What is the last MacOS system that shipped on 360kB floppies ?
I’m having a lot of trouble to find somewhere a copy of the original MacOS system.
I’ve got an old Mac model A, that came out in 1984, but no Operating System.
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FibreChannel Controllers
Has anybody got FibreChannel controllers out there ? What kind do
you have, are they expensive. Let’s say that I’m interested in your
comments about FibreChannel controllers and the corresponding
harddrive.
If someone could also post some Adaptec SCSIbench results
for FibreChannel drives, it would be an interesting read.
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(S1668) Bios 4.0 Evaluation for 3940UW & Dual PPro NT Kernel
The suspense is over, I was able to remove the Bios 4.0Eval. But it
tooks some tries. when I was trying to install a previous Bios it
just would hang on the load of the Bios from the disk. Only
reinstalling Bios 4.0E went alright. Then I tried :
awdflash ntmaw40e /Py /Sn /CC
I rebooted the system. It had lost all it’s CMOS settings (disk,time,
powersaving,chipset,pnp). Then I was able to install a previous Bios.
In the meantime I had asked my HW supplier to send me a new Bios
and I received a floppy this morning with two Bios that are NOT
on Tyan’s ftp/web site.
Information I collected on the floppy my HW supplier send me
to fix my Award Bios problem. The person I talked with on the phone
wasn’t very clear, but this revision of the Bios should be fixing
the problem the Tyan S1668 and Award BIOS has with the DEC chip on
the Adaptec 3940UW PCI Bridge. I’ll try to install this Award Bios
that I would call version 2.2a, as it’s more recent than the 2.2
file NTMAWD22.BIN, but it uses the same BIOS revision dated 06/14/96.
If you want I can make this Bios available to you.
I installed this Award Bios 2.2a on my Tyan S1668 board. And it fixed
my Bios 4.0E bug under 95 where the mouse corrupts the screen and my
Matrox Millenium wasn’t recognized anymore.
I will try to reinstall Windows NT 4.0 workstation once I get my
PCI and it’s PnP IRQ settings under control again. ( I don’t
understand
how these IRQ are assigned under PCI)
Below are some researches I did earlier today about the different
Bioses and checksums on them.
Erik Bussink
er…@iprolink.ch
REFERENCES :
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BIOS for Tyan S1668 Checksum codes
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Award Bios is composed of an LHA original.tmp file and extra code.
I guess the real bios is in the original.tmp file, and the outer
shell of the .BIN file
Filename Checksum Date
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ftp.tyan.com/bios/natoma/Ami
S1668P.ROM EE3C 10/28/96
ftp.tyan.com/bios/natoma/Awd
NTMAWD20.BIN DCFF 06/13/96
ORIGINAL.TMP 9772 06/13/96-i440FX-2A69HT5JC-00.0000C-00
NTMAWD21.BIN AD6C 06/14/96
ORIGINAL.TMP 9460 06/14/96-i440FX-2A69HT5JC-00.0000C-00
NTMAWD22.BIN C7DD 06/27/96
ORIGINAL.TMP 9460 06/14/96-i440FX-2A69HT5JC-00.0000C-00
NTMAW303.BIN ADE1 10/31/96
ORIGINAL.TMP BAA6 10/21/96-i440FX-2A69HT5JC-00.0000C-00
ftp.tyan.com/bios/natoma/Eval
NTMAW40E.BIN 51B0 02/20/97
ORIGINAL.TMP 52CF 02/19/97-i440FX-2A69HT5JC-00.0000C-00
My HW Supplier has given me these files, one Award Bios and an
AmiBios.
S1668.ROM 9121 10/16/96
ORIGINAL.TMP 9460 TYN TITAN-PRO V2.2 6/24/96
06/14/96-i440FX-2A69HT5JC-00.0000C-00
Award Decompression Bios
Award BootBlock Bios v1.0
S1668P1.ROM CE96 10/11/96
AMIBIOS C0625
NAMIBOOT.ROM
1MW_10_TYNS1668 07/15/95
This following part has been taken from Tyan’s
ftp.tyan.com/bios/natoma/tprolog.doc file.
