disconnected) and am getting >the following error: BAD SUPER BLOCKS: MAGIC NUMBER WRONG >USE -b OPTION TO FSCK TO SPECIFY LOCATION OF AN ALTERNATE..... >which I have done but to no avail. Further more both sd0 and sd1 >are responding with the first internal hard drive. I have seen this happen if SCSI connections/disconnections were made while devices were powered up (causing disk corruption). If you always turned off the devices (including computer) before changing termination settings or attaching devices, then I'm stumped. --Ryan
From: scott@leorg.ucdavis.edu (Ryan Scott) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Spurious DMA interrupts... help Date: 8 Apr 1997 16:20:29 GMT Organization: University of California, Davis Message-ID: <5idr8d$9al$2@mark.ucdavis.edu> References: <5i1862$13po@pulp.ucs.ualberta.ca> <5ibi4d$i6d@transfer.stratus.com> cdodson@cac.stratus.com***(Craig Dodson) wrote: >In article <5i1862$13po@pulp.ucs.ualberta.ca> Doug.Booth@UAlberta.ca (Doug >Booth) writes: >> I have an old pizza box NeXT which has recently started to hang itself. >> The machine has 32 MB of RAM and is running 3.3 >> Looking in the system messages the following appear.... >> >> machine-name mach: spurious DMA interrupt: channel 0x2000110 >> machine-name mach: spurious DMA interrupt: state 0x1000000 channel 0x2000110 >> >> occasionally this one also shows up: >> machine-name mach: en0: transmitter not ready >> >> I had an another machine and swapped the hard-disk and memory to it thinking >> the problem may be on the motherboard. The same errors appeared. >> >> Could this be a memory chip problem or is it a corrupted system or ....???? >> Any ideas would be welcome. > >These errors (if memory serves) were usually the NeXT's way of telling you all >is not well on the network. Now whether these indicate excess traffic, >broadcasts, physical errors, etc, I can't say for sure. Better get out the >sniffer and see what's going on with your enet. > >Craig Dodson (Stratus Computer) >cdodson@cac.stratus.com I've had this happen to me also. The quickest way to find out is to disconnect from the net. --RS
From: giammarc@provincia.ravenna.it (Mario Giammarco) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Cheapest ethernet card Date: 8 Apr 1997 17:56:30 GMT Organization: Cineca Message-ID: <5ie0se$mea@sirio.cineca.it> I am searching the cheapest Ethernet Card (possibly pci) that can be used on nextstep Thank You in advance for your reply, please mail them to giammarc@cs.unibo.it -- Mario Giammarco | Tel/FAX +39-545-22965 Via Calamandrei,5 | giammarc@cs.unibo.it 48022 Lugo (RA) -- ITALY | rac0043@racine.ravenna.it
From: rao@supermod.egr.uh.edu (Dr. Jagannatha Rao) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Matrox Millenium (BLACK SCREEN ON BOOT) Date: 6 Apr 1997 21:31:21 GMT Organization: University of Houston Distribution: world Message-ID: <5i94n9$p1b@Masala.CC.UH.EDU> References: <5i4lhm$bhl@boursy.news.erols.com> I am having the exact same problems. In my case, the problem seems to go away when I reboot without the -v option, i.e., with graphics on. However, on many (but not all) occasions when I boot with -v option, everything goes fine until I expect to see the login window but instead see all black, with my Nanao monitor apparently in a state indicating that there is no incoming video signal from the card. What is going on? In article <5i4lhm$bhl@boursy.news.erols.com> gcasamen@erols.com writes: > Hi, I am having the following problem. I own a Matrox Millenium > video card. Recently upon booting up the machine I have been > experiencingoccasions when the login screen will not come up and the > monitor remainsdark. One of the lights on the front of the monitor > flashes as ifit is not recieving a signal. I have no idea what might be > causing this. > > I (unfortunately) also have Windows 95 on my machine and I have never > had any problems with the display coming up with it. The "Boot > Graphics" option is set to "Yes" currently. I am going to try setting > it to "No" to see if that makes a difference. What confuses me the most > is that this is only an occasional problem. > > My System is configured as follows: > > P200 w/ 512kb cache and 32MB RAM > Matrox Millenium w/ 4MB WRAM > SoundBlaster 16 (non-PnP) > 33.6 KBps US Robotics Modem > 1.6GB EIDE Hard Disk Drive > 8x Mitsumi ATAPI compliant CD-ROM > CTX 17" Monitor .25 dot pitch (max res 1600x1200) > usually runs at 1280x1024 w/65536 colors. > > Thanks in advance for any advice or help regarding this problem. > > Greg C. > Please e-mail me back at gcasamen@erols.com, or post to this newsgroup. > -- Jagannatha Rao E-mail:rao@uh.edu Department of Mechanical Engineering Tel :(713) 743-4535 University of Houston Fax :(713) 743-4503 Houston, TX 77204-4792
From: Eric Levenez <levenez@club-internet.fr> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: 2 GB limit before or after formatting? Date: 8 Apr 1997 18:41:58 GMT Organization: Grolier Interactive Europe Message-ID: <5ie3hm$jmc@news.grolier.fr> References: <5hv9gq$38c$1@kaopala.mhpcc.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit decoy_id@stop_junk_on_the.net (Lee Altenberg) wrote: >I just got a 2.15 GB IBM UltraStar 2ES drive to run under NEXTSTEP 3.3. I know >that 3.3 has a 2 GB limit per partition. Is that a limit on the space before or >after formatting? I know that the disk will come out under 2GB after >formatting. So if the limit applies to space after formatting, I won't have any >problem or waste. But if the limit applies on space before formatting, I will >want to split off 150 MB into another partition (I'll use it for my primary >swapfile). I have a IBM 4 GB on NS 3.3. I have to make 3 partitions because the disk (after formated) has a little more than 4 GB. The two first are just below 2 GB, the last one is a little 400 MB. Here is my disktab entry : DFRSS4F|DFRSS4F-512|IBM DFRSS4F:\ :ty=fixed_rw_scsi:nc#4392:nt#16:ns#135:ss#512:rm#7200:\ :fp#320:bp#0:ng#0:gs#0:ga#0:ao#0:\ :os=sdmach:z0#64:z1#192:hn=tasha:rw=a:rw=b:\ :pa#0:sa#3997696:ba#8192:fa#1024:ca#32:da#4096:ra#3:oa=time:\ :ia:ta=4.3BSD:\ :pb#3997696:sb#3997696:bb#8192:fb#1024:cb#32:db#4096:rb#3:ob=time:\ :ib:tb=4.3BSD:\ :pc#7995392:sc#811008:bc#8192:fc#1024:cc#32:dc#4096:rc#10:oc=time:\ :ic:tc=4.3BSD: -- -------------------------------------------------------------------- Éric Lévénez "Felix qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas" mailto:levenez@club-internet.fr Publius Vergilius Maro, (NeXTMail, MIME) Georgica, II-489 --------------------------------------------------------------------
From: Lorier@caiw.nl (pierre lorier) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: BLACK user manual Date: Tue, 08 Apr 1997 05:38:52 GMT Organization: CAI Westland/Kabelfoon Message-ID: <3349d8a2.5568692@newsserv.caiw.nl> I have an NeXTstation color Turbo ADB. Are there any user manuals available on the WWW / ftp. Pierre.
From: Igor van Oostveen <igorvo@euronet.nl> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: broken NeXTstation power supply Date: 8 Apr 1997 23:37:53 GMT Organization: err...dinges... Message-ID: <334AE6AC.5126@euronet.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit could somebody direct me to a source for NeXTstation powersupplies? NeXT part no: 1477 Sony model no: APS-21 Sony Part no: 68-1120-51 something that fits and is cheap please... Thanks in advance... Igor van Oostveen please mail to igorvo@euronet.nl
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: broken NeXTstation power supply Date: Tue, 8 Apr 1997 18:41:43 -0700 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970408184128.14641A-100000@kira> References: <334AE6AC.5126@euronet.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: Igor van Oostveen <igorvo@euronet.nl> In-Reply-To: <334AE6AC.5126@euronet.nl> http://www.deepspacetech.com/Nexthardware.html TjL -- TjL <luomat@peak.org> http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/ "Give a man a piece of working code and you solve his problem. Teach a man to write code and you give him a lifetime of new problems" -- me
From: zander@conextions.com (Aleksey Sudakov) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Spurious DMA interrupts... help Date: 9 Apr 1997 13:34:48 GMT Organization: The Internet Access Company, Inc. Message-ID: <5ig5to$f38@news-central.tiac.net> References: <5i1862$13po@pulp.ucs.ualberta.ca> <5ibi4d$i6d@transfer.stratus.com> <5idr8d$9al$2@mark.ucdavis.edu> In-Reply-To: <5idr8d$9al$2@mark.ucdavis.edu> On 04/08/97, Ryan Scott wrote: >cdodson@cac.stratus.com***(Craig Dodson) wrote: >>In article <5i1862$13po@pulp.ucs.ualberta.ca> Doug.Booth@UAlberta.ca (Doug >>Booth) writes: >>> I have an old pizza box NeXT which has recently started to hang itself. >>> The machine has 32 MB of RAM and is running 3.3 >>> Looking in the system messages the following appear.... >>> >>> machine-name mach: spurious DMA interrupt: channel 0x2000110 >>> machine-name mach: spurious DMA interrupt: state 0x1000000 channel 0x2000110 >>These errors (if memory serves) were usually the NeXT's way of telling you all >>is not well on the network. Now whether these indicate excess traffic, >>broadcasts, physical errors, etc, I can't say for sure. Better get out the >>sniffer and see what's going on with your enet. >> >>Craig Dodson (Stratus Computer) >>cdodson@cac.stratus.com > > >I've had this happen to me also. The quickest way to find out is to disconnect >from the net. Well, this happens to me as well on a standalone machine. I thought that I should blame faulty memory (it started then I added 16 MB parity SIMMs to 4MB non-parity), but I started to doubt that. Are you guys sure the problem is with network? Aleksey
Date: Wed, 09 Apr 1997 09:21:53 -0600 From: grimgant@kodak.com Subject: Need Nextstep 3.3 or lower for my Next Station Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.software,dfw.forsale Message-ID: <860595570.18168@dejanews.com> Organization: Deja News Usenet Posting Service I just bought a used Next w/o OS . I would appreciate a cheap copy of NS to run, failing which I would appreciate the loan of the software to try out on my machine . -------------------==== Posted via Deja News ====----------------------- http://www.dejanews.com/ Search, Read, Post to Usenet
From: dbin@sce.de (David Binette) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: NeXT printer and WIN95 Date: Mon, 07 Apr 1997 21:55:49 GMT Organization: Satellite Communication Europe Distribution: world Message-ID: <33496655.35897899@news.hamburg.pop.de> References: <5ib6lf$11q@ttacs7.ttu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 7 Apr 1997 16:16:47 GMT, seran@rayleigh.me.ttu.edu wrote: >i have a NeXT Turbo station and another computer running win95 and i am >planning to buy me a NeXT printer. is there any way to get win95 to print >on the NeXT printer? > >any pointers would be appreciated. > >thanks in advance. adobe has a Win95 postscript driver for the NeXT 400dpi laser printer its free and available from their web page. -- MY DNA and genetic structure is copyright 1957-1997 David J. Binette ALL RIGHTS RESERVED unauthorised use, duplication, storage or retransmission is strictly prohibited. http://www.sce.de/~dbin */ unmatched closing comment
Date: Wed, 09 Apr 1997 10:02:22 -0600 From: grimgant@kodak.com Subject: Newbie to NEXT needs guidance..... Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.software Message-ID: <860597804.19661@dejanews.com> Organization: Deja News Usenet Posting Service Just recieved a system(mono turbo) from Mooseman. VERY pleased with packaging etc:- The system is w/o a HDD , luckily I had an IBM (ps/2) scsi HDD that I hooked up and the ROM monitor says SCSI & Extended tests OK no errors however since I have no bootable images (either on floppy or HDD) I am stuck. When (just for kicks ) I say 'b sd' it says 'sc: not complete' ?? My question is - From the above do you think the scsi HDD is recognized by the system ?? What do I do next ? (currently have a sexy Black beast on the desk but cant do a thing :) -------------------==== Posted via Deja News ====----------------------- http://www.dejanews.com/ Search, Read, Post to Usenet
From: cdodson@cac.stratus.com***(Craig Dodson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Cheapest ethernet card Date: 9 Apr 1997 15:29:25 GMT Organization: Stratus Computer Inc, Marlboro MA Message-ID: <5igckl$dg7@transfer.stratus.com> References: <5ie0se$mea@sirio.cineca.it> In article <5ie0se$mea@sirio.cineca.it> giammarc@provincia.ravenna.it (Mario Giammarco) writes: > I am searching the cheapest Ethernet Card (possibly pci) that can be used on > nextstep > Thank You in advance for your reply, please mail them to giammarc@cs.unibo.it > Check www.next.com for compatibility and www.pricewatch.com for prices. Doesn't anyone do their own homework any more ??? Craig Dodson (Stratus Computer) cdodson@cac.stratus.com
From: "Hari Rajagopal, Kodak Consultant" <grimgaunt@why.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: does Developer also include User ?? Date: Wed, 09 Apr 1997 10:43:13 -0500 Organization: Eastman Kodak Company Message-ID: <334BB911.7C1@why.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit As I posted earlier, I have a system w/o an OS installed. I found a NS 3.2 Dev at work, however it says NS (user) needed to install. Doesnt it include both ?? Also , can I bring my system to work, plug into ethernet TP and install over the net by placing NS CD-rom in a sun cd drive on the network >?? lastly, if there are no errors during power up (rom monitor ) does that mean it recognizes the scsi driv e (internal ) ??
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: BLACK user manual Date: Wed, 9 Apr 1997 07:46:41 -0700 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970408145134.8107B-100000@kira> References: <3349d8a2.5568692@newsserv.caiw.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: pierre lorier <Lorier@caiw.nl> In-Reply-To: <3349d8a2.5568692@newsserv.caiw.nl> checkout the files on your machine in /NextLibrary/Documentation/NextAdmin/ Then perhaps checkout some web pages (I happen to think mine is a good starting place ;-) for more information. Specific questions can always be posted to the appropriate news groups. TjL -- Timothy J. Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Submissions Coordinator for PEAK Personal NeXT Page: http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/ PEAK NeXT FTP: ftp://ftp.next.peak.org/pub/next/ PEAK Web Access: http://www.peak.org/next/
From: scott@leorg.ucdavis.edu (Ryan Scott) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Spurious DMA interrupts... help Date: 9 Apr 1997 16:27:16 GMT Organization: University of California, Davis Message-ID: <5igg14$4p2$1@mark.ucdavis.edu> References: <5i1862$13po@pulp.ucs.ualberta.ca> <5ibi4d$i6d@transfer.stratus.com> <5idr8d$9al$2@mark.ucdavis.edu> <5ig5to$f38@news-central.tiac.net> zander@conextions.com (Aleksey Sudakov) wrote: >On 04/08/97, Ryan Scott wrote: >>cdodson@cac.stratus.com***(Craig Dodson) wrote: >>>In article <5i1862$13po@pulp.ucs.ualberta.ca> Doug.Booth@UAlberta.ca >(Doug >>>Booth) writes: >>>> I have an old pizza box NeXT which has recently started to hang >itself. >>>> The machine has 32 MB of RAM and is running 3.3 >>>> Looking in the system messages the following appear.... >>>> >>>> machine-name mach: spurious DMA interrupt: channel 0x2000110 >>>> machine-name mach: spurious DMA interrupt: state 0x1000000 channel >0x2000110 >>>These errors (if memory serves) were usually the NeXT's way of >telling you all >>>is not well on the network. Now whether these indicate excess >traffic, >>>broadcasts, physical errors, etc, I can't say for sure. Better get >out the >>>sniffer and see what's going on with your enet. >>> >>>Craig Dodson (Stratus Computer) >>>cdodson@cac.stratus.com >> >> >>I've had this happen to me also. The quickest way to find out is to >disconnect >>from the net. > > >Well, this happens to me as well on a standalone machine. I thought >that I should blame faulty memory (it started then I added 16 MB >parity SIMMs to 4MB non-parity), but I started to doubt that. Are you >guys sure the problem is with network? > >Aleksey No. I have also had a spurious DMA interrupt problem unrelated to the net. I never did find the cause... As I recall, it went away on its own. Don't figure. --Ryan
From: "Hari Rajagopal, Kodak Consultant" <grimgaunt@why.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: what is the connector in the turbo MB center ???? Date: Wed, 09 Apr 1997 12:31:49 -0500 Organization: Eastman Kodak Company Message-ID: <334BD285.4ED9@why.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit What is the connector (looks like a SIMM slot) in the center of a turbo mono motherboard for ? is it a DSP memory add on slot ??
From: "Eren Kotan" <Eren_Kotan@next.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: P120 vs P133 Date: Wed, 9 Apr 1997 17:07:10 -0000 Organization: NeXT Software, Inc. Message-ID: <5igib1$su4@news.next.com> References: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970324110719.11661C-100000@kira> <1997Mar25.205600.792@gamelan.shnet.org> Thomas Funke wrote in article <1997Mar25.205600.792@gamelan.shnet.org>... >As far I know, the P120 is considerably more slow because of some design >flaw, so you want to get a P133 ! > >You might consider a AMD K5/P133 instead of an Intel. I have it running here >under Linux and it works perfect. The K5 is said to be faster (~3-5%) than >the Intel, except for floating point arithmetic. > >Don't buy a Cyrix, these are not 100% compatible to Intel and they get hot ! I use a P120 overclocked to run at 133 MHz at home and this works beautifully. I'd advise against going with a non-Intel CPU for OPENSTEP/Mach, but AMD ones seem to work OK so far. If you want to save $ and take a chance, go for it. Regards, Eren --- Eren Kotan NeXT/Apple European Professional Services
From: "Greg Noel" <Gnoel@btinternet.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Internal IDE ZIP Drive Date: 9 Apr 1997 21:06:42 GMT Organization: BT Internet Message-ID: <01bc4529$bba41680$LocalHost@default> I recently purchased a Micron MXE machine which has an internal IDE Zip drive. The boot drive is SCSI. I have a bunch of Zip disks, NS 3.3 formatted, I'd like to get the data off of them. Enabling the drive in the bios disables, of course, booting from SCSI. Can't boot, can't access the drive. I can use the drive from the NT and W95 partitions. Anyone have any idea how I can access the data on the Zip disks using the internal drive? From either DOS, Windows, or OpenStep? Finding a way to use the drive under OpenStep would be a major bonus. -- Greg Noel Linklaters & Paines gnoel@linklaters.com
From: Lorier@caiw.nl (pierre lorier) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Sony monitor Date: Wed, 09 Apr 1997 06:12:20 GMT Organization: CAI Westland/Kabelfoon Message-ID: <334b2e57.2005499@newsserv.caiw.nl> Just got my NeXTstation Color Turbo ADB and I'm experiencing the following problem with the Sony monitor. I don't have an hard disk installed yet, but using two simms to get the boot prompt /system testing going. When the monitor is on, the tube switches on and off for an brief second every 35 to 50 seconds. During the switch it makes an distinct sound, similar to the sound it makes when using the on/off power switch. The screen completely disappear and reappears during this switch. Is there some hardware malfunction with the monitor, or is there some suspens mode which is badly configured in the NeXT boot prom /settings. Pierre
From: dmcke40249@aol.com (DMcke40249) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: I highly recommend DeepSpace Tech. for NeXT! Date: 9 Apr 1997 23:45:12 GMT Organization: AOL http://www.aol.com Message-ID: <19970409234300.TAA12228@ladder01.news.aol.com> I bought a complete NeXTstation Color system from DeepSpace Technologies last week and am completely satisfied with their service. When I get good service somewhere I like to pass it along. It was the best deal I could find on the web after looking for quite some time. My machine arrived yesterday morning, four days after I ordered it by phone. It was extremely well packed and in excellent condition. They had installed a fresh copy of NS 3.3 and had checked everything out before the system was shipped. Bravo DeepSpace. Keep up the first class service! I look forward to doing business with you in the future. David McKenna
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware From: dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca (David Evans) Subject: Re: what is the connector in the turbo MB center ???? Sender: news@novice.uwaterloo.ca (Mr. News) Message-ID: <E8E35M.MoB@novice.uwaterloo.ca> Date: Wed, 9 Apr 1997 21:17:46 GMT References: <334BD285.4ED9@why.net> Organization: University of Waterloo In article <334BD285.4ED9@why.net>, Hari Rajagopal, Kodak Consultant <grimgaunt@why.net> wrote: >What is the connector (looks like a SIMM slot) in the center of a turbo >mono motherboard for ? is it a DSP memory add on slot ?? You got it right--it's the DSP memory slot. -- 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: hponeill@indigo.ie (Paul O'Neill) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Slab Startup Date: 27 Mar 1997 15:22:13 GMT Organization: Paul O'Neill Designs Message-ID: <hponeill-2703971523360001@ts11-10.dublin.indigo.ie> I have just acquired a number of NeXT turbo color workstations which surplus to requirements at a local college. Unfortunately they used to be networked, so when I turn them on it sits there waiting to connect to the ethernet (the server was a cube which I don't have). The word is that each of the machines have a full copy of the system software on on the internal hard disk. The manual says press Ctrl-Alt-Tilde to run a monitor program but this doesn't seem to work. Any suggestions? Thanks, Paul. -- Paul O'Neill Designs Electronic & Software Product Development email : hponeill@indigo.ie web : http://indigo.ie/~hponeill
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: [Q] Black Printer for PC ? References: <5i1pjc$3es$1@nntp.Stanford.EDU> From: Darren Reely <dreely@cyberstore.ca> Message-ID: <334c3efc.0@scipio.cyberstore.ca> Date: 10 Apr 97 01:14:36 GMT park@ISL.Stanford.EDU (Sang Ju Park) wrote: >Is it possible to use original 400dpi NeXT black printer >on IBM PC running Windows95/Linux ? > >Currently, black Cube running samba is being used as the >printer server for Win95, but I want to directly connect >the printer to PC. This question has been asked many times. The short answer is NO. You could probably build one if you had the right information, talent, and drive. Most people do what your doing or go with a different printer. Darren http://www.bcog.org/~dreely
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: NeXT printer and WIN95 References: <5ib6lf$11q@ttacs7.ttu.edu> From: Darren Reely <dreely@cyberstore.ca> Message-ID: <334c47d7.0@scipio.cyberstore.ca> Date: 10 Apr 97 01:52:23 GMT seran@rayleigh.me.ttu.edu wrote: >i have a NeXT Turbo station and another computer running win95 and i am >planning to buy me a NeXT printer. is there any way to get win95 to print >on the NeXT printer? > >any pointers would be appreciated. See my web page for one solution. http://www.bcog.org/~dreely/OpenStep/printing.html Others have suggested SAMBA. I think it gives you file sharing ability as well as printing. These solutions require an ethernet connection between the two machines. Darren http://www.bcog.org/~dreely
From: Michael Taylor <mtaylor@aw.sgi.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: P120 vs P133 Date: Thu, 27 Mar 1997 11:23:53 -0500 Organization: Alias|Wavefront Message-ID: <333A9F19.41C6@aw.sgi.com> References: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970324110719.11661C-100000@kira> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Timothy Luoma wrote: > > I've been looking through Comp Shopper and seen that P133 processors are > selling for what looks like only $40 more than P120. > > I was planning on going with a P120 with my new Intel, but for $40 it > seems worthwhile to upgrade. > > Can anyone comment on whether this is right (such a small price diff or > was I delusional after 8000 different ads) and whether the diff between > P120 and P133 is significant? It's definately worth the extra money. You're not just getting a few extra Mhz on your processor, you will also get a faster bus speed which will make your whole system (cards,memory,etc.) run faster. 120Mhz = 60Mhz bus speed (120 = 2 x 60) 133Mhz = 66Mhz bus speed (133 = 2 x 66) Also, there's a good chance that you could safely overclock the 120 up to 133 just by flipping a jumper. There are a couple of motherboards coming out now that support 75Mhz bus speeds. Bus speed can be a very big performance factor. For more info, see Tom's Hardware Performance Page at: http://www.sysdoc.pair.com/ /\/\ike -- /\/\ike Taylor | Mail: mtaylor@aw.sgi.com Alias|Wavefront Toronto | Voice: (416) 362-8558 x8740 Developer, API =D--' http://reality.sgi.com/mtaylor
Date: Wed, 09 Apr 1997 23:21:43 -0600 From: dsolis@data.net.mx Subject: APEX 4.6 GB OPTICAL HARD DRIVE Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware Message-ID: <860645494.20117@dejanews.com> Organization: Deja News Usenet Posting Service To: dsolis@data.net.mx Has anyone been able to format and use the PinnacleMicro Apex under NeXTStep?. It's a double-sided MO disk, and holds 2.3gig on each side. Any experience (disktab?) or comments would be appreciated by e-mail if possible. TIA David Solis dsolis@data.net.mx -------------------==== Posted via Deja News ====----------------------- http://www.dejanews.com/ Search, Read, Post to Usenet
From: cmoore@cyberport.com (cm) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: WTD Date: 27 Mar 1997 21:07:30 GMT Organization: CyberPort Station Message-ID: <5henii$lpq$1@macaw.cyberport.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=US-ASCII I need a new or used Adaptek PCI/SCSI card. does anyone have one for sale or know the best place to get a new one, for NS 3.3 ? I would like to use NeXT STEP 3.3 on my 586/133, but it will not acknowlege the presence of my QLOGIC SCSI card and i cannot find a driver for it. tia.
From: bueckle@schelling.dbag.ulm.DaimlerBenz.COM (Martin Böckle) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Framegrabber under NS 3.3/Intel Date: 10 Apr 1997 07:05:17 GMT Organization: debis Network Services GmbH Message-ID: <5ii3fd$ka2@news.sns-felb.debis.de> Hello, I'm looking for a framegrabber solution under NS 3.3/Intel. The main criteria is the ability to transfer image sequences to main memory in real time. AFAIK there are NS 3.3 drivers for the Movie Machine and Screen Machine cards by FAST Multimedia. But due to the limited transfer rate on the ISA bus this solution seems to be inappropriate. Does anybody know about PCI framegrabbers working together with NS 3.3? There are FreeBSD and Linux drivers for the Matrox Meteor framegrabber card. Is it possible to port one of them to NS 3.3? Does anybody working on that? Any help will be appreciated. Sincerely, Martin Bueckle Martin Bueckle, Daimler-Benz AG, Research Center Ulm Institute of Information Technology Department of Pattern Recognition/Text Understanding P.O. Box 2360, 89013 Ulm, Germany Phone: +49 731 505 2399 Fax: +49 731 505 4113 Email: bueckle@dbag.ulm.daimlerbenz.com
From: Don Ryan <dryan@dit.ie> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Can you use a NeXT monitor with a Mac? Date: Thu, 10 Apr 1997 13:13:02 +0100 Organization: Dublin Institute of Technology Message-ID: <334CD94E.448A@dit.ie> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi, I looked up the FAQ but could only find info on using non-NeXT monitors with black systems. This might be a very basic question but I've never actually seen a black system. Can NeXT monitors be used with Macintosh systems? Specifically I would like to know if the 17" Sony or (more importantly) the 21" Hitachi can be used? Is converter cabling/circuitry required? Thanks, Don Ryan.
From: Danko Ferdebar <fs@zg.tel.hr> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Spurious DMA interrupts... help Date: Thu, 10 Apr 1997 15:45:59 +0200 Organization: FS d.o.o. Distribution: world Message-ID: <334CEF11.6668@zg.tel.hr> References: <5i1862$13po@pulp.ucs.ualberta.ca> <5ibi4d$i6d@transfer.stratus.com> <5idr8d$9al$2@mark.ucdavis.edu> <5ig5to$f38@news-central.tiac.net> <5igg14$4p2$1@mark.ucdavis.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Ryan Scott wrote: > > zander@conextions.com (Aleksey Sudakov) wrote: > >On 04/08/97, Ryan Scott wrote: > >>cdodson@cac.stratus.com***(Craig Dodson) wrote: > >>>In article <5i1862$13po@pulp.ucs.ualberta.ca> Doug.Booth@UAlberta.ca > >(Doug > >>>Booth) writes: > >>>> I have an old pizza box NeXT which has recently started to hang > >itself. > >>>> The machine has 32 MB of RAM and is running 3.3 > >>>> Looking in the system messages the following appear.... > >>>> > >>>> machine-name mach: spurious DMA interrupt: channel 0x2000110 > >>>> machine-name mach: spurious DMA interrupt: state 0x1000000 channel > >0x2000110 > >>>These errors (if memory serves) were usually the NeXT's way of > >telling you all > >>>is not well on the network. Now whether these indicate excess > >traffic, > >>>broadcasts, physical errors, etc, I can't say for sure. Better get > >out the > >>>sniffer and see what's going on with your enet. > >>> > >>>Craig Dodson (Stratus Computer) > >>>cdodson@cac.stratus.com > >> > >> > >>I've had this happen to me also. The quickest way to find out is to > >disconnect > >>from the net. > > > > > >Well, this happens to me as well on a standalone machine. I thought > >that I should blame faulty memory (it started then I added 16 MB > >parity SIMMs to 4MB non-parity), but I started to doubt that. Are you > >guys sure the problem is with network? > > > >Aleksey > > No. I have also had a spurious DMA interrupt problem unrelated to the > net. I never did find the cause... As I recall, it went away on its > own. Don't figure. > > --Ryan > The same problem is also with my NeXTstation. I started with NextStep 3.0, 16MB RAM and 400MB hard. Later I upgrade it to OpenStep 4.1. After upgrade the problems start. My NeXTstation with OpenStep 4.1 isn't on the net. Message is "spurious DMA interrupt :channel 0x2000110" And it is repeated several times until system hangs. If I switch back to NextStep 3.0 everything is OK. I tryed with another memory and hard disk but always is the same problem. Now I usually use following procedure: - after power on boot to single user mode - leave it for a few minutes - logout and start multi-user mode - restart and go back to single-user mode - leave it for a 15 minutes - logout and start multi user mode I don't have statistics on hangs now, but it seems that helps. I have spent lots of time playing with rc script but didn't help. What is channel 0x2000110? Danko
From: bestor@dpls.dacc.wisc.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Sony monitor Date: 10 Apr 1997 15:11:43 GMT Organization: University of Wisconsin, Madison Message-ID: <5iivvf$2lqm@news.doit.wisc.edu> References: <334b2e57.2005499@newsserv.caiw.nl> >Just got my NeXTstation Color Turbo ADB and I'm experiencing the >following problem with the Sony monitor. Unlike the mono MegaPixels, NeXT's color monitors cannot be turned on or off by the CPU. It could be something connected with dimming the monitor (which can be done from the CPU) but I doubt it. It never does anything like going into a power saving/suspend mode - it just dims the screen. I have NEVER sensed or heard the tube in my Sony monitor switching when dimming. My guess its the monitor - have you tried connecting another one to the CPU and/or the monitor to another CPU? - Gareth
From: mezzino@gauss.cl.uh.edu (Mike Mezzino) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: JAZ Drive on a 68K NeXT Date: 10 Apr 1997 16:31:37 GMT Organization: University of Houston Message-ID: <5ij4l9$ved@Masala.CC.UH.EDU> Has anyone been able to make a JAZ drive work on a 68K NeXT? Several months ago, someone posted the following disktab entry which he claimed worked for him. 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: On the NeXT web site, there is a different disktab entry. IOMEGAJAZ-1G:\ :ty=removable_rw_scsi:nc#3584:nt#4:ns#72:ss#1024:rm#5400:\ :fp#160:bp#0:\ :os=sdmach:z0#32:z1#96:ro=a\ :pa#0:sa#1032192:ba#8192:fa#1024:ca#16:da#4096:ra#10:oa=time:\ :ia:ta=4.3BSD:aa: Neither of these mappings work for me! If this works for someone, I can only assume that there is something else I must do. Of course, the SCSI ID is unique and the bus is properly terminated. In fact, the ZIP drive was trivial to install and has worked perfectly from the start. If I ever get a JAZ drive to work, will it format/recognize Mac disks like the ZIP drive? Thanks for any suggestions. Mike Mezzino, Department of Mathematics University of Houston - Clear Lake mezzino@gauss.cl.uh.edu
From: daj@nwu.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.software Subject: HELP!!! HELP!!! HELP!!! Date: 10 Apr 1997 17:28:32 GMT Organization: Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, US Distribution: world Message-ID: <5ij800$kv1@news.acns.nwu.edu> I have a very serious problem that I need help with. I have a Jaz disk that had files moved from it onto another disk (using the next window GUI move command). I want to recover the data fromm the original Jaz disk. Unfortunately the disk the data was moved onto was destroyed. The Jaz disk is intact and hasn't had anything done to it since the data was moved off (no read or writes). Is there any way this can be done? Can I do it myself or is there a service that I can send the disk to to have it recovered? If a service is the way to go, are there any recommendations? PLEASE HELP!! Of course I need the data recovered yesterday! Thank's in advance, David A. Johnson
From: Global.Market@canbuy.all (Trop long) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: I highly recommend DeepSpace Tech. for NeXT! Date: Thu, 10 Apr 1997 17:35:12 GMT Organization: of malfaiteurs Message-ID: <334f24b3.40728015@news.ping.be> References: <19970409234300.TAA12228@ladder01.news.aol.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit dmcke40249@aol.com (DMcke40249) wrote: >I bought a complete NeXTstation Color system from DeepSpace Technologies >last week and am completely satisfied with their service. When I get good >service somewhere I like to pass it along. It was the best deal I could >find on the web after looking for quite some time. My machine arrived >yesterday morning, four days after I ordered it by phone. It was extremely >well packed and in excellent condition. They had installed a fresh copy of >NS 3.3 and had checked everything out before the system was shipped. Bravo >DeepSpace. Keep up the first class service! I look forward to doing >business with you in the future. > How much are you paid for this praise?
From: mezzino@gauss.cl.uh.edu (Mike Mezzino) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: JAZ Drive on a 68K NeXT - Additional Info Date: 10 Apr 1997 17:57:52 GMT Organization: University of Houston Message-ID: <5ij9n0$cd@Masala.CC.UH.EDU> I have organized the dialog generated by each disktab entry that I mentioned earlier in "JAZ Drive on a 68K NeXT." If some unix guru is listening, maybe he/she can tell me where my problem is. Thanks. Mike Mezzino, Department of Mathematics University of Houston - Clear Lake mezzino@gauss.cl.uh.edu ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dialog generated using NeXT's disktab entry 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: During boot: : iomega jaz 1GB Rev G.60 as sd1 ...... sd1: UNIT ATTENTION can't read device capicity disk unformatted : Last entry In Console after attempt to initialize: : /usr/etc/disk -i -h poincare -l "UntitledDisk" /dev/rsd1a sd1 (5,0): ERROR op:0x1a sd_state:4 scsi status:0x0 sd1 (5,0): sense key:0x5 additional sense code:0x24 SCSI Block in error = 0 (no valid label) disk name: iomega jaz 1GB disk type: removable_rw_scsi Target 5: MEDIA ERROR; block 0H retry 1 Target 5: MEDIA ERROR; block 0H retry 2 Target 5: MEDIA ERROR; block 0H retry 3 Target 5: MEDIA ERROR; block 0H retry 4 Target 5: MEDIA ERROR; block 0H retry 5 Target 5: MEDIA ERROR; block 0H retry 6 Target 5: MEDIA ERROR; block 0H retry 7 Target 5: MEDIA ERROR; block 0H retry 8 Target 5: MEDIA ERROR; block 0H retry 9 sd1 (5,0): sense key:0x3 additional sense code:0x1c SCSI Block in error = 0 (no valid label) Read Capacity command failed sr_io_status = 2 ; check status, sr_esense valid SCSI status = 02H Disk Format Failed =============================================================================== Dialog generated using user's disktab entry IOMEGAJAZ-1G:\ :ty=removable_rw_scsi:nc#3584:nt#4:ns#72:ss#1024:rm#5400:\ :fp#160:bp#0:\ :os=sdmach:z0#32:z1#96:ro=a\ :pa#0:sa#1032192:ba#8192:fa#1024:ca#16:da#4096:ra#10:oa=time:\ :ia:ta=4.3BSD:aa: During boot: : iomega jaz 1GB Rev G.60 as sd1 ...... sd1: UNIT ATTENTION Waiting for drive to come ready sd1: UNIT ATTENTION sd1: UNIT ATTENTION (18 times) : Target 5: MEDIA ERROR; block 0H retry 1 Target 5: MEDIA ERROR; block 0H retry 2 Target 5: MEDIA ERROR; block 0H retry 3 Target 5: MEDIA ERROR; block 0H retry 4 Target 5: MEDIA ERROR; block 0H retry 5 Target 5: MEDIA ERROR; block 0H retry 6 Target 5: MEDIA ERROR; block 0H retry 7 Target 5: MEDIA ERROR; block 0H retry 8 Target 5: MEDIA ERROR; block 0H retry 9 sd1 (5,0): sense key:0x3 additional sense code:0x1c SCSI Block in error = 0 (no valid label) ERROR: Invalid disk block length of zero Disk unformatted : Last entry In Console after attempt to initialize: : /usr/etc/disk -i -h poincare -l "UntitledDisk" /dev/rsd1a sd1 (5,0): ERROR op:0x1a sd_state:4 scsi status:0x0 sd1 (5,0): sense key:0x5 additional sense code:0x24 SCSI Block in error = 0 (no valid label) disk name: iomega jaz 1GB disk type: removable_rw_scsi Target 5: MEDIA ERROR; block 0H retry 1 Target 5: MEDIA ERROR; block 0H retry 2 Target 5: MEDIA ERROR; block 0H retry 3 Target 5: MEDIA ERROR; block 0H retry 4 Target 5: MEDIA ERROR; block 0H retry 5 Target 5: MEDIA ERROR; block 0H retry 6 Target 5: MEDIA ERROR; block 0H retry 7 Target 5: MEDIA ERROR; block 0H retry 8 Target 5: MEDIA ERROR; block 0H retry 9 sd1 (5,0): sense key:0x3 additional sense code:0x1c SCSI Block in error = 0 (no valid label) Read Capacity command failed sr_io_status = 2 ; check status, sr_esense valid SCSI status = 02H Disk Format Failed -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Wacom tablets & NS3.3 From: mike@complink.net (Mike Trepanier) Message-ID: <334d2585.0@news.complink.net> Date: 10 Apr 97 17:38:13 GMT Is anyone out there successfully using a wacom drawing tablet with Nextstep 3.3? Is so how well does it work and does it co-exist with a serial mouse as in Windows? Any success or horror stories welcome. Mike mike@complink.net
From: jabi@acsu.buffalo.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: NeXT Printer pinouts? Date: Thu, 10 Apr 1997 16:34:07 -0400 Organization: University At Buffalo Message-ID: <334D4EBF.FFE@arch.buffalo.edu> References: <5i20o2$7ri$1@socony.pe.utexas.edu> <E83zts.60@cam-ani.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit NNTP-Posting-User: jabi To: Ian Stephenson <ians@cam-ani.co.uk> Ian Stephenson wrote: > > In article <5i20o2$7ri$1@socony.pe.utexas.edu> > paulus@nextdown.pe.utexas.edu (Paulus Adisoemarta) writes: > > In article <5i1qhl$8t9$1@nntp1.mcs.net>, <timu@mcs.net> wrote: > > >I just got a NeXT laser printer... minus the cable. > > >Does anyone know the pinouts for the cable? > > > > It is a DB9M to DB9M straight thru pin-to-pin connection. > > As a matter of fact, one of my NeXT printer use the cable that goes > > with a VGA-Keyboard-Mouse switch box. I use the 9-pin cable (male-male). > > This cable is shorter than the original black cable, but it works fine > > If the cable length has been changed, then you've been lucky if it still > works (at least as far as I've been told). The NeXT printer interface is a > glorious hack (in the very best of ways), and relies on the propagation > times along the cable for some of its timing operations. Changing the > length risks the timings being wrong, and the printer locking up. > > There's a file on one of the ftp sites which documents some of this and > describes how someone build a longer(!) cable. > > $an I don't know what these mean, but I thought you might find them useful. Use at your own risk. From the User's Reference: D-9 Connector 5 4 3 2 1 o o o o o o o o o 9 8 7 6 Pin Signal 1 LP CLK 2 LP DATA IN 3 LP DATA OUT 1 4 LP DATA OUT 2 5 LP PWR ENABLE 6 GND 7 GND 8 GND 9 NC -- w a s s i m j a b i :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: Dept. of Architecture http://libra.arch.buffalo.edu/www/ University at Buffalo EMail: wjabi@arch.buffalo.edu 3435 Main St. - Hayes Tel: +1 (716) 829-3483 Buffalo, NY 14214 USA Fax: +1 (716) 829-3256
From: "Hari Rajagopal, Kodak Consultant" <grimgaunt@why.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Help, need inexpensive NextStep release CD Date: Thu, 10 Apr 1997 15:47:59 -0500 Organization: Eastman Kodak Company Message-ID: <334D51FF.7CF3@why.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Like before, I would like to buy, failing which, if someone could even mail me a boot floppy to get up and running, configure my system , format my hard disk etc:-(its a dos formatted beast) I would be ecstatic, for a trade I have the developer CD . The thought of the black slab on my desk at home sitting idly is killing me :)
From: Jason Lincoln <jlincoln@us.oracle.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: JAZ Drive on a 68K NeXT Date: Thu, 10 Apr 1997 16:02:34 -0500 Organization: Oracle Corp. Message-ID: <334D556A.68BA@us.oracle.com> References: <5ij4l9$ved@Masala.CC.UH.EDU> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mike Mezzino wrote: > > Has anyone been able to make a JAZ drive work on a 68K NeXT? Several months > ago, someone posted the following disktab entry which he claimed worked for > him. > > 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: > > On the NeXT web site, there is a different disktab entry. > > IOMEGAJAZ-1G:\ > :ty=removable_rw_scsi:nc#3584:nt#4:ns#72:ss#1024:rm#5400:\ > :fp#160:bp#0:\ > :os=sdmach:z0#32:z1#96:ro=a\ > :pa#0:sa#1032192:ba#8192:fa#1024:ca#16:da#4096:ra#10:oa=time:\ > :ia:ta=4.3BSD:aa: > > Neither of these mappings work for me! If this works for someone, I can only > assume that there is something else I must do. Of course, the SCSI ID is unique > and the bus is properly terminated. In fact, the ZIP drive was trivial to > install and has worked perfectly from the start. > > If I ever get a JAZ drive to work, will it format/recognize Mac disks like the > ZIP drive? Thanks for any suggestions. > > Mike Mezzino, Department of Mathematics > University of Houston - Clear Lake > mezzino@gauss.cl.uh.edu After I added the disktab information I got from NeXTAnswers my Jaz drive has worked great. It will read DOS, MacOS, and NeXT formatted Jaz Disks.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco Return-Path: <luomat@peak.org> Message-ID: <199704090237.WAA07689@kira.peak.org> Content-Type: text/plain Mime-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 3.3 v118.2) From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@peak.org> Date: Tue, 8 Apr 97 22:36:40 -0400 Subject: remapping Win95 keys? Organization: Princeton Theological Seminary Just curious as to whether anyone has been able to remap the Win95 keys on the new 104-key keyboards. Looks like it would be a good place for 'command' keys under NS but I don't know if it's possible. Thanks for any success stories! TjL
From: Lorier@caiw.nl (pierre lorier) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: looking for black next users in the Netherlands Date: Thu, 10 Apr 1997 06:23:44 GMT Organization: CAI Westland/Kabelfoon Message-ID: <334c7b77.1305858@newsserv.caiw.nl> It seems my system is not functioning properly Looking for black next users /owners in the Netherlands who are willing to test my components on there machine. I have an NeXTstation Turbo Color ADB, so testing is limited to an turbo ADB. Residence Rotterda Pierre ( 010-4801172)
From: siren@surf.pangea.ca (Betty Siren) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Spurious DMA interrupts... help Date: 10 Apr 1997 18:44:26 -0500 Organization: Pangea.CA, Inc. Message-ID: <5iju0q$odj@surf.pangea.ca> References: <5i1862$13po@pulp.ucs.ualberta.ca> <5ibi4d$i6d@transfer.stratus.com> <5idr8d$9al$2@mark.ucdavis.edu> <5ig5to$f38@news-central.tiac.net> <5igg14$4p2$1@mark.ucdavis.edu> <334CEF11.6668@zg.tel.hr> Danko Ferdebar <fs@zg.tel.hr> writes: >Ryan Scott wrote: >> zander@conextions.com (Aleksey Sudakov) wrote: >> >On 04/08/97, Ryan Scott wrote: >> >>cdodson@cac.stratus.com***(Craig Dodson) wrote: >> >>>In article <5i1862$13po@pulp.ucs.ualberta.ca> Doug.Booth@UAlberta.ca >> >(Doug Booth) writes: >> >>>> The machine has 32 MB of RAM and is running 3.3 >> >>>> machine-name mach: spurious DMA interrupt: state 0x1000000 channel >> >0x2000110 >> >Well, this happens to me as well on a standalone machine. I thought >> >that I should blame faulty memory (it started then I added 16 MB >> >parity SIMMs to 4MB non-parity), but I started to doubt that. Are you >> >guys sure the problem is with network? >> No. I have also had a spurious DMA interrupt problem unrelated to the >> net. I never did find the cause... As I recall, it went away on its >The same problem is also with my NeXTstation. I started with NextStep >3.0, 16MB RAM and 400MB hard. Later I upgrade it to OpenStep 4.1. After >upgrade the problems start. My NeXTstation with OpenStep 4.1 isn't on >the net. My 3.3 cube became flakier than a Beta Amiga after upgrading the memory to 64M. The errors looked like hardware problems. This error looks familiar, but my own memory does have some hardware problems! All the cube's problems went away when I removed a stupid hardcoded "hiwat=31457280" from the default /etc/rc.swap file. ... Richard Tilley <siren@pangea.ca>
From: mgoumans@cloud9.net (Mike Goumans) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: I highly recommend DeepSpace Tech. for NeXT! Date: 11 Apr 1997 01:51:28 GMT Organization: Cloud 9 Internet, White Plains, NY, USA Message-ID: <5ik5f0$8oi@news.cloud9.net> References: <19970409234300.TAA12228@ladder01.news.aol.com> <334f24b3.40728015@news.ping.be> Trop long (Global.Market@canbuy.all) wrote: : dmcke40249@aol.com (DMcke40249) wrote: : : >I bought a complete NeXTstation Color system from DeepSpace Technologies : >last week and am completely satisfied with their service. When I get good : >service somewhere I like to pass it along. It was the best deal I could : >find on the web after looking for quite some time. My machine arrived : >yesterday morning, four days after I ordered it by phone. It was extremely : >well packed and in excellent condition. They had installed a fresh copy of : >NS 3.3 and had checked everything out before the system was shipped. Bravo : >DeepSpace. Keep up the first class service! I look forward to doing : >business with you in the future. : > : How much are you paid for this praise? : If you ever dealt with them, you wouldnt ask a question like that.
