Re: FLM dsk
On Fri, 7 Sep 2001 11:33:10 +0100 , you wrote: OK then. I'll start working on it in a couple of weeks time when I get myself a half-decent PC with linux on it... Any chance of looking at some source code that deals with the SAM disk layout (especially the data manipulation parts)? the actualy linuxy bits should be a peice of cake... :) (...famous last words from a professional linux driver writer). If all goes well, theoretically, we should be able to mount standard .dsk files as loopback devices, aswell. Then again, that also depends on the format for .dsk! That would be so cool .dsk's are just sector by sector disk images arnt they, straight from a dd command ? Then the next stage is to get it incorporated into the stock kernel, just like adfs etc... =o) -- Dean Liversidge [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Quiet round here
On Wed, 05 Sep 2001 03:49:43 +0800, you wrote: br br br br is it cold over their Simon ??? ;o) -- Dean Liversidge [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Who's Ken Elston?
On Wed, 15 Aug 2001 22:17:43 -0700, you wrote: ... and on that note... what's everyone up to these days? I'm writing photo editing software for Sierra, having just finished working on Generations back in December (woohoo! we're the top Sierra/Vivendi productivity title in the UK!!!). Currently I'm trying to work out if I can use DirectDraw to do a photoeditor. Might be fun - and very very snappy :) Beat that, oh Apple Benchmarketers :) I'm Sys/Network Admin for a company called Insight, and were currently in the middle of a move to Sheffield, into the server room space of PlusNet, our sister company, so that means plent of late nights for me moving servers around and sorting all that type stuff out :(... but a nice connection to the internet ;o) -- Dean Liversidge [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Old faithful topics (Was Re: No Subject)
On Mon, 13 Aug 2001 21:17:10 +0100, you wrote: Mr Door and your sam-users Real Names List of legend - are you still around? Aye, still here :-) Haven't done one of the Real lists for a while - I'll have to see if I have the old Access database knocking around... Dan. Is he still on AOL ... ? who sam-users Members of list 'sam-users': ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] ...? -- Dean Liversidge [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Old faithful topics (Was Re: No Subject)
On Tue, 14 Aug 2001 00:30:40 +0100, you wrote: Dean Liversidge wrote: Is he still on AOL ... ? who sam-users Members of list 'sam-users': ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] That one's Robert Wilkinson's address... Si ahh... i thought the posting were too friendly ;o) -- Dean Liversidge [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Virus sent!
On Mon, 25 Jun 2001 20:58:31 +0200, you wrote: Hello Chris! Have just downloaded Antivir (www.antivir.de), a german virus/worm checker which is absolutely free. After installing it has found 14 !!! destroyed files and 3 virus/hybrids. One from Windows 95. This program is absolut a brill!!! I hope, I am now free from any virus. All Wsock32.dll was infected, which means, that after any new start new senseless files length 0 and more would be produced. I have dropped my OLD Norton Anti Virus 2000 now into the litter. And when was the last time you updated your virus definition files ??, the hybris virus is not far off a year old You will find that as long as you keep your definitions upto date NAV will provide excelent protection for your system but the best protection you can use is your own vigilance and common sence, after a virus executable has to be executed to affect your system, unfortunatly many mail readers lend themselves to running some code as soon as you open an email, tho nearly all virus files are attachemnt in the email that you must run manually, so its down to the person opening the emails to know and understand what they are opening But i must say, im all infavour of free software, unfortunatly this one isnt, i think you mean www.free-av.de But unfortunatly this one isnt 'Richard Stallman' Free :) -- Dean Liversidge [EMAIL PROTECTED]
X SimCoupe
Did anyone ever update Alan's X version of SimCoupe, i fancy having another look at it, but Alans pages are dead now, i guess he's lost his account, and i never archived them of i dont think :( -- Dean Liversidge [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Where are YOU now?
