Most operators for sites in the US express their download times in
terms of East Easternn Standard Time (EST) or GMT+6)...
As to where the sites you asked about are...:
SIMTEL20 - New Mexico (GMT+8)
WUARCHIVE - Washington state (GMT+9)
OAK - Oakland, California (GMT+9)
HOBBES (also known as FTP-OS2) - Arizona (GMT+9)
You might want to try getting files via your friendly TRICKLE site.
It's much quicker (usually)... I'll send instructions separately.
Regards,
Gregory Hicks
Editor, Info-IBMPC Digest
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Date: Thu, 01 Apr 93 14:49:06 MEX
From: Fernando Baz <SISOP03@unamvm1.dgsca.unam.mx>
Subject: Help on EMM386 and cabletron
Hello,
Recently, we have a problem running together EMM386 and Cabletron CSIPD_E pa
cket driver. When we try to run this drivers the machimne hangs and we have no
documentation regarding IRQs and Base memory utilized by EMM386, so we will app
reciate any help about this.
EMM386 we are using come with Microsoft Windows 3.1
Thank you in advance
Fernando Baz
sisop03@unamvm1.dgsca.unam.mx
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Date: Wed, 31 Mar 93 19:19:18 GMT
From: Raphael Mankin <raph@panache.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Divide overflow during boot (V93 #39)
This can be caused by having a block device driver whose blocksize is <32 bytes.
Don't ask me why - I discoverd it the hard way when writing some device drivers.
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Raphael Mankin Nil taurus excretum
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Date: Thu, 25 Mar 93 12:37:26 CST
From: PMRKIM@mizzou1.missouri.edu
Subject: Need Emergency Replacement Hard disk for a PS/2 N45SL Notebook
Help, I have a dead IBM PS/2 notebook (N45SL serial #23-05767) and
an angry executive. The notebook needs a new hard disk and we can't
find the part. IBM Customer Service has been hemming and hawing for
a week. The notebook is only 4 months old and has chronic problems.
I need either:
1) The phone number of someone with the replacement part (80Mb).
2) A recommendation for a good emergency notebook rental
establishment and their phone number.
I need an operable notebook within 48 hours. Please reply directly to
me. Thanks for your time.
Russell C. Ragar
Office Systems Specialist
Dept. of PM&R
University of Missouri-Columbia
Voice: (314) 882-3341
Fax: [314] 884=4540
Internet: pmrkim@mizzou1.missouri.edu
Bitnet: pmrkim@mizzou1
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Date: Wed, 17 Mar 93 19:13:02 -0500
From: "V. M. Turner" <bl502@cleveland.freenet.edu>
Subject: Need Help Solving A Compatibilty Problem
The following is a copy of an e-mail message I was going
to upload to Seagate Technologies to see if they might have a
suggestions for me . Any ideas would be appreciated .
Please tell me where I might post a question about a problem I'm hav-
ing with a 286 computer and a Seagate ( ST-225 ) 20 MB hard drive ? I will
briefly state my troubles and I'll be more than happy to expand or try any
solution someone has to offer . Since it is difficult for me to dial-in I
would appreciate an answer sent to my e-mail address that I have included at
the end of this message .
I have a 286 system made by Unisys ( PW2-500-12MHz ) that refuses to
recognize the hard drive at all . During the POST ( power on self test ) , if
I have included a drive type for the ST-225 , the system will completely
freeze up . There is an on board MFM controller which will not even time the
system out if it freezes during the POST . If I use a controller card ( an
Everex - BIOS chip # EV-349-02 ) , it will at least time the system out so and
allow me to press the F1 key to continue . This makes me think that the on
board controller could be bad but I don't have the diagnostic software to say
that for sure .
Oh yes , the BIOS chip was made by Mitsubishi in 1989 , and the system
has a Phoenix BIOS Plus 286/386 -- 3.10 . I included this information because
the system is so old that it uses a setup disk in order to change the CMOS .
Maybe Seagate drives won't work with this unit or maybe someone in your shop
might remember if I need to take special measuers in order to use this hard
drive in this system .
One more thing , if the hard drive is selected in the CMOS , and I
have to use the F1 key after the system times out , the diagnostic program
claims that it can't low-level format the drive because of a calibration
error . Both " Check It" and the system diagnostic program claim that the
drive is a non-DOS drive , and " Check It " and another hard disk utility wil
not low-level format the drive . I get " BIOS error 170 " . Does it sound as
if I have a compatibility problem and if not any suggestion would be helpful .
In case you wondering , the drive works perfectly in another system
that has an AMI BIOS , I know the cables are okay , as well as the controller
cards .
Thanks Again . bl502@cleveland.freenet.edu
( V. M. Turner )
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Date: 18 Mar 1993 11:29:37 -0700 (MST)
From: RAY VAN HOOGEN <RCVH@nauvax.ucc.nau.edu>
Subject: OLD HD - NEW PC
I am trying to get a Seagate ST-225 mfm hard drive to new 8088
mother board. The old board just had a broken keyboard connecter but everything including the drive worked fine. When I installed it on the new board, I ran
fdisk and high level formated the drive after running the low level format
program on the controller's ROM-BIOS. Now whenever I copy anything to the
drive and then read it back there are errors. When I look at the directory
it appears scrambled. When I run a hard disk diagnostics program, however
, it cannot find any problems, even when performing read-write tests on every
sector. By the way, my controler is a WD-GEN clone. Does anyone have any
Ideas?
P.S. This is my first time sending to this list so if I need to change
anything, someone please let me know.
Ray Van Hoogen
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Date: Mon, 15 Mar 93 00:37:55 EST
From: matthew newcomb <IQM139@uriacc.uri.edu>
Subject: Problems with windows 3.1
G'day,
I recently upgraded to windows 3.1. BUT, I am having alot of problems
getting some of by 3.0 software to work. The ones I am most worried about
are the Tutorial for Aldus Freehand and Pagemaker(I teach computer education).
When the tutorial starts it says error in module TBOOK! Ack, what to do?