Message-ID: <334DF3A2.291E486C@iphysiol.unil.ch> Date: Fri, 11 Apr 1997 10:17:39 +0200 From: Sean Hill <shill@iphysiol.unil.ch> MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware To: Mike Mezzino <mezzino@gauss.cl.uh.edu> Subject: Re: JAZ Drive on a 68K NeXT - Additional Info References: <5ij9n0$cd@Masala.CC.UH.EDU> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 That looks an awful lot like SCSI termination problems to me. Do you have the proper termination connected? Does the scsi id conflict with anything else? Cheers- sean Mike Mezzino wrote: > I have organized the dialog generated by each disktab entry that I > mentioned > earlier in "JAZ Drive on a 68K NeXT." If some unix guru is > listening, maybe > he/she can tell me where my problem is. Thanks. > > Mike Mezzino, Department of Mathematics > University of Houston - Clear Lake > mezzino@gauss.cl.uh.edu > > During boot: > : > iomega jaz 1GB Rev G.60 as sd1 ...... > sd1: UNIT ATTENTION > Waiting for drive to come ready > sd1: UNIT ATTENTION > sd1: UNIT ATTENTION (18 times) > : > Target 5: MEDIA ERROR; block 0H retry 1 > Target 5: MEDIA ERROR; block 0H retry 2 > Target 5: MEDIA ERROR; block 0H retry 3
From: Isaac <isaac@pobox.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: what is the connector in the turbo MB center ???? Date: Wed, 9 Apr 1997 14:55:20 -0400 Organization: Florida State University Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.95.970409145305.17380C-100000@lab.housing.fsu.edu> References: <334BD285.4ED9@why.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: "Hari Rajagopal, Kodak Consultant" <grimgaunt@why.net> In-Reply-To: <334BD285.4ED9@why.net> On Wed, 9 Apr 1997, Hari Rajagopal, Kodak Consultant wrote: > What is the connector (looks like a SIMM slot) in the center of a turbo > mono motherboard for ? is it a DSP memory add on slot ?? Yes. It's for expanding the DSP memory - an upgrade rarely made, unless you were doing some significant synthesis or signal processing on your NeXT. -Isaac
From: heller@attila.imo.physik.uni-muenchen.de (Helmut Heller) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: broken NeXTstation power supply Date: 11 Apr 1997 11:03:25 GMT Organization: [posted via] Leibniz-Rechenzentrum, Muenchen (Germany) Distribution: world Message-ID: <5il5pt$ekq$1@sparcserver.lrz-muenchen.de> References: <334AE6AC.5126@euronet.nl> In article <334AE6AC.5126@euronet.nl> Igor van Oostveen <igorvo@euronet.nl> writes: > could somebody direct me to a source for NeXTstation powersupplies? http://www.imo.physik.uni-muenchen.de/~heller/NeXT/power_supply.html -- Servus, Helmut (DH0MAD) ______________NeXT-mail welcome_________________ FAX: +49-89-2394-4607 "Knowledge must be gathered and cannot be given" heller@attila.imo.physik.uni-muenchen.de ZEN, one of BLAKES7 Phone: +49-89-2394-4565 ------------------------------------------------ Dr. Helmut Heller, Ludwig Maximilians University | G i b D O S | Institute for Medical Optics, Theoretical Biophysics Group | k e i n e |
From: schindall@nrl.navy.mil (jeff schindall) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: cancel <schindall-ya02408000R1004971715500001@news.nrl.navy.mil> Control: cancel <schindall-ya02408000R1004971715500001@news.nrl.navy.mil> Date: Thu, 10 Apr 1997 17:16:19 -0400 Organization: US Naval Research Laboratory Message-ID: <schindall-ya02408000R1004971716190001@news.nrl.navy.mil> cancel <schindall-ya02408000R1004971715500001@news.nrl.navy.mil>
From: schindall@nrl.navy.mil (jeff schindall) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Can you use a NeXT monitor with a Mac? Date: Thu, 10 Apr 1997 17:16:51 -0400 Organization: US Naval Research Laboratory Message-ID: <schindall-ya02408000R1004971716510001@news.nrl.navy.mil> References: <334CD94E.448A@dit.ie> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In article <334CD94E.448A@dit.ie>, dryan@dit.ie wrote: The answer is definitely YES. Many Many Many monitors can be used with macs if you have the appropriate sync adapter----I get adapter's for about $45 from Griffin Technologies. I've had nothing but great service from these folks... See their web page at http://www.nasville.net/~griffin >Hi, >I looked up the FAQ but could only find info on using non-NeXT monitors >with black systems. This might be a very basic question but I've never >actually seen a black system. Can NeXT monitors be used with Macintosh >systems? Specifically I would like to know if the 17" Sony or (more >importantly) the 21" Hitachi can be used? Is converter cabling/circuitry >required? > -- -- jeff schindall
From: alanf@izzy.net Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Mouse: Bus vs. Serial Date: 11 Apr 1997 13:30:57 GMT Organization: "Comshare, Inc." Message-ID: <5ileeh$mti$1@inet-prime.comshare.com> Greetings etherial composite mind, I'm looking at alternatives to my bar-o-black-soap mouse for pre-ADB NeXTStations. I know a company in Canada manufactured modified Logictech Bus Mouses for this. I also found a spec for taking a Logitech Bus Mouse and converting it to a mini-DIN 8 connector as a NeXT Mouse replacement. Could someone explain to me why a Bus Mouse is used in both these cases, and not a Serial Mouse? Any information is greatly appreciated. Regards, Alan Frabutt (alanf@izzy.net)
From: shess@one.net (Scott Hess) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: P120 vs P133 Date: 9 Apr 97 16:53:22 Organization: Is a sign of weakness Message-ID: <SHESS.97Apr9165322@slave.one.net> References: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970324110719.11661C-100000@kira> In-reply-to: Timothy Luoma's message of Mon, 24 Mar 1997 11:09:51 -0800 In article <Pine.SUN.3.96.970324110719.11661C-100000@kira>, Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> writes: I've been looking through Comp Shopper and seen that P133 processors are selling for what looks like only $40 more than P120. I was planning on going with a P120 with my new Intel, but for $40 it seems worthwhile to upgrade. Can anyone comment on whether this is right (such a small price diff or was I delusional after 8000 different ads) and whether the diff between P120 and P133 is significant? Oops, just remembered another point about P120 vs P133. Machines with a 60Mhz bus only need 70ns memory, machines with a 66Mhz bus need 60ns. So vendors will try to unload their 70ns DRAM by selling it in 120Mhz machines (or 150Mhz), which leaves you somewhat high and dry if/when you upgrade later. Going forward, you don't want 70ns DRAM (heck, you only barely want 60ns :-). Later, -- scott hess <shess@one.net> (606) 578-0412 http://w3.one.net/~shess/ <Favorite unused computer book title: The Idiots Guide to the Zen of Dummies in a Nutshell in Seven Days, Unleashed>
From: rencsok@channelu.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: APEX 4.6 GB OPTICAL HARD DRIVE Date: 11 Apr 1997 14:16:16 GMT Organization: Michigan State University Sender: -Auth- @ascended.channelu.com Message-ID: <5ilh3g$a9g$1@msunews.cl.msu.edu> References: <860645494.20117@dejanews.com> Cc: dsolis@data.net.mx In <860645494.20117@dejanews.com> dsolis@data.net.mx wrote: > Has anyone been able to format and use the PinnacleMicro Apex > under NeXTStep?. It's a double-sided MO disk, and holds > 2.3gig on each side. > > Any experience (disktab?) or comments would be appreciated by e-mail if > possible. > > TIA > Uck.. Your going to need a disktab for two partitions (we still have the 2G limit). How you'd get NeXTStep to mount both of them when inserting the media (via automounter) would still have to be solved (if even possible). I've never tried putting two partitions on a MO to see if the automounter would mount them both. :| Randy
From: rencsok@channelu.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: 2 GB limit before or after formatting? Date: 11 Apr 1997 14:30:47 GMT Organization: Michigan State University Sender: -Auth- @ascended.channelu.com Message-ID: <5ilhun$a9g$2@msunews.cl.msu.edu> References: <5hv9gq$38c$1@kaopala.mhpcc.edu> <5ie3hm$jmc@news.grolier.fr> Cc: levenez@club-internet.fr In <5ie3hm$jmc@news.grolier.fr> Eric Levenez wrote: > decoy_id@stop_junk_on_the.net (Lee Altenberg) wrote: > >I just got a 2.15 GB IBM UltraStar 2ES drive to run under NEXTSTEP 3.3. I know > >that 3.3 has a 2 GB limit per partition. Is that a limit on the space before or > >after formatting? I know that the disk will come out under 2GB after > >formatting. So if the limit applies to space after formatting, I won't have any > >problem or waste. But if the limit applies on space before formatting, I will > >want to split off 150 MB into another partition (I'll use it for my primary > >swapfile). > > I have a IBM 4 GB on NS 3.3. I have to make 3 partitions because the > disk (after formated) has a little more than 4 GB. The two first are > just below 2 GB, the last one is a little 400 MB. > > Here is my disktab entry : > > DFRSS4F|DFRSS4F-512|IBM DFRSS4F:\ > :ty=fixed_rw_scsi:nc#4392:nt#16:ns#135:ss#512:rm#7200:\ > :fp#320:bp#0:ng#0:gs#0:ga#0:ao#0:\ > :os=sdmach:z0#64:z1#192:hn=tasha:rw=a:rw=b:\ > :pa#0:sa#3997696:ba#8192:fa#1024:ca#32:da#4096:ra#3:oa=time:\ > :ia:ta=4.3BSD:\ > :pb#3997696:sb#3997696:bb#8192:fb#1024:cb#32:db#4096:rb#3:ob=time:\ > :ib:tb=4.3BSD:\ > :pc#7995392:sc#811008:bc#8192:fc#1024:cc#32:dc#4096:rc#10:oc=time:\ > :ic:tc=4.3BSD: > You can't get up over 4M blocks? Did you try sa > 4000000? I would have thought one could get 4194000 blocks or there abouts which would eliminate the need for a third partition.. Here is mine for a Conner that does just under 2GB per partition. CONNER CFP4207S 4.28GB|CONNER|CFP4207S|4.28GB|CFP4207S-1024:\ :ty=fixed_rw_scsi:nc#3384:nt#20:ns#62:ss#1024:rm#7200:\ :fp#160:bp#256:\ :os=sdmach:z0#32:z1#96:hn=ascended:rw=a:rw=b:\ :pa#0:sa#2097151:ba#8192:fa#1024:ca#4:da#4096:ra#5:oa=time:\ :ia:ta=4.3BSD\ :pb#2097151:sb#2096992:bb#8192:fb#1024:cb#8:db#4096:rb#5:ob=time:\ :ib:tb=4.3BSD: Now if you want a 400M swap partition your disktab might be the ticket BTW: IMHO Be careful about putting a seperate swap partition on your HD's in some circumstances it can really work out your drive if you get into a swapping circumstance where the heads do a lot of moving back and forth (like if you had / on one partition /usr on another and /private/vm on another). Say your reading in a 20M file off / and you have to swap! Your disk will have to move the heads from / to swap and back again for every swap action. This can be quie hard on a HD. Randy
From: bestor@cs.wisc.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Tektronix tablet on NS3.3/m68k? Date: 11 Apr 1997 18:09:34 GMT Organization: University of Wisconsin, Madison Message-ID: <5iluou$1e6a@news.doit.wisc.edu> Does anyone know if it is possible to attach a Tektronix 4957 graphics tablet (serial interface) to a NeXT box running 3.3. What tablets besides Wacom can be used, if any? Anything needed besides InstallTablet.app? Thanks, - Gareth -- Gareth Bestor bestor@cs.wisc.edu Computer Sciences Department http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~bestor University of Wisconsin-Madison
From: Jeff Hallgren <jhall@abaton.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: HELP! Quantum HD won't power up Date: Sat, 29 Mar 1997 11:46:00 -0500 Organization: I make stacks of papers, then throw them away. Message-ID: <333D4748.314A@abaton.com> References: <5hhas6$i0d$1@was.hooked.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Brian Dear <birdrock@well.com> Brian Dear wrote: > > I have a Canon object.station 41 machine with a Quantum 1.2 GB HD. > Recently I shut down the machine and when I brought it back up, the hard > disk would not spin up, and so therefore the machine cannot boot NEXTSTEP. > The object station(s) I used awhile back became increasingly hard to boot. At one point I was wrapping the drive in a heating pad (!!) It works, apparently loosening up the gunk inside that prevents it from spinning up. Shortly after that the ethernet went out... Don't put any money into repairing a Canon object.station 41. -- Jeff Hallgren jhallgre@abaton.com
From: scholz@leo.org (Bernhard Scholz) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: NeXT and Intel Backups incompatible? Date: 11 Apr 1997 18:11:43 GMT Organization: Institut fuer Informatik der Universitaet Muenchen Message-ID: <5ilusv$ke@xenia.informatik.uni-muenchen.de> Hello, I'm using an Intel OPENSTEP machine with an attached HP 2GB DAT streamer. At work I use an NeXT Turbo Color with attached Archive Python DAT streamer. My problem is, that I can't take a DAT tape recorded on one computer and read it in on the other. I backup'ed several files with different length on both computers, using gnutar. When I insert the tape on the other computer, gnutar won't recognize the archive again. Also dd always only reads 85 records of 32k blocks. I tried different blocking factors and byte swabbing (using dd conf=swab), however it didn't help. What am I doing wrong? Is a DAT backup fixed to the underlying hardware? Is the hardware dependency the computer or the backup device? Any advice would be very much appreciated! Many greetings, Bernhard. -- Bernhard Scholz http://www.leo.org/~scholz/ Peanuts FTP Admin http://peanuts.leo.org/ scholz@leo.org, (StuSta ONLY: boerny@xenia.hsh.stusta.mhn.de)
From: kdb@pegasus.ece.utexas.edu (Kurt D. Bollacker) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: DynaMO 540 and SYS.230 Date: 11 Apr 1997 21:42:49 GMT Organization: The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas Message-ID: <5imb8p$n6$1@geraldo.cc.utexas.edu> Does anyone know if Fujitsu's DynaMO 640 and/or Olympus's SYS.230 MO drives will work with my Color NeXTStation running NS3.2? I'd heard stories about the older DynaMO 230 not working, but I truly can't recall. Thanks for any info you can provide.. ...................................................................... : Kurt D. Bollacker University of Texas at Austin : : kdb@pine.ece.utexas.edu P.O. Box 8566, Austin, TX 78713 : :....................................................................:
From: jcarr37863@aol.com (JCarr37863) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: fs: st1480n scsi drives $80 Date: 11 Apr 1997 23:24:29 GMT Organization: AOL http://www.aol.com Message-ID: <19970411232400.TAA26014@ladder01.news.aol.com> about 5 left. UPS SUN SCSI Built to order with support GSA schedule Maryland home page http://www.digitalcity.com/powerstar 800-209-5556
From: Creature@trix.com (Mr. Kawasaki) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Need Help Getting SB16 PnP to work. Date: Sat, 12 Apr 1997 00:02:50 GMT Organization: MindSpring Enterprises Message-ID: <3351d069.10177088@news.mindspring.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I put in all the correct settings, directly from the manual for the sound card. Also, I've had success in Linux using the exact settings from the book, so I know that's not the problem. I heard someting from someone a while back that said you need to change someting in the Expert settings for it to work with PnP. Later, Nick E-Mail me at cybobob@mindspring.com
From: "Raymond L. Ehrlich" <rehrlich@mail.gte.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Next users in Tampa, Florida Date: 11 Apr 1997 23:54:34 GMT Organization: GTE Intelligent Network Services, GTE INS Message-ID: <5imivq$qjg$1@news9.gte.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Are there any NeXT user in the Tampa Bay, Florida area.
From: Creature@trix.com (Mr. Kawasaki) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Does Parallel Zip Drive work with OPENSTEP? Date: Sat, 12 Apr 1997 00:04:56 GMT Organization: MindSpring Enterprises Message-ID: <3353d140.10392580@news.mindspring.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi, I own an external parallel zip drive and would really hate to find out that my zip drive doesn't work. Later, Nick E-Mail me at cybobob@mindspring.com
From: Isaac <isaac@pobox.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: I highly recommend DeepSpace Tech. for NeXT! Date: Thu, 10 Apr 1997 15:33:46 -0400 Organization: Florida State University Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.95.970410151456.10038A-100000@lab.housing.fsu.edu> References: <19970409234300.TAA12228@ladder01.news.aol.com> <334f24b3.40728015@news.ping.be> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII In-Reply-To: <334f24b3.40728015@news.ping.be> On Thu, 10 Apr 1997, Trop long wrote: > >I bought a complete NeXTstation Color system from DeepSpace Technologies > >last week and am completely satisfied with their service. When I get good [etc.] > >DeepSpace. Keep up the first class service! I look forward to doing > >business with you in the future. > > > How much are you paid for this praise? Probably nothing - If you'd read this newsgroup from more than a few months, you would have caught the last round of praise for DeepSpace Tech (back when they were moving complete mono NeXTstations for $270, including shipping). I myself have nothing but good things to say about my dealings with DeepSpace Technologies - I got what I ordered in a timely fashion at a good price. I think you may have the gain on your "spam radar" set a little too high. Even if the post was spam (which I, based on my experiences, am inclined to doubt), your nasty public comment was uncalled for. (I realize I am responding in a public forum as well - by hiding behind anonymity you left me no choice.) -Isaac
From: Creature@trix.com (Mr. Kawasaki) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Need: Prog to watch TV with using vid input card Date: Sat, 12 Apr 1997 04:32:49 GMT Organization: MindSpring Enterprises Message-ID: <33501ec4.9370632@news.mindspring.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi, I just bought a STB PCI TV video input card and don't like the idea of always having to be in win 95 or something just so I can watch tv. Is there some generic program that works with different video input cards that'll let me watch tv and, as a plus, save as quicktime or capture frames. Later, Nick E-Mail me at cybobob@mindspring.com
From: kdb@pegasus.ece.utexas.edu (Kurt D. Bollacker) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: DynaMO 640 and SYS.230 Date: 12 Apr 1997 04:28:10 GMT Organization: The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas Message-ID: <5in30q$l58$1@geraldo.cc.utexas.edu> Does anyone know if Fujitsu's DynaMO 640 or 230 and/or Olympus's SYS.230 MO drives will work with my Color NeXTStation running NS3.2? I'd heard stories about the older DynaMO 230 not working, but I truly can't recall. Thanks for any info you can provide.. ...................................................................... : Kurt D. Bollacker University of Texas at Austin : : kdb@pine.ece.utexas.edu P.O. Box 8566, Austin, TX 78713 : :....................................................................:
From: jaegan@ms.uky.edu (R. Humphress) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.marketplace,comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Anyone dealt with Tito A. Lugtu before? Date: Sat, 12 Apr 1997 01:42:27 +0100 Organization: Univ. of KY Message-ID: <jaegan-ya023580001204970142270001@news-host.ms.uky.edu> References: <E88uEK.JsL@midway.uchicago.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Yeah. A system and printer which I now own unfortunately. The printer doesn't want to feed paper through (solution to this problem is pending. I talked to a local hardware guru, who gave me some things to try, but I've been busy, and the printer is home, while myself and the station are at college.) As for the station, it has a problem with the onboard video. (specifically, at bootup their are vertical columns of pixels which are doubled...about 5-8 pixels wide. once it's been up for ~30 min or so, half of those double lines go to a solid color, and the thing looks like it's in jail.) Other than that everything is fine. As far as the processor, memory etc. all seems in order. I'm using it as a server, so I don't really require console login, but it's rather annoying to have spent so much for so little. If anyone has any suggestions about any of the above, email me. He also stopped answering my email after he got my money...I sincerely hope he doesn't sleep well nights. -R. Humphress jaegan@inslab.uky.edu In article <E88uEK.JsL@midway.uchicago.edu>, tachang@gsbux1.uchicago.edu (Andrew Chang) wrote: > Hi, > > I have some unfinished business with Tito A. Lugtu, an engineering PhD > who lives in Daly City, California. I have sent several e-mails to > his e-mail address "talugtu@slip.net", but he refused to respond. > I just wonder if anyone in this newsgroup has dealt with him before, > or has any information about him? The last time I could remember, > he was trying to sell a NeXT system with a NeXT printer. > > Thanks for any help you can provide.
From: john@wpa.com (John Bartley) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: REQUEST SENSE ERROR Date: 12 Apr 1997 04:49:45 GMT Organization: -=MO.NET=- MVP-Net, Inc's Missouri Operations Message-ID: <5in499$381@twain.mvp.net> Apr 8 10:14:52 nimno mach: st: major number 8 Apr 8 10:14:52 nimno mach: st0: ARCHIVE Python 28388-XXX 4.98 Apr 8 10:14:52 nimno mach: Registering: st0 at Target 3 LUN 0 at sc0 Apr 8 10:14:52 nimno mach: sd0: REQUEST SENSE ERROR; FATAL. Apr 8 10:14:52 nimno mach: IO error on pagein (breadDirect) /usr/Devices/SCSItape.config/PostLoad: cannot execute Before I spend money to call NeXT tech support, can anyone give me some free advice about what these errors mean and I how could diagnose what's wrong or better yet, how to fix it? The drive works fine on black hardware but I get this error when it's connected to Intel hardware. I'm using an Adaptec 2940 SCSI card, and have no problems with the external SCSI disk attached to it (the Python DAT drive is daisy-chained with the disk drive) and there is also an internal CD ROM. The drive has a "digital active termination" capability, but I have that deselected and am instead using an actual termination block.
From: saltine@sexy.isd.net (Eric Ulmer) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: I highly recommend DeepSpace Tech. for NeXT! References: <5ik5f0$8oi@news.cloud9.net> Message-ID: <334f3101.0@usamrid.isd.net> Date: 12 Apr 97 06:51:45 GMT In article <5ik5f0$8oi@news.cloud9.net> mgoumans@cloud9.net (Mike Goumans) writes: > Trop long (Global.Market@canbuy.all) wrote: > : dmcke40249@aol.com (DMcke40249) wrote: > : > : >I bought a complete NeXTstation Color system from DeepSpace Technologies > : >last week and am completely satisfied with their service. When I get good > : >service somewhere I like to pass it along. It was the best deal I could > : >find on the web after looking for quite some time. My machine arrived > : >yesterday morning, four days after I ordered it by phone. It was extremely > : >well packed and in excellent condition. They had installed a fresh copy of > : >NS 3.3 and had checked everything out before the system was shipped. Bravo > : >DeepSpace. Keep up the first class service! I look forward to doing > : >business with you in the future. > : > > : How much are you paid for this praise? > : > If you ever dealt with them, you wouldnt ask a question like that. > As a proud owner of a DeepSpace system too, I agree totally. See my web page on Next stuff if you get bored, too. http://www.isd.net/eulmer
From: jq@papoose.quick.com (James E. Quick) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: NeXT and Intel Backups incompatible? Date: 12 Apr 1997 09:54:19 -0400 Organization: Quick and Associates Message-ID: <5io46b$7dc@papoose.quick.com> References: <5ilusv$ke@xenia.informatik.uni-muenchen.de> In article <5ilusv$ke@xenia.informatik.uni-muenchen.de>, Bernhard Scholz <scholz@leo.org> wrote: >Hello, > >I'm using an Intel OPENSTEP machine with an attached HP 2GB DAT streamer. >At work I use an NeXT Turbo Color with attached Archive Python DAT streamer. > >My problem is, that I can't take a DAT tape recorded on one computer and read >it in on the other. I backup'ed several files with different length on both >computers, using gnutar. When I insert the tape on the other computer, gnutar >won't recognize the archive again. Also dd always only reads 85 records of >32k blocks. > >I tried different blocking factors and byte swabbing (using dd conf=swab), >however it didn't help. > >What am I doing wrong? Is a DAT backup fixed to the underlying hardware? >Is the hardware dependency the computer or the backup device? > >Any advice would be very much appreciated! I have never encountered this behavior. Gnutar and dump/restore are designed to be endian independant. I suggest that the problem is with one of your drives. Though it could be a difference in driver configuration. Try the following test. First use a cleaning cartridge on both drives. Create a gnutar archive on each system. Cut tape A on Host A to drive A Cut tape B on Host B to drive B Swap the tape drives. try to read tape A on drive B connected to host A try to read tape B on drive A connected to host B If neither of these tests work, then you are dealing with an incompatibility between the drives themselves. Since DDS is an industry standard, this is probably a result of one of the drives being out of alignment. You would have to find a third DAT drive to determine which drive is misaligned and either needs repair or replacement. Also possible is that you have drivers configured differently between the two systems. If you can read both tapes from one of the hosts after swapping the drives, but can read only one tape on the other host, then make sure that both drivers are setting variable length blocks or that both drivers are using a fixed block length of 512. Read the man page for stblocksize (/usr/etc/stblocksize) to do this. I hope this helps. -- ___ ___ | James E. Quick jq@quick.com / / / | Quick & Associates NeXTMail O.K. \_/ (_\/ | Apple, we know the song's not written yet, ) | but could you at least hum a few more bars?
From: rlove@neosoft.com (Robert B. Love ) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: DynaMO 540 and SYS.230 Date: 12 Apr 1997 18:00:59 GMT Organization: NeoSoft, Inc. Message-ID: <5ioikr$ebd@uuneo.neosoft.com> References: <5imb8p$n6$1@geraldo.cc.utexas.edu> Cc: kdb@pegasus.ece.utexas.edu In <5imb8p$n6$1@geraldo.cc.utexas.edu> Kurt D. Bollacker wrote: > I'd heard stories about the older DynaMO 230 not working, but I truly can't > recall. I've had a DynaMO 230 on my NeXTstation for over a year with no problems. Works great. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Bob Love MIME & NeXT Mail OK rlove@neosoft.com PGP key available ----------------------------------------------------------------
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware From: Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Subject: Re: what is the connector in the turbo MB center ???? Message-ID: <E8JDx8.5Hy@nidat.sub.org> Sender: nitezki@nidat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany References: <334BD285.4ED9@why.net> Date: Sat, 12 Apr 1997 17:58:20 GMT In article <334BD285.4ED9@why.net> "Hari Rajagopal, Kodak Consultant" <grimgaunt@why.net> writes: > What is the connector (looks like a SIMM slot) in the center of a turbo > mono motherboard for ? is it a DSP memory add on slot ?? > Right. But unfortunately, there is no market for such memory anymore. -- 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 e. After you booted the machine successfully, you could NFSexport the CD from the SUN and if you know to do a proper NFSmount from the NeXT (there's a trick with Solaris block size) you could successfully run Upgrader.app from the NFS mounted CD. > lastly, > > if there are no errors during power up (rom monitor ) does that mean it > recognizes the scsi drive (internal ) ?? > Only if it was configured to search for it. If it was out for a netboot... -- 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: sanguish@digifix.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.announce,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.programmer Subject: NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Resources on the Net Supersedes: <28108860302827@digifix.com> Date: 13 Apr 1997 04:00:07 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <15479860904022@digifix.com> Topics include: Stepwise NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Information WWW site eduSTEP WWW site NeXT Computer, Inc. WWW site comp.sys.next newsgroups related newsgroups comp.sys.next newsgroups mailing list ftp sites NeXTanswers Stepwise NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Information WWW site =============================================== This online community resource includes - ISV company pages - ISV product descriptions - NEXTSTEP Developer Directory - NEXTSTEP Community WhitePages - Mailing List archives and information You can connect via the world wide web at: http://www.stepwise.com/ Suggestions or comments can be directed to me at sanguish@digifix.com If you would like to get your company and product information on Stepwise, please contact me at sanguish@digifix.com. eduSTEP WWW site ================ http://www.nmr.embl-heidelberg.de/eduStep/ eduStep aims to provide up-to-date information on: - NextStep tools and projects for scientists. - Third-party products interesting for the educational and scientific community (with educational discounts noted, where they exist). - A listing of resellers and shops interested in working with customers in the educational community. - Conferences, meetings, workshops - Major projects, such as SciTools, EMBL's project to develop a NextStep scientific work environment - Status reports on GNUStep, a freely-available implementation of OpenStep now being developed NeXT Computer, Inc. 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From: Erik A Hansen <hansen_e@cmr.fsu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Ariel DATport Date: 12 Apr 1997 22:01:08 GMT Organization: Florida State University Message-ID: <5ip0n4$f85@news.fsu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit I'm looking for an Ariel DATport for the NeXT. It is a breakout box that provides digital inputs (and outputs?) to the NeXT's DSP. I'm mainly looking for one for the opportunity to have one, money is limited while I'm attending school. I'm also open to any other ideas for sound inputs for the NeXT. Anyone want to part with their Digital Ears, cheaply? thanks, erik -- Erik Ariston Hansen hansen_e@cmr.fsu.edu http://otto.cmr.fsu.edu/~hansen_e
From: gwhite@bodnext.bio.dfo.ca (George White) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: [Q] NeXT MO cartridges (with formatting!) on other drives? Date: 13 Apr 1997 15:36:24 -0300 Organization: Bedford Institute of Oceanography Message-ID: <w1a7mi6srbr.fsf@bodnext.bio.dfo.ca> Our optical drive has the "spin up/spin down" problem, but since it is quite clean inside (it was running with a filter installed), I assume the problem is not something that can be solved with cleaning, and in any case, we no longer need the NeXT optical drives as we have a large NFS server. I don't need to recover any data from the cartridges. We do use an optical drive to store images on a Mac, with an Iomega drive. I tried to initialize a NeXT cart. in this drive, using the FWB SCSI tools, but the drive ejects the NeXT formatted cartridges. Before I dispose of the NeXT cartridges, I'd like to know if anyone has succeeded in reformatting NeXT M/O cartridges with some non-NeXT drive.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Pentium Pro Motherboard and OpenStep Message-ID: <1997Apr13.143344.26500@roper.uwyo.edu> From: nor@panoramix.uwyo.edu (norbert pirzkal) Date: 13 Apr 97 14:33:43 MDT References: <1997Mar28.073854.26419@roper.uwyo.edu> <5hjpvq$9td@news.4dcomm.com> Distribution: world Cc: bisk@4dcomm.com In <5hjpvq$9td@news.4dcomm.com> Stephen D. Biskis wrote: > I've built one NS3.3 Pentium Pro box using a TYAN Titan-Pro M/B: > S1662 440FX PCI-ISA V1.1 System board. > > I've had constant lock-ups due, I think, to video. > If I run BackSpace this system will definitely lock-up within 2-12 hours. > Otherwise it runs for days until the system hangs. But it will eventually > hang. ... > I love the TYAN Pentium M/B's but probably won't be buying anymore of their > PRO variety for NS. > Thanks for the info. I went ahead and ordered a SuperMicro P6SNS-200 with a built in Adaptec 7880 controller (UW7940). The systems has been running flawlessly for over a week now. It has been on 24h a day, 7 days a week. NeXTSTEP 3.3 even recognizes the onboard controller (after downloading the new SCSI driver from next.com). I think I would recommand the Supermicro motherboard. Actually, and since the TYAN and the SuperMicro motherboards seemed about the same, the reason why I went with SuperMicro is that I did not care much at all for the TYAN homepage.... Silly reason.... It was really a coin toss. -- Norbert Pirzkal http://faraday.uwyo.edu/grads/npirzkal P.O. Box 3905 Physics & Astronomy Department University Station Laramie, WY, 82071
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware From: dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca (David Evans) Subject: Re: [Q] NeXT MO cartridges (with formatting!) on other drives? Sender: news@novice.uwaterloo.ca (Mr. News) Message-ID: <E8LEup.o9r@novice.uwaterloo.ca> Date: Sun, 13 Apr 1997 20:13:37 GMT References: <w1a7mi6srbr.fsf@bodnext.bio.dfo.ca> Organization: University of Waterloo In article <w1a7mi6srbr.fsf@bodnext.bio.dfo.ca>, George White <aa056@chebucto.ns.ca> wrote: > >We do use an optical drive to store images on a Mac, with an Iomega >drive. I tried to initialize a NeXT cart. in this drive, using the >FWB SCSI tools, but the drive ejects the NeXT formatted cartridges. >Before I dispose of the NeXT cartridges, I'd like to know if anyone >has succeeded in reformatting NeXT M/O cartridges with some non-NeXT >drive. > I don't think it's possible. I gather that the NeXT drive (which has a good dose of Crandall in it, I'm told) does some pretty strange stuff. But, instead of junking the carts, why not sell them on c.s.n.marketplace? There are lots of NeXT people who still use their optical drives. -- David Evans (NeXTMail OK) dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca Computer/Synth Junkie http://bbcr.uwaterloo.ca/~dfevans/ University of Waterloo "Default is the value selected by the composer Ontario, Canada overridden by your command." - Roland TR-707 Manual
From: John Kheit <jkheit@cnj.digex.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: [Q] NeXT MO cartridges (with formatting!) on other drives? Date: 13 Apr 1997 22:53:44 GMT Organization: monoChrome, Inc., NJ, USA Message-ID: <5iro5o$gto@news3.digex.net> References: <w1a7mi6srbr.fsf@bodnext.bio.dfo.ca> <E8LEup.o9r@novice.uwaterloo.ca> In article <w1a7mi6srbr.fsf@bodnext.bio.dfo.ca>, George White <aa056@chebucto.ns.ca> wrote: > >We do use an optical drive to store images on a Mac, with an >Iomega drive. I tried to initialize a NeXT cart. in this drive, >using the FWB SCSI tools, but the drive ejects the NeXT formatted >cartridges. Before I dispose of the NeXT cartridges, I'd like >to know if anyone has succeeded in reformatting NeXT M/O cartridges >with some non-NeXT drive. There was an old Canon SCSI version of the NeXT optical, and it could use the same optical discs...as well as double sided 512Mb canon opticals. It's likely not made anymore.... I don't know where you could find one... It's likely best to just sell the OD's to some NeXT folks... -- Thanks, be well, take care, later, John Kheit; Self expressed... __________________________________________________________________ monoChrome, Inc. ASCII, MIME, PGP, SUN, & NeXTmail OK NeXT/OPENSTEP Developer mailto:jkheit@cnj.digex.net Telepathy, It's coming... http://www.cnj.digex.net/~jkheit New York Law School You're dangerous because you're honest
From: planetary <planet@xmission.xmission.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: S3Virge black screen problem Date: 13 Apr 1997 19:04:09 -0600 Organization: XMission Internet (801 539 0900) Message-ID: <5irvq9$fef@xmission.xmission.com> References: <5ibibt$nfp$1@sun579.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de> <5iro84$jna$1@Mars.mcs.net> Merlin J. Mathesius <merlinm@justus.chi.il.us> wrote: : Stefan Boehringer wrote: : > using a DiamondStealth3D2000 under NS3.3 I experience the black screen : > when switching to vga mode syndrome. I tried the "Boot Graphics"=No : > and "Shutdown graphics"=No work around. However while shutting down is : > now working the boot process still sucks. Since the console which shows : > up with "Boot Graphics"=No is also in vga mode I wonder how this worked : > to others. : > : > Has anybody experienced this on S3Virge as well? Even better- is a : > workaround known? : Yep. I'm experiencing the same problem. :-( My P5-133 with a Matrox card barfs when switching to SoftPC full-screen mode, but works flawlessly in all other ways. I thought there was a note on this behavior somewhere, but I can't remember where. ..........kris -- Kristopher Magnusson kris@xmission.com (no NeXTmail, please) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Contains freshness saver packet. DO NOT EAT.
From: "Darren Reely" <dreely@cyberstore.ca> Subject: New HD on Old Station? Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Message-ID: <01bc4870$f5f14ca0$21422dc7@omni3.omni> Date: 14 Apr 97 01:14:51 GMT I've asked this before but never saw an answer. What newer hard drives will work on an older model Nextstation (25Mhz 30pin simms)? Any experiences welcome. Thankyou, Darren
From: "David S. Strubbe" <daves@en.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: MIDI / NS Black Date: 14 Apr 1997 02:21:04 GMT Organization: Exchange Network Services Message-ID: <01bc4880$fda2a600$505894ce@cessna> Anybody out there doing MIDI work with black hardware? Special interface? What sort of software? Any info appreciated - thanks IA Dave Strubbe daves@en.com
From: Merlin J. Mathesius <merlinm@justus.chi.il.us> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: S3Virge black screen problem Date: 13 Apr 1997 17:55:00 -0500 Organization: False Message-ID: <5iro84$jna$1@Mars.mcs.net> References: <5ibibt$nfp$1@sun579.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de> Stefan Boehringer wrote: > using a DiamondStealth3D2000 under NS3.3 I experience the black screen > when switching to vga mode syndrome. I tried the "Boot Graphics"=No > and "Shutdown graphics"=No work around. However while shutting down is > now working the boot process still sucks. Since the console which shows > up with "Boot Graphics"=No is also in vga mode I wonder how this worked > to others. > > Has anybody experienced this on S3Virge as well? Even better- is a > workaround known? Yep. I'm experiencing the same problem. :-( I've a got machine with an ASUS P55T2P4 motherboard (Triton-2 chip set) and a 133MHz Pentium. I've got a Diamond Stealth 3D 2000 (2MB) video card in it, and I'm trying to run NS 3.3. The ["Boot Graphics" = No] and [boot: -v] tricks simply don't help as NeXTanswer #1470 says. It's just plain maddening! The video works flawlessly under both Win95 and XFree86/Linux, so it's definitely NEXTSTEP that's screwy... Unfortunately, I haven't been able to figure out a workaround either. MerlinM
From: ihate@spammers.com (bf) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Quickcam? Date: 14 Apr 1997 05:29:39 GMT Organization: Crack Whores of America Message-ID: <5isfc3$nke$1@brokaw.wa.com> Can i use my mac's quickcam on my next color station? is there software avail to run it?? -b ------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.halcyon.com/larryf/ -- larryf at halcyon dot com ----------------------------------------------------- --NOTE: Email address in header is fake due to spam-- -------------------------------------------------------------
From: rencsok@channelu.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: What kind of RAM for my slab? Date: 7 Apr 1997 21:37:17 GMT Organization: Michigan State University Sender: -Auth- @ascended.channelu.com Message-ID: <5ibped$env$5@msunews.cl.msu.edu> References: <Pine.SOL.3.95.970406221757.26812A-100000@lore.cs.purdue.edu> Cc: cookca@cs.purdue.edu In <Pine.SOL.3.95.970406221757.26812A-100000@lore.cs.purdue.edu> ** Craig Cook ** wrote: > Hi > > I just bought a color slab and when I turn it on I get no video. I think > I might be trying the wrong kind of memory. It has 72pin slots and is a > 25mHz board. 68040. > > What kind of ram do I need to use in it and where exactly do I put it (ie > close to power supply or farthest from power supply) > Doesn't sound like a good sign. You should definately see something on the monitor-even if it's only a ROM prompt. I've seen symptoms similiar to this on a box that had a fried EEPROM. The system would power on (blank black screen) but then just hang until one did a hard power down (i.e. pull the power cord 'ack') As to where to stuff RAM. If I remember right the slots nearest the power supply are the ones you want to fill first (in pairs of course). 72pin parity or non (should be matched sets, but I've seen systems work with unmatched RAM) 100ns or better. Randy rencsok@channelu.com
From: "ohjy" <ohjy@softmagic.co.kr> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: #9 imagine 128 series 2 with 4MB DRAM Date: 14 Apr 1997 07:43:03 GMT Organization: Korea Telecom Message-ID: <01bc485c$6e584140$0973eccb@ohjy> Hello, My current system is a generic pentium 133MHz running Nextstep 3.3J. I am trying to install #9 Imagine 128 series 2 video card with 4MB DRAM. It is installed OK with Configure.app and during booting process, I get the message saying the driver, "beta driver in NeXTanswer #2488", is loaded properly, but as soon as I get onto the login menu stage, the screen goes black and led goes from green to red on the monitor. I tried with 2 different kinds of PC's and monitors. The video card works fine with Win95. Does the driver only support VRAM and not DRAM? The NeXTanswer document regarding the driver only mentions VRAM? Any help will be greatly appreciated. Please respond to: ohjy@softmagic.co.kr Lewis Oh SoftMagic Inc.
From: "ohjy" <ohjy@softmagic.co.kr> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: #9 imagine 128 series 2 with 4MB DRAM and ATM Card Date: 14 Apr 1997 07:49:50 GMT Organization: Korea Telecom Message-ID: <01bc485d$62147ec0$0973eccb@ohjy> Hello, My current system is a generic pentium 133MHz running Nextstep 3.3J. I am trying to install #9 Imagine 128 series 2 video card with 4MB DRAM. It is installed OK with Configure.app and during booting process, I get the message saying the driver, "beta driver in NeXTanswer #2488", is loaded properly, but as soon as I get onto the login menu stage, the screen goes black and led goes from green to red on the monitor. I tried with 2 different kinds of PC's and monitors. The video card works fine with Win95. Does the driver only support VRAM and not DRAM? The NeXTanswer document regarding the driver only mentions VRAM? Any help will be greatly appreciated. Please respond to: ohjy@softmagic.co.kr Lewis Oh SoftMagic Inc. PS: Any ATM cards for NS3.3 or Openstep 4.2 for mach? Thanks.
From: "amaia" <amaia@infomaniak.ch> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: USB ????? Date: 14 Apr 1997 11:39:19 GMT Organization: Infomaniak Message-ID: <01bc48c8$465eac80$54b8c281@compaq4.td.unige.ch> I must info to USB ??
From: Matt Seibert <mseibert@mail.cablehealth.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: NeXT Specs Date: Mon, 14 Apr 1997 10:37:14 -0500 Organization: HealthWay Interactive Message-ID: <33524F2A.41F3@ita1.inow.com> References: <01bc485c$6e584140$0973eccb@ohjy> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Can someone fill me in on what the different specs for NeXT Stations vs Turbo Stations and Cube vs Turbo Cubes are? I am looking for a NeXT system, but don't really know what iw what with the hardware. I have worked with the systems before, but never really paid attention to which one. Is there an archive I could parse? Please respond to mseibert@ita1.inow.com ThanX! Matt
From: daj@nwu.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: FAXing with PPP Date: 14 Apr 1997 15:34:30 GMT Organization: Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, US Distribution: world Message-ID: <5itiq6$17m@news.acns.nwu.edu> I have a ZyXEL 2864 FAX/Modem. I have the modem connected to the first com port (serial port 1, /dev/cufa). I am currently using the modem and PPP to dial out. What I'd like to know is, what needs to be done to allow me to use the FAX features of the modem? When I configure a FAX modem in the PrinterManager, then the port (/dev/cufa) is busy when I try to use PPP. Also, when I have established a modem queue and I try to use it it appears that nothing gets sent. Do I need to send some sort of modem commands to switch the modem to fax mode? David A. Johnson, Research Engineer, Northwestern University
From: daj@nwu.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: #9 imagine 128 series 2 with 4MB DRAM Date: 14 Apr 1997 15:28:35 GMT Organization: Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, US Distribution: world Message-ID: <5itif3$17m@news.acns.nwu.edu> References: <01bc485c$6e584140$0973eccb@ohjy> In #9 imagine 128 series 2 with 4MB DRAM comp.sys.next.hardware <ArticleDisplayer: 0xdaa9c> writes, > Hello, > > My current system is a generic pentium 133MHz running Nextstep 3.3J. I am > trying to install #9 Imagine 128 series 2 video card with 4MB DRAM. It is > installed OK with Configure.app and during booting process, I get the > message saying the driver, "beta driver in NeXTanswer #2488", is loaded > properly, but as soon as I get onto the login menu stage, the screen goes > black and led goes from green to red on the monitor. > I tried with 2 different kinds of PC's and monitors. The video card works > fine with Win95. Does the driver only support VRAM and not DRAM? The > NeXTanswer document regarding the driver only mentions VRAM? > Any help will be greatly appreciated. > > Please respond to: > > ohjy@softmagic.co.kr > Lewis Oh > SoftMagic Inc. In #9 imagine 128 series 2 with 4MB DRAM comp.sys.next.hardware you wrote, > Hello, > > My current system is a generic pentium 133MHz running Nextstep 3.3J. I am > trying to install #9 Imagine 128 series 2 video card with 4MB DRAM. It is > installed OK with Configure.app and during booting process, I get the > message saying the driver, "beta driver in NeXTanswer #2488", is loaded > properly, but as soon as I get onto the login menu stage, the screen goes > black and led goes from green to red on the monitor. > I tried with 2 different kinds of PC's and monitors. The video card works > fine with Win95. Does the driver only support VRAM and not DRAM? The > NeXTanswer document regarding the driver only mentions VRAM? > Any help will be greatly appreciated. > > Please respond to: > > ohjy@softmagic.co.kr > Lewis Oh > SoftMagic Inc. I have had similar problems. I've posted several notes in the news groups regarding this. I've established a contact at NeXT, Marc Driftmeyer <Marc_Driftmeyer@next.com> who had forwarded my complaint to their driver division. When I last spoke to Marc, he said that NeXT had a beta fix they believed would fix the problems. The fix he spoke of was designed for #9's new 8Mb 128 Series 2 board. Now the bad news. If they posted it in NeXTAnswers then NeXT has a bug in their web pages, because it just isn't there. There seems to be entries for the driver (eg NeXTanswers 2350 and 2351 and 2349) however when I try to access #2350 or 2351 their system cant find the page. I emailed NeXT with this problem but I haven't heard a response yet (its been 2 weeks)! However I haven't checked NeXTanswers yet this week (its only Monday). This has put me in a real tight spot. I'm trying to standardize hardware and I was going to go with the #9 Imagine 128 Series 2. We have several existing machines that are up and running so this delay hasn't muddied that up. Unfortunately, I'm trying to order some new machines and I don't want to place an order until this problem is resolved. David A. Johnson, Research Engineer, Northwestern University
From: decoy_id@stop_junk_on_the.net (Lee Altenberg) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Opinions on Micron for NS/Intel? Date: 1 Apr 1997 00:24:00 GMT Organization: MHPCC Message-ID: <5hpkj1$5qv$1@kaopala.mhpcc.edu> References: <5hhg7a$kvb$2@solaris.cc.vt.edu> Cc: Chuck_Esterbrook@orcacomputer.com In <5hhg7a$kvb$2@solaris.cc.vt.edu> Chuck_Esterbrook@orcacomputer.com wrote: > Hi, > > Anyone have any experiences they would to share running NS/Intel on Micron > machines? > I have NS3.3 running on a Micron P133 Millenia Plus. I had purchased a P100 in April 1995, but it had data corruption problems and I returned it. I got the 133 in September 1995. There was some problem with the BIOS that hung the boot. Once I downgrade the BIOS, it worked just fine. It has worked great ever since. For some reason, Micron uses 70ns EDO RAM. The system still is very fast though. -- ======================================================================= Lee Altenberg, Ph.D. Research Affiliate, University of Hawai`i at Manoa Office: Maui High Performance Computing Center 550 Lipoa Parkway, Suite 100 Kihei, Maui HI 96753 Phone: (808) 879-5077 x 296 (work), (808) 879-5018 (fax) E-mail: altenberATmhpcc.edu <MIME and NeXT Mail o.k.> <Substitute @ for "AT"; done to stop junk e-mail> Web: http://pueo.mhpcc.edu/~altenber/ =======================================================================
From: "Hari Rajagopal, Kodak Consultant" <grimgaunt@why.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: still looking for Dallas Next users Date: Mon, 14 Apr 1997 16:29:51 -0500 Organization: Eastman Kodak Company Message-ID: <3352A1CF.7C6B@why.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I am still looking for Dallas Next users to load NS 3.3 on my system, I have a 'license to load' from MTech (resellers, so it would be legal). Hari
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: NeXT Specs Date: Mon, 14 Apr 1997 10:11:34 -0700 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970414100802.276G-100000@kira> References: <01bc485c$6e584140$0973eccb@ohjy> <33524F2A.41F3@ita1.inow.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: Matt Seibert <mseibert@mail.cablehealth.com> In-Reply-To: <33524F2A.41F3@ita1.inow.com> There is actually a great page for this that I just came across: http://www.computeractive.com/cAi/usedstuff/ has links to some specs for different NeXT hardware TjL -- TjL <luomat@peak.org> http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/ "Give a man a piece of working code and you solve his problem. Teach a man to write code and you give him a lifetime of new problems" -- me
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From: "MICHAEL DELAVEGA" <scot151@ibm.net> Subject: Sound card & Modem Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Organization: EASTERN CONNECTION Message-ID: <01bc4934$681ba320$7d5648a6@internet.usinet.scot151> Date: 15 Apr 97 00:28:59 GMT My modem has stoped working, when I remove the sound card, (16 bit Aztech) the modem works fine (modem is Boca 33.6 internal), if I put the sound card back in the modem does not work. The sound card works with or without the modem being present. Help !! Thanks Mike
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From: mitchell.allen@worldnet.att.net Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: New Drive Date: Tue, 15 Apr 1997 00:10:59 -0400 Organization: AT&T WorldNet Services Message-ID: <mitchell.allen-1504970010590001@61.detroit-003.mi.dial-access.att.net> I installed an additional HD (Quantum fireball 1.2 Gig) internally on the cube. The SCSI is set to #2, the original disk is #1. I ran build disk under NS 3.3 and ended up with what I thought was a bootable disk. I removed the older disk, reconfigured the new disk to ID #1 and tried to reboot. I got and error that said there was a problem running etc/mach_init I looked for etc/mach_init and found that it was not present on the new drive, in fact, almost nothing was present in /etc. Anyone have any idea why BuildDisk didn't just build it completely? Mitch
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From: dental@precipice.com (Rick Sanford) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: MIDI / NS Black Date: 14 Apr 1997 22:54:42 GMT Organization: Dental Records[tm] Message-ID: <5iucji$6fj@news1-alterdial.uu.net> References: <01bc4880$fda2a600$505894ce@cessna> Cc: daves@en.com In <01bc4880$fda2a600$505894ce@cessna> "David S. Strubbe" wrote: > Anybody out there doing MIDI work with black hardware? Special interface? > What sort of software? > > Any info appreciated - thanks IA > > Dave Strubbe > daves@en.com > > > a few of us ;-) interfaces include some MAC ones, trial and error may be best method or check FAQ for leads. just be sure you get the good NeXT serial cable. check out the Studio 3 app for opcode studio 3; there's also a NeXTMusic web site, and email group with info. The was once a company in Canada (Vancouver?) called Quest, Inc. (but not THAT Quest...) that made specific NeXT midi interfaces, a MidiLink and, I think Midi Link Plus (2 in and 1 out, with merge, I think). This was circa 1992. I had both of them, but had better luck with the simpler MidiLink (sans merge: 1 in, 2 out). appwise, see Musickit folks for Sequence.app, previously known as Presto, Calliope does midi, and much more, and various older, simpler sequncers and/or players. check ftp sites and music resources. -rick
From: fdonzel@tin.it (C.E.D. F. DONZELLI) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: HW/SW Dealers & Manufacturers urgently wanted. Date: Tue, 15 Apr 1997 05:04:25 GMT Organization: Telecom Italia - Video On Line Message-ID: <5iv2p3$98s@everest.vol.it> * *************English version available upon request.****************** * INVITO A TUTTE LE AZIENDE INDUSTRIALI E COMMERCIALI OPERANTI NEL SETTORE DELL'HARDWARE & SOFTWARE. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- C.E.D. - CENTRO ELABORAZIONE DATI F. DONZELLI - Comiso, RG, ITALY -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- La ns. Azienda, operante nel campo dei servizi telematici, ha deciso di collegare in Videoconferenza via-Internet ISDN la sua Sede principale e altre cinque sedi periferiche in Italia e all'estero. Nella sede principale, vorremmo installare n. 3 terminali che, pilotati da un'unica unita' centrale, possano intrattenere tre sessioni di videoconferenza con le sedi periferiche in modo assolutamente indipendente ciascuno dagli altri. In sintesi, tre persone devono poter effettuare ciascuno il proprio collegamento, con una diversa sede periferica, nello stesso momento. Sarebbe come avere tre PC collegati a tre linee ISDN diverse, ma noi vorremmo fare tutto utilizzando un'unica linea telefonica, un'unica unita' centrale, un unico modem e tre terminali video, opportunamente equipaggiati con telecamera, microfono, casse acustiche ed eventuali cuffie. I tre terminali verranno utilizzati solo per questo scopo, per cui non ci interessa che siano necessariamente dotati di tastiera, mouse, ecc., ma devono poter prevedere questa possibilita' per il futuro. L'unita' centrale verra' sistemata al piano terra della ns. sede, mentre i tre terminali saranno alloggiati in tre stanze al primo piano. Agli OPeratori interessati chiediamo: - di confermarci la fattibilita' del ns. progetto o, se opportuno, quali sono le modifiche da apportare e per quale motivo; - di segnalarci quali dei Vs. prodotti (HW e SW) ci renderanno possibile la realizzazione nel modo ottimale; con l'occasione, sottolineamo che la Vs. offerta dovra' riferirsi a prodotto finito e perfettamente funzionante, per cui i prezzi che ci proporrete potranno comprendere anche i vari pacchetti software, qualora Vi sia possibile; - qualora non foste nella possibilita' di fornirci tutto l'HW/SW occorrente, Vi preghiamo di segnalarci quali componenti o applicazioni che noi dovremo reperire altrove sono compatibili con i sistemi da Voi forniti; - di informarci riguardo alla compatibilita' tra i Vs. sistemi ed altri eventualmente utilizzati da altre persone o societa' con cui eventualmente dovessimo collegarci, sempre via-Internet ISDN, in videoconferenza (es.: ns. collaboratori, clienti, fornitori, ecc.); - qualcuno ci ha accennato ai "radio modem"; potreste dirci cosa sono esattamente, per quali usi possono essere impiegati e, quindi, se possono prestarsi al caso in questione? - di farci pervenire (CON LA MASSIMA URGENZA!!!) la Vs. proposta/offerta a mezzo e-mail e, contemporaneamente, tramite posta o corriere, unitamente a cataloghi, schede tecniche e listini. Le offerte dovranno pervenire via e-mail e, contemporaneamente, dovranno essere spedite a mezzo espresso (postale o corriere) a: C.E.D. Federico Donzelli Via San Biagio, 86/s I-97013 COMISO (RG) Tel.: ++39-932-966.603 Fax: ++39-932-966.603 E-mail: fdonzel@tin.it
From: rupert@noir.net Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: REQUEST SENSE ERROR Date: 15 Apr 1997 06:32:30 GMT Organization: Internet Connect, Inc. http://www.inc.net usenet@news.inc.net Message-ID: <5iv7du$4h2$2@news.inc.net> References: <5in499$381@twain.mvp.net> Cc: john@wpa.com In <5in499$381@twain.mvp.net> John Bartley wrote: Before I spend money to call NeXT tech support, can anyone give me some free advice about what these errors mean and I how could diagnose what's wrong or better yet, how to fix it? The drive works fine on black hardware but I get this error when it's connected to Intel hardware. I'm using an Adaptec 2940 SCSI card, and have no problems with the external SCSI disk attached to it (the Python DAT drive is daisy-chained with the disk drive) and there is also an internal CD ROM. The drive has a "digital active termination" capability, but I have that deselected and am instead using an actual termination block. ________________________________________________ You think that's bad? I gave-up on worrying about this a long, long, long time ago. I am guessing it's a cheesy NeXT driver, since for the last 18 months, I have never really had any SCSITape problems, but take a look at this: (In other words, don't sweat it) Bests, - Hans Rupert rupert@noir.net Apr 8 12:05:01 europium mach: st0, target 6, lun 0: op 64(d) (UNDEFINED) returned Check Status, Sense Valid Apr 8 12:05:01 europium mach: Sense key = 0x5 Sense Code = 0x20 Apr 8 12:05:01 europium mach: st0, target 6, lun 0: op Start/Stop returned Check Status, Sense Valid Apr 8 12:05:01 europium mach: Sense key = 0x2 Sense Code = 0x3a Apr 8 12:05:01 europium mach: st0, target 6, lun 0: op Test unit ready returned Check Status, Sense Valid Apr 8 12:05:01 europium mach: Sense key = 0x2 Sense Code = 0x3a Apr 8 12:05:01 europium mach: st0, target 6, lun 0: op Test unit ready returned Check Status, Sense Valid Apr 8 12:05:01 europium mach: Sense key = 0x2 Sense Code = 0x3a Apr 8 12:05:11 europium mach: st0, target 6, lun 0: op Rewind returned Check Status, Sense Valid Apr 8 12:05:11 europium mach: Sense key = 0x2 Sense Code = 0x3a Apr 8 12:05:11 europium mach: st0, target 6, lun 0: op Start/Stop returned Check Status, Sense Valid Apr 8 12:05:11 europium mach: Sense key = 0x2 Sense Code = 0x3a Apr 8 12:05:11 europium mach: st0, target 6, lun 0: op Rewind returned Check Status, Sense Valid Apr 8 12:05:11 europium mach: Sense key = 0x2 Sense Code = 0x3a Apr 8 12:05:11 europium mach: st0, target 6, lun 0: op Start/Stop returned Check Status, Sense Valid Apr 8 12:05:11 europium mach: Sense key = 0x2 Sense Code = 0x3a Apr 9 04:05:03 europium mach: st0, target 6, lun 0: op 64(d) (UNDEFINED) returned Check Status, Sense Valid Apr 9 04:05:03 europium mach: Sense key = 0x5 Sense Code = 0x20 Apr 9 04:05:03 europium mach: st0, target 6, lun 0: op Start/Stop returned Check Status, Sense Valid Apr 9 04:05:03 europium mach: Sense key = 0x2 Sense Code = 0x3a Apr 9 04:05:03 europium mach: st0, target 6, lun 0: op Test unit ready returned Check Status, Sense Valid Apr 9 04:05:03 europium mach: Sense key = 0x2 Sense Code = 0x3a Apr 9 04:05:03 europium mach: st0, target 6, lun 0: op Test unit ready returned Check Status, Sense Valid Apr 9 04:05:03 europium mach: Sense key = 0x2 Sense Code = 0x3a Apr 9 04:05:13 europium mach: st0, target 6, lun 0: op Rewind returned Check Status, Sense Valid Apr 9 04:05:13 europium mach: Sense key = 0x2 Sense Code = 0x3a Apr 9 04:05:14 europium mach: st0, target 6, lun 0: op Start/Stop returned Check Status, Sense Valid Apr 9 04:05:14 europium mach: Sense key = 0x2 Sense Code = 0x3a Apr 9 04:05:14 europium mach: st0, target 6, lun 0: op Rewind returned Check Status, Sense Valid Apr 9 04:05:14 europium mach: Sense key = 0x2 Sense Code = 0x3a Apr 9 04:05:14 europium mach: st0, target 6, lun 0: op Start/Stop returned Check Status, Sense Valid Apr 9 04:05:14 europium mach: Sense key = 0x2 Sense Code = 0x3a Apr 9 07:51:12 europium mach: st0, target 6, lun 0: op 64(d) (UNDEFINED) returned Check Status, Sense Valid Apr 9 07:51:12 europium mach: Sense key = 0x5 Sense Code = 0x20 Apr 9 12:05:01 europium mach: st0, target 6, lun 0: op 64(d) (UNDEFINED) returned Check Status, Sense Valid Apr 9 12:05:01 europium mach: Sense key = 0x5 Sense Code = 0x20 Apr 9 16:10:33 europium netmsgserver[22]: port_set_add() returned 4 Apr 10 04:05:02 europium mach: st0, target 6, lun 0: op 64(d) (UNDEFINED) returned Check Status, Sense Valid Apr 10 04:05:02 europium mach: Sense key = 0x5 Sense Code = 0x20 Apr 10 04:14:23 europium mach: st0, target 6, lun 0: op Write data (10-byte) returned Check Status, Sense Valid Apr 10 04:14:23 europium mach: Sense key = 0x0 Sense Code = 0x0 Apr 10 04:15:17 europium mach: st0, target 6, lun 0: op Test unit ready returned Check Status, Sense Valid Apr 10 04:15:17 europium mach: Sense key = 0x2 Sense Code = 0x3a Apr 10 04:15:17 europium mach: st0, target 6, lun 0: op Test unit ready returned Check Status, Sense Valid Apr 10 04:15:17 europium mach: Sense key = 0x2 Sense Code = 0x3a Apr 10 04:15:27 europium mach: st0, target 6, lun 0: op Rewind returned Check Status, Sense Valid Apr 10 04:15:27 europium mach: Sense key = 0x2 Sense Code = 0x3a Apr 10 04:15:27 europium mach: st0, target 6, lun 0: op Start/Stop returned Check Status, Sense Valid Apr 10 04:15:27 europium mach: Sense key = 0x2 Sense Code = 0x3a Apr 10 04:15:27 europium mach: st0, target 6, lun 0: op Rewind returned Check Status, Sense Valid Apr 10 04:15:27 europium mach: Sense key = 0x2 Sense Code = 0x3a Apr 10 04:15:27 europium mach: st0, target 6, lun 0: op Start/Stop returned Check Status, Sense Valid Apr 10 04:15:27 europium mach: Sense key = 0x2 Sense Code = 0x3a Apr 10 09:34:12 europium mach: st0, target 6, lun 0: op 64(d) (UNDEFINED) returned Check Status, Sense Valid Apr 10 09:34:12 europium mach: Sense key = 0x5 Sense Code = 0x20 Apr 10 12:05:01 europium mach: st0, target 6, lun 0: op 64(d) (UNDEFINED) returned Check Status, Sense Valid Apr 10 12:05:01 europium mach: Sense key = 0x5 Sense Code = 0x20 Apr 10 12:05:01 europium mach: st0, target 6, lun 0: op Start/Stop returned Check Status, Sense Valid Apr 10 12:05:01 europium mach: Sense key = 0x2 Sense Code = 0x3a Apr 10 12:05:01 europium mach: st0, target 6, lun 0: op Test unit ready returned Check Status, Sense Valid Apr 10 12:05:01 europium mach: Sense key = 0x2 Sense Code = 0x3a Apr 10 12:05:01 europium mach: st0, target 6, lun 0: op Test unit ready returned Check Status, Sense Valid Apr 10 12:05:01 europium mach: Sense key = 0x2 Sense Code = 0x3a Apr 10 12:05:11 europium mach: st0, target 6, lun 0: op Rewind returned Check Status, Sense Valid Apr 10 12:05:11 europium mach: Sense key = 0x2 Sense Code = 0x3a Apr 10 12:05:11 europium mach: st0, target 6, lun 0: op Start/Stop returned Check Status, Sense Valid Apr 10 12:05:11 europium mach: Sense key = 0x2 Sense Code = 0x3a Apr 10 12:05:11 europium mach: st0, target 6, lun 0: op Rewind returned Check Status, Sense Valid Apr 10 12:05:11 europium mach: Sense key = 0x2 Sense Code = 0x3a Apr 10 12:05:11 europium mach: st0, target 6, lun 0: op Start/Stop returned Check Status, Sense Valid Apr 10 12:05:11 europium mach: Sense key = 0x2 Sense Code = 0x3a Apr 11 04:05:03 europium mach: st0, target 6, lun 0: op 64(d) (UNDEFINED) returned Check Status, Sense Valid Apr 11 04:05:03 europium mach: Sense key = 0x5 Sense Code = 0x20 Apr 11 12:05:01 europium mach: st0, target 6, lun 0: op 64(d) (UNDEFINED) returned Check Status, Sense Valid Apr 11 12:05:01 europium mach: Sense key = 0x5 Sense Code = 0x20 Apr 11 16:02:09 europium netmsgserver[22]: port_set_add() returned 4 Apr 12 04:05:03 europium mach: st0, target 6, lun 0: op 64(d) (UNDEFINED) returned Check Status, Sense Valid Apr 12 04:05:03 europium mach: Sense key = 0x5 Sense Code = 0x20 Apr 12 12:05:01 europium mach: st0, target 6, lun 0: op 64(d) (UNDEFINED) returned Check Status, Sense Valid Apr 12 12:05:01 europium mach: Sense key = 0x5 Sense Code = 0x20 Apr 12 12:05:01 europium mach: st0, target 6, lun 0: op Start/Stop returned Check Status, Sense Valid Apr 12 12:05:01 europium mach: Sense key = 0x2 Sense Code = 0x3a Apr 12 12:05:01 europium mach: st0, target 6, lun 0: op Test unit ready returned Check Status, Sense Valid Apr 12 12:05:01 europium mach: Sense key = 0x2 Sense Code = 0x3a Apr 12 12:05:01 europium mach: st0, target 6, lun 0: op Test unit ready returned Check Status, Sense Valid Apr 12 12:05:01 europium mach: Sense key = 0x2 Sense Code = 0x3a Apr 12 12:05:11 europium mach: st0, target 6, lun 0: op Rewind returned Check Status, Sense Valid Apr 12 12:05:11 europium mach: Sense key = 0x2 Sense Code = 0x3a Apr 12 12:05:11 europium mach: st0, target 6, lun 0: op Start/Stop returned Check Status, Sense Valid Apr 12 12:05:11 europium mach: Sense key = 0x2 Sense Code = 0x3a Apr 12 12:05:11 europium mach: st0, target 6, lun 0: op Rewind returned Check Status, Sense Valid Apr 12 12:05:11 europium mach: Sense key = 0x2 Sense Code = 0x3a Apr 12 12:05:11 europium mach: st0, target 6, lun 0: op Start/Stop returned Check Status, Sense Valid Apr 12 12:05:11 europium mach: Sense key = 0x2 Sense Code = 0x3a Apr 14 04:05:04 europium mach: st0, target 6, lun 0: op 64(d) (UNDEFINED) returned Check Status, Sense Valid Apr 14 04:05:04 europium mach: Sense key = 0x5 Sense Code = 0x20 Apr 14 04:05:04 europium mach: st0, target 6, lun 0: op Start/Stop returned Check Status, Sense Valid Apr 14 04:05:04 europium mach: Sense key = 0x2 Sense Code = 0x3a Apr 14 04:05:04 europium mach: st0, target 6, lun 0: op Test unit ready returned Check Status, Sense Valid Apr 14 04:05:04 europium mach: Sense key = 0x2 Sense Code = 0x3a Apr 14 04:05:04 europium mach: st0, target 6, lun 0: op Test unit ready returned Check Status, Sense Valid Apr 14 04:05:04 europium mach: Sense key = 0x2 Sense Code = 0x3a Apr 14 04:05:14 europium mach: st0, target 6, lun 0: op Rewind returned Check Status, Sense Valid Apr 14 04:05:14 europium mach: Sense key = 0x2 Sense Code = 0x3a Apr 14 04:05:15 europium mach: st0, target 6, lun 0: op Start/Stop returned Check Status, Sense Valid Apr 14 04:05:15 europium mach: Sense key = 0x2 Sense Code = 0x3a Apr 14 04:05:15 europium mach: st0, target 6, lun 0: op Rewind returned Check Status, Sense Valid Apr 14 04:05:15 europium mach: Sense key = 0x2 Sense Code = 0x3a Apr 14 04:05:15 europium mach: st0, target 6, lun 0: op Start/Stop returned Check Status, Sense Valid Apr 14 04:05:15 europium mach: Sense key = 0x2 Sense Code = 0x3a Apr 14 12:05:01 europium mach: st0, target 6, lun 0: op 64(d) (UNDEFINED) returned Check Status, Sense Valid Apr 14 12:05:01 europium mach: Sense key = 0x5 Sense Code = 0x20 Apr 14 15:24:45 europium mach: st0, target 6, lun 0: op 64(d) (UNDEFINED) returned Check Status, Sense Valid Apr 14 15:24:45 europium mach: Sense key = 0x5 Sense Code = 0x20 Apr 14 18:20:27 europium netmsgserver[22]: port_set_add() returned 4 Apr 14 19:40:34 europium mach: st0, target 6, lun 0: op 64(d) (UNDEFINED) returned Check Status, Sense Valid Apr 14 19:40:34 europium mach: Sense key = 0x5 Sense Code = 0x20 Apr 15 00:39:27 europium mach: st0, target 6, lun 0: op 64(d) (UNDEFINED) returned Check Status, Sense Valid Apr 15 00:39:27 europium mach: Sense key = 0x5 Sense Code = 0x20
From: kris@primordialsoft.com (KrisNoland) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: S3Virge black screen problem Date: 15 Apr 1997 07:20:32 GMT Organization: PSI Public Usenet Link Message-ID: <5iva80$kcv@client2.news.psi.net> References: <5irvq9$fef@xmission.xmission.com> In article <5irvq9$fef@xmission.xmission.com> planetary <planet@xmission.xmission.com> writes: > Merlin J. Mathesius <merlinm@justus.chi.il.us> wrote: > : Stefan Boehringer wrote: > : > using a DiamondStealth3D2000 under NS3.3 I experience the black > : > screen when switching to vga mode syndrome. I tried the "Boot > : > Graphics"=No and "Shutdown graphics"=No work around. However while > : > shutting down is now working the boot process still sucks. Since the > : > console which shows up with "Boot Graphics"=No is also in vga mode I > : > wonder how this worked to others. > : > > : > Has anybody experienced this on S3Virge as well? Even better- is a > : > workaround known? > > : Yep. I'm experiencing the same problem. :-( > > My P5-133 with a Matrox card barfs when switching to SoftPC full-screen > mode, but works flawlessly in all other ways. > > I thought there was a note on this behavior somewhere, but I can't > remember where. > > ..........kris Hi, I'm having similar problems with a DataExpert ExpertColor DSV3325 (S3Virge). If I don't remember to do the boot: -v thing, my pc clone won't start properly. It just goes to black and stays there. And if I shutdown or restart normally, the machine switches to a black screen, and leaves the hard drive access light on indefinitely. When I bring the computer back up after one of these abnormal shutdowns, it has to run fsck, etc. However, if I shutdown by first going to the restart mini-monitor with alt-numlock, and either shutdown or restart, the next time I start the PC, it starts up cleanly. Does anyone know if the source code for the beta S3Virge driver is available anywhere? I'd be willing to try to fix it with the help of some volunteers testers. later, kris --- Kris Noland Partner Primordial Software
From: gregor@crosslink.net Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Info on ABD NeXT cable? Date: 15 Apr 1997 00:29:33 GMT Organization: CrossLink Internet Services Message-ID: <5iui5d$88l$2@kronos.crosslink.net> Does anyone have a diagram for the pin outs for the D19 cable (ADB) connecting the ND Cube to the soundbox? I have one for the mono monitor cable 3 meter but it's a different animal. Thanks in advance Gregor
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware From: hugob@tamtam.xs4all (Hugo Burm) Subject: Symbios Logic 53C875 Message-ID: <E8oCA5.498@tamtam.xs4all.nl> Sender: hugob@tamtam.xs4all.nl (Hugo Burm) Organization: datagram Date: Tue, 15 Apr 1997 10:10:53 GMT I tried to install NS on a system with the new Asus SC875 SCSI controller (that is an Ultra Wide controller with the Symbios Logic 53C875 chip) The Next Symbios Logic 53C8xx driver did not find the board when installing the system. Any solution for this problem?? hugob@tamtam.xs4all.nl
From: manini@iestn.inet.it (Luca Manini) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: this is a test: please ignore Date: Tue, 15 Apr 1997 07:11:34 GMT Organization: I.NET - Customers News Server Message-ID: <33532a0c.2586569@news.inet.it> hi there.