On Wed, 24 Jan 2001 09:35:52 +0100 (MET), you wrote: On Tue, 23 Jan 2001 19:45:38 + Dean Liversidge [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Although i use my system a lot at home, the chance of me having a drive fail, is very very slim, if they fail, they do it straight away, or last for years, even tho my system is usually on 24/7, its still not a big issue. Actually, running 24/7 is usually better for mechanical equipment like hard drives. -Frode yeah, i think your right, tho some may disagree, hmm... MS sprint to mind, ... no i dont want to power save my hard drive every 15 mins arghhh =o) -- Dean Liversidge [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re:
On Tue, 23 Jan 2001 00:04:50 -, you wrote: anyone archiving messages? i seem to have missed the recent ones Cookie posted? ive got most of them, which do you want? -- Dean Liversidge [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Where are YOU now?
On Wed, 24 Jan 2001 21:06:20 +0100, you wrote: How can it increate a probility of a disk crash? Is it just because of using two disks? Is so, it is a nonsense. No. Disks come with a MTBF. If you add disks, this MTBF remains (almost) constant. The MTBF of the entire raid will then decrase when the number of disks increase. I wrote this already, so just for completeness: Higher data loss probability is caused by usage of two disks. It has nothing to do with RAID. If you use two disks without RAID0, you have the same data loss probability. you may have the same data loss probability per disk, but the RAID system creates 1 logical disk out of many physical disks, therefor, the probablity has to be worked out accros the one logical disk, because the data is split up accross the many disks, and cannot be recovered (from RAID 0) if any one drive fails in effect the probability of 1 drive maybe 1in10years, but that one drive is only 1/n of the single logical drive, n being the number of drives in the RAID array. 10 Drives set as RAID 0 failure rate of each individual drive = 1in 10 years 1 drive = 1/10 of logical drive each 1/10th of the logical drive has a probabilty of failure of 1/10yr 10 drives * 1/10 fails = 10/10 = 1/1 failure per year its all probability/statistics, and you can even get the chance of disk failure within the next 10 seconds as high 50% --- either it does or it doesnt !! same as the dice: As a second example, consider this. What's the probability of rolling a 6on a single dice? It's 1/6 , right? either you do roll a 6 or you dont :) one thing is fact, hard disks *do* fail, when is often not important, the fact that you can carry on when they fail maybe more important in some situations, i.e. business.. yes, home.. not usually I don't have a bus. I can't afford it. me niether, but i bet it'd be pretty cool going to work in your own bus :) Have you ever heard about backuping? I practise this for years, and it helped me much! Oh yes, but that doesnt recover the data since the last backup, ie the current days work :) In my work as a administrator I have experienced about 15 disk crashes - ~10 of which were cheap PC IDE drives. 3-4 SCSI and one FW disks. -Frode Oh, we don't use neither RAID nor UPS at work. I wonder why, but I can't change it. :-( oh well, your time will come ;o) -- Dean Liversidge [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Where are YOU now?
On Tue, 23 Jan 2001 09:12:30 +0100 (MET), you wrote: On Mon, 22 Jan 2001 21:21:20 +0100 Aley Keprt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: However, there is no redundancy in a RAID0 set, hence it's more commonly referred to as striping. Actually, introducing RAID0 increases the probability of a disk crash (and hence data loss without propper backup) by the increase in disks. -Frode What a theory is this?! No theory - simple math. How can it increate a probility of a disk crash? Is it just because of using two disks? Is so, it is a nonsense. No. Disks come with a MTBF. If you add disks, this MTBF remains (almost) constant. The MTBF of the entire raid will then decrase when the number of disks increase. 450MB means it can possibly fill my memory 5 times per second :-))) Provided your bus can handle it Yeah, thats true, but for my home system, i'm not too concened about redundency, although this m/board can do raid0+1, but i backup a few of the things i want to keep, erm... sometimes g its not worth the cost of loosing the extra disks, most stuff i can re-install it feels good ahinve it tho ;o), win2k boots nice and quick, and ive got loads of space to put my sam images What data loosing are you talking about? I think hard drive failure is not a common problem (compared e.g. to strange problems of M$ Anything enter any year here) Or not? If you believe that, you have not been exposed to any real life disk crashs. If you have one or two disks you will rarely experience any disk crash. However, as you add drives, the total MTBF quickly decrements. That is why RAID was invented in the first place (keepign RAID 0 out of it). In my work as a administrator I have experienced about 15 disk crashes - ~10 of which were cheap PC IDE drives. 3-4 SCSI and one FW disks. -Frode Although i use my system a lot at home, the chance of me having a drive fail, is very very slim, if they fail, they do it straight away, or last for years, even tho my system is usually on 24/7, its still not a big issue. the problem of data recovery in event of failure is a lot worse with RAID, but hell, its only like the time i booted to command prompt in windows and wanted to format a floppy, so i did the usual : format c: /u/q/s, then it asked my if i'm sure... durr.. of course i'm sure, i wouldnt have typed it if i wasnt. oh shit!!!... my floppy isnt 8,095 MB !! oops ;o), i think i'm a bit _too_ used to trashing systems at work and re-installing I was going to have a go at recovering the file system but decided it wasnt worth the hassle, especially since i put the system files on there aswell Any stuff i loose is just tough luck, thats the compromise of increase in speed. everything in lifes a compromise :o) Weve been fairly lucky at our place, i havnt had too many disks die so far on the servers, mainly a few SCSI ones, but they were in the the mail server, the system wasnt really too high quality on the cooling front, there was once ,when one of the drives was getting hammenerd that much, that it keeled the linux box with loads of scsi bus errors, and i had to down the server, hold it with the case off for about 5 minutes infront of the air-conditioning, to cool it down, then boot it back up again.. worked a treat . :) -- Dean Liversidge [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Where are YOU now?