S1662/68 TITAN-PRO BIOS LOG
AWARD BIOS
First release:
Date Filename Banner
6/12/96 NATOMA10.BIN TYN TITAN-PRO V1.00 5/20/96
Problem found:
1. M.S. MPS version 1.1 non compliant
2. Interupter abnormal high with configuration of
(WINNT, DP, SCSI HDD)
3. NCR875 Card not work
Second release:
Reason: Fix problem (1 & 2)in 1st release, and work with ECN96004.
Date Filename Banner
6/27/96 NTMAWD22.BIN TYN TITAN-PRO V2.2 6/24/96
Problem found:
1. In WinNT, can’t load VGA driver for Trident & Ali VGA
cards.
( When Video RAM Cacheable & CPU_to_PCI Write Post
is enabled)
2. Adaptec 2940 SCSI card not boot WinNT DP system in 5th PCI
slot. (AMI BIOS OK)
3. PCI cards only assign 4 IRQ #
(1 & 5 PCI slot are hardware connected)
4. Fast Dram Refresh switch in chipset feature make the
performance low.
5. With a Diamond Stealth 64 VRAM card, under DOS run PCI.EXE,
the VGA card info been shown for hundred times.
6. Memory count only up to 256MB
7. IRQ 14 & IRQ 15 Can not be released. ( Triton HX BIOS
before
4/25 are OK)
8. Toshiba X6 CD ROM fail install WinNT ?
Note: 1. NTMAWD30.BIN is the same one as v2.2, but take off low
level format
option witch not function.
2. New BIOS received at 7/18/96, which can support Memory up
to
512MB or beyond, has NCR875 chip support.
Third release:
Release reason: Has better performance, 512MB memory support, IRQ15 &
14
cab be
released from CMOS setup.
Date Filename Banner
10/31/96 NTMAW303.BIN TYN TITAN-PRO V3.03 10/31/96
Problem remain:
1. SCO Unix SMP fail with SCSI system.
2. Performance low with Adaptec AHA3940 & AHA3985 under Win95
& winNT.
3. 5PCI slot not work with Adaptec AHA2940UW & Bustek KT-930
cards
under WinNT4.0
4. When put a AHA2940UW or KT-930 on the board, then PCI lan
cards will
not work on 5th PCI slot.
5. APM12. not ready.
6. USB not ready.
AMI BIOS
No formal release up to 7/18/96
(Has 1 evaluation BIOS on BBS: NTMAMIE1.ROM 05/29/96)
Receive a new BIOS at 7/18/96, witch support DMI, and work
with ECN 96004. Need testing.
Evaluation release:
Date Filename Banner
10/3/96 S1668E.ROM Eval…..
Note:
1. Has DMI support.
2. No USB support.
3. APM1.2 not verified.
First release:
Date Filename Banner
10/25/96 S1668P.ROM TYN TITAN-PRO V3.00 10/25/96
Note:
1. Has DMI support.
2. No USB support.
3. APM1.2 not ready.
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(S1668) Bios 4.0 Evaluation for 3940UW & Dual PPro NT Kernel
This all started with the Titan Pro S1668 ATX Motherboard with a Dual
PPro configuation, NT 4.0 and the Adaptec 3940UW.
It would not recognize the second SCSI channel of the 3940UW under
NT 4.0 and Windows 95 OSR2.
At 00:55 04/03/97 +0100, Juan Altmayer Pizzorno wrote:
>There is a new AWARD BIOS file under
> ftp://ftp.tyan.com/bios/natoma/eval
>Apparently this is a pre-release of the “TYAN TYN 4.0”. Anybody
>willing to give it a try? My diskette drive seems to have died
>over this last weekend, so I can’t…
>.. Juan
Here goes …
WARNING !!! I installed BIOS 4.0E and I cannot move back to 3.03 !!!!
1)
Installation of the BIOS went without problems, but it changed one
setting for sure, the Boot setting. It would not boot directly from
the floppy, and I had to change the settings. Look at all those
nice settings: A,C,D,SCSI,CDROM
The ‘Verifying DMI Pool Data’ wasn’t present before (I think).