From: manini@iestn.inet.it (Luca Manini) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Need Power Supply for Non Turbo BW Pizza Date: Tue, 15 Apr 1997 07:13:01 GMT Organization: I.NET - Customers News Server Message-ID: <33532a37.2629881@news.inet.it> Hi, the subject says it all. I need a Power Supply for Non Turbo BW Pizza. Possibly from Italy. Bye, Luca.
From: schumach@uni2a.unige.ch (Jorg Schumacher) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: JAZ on a black Next - which hardware Date: Tue, 15 Apr 1997 13:21:58 +0100 Organization: University of Geneva Message-ID: <schumach-1504971321580001@129.194.16.70> Aren't there different versions of the JAZ drive, for use on different hardware? What kind of JAZ drive would I have to buy for use on a black NeXT? Are there JAZ drives equipped with a SCSI-2. Does one need a terminator in this case? J. Schumacher Geneva, Switzerland
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware From: Fabien_Roy@free.fdn.org Subject: Re: JAZ Drive on a 68K NeXT - Additional Info Message-ID: <E8oE2s.9B3@free.fdn.fr> Sender: news@free.fdn.fr Organization: Fabien Roy Consultant. References: <5ij9n0$cd@Masala.CC.UH.EDU> Date: Tue, 15 Apr 1997 10:49:40 GMT I suggest to make a low level format /etc/disk -F /dev/rsdXa. X stands for the logical device number. Next time just buy Dos or Mac cartriges with no software distribution on it. In article <5ij9n0$cd@Masala.CC.UH.EDU>, you wrote: > I have organized the dialog generated by each disktab entry that I mentioned > earlier in "JAZ Drive on a 68K NeXT." If some unix guru is listening, maybe > he/she can tell me where my problem is. Thanks. > > Mike Mezzino, Department of Mathematics > University of Houston - Clear Lake > mezzino@gauss.cl.uh.edu > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- > > Dialog generated using NeXT's disktab entry > > 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: > > During boot: > : > iomega jaz 1GB Rev G.60 as sd1 ...... > sd1: UNIT ATTENTION > can't read device capicity > disk unformatted > : > > Last entry In Console after attempt to initialize: > > : > /usr/etc/disk -i -h poincare -l "UntitledDisk" /dev/rsd1a > sd1 (5,0): ERROR op:0x1a sd_state:4 scsi status:0x0 > sd1 (5,0): sense key:0x5 additional sense code:0x24 > SCSI Block in error = 0 (no valid label) > disk name: iomega jaz 1GB > disk type: removable_rw_scsi > Target 5: MEDIA ERROR; block 0H retry 1 > Target 5: MEDIA ERROR; block 0H retry 2 > Target 5: MEDIA ERROR; block 0H retry 3 > Target 5: MEDIA ERROR; block 0H retry 4 > Target 5: MEDIA ERROR; block 0H retry 5 > Target 5: MEDIA ERROR; block 0H retry 6 > Target 5: MEDIA ERROR; block 0H retry 7 > Target 5: MEDIA ERROR; block 0H retry 8 > Target 5: MEDIA ERROR; block 0H retry 9 > sd1 (5,0): sense key:0x3 additional sense code:0x1c > SCSI Block in error = 0 (no valid label) > Read Capacity command failed > sr_io_status = 2 ; check status, sr_esense valid > SCSI status = 02H > Disk Format Failed > > ============================================================================= == > > Dialog generated using user's disktab entry > > IOMEGAJAZ-1G:\ > :ty=removable_rw_scsi:nc#3584:nt#4:ns#72:ss#1024:rm#5400:\ > :fp#160:bp#0:\ > :os=sdmach:z0#32:z1#96:ro=a\ > :pa#0:sa#1032192:ba#8192:fa#1024:ca#16:da#4096:ra#10:oa=time:\ > :ia:ta=4.3BSD:aa: > > During boot: > : > iomega jaz 1GB Rev G.60 as sd1 ...... > sd1: UNIT ATTENTION > Waiting for drive to come ready > sd1: UNIT ATTENTION > sd1: UNIT ATTENTION (18 times) > : > Target 5: MEDIA ERROR; block 0H retry 1 > Target 5: MEDIA ERROR; block 0H retry 2 > Target 5: MEDIA ERROR; block 0H retry 3 > Target 5: MEDIA ERROR; block 0H retry 4 > Target 5: MEDIA ERROR; block 0H retry 5 > Target 5: MEDIA ERROR; block 0H retry 6 > Target 5: MEDIA ERROR; block 0H retry 7 > Target 5: MEDIA ERROR; block 0H retry 8 > Target 5: MEDIA ERROR; block 0H retry 9 > sd1 (5,0): sense key:0x3 additional sense code:0x1c > SCSI Block in error = 0 (no valid label) > ERROR: Invalid disk block length of zero > Disk unformatted > : > > Last entry In Console after attempt to initialize: > > : > /usr/etc/disk -i -h poincare -l "UntitledDisk" /dev/rsd1a > sd1 (5,0): ERROR op:0x1a sd_state:4 scsi status:0x0 > sd1 (5,0): sense key:0x5 additional sense code:0x24 > SCSI Block in error = 0 (no valid label) > disk name: iomega jaz 1GB > disk type: removable_rw_scsi > Target 5: MEDIA ERROR; block 0H retry 1 > Target 5: MEDIA ERROR; block 0H retry 2 > Target 5: MEDIA ERROR; block 0H retry 3 > Target 5: MEDIA ERROR; block 0H retry 4 > Target 5: MEDIA ERROR; block 0H retry 5 > Target 5: MEDIA ERROR; block 0H retry 6 > Target 5: MEDIA ERROR; block 0H retry 7 > Target 5: MEDIA ERROR; block 0H retry 8 > Target 5: MEDIA ERROR; block 0H retry 9 > sd1 (5,0): sense key:0x3 additional sense code:0x1c > SCSI Block in error = 0 (no valid label) > Read Capacity command failed > sr_io_status = 2 ; check status, sr_esense valid > SCSI status = 02H > Disk Format Failed > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- -- Fabien Roy --------------------------------------------------------------------- Fabien_Roy@free.fdn.org (NextMail/MIME accepted) Fabien Roy Consultant NEXTSTEP/OPENSTEP/EOF Consultant, SYBASE DBA 10 rue de la DEFENSE 93100 MONTREUIL, France Tel: 33 (0)1 45 28 32 23 Fax: 33 (0)1 48 55 09 90 GSM: 33 (0)6 60 46 36 83
From: howe@ukcc.uky.edu (Miles Howe) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Canon Object Station 41 Help Date: 15 Apr 1997 15:05:08 GMT Organization: Network Computing Systems Message-ID: <5j05f4$j3q@service3.uky.edu> Summary: Parts,Charts and manuals! Keywords: Parts, parts,parts... Hi, does anyone know where I might buy new or used parts and manuals for the Canon Object Station 41 ( a 486 VLB system built with NextStep in mind)? Thanks. Regards, Miles Howe
From: mitchell.allen@worldnet.att.net Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Formatting drive from CD Date: Tue, 15 Apr 1997 11:29:14 -0400 Organization: AT&T WorldNet Services Message-ID: <mitchell.allen-1504971129140001@145.detroit-005.mi.dial-access.att.net> I have a copy of NS 3.2 user on CD, but it's an upgrade version. Can one still format a blank HD on a NeXT with this CD? I can't seem to get it to do a build disk with the info on the CD if I boot from another formatted HD. Is it possible to boot from the CD? If not, how does one go about making a boot floppy and can one use a regular HD floppy or do you have to use a 2.4 Meg floppy? Mitch
From: atl2@lehigh.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Dell Optiplex? Date: 15 Apr 1997 14:06:00 GMT Distribution: world Message-ID: <5j0208$1adk@fidoii.cc.Lehigh.EDU> Hi all! Are there any important incompatibilities between the Dell Optiplex line (with the integrated 3COM ethernet) and OS 4.1 that I should know about before making my purchase? Regards, Alex -- Alexander Levine Philosophy Department Lehigh University ATL2@lehigh.edu
From: ddr@quark.phys.ufl.edu (Daniel D. Roscigno) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Display Driver under NS Intel Date: 1 Apr 1997 20:00:35 GMT Organization: National Center for Supercomputing Applications Message-ID: <5hrph3$5ae@nostromo.clas.ufl.edu> References: <5hol21$27g@nostromo.clas.ufl.edu> <3341427f.3968581@news.alt.net> In article <3341427f.3968581@news.alt.net> onparole@halfwayhouse.com (convict) writes: >On 31 Mar 1997 15:25:53 GMT, ddr@hee.phys.ufl.edu (Daniel D. Roscigno) >wrote: > >>I am installing NS 3.3 on a Pentium system. The video card I have is >>a WinFast PCI card which has a Trio64v+ chip. During the install I >>have no problems with video, although it is grayscale. I need to >>select a video driver and do not see the trio 64 as a choice. Is it >>safe to chooses standard vga? This seems to result in a blank screen. >> >>Dan >>-- > >Look in NeXTanswers, document #2382 and #2384. These are generic S3 >drivers which support the Trio64v+ chip for 3.3. Surprisingly, the >driver also works for NS3.2 on PCI bus. >Hope this points you in the right direction. >Bon chance. > ThankS For the suggestions. This is what I had to do: 0) pull out the S3 carD 1) install a isa video card that would work with the default video driver 2) install the driver for the S3 card 3) power down the system 4) install the S3 PCI card again 5) restart the systeM -- --------------------------------------------------------- Dan Roscigno ddr@phys.ufl.edu 392-4028 Physics Dept., University of Florida Bldg 104 Rm. 5 ---------------------------------------------------------
From: manini@iestn.inet.it (Luca Manini) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Power Supply Date: Tue, 15 Apr 1997 07:15:55 GMT Organization: I.NET - Customers News Server Message-ID: <3343604a.3933566@news.inet.it> I've a BW non-turbo NeXT Pizza. The power supply seems to be dead. How can I check it ? Where should I look for repair or spare parts (better if in Europe or Italy) ? Thanks, Luca
From: Kris Thompson <thomp132@expressionsmedia.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Professional and Affordable Web Design and Hosting Date: 15 Apr 1997 11:33:36 GMT Organization: Expressions Multimedia Sender: -no- @pm281-22.dialip.mich.net Message-ID: <5ivp2g$9h8$4946@msunews.cl.msu.edu> Welcome to Expressions Multimedia... We would like to extend an invitation to visit us at http://www.expressionsmedia.com. We specialize in providing professional yet inexpensive web page designs and web site hosting. Please be forwarned, many of our sites include ActiveX and Java and are optimized for Internet Explorer 3.0, so they many not look right in some browsers. Also, check out our newest site for the Blue Cardinal Motorsport racing team, they can be found at http://www.expressionsmedia.com/bluecard. I would like to thank you for your time, Kris Thompson thomp132@expressionsmedia.com
From: "Andrew J. Smith" <ajs@tnrealestate.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: NeXT Specs Date: Tue, 15 Apr 1997 11:09:23 -0500 Organization: KAL Software, LLC Message-ID: <3353A833.43BE@tnrealestate.com> References: <01bc485c$6e584140$0973eccb@ohjy> <33524F2A.41F3@ita1.inow.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Matt Seibert <mseibert@mail.cablehealth.com> Matt Seibert wrote: > > Can someone fill me in on what the different specs for NeXT Stations vs > Turbo Stations and Cube vs Turbo Cubes are? > > I am looking for a NeXT system, but don't really know what iw what with > the hardware. I have worked with the systems before, but never really > paid attention to which one. > > Is there an archive I could parse? > > Please respond to mseibert@ita1.inow.com > > ThanX! > > Matt Try this out -- scanned NeXT brochures. There are hardware specs for several models there. http://iris.dissvcs.uga.edu/~archive/NeXT.html Andrew J. Smith KAL Software, LLC
From: Creature@trix.com (Mr. Kawasaki) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Does Parallel Zip Drive Work? Date: Tue, 15 Apr 1997 20:59:53 GMT Organization: MindSpring Enterprises Message-ID: <3354ec12.34266089@news.mindspring.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Does anyone have any information having to do with parallel Zip Drive support? Thanks. Later, Nick E-Mail me at cybobob@mindspring.com
From: Matthew Shafer <shafer@apple.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: 4.1 install trouble Date: Tue, 15 Apr 1997 14:52:03 -0800 Organization: Apple Computer, Inc. Message-ID: <33540664.1EE8@apple.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I'm trying to get openstep 4.1 to install on a turbo color adb machine. The hard drive has never been used in a NeXT before, and I'm using an Apple 300i CD-ROM drive (FAQ said this should work). However, when I try to boot from the CD via the 4.1 floppy, I get the following message: Exception #11 (0x2c) at pc 0x438000a sp 0xbfff106 Any suggestions? Matt owenstein@ucsd.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware From: dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca (David Evans) Subject: Re: JAZ on a black Next - which hardware Sender: news@novice.uwaterloo.ca (Mr. News) Message-ID: <E8oypC.2y4@novice.uwaterloo.ca> Date: Tue, 15 Apr 1997 18:15:12 GMT References: <schumach-1504971321580001@129.194.16.70> Organization: University of Waterloo In article <schumach-1504971321580001@129.194.16.70>, Jorg Schumacher <schumach@uni2a.unige.ch> wrote: >Aren't there different versions of the JAZ drive, for use on different >hardware? What kind of JAZ drive would I have to buy for use on a black >NeXT? Are there JAZ drives equipped with a SCSI-2. Does one need a >terminator in this case? > I think they're all SCSI-2 (the one I got was, and it didn't have it in BIG letters on the box.) You won't need a terminator; the Jaz drive has one built in. -- 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: Mike Selner <mike@tela.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: ATX power supply program wanted Date: Tue, 15 Apr 1997 14:16:19 -0500 Organization: Telepool/Tela Internet Services Message-ID: <3353D403.247A@tela.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hello, I have a new ATX system with a software-controllable power supply (win95 shuts off the power). Does anyone have an idea how to implement this in NS 3.3? Thanks Mike Selner mike@tela.com
From: planetary <planet@xmission.xmission.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Dell Optiplex? Date: 15 Apr 1997 13:34:43 -0600 Organization: XMission Internet (801 539 0900) Distribution: world Message-ID: <5j0l8j$1p0@xmission.xmission.com> References: <5j0208$1adk@fidoii.cc.Lehigh.EDU> atl2@lehigh.edu wrote: : Hi all! : Are there any important incompatibilities between the Dell Optiplex line : (with the integrated 3COM ethernet) and OS 4.1 that I should know about : before making my purchase? Yes. (1) The 3C590 isn't supported by 4.1. (2) The CD-ROM isn't supported by 4.1. I have two of these machines on my desk. They're wonderful. But they require greater care and feeding to get working than other boxen. Everything else works nicely. ...........kris -- Kristopher Magnusson kris@xmission.com (no NeXTmail, please) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Contains freshness saver packet. DO NOT EAT.
From: tim@tdanaher.demon.co.uk (Tim Danaher) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: NeXTstation Turbo Memory and Printing Date: Tue, 15 Apr 1997 22:26:35 +0100 Organization: TelaArch Message-ID: <tim-1504972226350001@tdanaher.demon.co.uk> If anyone could answer these questions regarding a NeXTstation Colour Turbo I'd be really grateful... Can the NeXTstation physically accept the new 64 MB 72-pin SIMMS? Can it address the full 256MB? We want to use the ColorStation to print PostScript to an HP DesignJet 750C A0 Colour plotter. The HP internal PostScript RIP's handling of its own on-board memory (72 MB) is useless. It has to hold the entire raster in memory before it can print it, and since an AO at 300 dpi is about 390 MB, were not getting much work done. We'd like to use the ColorStation to drive the the 750 in 'dumb' mode (i.e. without its own on-board RIP). The 750 uses the HP LaserWriter driver on our Macintoshes, and I know that there was one in Release 3.0 of NeXTSTEP. Any thoughts / experiences on the feasibility of the above? Thanks in advance Tim Danaher tim@tdanaher.demon.co.uk
From: chk@deimos.frii.com (Christian Kuhtz) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: NeXTstation Turbo Memory and Printing Date: 15 Apr 97 21:43:35 GMT Organization: Front Range Internet, Inc. Message-ID: <chk.861140615@deimos.frii.com> References: <tim-1504972226350001@tdanaher.demon.co.uk> tim@tdanaher.demon.co.uk (Tim Danaher) writes: Can't you just attach a SCSI disk to it, like any other decent PostScript printer?.. I'd prefer that solution anytime over doing what you're doing.. unless you're in ta real bind. Much cleaner. That's why most PostScript printers can spool to disk. >If anyone could answer these questions regarding a NeXTstation Colour >Turbo I'd be really grateful... >Can the NeXTstation physically accept the new 64 MB 72-pin SIMMS? Can it >address the full 256MB? >We want to use the ColorStation to print PostScript to an HP DesignJet >750C A0 Colour plotter. The HP internal PostScript RIP's handling of its >own on-board memory (72 MB) is useless. It has to hold the entire raster >in memory before it can print it, and since an AO at 300 dpi is about 390 >MB, were not getting much work done. We'd like to use the ColorStation to >drive the the 750 in 'dumb' mode (i.e. without its own on-board RIP). The >750 uses the HP LaserWriter driver on our Macintoshes, and I know that >there was one in Release 3.0 of NeXTSTEP. >Any thoughts / experiences on the feasibility of the above? >Thanks in advance >Tim Danaher >tim@tdanaher.demon.co.uk -- Christian Kuhtz <ckuhtz@paranet.com> (work) <chk@gnu.ai.mit.edu> (home) Paranet, Inc. http://www.paranet.com/ "Humbly speaking for myself only."
From: mseibert@ita1.inow.com (Matt Seibert) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: New Guy: Ignorant Question Date: Wed, 16 Apr 97 12:53:49 GMT Organization: Wildfire Technologies Message-ID: <5j2huu$jq3@news.jump.net> I'm about to display my ignoarance, but what is ADB/ I've seen a lot about ADB this or non-ADB that, but I can't find anywhere where ADB is explained. Thanx! Matt
From: gdm@kestrel.scs.uiuc.edu (Gian-Paolo D Musumeci) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Black Hardware: Cube with ADB? Date: 16 Apr 1997 14:15:55 GMT Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana Message-ID: <5j2mur$7f0@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> References: <334520E8.56CD@promo.de> <E872yF.Fw1@novice.uwaterloo.ca> <5j1oah$oh8@pilot.njin.net> lfh@pilot.njin.net (Luis Hernandez) writes: > What's the advantages of getting ADB other than easier > replacement of keyboards and mice? The VaderMouse(tm). Enough said. > What's the Nitro board? The "legendary" Nitro board is a 40MHz 68040 plus some cache on a card that fits into the socketed processor slot on your Turbo NeXT system. It makes things go quite a bit faster. gdm
From: gdm@kestrel.scs.uiuc.edu (Gian-Paolo D Musumeci) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: New Guy: Ignorant Question Date: 16 Apr 1997 14:19:43 GMT Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana Message-ID: <5j2n5v$7jg@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> References: <5j2huu$jq3@news.jump.net> mseibert@ita1.inow.com (Matt Seibert) writes: > I'm about to display my ignoarance, but what is ADB/ I've seen a lot about > ADB this or non-ADB that, but I can't find anywhere where ADB is explained. ADB is short for Apple Desktop Bus. It was designed by Apple and introduced originally with the Mac SE in the Olden Days Of Mac Computing. It's a daisy- chaining bus architecture for connecting peripheral devices -- usually key- boards and mice, but sometimes you see copy protection "dongles" and the like. NeXTs came in two varieties: those that implemented ADB and those that did not. From what I understand, choosing between the two is largely a matter of user preference. The non-ADB mouse, for example, looks like a normal, rectangular, two-button mouse. The ADB mouse (VaderMouse(tm)) is a freaky-looking contr- aption that resembles a half-sphere with two wedge-shaped buttons stuck on the top. I should take a photo of mine and scan it. Suffice it to say that the VaderMouse(tm) is way cool. The ADB keyboards have the Command key mounted as a spacebar-like appendage immediately under the spacebar, as opposed to the non-ADB keyboard which have it positioned as a meta-type key. gdm
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Does Parallel Zip Drive Work? Date: Wed, 16 Apr 1997 07:28:04 -0700 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970416072754.25649B-100000@kira> References: <3354ec12.34266089@news.mindspring.com> <E8pDzw.7HI@novice.uwaterloo.ca> <5j1dtp$ksb@news.jump.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: Matt Seibert <mseibert@ita1.inow.com> In-Reply-To: <5j1dtp$ksb@news.jump.net> SCSI should work without problems. TjL
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: What kind of hardware have I got? Date: Wed, 16 Apr 1997 07:27:15 -0700 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970416072545.25649A-100000@kira> References: <3353a526.83325509@snews2.zippo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: Allen <allen@ruislip.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <3353a526.83325509@snews2.zippo.com> You might find help at my website, especially the v-faq section. It will tell you how to get into the machine even if you do not know the password. Once you are logged in, use the hostinfo command in Terminal.app to get the processor info. Email me if you need more help TjL -- TjL <luomat@peak.org> http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/ "Give a man a piece of working code and you solve his problem. Teach a man to write code and you give him a lifetime of new problems" -- me
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: New Guy: Ignorant Question Date: Wed, 16 Apr 1997 07:29:56 -0700 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970416072849.25649C-100000@kira> References: <5j2huu$jq3@news.jump.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: Matt Seibert <mseibert@ita1.inow.com> In-Reply-To: <5j2huu$jq3@news.jump.net> ADB is AppleDesktopBus or something like that. Basically it allows you to v=change mice keyboards with some other compatible ADB types. ADB was included in some later NeXT hardware. TjL
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: ZIP drive under NeXTSTEP 3.3 Message-ID: <1997Apr16.113859.26519@roper.uwyo.edu> From: nor@panoramix.uwyo.edu (norbert pirzkal) Date: 16 Apr 97 11:38:58 MDT Distribution: world I know that this question has been answer a hundred times already, but I cannot seem to locate any of the previous answers... <end of disclaimer> How does one format a ZIP disk under NeXTSTEP? My disk are IBM pre-formatted and I cannot format them to any other formats... The disk initializtion fails when I tried to format them as NeXT or Mac disks.... The help from the radical.com pages does not solve the problem for me... I just could not get the instruction they provide to work... The problem seems to be when the superblocks (?) are to be written to the disk... Does anyone have any information on how to format a ZIP disk as a NeXT disk? Thanks Nor -- Norbert Pirzkal http://faraday.uwyo.edu/grads/npirzkal P.O. Box 3905 Physics & Astronomy Department University Station Laramie, WY, 82071
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware From: dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca (David Evans) Subject: Re: Black Hardware: Cube with ADB? Sender: news@novice.uwaterloo.ca (Mr. News) Message-ID: <E8qsFM.9DH@novice.uwaterloo.ca> Date: Wed, 16 Apr 1997 17:54:58 GMT References: <334520E8.56CD@promo.de> <E872yF.Fw1@novice.uwaterloo.ca> <5j1oah$oh8@pilot.njin.net> <5j2mur$7f0@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> Organization: University of Waterloo In article <5j2mur$7f0@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu>, Gian-Paolo D Musumeci <gdm@kestrel.scs.uiuc.edu> wrote: >lfh@pilot.njin.net (Luis Hernandez) writes: >> What's the advantages of getting ADB other than easier >> replacement of keyboards and mice? > >The VaderMouse(tm). Enough said. > Also known as the BatMouse(tm). >The "legendary" Nitro board is a 40MHz 68040 plus some cache on a card that >fits into the socketed processor slot on your Turbo NeXT system. It makes >things go quite a bit faster. > Apparently they smoke pretty nicely, yeah (although not quite as literally as the MJPEG daughter card). -- 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: tim@tdanaher.demon.co.uk (Tim Danaher) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: NeXTstation Turbo Memory and Printing Date: Wed, 16 Apr 1997 20:42:30 +0100 Organization: TelaArch Message-ID: <tim-1604972042310001@tdanaher.demon.co.uk> References: <tim-1504972226350001@tdanaher.demon.co.uk> <chk.861140615@deimos.frii.com> Apparently not (not with the mac drivers, any way.) The emphasis here, of course, being on *decent* PostScript printers. The 750C is simply a reverse-engineered CAD plotter. In article <chk.861140615@deimos.frii.com>, chk@deimos.frii.com (Christian Kuhtz) wrote: > tim@tdanaher.demon.co.uk (Tim Danaher) writes: > > Can't you just attach a SCSI disk to it, like any other decent PostScript > printer?.. I'd prefer that solution anytime over doing what you're doing.. > unless you're in ta real bind. > > Much cleaner. That's why most PostScript printers can spool to disk. > > > >If anyone could answer these questions regarding a NeXTstation Colour > >Turbo I'd be really grateful... > > >Can the NeXTstation physically accept the new 64 MB 72-pin SIMMS? Can it > >address the full 256MB? > > >We want to use the ColorStation to print PostScript to an HP DesignJet > >750C A0 Colour plotter. The HP internal PostScript RIP's handling of its > >own on-board memory (72 MB) is useless. It has to hold the entire raster > >in memory before it can print it, and since an AO at 300 dpi is about 390 > >MB, were not getting much work done. We'd like to use the ColorStation to > >drive the the 750 in 'dumb' mode (i.e. without its own on-board RIP). The > >750 uses the HP LaserWriter driver on our Macintoshes, and I know that > >there was one in Release 3.0 of NeXTSTEP. > > >Any thoughts / experiences on the feasibility of the above? > > > >Thanks in advance > > >Tim Danaher > > >tim@tdanaher.demon.co.uk > -- > Christian Kuhtz <ckuhtz@paranet.com> (work) <chk@gnu.ai.mit.edu> (home) > Paranet, Inc. http://www.paranet.com/ "Humbly speaking for myself only."
From: yiannis@prologos.nrl.navy.mil (John Michopoulos) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Black Mitsubishi Monitor on Millenium and PCs Date: 16 Apr 1997 21:29:16 GMT Organization: Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC Message-ID: <5j3gbc$9ip$1@ra.nrl.navy.mil> What is involved in connecting the 20" Mitshubishi monitor on a PC with a Millenium card? Any cable needed (spliter etc?) Any dangers associated? Will the monitor accomodate the scanning rates from the Video Card? What scanning rates these would have to be? Any good thoughts? Thanks all for your kinf responses --john ------------------------------------------------------------------- | Dr.John Michopoulos (yanni)| Tel: (202) 767-2189 or -2165 | | Naval Research Laboratory | Fax: (202) 767-9181 | | Code 6380 |e-mail: yiannis@prologos.nrl.navy.mil| | Washington DC 20375-5000 | michopoulos@anvil.nrl.navy.mil|
From: Doug.Booth@UAlberta.ca (Doug Booth) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Spurious DMA interrupts... help Date: Wed, 16 Apr 97 14:07:44 GMT Organization: University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada Distribution: world Message-ID: <5j2mi1$ut0@pulp.ucs.ualberta.ca> References: <5i1862$13po@pulp.ucs.ualberta.ca> <5ibi4d$i6d@transfer.stratus.com> <5idr8d$9al$2@mark.ucdavis.edu> <5ig5to$f38@news-central.tiac.net> <5igg14$4p2$1@mark.ucdavis.edu> <334CEF11.6668@zg.tel.hr> Thanks to all who responded to my request for information. The problem has now been resolved. It turned out to be a hardware network problem. We had three other NeXTs autonfsmounting the user directories from the machine which was generating the spurios DMA interrupts. Upon checking the console messages from the other machines it turned out that 2 of the 3 were reporting errors in connecting. They were on a thin-net segment of the network. The T connector was replaced on the machine without the errors and this seems to have cleared up the problem. Again thanks to all! Doug Booth School of Mining & Petroleum Engineering University of Alberta Edmonton, Alberta, CANADA email: Doug.Booth@UAlberta.ca
From: "Marc P. Duchesne" <mduchesn@easynet.fr> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: HELP !!! : REBOOTING - MONITOR - HANG UP Date: Wed, 16 Apr 1997 15:21:42 +0200 Organization: [posted via] Easynet SA Message-ID: <3354D266.4714@easynet.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi There My system: NeXTCube 16/400 Mo, running NEXTSTEP 3.3 (stand-alone machine, no network) The problem to be fixed: after booting by the Monitor, I cann't access to the Workspace Manager, nor to the login window. Actually, the system hangs up in the Monitor "NeXT Mach Operating System" window. Following is the process: -------------------------------------------------- Wed April 16 13:59:31 GMT+0100 1997 Checking disks /dev/rsd0a: file system clean: skipping check Faking root mount entries Setting tape block size for /dev/nrst0 Setting tape block size for /dev/nrst1 The network is disabled or your computer isn't connected to it. lo0: adress automatically set to 127.0.0.1 Setting hostname to -AUTOMATIC- Reinitializing nmserver's network portion /usr/etc/mach_swapon: swapping on /private/vm/swapfile.front Cleaning up: /etc/nologin ptys floppy devices editors /tmp /Net. Starting early daemons: syslogd. Starting RPC and network services: portmapApr 16 13:59:47 localhost syslogd: /usr/spool/mqueue/syslog: No such file or directory netinfo lookupd. Mounting remote filesystems Starting file service daemons:. Starting network daemeons: intetdApr 16 13:59:48 localhost netinfod[98]: checking NetInfo database local.nidb sendmail printer. Starting NeXT services: pbs exec_faxes. Starting standard daemons: update cron. Apr 16 13:59:47 localhost rebbot: Reboot complete NXFax kernel server 1.03 loaded %> xwing_fax: log trimmed to 1000 lines %> xwing_fax: Unknown modem [...] %> xwing_fax: Wait for incoming call -------------------------------------------------- To help you to fix this problem, here are some facts: - I have to boot with the monitor ("NeXT > bsd") since 2 years now ! Never have problem like this one. - The login window always did appear after the line: %> xwing_fax: log trimmed to 1000 lines - The only I can do is to shut down the machine with the "Alim" key Thanks for your help, _Marc (Please reply at mduchesn@easynet.fr) -- Marc P. Duchesne mduchesn@easynet.fr -------------------------------------------------- XWinG, The Fiberoptics Consulting & Training Company CE4801, Lisses - F 91048 Evry Cedex, France Tel +33 (0)1 60 86 2050 Fax +33 (0)1 60 86 2053 infos@xwing.oleane.com http://www.optoroute.com/fiber66 --------------------------------------------------
From: humanist@interport.net (Michael Howard) Newsgroups: alt.comp.hardware.homebuilt,alt.comp.hardware.homedesigned,alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt,comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: pc case covers in acrylic, black, brushed metal... where? Date: Thu, 17 Apr 1997 00:55:38 GMT Organization: Humanist Movement Message-ID: <5j3sbi$jb6$1@broadway.interport.net> Anyone know where to get case covers/front panels in acrylic, black, brushed metal, etc? I'm tired of white and "putty-colored" covers. ------------------- Michael Howard - humanist@interport.net PC/Mac technical support Tutoring and english/computerese translation/interpreting Humanist world revolutionary
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Formatting drive from CD Date: Tue, 15 Apr 1997 18:23:00 -0700 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970415180307.5568C-100000@kira> References: <mitchell.allen-1504971129140001@145.detroit-005.mi.dial-access.att.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: mitchell.allen@worldnet.att.net In-Reply-To: <mitchell.allen-1504971129140001@145.detroit-005.mi.dial-access.att.net> unnecessary crosspost squashed > I can't seem to get it to do a build disk with the info on the CD if I > boot from another formatted HD. Is it possible to boot from the CD? If > not, how does one go about making a boot floppy and can one use a regular > HD floppy or do you have to use a 2.4 Meg floppy? You do not need a 2.88 floppy for a boot floppy. checkout http://www.next.com/NeXTanswers/HTMLFiles/1921.htmld/1921.html and that should lead you throught the steps of creating a boot floppy for 3.2 TjL -- TjL <luomat@peak.org> http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/ "Give a man a piece of working code and you solve his problem. Teach a man to write code and you give him a lifetime of new problems" -- me
From: allen@ruislip.demon.co.uk (Allen) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: What kind of hardware have I got? Date: Tue, 15 Apr 1997 16:04:33 GMT Organization: None Message-ID: <3353a526.83325509@snews2.zippo.com> I am a new user of NeXT hardware (I got it this morning) Could someone tell me what I have. I know it's a silly question but I don't know if it is an 030 or 040 cube. Next computer model no. is N1000 with N4000 display (I also have the printer) Apologies in advance if this is a too stupid question. Now for the really stoopid question. I got the box as part of an office clearout (I've always lusted after one). I've bought and paid for it, but I don't know the password to get in - neither do I have any manuals. Any ideas? TIA Allen allen@ruislip.demon.co.uk -------------------------------- E-mail allen@ruislip.demon.co.uk --------------------------------
From: lfh@pilot.njin.net (Luis Hernandez) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Black Hardware: Cube with ADB? Date: 16 Apr 1997 01:33:05 -0400 Organization: Rutgers University Message-ID: <5j1oah$oh8@pilot.njin.net> References: <334520E8.56CD@promo.de> <E872yF.Fw1@novice.uwaterloo.ca> dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca (David Evans) writes: > Boards that do not use the Turbo chipset cannot handle ADB. What's the advantages of getting ADB other than easier replacement of keyboards and mice? > The Nitro board only works in Turbo machines. There's something called the >Pyro that works in (some) 25MHz machines, but I've never seen one. What's the Nitro board? Carl
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware From: dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca (David Evans) Subject: Re: Does Parallel Zip Drive Work? Sender: news@novice.uwaterloo.ca (Mr. News) Message-ID: <E8pDzw.7HI@novice.uwaterloo.ca> Date: Tue, 15 Apr 1997 23:45:32 GMT References: <3354ec12.34266089@news.mindspring.com> Organization: University of Waterloo In article <3354ec12.34266089@news.mindspring.com>, Mr. Kawasaki <Creature@trix.com> wrote: >Does anyone have any information having to do with parallel Zip Drive >support? > Doesn't work, unless someone's written a driver lately. -- 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: mseibert@ita1.inow.com (Matt Seibert) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Does Parallel Zip Drive Work? Date: Wed, 16 Apr 97 02:38:44 GMT Organization: Wildfire Technologies Message-ID: <5j1dtp$ksb@news.jump.net> References: <3354ec12.34266089@news.mindspring.com> <E8pDzw.7HI@novice.uwaterloo.ca> How about the SCSI version of the ZIP? Matt In article <E8pDzw.7HI@novice.uwaterloo.ca>, dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca (David Evans) wrote: >In article <3354ec12.34266089@news.mindspring.com>, >Mr. Kawasaki <Creature@trix.com> wrote: >>Does anyone have any information having to do with parallel Zip Drive >>support? >> > > Doesn't work, unless someone's written a driver lately. >
From: heller@attila.imo.physik.uni-muenchen.de (Helmut Heller) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Power Supply Date: 17 Apr 1997 10:09:08 GMT Organization: [posted via] Leibniz-Rechenzentrum, Muenchen (Germany) Distribution: world Message-ID: <5j4ss4$fi8$1@sparcserver.lrz-muenchen.de> References: <3343604a.3933566@news.inet.it> In article <3343604a.3933566@news.inet.it> manini@iestn.inet.it (Luca Manini) writes: > I've a BW non-turbo NeXT Pizza. The power supply seems to be dead. How > can I check it ? Where should I look for repair or spare parts (better > if in Europe or Italy) ? > > > Thanks, Luca Look at: http://www.imo.physik.uni-muenchen.de/~heller/NeXT/power_supply.html -- Servus, Helmut (DH0MAD) ______________NeXT-mail welcome_________________ FAX: +49-89-2394-4607 "Knowledge must be gathered and cannot be given" heller@attila.imo.physik.uni-muenchen.de ZEN, one of BLAKES7 Phone: +49-89-2394-4565 ------------------------------------------------ Dr. Helmut Heller, Ludwig Maximilians University | G i b D O S | Institute for Medical Optics, Theoretical Biophysics Group | k e i n e |
From: achhbot@mmc.et.tudelft.nl Newsgroups: alt.comp.hardware.homebuilt,alt.comp.hardware.homedesigned,alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt,comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: cmsg cancel <5j3sbi$jb6$1@broadway.interport.net> Control: cancel <5j3sbi$jb6$1@broadway.interport.net> Date: Thu, 17 Apr 97 10:17:47 MET Organization: Delft University of Technology Sender: humanist@interport.net (Michael Howard) Message-ID: <cancel.5j3sbi$jb6$1@broadway.interport.net> Article retromoderated by achhbot@mmc.et.tudelft.nl for alt.comp.hardware.homebuilt See the FAQ for a.c.h.h. for details, or contact achhbot@mmc.et.tudelft.nl .
From: jcguijon@raddi.uah.ualberta.ca (Juan-Carlos Guijon) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: MegaPixel Color 17" and PowerMac Date: Wed, 16 Apr 1997 23:45:47 -0600 Organization: University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada Message-ID: <jcguijon-ya02408000R1604972345470001@news.srv.ualberta.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Anybody know if it's possible, and what would be required...software,cable,adaptor stuff??? Thanks, any help appreciated. PS Mac is a PowerMac 7600...and I want to use the built in video Chao, JC
From: martin@brutus.amg.de.amg.de (Martin Gaehner) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Endless Kernel Traps under 4.1 Date: 17 Apr 1997 08:03:33 GMT Organization: AMG Industrieconsulting GmbH Message-ID: <5j4lgl$rf6@hagen.amg.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Hello, we are using an Intel Pentium P133 with OpenStep 4.1 an get endless kernle traps while there is only the Workspace and Terminal-App running on the computer. The machine is equiped with the following components: Intel, TO P133 PCI-Mainboard MATROX MGA Millenium with 2 MB WRAM Grafikadapter ADPATEC E/MASTER ETH PCI Combo Networkadaptor We use the standard hardware driver, that are given on the OS 4.1 CD. The systems works as a netinfo-server Has anybody of You any suggestion what the problem is or has anybody of You similar problems using OS 4.1 on an Intel-Machine Pleas answer to martin@amg.de Thanks in advance Martin Gähner AMG Industrie Consulting GmbH
From: Doug.Booth@UAlberta.ca (Doug Booth) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Spurious DMA interrupts... help Date: Thu, 03 Apr 97 21:41:18 GMT Organization: University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada Message-ID: <5i1862$13po@pulp.ucs.ualberta.ca> I have an old pizza box NeXT which has recently started to hang itself. The machine has 32 MB of RAM and is running 3.3 Looking in the system messages the following appear.... machine-name mach: spurious DMA interrupt: channel 0x2000110 machine-name mach: spurious DMA interrupt: state 0x1000000 channel 0x2000110 occasionally this one also shows up: machine-name mach: en0: transmitter not ready I had an another machine and swapped the hard-disk and memory to it thinking the problem may be on the motherboard. The same errors appeared. Could this be a memory chip problem or is it a corrupted system or ....???? Any ideas would be welcome. Thanks Doug Booth
From: "Yuan Li" <yli2@uic.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware.misc,comp.sys.mac.hardware.storage,comp.sys.mac.hardware.video,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.sgi.hardware,comp.sys.sun.hardware,it.comp.hardware.modem,misc.forsale.computers.discussion,misc.forsale.computers.mac-specific.ca Subject: Sony CD writer(CDU 924s) for sale!! Date: 17 Apr 1997 17:56:39 GMT Organization: University of Illinois at Chicago Message-ID: <01bc4b59$b6eeb100$2a21c183@BING.uic.edu> I have a sony CD writer(CDU 924s) for sale!! only used for less than 20 hous! This device support all the format! it comes with a Corel CD Creator for Win95 and NT. I got it for $550. I only ask for $500 include S&H within the U.S.!! If interest, please send e-mail to: yli2@uic.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware From: Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Subject: Re: New HD on Old Station? Message-ID: <E8snKp.6qy@nidat.sub.org> Sender: nitezki@nidat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany References: <01bc4870$f5f14ca0$21422dc7@omni3.omni> Date: Thu, 17 Apr 1997 18:05:12 GMT In article <01bc4870$f5f14ca0$21422dc7@omni3.omni> "Darren Reely" <dreely@cyberstore.ca> writes: > I've asked this before but never saw an answer. > > What newer hard drives will work on an older model Nextstation (25Mhz > 30pin simms)? Any experiences welcome. > Almost anyone, as long as you can configure it to run in asynch mode. My choice is Fujitsu, but that is almost random ;-) -- Peter Nitezki | Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org # Blessed art thou who knoweth Staarenbergstr. 44 | Tel.: +49 7251 62495 # not about the pleasure and D-76703 Kraichtal | Fax : +49 7251 69215 # delight of being hooked GERMANY | E-mail defunct, sorry # up to the Net. Peter 1,3-5
From: cdodson@cac.stratus.com***(Craig Dodson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: PPD for newer HP Laserjets Date: 17 Apr 1997 21:26:29 GMT Organization: Stratus Computer Inc, Marlboro MA Message-ID: <5j64i5$bqn@transfer.stratus.com> References: <Pine.NXT.3.92.970417100231.880A-100000@rjacobs.Stanford.EDU> In article <Pine.NXT.3.92.970417100231.880A-100000@rjacobs.Stanford.EDU> "Robert G. Jacobs" <rob@rjacobs.Stanford.EDU> writes: > I currently have an HP Laserjet III on my NeXTstation running > NS3.0 (I have a cable with a serial port connection on one end and a > 25-pin connector on the other) . I'm looking to upgrade to a newer HP > Laserjet that's faster and has built-in postscript (e.g. HP 5MP or HP > 6MP). > > Does anyone have the correct PPD files for either of these printers? Have you tried www.hp.com and www.adobe.com ???? Craig Dodson (Stratus Computer)
From: Alexander Bochmann <bochmann@pipe.infra.de> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: NS3.3 + S3GenericDispayDriver refresh rate problem Date: 17 Apr 1997 23:42:26 GMT Organization: FreiNet (XLINK-PoP Freiburg) Message-ID: <5j6ch2$kku@belchen.freinet.de> Hi, I try to use NeXTStep 3.3 on my PC with a 2MB S3 Trio64V+ PCI graphics gard. This generally works (apart from the usual booting problems with this hardware) - but I don't seem to be able to get any refresh rates higher than 60Hz - I can select any resolution at 70Hz or 75Hz, but the system will alway start up in 60Hz mode (with the correct selected resolution, though). Does anyone have an idea what I can try to do short of buying another graphics card? (The card didn't even get detected as Trio64V+ chip until I copied some mode values from the NeXTStep 4.01 DiamondStealth Driver, but this sort of tweaking didn't solve the refresh rate problem yet...) Thanks for your help, Alex.