On Thu, 18 Jan 2001 12:19:18 +0100 (MET), you wrote: On Thu, 18 Jan 2001 09:30:38 +0100 Aley Keprt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is RAID 0 really two times faster? Depends, but there is usually always a certain amount of loss in multiplicator effect, but for all practical purposes it's twice as fast if you substitute one disk for two using RAID0. Provided, of course that there is enough bandwith on the bus and the CPU/RAM can keep up. However, there is no redundancy in a RAID0 set, hence it's more commonly referred to as striping. Actually, introducing RAID0 increases the probability of a disk crash (and hence data loss without propper backup) by the increase in disks. -Frode Well, i wouldnt say twice as fast, a lot of it depends on the applications your running, but its definatly an improvement, especially since there both ATA100 spec :) on one benchmark it was doing about 450MB/sec sequential read, but i never take too much notice of benchmarks Yeah, thats true, but for my home system, i'm not too concened about redundency, although this m/board can do raid0+1, but i backup a few of the things i want to keep, erm... sometimes g its not worth the cost of loosing the extra disks, most stuff i can re-install it feels good ahinve it tho ;o), win2k boots nice and quick, and ive got loads of space to put my sam images -- Dean Liversidge [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Where are YOU now?
On Wed, 17 Jan 2001 16:15:43 -0800, you wrote:
This is where in a comical aside, answer my own question...
From: Simon Cooke
Just wondering... what's everyone up to these days? I've been out of touch
for a while. :)
So...
Where d'ya work (and what are you working on)?
Sierra OnLine, Inc. I used to be Lead Engineer on Generations (family tree
software), and now I'm waiting for a while ('cos we're reshuffling), but at
the moment I'm a Scruffy Underling Engineer on Print Artist. Soon I'll be
back to Lead Engineer Status on Hallmark Card Studio... but that won't be
for a month or two.
i've bin out off touch too, last i remember Si, you were working for
microsoft, did you realise that they only employed poeple who put bugs
in software ;o)
--
Dean Liversidge
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Where are YOU now?
On Thu, 18 Jan 2001 21:45:47 -, you wrote: why didnt i get the original email from cookie? has he killfiled me or something? erm, how can he killfile you, this is a mailing list, you should get everything thats sent to it, unless you stop it, shouldnt ya ??? -- Dean Liversidge [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Where are YOU now?