2)
Installing the NT Server 4.0 (1381) with the BIOS 4.0E 2/19/97 on a
Dual PentiumPro/256kb brings up a Blue Screen as below when the
screen resolution changed and the real NT kernel is activated
(screen shows version,memory,build)
-BlueScreen—————————————————————-—
Microsoft (R) Windows NT (TM) Version 4.0 (Build 1381).
1 System Processor [96 MB Memory] MultiProcessor Kernel
*** STOP: 0x0000000A (0x0000AB74,0x00000002,0x00000001,0x801DD1DE)
IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL*** Address 801dd1de has base at 801d7000 –
hal.dll
CPUIP:GenuineIntel 6.1.7 irql:2 SYSVER 0xf0000565
Dll Base DateStmp – Name Dll Base DateStmp – Name
80100000 3202c097 – ntoskrnl.exe 801d7000 31f578cb – hal.dll
8020b000 31f51355 – setupdd.sys 80065000 31ec792d –
SPDDLANG.SYS
80001000 31f8ff94 – pcmcia.sys 8023f000 31ec6c74 –
SCSIPORT.SYS
8000b000 31ec6c6d – vga.sys 80252000 31ec6c90 –
i8042prt.sys
80258000 31ec6c94 – kdbclass.sys 8025b000 31eedd07 –
fastfat.sys
Address dword dump Build [1381] – Name
8014ab00 801dd1de 801dd1de 806aeb60 806ae933 8069bb68 8011595e –
hal.dll
8014ab10 8011595e 8011595e –
ntoskrnl.exe
Restart …
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3)
Installing the NT Workstation 4.0 (1381) with the BIOS 4.0E 2/19/97 on
a Dual PentiumPro/256kb in the same conditions as just above gives the
same result : Blue Screen with different settings for the memory
allocations. Should be insteresting to see if NT 3.51 crahses as well.
4)
Booting with the Windows 95 OSR2 system already caused some graphics
problems, but they might have come from the fact that I interupted
95 in it’s boot process twice the hard way.
4.0E seems to allow the using of the USB port. But having two Matrox
Millenium screws up the IRQ settings. It would be nice to have a
setting to choose which IRQ the Serial Bus would use. I might need
to remove one.
At this stage I cannot move back to the BIOS 3.03 !!!!!
more adventures to follow very soon…
[Later…]
My adventures in BIOS land continue…
There is a new Award Flash Utility, but you can’t find it on
Tyan’s site nor on Award. I found it on http://soyo.com.tw/bios.htm
page. It’s the Award Flash Utility 5.33 writer. The directory also
contains a DMICFG program for DOS. Interesting.
The upgrade to BIOS 4.0E has completly screwed up my Windows 95 OSR2
graphic part. It will not detect my Matrox Millenium card anymore
(I even removed the second card as it was conflicting with the USB)
NT 4.0 (srv & wks) still crashes during the second setup disk.
And I cannot move back from the 4.0E Bios to the 3.03 Bios. Maybe
the Award Flash program doesn’t allow the move back to a older
BIOS revision.
Well I’m going to call my motherboard supplier for a new Bios chip.
Tape driver for DEC TLZ04 wanted Options
el…@tellus.thn.htu.se (Klas Elmby) wrote:
>I have seen several messages over the years requesting a driver for the TLZ04.
>I wonder if anybody has been able to find such a driver, I realy need it for
>my tape drive. If it is available somewhere out there please let me know…
As far as I know, there is NO driver for the TLZ04. Drivers exist for
the next DAT drives from Digital. I guess no one wrote a driver for a
product that wasn’t sold anymore. I even tried to find such a drive on
Digital’s internal network and Notes group.
Stop services
I want to stop some services on my NT machine. Now I know for example
that the FTP Service requires the NET STOP FTPSVC command, but
how can I find the command for EventLog, Spooler and other services.
I tried looking into the registry and stoping the corresponding
programs using the NET STOP command, but no luck.