From: Garance A Drosehn <gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: New Guy: Ignorant Question Date: 17 Apr 1997 19:29:40 GMT Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy NY, USA Message-ID: <5j5tn4$l5h@usenet.rpi.edu> References: <5j2huu$jq3@news.jump.net> mseibert@ita1.inow.com (Matt Seibert) wrote: > I'm about to display my ignoarance, but what is ADB? I've seen > a lot about ADB this or non-ADB that, but I can't find anywhere > where ADB is explained. Apple Desktop Bus, I believe. This is what all Macs use for connecting keyboards, mice, and some other input devices. You can string several ADB devices together, and thus you only need one connector on the back of the Mac. (there are other advantages to ADB, too). Most of the hardware NeXT manufactured used a NeXT-specific connector for keyboard and mice. Just a short time before NeXT stopped making hardware, they started making NeXTstations which used the ADB standard. So, if you wanted, you could take a keyboard from you Mac and plug it into your NeXTstation. --- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer (MIME & NeXTmail capable) Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Troy NY USA
From: mseibert@ita1.inow.com (Matt Seibert) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: New Guy: Ignorant Question Date: Thu, 17 Apr 97 23:33:30 GMT Organization: Wildfire Technologies Message-ID: <5j6bvc$sbg@news.jump.net> References: <5j2huu$jq3@news.jump.net> <5j5tn4$l5h@usenet.rpi.edu> Thanks for all the replies guys! Now I actually know something (mostly) useful. Matt In article <5j5tn4$l5h@usenet.rpi.edu>, Garance A Drosehn <gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu> wrote: >mseibert@ita1.inow.com (Matt Seibert) wrote: >> I'm about to display my ignoarance, but what is ADB? I've seen >> a lot about ADB this or non-ADB that, but I can't find anywhere >> where ADB is explained. > >Apple Desktop Bus, I believe. > >This is what all Macs use for connecting keyboards, mice, and some >other input devices. You can string several ADB devices together, >and thus you only need one connector on the back of the Mac. (there >are other advantages to ADB, too). > >Most of the hardware NeXT manufactured used a NeXT-specific connector >for keyboard and mice. Just a short time before NeXT stopped making >hardware, they started making NeXTstations which used the ADB >standard. So, if you wanted, you could take a keyboard from you >Mac and plug it into your NeXTstation. > >--- >Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu >Senior Systems Programmer (MIME & NeXTmail capable) >Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Troy NY USA
From: ians@cam-ani.co.uk (Ian Stephenson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: NeXT Printer pinouts? Date: Fri, 4 Apr 1997 10:29:51 GMT Organization: Cambridge Animation Systems Ltd Sender: news@cam-ani.co.uk Message-ID: <E83zts.60@cam-ani.co.uk> References: <5i20o2$7ri$1@socony.pe.utexas.edu> In article <5i20o2$7ri$1@socony.pe.utexas.edu> paulus@nextdown.pe.utexas.edu (Paulus Adisoemarta) writes: > In article <5i1qhl$8t9$1@nntp1.mcs.net>, <timu@mcs.net> wrote: > >I just got a NeXT laser printer... minus the cable. > >Does anyone know the pinouts for the cable? > > It is a DB9M to DB9M straight thru pin-to-pin connection. > As a matter of fact, one of my NeXT printer use the cable that goes > with a VGA-Keyboard-Mouse switch box. I use the 9-pin cable (male-male). > This cable is shorter than the original black cable, but it works fine If the cable length has been changed, then you've been lucky if it still works (at least as far as I've been told). The NeXT printer interface is a glorious hack (in the very best of ways), and relies on the propagation times along the cable for some of its timing operations. Changing the length risks the timings being wrong, and the printer locking up. There's a file on one of the ftp sites which documents some of this and describes how someone build a longer(!) cable. $an
From: Creature@trix.com (Mr. Kawasaki) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Need Help with USR 28,800 Date: Fri, 18 Apr 1997 08:37:24 GMT Organization: MindSpring Enterprises Message-ID: <33573236.464771@news.mindspring.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I have everything setup correctly according to the PPP_Instructions.rtf I got from ftp.peak.org. It says get Dialup.pkg, PPP2.2, SimpleInterNextStarter.pkg, and Perl.pkg? I downloaded them, went through every step in the instructions (pretty simple), but now after I run Dialup.app in the LocalApps directory, I clicked on Connect. The computer is busy for a couple seconds, then Dialup.app reports "Disconnecting". I checked in /usr/adm/ppp2.2.log, this is what it says: Apr 17 23:21:36 satan pppd[261]: pppd 2.2.0 started by root, uid 0 Apr 17 23:21:37 satan pppd[261]: Failed to open /dev/cufb: No such device Apr 17 23:21:37 satan pppd[261]: Exit. I have a USR Sportster 28800, PnP. It is on com2 in win 95, so I put it on "Port B" in OPENSTEP. Does anyone know the answer? Thanks very much. Later, Nick E-Mail me at cybobob@mindspring.com
From: abuse@mindspring.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: cmsg cancel <3386e31a.19080346@news.mindspring.com> Date: 18 Apr 1997 03:48:13 GMT Control: cancel <3386e31a.19080346@news.mindspring.com> Message-ID: <cancel.3386e31a.19080346@news.mindspring.com> Sender: (Jethro) Spam cancelled by abuse@mindspring.com
From: "Zdzislaw H. Lewantowicz" <zlewanto@stan.donet.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Numerous Panics NS3.3 Date: Thu, 17 Apr 1997 21:00:07 -0400 Organization: All USENET -- http://www.Supernews.com Message-ID: <3356C797.3224@stan.donet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit During installation and while running NS3.3 on Gigabyte GA-5886VX(P/166) Motherboard, 32MB 60ns RAM, Matrox MGA Millenium VGA 4MB VRAM, Intel 430VX Chip Set, 512KB Cache, Award BIOS ver 4.51PG, 2- 3.1GB Western Digital IDE HDs, 3.5" floppy, MS IntellaMouse 105 Keyboard 16-bit Wavetable Sound w/Speakers CTX 700-VL monitor Nitsumi 8x CD-ROM Connor 1GB ISA Tape B/U 3Com Etherlink XL (no NS driver for this, awaiting Cogent EM960C) I get numerous, random panics. Typical panic message reads: Memory access error (1,1,e0284bf4). I am using the latest NS3.3 drivers, have isloated to running with minimum H/W configuration - these make no difference. Have run Norton Utilities from the Windows95 side, but can find no error in memory or system. NextStep support forlks have been very helpful in guiding and suggest that I have a hardware or hardware configuration problem. If you have similar configuration, pls share your experience on this motherboard/chipset configuarion - good, bad, and the ugly. Any help, insight, suggestion will be greatly appreciated. If I end up replading the motherboard and chipset, shouold I consider another configuration? or is the Gateway/Triton system a good one for NS3.3 (and beyond in future). Stan
From: sjohnson@myriad.net (Stephen Johnson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: FAXing with PPP Date: 18 Apr 1997 05:01:57 GMT Organization: DigiPhone Corporation, Bryan/College Station Texas 409-693-8885 Message-ID: <5j6v85$bm@news.myriad.net> References: <5itiq6$17m@news.acns.nwu.edu> In-Reply-To: <5itiq6$17m@news.acns.nwu.edu> On 04/14/97, daj@nwu.edu wrote: >I have a ZyXEL 2864 FAX/Modem. I have the modem connected to the first com port (serial port 1, /dev/cufa). I am currently using the modem and PPP to dial out. What I'd like to know is, what needs to be done to allow me to use the FAX features of the modem? When I configure a FAX modem in the PrinterManager, then the port (/dev/cufa) is busy when I try to use PPP. Also, when I have established a modem queue and I try to use it it appears that nothing gets sent. Do I need to send some sort of modem commands to switch the modem to fax mode? > >David A. Johnson, >Research Engineer, >Northwestern University > Do you have fax software, such as NXFax or there are some which may require a good bit of configuring available on NEXTSTEP ftp sites? The NS built in fax driver doesn't support Zyxel or very many other modems either. -- --- Stephen Johnson, sjohnson@myriad.net Computer Consulting Intl, LTD PO Box 1046 College Station, TX 77841 409-778-4717 "the Bible is the rock on which our Republic rests" President Andrew Jackson, June 8, 1845
From: "Eric A. Dubiel" <eadubie@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Quantum 1GB Intermittant object.station problem Date: Fri, 18 Apr 1997 01:03:24 -0600 Organization: Instructional Technology Development - Illinois State University, Bloomington-Normal, USA Message-ID: <33571C22.61AF@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi, I have a Quantum 1GB SCSI drive that came with my object.station and I have an intermittant problem- The drive only sometimes starts up, and now it RARELY starts up, the other 500 MB drive comes up fine, but this one - no luck. I've never had a head crash (or any other harddrive HW problem...), but are these the symptoms? Any response would be appreciated, as well as do-it-yourself data recovery techniques... -- Eric A. Dubiel; http://www.ilstu.edu/~eadubie mailto:eadubie@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu ytalk eadubie@138.87.201.11 --- MIME, SUN, NeXT, PGP Mail ok R&D--Instructional Technology Development--Illinois State University "I first saw NEXTSTEP in 1990 and I was blown away."-Eric Schmidt, Novell Inc CEO VIEWS EXPRESSED ARE ENTIRELY MY OWN
From: sanguish@digifix.com (Scott Anguish) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Quantum 1GB Intermittant object.station problem Date: 18 Apr 1997 06:14:57 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <5j73h1$dp0$1@news.digifix.com> References: <33571C22.61AF@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu> In-Reply-To: <33571C22.61AF@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu> On 04/17/97, "Eric A. Dubiel" wrote: >Hi, I have a Quantum 1GB SCSI drive that came with my object.station and >I have an intermittant problem- >The drive only sometimes starts up, and now it RARELY starts up, the >other 500 MB drive comes up fine, but this one - no luck. > >I've never had a head crash (or any other harddrive HW problem...), but >are these the symptoms? > >Any response would be appreciated, as well as do-it-yourself data >recovery techniques... Next time it starts back everything up and replace the drive.. do not risk your data... eventually it just won't start. I had had no problems with one of the drives, but was concerned and decided to replace it. After I installed the new drive (it was a completely separate drive, in the machine, the Quantum was in an enclosure) it would NOT start up again and I lost everything. I had no option as far as backup goes. I've lost about a half dozen Quantum Empire drives from Object Stations over the last year and a bit... I will NEVER buy Quantum again. -- Scott Anguish <sanguish@digifix.com> NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Information <URL:http://www.stepwise.com>
From: greglarson@aol.com (GregLarson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Mega-Pixal on a MAC??? Date: 18 Apr 1997 05:10:49 GMT Organization: AOL http://www.aol.com Message-ID: <19970418051000.BAA07467@ladder01.news.aol.com> I have a mega-pixal 17" aand a Next laser printewr I'd like to use on my Power Mac. Any Odeas / experience. greg Anybody know if it's possible, and what would be required...software,cable,adaptor stuff??? Thanks, any help appreciated.
From: greglarson@aol.com (GregLarson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: NeXT Laser Pinter on a MAC??? Date: 18 Apr 1997 05:12:10 GMT Organization: AOL http://www.aol.com Message-ID: <19970418051100.BAA07562@ladder01.news.aol.com> I have a mega-pixal 17" and a Next laser printewr I'd like to use on my Power Mac. Any Odeas / experience. greg Anybody know if it's possible, and what would be required...software,cable,adaptor stuff??? Thanks, any help appreciated.
From: "Marc P. Duchesne" <mduchesn@easynet.fr> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: HELP NEEDED !!! : REBOOTING - MONITOR HANG UP Date: Fri, 18 Apr 1997 09:33:23 +0200 Organization: Marc Duchesne IT Consultant Message-ID: <335723C3.26F5@easynet.fr> References: <5j4lg1$rf6@hagen.amg.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi There My system: NeXTCube 16/400 Mo, running NEXTSTEP 3.3 (stand-alone machine, no network) The problem to be fixed: after booting by the Monitor, I cann't access to the Workspace Manager, nor to the login window. Actually, the system hangs up in the Monitor "NeXT Mach Operating System" window. Following is the process: -------------------------------------------------- Wed April 16 13:59:31 GMT+0100 1997 Checking disks /dev/rsd0a: file system clean: skipping check Faking root mount entries Setting tape block size for /dev/nrst0 Setting tape block size for /dev/nrst1 The network is disabled or your computer isn't connected to it. lo0: adress automatically set to 127.0.0.1 Setting hostname to -AUTOMATIC- Reinitializing nmserver's network portion /usr/etc/mach_swapon: swapping on /private/vm/swapfile.front Cleaning up: /etc/nologin ptys floppy devices editors /tmp /Net. Starting early daemons: syslogd. Starting RPC and network services: portmapApr 16 13:59:47 localhost syslogd: /usr/spool/mqueue/syslog: No such file or directory netinfo lookupd. Mounting remote filesystems Starting file service daemons:. Starting network daemeons: intetdApr 16 13:59:48 localhost netinfod[98]: checking NetInfo database local.nidb sendmail printer. Starting NeXT services: pbs exec_faxes. Starting standard daemons: update cron. Apr 16 13:59:47 localhost rebbot: Reboot complete NXFax kernel server 1.03 loaded %> xwing_fax: log trimmed to 1000 lines %> xwing_fax: Unknown modem [...] %> xwing_fax: Wait for incoming call -------------------------------------------------- To help you to fix this problem, here are some facts: - I have to boot with the monitor ("NeXT > bsd") since 2 years now ! Never have problem like this one. - The login window always did appear after the line: %> xwing_fax: log trimmed to 1000 lines - The only I can do is to shut down the machine with the "Alim" key Thanks for your help, _Marc Please reply at/ mailto: mduchesn@easynet.fr -- Marc P. Duchesne mduchesn@easynet.fr -------------------------------------------------- XWinG, The Fiberoptics Consulting & Training Company CE4801, Lisses - F 91048 Evry Cedex, France Tel +33 (0)1 60 86 2050 Fax +33 (0)1 60 86 2053 infos@xwing.oleane.com http://www.optoroute.com/fiber66 --------------------------------------------------
From: atl2@lehigh.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Driver for 3COM Etherlink XL Date: 18 Apr 1997 11:58:29 GMT Distribution: world Message-ID: <5j7nl5$fuo@fidoii.cc.Lehigh.EDU> Hi all! Anyone know if there's a driver for the 3COM Etherlink XL in the works? Cheers! Alex -- Alexander Levine Philosophy Department Lehigh University ATL2@lehigh.edu
From: tim@tdanaher.demon.co.uk (Tim Danaher) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Nitro Board - any info? Date: Fri, 18 Apr 1997 15:04:57 +0100 Organization: TelaArch Message-ID: <tim-1804971504570001@tdanaher.demon.co.uk> Hello, everyone I've seen some mention in varius fora of the Nitro accelerator for Turbo stations. Anyoone got any info on them? Are they still available? Thanks in advance Tim tim@tdanaher.demon.co.uk
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware From: dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca (David Evans) Subject: Re: Mega-Pixal on a MAC??? Sender: news@novice.uwaterloo.ca (Mr. News) Message-ID: <E8u4L4.BJF@novice.uwaterloo.ca> Date: Fri, 18 Apr 1997 13:10:16 GMT References: <19970418051000.BAA07467@ladder01.news.aol.com> Organization: University of Waterloo In article <19970418051000.BAA07467@ladder01.news.aol.com>, GregLarson <greglarson@aol.com> wrote: >I have a mega-pixal 17" aand a Next laser printewr I'd like to use on my >Power Mac. Any Odeas / experience. greg > If you mean colour MegaPixel then it could likely work, provided you have the correct cable and one of those Mac monitor-fakeout things. The printer won't work with anything but a NeXT unless you put tonnes of high-powered electronics design work into it and value your time at about the rate of those prison inmates who make the jeans. -- 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: giddings@menominee.chem.wisc.edu (Michael Giddings) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Linux (much) faster than NextStep (Rhapsody) Date: 18 Apr 1997 15:29:48 GMT Organization: University of Wisconsin - Madison Distribution: world Message-ID: <5j841c$3qo4@news.doit.wisc.edu> Keywords: benchmarks speed linux nextstep rhapsody I downloaded the Byte Unix Benchmarks and did some tests on Linux and OpenStep/Mach 4.1 running on the same system. First of all, here's the configuration: Generic PCI motherboard, 256Kb L2 Cache, 150 Mhz pentium, 48 MB RAM BusLogic Ultra SCSI IBM 2 gig Ultra drive OpenStep/Mach 4.1 Linux (RedHat) 4.1 I'll include the tables below. The most stunning thing in these were the disk writes - more than 10x faster in Linux! I had noticed before that the Linux filesystem seemed much more responsive - for example, doing a recursive chmod on a large directory tree is blazingly fast. The other speed advantages in Linux seem mainly on the Unix stuff, not on raw calculations such as recursion or math. This makes me hope that Rhapsody will see a big upgrade of the BSD layer!! Maybe they should use the ext2 filesystem - it appears much more responsive than ufs. Here are results (the Baseline numbers used for comparison are for an 040 cube system) ----------------------- OPENSTEP/MACH 4.1: INDEX VALUES TEST BASELINE RESULT INDEX Arithmetic Test (double) 2703.3 29558.6 10.9 Arithmetic Test (long) 2827.0 22837.5 8.1 Arithmetic Test (register) 2847.5 22869.3 8.0 C Compiler Test 24.1 80.9 3.4 Dhrystone 2(w/o register vars) 24179.3 183811.8 7.6 Execl Throughput Test 23.7 26.4 1.1 File Copy (30 seconds) 518.0 2140.0 4.1 File Read (30 seconds) 18288.0 75464.0 4.1 File Write (30 seconds) 600.0 3076.0 5.1 Pipe-based Context Switching 1153.5 6634.8 5.8 Process Creation Test 34.0 144.0 4.2 Recursion--Tower of Hanoi 323.8 3233.4 10.0 Shell scripts (8 concurrent) 3.8 15.0 3.9 ========= SUM of 13 items 76.4 AVERAGE 5.9 ----------------------------- LINUX REDHAT 4.1 (using kernel 2.0.28) INDEX VALUES TEST BASELINE RESULT INDEX Arithmetic Test (type = double) 2703.3 26468.3 9.8 Arithmetic Test (type = long) 2827.0 22904.4 8.1 Arithmetic Test (type = register) 2847.5 22925.9 8.1 C Compiler Test 24.1 168.8 7.0 Dhrystone 2 without register variables 24179.3 189999.1 7.9 Execl Throughput Test 23.7 143.0 6.0 File Copy (30 seconds) 518.0 4159.0 8.0 File Read (30 seconds) 18288.0 253931.0 13.9 File Write (30 seconds) 600.0 34497.0 57.5 Pipe-based Context Switching 1153.5 30887.4 26.8 Process Creation Test 34.0 928.7 27.3 Recursion --Tower of Hanoi 323.8 3231.1 10.0 Shell scripts (8 concurrent) 3.8 39.0 10.3 ========= SUM of 13 items 200.6 AVERAGE 15.4 ---------------------------- I found it interesting. Too bad Linux uses X as it's GUI (and Gnustep isn't complete yet) - otherwise I might be more inclined to use it regularly based on these results . . . -- Michael Giddings giddings@chem.wisc.edu giddings@barbarian.com (608)258-1699 or (608) 692-2851 http://smithlab.chem.wisc.edu/PersonalPages/giddings/giddings.html http://www.barbarian.com
From: gdm@kestrel.scs.uiuc.edu (Gian-Paolo D Musumeci) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Nitro Board - any info? Date: 18 Apr 1997 16:39:09 GMT Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana Message-ID: <5j883d$l4v@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> References: <tim-1804971504570001@tdanaher.demon.co.uk> tim@tdanaher.demon.co.uk (Tim Danaher) writes: > I've seen some mention in varius fora of the Nitro accelerator for Turbo > stations. Anyoone got any info on them? Are they still available? The Nitro board was never commonly available. It was an engineering proto- type. If you can find one, they tend to cost between $1500 and $2000. (Yes, you could buy a low-end Pentium running OpenStep for that and use it as a compute server.) gdm
From: mitchell.allen@worldnet.att.net Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Nitro Board - any info? Date: Fri, 18 Apr 1997 13:08:09 -0400 Organization: AT&T WorldNet Services Message-ID: <mitchell.allen-1804971308090001@8.chicago-035.il.dial-access.att.net> References: <tim-1804971504570001@tdanaher.demon.co.uk> <5j883d$l4v@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> In article <5j883d$l4v@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu>, gdm@kestrel.scs.uiuc.edu (Gian-Paolo D Musumeci) wrote: > tim@tdanaher.demon.co.uk (Tim Danaher) writes: > > I've seen some mention in varius fora of the Nitro accelerator for Turbo > > stations. Anyoone got any info on them? Are they still available? > > The Nitro board was never commonly available. It was an engineering proto- > type. > > If you can find one, they tend to cost between $1500 and $2000. > > (Yes, you could buy a low-end Pentium running OpenStep for that and use it > as a compute server.) Sam Goldberger does sell something called a "Pyro" accellerator for non-turbo '040 machines. check it out at: www.orb.com Mitch
From: "Robert G. Jacobs" <rob@rjacobs.Stanford.EDU> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: PPD for newer HP Laserjets Date: Fri, 18 Apr 1997 11:11:08 -0700 Organization: Stanford University Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.92.970418111019.264B-100000@rjacobs.Stanford.EDU> References: <Pine.NXT.3.92.970417100231.880A-100000@rjacobs.Stanford.EDU> <5j64i5$bqn@transfer.stratus.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII In-Reply-To: <5j64i5$bqn@transfer.stratus.com> On 17 Apr 1997, Craig Dodson wrote: > In article <Pine.NXT.3.92.970417100231.880A-100000@rjacobs.Stanford.EDU> > "Robert G. Jacobs" <rob@rjacobs.Stanford.EDU> writes: > > I currently have an HP Laserjet III on my NeXTstation running > > NS3.0 (I have a cable with a serial port connection on one end and a > > 25-pin connector on the other) . I'm looking to upgrade to a newer HP > > Laserjet that's faster and has built-in postscript (e.g. HP 5MP or HP > > 6MP). > > > > Does anyone have the correct PPD files for either of these printers? > > Have you tried www.hp.com and www.adobe.com ???? > > Craig Dodson (Stratus Computer) > > Yes. I still can't get a text PPD file for the HP 6MP. Robert
From: Fredrik Nyman <ice@abattoir.gsfc.nasa.gov> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: PPD for newer HP Laserjets Date: 18 Apr 1997 15:22:03 -0400 Organization: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center -- Greenbelt, Maryland USA Message-ID: <ytwwq0cf1g.fsf@abattoir.gsfc.nasa.gov> References: <Pine.NXT.3.92.970417100231.880A-100000@rjacobs.Stanford.EDU> "Robert G. Jacobs" <rob@rjacobs.Stanford.EDU> writes: > I currently have an HP Laserjet III on my NeXTstation running > NS3.0 (I have a cable with a serial port connection on one end and a > 25-pin connector on the other) . I'm looking to upgrade to a newer HP > Laserjet that's faster and has built-in postscript (e.g. HP 5MP or HP > 6MP). > > Does anyone have the correct PPD files for either of these printers? ftp://ftp.adobe.com/pub/adobe/printerdrivers/win/all has a huge collection of ppd files. You'll find the HP PPD's there, and they'll work fine with your NeXT with little if any tweaking. -- Fredrik Nyman Hughes STX Work <ice@sled.gsfc.nasa.gov> NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Play <fredrik@mindspring.com> Code 505 B32/N231 Greenbelt, MD 20771 Fax 301-614-5270
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware From: dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca (David Evans) Subject: Re: Nitro Board - any info? Sender: news@novice.uwaterloo.ca (Mr. News) Message-ID: <E8uC0v.7ny@novice.uwaterloo.ca> Date: Fri, 18 Apr 1997 15:50:55 GMT References: <tim-1804971504570001@tdanaher.demon.co.uk> Organization: University of Waterloo In article <tim-1804971504570001@tdanaher.demon.co.uk>, Tim Danaher <tim@tdanaher.demon.co.uk> wrote: >Hello, everyone > >I've seen some mention in varius fora of the Nitro accelerator for Turbo >stations. Anyoone got any info on them? Are they still available? > I think there were about 5 built. They're a daughterboard that plug into the CPU socket of a NeXTstation Turbo/NeXTstation Turbo Color (and a NeXTcube Turbo with some physical hackery.) The board holds a 68040 running at 40MHz and a 128K (I think) cache; 4-way? can't remember. And they aren't available. And I don't have one. -- 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: Chuck_Esterbrook@orcacomputer.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Installing NT and Mach on 4GB Drives Date: 18 Apr 1997 21:01:15 GMT Organization: Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia Message-ID: <5j8ner$4tv$1@solaris.cc.vt.edu> Hi, I'm having trouble installing OPENSTEP for Mach 4.1. I have the following configuration: Micron Pro2 Plus Dual Pentium Pros @ 200MHz 128 MB RAM Western Digital --> 4GB <-- SCSI Drive Adaptec 2940UW SCSI Controller Diamond Stealth 3D 2000 PCI Plextor 12X SCSI CD ROM 3COM EtherLink III 509B Combo ISA My 4GB drive has two 2GB partitions. The first is FAT16 running NT and the second is OPENSTEP for Mach which is installed, configured and booting fine except for one problem: Workspace reports that only 448MB are available. There should be 1.5 GB or more available. When I computed the size of my local directories I only got 172MB. I've heard that OPENSTEP can only address up to 2.7GB. When I add 2048 (first partition), 448 (free) and 172 (used) that's about what I get. I'm assuming at this point that I need to follow some special instructions concerning installation. I've browsed through NeXTanswers but wasn't able to locate the article I need. Any help you can provide will be appreciated. I'd like to work on this machine this weekend if possible. Thank you, Chuck Esterbrook -- Chuck Esterbrook, Software Eng. http://www.orcacomputer.com/~chuck --------------------------------------------------------------------- chuck_esterbrook@orcacomputer.com / vo 540 231-3475 / fx 540 231-3480 Orca Computer, Inc. / 1800 Kraft Dr. Suite 111 / Blacksburg, VA 24060
From: greglarson@aol.com (GregLarson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Pin Diag. For Meg.Pix. Monitor??? Date: 18 Apr 1997 22:00:51 GMT Organization: AOL http://www.aol.com Message-ID: <19970418215901.RAA00627@ladder01.news.aol.com> Anyone out there with the pin out diagram or assignments for the Mega Pixal n400 monitor db-25? thanks greg
From: giddings@menominee.chem.wisc.edu (Michael Giddings) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.mac.advocacy Subject: OpenStep vs. Linux Benchmarks on Web Site Date: 18 Apr 1997 22:41:20 GMT Organization: University of Wisconsin - Madison Distribution: world Message-ID: <5j8tag$4ns4@news.doit.wisc.edu> Keywords: benchmarks Due to popular demand, I have put the benchmarks that I posted here earlier (Linux (much) faster than NextStep (Rhapsody)) at http://www.barbarian.com/benchmarks.html Apparently some people had trouble with the formatting of the message I posted. Since I have these up on the web, I might as well collect other people's benchmarks. If you run the Byte Benchmark suite on your computer, please send the results to me, along with your system configuration (hardware and OS). Also let me know if you re-compiled or used the binaries there. I would be interested in seing these benchmarks run on other Unix machines as well (Solaris, SGI, etc). -- Michael Giddings giddings@chem.wisc.edu giddings@barbarian.com (608)258-1699 or (608) 692-2851 http://smithlab.chem.wisc.edu/PersonalPages/giddings/giddings.html http://www.barbarian.com
From: jrudd@cygnus.com (John Rudd) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Nitro Board - any info? Date: 19 Apr 1997 01:43:10 GMT Organization: Cygnus Solutions Message-ID: <5j97ve$e7s$2@majipoor.cygnus.com> References: <tim-1804971504570001@tdanaher.demon.co.uk> <E8uC0v.7ny@novice.uwaterloo.ca> Cc: dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca In <E8uC0v.7ny@novice.uwaterloo.ca> David Evans wrote: > In article <tim-1804971504570001@tdanaher.demon.co.uk>, > Tim Danaher <tim@tdanaher.demon.co.uk> wrote: > >Hello, everyone > > > >I've seen some mention in varius fora of the Nitro accelerator for Turbo > >stations. Anyoone got any info on them? Are they still available? > > > > I think there were about 5 built. They're a daughterboard that plug into the > CPU socket of a NeXTstation Turbo/NeXTstation Turbo Color (and a NeXTcube Turbo > with some physical hackery.) The board holds a 68040 running at 40MHz and a > 128K (I think) cache; 4-way? can't remember. > And they aren't available. And I don't have one. There was also a project to put a '060 into a daughterboard in the cpu socket. Does anyone know what happened to THAT? -- John "kzin" Rudd jrudd@cygnus.com http://www.cygnus.com/~jrudd =========Intel: Putting the backward in backward compatible.============ Smalltalk == Astronaut's tools. Awkward at first, but exceptional design C++ == A hammer. A SLEDGEHAMMER. Not cast metal, a big rock on a stick.
From: willadams@aol.com (WillAdams) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: pc case covers in acrylic, black, brushed metal... where? Date: 19 Apr 1997 01:51:05 GMT Organization: AOL http://www.aol.com Message-ID: <19970419015000.VAA18996@ladder01.news.aol.com> References: <5j3sbi$jb6$1@broadway.interport.net> Antec, makes black cases, as well as mice and keyboards... Most computer stores (those which order from reseller Ingram Micro) can get their stuff. Logitech has done designer mice as well... One of the major keyboard manufacturers, Keytronics? has a "Eurotech" line which is black, and has introduced a lifetime designer model which is black. I've had good luck painting cables for my NeXT by starting with gloss black, then adding two coats of flat black. It's a bit dark, and I'm wondering if I should try gloss, then a dark matte gray, and then the flat black... William William Adams http://members.aol.com/willadams Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow.
From: Creature@trix.com (Mr. Kawasaki) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Help: ISASerialPort0: Unable to determine chip type Date: Sat, 19 Apr 1997 02:44:26 GMT Organization: MindSpring Enterprises Message-ID: <33583002.572155@news.mindspring.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I installed SimpleInterNextStarter, ppp2.2, Dialup.app, and SampleFiles from ftp.peak.org. I also downloaded the PPP_Instructions.rtf and followed step by step to get OPENSTEP 4.1 configured so I can connect to Mindspring. After I run Dialup.app and hit connect, my computer is busy for a couple seconds, then Dialup.app reports "Disconnected". I looked in /usr/adm/ppp2.2.log. It said "No Such Device/dev/cufb" (or something to that effect). I was told to install the SerialPort and PortServer drivers. I did that rebooted and I looked in /usr/adm/messages and it says this. I guess the first message says the OPENSTEP sees my USR modem. Apr 18 17:17:55 satan mach: PnP: csn 2: USR0011 s/n 0x35353535 Apr 18 17:17:55 satan mach: ISASerialPort0: Unable to determine chip type at I/O base 0x2f8 Can anyone tell me what this means and how to fix it? All I want is to be able to go online from OPENSTEP, thanks a lot. Later, Nick E-Mail me at cybobob@mindspring.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.sys.next.hardware From: stephen farrell <sfarrell@phaedrus.uchicago.edu> Subject: Re: Linux (much) faster than NextStep (Rhapsody) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Message-ID: <87912fkdn2.fsf@phaedrus.uchicago.edu> Sender: news@midway.uchicago.edu (News Administrator) Organization: University of Chicago -- Academic Computing Services References: <5j841c$3qo4@news.doit.wisc.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 7.89) Date: Sat, 19 Apr 1997 01:25:05 GMT giddings@menominee.chem.wisc.edu (Michael Giddings) writes: these results are not surprising; linux is a damn fast kernel and the development version (2.1.x) is even faster. wrt ext2 vs. ffs, ext2 is much faster with operations that involve meta-data (i.e., creating files), b/c it does these asynchronously (meaning it doesn't commit them to stable storage immediately -- trying typing sync after untarring some files). the bsd folks say that what they lose in speed they make up in reliability... i personally haven't seen this (the only filesystem i've had get hosed regularly was NetBSD's). linux also wins over mach for the same reason it (and *BSD) wins over NT -- it's monolithic, non-message-passing architecture. there are trade-offs here: there are obviously arguments for microkernels, but one of them is not usually speed. (btw, the argument i've seen most persuading might be one you wouldn't expect -- debugging, but that's another issue). anyway, i agree with your sentiment that an openstep-compliant application layer on top of the linux kernel would be a very good thing. i'd really like to see apple put some money into the gnustep project -- i wonder if they could be approached about this... add it to the mklinux project (which, you'll note, was not dropped in apple's restructuring). --steve farrell > I downloaded the Byte Unix Benchmarks and did some tests on Linux and > OpenStep/Mach 4.1 running on the same system. First of all, here's the > configuration: > > Generic PCI motherboard, 256Kb L2 Cache, 150 Mhz pentium, 48 MB RAM > BusLogic Ultra SCSI > IBM 2 gig Ultra drive > OpenStep/Mach 4.1 > Linux (RedHat) 4.1 > > I'll include the tables below. The most stunning thing in these were the > disk writes - more than 10x faster in Linux! I had noticed before that the > Linux filesystem seemed much more responsive - for example, doing a recursive > chmod on a large directory tree is blazingly fast. The other speed > advantages in Linux seem mainly on the Unix stuff, not on raw calculations > such as recursion or math. > > This makes me hope that Rhapsody will see a big upgrade of the BSD layer!! > Maybe they should use the ext2 filesystem - it appears much more responsive > than ufs. > > Here are results (the Baseline numbers used for comparison are for an 040 > cube system) > > ----------------------- > OPENSTEP/MACH 4.1: > INDEX VALUES > TEST BASELINE RESULT INDEX > > Arithmetic Test (double) 2703.3 29558.6 10.9 > Arithmetic Test (long) 2827.0 22837.5 8.1 > Arithmetic Test (register) 2847.5 22869.3 8.0 > C Compiler Test 24.1 80.9 3.4 > Dhrystone 2(w/o register vars) 24179.3 183811.8 7.6 > Execl Throughput Test 23.7 26.4 1.1 > File Copy (30 seconds) 518.0 2140.0 4.1 > File Read (30 seconds) 18288.0 75464.0 4.1 > File Write (30 seconds) 600.0 3076.0 5.1 > Pipe-based Context Switching 1153.5 6634.8 5.8 > Process Creation Test 34.0 144.0 4.2 > Recursion--Tower of Hanoi 323.8 3233.4 10.0 > Shell scripts (8 concurrent) 3.8 15.0 3.9 > ========= > SUM of 13 items 76.4 > AVERAGE 5.9 > ----------------------------- > LINUX REDHAT 4.1 (using kernel 2.0.28) > INDEX VALUES > TEST BASELINE RESULT INDEX > > Arithmetic Test (type = double) 2703.3 26468.3 9.8 > Arithmetic Test (type = long) 2827.0 22904.4 8.1 > Arithmetic Test (type = register) 2847.5 22925.9 8.1 > C Compiler Test 24.1 168.8 7.0 > Dhrystone 2 without register variables 24179.3 189999.1 7.9 > Execl Throughput Test 23.7 143.0 6.0 > File Copy (30 seconds) 518.0 4159.0 8.0 > File Read (30 seconds) 18288.0 253931.0 13.9 > File Write (30 seconds) 600.0 34497.0 57.5 > Pipe-based Context Switching 1153.5 30887.4 26.8 > Process Creation Test 34.0 928.7 27.3 > Recursion --Tower of Hanoi 323.8 3231.1 10.0 > Shell scripts (8 concurrent) 3.8 39.0 10.3 > ========= > SUM of 13 items 200.6 > AVERAGE 15.4 > > ---------------------------- > > I found it interesting. Too bad Linux uses X as it's GUI (and Gnustep isn't > complete yet) - otherwise I might be more inclined to use it regularly based > on these results . . . > > > -- > Michael Giddings > giddings@chem.wisc.edu > giddings@barbarian.com > (608)258-1699 or (608) 692-2851 > http://smithlab.chem.wisc.edu/PersonalPages/giddings/giddings.html > http://www.barbarian.com
From: sanguish@digifix.com (Scott Anguish) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: pc case covers in acrylic, black, brushed metal... where? Date: 19 Apr 1997 04:12:53 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <5j9go5$adk$1@news.digifix.com> References: <5j3sbi$jb6$1@broadway.interport.net> <19970419015000.VAA18996@ladder01.news.aol.com> In-Reply-To: <19970419015000.VAA18996@ladder01.news.aol.com> On 04/18/97, WillAdams wrote: >Antec, makes black cases, as well as mice and keyboards... Most computer >stores (those which order from reseller Ingram Micro) can get their stuff. > PC Power and Cooling also has Black Cases, and their quality is second to none. >Logitech has done designer mice as well... > >One of the major keyboard manufacturers, Keytronics? has a "Eurotech" line >which is black, and has introduced a lifetime designer model which is >black. > Last time I was in a computer city in Minnesota they had IBM keyboards in Black... >I've had good luck painting cables for my NeXT by starting with gloss >black, then adding two coats of flat black. It's a bit dark, and I'm >wondering if I should try gloss, then a dark matte gray, and then the flat >black... > -- Scott Anguish <sanguish@digifix.com> NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Information <URL:http://www.stepwise.com>
From: greglarson@aol.com (GregLarson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Help, Pinouts on MegaPixal Date: 19 Apr 1997 06:39:00 GMT Organization: AOL http://www.aol.com Message-ID: <19970419063801.CAA10442@ladder01.news.aol.com> Help, anyone have a Pinout diagram for the on MegaPixal monitor??? greg
From: hsla@irene.mit.edu (LA, HOSEONG) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Help: Intel Booting problem Date: 19 Apr 1997 01:43 EST Organization: MIT Lab for Nuclear Science Distribution: na Message-ID: <19APR199701434782@irene.mit.edu> News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.50 It happened twice. When it happened for the first time, I just thought I must have done something bad. Now it seems there is something weird going on. The problem is: once in a while, after the machine boots, it fails to access certain files. For example, in the second time of failure, the \dev was missing. Then whatever I do, e.g. changing a directory, it hangs for a while. So I decide to reboot, then "halt" fails in the mini monitor. Then it fails to reboot. The error message is simply Disc Error; Media Error <blah, blah, blah> I can boot into the single usermode using CD-ROM, then I find those device tables are not accessible and cannot fsck. This looks like an apparent hard disc failure. But, in fact the hard disk is "physically" fine because I have WIN95 on the first partition of the same hard disk and it works fine. Just the second OPENSTEP partition fails. I wonder if anyone out there had a similar experience with an Intel machine. It has happened twice in 8 1/2 months period: once in feb and today just a moment ago. Luckily, I still keep my reliable black around, although I feel it is slow now. My machine is DELL Dimension XPS P90. IDE two HD connected to the primary, a CD-ROM drive to the secondary. One hunch is often the second HD in the primary fails to be recognized after the first login of each boot, but this HD is only for win95. I don't know why once in a while the boot sector gets corrupted. Last time, I simply reinstalled everything. This time I don't want to do it again. If I cannot get it back, I am gonna delete the OPENSTEP partition and dedicate the machine solely to WIN95. (This is a threat to the community. :-)) Please let me know if anyone knows what is going on. Many thanks in advance. hs
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From: Creature@trix.com (Mr. Kawasaki) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Does USR Sportster 28800 work in OPENSTEP? Date: Sat, 19 Apr 1997 15:45:05 GMT Organization: MindSpring Enterprises Message-ID: <3358e81d.32348957@news.mindspring.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I have had problems that led me and others to believe that the errors I am having indicate that my modem is not supported. Has anyone had luck with this. BTW, it is pnp. Later, Nick E-Mail me at cybobob@mindspring.com
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From: vamp@vamp.org Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Nitro Board - any info? Date: 19 Apr 1997 02:57:03 -0700 Organization: http://www.vamp.org/ Message-ID: <y1liv1jqqs0.fsf@shell4.ba.best.com> References: <tim-1804971504570001@tdanaher.demon.co.uk> <E8uC0v.7ny@novice.uwaterloo.ca> dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca (David Evans) writes: > Tim Danaher <tim@tdanaher.demon.co.uk> wrote: > > > >I've seen some mention in varius fora of the Nitro accelerator for Turbo > >stations. Anyoone got any info on them? Are they still available? > > I think there were about 5 built. They're a daughterboard that plug > into the CPU socket of a NeXTstation Turbo/NeXTstation Turbo Color > (and a NeXTcube Turbo with some physical hackery.) The board holds > a 68040 running at 40MHz and a 128K (I think) cache; 4-way? can't > remember. > And they aren't available. And I don't have one. Who made them? Was this some planned upgrade from NeXT that never saw the light, or a cool project from some university engineers, or ... ? -- Ryan L. Watkins `silver moonbeams dance in fountains below shining citadels vamp@vamp.org surrounded by silver gates ascending silver stairs www.vamp.org eureka on angelic prayer wafts in and scents the air' -satb
From: jcarr37863@aol.com (JCarr37863) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: fs: st1480n $90 Date: 19 Apr 1997 13:07:12 GMT Organization: AOL http://www.aol.com Message-ID: <19970419130700.JAA23552@ladder01.news.aol.com> we would like to sell some used drives UPS SUN SCSI Built to order with support GSA schedule Maryland home page http://www.digitalcity.com/powerstar 800-209-5556
From: "Christian Jensen" <chrsjensen@worldnet.att.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Where to find ED diskettes? Date: 19 Apr 1997 14:59:44 GMT Organization: AT&T WorldNet Services Message-ID: <01bc4cd2$680da8a0$aecb92cf@default> Does anyone know of a source for Extra Density 2.88 MB floppies? Thanks. **************************************************** Chris Jensen chrsjensen@worldnet.att.net
From: Thomas Pfaff <devjava@jps.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Linux (much) faster than NextStep (Rhapsody) Date: Sat, 19 Apr 1997 07:56:47 -1200 Organization: A poorly-installed InterNetNews site Message-ID: <3359237F.110C@jps.net> References: <5j841c$3qo4@news.doit.wisc.edu> <87912fkdn2.fsf@phaedrus.uchicago.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In the past there's been talk at NeXT about swapping out the kernel. Now that they've settled on keeping Mach, I'd _guess_ that there are plans to optimize it so that it's faster and even more stable. After the first flurry of press releases there was some announcement about plans to upgrade the Mach kernel in NeXTStep to the latest version at least. Just FYI... this issue has been up for discussion again and again for several years at least which is of course just fine. Thomas
From: godwin@unixg.ubc.ca (Godwin) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Nitro Board - any info? Date: 19 Apr 1997 17:33:24 GMT Organization: University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., Canada Message-ID: <5javl4$7ep$1@nntp.ucs.ubc.ca> References: <tim-1804971504570001@tdanaher.demon.co.uk> <E8uC0v.7ny@novice.uwaterloo.ca> <5j97ve$e7s$2@majipoor.cygnus.com> John Rudd (jrudd@cygnus.com) wrote: : In <E8uC0v.7ny@novice.uwaterloo.ca> David Evans wrote: : > In article <tim-1804971504570001@tdanaher.demon.co.uk>, : > Tim Danaher <tim@tdanaher.demon.co.uk> wrote: : > >Hello, everyone : > > : > >I've seen some mention in varius fora of the Nitro accelerator for Turbo : > >stations. Anyoone got any info on them? Are they still available? : > > : > : > I think there were about 5 built. They're a daughterboard that plug into : the : > CPU socket of a NeXTstation Turbo/NeXTstation Turbo Color (and a NeXTcube : Turbo : > with some physical hackery.) The board holds a 68040 running at 40MHz and : a : > 128K (I think) cache; 4-way? can't remember. : > And they aren't available. And I don't have one. : There was also a project to put a '060 into a daughterboard in the cpu : socket. : Does anyone know what happened to THAT? I thought 060's opcode is so different from 040.. that you need some major kernel hacks to make it work?? =) I just have question.. is it worth it?? Granted we all love our slabs and cubes.. but if you want computation power.. won't it be better to bit the bullet and get a Pentium? system?? Even those K5s $99 Cdn.. that's pretty good price for a CPU! Godwin k
From: stevek@guide.chi.il.us (Steve Kacsmark) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Need help with monitor connectors Date: Sat, 19 Apr 1997 18:16:37 GMT Organization: Guide Services Message-ID: <33590b4c.8286936@nntp.interaccess.com> I was asked to build some boxes to allow NeXT cubes to boot without monitors. I've included a crude schematic of my design (based upon data in the hardware faq.) Unortunately to build the boxes I need some DB-19 connectors, but am unable to locate anyone selling theese. I'm hoping someone out there knows where to buy these connectors, I don't want to have to cut the monitor cables. Also, if you see any potential problems with my design I'd welcome input. Thanks Steve stevek@guide.chi.il.us (Schematics and info follow) (pin 6) ---/\/\/\----+ 470 ohm | o \ (Momentary Switch) o | (ground) -------------+ (Pin 12) -----+-------+ | | > 47 > 47 > ohm > ohm > > | | (ground) -----+-------+ The NeXT Manual describes the monitor connector as follows Pin 1 +12V Pin 2 -12V Pin 3 MON CLK Pin 4 MON DATA OUT Pin 5 MON DATA IN Pin 6 MON PWR SWITCH Pin 7 NC Pin 8 VSYNC Pin 9 HSYNC Pin 10 VIDEO Pin 11 +12V Pin 12 -12V Pins 13-19 GND
From: carpena@icia.rcanaria.es (Rafael Munoz-Carpena) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Need Help Getting SB16 PnP to work. Date: 18 Apr 1997 14:53:19 GMT Organization: Instituto Canario de Investigaciones Agrarias -ICIA Message-ID: <5j81sv$t90@sinfo.ll.iac.es> References: <3351d069.10177088@news.mindspring.com> Cc: cybobob@mindspring.com In <3351d069.10177088@news.mindspring.com> Mr. Kawasaki wrote: > I put in all the correct settings, directly from the manual for the > sound card. Also, I've had success in Linux using the exact settings > from the book, so I know that's not the problem. I heard someting from > someone a while back that said you need to change someting in the > Expert settings for it to work with PnP. > I also bought a SB16 PnP recently to install on my OS4.1. After trying every posible combination I gave up. I called up NeXT and told me I should download the newer driver from NeXTAnswers and did so. I still would not work. I then found a friend who had an NT system with the older SB16 (the old model with jumpers and all), I swap it with him, installed it right away and everything works OK!. I recommend you try this with your dealer or a friend. > > Later, > Nick > > E-Mail me at cybobob@mindspring.com > -- +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Dr. Rafael Munoz-Carpena, Researcher, Soil & Water Department | | INSTITUTO CANARIO DE INVESTIGACIONES AGRARIAS - ICIA | | Apdo. 60 - Laguna, 38200 Tenerife (Spain) | |Tno:+34-22-476343;Fax:+34-22-476303;e-mail:carpena@icia.rcanaria.es| +-------------------------------------------------------------------+
From: Isaac <isaac@pobox.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Nitro Board - any info? Date: Sat, 19 Apr 1997 15:41:09 -0400 Organization: Florida State University Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.95.970419153339.28065A-100000@lab.housing.fsu.edu> References: <tim-1804971504570001@tdanaher.demon.co.uk> <E8uC0v.7ny@novice.uwaterloo.ca> <5j97ve$e7s$2@majipoor.cygnus.com> <5javl4$7ep$1@nntp.ucs.ubc.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII In-Reply-To: <5javl4$7ep$1@nntp.ucs.ubc.ca> On 19 Apr 1997, Godwin wrote: > I just have question.. is it worth it?? Granted we all love our slabs > and cubes.. but if you want computation power.. won't it be better to bit > the bullet and get a Pentium? system?? Even those K5s $99 Cdn.. that's > pretty good price for a CPU! Of course, once PPCP is Apple's standard platform, it would be nice to see a PPCP-compliant upgrade board for NeXTstations or a PPCP board and backplane swap for the cubes (PPCP board, PCI backplane). Oh well, I can dream, can't I? :) -Isaac
From: Chuck_Esterbrook@orcacomputer.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Installing NT and Mach on 4GB Drives Date: 19 Apr 1997 19:27:25 GMT Organization: Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia Message-ID: <5jb6at$q3l$1@solaris.cc.vt.edu> References: <5j8ner$4tv$1@solaris.cc.vt.edu> Chuck_Esterbrook@orcacomputer.com wrote: > Hi, > > I'm having trouble installing OPENSTEP for Mach 4.1. I have the following > configuration: [del] > My 4GB drive has two 2GB partitions. The first is FAT16 running NT and the > second is OPENSTEP for Mach which is installed, configured and booting fine > except for one problem: > > Workspace reports that only 448MB are available. There should be 1.5 GB or > more available. When I computed the size of my local directories I only got > 172MB. I've heard that OPENSTEP can only address up to 2.7GB. When I add 2048 > (first partition), 448 (free) and 172 (used) that's about what I get. > > I'm assuming at this point that I need to follow some special instructions > concerning installation. I've browsed through NeXTanswers but wasn't able to > locate the article I need. > > Any help you can provide will be appreciated. I'd like to work on this > machine this weekend if possible. Tech support @ NeXT came through with the answer. The mistake I made was the following. My drive was originally three partitions: 2 GB, 2GB and 64MB. When I installed OPENSTEP I wasn't paying attention to the fact that the install program was offering to use all the space of the second and third partition. So I reinstalled and chose advanced options where I repartitioned the drive to what I originally had. Then I chose "Use all 2047 MB for OPENSTEP" and everything works fine. I have a little space left over, but that's not a problem. In fact, I might use it as a FAT transport between UFS and NTFS. -- Chuck Esterbrook, Software Eng. http://www.orcacomputer.com/~chuck --------------------------------------------------------------------- chuck_esterbrook@orcacomputer.com / vo 540 231-3475 / fx 540 231-3480 Orca Computer, Inc. / 1800 Kraft Dr. Suite 111 / Blacksburg, VA 24060
From: godwin@unixg.ubc.ca (Godwin) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Nitro Board - any info? Date: 19 Apr 1997 20:16:32 GMT Organization: University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., Canada Message-ID: <5jb970$dlk$1@nntp.ucs.ubc.ca> References: <tim-1804971504570001@tdanaher.demon.co.uk> <E8uC0v.7ny@novice.uwaterloo.ca> <5j97ve$e7s$2@majipoor.cygnus.com> <5javl4$7ep$1@nntp.ucs.ubc.ca> <Pine.LNX.3.95.970419153339.28065A-100000@lab.housing.fsu.edu> Isaac (isaac@pobox.com) wrote: : Of course, once PPCP is Apple's standard platform, it would be nice to : see a PPCP-compliant upgrade board for NeXTstations or a PPCP board and : backplane swap for the cubes (PPCP board, PCI backplane). Man! That means that no more NeXTDimension!? I guess there is always the Glints.. but man ND is possibly the largest Video card ever existed?;-) Just wait till the mac.hardware people hear this! next.hardware going down the csn.advocacy road;-) Godwin
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From: kwong@morgan.ucs.mun.ca (Kai S. Wong) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: FAXing with PPP Date: 19 Apr 1997 21:15:45 GMT Organization: Memorial University of Newfoundland Message-ID: <5jbcm1$j7l@coranto.ucs.mun.ca> References: <5itiq6$17m@news.acns.nwu.edu> <5j6v85$bm@news.myriad.net> sjohnson@myriad.net (Stephen Johnson) writes: >On 04/14/97, daj@nwu.edu wrote: >>I have a ZyXEL 2864 FAX/Modem. I have the modem connected to the >first com port (serial port 1, /dev/cufa). I am currently using the >modem and PPP to dial out. What I'd like to know is, what needs to be >done to allow me to use the FAX features of the modem? When I >configure a FAX modem in the PrinterManager, then the port (/dev/cufa) >is busy when I try to use PPP. Also, when I have established a modem >queue and I try to use it it appears that nothing gets sent. Do I >need to send some sort of modem commands to switch the modem to fax >mode? >> >>David A. Johnson, >>Research Engineer, >>Northwestern University >> >Do you have fax software, such as NXFax or there are some which may >require a good bit of configuring available on NEXTSTEP ftp sites? The >NS built in fax driver doesn't support Zyxel or very many other modems >either. >-- >--- >Stephen Johnson, sjohnson@myriad.net >Computer Consulting Intl, LTD >PO Box 1046 >College Station, TX 77841 >409-778-4717 >"the Bible is the rock on which our Republic rests" >President Andrew Jackson, June 8, 1845 Maybe you can get mgetty+sendfax on major Linux FTP site. kai
From: gdm@kestrel.scs.uiuc.edu (Gian-Paolo D Musumeci) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Nitro Board - any info? Date: 19 Apr 1997 21:22:57 GMT Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana Message-ID: <5jbd3h$avo@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> References: <tim-1804971504570001@tdanaher.demon.co.uk> <E8uC0v.7ny@novice.uwaterloo.ca> <y1liv1jqqs0.fsf@shell4.ba.best.com> vamp@vamp.org writes: > dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca (David Evans) writes: >> I think there were about 5 built. They're a daughterboard that plug >> into the CPU socket of a NeXTstation Turbo/NeXTstation Turbo Color >> (and a NeXTcube Turbo with some physical hackery.) The board holds >> a 68040 running at 40MHz and a 128K (I think) cache; 4-way? can't >> remember. >> And they aren't available. And I don't have one. I think there were more than 5 built. > Who made them? Was this some planned upgrade from NeXT that never saw > the light, or a cool project from some university engineers, or ... ? This was an internal engineering project at NeXT that was supposedly going to see the light of day, then NeXT killed their hardware line. gdm
From: bejo@iglobal.net Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Serial port Date: 19 Apr 1997 18:30:13 GMT Organization: Internet Global Services, Inc. Message-ID: <5jb2vl$fok1@news.iglobal.net> I have been trying to turn down serial speed from 9600 baud but doesnt work at all. i have tried to change it on /etc/ttys and /etc/gettytab. where am supposed to set up the speed ? My puter is black cube motorola 68030 Urip
From: mseibert@ita1.inow.com (Matt Seibert) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Question!? Date: Sat, 19 Apr 97 22:05:01 GMT Organization: Wildfire Technologies Message-ID: <5jbfip$aij@news.jump.net> Can I buy a NeXT cube and run it in a mult-processor config? I know it can support multiple MBDs, but can it be a SMP system? Matt
From: godwin@unixg.ubc.ca (Godwin) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Question!? Date: 19 Apr 1997 22:18:16 GMT Organization: University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., Canada Message-ID: <5jbgb8$iro$1@nntp.ucs.ubc.ca> References: <5jbfip$aij@news.jump.net> nope the best you can do is have multiple CPU board and ethernet it.. or unless you can plenty of $$$$.. to get NeXT/APple to upgrade the kernel to support SMP Matt Seibert (mseibert@ita1.inow.com) wrote: : Can I buy a NeXT cube and run it in a mult-processor config? I know it : can support multiple MBDs, but can it be a SMP system? : Matt
From: gdm@kestrel.scs.uiuc.edu (Gian-Paolo D Musumeci) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Question!? Date: 20 Apr 1997 00:21:14 GMT Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana Message-ID: <5jbnhq$jdm@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> References: <5jbfip$aij@news.jump.net> mseibert@ita1.inow.com (Matt Seibert) writes: > Can I buy a NeXT cube and run it in a mult-processor config? I know it > can support multiple MBDs, but can it be a SMP system? Nope. You can add multiple CPU boards which have the NBIC (NeXTbus Interface Chip) removed, and with some careful systems administration, you can have the other CPU board do some tasks. e.g. have a script 'gcc-dist' which accepts the standard gcc input, but tasks the compile to the second processor board. One of these days I'll get around to cleaning up my 'use the least busy processor for this task' script and make it available. gdm
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Scott ( eps@toaster.SFSU.EDU ) and Scott Anguish ( sanguish@digifix.com ) Additions from: Greg Anderson ( Greg_Anderson@afs.com ) Michael Pizolato ( alf@epix.net ) Dan Grillo ( dan_grillo@next.com )
From: Greg Noel <gnoel@linklaters.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Need Help Getting SB16 PnP to work. Date: Sun, 20 Apr 1997 04:49:11 +0100 Organization: BT Internet Message-ID: <33599237.E0E417DA@linklaters.com> References: <3351d069.10177088@news.mindspring.com> <5j81sv$t90@sinfo.ll.iac.es> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 I got my SB16 PnP working based on a previous posting, it worked until I rebooted.... Playing around I was able to get it to work semi-consistently. The instructions are just a bit arcane: Log in as root. Configure/Install the latest releases of the EISABus and SB16 drivers from NeXTAnswers. Open the EISABus wrapper in /usr/Devices ( cmd-shift-O in the workspace ). In a terminal window, run PnPDump, noting the ID of the SB16 card, something like 0x8c..... Now, open the wrapper for SoundBlaster16 in /usr/Devices. Open the Instance0.table file in Edit, replace the AutoDetect ID in the instance table with the ID from PnPDump Output. Reboot. Try it, if it works great, if after an rebooting it fails check the settings in Configure. As I said, after rebooting it worked, but after rebooting again it complained ( look at the -v output upon booting ). I finally had to change the driver to the single DMA SB16 driver to get it to stick. Hope this helps. Rafael Munoz-Carpena wrote: > In <3351d069.10177088@news.mindspring.com> Mr. Kawasaki wrote: > > I put in all the correct settings, directly from the manual for > the > > sound card. Also, I've had success in Linux using the exact > settings > > from the book, so I know that's not the problem. I heard someting > from > > someone a while back that said you need to change someting in the > > > Expert settings for it to work with PnP. > > > > I also bought a SB16 PnP recently to install on my OS4.1. After > trying > every posible combination I gave up. I called up NeXT and told me I > should download the newer driver from NeXTAnswers and did so. I > still > would not work. > I then found a friend who had an NT system with the older SB16 (the > old > model with jumpers and all), I swap it with him, installed it right > away and > everything works OK!. I recommend you try this with your dealer or a > friend.