On Wed, 17 Jan 2001 01:10:48 -0800, you wrote: Just wondering... what's everyone up to these days? I've been out of touch for a while. :) So... Ok, since everyone having a go, why not... Where d'ya live? Worksop, England Where d'ya work (and what are you working on)? Insight Direct, trying to get our US parent company to give me su access to our server :o) shortly to be going for my CCNA What's the coolest gizmo you've bought recently? not quite a gizmo, but just upgraded my PC, now i've got a loverly 80Gb RAID 0 disk setup :) Si -- Dean Liversidge [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Exploding SAM
On Fri, 27 Oct 2000 07:49:45 +0100, you wrote: I have a number(20-30) of faulty SAM PCBs. Mostly with video faults. I was going to throw them out but now I'm glad I hung onto them. They may be useful for spare parts. They are complete except for rom mem. Plus they each have one or more 'interesting' faults. I was supposed to be fixing them for building into new SAMs but I didn't have the time or the enthusism seeing as I wasn't going to be getting paid for it. In fact they are not mine, they actually belong the B** B***y, but They have just been gathering dust in my attic for a few years, so I guess I can give them away now. Only prob is they are at my house in Yorkshire and I now live in Norwich, so there could be several weeks delay in me getting to them. Still the offer is there, for any good hardware people, like what I'm not. I would be interested in 1 or 2 if you are getting rid of them, just name your price, and as long as i dont choke :) i'm in. Nev - who still has a passing interest in the beast. Dean... who's passed interest is creeping back slowly. -- Dean Liversidge [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Re[3]: Christmas Greetings, etc.
On Tue, 21 Dec 1999 09:50:07 -, you wrote: AOL Ditto. Me too! Seconded, thirded, forthded... Etc!! ;-) /AOL -- Dean Liversidge [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Wincoupe
On Tue, 16 Nov 1999 23:58:33 -, Dave Hooper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, menu has no shortcuts. I want at least Alt+Space to enter the menu. How about these for shortcuts: Press ALT to enter the menu. Even works for full screen. Press 'F' for File menu, 'C' for CPU menu, 'V' for Video menu, 'S' for Sound menu, 'H' for Help menu. The only menu that doesn't have a shortcut in this way is 'Hardware' but you could use ALT-H-LeftCursor or ALT-S-RightCursor. Options on the menu even have shortcuts ... Bonus! F6 to disable sync to 50Hz, F7 to cycle Frameskip modes, F5 to cycle window mag modes, ... Admittedly ALT+SPACE is currently not detected by WinCoupe (Si?) but the ALT+[key] doesnt work, as most windoze users expect., you need to release ALT before going for another option. This takes a bit of getting used to. -- Dean Liversidge [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re:
On Sun, 14 Nov 1999 23:23:26 + (GMT), Paul Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 14 Nov 1999, Dave Whitmore wrote: Any sign of Bob? No - thank god! :) Actually, at this point I could do with finding him - still looking for a power supply. :/ I might just have to return Sieg's money to him. Erm, Bob who 8o) Why dont you use a PC psu, thats what i had on mine when i used to use it, worked great and stopped it crashing with the sambus and all its bits on it, but i did have a scart to my tele instead of the modulator. -- Dean Liversidge [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Wincoupe
On Fri, 12 Nov 1999 15:30:34 -, Si Owen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Robert Wilkinson wrote: My machines a 166 pentium. Wincoupe needs a faster machine than this, needs a zimmer frame to get around in this machine. What the maximum framerate do you get on the startup screen with the 1x1 window size and the 'frame skipping' set to 'none'? It's unfortunate that the only 2 machines I use are a PII-400 in work (S3 video card with no hardware help) and a (dual) Celeron 550 at home (TNT video card *with* hardware help). With the 1x1 window I get 167fps in work and ~307fps at home, so I hoped it would be ok on something like a P166 even tho I hadn't tried it out! I can't get it to drop under 50fps under any conditions at home! Si Yeah, its a bit slow on my machine in Win98 as well, unless i put it in 1x1 mode and turn *off* the hardware support, but its a little difficult to see in 1x1 mode at 1280x1024. 