Oh, and I know how to stop them using the Control Panle, but I need
to put them into a batch file, as I don’t want to stop 20 services
just to write a CD.
Erik Bussink
2 HTTP servers (domains) on 1 machine?
st…@SilkPresence.com (Pete Storm) wrote:
> They will have two different domain names but he really wants them to
> run on the single machine. Is this possible? I’d hoped one could simply
> change the port it’s listening on and run multiple copies of the web server,
I’m running now the EMWAC HTTPS 0.96 server on port 8080, and I’m now
testing the Alibaba beta 4 on port 80, both servers work fine on the same
machine. But getting two copies of HTTPS to work on the same machine ?
I would not know…
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Windows Resizing (granularity) Problem in NT 3.5 & SP2
Suddenly I’ve got this weird Resize problem. I didn’t have it until a couple
of hours ago. I didn’t install anything new and even tried to reboot
the machine since to get rid of the problem.
What happens is if I now try to resize any window on my machine, I can only
increase/decrease it in huge quanity of pixels… If I open the notepad it’s a
1/4 screen window, and I can only expand it horizontaly to full width
or vertically to full height. And now that I think of it, it seems that earlier in
the day, my sizing was already getting worse, my windows resizing was only
able to move in steps of 20 pixels… maybe it’s the Graphic card that has a
problem (heat?). I tried to switch off the machine to cool it down, but that didn’t
help. I tried installing back a simple graphic driver like VGA instaed of the
Western Digital 90C31 driver, to see if the problem is related to the driver,
but that is not the case. I even tried botting with Windows 95, but there I
cannot replicate the problem, everything seems fine. I kind of baffled…
Any help is appreciated…
Erik Bussink 08-Apr-1995
As I had problems send this mail, I try to fix it myslef, and I found the
answer. Because some other people might get it, I put a post here with the
Microsoft knowledge base answer. Just go to the Desktop in the Control Panel
and set the granularity to 1, et voila….
Erik Bussink 09-Apr-1995
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The information in this article applies to:
– Microsoft Windows NT Workstation version 3.5
– Microsoft Windows NT Server version 3.5
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SYMPTOMS
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After you update Windows NT version 3.5 to Service Pack 2, the Granularity
value for Sizing Grid changes when you choose Desktop in Control Panel, log
off and log back on, and choose Desktop in Control Panel again. The
Granularity value in Desktop of Control Panel increases in increments of 8.
For example, if Granularity is set to 1, it changes to 8 the next time you
choose Desktop in Control Panel after you log off and log back on (and from
8 to 64 even though the maximum value for Granularity is 49).
CAUSE
=====
This problem only occurs if you choose Desktop in Control Panel after each
successive logon.
STATUS
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Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in Windows NT version 3.5. A
fix to this problem is in development, but has not been regression-tested
and may be destabilizing in production environments. Microsoft does not
recommend implementing this fix at this time. Contact Microsoft Product
Support Services for more information on the availability of this fix.
KBCategory: kbenv kbbug3.50 kbfix3.50
KBSubcategory: ntconfig
Additional reference words: prodnt 3.50
—
Erik Bussink, Final Year Computer Science Student in Brunel University, UK
cs91…@brunel.ac.uk or http://http2.brunel.ac.uk:8080/~cs91eeb/
And for local users in Brunel, http://mipc-15.brunel.ac.uk:8080/home.html
unexpected startcode 000001b7 in system layer
While trying out the latest VMPEG 1.5 player with a sample mpeg movie,
I get this message “unexpected startcode 000001b7 in system layer”, any idea
what can be done to fix it ? MS Knowledge Base has no related document.
File river.mpg with settings : ‘Audio (level 2) & Video (8bit) & WinG’
or settings : ‘Audio (off) & Video (Gray) & No WinG’, gives the same result.
“unexpected startcode 000001b7 in system layer”
Audit file/dir under NT 3.5
I know how to set the auditing of files & directories, but where & how can I see the results of these autitings ? The event viewer ? File manager ?
Running Windows NT 3.5 Workstation with FTP & HTTP Services