From: Creature@trix.com (Mr. Kawasaki) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Q: Recommendation for PCI Video card Date: Sun, 20 Apr 1997 10:01:26 GMT Organization: MindSpring Enterprises Message-ID: <33512085.9819145@news.mindspring.com> References: <5i4en5$eeb$1@hock.apana.org.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit >Ideally, I'd probably go for a Matrox Millenium 4Mb, but at around A$500 >I'd like something more affordable right now. What the hell? 500$?! I got mine for $254.98 exactly, with 4 mb. I got it from www.c-lutions.com. Later, Nick E-Mail me at cybobob@mindspring.com
From: Creature@trix.com (Mr. Kawasaki) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Q: Recommendation for PCI Video card Date: Sun, 20 Apr 1997 10:01:27 GMT Organization: MindSpring Enterprises Message-ID: <3350cf9e.9974478@news.mindspring.com> References: <5i4en5$eeb$1@hock.apana.org.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit >Ideally, I'd probably go for a Matrox Millenium 4Mb, but at around A$500 >I'd like something more affordable right now. At www.c-lutions.com, it is $244 plus s&h and tax. I got one from them. Later, Nick E-Mail me at cybobob@mindspring.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.sys.next.hardware From: jlemon@netcom.com (Jonathan Lemon) Subject: Re: Linux (much) faster than NextStep (Rhapsody) Message-ID: <jlemonE8x7q4.L2x@netcom.com> Followup-To: jlemon@netcom.com Keywords: benchmarks speed linux nextstep rhapsody Organization: Netcom References: <5j841c$3qo4@news.doit.wisc.edu> Date: Sun, 20 Apr 1997 05:10:52 GMT Sender: jlemon@netcom22.netcom.com In article <5j841c$3qo4@news.doit.wisc.edu>, Michael Giddings <giddings@whitewater.chem.wisc.edu> wrote: >I downloaded the Byte Unix Benchmarks and did some tests on Linux and >OpenStep/Mach 4.1 running on the same system. First of all, here's the >configuration: > > [snip] > >I'll include the tables below. The most stunning thing in these were the >disk writes - more than 10x faster in Linux! I had noticed before that the >Linux filesystem seemed much more responsive - for example, doing a recursive >chmod on a large directory tree is blazingly fast. The other speed Uh, this is because Linux by default uses async disk writes. Yes, it brings the speed up, but you don't get that speed for free. What you're trading off is the integrity of the filesystem in off chance that you have a system crash before all the writes complete. If you never have a system crash or power failure, or the disk contains non- critical data, then there is absolutely no problem with this approach. However, if you don't want to gamble that your 2 year old daughter won't be attracted to the pretty lights and push the power button while you are working in Concurrence [personal experience here], then you are well advised _NOT_ to mount your system async. >advantages in Linux seem mainly on the Unix stuff, not on raw calculations >such as recursion or math. > >This makes me hope that Rhapsody will see a big upgrade of the BSD layer!! >Maybe they should use the ext2 filesystem - it appears much more responsive >than ufs. Sigh. ext2fs is not really more responsive than ufs. The async write option is what is providing performance gains. If you want to compare apples to apples, mount your filesystem noasync, and run the tests again. (But I'll bet that Linux still wins, the UNIX layer in NEXTSTEP is nowhere near a modern BSD system, like, say FreeBSD. :-) -- Jonathan (email replies, I don't read this group very often any more)
From: sef@kithrup.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: cmsg cancel <5jboaa$8p1@news.netusa1.net> Date: 20 Apr 1997 03:37:05 GMT Control: cancel <5jboaa$8p1@news.netusa1.net> Message-ID: <cancel.5jboaa$8p1@news.netusa1.net> Sender: <glucas@netusa1.net> Spam cancelled by sef@kithrup.com
From: emclean@slip.net (Emmett McLean) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: How to use Sony NeXT CD-ROM for music on MO (or just how to play music) Followup-To: comp.sys.next.hardware Date: 20 Apr 1997 00:31:26 -0700 Organization: Slip.Net Message-ID: <5jcgoe$1m5@slip.net> Hi, I purchased an original Sony CD-ROM (CDU-541 Rev 2.6a) for my 040/25 cube on c.s.n.m. For installing software it works great. But when I insert a music CD and plug a set of speakers into the sound jack, or a set of headphones, no sound comes out. Is there something I need to do play music on this CD-ROM and to have the music come out of the sound jack? Do I need run a particular app to listen to music from a CD-ROM? Thanks, Emmett
From: emclean@slip.net (Emmett McLean) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Where to attach video signal on 040 cubes Date: 20 Apr 1997 00:35:50 -0700 Organization: Slip.Net Message-ID: <5jch0m$1s9@slip.net> References: <5jcgoe$1m5@slip.net> Hi, Is it possible to attach a video signal to an 040/25 cube? If so, which connector? Some sort of external device? Or is video a NeXT Dimension thing only? Thanks, Emmett
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware From: hugob@tamtam.xs4all (Hugo Burm) Subject: SymLogic SCSI driver Message-ID: <E8xMt0.B8@tamtam.xs4all.nl> Sender: hugob@tamtam.xs4all.nl (Hugo Burm) Organization: datagram Date: Sun, 20 Apr 1997 10:36:36 GMT The SymBios Logic driver (SYM53c8xx) works fine with my old NCR 53C810 board but not with my new 53C875 board. Now I want to have the two boards in my system at the same time, and I want to tell the NeXT SYM53c8xx driver to ignore the board that is not supported (the 53c875). I found out what the PnP id's are (0x00011000 and 0x000f1000) and I modified the Instance0.table of the driver to accept 0x00011000 only. This trick does not work. The driver finds the first board at id 0x00011000 and then immediately says: "boardcount=2". It then tries to initialize the second board whith a reboot as result. Is there a way to prevent the driver from looking for more than one installed board?? Why does this driver recognize more than one board for Instance0.table and seems to ignore an Instance1.table?? In case you wonder why I want two SCSI controllers and ignore the second one: it is a dual boot system NS-mach/NT and NT works ok with the 53c875. Thanks hugob@tamtam.xs4all.nl
From: Mario Illgen <Mario.Illgen@Informatik.TU-Chemnitz.DE> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Need Help Getting SB16 PnP to work. Date: 20 Apr 1997 14:32:03 GMT Organization: University of Technology Chemnitz, FRG Message-ID: <5jd9d3$slq$1@narses.hrz.tu-chemnitz.de> References: <3351d069.10177088@news.mindspring.com> <5j81sv$t90@sinfo.ll.iac.es> <33599237.E0E417DA@linklaters.com> Hi there, Greg Noel <gnoel@linklaters.com> wrote: >In a terminal window, run PnPDump, noting the ID of the SB16 card, >something like 0x8c..... > >Now, open the wrapper for SoundBlaster16 in /usr/Devices. > >Open the Instance0.table file in Edit, replace the AutoDetect ID in the >instance table with the ID from PnPDump Output. > >Reboot. Try it, if it works great, if after an rebooting it fails check >the settings in Configure. > >As I said, after rebooting it worked, but after rebooting again it >complained ( look at the -v output upon booting ). I finally had to >change the driver to the single DMA SB16 driver to get it to stick. > Try to uninstall and reinstall the driver (after changing the Autodetect ID) using Configure.app. It has worked for me... (16 bit DMA) Ciao, Mario -- Mario Illgen, TU Chemnitz-Zwickau "I laughed in the mirror for the first time in a year..."
From: "Wes Spears" <jspears@weston.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.marketplace,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Help regarding Modem Cable for a 040 Cube Date: 20 Apr 1997 16:32:59 GMT Organization: The Weston Group Message-ID: <01bc4da8$d497e4a0$115a68ce@jspears.onramp.net> If you have one or know where I can pick one up, please let me know. Thanks Wes jspears@weston.com
From: mseibert@ita1.inow.com (Matt Seibert) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Help regarding Modem Cable for a 040 Cube Date: Sun, 20 Apr 97 19:25:16 GMT Organization: Wildfire Technologies Message-ID: <5jdqjm$9it@news.jump.net> References: <01bc4da8$d497e4a0$115a68ce@jspears.onramp.net> Ditto. I have a USR 28.8 External Black tower modem (figured the colors worked) and now need a modem cable so I can hook it to my NeXT. Matt In article <01bc4da8$d497e4a0$115a68ce@jspears.onramp.net>, "Wes Spears" <jspears@weston.com> wrote: >If you have one or know where I can pick one up, please let me know. > >Thanks >Wes >jspears@weston.com Matt please reply to mseibert@ita1.inow.com, news sux from here
From: larsen@math.upenn.edu (Michael Larsen) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: JAZ Drive on a 68K NeXT Date: 20 Apr 1997 02:27:51 GMT Organization: University of Pennsylvania Message-ID: <5jbuv7$f68@netnews.upenn.edu> References: <E8oE2s.9B3@free.fdn.fr> I also just bought a Jaz drive for my NeXT cube. The three cartridges I bought came pre-formatted for mac, but I reformatted them for NeXT. I did this by choosing the initialization command from the workspace (System 3.2). When the newfs command executed by the workspace failed, I typed "newfs /dev/rsd3a Jaz" from the command line, where "Jaz" is the name of the disktab entry I copied from the NextAnswers. (The default command "newfs /dev/rsd3a" executed by the standard initialization script uses the wrong disk geometry parameters.) Results: one of the three disks generated so many bad media errors that it was unusable. An attempt to sdform it failed, thanks to more media errors. A second disk generates bad media errors fairly frequently: perhaps half a dozen per 100MB of data transferred. The third generated only a single bad media error in a 700MB transfer but also crashed the workspace once during the transfer. This doesn't seem like acceptable performance to me. Did I do something wrong? Should I be using a different disktab, for instance? Different cartridges? A different drive? MacConnection is willing to replace any or all of the components but cannot advise on non-Mac, non-PC systems. -Michael Larsen
From: rao@supermod.egr.uh.edu (Dr. Jagannatha Rao) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Matrox Millenium (BLACK SCREEN ON BOOT) Date: 6 Apr 1997 21:31:21 GMT Organization: University of Houston Distribution: world Message-ID: <5i94n9$p1b@Masala.CC.UH.EDU> References: <5i4lhm$bhl@boursy.news.erols.com> I am having the exact same problems. In my case, the problem seems to go away when I reboot without the -v option, i.e., with graphics on. However, on many (but not all) occasions when I boot with -v option, everything goes fine until I expect to see the login window but instead see all black, with my Nanao monitor apparently in a state indicating that there is no incoming video signal from the card. What is going on? In article <5i4lhm$bhl@boursy.news.erols.com> gcasamen@erols.com writes: > Hi, I am having the following problem. I own a Matrox Millenium > video card. Recently upon booting up the machine I have been > experiencingoccasions when the login screen will not come up and the > monitor remainsdark. One of the lights on the front of the monitor > flashes as ifit is not recieving a signal. I have no idea what might be > causing this. > > I (unfortunately) also have Windows 95 on my machine and I have never > had any problems with the display coming up with it. The "Boot > Graphics" option is set to "Yes" currently. I am going to try setting > it to "No" to see if that makes a difference. What confuses me the most > is that this is only an occasional problem. > > My System is configured as follows: > > P200 w/ 512kb cache and 32MB RAM > Matrox Millenium w/ 4MB WRAM > SoundBlaster 16 (non-PnP) > 33.6 KBps US Robotics Modem > 1.6GB EIDE Hard Disk Drive > 8x Mitsumi ATAPI compliant CD-ROM > CTX 17" Monitor .25 dot pitch (max res 1600x1200) > usually runs at 1280x1024 w/65536 colors. > > Thanks in advance for any advice or help regarding this problem. > > Greg C. > Please e-mail me back at gcasamen@erols.com, or post to this newsgroup. > -- Jagannatha Rao E-mail:rao@uh.edu Department of Mechanical Engineering Tel :(713) 743-4535 University of Houston Fax :(713) 743-4503 Houston, TX 77204-4792
From: godwin@unixg.ubc.ca (Godwin) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Good Slab Fan Replacement Date: 20 Apr 1997 20:53:11 GMT Organization: University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., Canada Message-ID: <5jdvnn$ce8$1@nntp.ucs.ubc.ca> Hello all, Just a misc fan question... Which is the best QUIET fan to replace with in a turbo slab?? Just a minor rant about the stock fans.. I got two slabs opposite ends and when I am playing doom or other net games.. it gets just a tad loud with two of them whirring... distracting when you are trying to duck monsters, BFG shots or work... yeah right;-) thanx Godwin
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Where to find ED diskettes? Date: Sun, 20 Apr 1997 11:57:08 -0700 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970420113708.12895B-100000@kira> References: <01bc4cd2$680da8a0$aecb92cf@default> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: Christian Jensen <chrsjensen@worldnet.att.net> cc: salesinfo@mddc.com In-Reply-To: <01bc4cd2$680da8a0$aecb92cf@default> > Does anyone know of a source for Extra Density 2.88 MB floppies? Yes, one, Midwestern Diskette (800-221-6332, salesinfo@mddc.com). They were the only company I've seen in Computer Shopper over the past 1.5 years who have advertised ED disks. I got 10 of them a couple years back when I had to backp some stuff Kind of handy to have around but I haven't used them too often since I got my EZ135 drive. MD sells them for $1.69 each for 50 or more ($84 + shipping) or $1.79/each for less than 50. There is a $4 per order processing fee (why I don't know) shipping is $1.80 per 100 disks. These will work with drives on black hardware (slabs). For Intel hardware or others you will need a special drive (a regular disk drive won't work). This pricing info may not be current, I'm looking at the Feb '97 Computer Shopper. TjL -- TjL <luomat@peak.org> http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/ Questions asked in crossposted messages should not be answered. Read http://www.stepwise.com/Resources/Newsgroups/roadmap.html
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Correction (Re: Where to find ED diskettes?) Date: Sun, 20 Apr 1997 12:04:41 -0700 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970420115932.12895C-100000@kira> References: <01bc4cd2$680da8a0$aecb92cf@default> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: Christian Jensen <chrsjensen@worldnet.att.net> cc: saleinfo@mddc.com In-Reply-To: <01bc4cd2$680da8a0$aecb92cf@default> [the email address should be "saleinfo@mddc.com, NOT sale_s_info@mddc.com] > Does anyone know of a source for Extra Density 2.88 MB floppies? Yes, one, Midwestern Diskette (800-221-6332, salesinfo@mddc.com). They were the only company I've seen in Computer Shopper over the past 1.5 years who have advertised ED disks. I got 10 of them a couple years back when I had to backp some stuff Kind of handy to have around but I haven't used them too often since I got my EZ135 drive. MD sells them for $1.69 each for 50 or more ($84 + shipping) or $1.79/each for less than 50. There is a $4 per order processing fee (why I don't know) shipping is $1.80 per 100 disks. These will work with drives on black hardware (slabs). For Intel hardware or others you will need a special drive (a regular disk drive won't work). This pricing info may not be current, I'm looking at the Feb '97 Computer Shopper. TjL -- TjL <luomat@peak.org> http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/ Questions asked in crossposted messages should not be answered. Read http://www.stepwise.com/Resources/Newsgroups/roadmap.html
From: frank@this.NO_SPAM.net (Frank M. Siegert) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Where to attach video signal on 040 cubes Date: 21 Apr 1997 00:19:48 GMT Organization: Frank's Area 51 Message-ID: <5jebr4$36v$1@wwwproxy.seicom.net> References: <5jcgoe$1m5@slip.net> <5jch0m$1s9@slip.net> emclean@slip.net (Emmett McLean) wrote: > Hi, > Is it possible to attach a video signal to an 040/25 cube? > If so, which connector? Some sort of external device? > Or is video a NeXT Dimension thing only? Only NeXT Dimension Cubes can handle video. --- * Frank M. Siegert [frank@this.net] - Home http://www.this.net * NeXTSTEP, Linux, BeOS & PostScript Guy
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From: mseibert@ita1.inow.com (Matt Seibert) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Need Serial Cable for NeXT Date: Mon, 21 Apr 97 02:15:07 GMT Organization: Wildfire Technologies Message-ID: <5jeik2$shh@news.jump.net> Needed: One serial cable for black hardware to USR 28.8 Modem. What is the going rate, etc? Matt please reply to mseibert@ita1.inow.com, news sux from here
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From: godwin@unixg.ubc.ca (Godwin) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Need Serial Cable for NeXT Date: 21 Apr 1997 02:27:53 GMT Organization: University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., Canada Message-ID: <5jejb9$put$1@nntp.ucs.ubc.ca> References: <5jeik2$shh@news.jump.net> have you try a mac to pc modem cable??? (haven't try any since I uses ethernet) but pins look alright.. try Dejanews and do a search I am pretty sure it was covered! godwin Matt Seibert (mseibert@ita1.inow.com) wrote: : Needed: : One serial cable for black hardware to USR 28.8 Modem. What is the : going rate, etc? : Matt : please reply to mseibert@ita1.inow.com, news sux from here
From: "Christian Jensen" <chrsjensen@worldnet.att.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Need Serial Cable for NeXT Date: 21 Apr 1997 02:34:41 GMT Organization: AT&T WorldNet Services Message-ID: <01bc4dfc$a83871a0$abcb92cf@default> References: <5jeik2$shh@news.jump.net> DeepSpace Tech (http://www.deepspacetech.com) sells NeXT modem cables for $25 if I'm not mistaken. Matt Seibert <mseibert@ita1.inow.com> wrote in article <5jeik2$shh@news.jump.net>... > Needed: > One serial cable for black hardware to USR 28.8 Modem. What is the > going rate, etc? > > > Matt > please reply to mseibert@ita1.inow.com, news sux from here >
From: "Robert G. Jacobs" <rob@rjacobs.Stanford.EDU> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: PPD for newer HP Laserjets Date: Thu, 17 Apr 1997 10:09:51 -0700 Organization: Stanford University Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.92.970417100231.880A-100000@rjacobs.Stanford.EDU> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII I currently have an HP Laserjet III on my NeXTstation running NS3.0 (I have a cable with a serial port connection on one end and a 25-pin connector on the other) . I'm looking to upgrade to a newer HP Laserjet that's faster and has built-in postscript (e.g. HP 5MP or HP 6MP). Does anyone have the correct PPD files for either of these printers? Anything else I should consider? Reasons why this won't work? Thanks for any comments. Robert rjacobs@vk.stanford.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware From: mgoedel@m.isar.de Subject: running cube without monitor Message-ID: <E8yMDB.1EC@muaddib.m.isar.de> Sender: mgoedel@muaddib.m.isar.de (Maximilian Goedel) Organization: Michael Maximilian Goedel Date: Sun, 20 Apr 1997 23:24:47 GMT Hello out there, running two cubes as network servers (one as Master Netinfo server, the other one as sybase & web server) i think, monitors will go to the goodfather by the next months after running 4 years without powering the machines down... Someone posted a little hardware trick to build a blind connector for the monitor output. Does anybody has a pinout for such a thing. Thanx MaX(T) -- __ Michael Maximilian Goedel | Agilolfinger Platz 10 /\_\ KARSTADT AG Unternehmensbereich IW | 81543 Muenchen \/_/ Sysadmin der cyberb@r | Tel.: 049 89 652918 NeXTSTEP! mgoedel@m.isar.de (NeXT) | Work: 049 89 2902-5418
From: bestor@dpls.dacc.wisc.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Where to attach video signal on 040 cubes Date: 21 Apr 1997 16:41:24 GMT Organization: University of Wisconsin, Madison Message-ID: <5jg5bk$3tio@news.doit.wisc.edu> References: <5jcgoe$1m5@slip.net> <5jch0m$1s9@slip.net> >Is it possible to attach a video signal to an 040/25 cube? >If so, which connector? Some sort of external device? > >Or is video a NeXT Dimension thing only? Either the NeXTdimension for video in and out (NTSC or PAL depending on which ND board you have) or MetaResearch built a frame grabber that plugs into the DSP port that does video in but not video out. The later works on any NeXT hardware, not just the cube, and came in two models - Digital Eye (mono) and Color Digital Eye (color). I have a Color Digital Eye and it works fine - I think it can capture 640x480 at 5fps but I'd better double check that frame rate. Of course, neither are made anymore and don't come up for sale very often; I seen maybe two Digital Eye's posted for sale in the last 4 years. - Gareth
From: dental@precipice.com (Rick Sanford) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Correction (Re: Where to find ED diskettes?) Date: 21 Apr 1997 17:27:00 GMT Organization: Dental Records[tm] Message-ID: <5jg814$9ms@news1-alterdial.uu.net> References: <01bc4cd2$680da8a0$aecb92cf@default> <Pine.SUN.3.96.970420115932.12895C-100000@kira> Cc: luomat@peak.org In <Pine.SUN.3.96.970420115932.12895C-100000@kira> Timothy Luoma wrote: > > [the email address should be "saleinfo@mddc.com, NOT sale_s_info@mddc.com] > > > > Does anyone know of a source for Extra Density 2.88 MB floppies? > > Yes, one, Midwestern Diskette (800-221-6332, salesinfo@mddc.com). > MD sells them for $1.69 each for 50 or more ($84 + shipping) or $1.79/each > for less than 50. There is a $4 per order processing fee (why I don't > know) shipping is $1.80 per 100 disks. > These will work with drives on black hardware (slabs). For Intel hardware > or others you will need a special drive (a regular disk drive won't > work). > TjL I have 5 boxes left in stock, shrinkwrapped; will let them go for what I paid, $18.00 per box (of 10) plus sales tax if in NY state. Will ship UPS or whatever... Rick Sanford dental@precipice.com 212-486-4513 -NYC
From: Piotr Palacz <piotr@FreeFall.com.au> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Help: MIDI problem Date: Mon, 21 Apr 1997 19:51:03 +1000 Organization: AUSNet Services Message-ID: <335B3887.4630@FreeFall.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hello; I've been trying to makework a black NS 3.2 + Midface SX (by Altrech Systems) + Yamaha Clavinova. From the keybord to the slab, the setup works OK. From the slab to the keyboard - no such luck. Console registers: 'MIDI driver hardware framing error'. I used programs coming with MusicKit 4.0 to test this. Any suggestions, anybody? Piotr Palacz piotr@FreeFall.com.au
From: Thomas Pfaff <devjava@jps.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware.misc,comp.sys.mac.hardware.storage,comp.sys.mac.hardware.video,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.sgi.hardware,comp.sys.sun.hardware,it.comp.hardware.modem,misc.forsale.computers.discussion,misc.forsale.computers.mac-specific.ca Subject: a response Date: Mon, 21 Apr 1997 10:25:30 -1200 Organization: A poorly-installed InterNetNews site Message-ID: <335BE95A.37D8@jps.net> References: <01bc4b59$b6eeb100$2a21c183@BING.uic.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Yuan Li <yli2@uic.edu> Hi. Your posting does not belong in any NeXT newsgroups as it has nothing to do with either NeXTStep compatible machines nor does it have anything to do with NeXTStep/Openstep/Rhapsody itself. Sigh... Thomas Yuan Li wrote: > > I have a sony CD writer(CDU 924s) for sale!! only used for less than 20 > hous! This device support all the format! it comes with a Corel CD > Creator for Win95 and NT. > I got it for $550. I only ask for $500 include S&H within the U.S.!! > > If interest, please send e-mail to: yli2@uic.edu
From: David Young <dwy@ace.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Need Serial Cable for NeXT Date: 21 Apr 1997 15:13:17 GMT Organization: THINK New Ideas, Inc., New York City Message-ID: <5jg06d$9gl$1@darla.visi.com> References: <5jeik2$shh@news.jump.net> Matt Seibert <mseibert@ita1.inow.com> wrote: > One serial cable for black hardware to USR 28.8 Modem. What is the > going rate, etc? Mac modem cables are not NeXT modem cables. If you're handy with a wire stripper, you can make one relatively easily. Search for "cabling" in the System Administrator's Guide. It has pinouts for the NeXT ports and what wires to connect for RS-232 ports. -- .............david.young...senior.developer...think.new.ideas.inc... ....work:.http://www.thinkinc.com...net:.david_young@thinkinc.com...
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware From: Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Subject: Re: How to use Sony NeXT CD-ROM for music on MO (or just how to play music) Message-ID: <E8zJzF.7tq@nidat.sub.org> Sender: nitezki@nidat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany References: <5jcgoe$1m5@slip.net> Date: Mon, 21 Apr 1997 11:30:51 GMT In article <5jcgoe$1m5@slip.net> emclean@slip.net (Emmett McLean) writes: > Hi, > > I purchased an original Sony CD-ROM (CDU-541 Rev 2.6a) > for my 040/25 cube on c.s.n.m. For installing software > it works great. But when I insert a music CD and plug > a set of speakers into the sound jack, or a set of > headphones, no sound comes out. > > Is there something I need to do play music on this > CD-ROM and to have the music come out of the sound jack? > > Do I need run a particular app to listen to music from > a CD-ROM? > CDPlayer.app used to be on the Demo section of the NS CD-ROM. -- 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: Need help with monitor connectors Message-ID: <E8zKAn.7uE@nidat.sub.org> Sender: nitezki@nidat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany References: <33590b4c.8286936@nntp.interaccess.com> Date: Mon, 21 Apr 1997 11:37:35 GMT In article <33590b4c.8286936@nntp.interaccess.com> stevek@guide.chi.il.us (Steve Kacsmark) writes: ...munch... > Also, if you see any potential problems with my design I'd welcome > input. > > (Schematics and info follow) > > (pin 6) ---/\/\/\----+ > 470 ohm | > o > \ (Momentary Switch) > o > | > (ground) -------------+ > > (Pin 12) -----+-------+ > | | > > 47 > 47 > > ohm > ohm > > > > | | > (ground) -----+-------+ > > > The NeXT Manual describes the monitor connector as follows > Pin 1 +12V > Pin 2 -12V > Pin 3 MON CLK > Pin 4 MON DATA OUT > Pin 5 MON DATA IN > Pin 6 MON PWR SWITCH > Pin 7 NC > Pin 8 VSYNC > Pin 9 HSYNC > Pin 10 VIDEO > Pin 11 +12V > Pin 12 -12V > > Pins 13-19 GND > Steve, they didn't put the power on two pins for fun. Your design is putting all the current on one pin which might burn out some day. So use two pins for -12v and GND! -- 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: Creature@trix.com (Mr. Kawasaki) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Has anyone used USR Sportster 28.8 PnP in OPENSTEP Date: Tue, 22 Apr 1997 01:18:13 GMT Organization: MindSpring Enterprises Message-ID: <33611125.141551621@news.mindspring.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Just want to know if you'd had better luck than me. Later, Nick E-Mail me at cybobob@mindspring.com
From: tj@oro.net (Thomas Ferreira) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: WTT: PC/Mac Postscript Printer for NeXT Computer Date: 21 Apr 1997 21:05:28 GMT Organization: "oronet, Penn Valley, CA" Message-ID: <tj-2104971401420001@i485.oro.net> I have a very good condition and like new Qume Crystal Print Publisher II Printer that I would like to trade for a used NeXTstation or Color NeXTstation.The Qume is a Postscript and HP compatible printer thats works with both Mac and PC and many other systems. Has serial, parallel, and Appletalk ports, 6MB RAM, 300dpi, 6 pages per minute, letter and legal and envelope trays, like new drum and complete new toner. Let me know what you have to offer. Tom
From: chk@deimos.frii.com (Christian Kuhtz) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Need Serial Cable for NeXT Date: 21 Apr 97 21:21:49 GMT Organization: Front Range Internet, Inc. Message-ID: <chk.861657709@deimos.frii.com> References: <5jeik2$shh@news.jump.net> <5jg06d$9gl$1@darla.visi.com> David Young <dwy@ace.net> writes: >Matt Seibert <mseibert@ita1.inow.com> wrote: >> One serial cable for black hardware to USR 28.8 Modem. What is the >> going rate, etc? >Mac modem cables are not NeXT modem cables. If you're handy with a >wire stripper, you can make one relatively easily. Search for "cabling" >in the System Administrator's Guide. It has pinouts for the NeXT ports >and what wires to connect for RS-232 ports. It's also all in 'man zs'... Which is probably the best place to go because that's probably most current and immediately available. Cheers, Chris -- Christian Kuhtz <ckuhtz@paranet.com> (work) <chk@gnu.ai.mit.edu> (home) Paranet, Inc. http://www.paranet.com/ "Humbly speaking for myself only."
From: Everette Edmondson <edmondson@hnet.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: for sale stuff Date: Mon, 21 Apr 1997 17:28:41 -0500 Message-ID: <335BEA19.718A@hnet.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit The Zenith radio I am selling for $150.00 in great shape.am,fm,longwave, 2-4 mc,4-9 mc,31 meters,25 meters,19 meters,16 meters.Lighted dial for night tuning.Log chart with countries frequincys and time of broadcast. Time zone dial to figure out what time to listen. This is a hard to find item and is collectable.Will sell for $150.00 plus shipping. canon a2e 35mm , 28 to 80 zoom usm -- 100 to 300 zoom usm-- 500 mm reflex telephoto-- 1x4 tele extender-- auto zoom flash-- quantum battery pack will run 2 flash heads-- filters--remote--quietest camera on the market with auto eye focus system.Ultrasonic motor drive on lenses for fast and quiet focusing will focus in darkness.Will trade or sell outright.Consider pentium computer system or digital camera system.430 ez flash auto zoom. items for sale::: vlb io card-- vlb 3d blaster video card-- video capture card color-- monitor ibm color-- citizen gsx 130 color dotmatrix printer-- 5.25 floppy drive-- rll 20meg hard drive-- umax 630 color scanner full page-- conner 400meg external tape backup-- fs or trade ar2500 ac dc scanner radio,covers 11mhz to 1500mhz in 78 > bands.Scan auto all bands or any combination.Manual or auto frequincy > programing.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware From: yuwaraj@ecf.toronto.edu (Murugathas Yuwaraj) Subject: HELP: MegaPixel Monitor problem Sender: news@ecf.toronto.edu (News Administrator) Message-ID: <E90C7w.5x2@ecf.toronto.edu> Date: Mon, 21 Apr 1997 21:40:44 GMT Organization: University of Toronto, Engineering Computing Facility Greetings everyone! I bought a Nextstation recently. The monitor has the following problem: The pixels are ``squished'' at the bottom of the screen. The transition is gradual from top of the screen to the bottom of the screen. I tried fiddling with the linearity pot in the monitor... it seems to be maxed out. Has anyone had this problem? Any suggestions would be much appreciated. Could you kindly forward responses to thas@ibme.utoronto.ca I will compile the responses and post them. Thanks. -Thas
From: stephen@ccc1.tamu.edu (Stephen Johnson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.software Subject: Re: HELP!!! HELP!!! HELP!!! Date: 22 Apr 1997 00:19:50 GMT Organization: Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas Message-ID: <5jh076$gd7@news.tamu.edu> References: <5ij800$kv1@news.acns.nwu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Date: 22 Apr 1997 00:19:50 GMT In-Reply-To: <5ij800$kv1@news.acns.nwu.edu> On 04/10/97, daj@nwu.edu wrote: >I have a very serious problem that I need help with. > >I have a Jaz disk that had files moved from it onto another disk (using the next window GUI move command). I want to recover the data fromm the original Jaz disk. Unfortunately the disk the data was moved onto was destroyed. The Jaz disk is intact and hasn't had anything done to it since the data was moved off (no read or writes). Is there any way this can be done? Can I do it myself or is there a service that I can send the disk to to have it recovered? If a service is the way to go, are there any recommendations? > >PLEASE HELP!! Of course I need the data recovered yesterday! > >Thank's in advance, > > > >David A. Johnson > Here are a list of companies to whom I have talked about recovering data. DriveSavers are expensive but might be the best bet. I tried Lazarus and CBL. I would not recommend CBL for NEXTSTEP especially and in general their customer service was not very good. Data Recovery Labs (813) 725-3818 Phone (813) 725-8510 Fax datareclab@aol.com $100 eval. - recovery ~$500-$1200 Data Recovery Services, Inc. ? Vantage 1-800-487-5678 (603) 883-6249 FAX: (603) 883-1973 recovery@vantagetech.com $250 eval. fee CBL 1-800-551-3917 590 Alden Rd., Unit 105, Markham, Ontario, Canada L3R 8N2 (905) 479-9938, Fax: (905) 479-1515 $100/hr 2-4hrs wk Unix DriveSavers (800) 440-1904 415-883-4232 FAX (415) 883-0780 E-Mail: DriveSaver@aol.com NEXTSTEP Lazarus 381 Clementina Street San Francisco, CA 94103 800-341-DATA 415-495-5553 fax
From: Garance A Drosehn <gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Linux (much) faster than NextStep (Rhapsody) Date: 21 Apr 1997 22:11:58 GMT Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy NY, USA Message-ID: <5jgone$ckl@usenet.rpi.edu> References: <5j841c$3qo4@news.doit.wisc.edu> giddings@menominee.chem.wisc.edu (Michael Giddings) wrote: > I downloaded the Byte Unix Benchmarks and did some tests on Linux > and OpenStep/Mach 4.1 running on the same system. > I'll include the tables below. The most stunning thing in these > were the disk writes - more than 10x faster in Linux! > This makes me hope that Rhapsody will see a big upgrade of the > BSD layer!! Maybe they should use the ext2 filesystem - it > appears much more responsive than ufs. Apple has said that the first official release of Rhapsody will include an up-to-date version of the BSD-flavored kernel. This will presumably include some performance improvements, as well as many useful improvements. --- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer (MIME & NeXTmail capable) Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Troy NY USA
From: mseibert@ita1.inow.com (Matt Seibert) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Monitor Problem Date: Tue, 22 Apr 97 03:08:27 GMT Organization: Wildfire Technologies Message-ID: <5jha47$biv@news.jump.net> I received my NeXT today (YAHOO, this is soooo cool) but the monitor focus seems to be shifted a bit to the right and up a little (ie, looks off center). Was wondering if there is a way to correct this? Secondly, how do I run BuildDisk to create a new boot drive. 100 MB really doesn't hack it, so I get a 500 MB drive to throw in this baby. But I want to transfer the system (I've got it mostly configured) over. Is there a FAQ I could reference? Thanx! Matt
From: John Kheit <jkheit@cnj.digex.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Need Help Getting SB16 PnP to work. Date: 22 Apr 1997 02:57:53 GMT Organization: monoChrome, Inc., NJ, USA Message-ID: <5jh9fh$h2b$4@news2.digex.net> References: <3351d069.10177088@news.mindspring.com> <5j81sv$t90@sinfo.ll.iac.es> carpena@icia.rcanaria.es (Rafael Munoz-Carpena) wrote: > I also bought a SB16 PnP recently to install on my OS4.1. After > trying every posible combination I gave up. I called up NeXT and > told me I should download the newer driver from NeXTAnswers and > did so. I still would not work. I then found a friend who had > an NT system with the older SB16 (the old model with jumpers and > all), I swap it with him, installed it right away and everything > works OK!. I recommend you try this with your dealer or a friend. You know, I heard so many horrors about this plug and play stuff...And I think it might have something to do with the intel chipset. I just put together a system for a friend. It was a brand new PPro with 2.1 of the PCI bus and the 440x chipset. It really was just plug and play... YMMV. -- Thanks, be well, take care, later, John Kheit; Self expressed... __________________________________________________________________ monoChrome, Inc. ASCII, MIME, PGP, SUN, & NeXTmail OK NeXT/OPENSTEP Developer mailto:jkheit@cnj.digex.net Telepathy, It's coming... http://www.cnj.digex.net/~jkheit New York Law School You're dangerous because you're honest
From: paul maddox <pmaddox@ridgecrest.ca.us> Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.scitech,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.netx.software,comp.sys.mac.programmer.codewarrior,comp.sys.mac.programmer.misc,comp.sys.mac.oop.macapp3 Subject: Developers Coalition idea Date: Mon, 21 Apr 1997 18:50:16 -0700 Organization: RidgeNET Message-ID: <335C1958.CE3@ridgecrest.ca.us> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Apple's strategy for the future seems solid. They have superior hardware, the PowerMac, which just this week hit 300 MHz-- a clear win for the PowerPC Platform over the competition. To run this great hardware, they have a superior OS on the way -- Rhapsody, which will bring new meaning to the word modern and its associated buzzwords, and give some already impressive hardware a large performance boost. What Apple does not seem to have, however, is the crucial third piece of the computer puzzle-- applications. In order to make their new strategy compelling to the average consumer, Apple needs the support of developers to make office tools, games, and other applications that take advantage of this great hardware and OS. Without this support, and a large measure of it, Apple will go nowhere. Enter the Developer1s Coalition, a well-researched, hard-thought answer to this problem, and one that should put all support for Be and other alternatives out of the picture for good. Picture: * A new organization in which the various, usually competing, Mac hardware vendors *all* come together to encourage and fund development for the Mac OS-- a group composed of not just the AIM triad (Apple, IBM, Motorola), but also the 12 or so cloners, both large and small. * The stability and harmony such a group will bring the platform with its 3we1re all in the same boat2 message. * The reaction of developers to an organization with this breadth and resource level. * This same forum taking on many of the other platform-wide duties, such as evangelism and advertising-- like that PowerPC commercial everyone is longing for... * The tremendous boost in public confidence that will result from this move. Sound good? Then I need your help. The above organization exists only on paper. However, a group of enterprising people have hatched a plan to publicize the idea, hoping to create two reactions: one, let the press and developers know that there is a huge cadre of 3average Joe2 Mac users out there eager to see more programs developed for the Mac; and two, to get the different hardware vendors to either form such a group, or start contributing to an Apple-led effort to provide these benefits. This plan entails a massive e-mail campaign targeting all the Mac hardware vendors with cc's to all the Mac software developers. Address lists for these will be posted on the eve of the campaign. Following is the form letter. Pleae help us out by sending it to the provided mailing lists on or between the dates of *Sunday, April 20th* and *Saturday, April 27*. Thank you. * DC Home: http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/2633/dc.html * Complete Mac http://www.dol.net/~Ragosta/dev.htm * MacMarines http://www.macmarines.com/dcnews/dcnews.html
From: "Jim Wu" <jiwu@tuba.aix.calpoly.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Reading dos formatted Zip disks Date: Tue, 22 Apr 1997 00:04:37 -0700 Organization: Netcom Message-ID: <jiwu-2204970004370001@ont-ca8-17.ix.netcom.com> I have NS 3.2 running on a cube with a zip drive. The zip drive reads mac and next disks with no problems, however when I try to read a dos zip disk NS complains that it is not readable. I thought it just works. Reading dos floppies work fine. Is there a disktab or something that I need to use/modify. TIA Jim Wu jimwu@bigfoot.com
From: godwin@unixg.ubc.ca (Godwin) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Reading dos formatted Zip disks Date: 22 Apr 1997 09:53:54 GMT Organization: University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., Canada Message-ID: <5ji1ri$cck$1@nntp.ucs.ubc.ca> References: <jiwu-2204970004370001@ont-ca8-17.ix.netcom.com> don't have any problem with mind.. black/white... except it do take a while to scroll when there are alot of small graphics files on a disc. Godwin Jim Wu (jiwu@tuba.aix.calpoly.edu) wrote: : I have NS 3.2 running on a cube with a zip drive. The zip drive reads mac : and next disks with no problems, however when I try to read a dos zip disk : NS complains that it is not readable. I thought it just works. Reading dos : floppies work fine. Is there a disktab or something that I need to : use/modify. TIA : Jim Wu : jimwu@bigfoot.com
From: <Frogger@anvil.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: It's not bad canned meat... Date: Tue, 22 Apr 1997 03:14:54 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <199704221014.DAA28900@web1.zzz.com> Ever had a message so important you just had to tell the world? Well, this is one of those messages. It's about "SUBMITKING", one of the best resources I've found for promoting a website. The URL is http://www.submitking.com and they'll submit your URL to 100 marketing resources (like Yahoo, Altavista,Lycos, Excite, etc.) for just $10US and you just fill out one form and press one button! Tell them Frogger sent you!