1x1, hardware support off, accrate mode3 off = 75 fps 1x1, hardware support off, accrate mode3 on = 65 fps 1x1, hardware support on, accrate mode3 on = 18 fps 2x2, hardware support off, accrate mode3 off = 43 fps 2x2, hardware support off, accrate mode3 on = 24 fps 2x2, hardware support on, accrate mode3 on = 11 fps this is just on the bootup logo screen. i dont understand the hardware support disabled making it better, is it just stretch blitting you use? i'm not running a super fast machine (celeron 300a, millenium G200, voodoo1, 256Mb, Win98+NT+Linux) i think it's time i blasted my system and reloaded, i dont think i've done it for a couple of months :) But other that that, a very quick run with it looks very good. Drive2Atom Hard Disk.mm, delicouswhen Heres a thought for the futurea Sam Rom extension, for use with the emulator, that acts as a gateway to windows file access, receiving bios type calls from sam programs, and translates them to windows file system requests, in effect giving sam access to the whole hard drive???... oh well suppose its been thought about before.. i ought to keep up with this list a bit more ;) -- Dean Liversidge [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: New: SimCoupe 0.783a
On Wed, 1 Jul 1998 21:17:48 +0100, David L [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Of course the whole calender is complete shite... about 5-20 years out of synch depending on who you believe! I thinks someone elses calender is a bit out of sync.. 1998 ?? I nearly list this post in the depths of my archives (oh errr ;) -- Dean Liversidge [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: sim-coupe
On Fri, 12 Feb 1999 13:49:03 PST, Simon Cooke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: According to the NT file system team, I can do it (as far as they know) by getting a handle to the disk device. However, I can't do it from win32; I have to drop to the NT subsystem. I don't get to look at source code without a *damn good reason*, and I'm not sure whether I'm in the OS group or the Apps group. (Developer Tools is a strange misfit; we straddle to an extent, it seems). Simon (NSFSMFT) Hey, this is pretty kewl, we've got an insider in Microsoft, we should get loads of juicy info now then, heheheh =o) -- Dean Liversidge Insight Direct (UK) Ltd. MIS Department Ext. 7065 (0870) 700 7065
Re: Malcolm
On Sat, 13 Feb 1999 11:01:52 + (GMT), Allan Skillman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I did not know Malcolm personaly, but it is self evident from the comments from fellow list members that he was a much loved person in the Sam World. My condolences to his family, and others here that knew him well. Allan I too, did not know Malc, but his great reputation goes before him, and forever will. May he rest well. -- Dean Liversidge Insight Direct (UK) Ltd. MIS Department Ext. 7065 (0870) 700 7065
Re: sim-coupe
On Thu, 11 Feb 1999 23:06:11 +, Dave Neale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just for your information, the sam coupe info, is sent by a freind of mine. he composes the mail off line, and uses my puter to send it out.. he has his own yahoo e mail addy for his incoming mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] can you please forward any future replies to this addy thanks. Erm, NO. This is an automated mailing list, the messages get sent to the e-mail address that was assigned when the person joined it. If you subscribe the yahho address then youll receive the feed at that address. send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message body of: subscribe sam-users [EMAIL PROTECTED] or whatever, then that should do it. To remove, use the message body unsubscribe sam-users [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Dean Liversidge Insight Direct (UK) Ltd. MIS Department Ext. 7065 (0870) 700 7065
Re: Missing disk error.
On 3 Dec 98, at 13:57, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a message dated 03/12/98 17:31:45, you write: I thought the drive light doesn't go out on a Sam drive until you put a disk in. perhaps one day when you get around to using your Sam you might find differrntly Moves to other side of room. Switch on Sam. Both drive lights on. Insert disk in drive 1, disk spins, light on drive 1 goes out, light on drive 2 stays on (and will until a disk is inserted). Bill. Well, from what i remember when i used to play about, these are the symptom of the disk-reset bug in Sam, and the reason behind a few of us modifying the reset circuit to work around the bug. The lights stay on because the drive(s) are in an undefined state. If your lucky you can put the disk in and it will cntinue to reset itself into a working state, but if your unluck the heads could be in a write state, which may well trash any data on the sector it finds when the disk is inserted. If i remember rightly, if the machine was reset and the drive light was on and the motor was spinning, i had to reset the machine a few times before it would leave the drive light off, then it would be usable, if i didn't it would trash the floppy. -- Dean Liversidge
Re: About my ISP