From: rworne@primenet.com (Robert Worne) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: SCSI Zip drive woes Date: 22 Apr 1997 03:41:01 -0700 Organization: Primenet Services for the Internet Message-ID: <5ji4jt$dne$1@nnrp01.primenet.com> References: <1997Apr8.135006.29310@il.us.swissbank.com> borad@oca.com (Donald Bora) wrote: >Help! > >When I started this whole process I had plugged in the scsi >zip drive in alone and it worked like a champ. > >I then tried to get it working with two internal harddrives >a cdrom drive and a scsi scanner. The system refused to see >the second internal hard drive or just got a scsi error. >The scsi id's are all unique and the termination on everything >is cool. > >Now, after much experimentation, I can no longer boot from my first >internal hard drive and I can't even see/mount my second internal hd >(all of the external scsi devices have been disconnected) and am getting >the following error: BAD SUPER BLOCKS: MAGIC NUMBER WRONG >USE -b OPTION TO FSCK TO SPECIFY LOCATION OF AN ALTERNATE..... >which I have done but to no avail. Further more both sd0 and sd1 >are responding with the first internal hard drive. > > >Any clues out there???? Is this black hardware? Is the scanner an Epson ES1000 or ES1200? My Turbo Station gets corrupted HD files every time I use that damn scanner (it's even been replaced)... The non-turbo Cube is rendered unbootable after only *one* scan (after which it hangs the SCSI bus). This problem occurs on a minimal SCSI chain: Int HD (Terminated) -> TurboColor -> Scanner -> Active Terminator. And on the full-bore chain: Int HD (Terminated) -> Scanner -> Turbocolor -> Ext HD -> CDROM -> Zip -> Active Terminator (Passive won't work in this config). -- Robert Worne NeXT-OS/2-MacOS 26-52-78-CV-O2-Vec-MV-TI-C64-TG16-SMS-Jag //------------------------------------------------------------------// Starving CS Undergrad: "Sorry, I don't do Windows! I'd rather starve!" //------------------------------------------------------------------// Visit my videogame collecting site! http://www.primenet.com/~rworne/
From: William.Clocksin@CL.cam.ac.uk Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Failing to install OpenStep 4.1: 'Target Dropped Busy' Date: 22 Apr 1997 10:56:16 GMT Organization: University of Cambridge, England Message-ID: <5ji5gg$ro6@lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk> I'm trying to install OpenStep 4.1 on an Intel box. Everything goes smoothly until it tries to load the system from the CD, when I get the message sd1: Target Dropped Busy and then retries several times until it gives up with errno 5. The SCSI card is a 2940UW; the CD is a Pioneer U12X. The SCSI and CD are recognised. I've installed NT on this same hardware without any problems. I've checked the obvious things (I've installed NeXTStep lots of times on crazy equipment before now), but am now stuck. Any ideas? Thank you. William Clocksin Computer Laboratory University of Cambridge
Date: Tue, 22 Apr 1997 07:11:20 -0600 From: Tom Guyette <tguyette@is.com> Subject: Intel 3.3 SerialPort driver recognizes a 16550 when a 16650 is present Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.software Message-ID: <861710199.3532@dejanews.com> Organization: Deja News Usenet Posting Service I recently purchased a serial card from ByteRunner (actually made in Taiwan) on which I got a 16650 hoping to improve my multitasking ability. I am running 3.3 and I have the latest Next drivers installed - ISA/EISA Bus Support(v3.35) SerialPort(v3.33) TTY Port Server(v3.33) Although the SerialPort driver's documentation does say that it automatically detects the 16650, on my system it DOES NOT. It says that a 16550 is detected with fifo=16 bytes!! I asked next and they said to try downloading the latest drivers which I did and the results didn't change. I booted in DOS and ran a program that detects the UART and it saw a 16650 alright!! Any suggestions how to get this guy to work? Does anyone have the same problem? Tom -------------------==== Posted via Deja News ====----------------------- http://www.dejanews.com/ Search, Read, Post to Usenet
From: stevek@guide.chi.il.us (Steve Kacsmark) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: running cube without monitor Date: 22 Apr 1997 13:07:15 GMT Organization: Guide Services Distribution: world Message-ID: <5jid63$jl3@nntp.interaccess.com> References: <E8yMDB.1EC@muaddib.m.isar.de> In article <E8yMDB.1EC@muaddib.m.isar.de> mgoedel@m.isar.de wrote: > > Hello out there, > (snip) > > Someone posted a little hardware trick to build a blind connector > for the monitor output. Does anybody has a pinout for such a > thing. > (snip) This is cut directly out of the hardware faq: (snip) Subject: L11. How to boot a NeXT without a monitor? [From: The Onyx Kitten ] The procedure is to just touch pins 6 and GND on the DB-19 NeXT monitor out with a 470 Ohm resistor (450 is the actual resistance, but 470 ohms is more commonly found in resistors). Pin 6 is the power sense, and pins 13-19 (and the DB shell) are the GND. Just say "pin 19", it may be easier. There's a pinout diagram of the DB-19 in the NeXT Users Reference Manual. If you have an old Cube, the power supply needs to have more power drawn from it than an 030 (and 040?) board uses to stay on. So: On the DB-19, attach a Power Resistor (20 Ohm, at least 20 Watt) between pins 12 and GND. (Pin 12 is -12V, pin 13 works well for GND). Then just "touch" the 470 ohm resistor as described above, and you're set. The 20 Ohm resistor draws an old 030 running monitorless in an old CUBE), but it isn't necessary - just don't touch it (*HOT!* ;-) To power off, type "halt -p" as root on the machine (either through a terminal connected to port A, or over the eithernet connection). Also, you have to have the Rom Monitor settings done correctly. The important ones are: Wait until keypress? N Sound out tests? N Port A as alternate Console? Y (if you have one, it's nice) Verbose mode? N (I think this may need to be N to work, don't remember). (snip) This is what I did: (Schematics and info follow) (pin 6) ---/\/\/\----+ 470 ohm | o \ (Momentary Switch) o | (ground) -------------+ Thats Pin6 -> 470hm Resistor -> Switch -> Ground(Pin13-19) (Pin 12) -----+-------+ | | > 47 > 47 > ohm > ohm > > | | (ground) -----+-------+ Pin 12 -> (2 parallel 47 Ohm Resistor) -> Ground(Pin 13-19) Both 47 ohm resistors I have are 20Watt giving me a 40 Watt circuit, I just happened to have these resistors, they were probably more than needed. the FAQ says you need 20 watts total. Rom settings: Wait until keypress? N Sound out tests? N Verbose mode? N Everything appears to be working fine on my systems (NeXT Cube 040 25Mhz) I'mhaving trouble finding DB-19 connectors, so I'm cutting cutting up old NeXT cables. you can purchase cables from www.deepspacetech.com if you want extras. If you can locate DB-19 connectors, I would be greatful for the information. I don't enjoy destroying the cables. The NeXT Manual describes the monitor connector as follows Pin 1 +12V Pin 2 -12V Pin 3 MON CLK Pin 4 MON DATA OUT Pin 5 MON DATA IN Pin 6 MON PWR SWITCH Pin 7 NC Pin 8 VSYNC Pin 9 HSYNC Pin 10 VIDEO Pin 11 +12V Pin 12 -12V Pins 13-19 GND Steve
From: h9001648@obelix.wu-wien.ac.at (marcus) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: NE2000 driver? Date: 22 Apr 1997 15:32:29 GMT Organization: University of Economics and Business Administration, Vienna, Austria Message-ID: <5jilmd$2l0@cantine.wu-wien.ac.at> I'm unable to locate a driver for OpenStep 4.1 for my NE2000 compatible network card. If you know where to get it, please email me with the URL. Thanks a bunch Marcus
From: hippykill@my.own.bad.site (Hippykill) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Exception #3 (0xc) at 0x1000374? Date: Tue, 22 Apr 1997 15:35:05 GMT Organization: DIGEX, Inc. Message-ID: <335cd948.63204754@news.digex.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit A friend of mine gave me a NeXTStation Turbo machine, and I'm having some troubles with it. He built a boot disk for me on a 1GB SCSI HD that booted his NeXTStation fine. When I try to boot mine from it, the machine goes through testing the system and then it says "loading from disk" and the disk spins up, and then it goes to ROM diagnostics and gives me this error message: Exception #3 (0xc) at 0x1000374 What does this mean? Do I have bad boot ROM, or is the motherboard bad, or did I set something up wrong? Not that I can change the ROM settings, because they are password protected... Thanks for any help you can give! mikelea@access.digex.net "listen to your children instead of dissin' them!"-KRS-ONE "rush limbaugh, i'll hit that pig with an axe..." -Channel Live
From: satoru@candenext.lsa.berkeley.edu (Satoru Uzawa) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.software Subject: cmsg cancel <5jio3p$fnq$1@agate.berkeley.edu> Control: cancel <5jio3p$fnq$1@agate.berkeley.edu> Date: 22 Apr 1997 16:15:07 GMT Organization: University of California, Berkeley Message-ID: <5jio6b$fnq$2@agate.berkeley.edu> Article cancelled from within tin [v1.3 950824BETA PL0]
From: satoru@candenext.lsa.berkeley.edu (Satoru Uzawa) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Intel 3.3 SerialPort driver recognizes a 16550 when a 16650 is present Followup-To: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.software Date: 22 Apr 1997 16:22:15 GMT Organization: University of California, Berkeley Message-ID: <5jiojn$fnq$3@agate.berkeley.edu> References: <861710199.3532@dejanews.com> Tom Guyette (tguyette@is.com) wrote: : I recently purchased a serial card from ByteRunner (actually made in : Taiwan) on which I got a 16650 hoping to improve my multitasking ability. : : I am running 3.3 and I have the latest Next drivers installed - : ISA/EISA Bus Support(v3.35) : SerialPort(v3.33) : TTY Port Server(v3.33) : : Although the SerialPort driver's documentation does say that it : automatically detects the 16650, on my system it DOES NOT. It says that : a 16550 is detected with fifo=16 bytes!! : This is right size of the FIFO buffer of 16550 chip. Yes, it has only 16 bytes, but compared to 1 byte of 16450 chip, it is huge. The 16 byte of FIFO buffer is big enough to avoid "comm overrun" problem which have had with 16540 chips and high speed modem conbination. : Any suggestions how to get this guy to work? Does anyone have the same : problem? : : Tom It looks like that your hardware/drivers comination is working perfect, or am I missing something else in your post? Hope this solves your question. Please do not cross post! Many NeXT people are reading all of the NeXT related news groups. -- Satoru Uzawa, satoru@candenext.lsa.berkeley.edu (NeXTmail welcome)
Date: 22 Apr 1997 12:16:36 EST Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Message-ID: <cancel.199704221014.DAA28900@web1.zzz.com> Control: cancel <199704221014.DAA28900@web1.zzz.com> From: clewis@ferret.ocunix.on.ca Sender: <Frogger@anvil.net> Subject: cmsg cancel <199704221014.DAA28900@web1.zzz.com> EMP/ECP (aka SPAM) cancelled by clewis@ferret.ocunix.on.ca. See news.admin.net-abuse.announce, report 19970422.24 for further details
From: "Hari Rajagopal, Kodak Consultant" <grimgaunt@why.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Help , need NextStep 3.x help Date: Tue, 22 Apr 1997 12:19:36 -0500 Organization: Eastman Kodak Company Message-ID: <335CF328.7F8F@why.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Is there someone who could install NS3.x on my hard drive if I package and mail them the scsi drive ? I dont have a CD_ROM and OS, but do have the 'right to load' from MTECH, inc's terms of sale. I would really appreciate this and am in Dallas, TX Hari
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware From: dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca (David Evans) Subject: Re: Reading dos formatted Zip disks Sender: news@novice.uwaterloo.ca (Mr. News) Message-ID: <E91tLI.3vL@novice.uwaterloo.ca> Date: Tue, 22 Apr 1997 16:53:41 GMT References: <jiwu-2204970004370001@ont-ca8-17.ix.netcom.com> Organization: University of Waterloo In article <jiwu-2204970004370001@ont-ca8-17.ix.netcom.com>, Jim Wu <jiwu@tuba.aix.calpoly.edu> wrote: >I have NS 3.2 running on a cube with a zip drive. The zip drive reads mac >and next disks with no problems, however when I try to read a dos zip disk >NS complains that it is not readable. I thought it just works. Reading dos >floppies work fine. Is there a disktab or something that I need to >use/modify. TIA > I seem to recall a problem with support of DOS removable SCSI disks on 3.2. I gather it was fixed in 3.3 and may have been fixed by the "DOSFileSystemPatch" that you can get from NeXTanswers. I don't think I've ever tried reading PC-formatted Zip disks on my cube... -- 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: mgoedel@m.isar.de Subject: Re: running cube without monitor Message-ID: <E924MI.3D6@muaddib.m.isar.de> Sender: mgoedel@muaddib.m.isar.de (Maximilian Goedel) Organization: Michael Maximilian Goedel References: <5jid63$jl3@nntp.interaccess.com> Date: Tue, 22 Apr 1997 20:51:54 GMT In article <5jid63$jl3@nntp.interaccess.com> stevek@guide.chi.il.us (Steve Kacsmark) writes: > In article <E8yMDB.1EC@muaddib.m.isar.de> > mgoedel@m.isar.de wrote: > > > > > Hello out there, snip - snap --------------------------------- Thanx for the infos. I ve forgotten to look in the Hardware FAQs. Uuuuuuppppppppppssssss :-) Nice Greetings from Munich - Germany -- __ Michael Maximilian Goedel | Agilolfinger Platz 10 /\_\ KARSTADT AG Unternehmensbereich IW | 81543 Muenchen \/_/ Sysadmin der cyberb@r | Tel.: 049 89 652918 NeXTSTEP! mgoedel@m.isar.de (NeXT) | Work: 049 89 2902-5418
From: Bret Sanders <bret@lighthouse.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Etherlink 3C589D driver? Date: Tue, 22 Apr 1997 22:48:04 +0100 Organization: Sun Microsystems Inc., Mountain View, CA Message-ID: <335D3214.5660@lighthouse.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit The Etherlink III PCMCIA driver (v4.03) doesn't seem to work with this new card revision! (3C589D) It worked with the "C" card. Any input? Bret -- _____ /_____/\ David "Bret" Sanders /____ \\ \ Lighthouse Design, Ltd. /_____\ \\ / Sun Microsystems /_____/ \/ / / 2929 Campus Drive, Ste 101 /_____/ / \//\ San Mateo, CA 94403 \_____\//\ / / \_____/ / /\ / Phone: 415 524-3276 \_____/ \\ \ Pager: 800 SKY-8888 PIN# 4859932 \_____\ \\ EMail: bret@lighthouse.com \_____\/
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From: David Case <dcase@case.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Strange SIMM slot in Nextstation ? Date: Tue, 22 Apr 1997 17:02:07 -0700 Organization: CASE Electronics Message-ID: <335D517F.2787@case.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I have a 25MHz 040 mono NeXtStation and it has a SIMM slot that appears to be about 64pins or such. What was it for? ROM upgrades? Anything?
Message-ID: <335AFBA3.5801@ultranet.ca> Date: Sun, 20 Apr 1997 21:31:15 -0800 From: John Hills <jhills@ultranet.ca> MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: FAXing with PPP References: <5itiq6$17m@news.acns.nwu.edu> <5j6v85$bm@news.myriad.net> <5jbcm1$j7l@coranto.ucs.mun.ca> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I would agree that mgetty+sendfax would be the way to go. If you manage to get them installed and configured let me know. I think you have to be a bit of a propellor-head to set up mgetty!
From: "John Hills" <jhills@ultranet.ca> Subject: Re: Framegrabber under NS 3.3/Intel Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware References: <5ii3fd$ka2@news.sns-felb.debis.de> Message-ID: <01bc4f14$cbc421a0$a5bf66cf@kyushu.infoserve.net> Date: 22 Apr 97 05:09:23 GMT Martin Böckle <bueckle@schelling.dbag.ulm.DaimlerBenz.COM> wrote in article <5ii3fd$ka2@news.sns-felb.debis.de>... > Hello, > > I'm looking for a framegrabber solution under NS 3.3/Intel. The main > criteria is the ability to transfer image sequences to main memory in > real time. AFAIK there are NS 3.3 drivers for the Movie Machine and > Screen Machine cards by FAST Multimedia. But due to the limited transfer > rate on the ISA bus this solution seems to be inappropriate. > > Does anybody know about PCI framegrabbers working together with NS 3.3? > > There are FreeBSD and Linux drivers for the Matrox Meteor framegrabber card. > Is it possible to port one of them to NS 3.3? Does anybody working on that? > > Any help will be appreciated. This seems to be one of the big black holes that Apple/NeXT should get on right away. I have been waiting longer than I care to remember for an adequate video-in solution from NeXT, once the NeXTdimension failed to deliver (yes, I have been waiting that long!). As I understand it you also have to pay about $800 for a driver for the FAST cards. Music/MIDI would also seem to be something that needs to be re-supported ASAP. John Hills jhills@ultranet.ca
From: mkienenb@arsc.edu (Mike Kienenberger) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Need Help Getting SB16 PnP to work. Date: 23 Apr 1997 00:11:26 GMT Organization: Arctic Region Supercomputing Center Message-ID: <5jjk3e$dca@news.alaska.edu> References: <3351d069.10177088@news.mindspring.com> <5j81sv$t90@sinfo.ll.iac.es> <5jh9fh$h2b$4@news2.digex.net> carpena@icia.rcanaria.es (Rafael Munoz-Carpena) wrote: ] I also bought a SB16 PnP recently to install on my OS4.1. After ] trying every posible combination I gave up. I called up NeXT and ] told me I should download the newer driver from NeXTAnswers and ] did so. I still would not work. I then found a friend who had ] an NT system with the older SB16 (the old model with jumpers and ] all), I swap it with him, installed it right away and everything ] works OK!. I recommend you try this with your dealer or a friend. John Kheit <jkheit@cnj.digex.net> wrote: >You know, I heard so many horrors about this plug and play stuff...And >I think it might have something to do with the intel chipset. I >just put together a system for a friend. It was a brand new PPro >with 2.1 of the PCI bus and the 440x chipset. It really was just >plug and play... YMMV. It probably won't make anyone feel any better, but I had the same kinds of problems trying to get a PnP 32Awe working with Windows95. I finally had to disable the PnP "features" on the board before I could make the thing work. Maybe you can do the same thing on a SB16 PnP. -- Mike Kienenberger Arctic Region Supercomputing Center Systems Analyst (907) 474-6842 mkienenb@arsc.edu http://www.arsc.edu
From: gdm@kestrel.scs.uiuc.edu (Gian-Paolo D Musumeci) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Strange SIMM slot in Nextstation ? Date: 23 Apr 1997 01:01:44 GMT Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana Message-ID: <5jjn1o$5cu@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> References: <335D517F.2787@case.com> David Case <dcase@case.com> writes: > I have a 25MHz 040 mono NeXtStation and it has a SIMM slot that appears > to be about 64pins or such. What was it for? ROM upgrades? Anything? I believe that this is a ROM upgrade slot, but I could be mistaken. I'm actually intending to scan in a NeXT logic board and ID as many of the chips on it as I can...sometime this summer, probably. gdm
From: Theodore J. Allen Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: NE2000 driver? Date: 23 Apr 1997 01:38:51 GMT Organization: University of Wisconsin, Madison Message-ID: <5jjp7b$4q90@news.doit.wisc.edu> References: <5jilmd$2l0@cantine.wu-wien.ac.at> h9001648@obelix.wu-wien.ac.at (marcus) wrote: > I'm unable to locate a driver for OpenStep 4.1 for my NE2000 compatible > network card. If you know where to get it, please email me with the URL. > > Thanks a bunch > Marcus For 3.3: ftp://ftp.cs.tu-berlin.de/pub/NeXT/hardware/driver/intel/NE2000.tar.gz ftp://ftp.cs.tu-berlin.de/pub/NeXT/hardware/driver/intel/NE2000.tar.gz.readme It should work for 4.x, I think... -- Ted Allen, Ph.D. High Energy Physics University of Wisconsin-Madison tjallen@wishep.physics.wisc.edu http://theory1.physics.wisc.edu/~tjallen/
From: godwin@unixg.ubc.ca (Godwin) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Strange SIMM slot in Nextstation ? Date: 23 Apr 1997 01:39:00 GMT Organization: University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., Canada Message-ID: <5jjp7k$lil$1@nntp.ucs.ubc.ca> References: <335D517F.2787@case.com> <5jjn1o$5cu@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> eer DSP memory slot??? I think UC in Sanfrancisco used to sell 56kb memory simms for the slots.. Godwin Gian-Paolo D Musumeci (gdm@kestrel.scs.uiuc.edu) wrote: : David Case <dcase@case.com> writes: : > I have a 25MHz 040 mono NeXtStation and it has a SIMM slot that appears : > to be about 64pins or such. What was it for? ROM upgrades? Anything? : I believe that this is a ROM upgrade slot, but I could be mistaken. I'm : actually intending to scan in a NeXT logic board and ID as many of the : chips on it as I can...sometime this summer, probably. : gdm
From: mseibert@ita1.inow.com (Matt Seibert) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: ST 5660N Date: Wed, 23 Apr 97 02:15:05 GMT Organization: Wildfire Technologies Message-ID: <5jjrcb$gdg@news.jump.net> Can a NextStation Mono Turbo accept a ST5660N Drive? I can't get the danged thing to power up. Matt please reply to mseibert@ita1.inow.com, news sux from here
From: jin@merrimac.rutgers.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Choices for laptops running Openstep? Date: 22 Apr 1997 22:45:16 -0400 Organization: Rutgers University Message-ID: <5jjt3s$p99@merrimac.rutgers.edu> I plan to buy a laptop to run Openstep. What would you recommend? Thanks. Gavin
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: USR "X2" modem with NeXT hardware (slab) Date: Tue, 22 Apr 1997 18:59:23 -0700 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970422184418.8760A-100000@kira> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: nextppp@listproc.thoughtport.com FWIW: my ISP just went to USR X2 servers, so I got me an "X2" modem. Pretty spiffy. I've been able to get connected at 45Kbps over regular phone lines. I ran it at full ftp-download for 45 minutes from my ISP account running 57600 serial port (on my non-turbo slab). I saw download times of 3.1 to 3.2 kb/s for ftp, up from 2.5kb/s max previously. A telnet session from nerc.com to peak.org went a lot smoother. It was just about as fast as being there... WWW downloads seem faster, but I'll have to test it when the Intel arrives later this week... FYI in case any of you have access to an X2 capable ISP... TjL
From: leigh@cs.uwa.edu.au (Leigh Smith) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Music/MIDI under Rhapsody (was Framegrabber under NS 3.3/Intel) Date: 23 Apr 1997 03:47:50 GMT Organization: The University of Western Australia Distribution: world Message-ID: <5jk0p6$nu6$1@enyo.uwa.edu.au> References: <01bc4f14$cbc421a0$a5bf66cf@kyushu.infoserve.net> In article <01bc4f14$cbc421a0$a5bf66cf@kyushu.infoserve.net> "John Hills" <jhills@ultranet.ca> writes: Music/MIDI would also seem to be something that needs to be re-supported ASAP. Yes! Apple really needs to build on top of the MIDI/DSP drivers that exist on NeXTStep (black and white) now to keep musicians from accepting Microsoft domination and abandoning their hardware investments. As a minimum: Open MIDI System (OMS) support on top of existing NeXT APIs to attract music developers to continue development on Rhapsody. If Metrowerks delivers on their porting to Rhapsody, OMS API preservation may be enough to retain a market Apple has had since the Apple II days. If they don't come up with something fast, developers will absorb the pain of conversion to the NT native APIs and that will be it for the sound aspect of multimedia authoring for Apple. -- Leigh Computer Science, University of Western Australia Smith +61-9-380-3778 leigh@cs.uwa.edu.au (NeXTMail/MIME)
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From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Choices for laptops running Openstep? Date: Tue, 22 Apr 1997 20:12:19 -0700 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970422201158.19623A-100000@kira> References: <5jjt3s$p99@merrimac.rutgers.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: jin@merrimac.rutgers.edu In-Reply-To: <5jjt3s$p99@merrimac.rutgers.edu> Check http://www.next.com/NeXTanswers for one... TjL
From: godwin@unixg.ubc.ca (Godwin) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Difference between B/W MegaPixels Date: 23 Apr 1997 05:44:00 GMT Organization: University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., Canada Message-ID: <5jk7j0$277$1@nntp.ucs.ubc.ca> Hello all, I am debating whether or not to get another slab as a printer server for the whole house.. the question I have is on the difference between B/W Megapixel.. I know there is a 4000A and B.. but since I seen and have only one or the other.. can someone kind enough to tell me what is the difference and which one si a better buy.. I would like to keep to the "Frog Design" model tho.. or they both essentially the same thing?? Another quick question is what is the optimal config for a slab to be a printer server? Thanks Godwin
From: billyboy@interlog.com (Bill Best) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: SyJet or Jaz as boot drive on Mono non-turbo slab? Date: Wed, 23 Apr 1997 05:38:37 GMT Organization: Red Sector Inc. Message-ID: <335d9f34.2009439@news.interlog.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi everyone! I have a Mono non-turbo slab that I'd like to get working. Unfortunately it doesn't have a HD in it though. I have been thinking about getting a SyJet or Jaz (external models) for my NT machine and was wondering if I could just use that to boot the Next. Thanks! Bill. [) [) [)ill [)est ========== billyboy@interlog.com
From: chrisp@sax.sax.de (Christoph Pfisterer) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.scitech,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.netx.software,comp.sys.mac.programmer.codewarrior,comp.sys.mac.programmer.misc,comp.sys.mac.oop.macapp3 Subject: Re: Developers Coalition idea Date: Tue, 22 Apr 1997 22:10:03 +0200 Organization: private site, Dresden, Germany Message-ID: <chrisp-ya023080002204972210030001@gimli> References: <335C1958.CE3@ridgecrest.ca.us> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit paul maddox <pmaddox@ridgecrest.ca.us> wrote: [intro - Apple needs the developers] > Enter the Developer1s Coalition, a well-researched, hard-thought >answer to this problem, and one that should put all support >for Be and other alternatives out of the picture for good. > > Picture: >* A new organization in which the various, usually competing, Mac >hardware vendors *all* come together to encourage and >fund development for the Mac OS-- a group composed of not just the AIM >triad (Apple, IBM, Motorola), but also the 12 or so >cloners, both large and small. >* The stability and harmony such a group will bring the platform with >its 3we1re all in the same boat2 message. >* The reaction of developers to an organization with this breadth and >resource level. >* This same forum taking on many of the other platform-wide duties, such >as evangelism and advertising-- like that PowerPC >commercial everyone is longing for... >* The tremendous boost in public confidence that will result from this >move. > > Sound good? Yea, real good. I wish we'd already have such an organization - we'd finally get the PowerPC ads we've been longing for so long. What do you guys think? -- Christoph "bIQHurgh" Pfisterer "Now the world has gone to bed, chrisp@sax.sax.de Darkness won't engulf my head, http://www.sax.de/~chrisp/ I can see by infra-red, PGP key available How I hate the night." -Marvin
From: William.Clocksin@CL.cam.ac.uk Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Failing to install OpenStep 4.1: 'Target Dropped Busy' Date: 23 Apr 1997 07:38:18 GMT Organization: University of Cambridge, England Message-ID: <5jke9a$eqr@lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk> References: <5ji5gg$ro6@lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk> I've solved my own problem: if you get "Target dropped busy" from a SCSI CD while trying to install OpenStep using an Adaptec 2940UW, simply go into SCSI Select and disable init sync and disable init wide.
From: bvaughan@cats.ucsc.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Mac to Next modem cable? Date: 23 Apr 97 02:46:55 +0000 Message-ID: <AF83290C-14512@204.179.131.44> References: <01bc4f14$cbc421a0$a5bf66cf@kyushu.infoserve.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/enriched; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <SMALLER>Does anyone know where I can find a Macintosh to NeXT modem cable adapter? Also, can I use any Mac modem with my Color NeXT Station (as long as I find the right cable)? Thanks in advance, Bill --------------------------------------------------- This message was created and sent using the Cyberdog Mail System --------------------------------------------------- </SMALLER>
From: don_arb@wolfenet.com (Don Arbow) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.scitech,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.netx.software,comp.sys.mac.programmer.codewarrior,comp.sys.mac.programmer.misc,comp.sys.mac.oop.macapp3 Subject: Re: Developers Coalition idea Date: Tue, 22 Apr 1997 12:01:02 -0700 Organization: Wolfe Internet Access, L.L.C. Message-ID: <don_arb-2204971201020001@news1.wolfenet.com> References: <335C1958.CE3@ridgecrest.ca.us> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In article <335C1958.CE3@ridgecrest.ca.us>, paul maddox <pmaddox@ridgecrest.ca.us> wrote: : Apple's strategy for the future seems solid. : They have superior hardware, the PowerMac, which just this week hit : 300 MHz-- a clear win for the PowerPC Platform : over the competition. : To run this great hardware, they have a superior OS on the way -- : Rhapsody, which will bring new meaning to the word : modern and its associated buzzwords, and give some already impressive : hardware a large performance boost. : What Apple does not seem to have, however, is the crucial third piece : of the computer puzzle-- applications. In order to : make their new strategy compelling to the average consumer, Apple needs : the support of developers to make office tools, : games, and other applications that take advantage of this great hardware : and OS. Without this support, and a large measure of : it, Apple will go nowhere. : Enter the Developer1s Coalition, a well-researched, hard-thought : answer to this problem, and one that should put all support : for Be and other alternatives out of the picture for good. : Someone already beat you to that idea. Check out AIMED, the Association of Independent Macintosh Engineers and Developers. The group was formed over a year ago, but I haven't heard much from them lately. Their home page is located at: http://mcf.com/aimed/ Don -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- \ | / Don Arbow, Partner, CTO | don_arb@wolfenet.com -- EDO -- EveryDay Objects, Inc. | ^ delete underscore / | \ Seattle, WA | http://www.edo-inc.com -------------------------------------------------------------------------- My Prographing web page: http://www.wolfe.net/~donarb/Dataflow.html "The fix is only temporary, unless it works" - Red Green --------------------------------------------------------------------------
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: SyJet or Jaz as boot drive on Mono non-turbo slab? Date: Wed, 23 Apr 1997 04:46:28 -0700 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970423044600.20730A-100000@kira> References: <335d9f34.2009439@news.interlog.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: Bill Best <billyboy@interlog.com> In-Reply-To: <335d9f34.2009439@news.interlog.com> Yes, you can use the SyJet, and I assume the Jaz as well. The SyJet is faster, by all accounts. TjL
From: Yves Pons <100321.1674@CompuServe.COM> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: recover the "boot from Hd" ? Date: 22 Apr 1997 16:47:09 GMT Organization: GENIFI Message-ID: <5jiq2d$ihh$1@mhafn.production.compuserve.com> How to recover the "boot from Hd" instead of "searching for network" ? I changed the yellow battery inside the NeXTStation Turbo Color and after I turned on the station. Now, I obtain the "boot from network" instead of "boot from HD". How do I do to change that and start from the HD ? I'm obliged to stop the "boot from network" by pressing the keys ctrl and ~ . and after in the NeXT monitor i have to type bsd to boot from HD. Thanks in advance. Please send me the response by Email Yves Pons Email 100321.1674@compuserve.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.scitech,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.netx.software,comp.sys.mac.programmer.codewarrior,comp.sys.mac.programmer.misc,comp.sys.mac.oop.macapp3 From: hammond_g@drkclu.meng.ucl.ac.uk (Java G) Subject: Re: Developers Coalition idea Sender: news@ucl.ac.uk (Usenet News System) Message-ID: <1997Apr23.132544.68046@ucl.ac.uk> Date: Wed, 23 Apr 1997 13:25:44 GMT References: <335C1958.CE3@ridgecrest.ca.us> Organization: UCL Dept Mech Eng In article <335C1958.CE3@ridgecrest.ca.us>, paul maddox <pmaddox@ridgecrest.ca.us> writes: |> What Apple does not seem to have, however, is the crucial third piece |>of the computer puzzle-- applications. In order to |>make their new strategy compelling to the average consumer, Apple needs |>the support of developers to make office tools, |>games, and other applications that take advantage of this great hardware |>and OS. Without this support, and a large measure of |>it, Apple will go nowhere. Interestingly, Apple are dumping GameSprockets and going for a corporate image when they really should be competing with MS's w95 gaming strategy. -- /** Java G <hammond_g@meng.ucl.ac.uk> * Virtual Reality ROV Docking Planner * http://www.ucl.ac.uk/~zcemm23 * You broke the light, and now... it's dark. */
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: recover the "boot from Hd" ? Date: Wed, 23 Apr 1997 06:52:37 -0700 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970423065204.27955A-100000@kira> References: <5jiq2d$ihh$1@mhafn.production.compuserve.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: Yves Pons <100321.1674@CompuServe.COM> In-Reply-To: <5jiq2d$ihh$1@mhafn.production.compuserve.com> Goto the ROM monitor and type 'p' Change the boot command from 'en' to 'sd' TjL
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.scitech,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.netx.software,comp.sys.mac.programmer.codewarrior,comp.sys.mac.programmer.misc,comp.sys.mac.oop.macapp3 From: nagle@netcom.com (John Nagle) Subject: Re: Developers Coalition idea Message-ID: <nagleE93n0E.715@netcom.com> Organization: Netcom On-Line Services References: <335C1958.CE3@ridgecrest.ca.us> <don_arb-2204971201020001@news1.wolfenet.com> Date: Wed, 23 Apr 1997 16:26:38 GMT Sender: nagle@netcom6.netcom.com don_arb@wolfenet.com (Don Arbow) writes: >In article <335C1958.CE3@ridgecrest.ca.us>, paul maddox ><pmaddox@ridgecrest.ca.us> wrote: >: Apple's strategy for the future seems solid. >: They have superior hardware, the PowerMac, which just this week hit >: 300 MHz-- a clear win for the PowerPC Platform >: over the competition. The Alpha is faster and still isn't selling. See the Business week article on it. >: To run this great hardware, they have a superior OS on the way -- >: Rhapsody, which will bring new meaning to the word >: modern and its associated buzzwords, and give some already impressive >: hardware a large performance boost. But it's vaporware. Last year at this time, we had Copland, which was also vaporware, and more compatible. Realistically, nothing is going to happen on the application front until Rhapsody ships to developers. That may or may not happen; Ellison may succeed in his hostile takeover of Apple, the Saudi prince may buy a controlling interest, or Apple may just screw up again. John Nagle
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware From: Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Subject: Re: Monitor Problem Message-ID: <E93LpH.t6@nidat.sub.org> Sender: nitezki@nidat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany References: <5jha47$biv@news.jump.net> Date: Wed, 23 Apr 1997 15:58:29 GMT In article <5jha47$biv@news.jump.net> mseibert@ita1.inow.com (Matt Seibert) writes: > I received my NeXT today (YAHOO, this is soooo cool) but the > monitor focus seems to be shifted a bit to the right and up a > little (ie, looks off center). Was wondering if there is a way > to correct this? > If you were a TV service technician you could do so by opening the cover and turn the appropriate controls. If you're not you could fry the cirquits and even successfully set an end to your life. It's up to you to decide... > Secondly, how do I run BuildDisk to create a new boot drive. > 100 MB really doesn't hack it, so I get a 500 MB drive to throw > in this baby. But I want to transfer the system (I've got it > mostly configured) over. Is there a FAQ I could reference? > By double clicking on the icon of BuildDisk.app, of course! No kidding! It's really that easy. But you probably asked about how to get the second drive attached and running. There are several possibilities: An external enclosure is safest. But you could also get a short flat cable with three connectors and feed the second drive from a supplementary power source while leaving the cover open (Cubes even have enough power and space to run two drives internally). You just choose a SCSI-ID of 2 or larger for the second drive, make sure it is running in asynch mode, and the termination is correct. That's all! Attach and power on... Here we go! And the FAQ resides on Peanuts (peanuts.leo.org) and on many mirror sites. Scott Anguish makes a monthly (bi-weekly?) posting to all c.s.n. news groups on sources of NEXTSTEP related info. See if you can find it. -- 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: dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca (David Evans) Subject: Re: Strange SIMM slot in Nextstation ? Sender: news@novice.uwaterloo.ca (Mr. News) Message-ID: <E93JFM.Ep1@novice.uwaterloo.ca> Date: Wed, 23 Apr 1997 15:09:22 GMT References: <335D517F.2787@case.com> <5jjn1o$5cu@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> <5jjp7k$lil$1@nntp.ucs.ubc.ca> Organization: University of Waterloo In article <5jjp7k$lil$1@nntp.ucs.ubc.ca>, Godwin <godwin@unixg.ubc.ca> wrote: >eer DSP memory slot??? > <sigh> Yes, that's what it is. People, *PLEASE* look somewhere like DejaNews before posting questions like this. This must be the third time in the last six weeks that this has come up. -- David Evans (NeXTMail OK) dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca Computer/Synth Junkie http://bbcr.uwaterloo.ca/~dfevans/ University of Waterloo "Default is the value selected by the composer Ontario, Canada overridden by your command." - Roland TR-707 Manual
From: jkeenan@next.com (Joe Keenan) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Strange SIMM slot in Nextstation ? Date: 23 Apr 1997 17:06:37 GMT Organization: NeXT Software, Inc. Message-ID: <5jlfit$pvh@news.next.com> References: <335D517F.2787@case.com> In article <335D517F.2787@case.com> David Case <dcase@case.com> writes: > I have a 25MHz 040 mono NeXtStation and it has a SIMM slot that appears > to be about 64pins or such. What was it for? ROM upgrades? Anything? Expansion RAM for the DSP. joe
From: Smurf <sdmurphy@taz.dra.hmg.gb> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Choices for laptops running Openstep? Date: Wed, 23 Apr 1997 19:07:26 +0100 Organization: DERA Message-ID: <335E4FDE.55E0@taz.dra.hmg.gb> References: <5jjt3s$p99@merrimac.rutgers.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit jin@merrimac.rutgers.edu wrote: > > I plan to buy a laptop to run Openstep. What would you recommend? > Thanks. > > Gavin Work, luckily for me, just let me buy a IBM 760ED think pad with a now supported 1024 by 768 screen res and it is brilliant. Having just gone through the process of chosing and buying one, just make sure there are the drivers for what you need your laptop to do. My think pad does all I need under W95 and Openstep. Smurf
From: mmalcolm crawford <malcolm@plsys.co.uk> Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.scitech,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.netx.software,comp.sys.mac.programmer.codewarrior,comp.sys.mac.programmer.misc,comp.sys.mac.oop.macapp3 Subject: Re: Developers Coalition idea Date: 23 Apr 1997 18:06:24 GMT Organization: P&L Systems Message-ID: <5jlj30$guk$1@ironhorse.plsys.co.uk> References: <335C1958.CE3@ridgecrest.ca.us> <don_arb-2204971201020001@news1.wolfenet.com> <nagleE93n0E.715@netcom.com> In-Reply-To: <nagleE93n0E.715@netcom.com> On 04/23/97, John Nagle wrote: > But it's vaporware. Last year at this time, we had Copland, >which was also vaporware, and more compatible. > Hardly vaporware -- it's built on the solid foundtion of OpenStep / Mach. > Realistically, nothing is going to happen on the application front >until Rhapsody ships to developers. > Wrong. We're porting applications at the moment (including Mesa, the leading spreadsheet for NEXTSTEP), and so are others. We might even have stuff to show at WWDC (a bit of a tall order, but a possibility). Best wishes, mmalc. Malcolm Crawford (NeXTmail) malcolm@plsys.co.uk Tel: +44 (0)1494 432422 P & L Systems Fax: +44 (0)1494 432478 http://www.plsys.co.uk/~malcolm -- Malcolm Crawford (NeXTmail) malcolm@plsys.co.uk Tel: +44 (0)1494 432422 P & L Systems Fax: +44 (0)1494 432478 http://www.plsys.co.uk/~malcolm
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware From: mgoedel@m.isar.de Subject: Re: running cube without monitor Message-ID: <E93Dtq.45E@muaddib.m.isar.de> Sender: mgoedel@muaddib.m.isar.de (Maximilian Goedel) Organization: Michael Maximilian Goedel References: <E91Gx1.84n@nidat.sub.org> Date: Wed, 23 Apr 1997 13:08:13 GMT In article <E91Gx1.84n@nidat.sub.org> Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) writes: > In article <E8yMDB.1EC@muaddib.m.isar.de> mgoedel@m.isar.de writes: > > Hello out there, > > > > running two cubes as network servers (one as Master Netinfo server, > > the other one as sybase & web server) i think, monitors will go > > to the goodfather by the next months after running 4 years without > > powering the machines down... > > > > Someone posted a little hardware trick to build a blind connector > > for the monitor output. Does anybody has a pinout for such a > > thing. > > > First, my Megapixel runs for years now with brightness turned down to > minimum and shows no signs of wear. And second, the thing is described in > the FAQ and Usenet archive on Peanuts. It is advisable to establish a > habit to look there, first (or get the Peanuts Archive Disks if you're > offline or have an unstable Network connection ;-) > > -- > 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 So you're a lucky boy :-) :-) :-) In my case, one monitor "has" a problem, Nice greetings from Munich MaX(T) -- __ Michael Maximilian Goedel | Agilolfinger Platz 10 /\_\ KARSTADT AG Unternehmensbereich IW | 81543 Muenchen \/_/ Sysadmin der cyberb@r | Tel.: 049 89 652918 NeXTSTEP! mgoedel@m.isar.de (NeXT) | Work: 049 89 2902-5418
From: Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Difference between B/W MegaPixels Date: Wed, 23 Apr 1997 14:48:10 -0400 Organization: Fifth yr. senior, Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Message-ID: <0nLZZe_00WBO03l4ZH@andrew.cmu.edu> References: <5jk7j0$277$1@nntp.ucs.ubc.ca> In-Reply-To: <5jk7j0$277$1@nntp.ucs.ubc.ca> Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.hardware: 23-Apr-97 Difference between B/W Mega.. by Godwin@unixg.ubc.ca > I am debating whether or not to get another slab as a printer server for > the whole house.. the question I have is on the difference between B/W > Megapixel.. I know there is a 4000A and B.. but since I seen and have > only one or the other.. can someone kind enough to tell me what is the > difference and which one si a better buy.. I would like to keep to the > "Frog Design" model tho.. or they both essentially the same thing?? The A model was the original, and it had wheels which made it convenient to move around. However, the monitor's expected lifespan supposedly was only about 10,000 hours, and some of the A monitors used a phosphor which fades and dims after a while. The B model avoids the fading problem and is supposed to have a lifespan of 30,000-40,000 hours, but it has a platform base without the wheels. I'd get the B if you have the choice. > Another quick question is what is the optimal config for a slab to be a > printer server? "Optimal" depends on what kind of workload you plan on giving it. In general, make sure you've got an adequate amount of memory in the machine (32 MB or more would be good). -Chuck Charles Swiger | cs4w@andrew.cmu.edu | standard disclaimer ----------------+---------------------+--------------------- I know you're an optimist if you think I'm a pessimist.
From: andydunn@op.net (Andy Dunn) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Okidata 610/PS Date: 23 Apr 1997 21:31:34 GMT Organization: OpNet -- Greater Philadelphia Internet Service Message-ID: <5jlv3n$1eo$1@picasso.op.net> Hi, Has anyone tried getting an Okidata 610/PS printer to work with a slab? Do any of the NeXT-supplied ppd files work for it? Thanks, _andy dunn
From: Johnny Waters - Staff <waters@inext.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: ISDN Help Date: Wed, 23 Apr 1997 18:03:59 -0400 Organization: iNEX Distribution: inet Message-ID: <335E874F.FA1@inext.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I have an ADB NeXT Turbo Color Slab (From DeepSpace Tech. in Frederick Md, plug plug) and I am curious about the feasability of ISDN. Here are my questions that do not seem to be addressed in any FAQ that I have seen. 1) What is the Max baudRate of the serial ports on the NeXT Turbo Color (ADB)? 2) Has anyone successfully used a NeXT with a normal (non DSP port) TA? 3) Any known problems with BitSurfer pros? (other than known BSP bugs and assumign that 2's answer is "yes")... thank you in advance Johnny Waters, waters@inext.net
From: J.C.Highfield@lboro.ac.uk Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.scitech,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.netx.software,comp.sys.mac.programmer.codewarrior,comp.sys.mac.programmer.misc,comp.sys.mac.oop.macapp3 Subject: Re: Developers Coalition idea Date: 23 Apr 1997 23:19:32 GMT Organization: Loughborough University, UK. Message-ID: <5jm5e4$g54@sun-cc204.lboro.ac.uk> References: <335C1958.CE3@ridgecrest.ca.us> <don_arb-2204971201020001@news1.wolfenet.com> <nagleE93n0E.715@netcom.com> <5jlj30$guk$1@ironhorse.plsys.co.uk> Originator: cojch@sun-cc201 In article <5jlj30$guk$1@ironhorse.plsys.co.uk>, mmalcolm crawford <malcolm@plsys.co.uk> wrote: >On 04/23/97, John Nagle wrote: >> Realistically, nothing is going to happen on the application front >>until Rhapsody ships to developers. >> >Wrong. We're porting applications at the moment (including Mesa, the >leading spreadsheet for NEXTSTEP), and so are others. We might even have >stuff to show at WWDC (a bit of a tall order, but a possibility). Um, what exactly are you porting to - OpenStep? Regards, Julian.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware From: dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca (David Evans) Subject: Re: Choices for laptops running Openstep? Sender: news@novice.uwaterloo.ca (Mr. News) Message-ID: <E93zF5.FCG@novice.uwaterloo.ca> Date: Wed, 23 Apr 1997 20:54:41 GMT References: <5jjt3s$p99@merrimac.rutgers.edu> Organization: University of Waterloo In article <5jjt3s$p99@merrimac.rutgers.edu>, <jin@merrimac.rutgers.edu> wrote: > > > >I plan to buy a laptop to run Openstep. What would you recommend? Not exactly Openstep, but this weekend I'm going to attack our lab's Hyperdata laptop with 3.3. Will let you know hot it goes... -- David Evans (NeXTMail OK) dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca Computer/Synth Junkie http://bbcr.uwaterloo.ca/~dfevans/ University of Waterloo "Default is the value selected by the composer Ontario, Canada overridden by your command." - Roland TR-707 Manual
From: seran@rayleigh.me.ttu.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: viewing area on 21" monitor Date: 24 Apr 1997 00:24:17 GMT Organization: Texas Tech Academic Computing Services Message-ID: <5jm97h$muk@ttacs7.ttu.edu> i have a NeXT station color turbo with a 21" monitor. is there a way to increase the viewing area on the screen? hs
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From: jon@clarke.exnext.com (Jonathan Hendry) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.scitech,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.netx.software,comp.sys.mac.programmer.codewarrior,comp.sys.mac.programmer.misc,comp.sys.mac.oop.macapp3 Subject: Re: Developers Coalition idea Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.scitech,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.netx.software,comp.sys.mac.programmer.codewarrior,comp.sys.mac.programmer.misc,comp.sys.mac.oop.macapp3 Date: 24 Apr 1997 02:43:26 GMT Organization: Internet Access Cincinnati 513-887-8877 Message-ID: <5jmhce$n9s$3@ocoee.iac.net> References: <335C1958.CE3@ridgecrest.ca.us> <don_arb-2204971201020001@news1.wolfenet.com> <nagleE93n0E.715@netcom.com> John Nagle (nagle@netcom.com) wrote: : don_arb@wolfenet.com (Don Arbow) writes: : >In article <335C1958.CE3@ridgecrest.ca.us>, paul maddox : ><pmaddox@ridgecrest.ca.us> wrote: : >: Apple's strategy for the future seems solid. : >: They have superior hardware, the PowerMac, which just this week hit : >: 300 MHz-- a clear win for the PowerPC Platform : >: over the competition. : The Alpha is faster and still isn't selling. See the Business : week article on it. The Alpha doesn't run anything worth having. That Businessweek article can be summed up with "Software sells hardware". All that speed won't help me if it doesn't run the software I want to run. (Yes, it runs linux. Yes it runs a smattering of NT software. In neither case is there a compelling reason to buy an Alpha over some other platform. At least not compelling enough for a lot of people to buy it.) The Mac runs software that a lot of people like to run. Therefore, speed matters. -- Jonathan W. Hendry jon@exnext.com
From: Theodore J. Allen Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Problems with Triton II, S3, and NS 3.3? Date: 24 Apr 1997 02:56:56 GMT Organization: University of Wisconsin, Madison Message-ID: <5jmi5o$4uuq@news.doit.wisc.edu> I read a while ago that people were having problems with the Triton II (HX) chipset and S3 based video cards under NEXTSTEP 3.3. Is there any workaround (I recall that 4.x seems to have the problem fixed.)? Are there any other chipsets that S3 cards don't seem to work with under 3.3? (I'm currently using a Triton I chipset but have more than 64 MB RAM and want to cache it all!) Any help would be appreciated! -- Ted Allen, Ph.D. High Energy Physics University of Wisconsin-Madison tjallen@wishep.physics.wisc.edu http://theory1.physics.wisc.edu/~tjallen/
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware From: dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca (David Evans) Subject: Re: Difference between B/W MegaPixels Sender: news@novice.uwaterloo.ca (Mr. News) Message-ID: <E944AB.p2v@novice.uwaterloo.ca> Date: Wed, 23 Apr 1997 22:39:47 GMT References: <5jk7j0$277$1@nntp.ucs.ubc.ca> <0nLZZe_00WBO03l4ZH@andrew.cmu.edu> Organization: University of Waterloo In article <0nLZZe_00WBO03l4ZH@andrew.cmu.edu>, Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> wrote: > >The A model was the original, and it had wheels which made it convenient >to move around. However, the monitor's expected lifespan supposedly was >only about 10,000 hours, and some of the A monitors used a phosphor >which fades and dims after a while. > There was also the plain N4000, no letters. It was the most prone to dimming. You can tell it from the A version by its shiny screen (the A had a non-reflective coating) and the A has a microphone on the front; the original didn't. >The B model avoids the fading problem and is supposed to have a lifespan >of 30,000-40,000 hours, but it has a platform base without the wheels. >I'd get the B if you have the choice. > I think most of the B's were constructed with ADB circuitry, so you may have to be careful. -- David Evans (NeXTMail OK) dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca Computer/Synth Junkie http://bbcr.uwaterloo.ca/~dfevans/ University of Waterloo "Default is the value selected by the composer Ontario, Canada overridden by your command." - Roland TR-707 Manual
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From: fflak@aurora.alaska.edu (KELLY ALONZO H) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Which drivers for laptop? Date: 24 Apr 1997 04:11:35 GMT Organization: University of Alaska Fairbanks Message-ID: <5jmmhn$mtn@news.alaska.edu> I am trying to find a laptop to run NeXTStep 3.3 intel. This laptop should be pretty rugged, since I would use it in the field. Panasonic has the CF62, which they ran over with a Humvee at COMDEX. It's dust and water resistant and has a magnesium case. The government price looks pretty good compared to a thinkpad 760ED. My question is, how can I find out what drivers I need, and if they are available? The display is "1024 x 768 xga." I looked on NestAnswers, but couldn't find anything except the thinkpad display drivers. Would there be a way to know if the thinkpad drivers would work? DO I need drivers for the drives, the PCMCIA ports, the internal modem? What are these drivers, LKSes? Is it possible to write them yourself? I'm a long-time black hardware and Macintosh and IBM RS/6000 user and programmer, but Intel is a mystery to me.
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From: novinger@eecs.ukans.edu (Nantes) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.scitech,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.netx.software,comp.sys.mac.programmer.codewarrior,comp.sys.mac.programmer.misc,comp.sys.mac.oop.macapp3 Subject: Re: Developers Coalition idea Date: Thu, 24 Apr 1997 10:04:26 -0600 Organization: University of Kansas Computing Services Message-ID: <novinger-ya02408000R2404971004260001@news.cc.ukans.edu> References: <335C1958.CE3@ridgecrest.ca.us> <don_arb-2204971201020001@news1.wolfenet.com> <nagleE93n0E.715@netcom.com> <5jlj30$guk$1@ironhorse.plsys.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In article <5jlj30$guk$1@ironhorse.plsys.co.uk>, mmalcolm crawford <malcolm@plsys.co.uk> wrote: > On 04/23/97, John Nagle wrote: > > But it's vaporware. Last year at this time, we had Copland, > >which was also vaporware, and more compatible. > > > Hardly vaporware -- it's built on the solid foundtion of OpenStep / Mach. > > > Realistically, nothing is going to happen on the application front > >until Rhapsody ships to developers. > > > Wrong. We're porting applications at the moment (including Mesa, the > leading spreadsheet for NEXTSTEP), and so are others. We might even have > stuff to show at WWDC (a bit of a tall order, but a possibility). > > Best wishes, > > mmalc. > > Malcolm Crawford (NeXTmail) malcolm@plsys.co.uk > Tel: +44 (0)1494 432422 P & L Systems > Fax: +44 (0)1494 432478 http://www.plsys.co.uk/~malcolm > > -- > Malcolm Crawford (NeXTmail) malcolm@plsys.co.uk > Tel: +44 (0)1494 432422 P & L Systems > Fax: +44 (0)1494 432478 http://www.plsys.co.uk/~malcolm Guys this is all well and good to debate, but what about this Developer's Coalition idea? What do you think? I think we as Mac programmers should be very interested. Just my $.02 Nantes -- Remove ".nospam" for a valid e-mail address.
From: novinger@eecs.ukans.edu (Nantes) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.scitech,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.netx.software,comp.sys.mac.programmer.codewarrior,comp.sys.mac.programmer.misc,comp.sys.mac.oop.macapp3 Subject: Re: Developers Coalition idea Date: Thu, 24 Apr 1997 10:23:27 -0600 Organization: University of Kansas Computing Services Message-ID: <novinger-ya02408000R2404971023270001@news.cc.ukans.edu> References: <335C1958.CE3@ridgecrest.ca.us> <1997Apr23.132544.68046@ucl.ac.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In article <1997Apr23.132544.68046@ucl.ac.uk>, hammond_g@drkclu.meng.ucl.ac.uk (Java G) wrote: > In article <335C1958.CE3@ridgecrest.ca.us>, > paul maddox <pmaddox@ridgecrest.ca.us> writes: > > |> What Apple does not seem to have, however, is the crucial third piece > |>of the computer puzzle-- applications. In order to > |>make their new strategy compelling to the average consumer, Apple needs > |>the support of developers to make office tools, > |>games, and other applications that take advantage of this great hardware > |>and OS. Without this support, and a large measure of > |>it, Apple will go nowhere. > > Interestingly, Apple are dumping GameSprockets and going for a corporate > image when they really should be competing with MS's w95 gaming strategy. > > -- > /** Java G <hammond_g@meng.ucl.ac.uk> > * Virtual Reality ROV Docking Planner > * http://www.ucl.ac.uk/~zcemm23 > * You broke the light, and now... it's dark. */ While i share the feelings about game Sprockets, Apple has commented that they are not being dropped from macos, and could make it into rhapsody. However, they've also said that the openstep environment already has comparable APIs. But back to the point, let's all get this coalition rolling. Despite all of Apple's faults, they still make the best damn computer in the world! Let's help 'em by telling the world. Check out http://www.macmarines.com/dcnews.html for Developers Coalition news and an e-mail campaign packet. nantes -- Remove ".nospam" for a valid e-mail address.
From: novinger@eecs.ukans.edu (Nantes) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.scitech,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.netx.software,comp.sys.mac.programmer.codewarrior,comp.sys.mac.programmer.misc,comp.sys.mac.oop.macapp3 Subject: Re: Developers Coalition idea Date: Thu, 24 Apr 1997 10:36:27 -0600 Organization: University of Kansas Computing Services Message-ID: <novinger-ya02408000R2404971036270001@news.cc.ukans.edu> References: <335C1958.CE3@ridgecrest.ca.us> <don_arb-2204971201020001@news1.wolfenet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In article <don_arb-2204971201020001@news1.wolfenet.com>, don_arb@wolfenet.com (Don Arbow) wrote: > In article <335C1958.CE3@ridgecrest.ca.us>, paul maddox > <pmaddox@ridgecrest.ca.us> wrote: > > : Apple's strategy for the future seems solid. > : They have superior hardware, the PowerMac, which just this week hit > : 300 MHz-- a clear win for the PowerPC Platform > : over the competition. > : To run this great hardware, they have a superior OS on the way -- > : Rhapsody, which will bring new meaning to the word > : modern and its associated buzzwords, and give some already impressive > : hardware a large performance boost. > : What Apple does not seem to have, however, is the crucial third piece > : of the computer puzzle-- applications. In order to > : make their new strategy compelling to the average consumer, Apple needs > : the support of developers to make office tools, > : games, and other applications that take advantage of this great hardware > : and OS. Without this support, and a large measure of > : it, Apple will go nowhere. > : Enter the Developer1s Coalition, a well-researched, hard-thought > : answer to this problem, and one that should put all support > : for Be and other alternatives out of the picture for good. > : > > Someone already beat you to that idea. Check out AIMED, the Association > of Independent Macintosh Engineers and Developers. The group was formed > over a year ago, but I haven't heard much from them lately. Their home > page is located at: > > http://mcf.com/aimed/ > > Don > > -- While I like to see groups like AIMED, they are not the saem thing as the Developers Coalition. From what I unbderstand, the DC would be an outspoken pro-mac force. they would not only help developers with resources, amrketing, job recruting, but would also evangelise the Mac in general. The idea is that the coalition be funded by the Mac powers that be (Apple, Motorola, UMAX, Power, APS, etc.). They would advertise the platform as well as the superior PowerPC processor. Nantes -- Remove ".nospam" for a valid e-mail address.
From: chrisp@sax.sax.de (Christoph Pfisterer) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.scitech,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.netx.software,comp.sys.mac.programmer.codewarrior,comp.sys.mac.programmer.misc,comp.sys.mac.oop.macapp3 Subject: Re: Developers Coalition idea Date: Thu, 24 Apr 1997 19:55:34 +0200 Organization: private site, Dresden, Germany Message-ID: <chrisp-ya023080002404971955340001@gimli> References: <335C1958.CE3@ridgecrest.ca.us> <don_arb-2204971201020001@news1.wolfenet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit don_arb@wolfenet.com (Don Arbow) wrote: >In article <335C1958.CE3@ridgecrest.ca.us>, paul maddox ><pmaddox@ridgecrest.ca.us> wrote: > >: Apple's strategy for the future seems solid. >: They have superior hardware, the PowerMac, which just this week hit >: 300 MHz-- a clear win for the PowerPC Platform >: over the competition. >: To run this great hardware, they have a superior OS on the way -- >: Rhapsody, which will bring new meaning to the word >: modern and its associated buzzwords, and give some already impressive >: hardware a large performance boost. >: What Apple does not seem to have, however, is the crucial third piece >: of the computer puzzle-- applications. In order to >: make their new strategy compelling to the average consumer, Apple needs >: the support of developers to make office tools, >: games, and other applications that take advantage of this great hardware >: and OS. Without this support, and a large measure of >: it, Apple will go nowhere. >: Enter the Developer1s Coalition, a well-researched, hard-thought >: answer to this problem, and one that should put all support >: for Be and other alternatives out of the picture for good. >: > >Someone already beat you to that idea. Check out AIMED, the Association >of Independent Macintosh Engineers and Developers. The group was formed >over a year ago, but I haven't heard much from them lately. Their home >page is located at: Well, AIMED is just an association of developers and AFAIK it's not backed up by any bigger company. The idea with this "Developers Coalition" is that _Apple itself_ and the clone makers launch a joint effort to support software developers, especially small, innovative start-ups and the like. Get the picture? -- Christoph "bIQHurgh" Pfisterer "Now the world has gone to bed, chrisp@sax.sax.de Darkness won't engulf my head, http://www.sax.de/~chrisp/ I can see by infra-red, PGP key available How I hate the night." -Marvin
From: kolbjorn.aambo@ub.uio.no (Kolbjørn Aambø) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.scitech,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.netx.software,comp.sys.mac.programmer.codewarrior,comp.sys.mac.programmer.misc,comp.sys.mac.oop.macapp3 Subject: Re: Developers Coalition idea Date: Thu, 24 Apr 1997 09:48:07 +0100 Organization: UBO Message-ID: <kolbjorn.aambo-2404970948070001@ubmac86.uio.no> References: <335C1958.CE3@ridgecrest.ca.us> In article <335C1958.CE3@ridgecrest.ca.us>, paul maddox <pmaddox@ridgecrest.ca.us> wrote: > Apple's strategy for the future seems solid. > They have superior hardware, the PowerMac, which just this week hit > 300 MHz-- a clear win for the PowerPC Platform > over the competition. > To run this great hardware, they have a superior OS on the way -- > Rhapsody, which will bring new meaning to the word > modern and its associated buzzwords, and give some already impressive > hardware a large performance boost. : > Picture: > * A new organization in which the various, usually competing, Mac > hardware vendors *all* come together to encourage and > fund development for the Mac OS-- a group composed of not just the AIM > triad (Apple, IBM, Motorola), but also the 12 or so > cloners, both large and small. That Idea is allready taken by 100%Pure Java. I think Apple should rather cooperate with 100%Pure Java and make a Operating System that are implementing threading as well between application processes as it seems to be able to do within Application Processes now. If the Mac in a year is not the best Java Machine to develop on and to use I guess a lot of people will look for something else. At least my impression of things like Java2D is just as well as that of NextSteps Display PostScript. In a year I think that will be obvious to more people. As many other people I am angry because apple is playing catch-up on Java because it had all it brains emerged in OpenDoc and or Copeland. May be Apple should hire more women since they seems more able to have more than one thought in their head simultaneously.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware From: dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca (David Evans) Subject: Re: Strange SIMM slot in Nextstation ? Sender: news@novice.uwaterloo.ca (Mr. News) Message-ID: <E95rC0.2Cs@novice.uwaterloo.ca> Date: Thu, 24 Apr 1997 19:55:12 GMT References: <E93JFM.Ep1@novice.uwaterloo.ca> <E945uI.FI@muaddib.m.isar.de> Organization: University of Waterloo In article <E945uI.FI@muaddib.m.isar.de>, <mgoedel@m.isar.de> wrote: > >Why so unfriendly? When "you" started with NeXT or NeXTSTEP, you >also had a lot of questions. I know, I was just frustrated. This comes up so often, and is mentioned in the FAQ. Hmmm...maybe the FAQs should be more visible... -- David Evans (NeXTMail OK) dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca Computer/Synth Junkie http://bbcr.uwaterloo.ca/~dfevans/ University of Waterloo "Default is the value selected by the composer Ontario, Canada overridden by your command." - Roland TR-707 Manual
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware From: Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Subject: Re: running cube without monitor Message-ID: <E91Gx1.84n@nidat.sub.org> Sender: nitezki@nidat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany References: <E8yMDB.1EC@muaddib.m.isar.de> Date: Tue, 22 Apr 1997 12:19:49 GMT In article <E8yMDB.1EC@muaddib.m.isar.de> mgoedel@m.isar.de writes: > Hello out there, > > running two cubes as network servers (one as Master Netinfo server, > the other one as sybase & web server) i think, monitors will go > to the goodfather by the next months after running 4 years without > powering the machines down... > > Someone posted a little hardware trick to build a blind connector > for the monitor output. Does anybody has a pinout for such a > thing. > First, my Megapixel runs for years now with brightness turned down to minimum and shows no signs of wear. And second, the thing is described in the FAQ and Usenet archive on Peanuts. It is advisable to establish a habit to look there, first (or get the Peanuts Archive Disks if you're offline or have an unstable Network connection ;-) -- 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: godwin@unixg.ubc.ca (Godwin) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Nakamichi Changer with black hardware Date: 24 Apr 1997 09:22:36 GMT Organization: University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., Canada Message-ID: <5jn8os$8lv$1@nntp.ucs.ubc.ca> Hello all, I know this question has been brought up before by either Robert? or somebody.. I got 2 Nakamichi 4 speed CD Changers to store my photoCDs.. I want to hook the whole thing up to the cube which is going to be the printer / file server.. instead of the two things hogging real estate on my desk.. Now the question is is there ANY way I can make the drivers just appear as 1 drive for each changer? Right now if I plug just one on to the cube.. the 7 different plates will appear as one drive.. kicking off my Zip and MO drive.... Not a big deal.. but since I rarely change the CDs I won't mind hiding them in the closet! Any pointers is appreciated... godwin
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware From: Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Subject: Re: viewing area on 21" monitor Message-ID: <E95rKD.11B@nidat.sub.org> Sender: nitezki@nidat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany References: <5jm97h$muk@ttacs7.ttu.edu> Date: Thu, 24 Apr 1997 20:00:13 GMT In article <5jm97h$muk@ttacs7.ttu.edu> seran@rayleigh.me.ttu.edu writes: > i have a NeXT station color turbo with a 21" monitor. > > is there a way to increase the viewing area on the screen? > I guess there will be some controls inside the case. If you dare to open it... Remember, I won't come to your funeral service :-) -- 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: devon@onyx-tech.com (Devon Hubbard) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.scitech,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.netx.software,comp.sys.mac.programmer.codewarrior,comp.sys.mac.programmer.misc,comp.sys.mac.oop.macapp3 Subject: Re: Developers Coalition idea Date: Thu, 24 Apr 1997 11:25:20 -0700 Organization: Onyx Technology, Inc. Message-ID: <devon-2404971125210001@cust5.max2.phoenix.az.ms.uu.net> References: <335C1958.CE3@ridgecrest.ca.us> <don_arb-2204971201020001@news1.wolfenet.com> <novinger-ya02408000R2404971036270001@news.cc.ukans.edu> In article <novinger-ya02408000R2404971036270001@news.cc.ukans.edu>, novinger@eecs.ukans.edu (Nantes) wrote: > While I like to see groups like AIMED, they are not the saem thing as the >Developers Coalition. From what I unbderstand, the DC would be an >outspoken pro-mac force. they would not only help developers with >resources, amrketing, job recruting, but would also evangelise the Mac in >general. This is exactly what AIMED was created for. AIMED needs to grow into a outspoken pro-Mac force with a large body of developers behind it. >The idea is that the coalition be funded by the Mac powers that be (Apple, >Motorola, UMAX, Power, APS, etc.). They would advertise the platform as >well as the superior PowerPC processor. In order to successfully achieve aforementioned goal, it'd be pretty hard to be out-spoken if the Mac powers we may criticize at times are paying the bills. This is the same reason we didn't want to be directly sponsored by a large vendor or publication. You can't truly remain independent when your hand is in someone else's pocket. Let's continue this thread on the <aimed-talk@aimed.org> mailing list. Subscription is possible through the web site at <http://www.aimed.org/>. Cheers, dEVoN Hubbard Onyx Technology, Inc.
From: devon@onyx-tech.com (Devon Hubbard) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.scitech,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.netx.software,comp.sys.mac.programmer.codewarrior,comp.sys.mac.programmer.misc,comp.sys.mac.oop.macapp3 Subject: Re: Developers Coalition idea Date: Thu, 24 Apr 1997 10:50:26 -0700 Organization: Onyx Technology, Inc. Message-ID: <devon-2404971050290001@cust5.max2.phoenix.az.ms.uu.net> References: <335C1958.CE3@ridgecrest.ca.us> <don_arb-2204971201020001@news1.wolfenet.com> <nagleE93n0E.715@netcom.com> <5jlj30$guk$1@ironhorse.plsys.co.uk> <novinger-ya02408000R2404971004260001@news.cc.ukans.edu> In article <novinger-ya02408000R2404971004260001@news.cc.ukans.edu>, novinger@eecs.ukans.edu (Nantes) wrote: >Guys this is all well and good to debate, but what about this Developer's >Coalition idea? What do you think? > >I think we as Mac programmers should be very interested. Just my $.02 Well said. Since this thread seems to be of interest to a few folks I'd really like to suggest discussion like this continue on the aimed-talk@aimed.org mailing list. There you can discuss the coalition topic with a group of people already working toward a similar goal and discuss other topics as well in a more realtime environment (a losely used term considering newsgroup postings aren't as timely as a mailing list). Subscription information for AIMED mailing lists can be found on the web site at <http://www.aimed.org/>. Cheers, dEVoN Hubbard Onyx Technology, Inc.
From: dave@dmv.com (J. David Purnell) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: black next won't recognize external drive Date: 25 Apr 1997 05:21:46 GMT Organization: DelMarVa OnLine! Distribution: inet Message-ID: <5jpf1a$oau@news.dmv.com> Hi, I've recently gotten hold of a couple of slabs, a NeXTstation turbo and a NeXTstation turbo color. I have a fujitsu model M2694ESA 1 gig external drive. The turbo station is running 3.0 and the color turbo is running 3.3 the turbo recognizes the fujitsu at bootup and it reads just fine in the workspace. The color turbo has a problem recognizing the drive though. As it's booting and looking for devices it displays this: sc: Unexpected msg SCSI unexpected msg:1 It will do this forever until the drive is turned off, then it boots fine. I've formatted the fujitsu drive with the turbo station but the color turbo still has problems with it. Is this a difference between 3.0 and 3.3? Or between the turbo and the color turbo? How can I get this to work? TIA, Dave
From: mmalcolm crawford <malcolm@plsys.co.uk> Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.scitech,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.netx.software,comp.sys.mac.programmer.codewarrior,comp.sys.mac.programmer.misc,comp.sys.mac.oop.macapp3 Subject: Re: Developers Coalition idea Date: 25 Apr 1997 11:19:21 GMT Organization: P&L Systems Message-ID: <5jq3vp$4vp$1@ironhorse.plsys.co.uk> References: <335C1958.CE3@ridgecrest.ca.us> <don_arb-2204971201020001@news1.wolfenet.com> <nagleE93n0E.715@netcom.com> <5jlj30$guk$1@ironhorse.plsys.co.uk> <5jm5e4$g54@sun-cc204.lboro.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <5jm5e4$g54@sun-cc204.lboro.ac.uk> On 04/24/97, J.C.Highfield@lboro.ac.uk wrote: >In article <5jlj30$guk$1@ironhorse.plsys.co.uk>, >mmalcolm crawford <malcolm@plsys.co.uk> wrote: >>Wrong. We're porting applications at the moment (including Mesa, the >>leading spreadsheet for NEXTSTEP), and so are others. We might even have >>stuff to show at WWDC (a bit of a tall order, but a possibility). > >Um, what exactly are you porting to - OpenStep? > Yes, which should give a good basis for Rhapsody. As soon as we have a copy of Rhapsody we will ensure it runs on it. Best wishes, mmalc. -- Malcolm Crawford (NeXTmail) malcolm@plsys.co.uk Tel: +44 (0)1494 432422 P & L Systems Fax: +44 (0)1494 432478 http://www.plsys.co.uk/~malcolm
From: guyt@is.twi.tudelft.nl (A. Guyt) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Problems with Triton II, S3, and NS 3.3? Date: 25 Apr 1997 12:09:58 GMT Organization: Delft University of Technology Message-ID: <5jq6um$b6l$1@news.tudelft.nl> References: <5jmi5o$4uuq@news.doit.wisc.edu> Theodore J. Allen writes > I read a while ago that people were having > problems with the Triton II (HX) chipset > and S3 based video cards under NEXTSTEP 3.3. > Is there any workaround (I recall that 4.x > seems to have the problem fixed.)? > No, there is no real working workaround. Buy another video card or another motherboard or buy OS 4.2 for mach. Abraham G. _____________________________________________________________________ Abraham Guyt P.O.Box 356 Department of Information Systems 2600 AJ Delft Faculty Technical Mathematics & Informatics The Netherlands Delft University of Technology tel: +31 15 78 5969 E-mail: guyt@is.twi.tudelft.nl NeXT-mail welcome
From: johns@efn.org (John Selhorst) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.scitech,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.mac.programmer.codewarrior,comp.sys.mac.programmer.misc,comp.sys.mac.oop.macapp3 Subject: Re: Developers Coalition idea Date: Fri, 25 Apr 1997 05:37:19 -0700 Organization: himself Message-ID: <johns-2504970537200001@dynip113.efn.org> References: <335C1958.CE3@ridgecrest.ca.us> <don_arb-2204971201020001@news1.wolfenet.com> <nagleE93n0E.715@netcom.com> <5jlj30$guk$1@ironhorse.plsys.co.uk> In article <5jlj30$guk$1@ironhorse.plsys.co.uk>, mmalcolm crawford <malcolm@plsys.co.uk> wrote: >On 04/23/97, John Nagle wrote: >> Realistically, nothing is going to happen on the application front >>until Rhapsody ships to developers. >> >Wrong. We're porting applications at the moment (including Mesa, the >leading spreadsheet for NEXTSTEP), and so are others. We might even have >stuff to show at WWDC (a bit of a tall order, but a possibility). This is rather interesting. Are you porting from NextStep (sp?) to OpenStep? It seems that porting to the PowerPC is rather trivial, if the tools are ready. What hardware/software are you using to port Mesa, which I assumed was already OpenStep compatible. I hope Apple is actively supporting your efforts. Johnny
From: kwong@morgan.ucs.mun.ca (Kai S. Wong) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: FAXing with PPP Date: 23 Apr 1997 14:24:06 GMT Organization: Memorial University of Newfoundland Message-ID: <5jl626$ggg@coranto.ucs.mun.ca> References: <5itiq6$17m@news.acns.nwu.edu> <5j6v85$bm@news.myriad.net> <5jbcm1$j7l@coranto.ucs.mun.ca> <335AFBA3.5801@ultranet.ca> John Hills <jhills@ultranet.ca> writes: >I would agree that mgetty+sendfax would be the way to go. If you manage to >get them installed and configured let me know. I think you have to be a bit >of a propellor-head to set up mgetty! I have a copy compiled. Send me email if you want one. kai -- Software Engineer email: kwong@morgan.ucs.mun.ca url: http://web.cs.mun.ca/~kwong/ PGP fingerprint <1B 67 F5 6C C4 44 4F 87 52 F7 61 C7 8E D0 36 40> finger kwong@plato.ucs.mun.ca to get PGP public key.
From: godwin@unixg.ubc.ca (Godwin) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: New Bat/ Mickey mouse!!! Date: 25 Apr 1997 11:33:23 GMT Organization: University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., Canada Message-ID: <5jq4q3$abp$1@nntp.ucs.ubc.ca> Saw some Mickey mouses (ADB) for sale $49 and the ad claimed them to be new!!! http://www.shrevesystems.com/access.html never dealed with them so don't ask me AND DON"T BLAME ME! Godwin
From: mseibert@ita1.inow.com (Matt Seibert) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Strange SIMM slot in Nextstation ? Date: Fri, 25 Apr 97 13:49:59 GMT Organization: Wildfire Technologies Message-ID: <5jqcrc$6ca@news.jump.net> References: <E93JFM.Ep1@novice.uwaterloo.ca> <E945uI.FI@muaddib.m.isar.de> <E95rC0.2Cs@novice.uwaterloo.ca> On that note: Many newsgroups have an automated posting of the list of FAQs availble that is reposted every two to three weeks. Could one such autoposter be set up here? Matt In article <E95rC0.2Cs@novice.uwaterloo.ca>, dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca (David Evans) wrote: > >In article <E945uI.FI@muaddib.m.isar.de>, <mgoedel@m.isar.de> wrote: >> >>Why so unfriendly? When "you" started with NeXT or NeXTSTEP, you >>also had a lot of questions. > > I know, I was just frustrated. This comes up so often, and is mentioned in >the FAQ. Hmmm...maybe the FAQs should be more visible... >
Date: Fri, 25 Apr 1997 09:12:38 -0600 From: mjasonsmith@hotmail.com Subject: Turbo Mono and Next Laser Printer for sale Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Message-ID: <861976359.32118@dejanews.com> Organization: Deja News Usenet Posting Service To: mjasonsmith@hotmail.com Next Station Turbo Mono System and Laser printer for sale. $500 for everything 16 mb ram, 1 gig hard drive. business applications included such as two word processing programs, two spreadsheet programs, diagraming, charting etc. Call 615-399-1951 if interested. -------------------==== Posted via Deja News ====----------------------- http://www.dejanews.com/ Search, Read, Post to Usenet
From: hippykill@my.own.bad.site (Hippykill) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: How do you drop a NextStation into ROM diagnostics? Date: Fri, 25 Apr 1997 17:19:15 GMT Organization: DIGEX, Inc. Message-ID: <3360e70d.70886204@news.digex.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I have a NextStation and was having trouble getting it to boot--and I didn't know the password to change the BIOS settings. So I took out the battery and left it overnight. Now it tries to boot off the (non-existant) network, and I can't convince it to drop into ROM diagnostics so I can tell it to boot of the sd. Is there any way to do this?
From: mitchell.allen@worldnet.att.net Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Strange SIMM slot in Nextstation ? Date: Fri, 25 Apr 1997 15:43:42 -0400 Organization: AT&T WorldNet Services Message-ID: <mitchell.allen-2504971543420001@185.chicago-036.il.dial-access.att.net> References: <E93JFM.Ep1@novice.uwaterloo.ca> <E945uI.FI@muaddib.m.isar.de> <E95rC0.2Cs@novice.uwaterloo.ca> > > I know, I was just frustrated. This comes up so often, and is mentioned in > the FAQ. Hmmm...maybe the FAQs should be more visible... > Actually, someone suggested scanning photos of the boards and labeling them and making the scans available. I'm willing to do the scanning and labeling if someone can help me out with it. I have a digital camera and can scan the following: '030 Cube board '040 Turbo Cube board (ADB) '040 mono station board ND board Backplane (if anyone think's that's useful) Mitch
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: How do you drop a NextStation into ROM diagnostics? Date: Fri, 25 Apr 1997 11:56:57 -0700 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970425114338.3163B-100000@kira> References: <3360e70d.70886204@news.digex.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII In-Reply-To: <3360e70d.70886204@news.digex.net> > I have a NextStation and was having trouble getting it to boot--and I > didn't know the password to change the BIOS settings. So I took out > the battery and left it overnight. Now it tries to boot off the > (non-existant) network, and I can't convince it to drop into ROM > diagnostics so I can tell it to boot of the sd. Is there any way to > do this? Yes, and I've written it all up and posted it on my web page, under the FAQ listing. Basically you want to hold down both the command keys and hit the ~ over the 7 on the keypad right when the booting begins then change the boot prompt to 'sd' from 'en' TjL
From: mem@jhu.edu (Mel Martinez) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.scitech,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.mac.programmer.codewarrior,comp.sys.mac.programmer.misc,comp.sys.mac.oop.macapp3 Subject: Re: Developers Coalition idea Date: Fri, 25 Apr 1997 10:57:52 -0400 Organization: horse and dog Message-ID: <mem-ya02408000R2504971057520001@news.jhu.edu> References: <335C1958.CE3@ridgecrest.ca.us> <1997Apr23.132544.68046@ucl.ac.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In article <1997Apr23.132544.68046@ucl.ac.uk>, hammond_g@drkclu.meng.ucl.ac.uk (Java G) wrote: > > Interestingly, Apple are dumping GameSprockets and going for a corporate > image when they really should be competing with MS's w95 gaming strategy. > According to information reported on MacInTouch (http://www.macintouch.com and other sources, the GameSprockets team is still pretty much intact and GS is still alive at least on MacOS 7/8 & Rhapsody Blue Box for the next few years. The only unknown is whether they will port GS to Rhapsody Yellow Box - the comment on this from one of the team members was essentially that even _they_ don't know if that is worth doing or not. If it seems viable and worthwhile (developer demand and no worthy alternative) then they will probably be steered towards doing so. Otherwise not. I am beginning to believe this is the case with several of the Apple Technologies that have been supposedly 'dropped'. Most are actually simply going into maintenance mode. While this is aggravating in several particular instances and seems to pull the rug on many developers (okay, it IS pulling the rug on many OpenDoc developers) it does allow Apple to keep their promises to a minimum and hopefully ensure a quicker native delivery of Rhapsody. Later, Apple could pull a change a heart on any one or more of these items as circumstances dictate. I just hope they do a full and robust implementation of AppleScript that allows strong communication between the Yellow and Blue boxes. But we are off-topic. A strong pro-mac/rhapsodyOS developer coalition would certainly not be a bad thing, but the devil is in the details. Gotta go. Mel Martinez The Johns Hopkins University Dept. of Physics mem@jhu.edu
From: sanguish@digifix.com (Scott Anguish) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.scitech,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.mac.programmer.codewarrior,comp.sys.mac.programmer.misc,comp.sys.mac.oop.macapp3 Subject: Re: Developers Coalition idea Date: 25 Apr 1997 21:36:04 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <5jr844$m66$1@news.digifix.com> References: <335C1958.CE3@ridgecrest.ca.us> <1997Apr23.132544.68046@ucl.ac.uk> <mem-ya02408000R2504971057520001@news.jhu.edu> In-Reply-To: <mem-ya02408000R2504971057520001@news.jhu.edu> On 04/25/97, Mel Martinez wrote: > >In article <1997Apr23.132544.68046@ucl.ac.uk>, >hammond_g@drkclu.meng.ucl.ac.uk (Java G) wrote: >> >> Interestingly, Apple are dumping GameSprockets and going for a corporate >> image when they really should be competing with MS's w95 gaming strategy. >> > >According to information reported on MacInTouch (http://www.macintouch.com >and other sources, the GameSprockets team is still pretty much >intact and GS is still alive at least on MacOS 7/8 & Rhapsody Blue >Box for the next few years. The only unknown is whether they will >port GS to Rhapsody Yellow Box - the comment on this from one of >the team members was essentially that even _they_ don't know if >that is worth doing or not. This is pretty much right from the sprockets-mouth While Game Sprockets on its own isn't necessarily an easy sell, the capabilities it offers are coming to Rhapsody... When it comes right down to it, thats what is important. From http://www.stepwise.com Date: Wed, 9 Apr 1997 From: Chris De Salvo To: mac-games-dev@solutions.apple.com Subject: The state of Sprockets I don't know where the rumors start about the fate/state of Sprockets, but let me set the record straight... Nothing is dying, nothing is being cut, nothing is being omitted. Period. All of the Sprockets will continue to exist in the Mac OS world. Mac OS will continue to exist for at LEAST another two years, probably more. As far as Rhapsody goes, there is no guarantee that the Sprockets API set will be present. However, ALL of the FUNCTIONALITY will be present, it just might be part of a different API. For instance, the new OpenStep NSDirectScreen class provides all of the context and CLUT operations that DrawSprocket provides. It will soon provide the double-buffering functionality we need as well. -- Scott Anguish <sanguish@digifix.com> NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Information <URL:http://www.stepwise.com>
From: kinselle@ohsu.edu (Doug Kinsella) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: NeXTStep on laptop? Date: Fri, 25 Apr 1997 21:49:59 GMT Organization: OHSU Message-ID: <kinselle.21.33612707@ohsu.edu> Does anyone know whether I can run NeXTStep for Intel (specific version) on a $3000-or-so laptop? I would like to get a docking station (for ethernet and 17" monitor). Minimum hardrive is ok (I'm getting a 2.1Gb SCSI for my 68040 NeXTStation that I'll be networking). Sorry, Mac's 3400 PowerBook is too expensive an option and the 1400 just isn't quite enough. I like Dell & Micron, but will listen to reason. I have browsed the web & have a call in to NeXT, but nothing yet. Sincere thanks. Doug Kinsella Reply here or audreyk@teleport.com.
From: hippykill@my.own.bad.site (Hippykill) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: How do you drop a NextStation into ROM diagnostics? Date: Fri, 25 Apr 1997 22:20:59 GMT Organization: DIGEX, Inc. Message-ID: <33612e0f.89067379@news.digex.net> References: <3360e70d.70886204@news.digex.net> <Pine.SUN.3.96.970425114338.3163B-100000@kira> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On Fri, 25 Apr 1997 11:56:57 -0700, Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> wrote: >Yes, and I've written it all up and posted it on my web page, under the >FAQ listing. Basically you want to hold down both the command keys and >hit the ~ over the 7 on the keypad right when the booting begins then >change the boot prompt to 'sd' from 'en' Thank you! Exactly what I needed--now I've got a running NextStation...now to get it onto my home network...<sigh>
From: planetary <planet@xmission.xmission.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: NeXTStep on laptop? Date: 25 Apr 1997 21:25:36 -0600 Organization: XMission Internet (801 539 0900) Message-ID: <5jrsjg$7bs@xmission.xmission.com> References: <kinselle.21.33612707@ohsu.edu> Doug Kinsella <kinselle@ohsu.edu> wrote: : Does anyone know whether I can run NeXTStep for Intel (specific version) on a : $3000-or-so laptop? I would like to get a docking station (for ethernet and : 17" monitor). Minimum hardrive is ok (I'm getting a 2.1Gb SCSI for my 68040 : NeXTStation that I'll be networking). Sorry, Mac's 3400 PowerBook is too : expensive an option and the 1400 just isn't quite enough. I like Dell & : Micron, but will listen to reason. I have browsed the web & have a call in to : NeXT, but nothing yet. Sincere thanks. No, you can only run NeXTstep for Intel on a laptop that costs more than $4000. ROTFL. Now that I've got that out of my system, here's the real answer: Yes. You should be able to run NS/I on most laptops. You can get an old Versa for $1000 or so that would run it fine, or you can spend a few thousand on a Toshiba Tecra that will run it exceptionally well. You should talk to my old, good friend Dan Kramer at Bifrost (http://www.bifrostworks.com) for info about laptops and NS/I. ................kris -- Kristopher Magnusson kris@xmission.com (no NeXTmail, please) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Contains freshness saver packet. DO NOT EAT.
From: godwin@unixg.ubc.ca (Godwin) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: NeXTStep on laptop? Date: 26 Apr 1997 04:20:33 GMT Organization: University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., Canada Message-ID: <5jrvqh$hto$1@nntp.ucs.ubc.ca> References: <kinselle.21.33612707@ohsu.edu> <5jrsjg$7bs@xmission.xmission.com> check out drivers by www.deepspacetech.com they have it for some cirus and c&t chipsets.. TP 560 is about 3000??? that would do! What the 4000 thing? Godwin planetary (planet@xmission.xmission.com) wrote: : Doug Kinsella <kinselle@ohsu.edu> wrote: : : Does anyone know whether I can run NeXTStep for Intel (specific version) on a : : $3000-or-so laptop? I would like to get a docking station (for ethernet and : : 17" monitor). Minimum hardrive is ok (I'm getting a 2.1Gb SCSI for my 68040 : : NeXTStation that I'll be networking). Sorry, Mac's 3400 PowerBook is too : : expensive an option and the 1400 just isn't quite enough. I like Dell & : : Micron, but will listen to reason. I have browsed the web & have a call in to : : NeXT, but nothing yet. Sincere thanks. : No, you can only run NeXTstep for Intel on a laptop that costs more than : $4000. : ROTFL. : Now that I've got that out of my system, here's the real answer: Yes. : You should be able to run NS/I on most laptops. You can get an old Versa : for $1000 or so that would run it fine, or you can spend a few thousand on : a Toshiba Tecra that will run it exceptionally well. : You should talk to my old, good friend Dan Kramer at Bifrost : (http://www.bifrostworks.com) for info about laptops and NS/I. : ................kris : -- : Kristopher Magnusson kris@xmission.com (no NeXTmail, please) : --------------------------------------------------------------------------- : Contains freshness saver packet. DO NOT EAT.
From: Bastian Schlueter <Bastian.Schlueter@gmd.de> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Problems with Triton II, S3, and NS 3.3? Date: 25 Apr 1997 17:26:44 GMT Organization: Marvins home, a small place in Universe Message-ID: <5jqpgk$9hl@marvin.isdn.cs.tu-berlin.de> References: <5jmi5o$4uuq@news.doit.wisc.edu> <5jq6um$b6l$1@news.tudelft.nl> Organisation: RRR guyt@is.twi.tudelft.nl (A. Guyt) wrote: > Theodore J. Allen writes > > I read a while ago that people were having > > problems with the Triton II (HX) chipset > > and S3 based video cards under NEXTSTEP 3.3. > > Is there any workaround (I recall that 4.x > > seems to have the problem fixed.)? > > > > No, there is no real working workaround. Buy another video card or > another motherboard or buy OS 4.2 for mach. Or just live with "verbose" boot/shutdown. ciao Bastian (with Triton II, S3 and NS3.3) -- e-mail: Bastian.Schlueter@gmd.de http://www.first.gmd.de/~buzz RRR100R -- Was wir da machen ist verboten, aber es ist wunderbar (TSS) --
From: Jonathan Hendry <jhendry@cts.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.scitech,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.mac.programmer.codewarrior,comp.sys.mac.programmer.misc,comp.sys.mac.oop.macapp3 Subject: Re: Developers Coalition idea Date: Fri, 25 Apr 1997 19:13:14 -0700 Organization: CTS Network Services Message-ID: <336164BA.6A1E@cts.com> References: <335C1958.CE3@ridgecrest.ca.us> <1997Apr23.132544.68046@ucl.ac.uk> <mem-ya02408000R2504971057520001@news.jhu.edu> <5jr844$m66$1@news.digifix.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cache-Post-Path: optional.cts.com!unknown@p46156242.cts.com Scott Anguish wrote: > > On 04/25/97, Mel Martinez wrote: > > > >In article <1997Apr23.132544.68046@ucl.ac.uk>, > >hammond_g@drkclu.meng.ucl.ac.uk (Java G) wrote: > >> > >> Interestingly, Apple are dumping GameSprockets and going for a > corporate > >> image when they really should be competing with MS's w95 gaming > strategy. > >> > > > >According to information reported on MacInTouch > (http://www.macintouch.com > >and other sources, the GameSprockets team is still pretty much > >intact and GS is still alive at least on MacOS 7/8 & Rhapsody Blue > >Box for the next few years. The only unknown is whether they will > >port GS to Rhapsody Yellow Box - the comment on this from one of > >the team members was essentially that even _they_ don't know if > >that is worth doing or not. > > This is pretty much right from the sprockets-mouth > > While Game Sprockets on its own isn't necessarily an easy > sell, the capabilities it offers are coming to Rhapsody... > > When it comes right down to it, thats what is important. > Exactly. If all Apple did was directly port the old technologies over, it would be as bad as Microsoft's Mac software. Microsoft's Mac apps are Windows at the core, with only the slightest accomodation of the Mac way of doing things. And you can tell. Apple has to look at the old Mac OS technologies, and figure out how they would best be implemented in the new OS. Things like Game Sprockets should be redesigned to take the most advantage of the capabilities of Rhapsody. MacOS didn't have Mach messages, or distributed objects, or a dynamic OOP language as the preferred implementation language. Rhapsody does, and Apple should rearchitect their technologies to take advantage of them. - Jon
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.hardware From: dwagley@netcom.com (Doug Wagley) Subject: NeXT hardware support? Message-ID: <dwagleyE99C25.2Gr@netcom.com> Followup-To: poster Keywords: hardware printer Organization: Netcom On-Line Services Distribution: usa Date: Sat, 26 Apr 1997 18:15:40 GMT Sender: dwagley@netcom5.netcom.com Is anyone still providing maintenance for NeXT hardware? I have an unhappy NeXT laser printer that has developed a high pitched whine and waits a very long time before feeding the sheet. It then just prints a thin horizontal smear across the paper. I'm in the metro Denver area. If anybody knows who could provide service please let me know. Thanks, Doug dwagley@netcom.com
From: "Eric A. Dubiel" <eadubie@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Canon 21" Hitachi Monitor Resolution? Date: Sat, 26 Apr 1997 16:52:34 -0600 Organization: Instructional Technology Development - Illinois State University, Bloomington-Normal, USA Message-ID: <33628723.4250@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi, anyone happend to have the specs on the Canon 21" Hitachi Monitor that Canon sold as an option to the object.station? I'm particularly interested in the maximum resolution and refresh @ the maximum resolution. Thanks! -- Eric A. Dubiel; http://www.ilstu.edu/~eadubie mailto:eadubie@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu ytalk eadubie@138.87.201.11 --- MIME, SUN, NeXT, PGP Mail ok R&D--Instructional Technology Development--Illinois State University "I first saw NEXTSTEP in 1990 and I was blown away."-Eric Schmidt, Novell Inc CEO VIEWS EXPRESSED ARE ENTIRELY MY OWN
From: maharaj@CSLAB.BEMIDJI.MSUS.EDU (Pradeep Bashyal) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.scitech,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.mac.programmer.codewarrior,comp.sys.mac.programmer.misc,comp.sys.mac.oop.macapp3 Subject: Re: Developers Coalition idea Date: 26 Apr 1997 22:45:08 GMT Organization: BEMIDJI STATE UNIVERSITY Message-ID: <5ju0hk$ktg@Urvile.MSUS.EDU> References: <335C1958.CE3@ridgecrest.ca.us> <1997Apr23.132544.68046@ucl.ac.uk> <mem-ya02408000R2504971057520001@news.jhu.edu> Mmultimedia evangelist for Apple Developer relainos, Tony Tamas, concerning Game Sprockets : GCS Cys: Tony, what is Apple looking towards to replace the GCS Cys: Game Sprockets Developement Package? TonyT: First of all... TonyT: Game Sprocket development continues so we have no TonyT: immediate need to replace Game Sprockets. As far TonyT: as high performance bit mapped graphics for the TonyT: yellow box in Rhapsody, there currently exists an API TonyT: called Interceptor which allows for direct access to TonyT: the frame buffer for high performance drawing which, TonyT: for example, is how ID delivered Quake for OpenStep For full interview, check out.. http://www.devworld.apple.com:80/mkt/WWDC/chat_424transcript.html Pradeep maharaj@vax1.bemidji.msus.edu
From: Theodore J. Allen Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Problems with Triton II, S3, and NS 3.3? Date: 26 Apr 1997 23:01:47 GMT Organization: University of Wisconsin, Madison Message-ID: <5ju1gr$4f9e@news.doit.wisc.edu> References: <5jmi5o$4uuq@news.doit.wisc.edu> <5jq6um$b6l$1@news.tudelft.nl> <5jqpgk$9hl@marvin.isdn.cs.tu-berlin.de> Bastian Schlueter <Bastian.Schlueter@gmd.de> wrote: > > Or just live with "verbose" boot/shutdown. > > ciao > Bastian (with Triton II, S3 and NS3.3) > > -- The verbose boot is generally necessary with the Triton I and S3 and NS3.3 as well, but I found that disabling one of the PCI options in BIOS on my Tyan S-1468 board (PCI bursting, I think it was) made it possible to have a graphical boot. It did have a small performance penalty, though smaller than the penalty of not having half the RAM cached! Perhaps there's some option in BIOS for the Triton II boards that will allow for a graphical shutdown. (I don't mind the verbose boot. In fact, I prefer it so that I can see if the DSP was found, etc!) -- Ted Allen, Ph.D. High Energy Physics University of Wisconsin-Madison tjallen@wishep.physics.wisc.edu http://theory1.physics.wisc.edu/~tjallen/
From: Theodore J. Allen Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Problems with Triton II, S3, and NS 3.3? Date: 26 Apr 1997 23:01:49 GMT Organization: University of Wisconsin, Madison Message-ID: <5ju1gt$4f9e@news.doit.wisc.edu> References: <5jmi5o$4uuq@news.doit.wisc.edu> <5jq6um$b6l$1@news.tudelft.nl> <5jqpgk$9hl@marvin.isdn.cs.tu-berlin.de> Anyone have any trouble (or success) with the SiS 5571 Pentium chipset, the Triton 430VX or Triton 430TX chipsets? How about the VIA Apollo VP-2 chipsets? -- Ted Allen, Ph.D. High Energy Physics University of Wisconsin-Madison tjallen@wishep.physics.wisc.edu http://theory1.physics.wisc.edu/~tjallen/
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From: spammers@ruin.the.internet.channelu.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: black next won't recognize external drive Date: 26 Apr 1997 23:36:03 GMT Organization: Michigan State University Distribution: inet Message-ID: <5ju3h3$mcj$1@msunews.cl.msu.edu> References: <5jpf1a$oau@news.dmv.com> Cc: dave@dmv.com In <5jpf1a$oau@news.dmv.com> J. David Purnell wrote: > Hi, > > I've recently gotten hold of a couple of slabs, a NeXTstation turbo and a > NeXTstation turbo color. > > I have a fujitsu model M2694ESA 1 gig external drive. The turbo station > is running 3.0 and the color turbo is running 3.3 > > the turbo recognizes the fujitsu at bootup and it reads just fine in the > workspace. The color turbo has a problem recognizing the drive though. > > As it's booting and looking for devices it displays this: > > sc: Unexpected msg > SCSI unexpected msg:1 > > It will do this forever until the drive is turned off, then it boots fine. > > I've formatted the fujitsu drive with the turbo station but the color > turbo still has problems with it. > > Is this a difference between 3.0 and 3.3? Or between the turbo and the > color turbo? > Hard to say really. Could be a different cabling problem. Or one machine might be more sensitive to whether the drive is configured for asyncronous or syncronous transfers.. I'm not absolutely sure about turbo systems. But if you can jumper the drive for asyncronous transfers (if it's a boot drive) then do so. Beyond that check cables and that connectors are seated properly. Termination might be an issue also.. You could also try it in an external case w/ termination.. All I know is that whenever I've seen that message it was either SCSI bus, whether the drive was set for asyncronous transfers or not, or termination.. Beyond that possibly a flaky drive (but it would likely be flaky on both machines) Randy rencsok (at) channelu (dot) com
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From: sanguish@digifix.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.announce,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.programmer Subject: NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Resources on the Net Supersedes: <26385861508830@digifix.com> Date: 27 Apr 1997 03:59:44 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <25195862113623@digifix.com> Topics include: Stepwise NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Information WWW site eduSTEP WWW site NeXT Computer, Inc. WWW site comp.sys.next newsgroups related newsgroups comp.sys.next newsgroups mailing list ftp sites NeXTanswers Stepwise NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Information WWW site =============================================== This online community resource includes - ISV company pages - ISV product descriptions - NEXTSTEP Developer Directory - NEXTSTEP Community WhitePages - Mailing List archives and information You can connect via the world wide web at: http://www.stepwise.com/ Suggestions or comments can be directed to me at sanguish@digifix.com If you would like to get your company and product information on Stepwise, please contact me at sanguish@digifix.com. eduSTEP WWW site ================ http://www.nmr.embl-heidelberg.de/eduStep/ eduStep aims to provide up-to-date information on: - NextStep tools and projects for scientists. - Third-party products interesting for the educational and scientific community (with educational discounts noted, where they exist). - A listing of resellers and shops interested in working with customers in the educational community. - Conferences, meetings, workshops - Major projects, such as SciTools, EMBL's project to develop a NextStep scientific work environment - Status reports on GNUStep, a freely-available implementation of OpenStep now being developed NeXT Computer, Inc. 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Scott ( eps@toaster.SFSU.EDU ) and Scott Anguish ( sanguish@digifix.com ) Additions from: Greg Anderson ( Greg_Anderson@afs.com ) Michael Pizolato ( alf@epix.net ) Dan Grillo ( dan_grillo@next.com )
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware From: Clinton Wong <clintdw@netcom.com> Subject: MegaPixel on PC? Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Message-ID: <3362A082.3E0F@netcom.com> Sender: clintdw@netcom13.netcom.com Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Organization: Netcom On-Line Services Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: Sun, 27 Apr 1997 00:40:34 GMT I see from the NeXT FAQ that there's a way to connect a VGA monitor to a (black) NeXT, but is there any way to get the MegaPixel display to work on a PC? I've heard that there are special video cards that do this... called gemini or virage. I went through the search engines but couldn't find anything relevant. Any ideas? Clinton
From: emclean@slip.net (Emmett McLean) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: How to install NS 3.3 on 030 box with no floopy Date: 26 Apr 1997 23:01:55 -0700 Organization: Slip.Net Message-ID: <5juq4j$677@slip.net> Hi, I have a 68030 cube and the user CD-ROMS for NEXTSTEP 3.3 and want to upgrade the operating system from NeXTSTEP 2.0. The cube has an Optical Drive but no floopy drive. Is there a way to install NS on that machine without getting an external floppy drive? Thanks, Emmett
From: Scott Mewett <mewett@cisco.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Are Turbo board serial ports different.??? Date: Sun, 27 Apr 1997 00:18:53 -0800 Organization: cisco Systems, Incorporated Message-ID: <3362FDDD.3348@cisco.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hello All. I seem to be having some problems with my NeXT Turbo's Serial Ports. I just got a Turbo Cube and plugged in my modem to it, but the modem doesn't seem to work. Up till now I have been using this modem and cable on my Color slab without a problem. Is there something that is different with the Turbo motherboards compared to the non-turbo ones. I am able to use cua to talk to the modem on the turbo, but cufa does not work. It actually hangs the serial port and I can only get the serial port back by rebooting. However cufa does work without a problem on my other system. This causes a problem since most modems use hardware flow control. Especially the ones that i use to dial into work. Any help or insight into this would be greatly appreciated. Thanks Scott mewett@cisco.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: How to use Sony NeXT CD-ROM for music on MO (or just how to play music) References: <5jcgoe$1m5@slip.net> From: ANTI-SPAM! Message-ID: <336309ca.0@scipio.cyberstore.ca> Date: 27 Apr 97 08:09:46 GMT emclean@slip.net (Emmett McLean) wrote: >I purchased an original Sony CD-ROM (CDU-541 Rev 2.6a) >for my 040/25 cube on c.s.n.m. For installing software >it works great. But when I insert a music CD and plug >a set of speakers into the sound jack, or a set of >headphones, no sound comes out. > >Is there something I need to do play music on this >CD-ROM and to have the music come out of the sound jack? > >Do I need run a particular app to listen to music from >a CD-ROM? As I recall, just plug the headphones into the front jack and turn up the volumn control to the right of the jack and set the volumn on the cd-player app up. Is the cd player app incrementing the time indicating the music is actually being played. If not try a different CD or may sure the proper files are installed in the /usr/filesystems/cdaudio.fs directory. Darren Reely P.S. Return e-mail address should now be useless thanks to those damp spammers.
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From: orestes@comland.com (William D. Leara) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Black vs. White HW Date: Sun, 27 Apr 1997 15:37:08 GMT Organization: All USENET -- http://www.Supernews.com Message-ID: <33657263.920786@news.comland.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Forgive my ignorance, but what does it mean to have "black" hardware vs. "white" hardware? Will orestes@comland.com
From: "Christian Jensen" <chrsjensen@worldnet.att.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Black vs. White HW Date: 27 Apr 1997 16:54:30 GMT Organization: AT&T WorldNet Services Message-ID: <01bc532b$c2cac8e0$cccb92cf@default> References: <33657263.920786@news.comland.com> Black= Original NeXT hardware. White= Intel-based hardware. William D. Leara <orestes@comland.com> wrote in article <33657263.920786@news.comland.com>... > Forgive my ignorance, but what does it mean to have "black" hardware > vs. "white" hardware? > > Will > orestes@comland.com >
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware From: Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Subject: Re: NeXT hardware support? Message-ID: <E9B4Fr.1p2@nidat.sub.org> Sender: nitezki@nidat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany References: <dwagleyE99C25.2Gr@netcom.com> Distribution: usa Date: Sun, 27 Apr 1997 17:26:15 GMT In article <dwagleyE99C25.2Gr@netcom.com> dwagley@netcom.com (Doug Wagley) writes: > Is anyone still providing maintenance for NeXT hardware? I have > an unhappy NeXT laser printer that has developed a high pitched > whine and waits a very long time before feeding the sheet. It > then just prints a thin horizontal smear across the paper. I'm > in the metro Denver area. If anybody knows who could provide > service please let me know. > Service is provided through BellAtlantic. They're rather expensive, though. NeXTlasers can be serviced from the PrinterWorks. Address should be found in either the FAQ or Usenet archive on Peanuts. -- 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 M2694ES on a slab and a M2694S on a turbo color and both work fine. Unfortunately, Fujitsu changed controller assemblies rather frequently and both of my drives do use differnt mechanisms to achieve proper configuration. I fear you need a good (and willing) OEM to supply the correct data sheet to check for proper setup. -- 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: ISDN Help Message-ID: <E9B42I.1n2@nidat.sub.org> Sender: nitezki@nidat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany References: <335E874F.FA1@inext.net> Distribution: inet Date: Sun, 27 Apr 1997 17:18:18 GMT In article <335E874F.FA1@inext.net> Johnny Waters - Staff <waters@inext.net> writes: > I have an ADB NeXT Turbo Color Slab (From DeepSpace Tech. in Frederick > Md, plug plug) and I am curious about the feasability of ISDN. > > Here are my questions that do not seem to be addressed in any FAQ that I > have seen. > > 1) What is the Max baudRate of the serial ports on the NeXT Turbo Color > (ADB)? That depends on the software you will use. NEXTSTEP BSD utilities only support 'extb' speed which is wired to 38.4k. The link libs that came with NS 3.3 Dev also support higher speeds, so if you can get 'kermit' or some other package linked with'em, higher speeds can be set. I doubt they will be sustainable, though. 38.4 might be sustainable in most cases on Turbo machines, 57.6k might be achievable on a lightly loaded Turbo, but I won't guaranty for this. I successfully run 38.4k on a lightly loaded 25MHz slab. > 2) Has anyone successfully used a NeXT with a normal (non DSP port) TA? Should be possible. > 3) Any known problems with BitSurfer pros? (other than known BSP bugs > and assumign that 2's answer is "yes")... > Depending on what you want to do with your ISDN access there might be a better choice. Most people here in Germany want ISDN for better, faster Internet access. In this case a ISDN router is prime choice. Either a commercial device or a self made PC/AT with cheap ISDN adapter, Eternet adapter, and ka9q software will do. -- 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: joegidi@aol.com (JoeGidi) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: ADB mouse fix Date: 27 Apr 1997 20:22:04 GMT Organization: AOL http://www.aol.com Message-ID: <19970427202100.QAA29937@ladder01.news.aol.com> Last week, I noticed that the little teflon pad on the back of my NeXT ADB mouse was starting to peel off. I tried several common glues, but none seemed to stick to the teflon (big surprise there, it's used on no-stick pans for a reason!). Finally, I scrounged around in my toolroom for a little while and found a few tubes of epoxy resin. I mixed up a little batch, put it on the mouse, let it dry overnight, and bingo, the teflon stayed down. I'm posting this to help others who may have this problem. A few words of advice: DO NOT try Krazy Glue. It doesn't get along too well with teflon. Also, epoxy is far stronger. If you have never used epoxy before, practice on something you don't care about before putting it on your mouse. I can be a real bitch to work with, and you don't want to end up ruining your mouse. Hope this is of some use. I take no responsibility if you end up doing something really bad with these directions. Don't come crying to me if you end up gluing your hands together :) Joe
From: godwin@unixg.ubc.ca (Godwin) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: ISDN Help Date: 27 Apr 1997 21:42:09 GMT Organization: University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., Canada Distribution: inet Message-ID: <5k0h7h$h88$1@nntp.ucs.ubc.ca> References: <335E874F.FA1@inext.net> Why don't you consider the Ascend hubs.. have a 50 and it is plug and play.. because it is via the ethernet. godwin : 1) What is the Max baudRate of the serial ports on the NeXT Turbo Color : (ADB)? : 2) Has anyone successfully used a NeXT with a normal (non DSP port) TA? : 3) Any known problems with BitSurfer pros? (other than known BSP bugs : and assumign that 2's answer is "yes")... : thank you in advance : Johnny Waters, waters@inext.net
From: hamors@litterbox.org (Sean B. Hamor) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: QuickCam on Black Turbo NeXTstation Date: 27 Apr 1997 21:56:35 GMT Organization: The Litterbox Message-ID: <5k0i2j$5ce$1@news.ptd.net> NNTP-Posting-User: hamors -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Greetings, I'm interested in hooking up a Connectix B&W QuickCam to my Black Turbo NeXTstation. I was wondering if anyone has had any luck with this and if drivers are available. I've been digging through DejaNews and Alta Vista for old posts/pages regarding this subject, and have come up short. I know that the pinouts will be different even though the same connector is used, so an adapter cable of some sort will have to be fabricated. All I'm looking for is a source for drivers. Thanks for your time. =) /\_/\ http://www.litterbox.org/~hamors/pgp.txt To err is human. ( o.o ) for PGP public key block To purr feline. > ^ < Sean B. Hamor <hamors@litterbox.org> - Robert Byrne The Litterbox: http://www.litterbox.org/ Homeless and Abused Pet Rescue -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3ia Charset: noconv Comment: Even the litter is encrypted... iQEVAwUBM2PLnDU6HlxZIJ+FAQFpKAf9F1OzWtQ5K7Elfwznb6wwG/J9V4Fa5f/y f3VfwEDTcm6fvODuFL+Babf0qO+LfDyMdlqDbNVpJY36i1NPQhCZ3glhaqKURHI8 gp8zoXSAtb7EDKzbhqBQZ0XN34n6X2iKrWFvQyAzoY4EofMfSLoJDwP4HgFScdzE WIPtxvtTSECsDNihNUUq2VOoy70Z13bADc3MO3W2XCahB7k8mvz869/Fny0DMZcH 8X4FUQKM2LneetPk4y+2HFFNGrHKWsd5WxzYcJs7lVQQbHnUIMPIhIW2HloprtAS rKpiW6r23SDyLlcR3JS3zrmSt+/eM7TeCxXiRhtgy4jd8ClDoWe9Zw== =XAs/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
From: emclean@slip.net (Emmett McLean) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Machine hangs upon typing bfd or bsd in ROM monitor on black Date: 27 Apr 1997 16:13:32 -0700 Organization: Slip.Net Message-ID: <5k0mis$f30@slip.net> Hi, I'm trying to re-install NS 3.3 user on an 040/25. After putting the CD in the external CD-ROM and putting the startup diskette into the internal floppy drive and typing bfd in the (ROM Monitor v5 2.66 ) the machine hangs. The machine also hangs if I type bsd. (Once bsd(0,0,0) worked but now that doesn't work either) However, if I don't hold down the command key and just let the machine boot with out interupting it, it starts up logged in as "me" and fails to prompt for a user login or password. Ah, I just upgraded the machine from 28 to 40 MGs of RAM. I also added a second hard drive. Originally I installed the new hard drive with a SCSI target value of 2 (the original disk had a SCSI traget value of 1). I used build disk to format the new disk and copied the NS OS onto it. Then I opened the box and switched SCSI target values. (I left the cabeling and termination sequence the same) So the new larger disk has a SCSI target of 1 and the old disk has a target of 2. Can anyone offer some suggestions? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks, Emmett San Francisco
From: Brian Dod <bwdod@earthlink.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: FS: Laserwriter II NT Date: Sun, 27 Apr 1997 19:56:44 -0700 Organization: Earthlink Network, Inc. Message-ID: <336411EC.384F@earthlink.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 14 apple laserwriters II nt excellent condition $175. each obo bwdod@earthlink.net Brian (714) 643-5655
From: dental@precipice.com (Rick Sanford) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: MIDI / NS Black Date: 14 Apr 1997 22:54:42 GMT Organization: Dental Records[tm] Message-ID: <5iucji$6fj@news1-alterdial.uu.net> References: <01bc4880$fda2a600$505894ce@cessna> Cc: daves@en.com In <01bc4880$fda2a600$505894ce@cessna> "David S. Strubbe" wrote: > Anybody out there doing MIDI work with black hardware? Special interface? > What sort of software? > > Any info appreciated - thanks IA > > Dave Strubbe > daves@en.com > > > a few of us ;-) interfaces include some MAC ones, trial and error may be best method or check FAQ for leads. just be sure you get the good NeXT serial cable. check out the Studio 3 app for opcode studio 3; there's also a NeXTMusic web site, and email group with info. The was once a company in Canada (Vancouver?) called Quest, Inc. (but not THAT Quest...) that made specific NeXT midi interfaces, a MidiLink and, I think Midi Link Plus (2 in and 1 out, with merge, I think). This was circa 1992. I had both of them, but had better luck with the simpler MidiLink (sans merge: 1 in, 2 out). appwise, see Musickit folks for Sequence.app, previously known as Presto, Calliope does midi, and much more, and various older, simpler sequncers and/or players. check ftp sites and music resources. -rick
From: willadams@aol.com (WillAdams) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Does Parallel Zip Drive Work? Date: 16 Apr 1997 15:28:38 GMT Organization: AOL http://www.aol.com Message-ID: <19970416152800.LAA07354@ladder01.news.aol.com> References: <5j1dtp$ksb@news.jump.net> The SCSI version works perfectly--I've got a link to the Radical Solutions Guide on this, as well as directory tiffs on my web page, http://members.aol.com/willadams Just choose the Tools | hardware links to find them. William William Adams http://members.aol.com/willadams Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow.
From: rdieter@math.unl.edu (Rex Dieter) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: S3Virge black screen problem Date: 15 Apr 1997 13:58:04 GMT Organization: University of Nebraska--Lincoln Message-ID: <5j01hc$1ac@crcnis3.unl.edu> References: <5iva80$kcv@client2.news.psi.net> In article <5iva80$kcv@client2.news.psi.net> kris@primordialsoft.com > Does anyone know if the source code for the beta S3Virge driver is > available anywhere? I'd be willing to try to fix it with the help of > some volunteers testers. I believe this is the well known Intel Triton vs S3 Video Bug you're experiencing. Unfixable, unfortanately (according to NeXT), except for upgrading to OS4.0 or later. -- Rex A. Dieter rdieter@math.unl.edu (NeXT/MIME OK) Computer System Manager http://www.math.unl.edu/~rdieter/ Mathematics and Statistics University of Nebraska-Lincoln
From: carpena@icia.rcanaria.es (Rafael Munoz-Carpena) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Need Help Getting SB16 PnP to work. Date: 18 Apr 1997 14:53:19 GMT Organization: Instituto Canario de Investigaciones Agrarias -ICIA Message-ID: <5j81sv$t90@sinfo.ll.iac.es> References: <3351d069.10177088@news.mindspring.com> Cc: cybobob@mindspring.com In <3351d069.10177088@news.mindspring.com> Mr. Kawasaki wrote: > I put in all the correct settings, directly from the manual for the > sound card. Also, I've had success in Linux using the exact settings > from the book, so I know that's not the problem. I heard someting from > someone a while back that said you need to change someting in the > Expert settings for it to work with PnP. > I also bought a SB16 PnP recently to install on my OS4.1. After trying every posible combination I gave up. I called up NeXT and told me I should download the newer driver from NeXTAnswers and did so. I still would not work. I then found a friend who had an NT system with the older SB16 (the old model with jumpers and all), I swap it with him, installed it right away and everything works OK!. I recommend you try this with your dealer or a friend. > > Later, > Nick > > E-Mail me at cybobob@mindspring.com > -- +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Dr. Rafael Munoz-Carpena, Researcher, Soil & Water Department | | INSTITUTO CANARIO DE INVESTIGACIONES AGRARIAS - ICIA | | Apdo. 60 - Laguna, 38200 Tenerife (Spain) | |Tno:+34-22-476343;Fax:+34-22-476303;e-mail:carpena@icia.rcanaria.es| +-------------------------------------------------------------------+
From: larsen@math.upenn.edu (Michael Larsen) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: JAZ Drive on a 68K NeXT Date: 20 Apr 1997 02:27:51 GMT Organization: University of Pennsylvania Message-ID: <5jbuv7$f68@netnews.upenn.edu> References: <E8oE2s.9B3@free.fdn.fr> I also just bought a Jaz drive for my NeXT cube. The three cartridges I bought came pre-formatted for mac, but I reformatted them for NeXT. I did this by choosing the initialization command from the workspace (System 3.2). When the newfs command executed by the workspace failed, I typed "newfs /dev/rsd3a Jaz" from the command line, where "Jaz" is the name of the disktab entry I copied from the NextAnswers. (The default command "newfs /dev/rsd3a" executed by the standard initialization script uses the wrong disk geometry parameters.) Results: one of the three disks generated so many bad media errors that it was unusable. An attempt to sdform it failed, thanks to more media errors. A second disk generates bad media errors fairly frequently: perhaps half a dozen per 100MB of data transferred. The third generated only a single bad media error in a 700MB transfer but also crashed the workspace once during the transfer. This doesn't seem like acceptable performance to me. Did I do something wrong? Should I be using a different disktab, for instance? Different cartridges? A different drive? MacConnection is willing to replace any or all of the components but cannot advise on non-Mac, non-PC systems. -Michael Larsen
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware From: dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca (David Evans) Subject: Re: How to install NS 3.3 on 030 box with no floopy Sender: news@novice.uwaterloo.ca (Mr. News) Message-ID: <E9CuE5.GsJ@novice.uwaterloo.ca> Date: Mon, 28 Apr 1997 15:44:29 GMT References: <5juq4j$677@slip.net> Organization: University of Waterloo In article <5juq4j$677@slip.net>, Emmett McLean <emclean@slip.net> wrote: >Hi, > >I have a 68030 cube and the user CD-ROMS for >NEXTSTEP 3.3 and want to upgrade the operating >system from NeXTSTEP 2.0. The cube has an >Optical Drive but no floopy drive. > >Is there a way to install NS on that machine >without getting an external floppy drive? > Yes, there is. You need the boot.cdrom file written on bootable media. You can likely do something like this, assuming you can mount the 3.3 CD under 2.0 (it's been a *long* time since I've used 2.0...) Have a sacrificial optical disk handy (maybe this won't trash it--I'm not sure). Mount the CD and say, as root, # disk -B /NEXTSTEP_3.3/usr/standalone/boot.cdrom /dev/od0a and insert the OD when prompted. The pathname may not be correct--check to make sure. But boot.cdrom is definately what you want. Then, halt the machine, stick in the CD, stick in the OD, and say "bod" from the ROM monitor. -- David Evans (NeXTMail OK) dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca Computer/Synth Junkie http://bbcr.uwaterloo.ca/~dfevans/ University of Waterloo "Default is the value selected by the composer Ontario, Canada overridden by your command." - Roland TR-707 Manual
From: sneal@ichips.intel.com (Scott M. Neal) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: So, 60 or 70ns RAM in Turbo? Date: 28 Apr 1997 23:37:47 GMT Organization: Intel Development Labs, INTeL Corporation Message-ID: <5k3ccb$dpr$1@news.jf.intel.com> I've seen many posts regarding 60 vs. 70ns RAM in turbo NeXT hardware, but never a clean resolution... A few people have stated that the ROM monitor recognizes 60ns RAM on power-up, but is the hardware utilizing it at 60ns, 70ns, or 100ns? Just looking to up the RAM in my Turbo ADB Dimension Cube soon... Scott sneal@ichips.intel.com
From: cdb@precipice.com (christopher borden) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: So, 60 or 70ns RAM in Turbo? Date: 29 Apr 1997 07:34:35 GMT Organization: cdb graphics Message-ID: <5k48ab$saj@news1-alterdial.uu.net> References: <5k3ccb$dpr$1@news.jf.intel.com> Cc: sneal@ichips.intel.com In <5k3ccb$dpr$1@news.jf.intel.com> Scott M. Neal wrote: > I've seen many posts regarding 60 vs. 70ns RAM in > turbo NeXT hardware, but never a clean resolution... > > A few people have stated that the ROM monitor recognizes > 60ns RAM on power-up, but is the hardware utilizing it at 60ns, > 70ns, or 100ns? > > Just looking to up the RAM in my Turbo ADB Dimension Cube > soon... > > Scott > sneal@ichips.intel.com i think i read here once that 60ns gets read as 100ns by nd. so i've been using all 70's for mine, i hope for good reason. . . chris cdb@precipice.com
From: rtam@cs.ubc.ca (Roger Tam) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Kensington trackball on black hardware Date: 29 Apr 1997 01:13:34 -0700 Organization: Computer Science, University of B.C., Vancouver, B.C., Canada Message-ID: <5k4aje$66i@cascade.cs.ubc.ca> Hi everyone, I am currently using a Logitech bus mouse attached via an adapter I bought from ComputerActive on my non-ADB Turbo. The question is: has anyone successfully used a Kensington Expert Mouse bus trackball with the ComputerActive MouseTail adapter? Thank you for your replies, Roger --------- Roger Tam Department of Computer Science, University of British Columbia
From: Garance A Drosehn <gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: So, 60 or 70ns RAM in Turbo? Date: 29 Apr 1997 02:41:11 GMT Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy NY, USA Message-ID: <5k3n47$7ep@usenet.rpi.edu> References: <5k3ccb$dpr$1@news.jf.intel.com> sneal@ichips.intel.com (Scott M. Neal) wrote: > I've seen many posts regarding 60 vs. 70ns RAM in > turbo NeXT hardware, but never a clean resolution... > > A few people have stated that the ROM monitor recognizes > 60ns RAM on power-up, but is the hardware utilizing it at 60ns, > 70ns, or 100ns? > > Just looking to up the RAM in my Turbo ADB Dimension Cube > soon... It apparently depends on the motherboard you have. I know that in my motherboard, 60ns memory is treated as if it's 100ns memory, and the machine certainly seemed like it slowed down. Note that at the time I put the 60ns memory in, I was not aware of this issue, and yet it did seem odd to me that in some ways my machine slowed down when I added more memory to it. Later I replaced those two 60ns SIMMs with two (larger) 70ns SIMMs, and I seemed to get that speed back. Others have said that their motherboard recognized their 60ns SIMMs as actually being 60ns, so I doubt there would be any slowdown on those motherboards. On the other hand, I don't know that having 60ns RAM is *faster* than having 70ns RAM, it's just that it isn't slower. I'd suggest going with 70ns, but that's partially because I know my own NeXTstation slowed down with the 60ns RAM in it. --- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer (MIME & NeXTmail capable) Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Troy NY USA
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Does Parallel Zip Drive Work? Date: Tue, 29 Apr 1997 06:04:54 -0700 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970429054444.24005A-100000@kira> References: <3354ec12.34266089@news.mindspring.com> <E8pDzw.7HI@novice.uwaterloo.ca> <5j1dtp$ksb@news.jump.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: Matt Seibert <mseibert@ita1.inow.com> In-Reply-To: <5j1dtp$ksb@news.jump.net> On Wed, 16 Apr 1997, Matt Seibert wrote: > How about the SCSI version of the ZIP? On black hardware, any SCSI1 or SCSI2 device should just work (hard drives need to support asynch transfers. The ZIP drive does work... there are some tidbits you should be aware of... checkout the guide to the ZIP drive at: http://www.radical.com/TheHome/TheSolutions/RadicalSolution4.html TjL -- TjL <luomat@peak.org> http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/ Links to all things NeXTStep/OpenStep! Info, pictures, Ftp sites, FAQs and more.
From: dkramer@bifrostworks.com (Daniel L. Kramer) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Kensington trackball on black hardware Date: 29 Apr 1997 15:03:16 GMT Organization: The Black Box, Houston, Tx (713) 480-2686 Message-ID: <5k52jk$lt6@news.blkbox.com> References: <5k4aje$66i@cascade.cs.ubc.ca> In article <5k4aje$66i@cascade.cs.ubc.ca> rtam@cs.ubc.ca (Roger Tam) writes: > Hi everyone, > > I am currently using a Logitech bus mouse attached via an > adapter I bought from ComputerActive on my non-ADB Turbo. > The question is: has anyone successfully used a Kensington > Expert Mouse bus trackball with the ComputerActive MouseTail > adapter? > > Thank you for your replies, > > Roger Hi Roger - I don't know a whole lot about the specific issue, but I did sell a Kensington Exp. mouse last week. What they call the 'bus' version is really a serial mouse with a small serial card in the box (!). The connector is a std DB9 male plug, not a normal bus mouse DIN-variant. So, I kind of doubt it will work. However, the PS/2 version might work directly without an adapter. Hope this helps a little - Dan -- Daniel L. Kramer Bifrost Workstations, Inc. 10850 Richmond Ave., Suite 270 Houston, TX 77042 dkramer@bifrostworks.com
From: Claude.LeBerre@enst-bretagne.fr (Claude LE BERRE) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: hardware incomprehensible TRAP message Date: 29 Apr 1997 15:25:18 GMT Organization: ENST de Bretagne - France Sender: leberre@univers.enst-bretagne.fr (Claude LE BERRE) Distribution: world Message-ID: <5k53su$t3r@alfali.enst-bretagne.fr> Keywords: hardware trap message The message : trap: type 0x410 fcode 5 rw 3 faultadress 0xf04 trap: pc 0x0407b8ec sp 0x3ffe304 sr 0x2304 trap: cpu 0 th 0x10013c00 proc 0x10013580 pid 0 pcb 0x10013e00 appear on a random basis since I tried to install OpenStep 4.1 for Mach on our TurboColor NextStation. Is this a memory problem ?? or something else ?? I'll appreciate any information on the way to diagnose this message. Thanks. -- ======================================================================== Tel.(Int'l +33; F +0)298001259 | Telecopie/Fax(Int'l +33; F +0)298455133 Claude.LeBerre@enst-bretagne.fr http://www.enst-bretagne.fr/ TELECOM Bretagne, Technopole Brest-Iroise, B.P. 832, F-29285 BREST Cedex
From: blazek@stt.msu.edu (Rudolf B. Blazek) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: 64MB SIMMs in ADB NeXTstation Turbo Date: 29 Apr 1997 16:25:14 GMT Organization: Michigan State University Message-ID: <5k57da$qs3$1@msunews.cl.msu.edu> Hallo, would anyone know if it is possible to use 64MB SIMMs in ADB NeXTstation Turbo? I know that all the literature talks about 32MB SIMMs being the maximum, but 64MB SIMMS seem to be newer than the sources I read. Thanks. Rudy. blazek@stt.msu.edu
From: blazek@stt.msu.edu (Rudolf B. Blazek) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Jaz vs. SyJet for CD Mastering Date: 29 Apr 1997 16:39:30 GMT Organization: Michigan State University Message-ID: <5k5882$qs3$2@msunews.cl.msu.edu> Hallo, a friend told me that Jaz drive is useless when it comes to CD mastering due to some (hardware related - i.e. there is, according to my friend, no SCSI command to change the behavior) delays during reading the data from the disk. He wasn't certain what exactly the problem was, but he was sure that people had troubles of this kind with the Jaz. My question is if someone experienced a similar problem, and if someOtherOrTheSameOne could possibly comment on the use of SyJet for CD recording. Thanks. Rudy.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware From: dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca (David Evans) Subject: Re: Kensington trackball on black hardware Sender: news@novice.uwaterloo.ca (Mr. News) Message-ID: <E9Eo61.Jzv@novice.uwaterloo.ca> Date: Tue, 29 Apr 1997 15:25:13 GMT References: <5k4aje$66i@cascade.cs.ubc.ca> Organization: University of Waterloo In article <5k4aje$66i@cascade.cs.ubc.ca>, Roger Tam <rtam@cs.ubc.ca> wrote: >Hi everyone, > >I am currently using a Logitech bus mouse attached via an >adapter I bought from ComputerActive on my non-ADB Turbo. >The question is: has anyone successfully used a Kensington >Expert Mouse bus trackball with the ComputerActive MouseTail >adapter? > If the Kensington gizmo is a real bus mouse type of thing with the same pinout as a "real" bus mouse then I can't see there beeing any problem. The MouseTail is a really simply thing (no offense, Colin!) so it would be hard for things to go amiss. -- David Evans (NeXTMail OK) dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca Computer/Synth Junkie http://bbcr.uwaterloo.ca/~dfevans/ University of Waterloo "Default is the value selected by the composer Ontario, Canada overridden by your command." - Roland TR-707 Manual
From: emclean@slip.net (Emmett McLean) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Can I put an 040 motherboard into a 030 cube? Date: 29 Apr 1997 10:59:37 -0700 Organization: Slip.Net Message-ID: <5k5cu9$a1c@slip.net> Hi, Another way of asking the same question is : are the mother connectors in the 030 cube the same as those for an 040? Thanks, Emmett
From: mitchell.allen@worldnet.att.net Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Swapping Drives Date: Tue, 29 Apr 1997 15:04:50 -0400 Organization: AT&T WorldNet Services Message-ID: <mitchell.allen-2904971504500001@73.bridgeton-057.mo.dial-access.att.net> I have two questions: a) Is there a problem with taking the main boot drive from a Turbo Dimension Cube and putting it in a NeXTstation non-turbo mono. Here's the deal, I already did the switch and i want to know if I'm likely to have problems. :-) b) Is there an easy way to copy the developer information from one drive to another. I have 3.2 developer on a HD, but I don't have it on CD. I want it on another drive, but I don't want to build the entier disk. Thanks, Mitch
From: Radmilo Bozinovic <rasha@suc.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: NeXT and Apple OneScanner Date: Tue, 29 Apr 1997 10:41:09 -0700 Organization: Apple Computer, Inc. Message-ID: <336632B5.7B87@suc.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi all - is it possible to use a an Apple OneScanner (b/w) with a NeXT? Where can I find these drivers if they exist? Please send any answers also to the above address (rasha@suc.org). Thanks, -Radmilo Bozinovic PS I already posted this question on next.software, and got a single negative answer... lewanto@stan.donet.com >Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware > >I get numerous, random panics. Typical panic message reads: Memory >access error (1,1,e0284bf4). > >I am using the latest NS3.3 drivers, have isloated to running with >minimum H/W configuration - these make no difference. Have run Norton >Utilities from the Windows95 side, but can find no error in memory or >system. NextStep support forlks have been very helpful in guiding and >suggest that I have a hardware or hardware configuration problem. Here is a simple suggestion that may not be correct, but should be first thing to check because it is easy: Reseat all memory modules! After turning a machine off for a day or two last year, I had exactly the symptoms you describe. I also ran Norton Utilities without finding anything wrong with the memory. However, upon opening the box and pushing down on the SIMMS, it was clear that one could have been in further (I suspect the change in temperature when the machine was off caused the problem). Everything ran fine after that. The moral of this story is: If you want to test hardware, forget about toys like Norton Utilities -- try running a Unix kernel instead! -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, Sun) +1.773.702-1093 phone (lab) +1.773.667-5331 phone (home) +1.773.702-9740 fax
From: cbrooker@aol.com (CBrooker) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: FS: Compaq Armada 4130T Penyium 133 $2000 Date: 29 Apr 1997 20:15:53 GMT Organization: AOL http://www.aol.com Message-ID: <19970429201400.QAA26887@ladder01.news.aol.com> Pentium 133 Mhz, level 2 cache, 11.8" ctft active color display, 24 megs ram expandable to 48 megs, 1.08 gig hd, Li-ion battery, sound blaster sound. $2000 firm. references available. chris at the Park ave Trading Post 770-643-1135 cbrooker@aol.com here's more specs: Processor 133-MHz Intel Pentium with 256 KB level two write-back cache Architecture 64-bit CPU, cache and memory bus; 32-bit PCI local bus graphics Display/Graphics Armada 4130T: 11.8-inch color TFT with 800 x 600 resolution and 16-bit color (64K colors internal) 32-bit PCI local bus graphics with 1-MB EDO DRAM for video memory. Memory 24 megs Armada 4130 and 4130T: 1.08-GB Hard Drive Multimedia Compaq PremierSound for enhanced sterio audio including integrated 16-bit Sound Blaster Pro-compatible stereo audio, integrated stereo speakers and microphone, software volume control, stereo line in, headphone out, microphone in jacks, software MPEG, NTSC/PAL video output and Zoomed Video (hardware MPEG support); optional Mobile CD Unit provides Quad-Speed CD-ROM Drive, enhanced stereo speakers, MIDI/joy stick port, bay for an additional battery and Wave Table Synthesis PCMCIA Two Type II/One Type III PCMCIA Slot(s); with optional Compaq SpeedPaq 288 Telephony Modem, support for full-duplex speakerphone, telephone answering machine and switched voice/data is provided Infrared Communication Port IrDA-1 compatible Infrared Communication Port for wireless communication with other infrared equipped devices Power/Battery Life External AC Adapter weighing approximately 10 ounces allows simultaneous system operation and battery charge LiIon Handle Battery or LiIon DualBay Battery provide 2.5-3.5 hours of battery life; 7- 10 hours battery life can be achieved when using three LiIon batteries including standard handle battery and an optional Modular Battery in both the DualBay and Mobile CD Unit battery bay Integrated Pointing Device Standard Touchpad is fully interchangeable for optional Optical Trackball; simultaneous support for multiple pointing devices Keyboard 101-key compatible keyboard with isolated, inverted-T cursor control keys, and right control key, four user-programmable keys; special feature hot keys for instant access to power conservation, QuickLock/QuickBlank, toggle between internal, external, or simultaneous displays, speaker volume control and brightness Power Conservation Hibernation, Instant-On via Standby; pop-ups with three presets and one custom level of power conservation Dimensions (HxWxD) Standard Configuration: 1.49 x 11.6 x 10.3 in/3.78 x 29.46 x 26.16 cm Slimline Configuration: 1.49 x 11.4 x 8.8 in/3.78 x 28.96 x 22.35 cm Multimedia Configuration: 2.3 x11.6 x 10.3 x in/5.84 x 29.46 x 26.16 cm Weight Armada 4130T: Standard Configuration: 6.1 lbs/2.77 kg Slimline Configuration: 5.2 lbs/2.36 kg Multimedia Configuration: 8.2 lbs/3.72 kg Software Windows 95, Netscape, ESS Audio Rack, Lode Runner, Take Your Best Shot, Laplink, Just Connect, Compton's 1996 Reference Collection CD (with Mobile CD Unit) Interfaces Infrared (IrDA-1 compliant), enhanced parallel, serial, external SVGA monitor, keyboard/pointing device, AC adapter/automobile adapter, PCMCIA, NTSC/PAL composite TV out, microphone in, headphone out, stereo line-in Security Features Kensington lock support; power-on and set-up passwords; ability to disable serial port, parallel port, PCMCIA slots, diskette drive, diskette drive boot sequence, infrared port Service and Support CompaqCare provides a range of services, including a three-year*, worldwide limited warranty.
From: bestor@dpls.dacc.wisc.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Hsync of NeXT FIMI? Date: 29 Apr 1997 20:14:19 GMT Organization: University of Wisconsin, Madison Message-ID: <5k5kqr$113g@news.doit.wisc.edu> Anyone know the horizonal sync frequency of the NeXT FIMI monitor? The vertical is 68Hz, but what about the horizontal? Thanks! Please respond via email (I'm going to be of Usenet for a few days). - Gareth
From: knelson@cs.umn.edu (Kenneth Nelson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.marketplace Subject: WTB: Modem cable for NeXT Dimension - need advise Date: 29 Apr 1997 19:56:59 GMT Organization: University of Minnesota Message-ID: <5k5jqb$lld@epx.cis.umn.edu> Greetings, I want to buy modem cables for a NeXT Dimension (25 MHz) running OpenStep 4.0. I've studied NextAnswers, the FAQ, and the section on how to wire a mini-DIM 8 to DB-25 cable for NeXT computer in the sys. admin. manual. I have searched the FTP site, but... How do I _buy_ a modem cable? Who sells them? Or, am I forced to have it custom built to the specs in the sys admin book? Can I buy some other (say, Apple) cable that's wired correctly? Is there another source of information for this problem? This seems like FAQ material. Please advise or sell me your working cable which supports hardware flow control. Thanks for any help! Ken
From: sanguish@digifix.com (Scott Anguish) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Seagate 4Gb Drive now only a 2Gb drive - HELP! Date: 29 Apr 1997 20:52:59 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <5k5n3b$k3q$1@news.digifix.com> Major screwup on my part here.. I took my new 4Gb Seagate drive, and using sdformat, low-level formatted it with 1024-byte sectors. I then made a new disktab entry, and ran disk on it to create 3 partitions. So far no problem... I go to install OpenStep 4.x on it, and find that I have to have 512-byte sectors on the boot drive. Again, no problem, I'll just fix it. THINKING that the SCSISelect onboard format on my Adaptec drive will restore the drive to one massive beast with 512-byte sectors, I format it there. BOOM! Now I have a 512-byte sector drive that is just 2Gb (the size of the first partition).. How can I get this drive back to normal? To the factory defaults? Is there some other utility I can use (DOS/NT based is fine) to restore it? Or can I just pull the factory stats on the drive and make a new disktab and just reformat that puppy or what??? Help! Thanks Scott -- Scott Anguish <sanguish@digifix.com> NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Information <URL:http://www.stepwise.com>
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: 64MB SIMMs in ADB NeXTstation Turbo Date: Tue, 29 Apr 1997 13:15:54 -0700 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970429131137.17796A-100000@kira> References: <5k57da$qs3$1@msunews.cl.msu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII In-Reply-To: <5k57da$qs3$1@msunews.cl.msu.edu> Rudy -- there is a ^F and ^B in the from line of your posts... On 29 Apr 1997, it was written: > Hallo, > would anyone know if it is possible to use 64MB SIMMs in ADB NeXTstation > Turbo? I know that all the literature talks about 32MB SIMMs being the > maximum, but 64MB SIMMS seem to be newer than the sources I read. > > Thanks. I would doubt it would work... it might overload the motherboard... I've never heard of anyone having success with it, and I've heard the topic come up before, so my guess is that no, it isn't possible. The 64/simms may be newer than the lit, but that doesn't mean they are wrong ;-) TjL -- TjL <luomat@peak.org> http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/ Links to all things NeXTStep/OpenStep! Info, pictures, Ftp sites, FAQs and more.
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Jaz vs. SyJet for CD Mastering Followup-To: comp.periphs.scsi Date: Tue, 29 Apr 1997 13:22:50 -0700 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970429131908.17796B-100000@kira> References: <5k5882$qs3$2@msunews.cl.msu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII In-Reply-To: <5k5882$qs3$2@msunews.cl.msu.edu> Rudy -- there is a ^F and ^B in the From line of your posts Followups set to 'comp.periphs.scsi' On 29 Apr 1997, it was written: > > a friend told me that Jaz drive is useless when it comes to CD mastering due > to some (hardware related - i.e. there is, according to my friend, no SCSI > command to change the behavior) delays during reading the data from the disk. > He wasn't certain what exactly the problem was, but he was sure that people > had troubles of this kind with the Jaz. > My question is if someone experienced a similar problem, and if > someOtherOrTheSameOne could possibly comment on the use of SyJet for CD > recording. SyJet does have a way to turn off some sort of error checking that might be what holds up the Jaz drive. Why not ask 'sales@syquest.com' ? TjL -- TjL <luomat@peak.org> http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/ Links to all things NeXTStep/OpenStep! Info, pictures, Ftp sites, FAQs and more.
From: Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: 64MB SIMMs in ADB NeXTstation Turbo Date: Tue, 29 Apr 1997 16:59:09 -0400 Organization: Fifth yr. senior, Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Message-ID: <onNa4Ry00iVC8AlfUz@andrew.cmu.edu> References: <5k57da$qs3$1@msunews.cl.msu.edu> In-Reply-To: <5k57da$qs3$1@msunews.cl.msu.edu> Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.hardware: 29-Apr-97 64MB SIMMs in ADB NeXTstati.. by Rudolf B. Blazek) > would anyone know if it is possible to use 64MB SIMMs in ADB NeXTstation > Turbo? I know that all the literature talks about 32MB SIMMs being the > maximum, but 64MB SIMMS seem to be newer than the sources I read. They are newer, and the motherboard won't correctly recognize that memory. I believe that it doesn't attention to the data line on the SIMM for 64 MB, which means it'd probably treat it as a 1 MB SIMM. :-) -Chuck Charles Swiger | cs4w@andrew.cmu.edu | standard disclaimer ----------------+---------------------+--------------------- I know you're an optimist if you think I'm a pessimist.
From: "Rainer Hubovsky" <hubovsky@ci.tuwien.ac.at> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Intel or AMD Date: 29 Apr 1997 22:42:11 GMT Organization: Vienna University of Technology, Austria Message-ID: <01bc54ee$44a86ed0$0100007f@atlan> Hello! I want to buy a new processor but I'm not sure which one to take. The two alternatives I'm considering are an Intel Pentium 200 MMX and an AMD K6 200. The AMD is cheaper and I was told that it is a little bit faster than the Intel. Are there any know problems with an AMD under NeXtStep ? I would like to develop applications under NeXtStep, so it is rather important that I can rely on the processor. What do you think? Should I spend a little more money, buy an Intel and be on the save side or is it OK to take the AMD? Thanks. -r -- @ Rainer Hubovsky, hubovsky@ci.tuwien.ac.at @ @ Ferdinandstr. 29/15, A-1020 Wien @ Tel: +43 (1) 214 24 48 @ AirPage: +43 (1) 0688-42 24 502
From: mitchell.allen@worldnet.att.net Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.marketplace Subject: Re: WTB: Modem cable for NeXT Dimension - need advise Date: Tue, 29 Apr 1997 18:59:05 -0400 Organization: AT&T WorldNet Services Message-ID: <mitchell.allen-2904971859050001@31.bridgeton-058.mo.dial-access.att.net> References: <5k5jqb$lld@epx.cis.umn.edu> > I want to buy modem cables for a NeXT Dimension (25 MHz) running > OpenStep 4.0. I've studied NextAnswers, the FAQ, and the section on > how to wire a mini-DIM 8 to DB-25 cable for NeXT computer in the sys. > admin. manual. I have searched the FTP site, but... > > > How do I _buy_ a modem cable? Who sells them? > Somebody said they are available from Mac Connection, the mailorder house. You should be able to find the number in any Mac magazine or in your mailbox. I don't remember the part number. Actually, it isn't all that hard to roll your own cable. Just get an old imagewriter cable, an RJ45 connector, and one of those 25 pin connector kits with the RJ45 female in one end and the pins not installed in the 25 pin male on the other. Put the pins in the right place, look at the RJ45 and make sure you put the wires in it correctly from right to left, and zippo! you're done. You don't really have to use the RJ45 types, but I GUARANTEE you will mess up the pin outs and you can't get them back out once you push them in, so it is easier to just rearrange the wires on the RJ45 male. :-) Mitch
From: "Christian Jensen" <chrsjensen@worldnet.att.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.marketplace Subject: Re: Modem cable for NeXT Dimension - need advise Date: 30 Apr 1997 00:35:34 GMT Organization: AT&T WorldNet Services Message-ID: <01bc54fe$7eefc380$92ca92cf@default> References: <5k5jqb$lld@epx.cis.umn.edu> Check out http://www.deepspacetech.com. They sell NeXT modem cables. > > How do I _buy_ a modem cable? Who sells them? >
From: dental@precipice.com (Rick Sanford) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: So, 60 or 70ns RAM in Turbo? Date: 30 Apr 1997 00:45:13 GMT Organization: Dental Records[tm] Message-ID: <5k64mp$5ke@news1-alterdial.uu.net> References: <5k3ccb$dpr$1@news.jf.intel.com> <5k48ab$saj@news1-alterdial.uu.net> Cc: cdb@precipice.com In <5k48ab$saj@news1-alterdial.uu.net> christopher borden wrote: > In <5k3ccb$dpr$1@news.jf.intel.com> Scott M. Neal wrote: > > I've seen many posts regarding 60 vs. 70ns RAM in > > turbo NeXT hardware, but never a clean resolution... > > > > A few people have stated that the ROM monitor recognizes > > 60ns RAM on power-up, but is the hardware utilizing it at 60ns, > > 70ns, or 100ns? > > > > Just looking to up the RAM in my Turbo ADB Dimension Cube > > soon... > > > > Scott > > sneal@ichips.intel.com > > > i think i read here once that 60ns gets read as 100ns by nd. so i've been > using all 70's for mine, i hope for good reason. . . > > chris > cdb@precipice.com > > from the FAQ: 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 For maximum performance use 70 ns SIMMs: SIMMs rated at 80 or 100 ns will be detected upon powerup and the memory system clock slowed to 100 ns. Faster RAM than 70 ns won't give you a speed increase anymore. In fact it could slow things down again, because some hardware drives 60 ns RAM as 100 ns RAM. -rick
From: godwin@unixg.ubc.ca (Godwin) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: NeXT and Apple OneScanner Date: 30 Apr 1997 04:22:55 GMT Organization: University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., Canada Message-ID: <5k6hev$1sf$1@nntp.ucs.ubc.ca> References: <336632B5.7B87@suc.org> well because the answer is a simple negative answer?? the best bet is to go to places like Scan-o-matic and GSCorp... or if you are really good and have the specs .. Frank have a driver for the Mustek.. and I think the code is included.. (www.this.net) Godwin Radmilo Bozinovic (rasha@suc.org) wrote: : Hi all - : is it possible to use a an Apple OneScanner (b/w) with a NeXT? Where : can I find these drivers if they exist? Please send any answers also : to the above address (rasha@suc.org). : Thanks, : -Radmilo Bozinovic : PS I already posted this question on next.software, and got a single : negative answer...
From: "Stephen V. Roller" <sroller@worldnet.att.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.marketplace Subject: Re: Modem cable for NeXT Dimension - need advise Date: 30 Apr 1997 04:39:34 GMT Organization: AT&T WorldNet Services Message-ID: <01bc551f$ff251a20$1400000a@home-166> References: <5k5jqb$lld@epx.cis.umn.edu> <01bc54fe$7eefc380$92ca92cf@default> Christian Jensen <chrsjensen@worldnet.att.net> wrote in article <01bc54fe$7eefc380$92ca92cf@default>... > Check out http://www.deepspacetech.com. They sell NeXT modem cables. > > > > How do I _buy_ a modem cable? Who sells them? > > Hi Christian, Visit: http://www.radical.com/TheHome/TheSolutions/RadicalSolution6.html Then call somebody to build it for you. I called Diane at Cables to Go 1-800-826-7904 and asked her to build several for our Puget Sound NeXT Users Group. She charged only $12 per cable! Their web site is http://www.cablestogo.com Steve Roller Puget Sound NeXT Users Group http://www.seattle.net/~nextpsug
From: mario@gestel.it (Mario Mazzardo) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Support for IBM Thinkpad Date: 30 Apr 1997 14:05:47 +0200 Organization: GESTEL Italia srl Sender: mario@gestel.it (Mario Mazzardo) Message-ID: <5k7cir$9q3@mikasa.iol.it> I have a IBM Thinkpad 760ED and Openstep 4.1, configuring the drive 2522_IBMThinkPad760EDDisplayDriver.pkg.compressed after the boot the screen becames dark. Thank you Mario Mazzardo GESTEL Italia srl mario@gestel.it
From: mpaque@wco.com (Mike Paquette) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: So, 60 or 70ns RAM in Turbo? Date: 30 Apr 1997 08:14:12 -0700 Organization: Electronics Service Unit No. 16 Sender: mpaque@mpaque Distribution: world Message-ID: <5k7nk4$fj@mpaque.mpaque> References: <5k3ccb$dpr$1@news.jf.intel.com> In article <5k3ccb$dpr$1@news.jf.intel.com> sneal@ichips.intel.com (Scott M. Neal) writes: > I've seen many posts regarding 60 vs. 70ns RAM in > turbo NeXT hardware, but never a clean resolution... > > A few people have stated that the ROM monitor recognizes > 60ns RAM on power-up, but is the hardware utilizing it at 60ns, > 70ns, or 100ns? The hardware will run RAM it recognizes as 70 ns or faster at 70 ns, and slower RAM at 100 ns. All installed memory should be 70 ns or faster to get the 70 ns timing. -- Mike Paquette (mpaque@wco.com) Well, if there *were* anything to say, it would be with the understanding that the PR/Marketing people want to make the announcements on products, so anything I have to say wouldn't actually exist until after then, so what I might have to say now doesn't exist, and what I may say in future can't be said, so theoretically what exists, doesn't, for the immediate future. (With apologies to Joe Straczynski)
From: Jochen Klinke <jklinke@ucsd.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Jaz vs. SyJet for CD Mastering Date: 30 Apr 1997 15:22:11 GMT Organization: University of California at San Diego Message-ID: <5k7o33$dpo$1@news1.ucsd.edu> References: <5k5882$qs3$2@msunews.cl.msu.edu> Cc: blazek@stt.msu.edu In <5k5882$qs3$2@msunews.cl.msu.edu> Rudolf B. Blazek wrote: > > Hallo, > a friend told me that Jaz drive is useless when it comes to CD mastering due > to some (hardware related - i.e. there is, according to my friend, no SCSI > command to change the behavior) delays during reading the data from the disk. > He wasn't certain what exactly the problem was, but he was sure that people > had troubles of this kind with the Jaz. > My question is if someone experienced a similar problem, and if > someOtherOrTheSameOne could possibly comment on the use of SyJet for CD > recording. > > Thanks. > > Rudy. > We have been using Jaz drives for CD mastering on a 2x CDR under DOS (using Pscribe mastering software) with hardly any problems. I say hardly any, because bad Jaz media can cause the mastering to fail. I'm not sure if we've tried CD mastering to a 4xCDR, but I could try that and let you know. Regards, jk -- Jochen Klinke PORD 0230 email: <jklinke@ucsd.edu> Scripps Institution of Oceanography phone: 619-534-8029 La Jolla, CA 92093-0230 fax: 619-534-8509
From: Rudolf B Blazek <blazek@clunix.cl.msu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: So, 60 or 70ns RAM in Turbo? Date: Wed, 30 Apr 1997 11:54:21 -0400 Organization: Michigan State University Message-ID: <Pine.A32.3.91.970430114956.21048A-100000@clunix.cl.msu.edu> References: <5k3ccb$dpr$1@news.jf.intel.com> <5k7nk4$fj@mpaque.mpaque> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII In-Reply-To: <5k7nk4$fj@mpaque.mpaque> On 30 Apr 1997, Mike Paquette wrote: > In article <5k3ccb$dpr$1@news.jf.intel.com> sneal@ichips.intel.com (Scott > M. Neal) writes: > > I've seen many posts regarding 60 vs. 70ns RAM in > > turbo NeXT hardware, but never a clean resolution... > > > > A few people have stated that the ROM monitor recognizes > > 60ns RAM on power-up, but is the hardware utilizing it at 60ns, > > 70ns, or 100ns? > > The hardware will run RAM it recognizes as 70 ns or faster at 70 ns, and > slower RAM at 100 ns. All installed memory should be 70 ns or faster to > get the 70 ns timing. > The NeXT answers seem to say that you need exactly 70ns SIMMs (and that is what we did), but when removing the original memory that was put there by NeXT, it was 60ns, if I remember correctly. Someone posted here that mixing 60ns and 70ns SIMMs causes the real problems. That the mixed SIMMs could be recognized as 100ns SIMMs. But if you use 60ns only, you should be fine. Now, the last sentence is actually a question. Could someone confirm what I just wrote? I am going to buy some RAM myself and don't wanna get into troubles. I don't want 70ns SIMMs, but I'd get them if that was the only safe way. Thanks. Rudy blazek@stt.msu.edu
From: sneal@ichips.intel.com (Scott M. Neal) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: So, 60 or 70ns RAM in Turbo? Date: 30 Apr 1997 15:18:13 GMT Organization: Intel Development Labs, INTeL Corporation Message-ID: <5k7nrm$93p$1@news.jf.intel.com> References: <5k3ccb$dpr$1@news.jf.intel.com> <5k48ab$saj@news1-alterdial.uu.net> <5k64mp$5ke@news1-alterdial.uu.net> In article <5k64mp$5ke@news1-alterdial.uu.net>, Rick Sanford <dental@precipice.com> wrote: >from the FAQ: > > For maximum performance use 70 ns SIMMs: SIMMs rated at 80 or 100 ns > will be detected upon powerup and the memory system clock slowed to > 100 ns. Faster RAM than 70 ns won't give you a speed increase anymore. > In fact it could slow things down again, because some hardware drives > 60 ns RAM as 100 ns RAM. > >-rick Yeah, but I've received a few emailed replies from people with late model Turbo boards (mono/color station and cube) that report that the HW *does* correctly recognize 60ns SIMMs, and doesn't slow down to 100ns. I've also received replies from people with earlier turbo boards who say that 60ns SIMMs are not recognized. I'm assuming that since I have a ADB Turbo Cube board (just about the last NeXT cube board made), that I could get 60ns SIMMs and be off-and-running... Now to decide between parity vs. non- parity! Scott
From: kykim@access2.digex.net (Kevin Yungsun Kim) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: ESS1x88 Audio Driver problems Date: 30 Apr 1997 13:00:34 -0400 Organization: Express Access Online Communications, Greenbelt, MD USA Message-ID: <5k7tri$6on@access2.digex.net> Summary: sound works a few times, then stops Hi all, I'm using the ESS 1x88 driver on my Toshiba Portege 610CT (which has an ESS688 chip built-in) running NS 3.3. Sounds will play a few times, then stop. It then won't play any sounds until I power off and restart the machine. A restart won't fix it. I hate to have to power off my machine all the time to get sounds working. And I would really like to be able to play sounds. Anyone have any ideas? Thanks, -kevin
From: Scott Mewett <mewett@cisco.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Help!! Is my dimension broken. Date: Wed, 30 Apr 1997 10:03:41 -0700 Organization: Cisco Systems, Inc. Message-ID: <33677B6D.7092@cisco.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Please help. I get the following message when I boot up my cube with my Dimension board. Has the board died on me. This messages is being displayed on my color monitor that is hookedup to my dimension board. So the board must be working at least partially. The system goes through the normal boot sequence and gives this message just before it is supposed to switch to the logon screen. NeXTdimension Board in Slot 2: ROM Version 43, Memory Controller step 1, i860 C.1 16 mbytes of DRAM installed, NTSC Video configured callout_dispatch(289875328, 0x4067e7c, 290308096) panic: (Cpu 0) callout_dispatch NeXT ROM Monitor 3.3 v74 panic: NeXT Mach 3.3: Mon Oct 24 13:56:37 PDT 1994; root(rcbuilder):mk-171.9.obj~2/RC_m68k/RELEASE_M 68k panic> Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks Scott mewett@cisco.com
From: hketola@sms-usa.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: JAZ Drive on a 68K NeXT Date: Wed, 30 Apr 1997 10:12:15 -0700 Organization: Santa Monica Software, Inc. Message-ID: <MPG.dd11d4a4ffda149989684@news.leonardo.net> References: <E8oE2s.9B3@free.fdn.fr> <5jbuv7$f68@netnews.upenn.edu> Another possibility is this: Wall Street Journal reported a couple of days ago (on about 4/28/97) that "Iomega Corp. Jaz Storage Disk bought after March 24 recalled". In short, 75,000 Jaz disks are recelled because they contain an unreliable component that can damage data stored on disk. This may also explain why my new Jaz disks are behaving really erratically.... heikki ketola In article <5jbuv7$f68@netnews.upenn.edu>, larsen@math.upenn.edu says... > > I also just bought a Jaz drive for my NeXT cube. The three cartridges > I bought came pre-formatted for mac, but I reformatted them for NeXT. > I did this by choosing the initialization command from the workspace > (System 3.2). When the newfs command executed by the workspace failed, > I typed "newfs /dev/rsd3a Jaz" from the command line, where > "Jaz" is the name of the disktab entry I copied from the NextAnswers. > (The default command "newfs /dev/rsd3a" executed by the standard > initialization script uses the wrong disk geometry parameters.) > > Results: one of the three disks generated so many bad media errors > that it was unusable. An attempt to sdform it failed, thanks to > more media errors. A second disk generates bad media errors fairly > frequently: perhaps half a dozen per 100MB of data transferred. > The third generated only a single bad media error in a 700MB transfer > but also crashed the workspace once during the transfer. > > This doesn't seem like acceptable performance to me. Did I do something > wrong? Should I be using a different disktab, for instance? > Different cartridges? A different drive? MacConnection is willing > to replace any or all of the components but cannot advise on > non-Mac, non-PC systems. > > -Michael Larsen >
From: bestor@dpls.dacc.wisc.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Get one two headed system from 030 and 040 cubes ? Date: 30 Apr 1997 19:39:39 GMT Organization: University of Wisconsin, Madison Message-ID: <5k875r$21je@news.doit.wisc.edu> References: <5k7rrt$3ne@slip.net> emclean@slip.net (Emmett McLean) wrote: >I have both an 030/25 and an 040/25 cube and NS 3.3. >If I rip the motherboard out of the 030 and stick it >into the 040 can I get a two headed system allowing >the mouse to move windows from one monitor to another, No. To do anything you'll have to hack the backplane. Even then you wont have what you describe. >or will the monitors mirror each other? Nope. You'll have two separate Workspaces for two separate computers. All it really is are two computers running off the same power supply. Thats the extent of the integration. Sam Goldberger used to do dual-headed hacks for a price and included a utility that allowed you to display both Workspaces from a single monitor with two docks, probably via NXHosting or the like. However this only ran under NS2.1 and wasn't ported to 3.x. >If this can work, will NS take care of the set up on >boot and assign default ip addresses or do I have to >define some host names for the systems to communicate >before getting this to work? Is there a particular >way that one invokes the two headed behavior, say >to wake up the second monitor? Check the FAQ. It tells you what's involved in setting up a dual motherboard cube. Basically you'll boot the second 030 board over ethernet off the 040. If you want a real integrated dual-headed system buy a NeXTdimension board. Quite nifty! - Gareth
From: mpaque@wco.com (Mike Paquette) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Help!! Is my dimension broken. Date: 30 Apr 1997 13:23:06 -0700 Organization: Electronics Service Unit No. 16 Sender: mpaque@mpaque Distribution: world Message-ID: <5k89na$1an@mpaque.mpaque> References: <33677B6D.7092@cisco.com> In article <33677B6D.7092@cisco.com> Scott Mewett <mewett@cisco.com> writes: > Please help. I get the following message when I boot up my cube with my > Dimension board. Has the board died on me. > NeXTdimension Board in Slot 2: > ROM Version 43, Memory Controller step 1, i860 C.1 > 16 mbytes of DRAM installed, NTSC Video configured > callout_dispatch(289875328, 0x4067e7c, 290308096) > panic: (Cpu 0) callout_dispatch > NeXT ROM Monitor 3.3 v74 > panic: NeXT Mach 3.3: Mon Oct 24 13:56:37 PDT 1994; > root(rcbuilder):mk-171.9.obj~2/RC_m68k/RELEASE_M > 68k > > panic> This looks like an incompatability between the Mach device driver used to support the ND and the kernel. One way this problem has occured in the past is when someone installed the ND package from the floppy that shipped with the ND boards onto a NEXTSTEP 2.2 or later system. (The floppy was a driver intended for use with NEXTSTEP 2.1). To recover from this, or a corrupted driver, you can replace the corrupted NeXTdimension.psdrvr directory contents from your 3.3 CD-ROM. Try the following: * Boot the machine single user. During the boot process, immediately after the Testing System message is replaced by the Loading from disk message, hold down the Command bar and press the ~ key (without pressing Shift). On keyboards with two Command keys, hold down the right Command key and press the ~ key. This displays the ROM monitor window containing the prompt NeXT>. Start up the computer in single user mode by entering the command bsd -s * Once booted, you'll need to rename the NeXTDimension driver to keep it from being loaded. Mount the root filesystem read/write mount -o 'remount,rw' /dev/sd0a / Rename the driver directory: mv /usr/lib/NextStep/Displays/NeXTdimension.psdrvr /usr/lib/NextStep/Displays/NeXTdimension.broken * Mount your NEXTSTEP 3.3 CDROM and copy a fresh version over Mount the CDROM mount /dev/sd1a /CD Copy over the driver cp -r /CD//usr/lib/NextStep/Displays/NeXTdimension.psdrvr /usr/lib/NextStep/Displays/NeXTdimension.psdrvr * Halt and reboot the system -- Mike Paquette (mpaque@wco.com) Well, if there *were* anything to say, it would be with the understanding that the PR/Marketing people want to make the announcements on products, so anything I have to say wouldn't actually exist until after then, so what I might have to say now doesn't exist, and what I may say in future can't be said, so theoretically what exists, doesn't, for the immediate future. (With apologies to Joe Straczynski)
From: sanguish@digifix.com (Scott Anguish) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Continuing Harddrive Problems --- Date: 30 Apr 1997 21:37:58 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <5k8e3m$keu$1@news.digifix.com> Hello again.. I'm still having problems with my new 4.2 Gb Drive, (now a 2Gb drive).. To Recap I reformatted my new Seagate 4.2Gb Wide drive with 1024-byte sectors (no problem so far) and then tried to install OS 4.1 on it... It requires a 512-byte sector boot device. OK, no problem, I figure I can just reformat the drive using the Adaptec built in formatter. Bzzt. I now have a 2Gb drive.. :-( It looks like it ignores the change in size of the blocks and doesn't adjust the total available blocks. I've tried reformatting the drive with sdformat -b512, but no change.. The /usr/etc/scsimodes now reads... SCSI information for /dev/rsd0a Drive type: SEAGATE ST34371W 0484JD 512 bytes per sector 165 sectors per track 10 tracks per cylinder 5172 cylinder per volume (including spare cylinders) 62 spare sectors per cylinder 0 alternate tracks per volume 4457715 usable sectors on volume This is a little different than the numbers that I recall on the original 512-byte drive.. (184 for the sectors per track).. I don't suppose anyone has a new SEAGATE ST34371W with 512 sectors that they could SCSIMODEs for me do they? Also, once I determine the corrected values, how do I write them back to the drive? -- Scott Anguish <sanguish@digifix.com> NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Information <URL:http://www.stepwise.com>
From: dental@precipice.com (Rick Sanford) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: IDE drive on Canon object.station Date: 30 Apr 1997 22:50:06 GMT Organization: Dental Records (R) Message-ID: <5k8iau$t0@news1-alterdial.uu.net> References: <5k7rua$lsu@gold.tc.umn.edu> Cc: shan0029@gold.tc.umn.edu In <5k7rua$lsu@gold.tc.umn.edu> Sharad J Shanbhag wrote: > Is anyone using IDE drives on a Canon object.station 41? > Does the BIOS allow the use of drives larger than 500 MB? > > Why do I want to do this? The original quantum 500 MB > drive is ailing and I'd like to replace it. > I can get a 2.5 GB EIDE drive for the price of a > 1 GB SCSI drive. > > Many thanks, > Sharad > > ================================================================ > Sharad J. Shanbhag phone: (612) 626-9215 > Graduate Program in Neuroscience and fax: (612) 626-9201 > Department of Neurosurgery shanbhag@neuro.med.umn.edu > University of Minnesota (NeXT & MIME) sharad@next1.neuro.umn.edu > > the Canon object.station 31 was a 41 with a IDE istead of a SCSi wasn't it? I don't know that they changed anything else, I imagine (guess) it stil had the SCSI support on the motherboard? Anyway I haven't used an IDE drive on mine, so don't know the answer. I consider myself fortunate, apparently, that Ihave not (yet) had the problems others seem to have with my '41. I am however glad that: a) I have a backup b) drives are cheaper now than in 1995 when I bought it long range, I still hope I can squeeze a motorola PPC motherboard in there somehow. intel, aside!! -- Rick Sanford Dental Records[R] dental@precipice.com NeXTMAIL welcome http://www.precipice.com/~dental/ We're moving! Soon we'll be at: www.dentalrecords.com
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