On 21 Oct 98, at 14:14, Robert van der Veeke wrote: Van: Frode Tenneboe [EMAIL PROTECTED] [stuff delted] Have a nice day, I am still here Please Robert, Do not take this to the listagain. Generally: This list is not a public toilet. Sorry but this was something I had to do. Don't worry, won't happen again. BTW: I want to thank some people who have reacted in this crisis, It is good to know that there are still some real Sam-users left. What the hell is wrong with Bob the Nob, first he gets Web pages closed down, now he get e-mail accounts closed. What is his problem ?? When will Bob realise that his income if going to dwindle to nothing soon anyway. Thats why the PC mag got created, because the other one is drying up. Get a life, accept your critisism, and change. I asked if anyone could give me a good reason to keep my sub going, not even one responce, let alone any responce to say keep it, does that not tell you something ! -- Dean Liversidge
Re: Meeting in Holland Sound stuff
On 5 Oct 98, at 9:02, Allan Skillman wrote: Hello All, Talking of Sim Coupe, ... The Last UNIX release I made was probably 0.72, which is pretty old. Unfortunately DOS versions are so fiddly to do I never got around to releasing a newer version. Hopefully with Simon taking up the challenge on a Win32 version I might be able to get back to the UNIX version. Back to your problem. Are you using a 16 or 24 bits per pixel display? SimCoupe works best with an 8bit display. It does have support for the higher display depths, but I'm not sure whether they work very well. At the time I only had access to machines with 8bit displays. As it happens, i am using 16bit colour, i'll try it in 8-bit and see, i get a simmilar problem trying to run xquake. It's likely to be something i'm not doing, i've only just got into Linux, and as you do, only reading half the docs :) Thanks. -- Dean Liversidge
Re: Glos Show
On 6 Oct 98, at 10:59, Lee Willis wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: In a message dated 05/10/98 17:29:19, you write: Pub Lunch noon-ish Food? What is that? You mean you go to pub lunches for food? For food, erm, No ! -- Dean Liversidge
Re: Meeting in Holland Sound stuff
On 3 Oct 98, at 8:07, Robert van der Veeke wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] sounds almost like [EMAIL PROTECTED] Quite a thrilling idea Yeah, I thought that too. Talking of Sim Coupe, Allan, have you done any more with SimCoupe yet??? Any chance of Hard Drive emulation ??? Has anybody build SimCoupe/Xcoupe on Linux? I've just started playing with Linux, and wanted to try the emulator, but I cant get the X-Windows version to run properly, This display is small and sort of wrong colour, as though the video memory is in the wrong mode? Any Ideas, you Linux geniusi' -- Dean Liversidge
Re: Archives [off-topic-ish]
On 19 Sep 98, at 22:44, Ian Collier wrote: OnSat, 19 Sep 1998 21:51:14 +0100, Dean Liversidge said: Just because windows wants me to use codepage 850, i dont want to, because when i connect to a BBS or something that uses hi-ansi graphincs, it looks crap. So you get what you asked for. Hardly anyone on the Internet uses Sure do :) codepage 437 so when people send you high-ASCII characters they won't look right. I thought mime was supposed to handle all this crap. Well the headers of the message did state charset=iso-8859-1 so if your mailer didn't use the right font then it is at fault. That could well be the case, though i am using pmail v301, i think it's stil quite buggy, and it's set with ISO-8859-1 as it's mime character set. But i thought that the parts that had mime content in messages were supposed to be sectioned of with borders labeling the mime etc. I hate all this fancy mail rubbish, mime and html e-mail and all that stuff should be left to www were it belongs. Correct, HTML belongs on the web and not in email, but MIME is specifically an email protocol so it doesn't make sense to leave it to the www. Thats true, but i wasn't really meaning that, i just think that when it adds in all the mime seperation and stuff like that, it takes up twice as much space as the plain vanilla version. Thís ·sïg ìs jûst tø ãññõÿ ¶êøþ£è wh¤ ðºñ´t µ$ë ϧØ88591. Hmmm, looks like juberish to me, but what the hell, it doesnt bother me. Unless you were calling me something not verry nice ;-) -- Dean Liversidge
Re: Archives [off-topic-ish]
On 18 Sep 98, at 19:44, Andrew Collier wrote: Just out of interest, do these work? Sam Coupé SAM COUPÉ Andrew NOPE ! -- Dean Liversidge
Re: Master Slave
On 19 Sep 98, at 21:19, Robert van der Veeke wrote: Hi I bought a seccond HD today (540MB, just 100 Dutch guilders, cheap?), and now i want use it with my first HD (204MB), but a small problem is rising, driving me to a point where I am going to say foul words. How the hell do i set both drives, a master and a slave, how do i set the jumpers and wich one is first on the cable and who goes next. Both drives are Seagates, and in working order. It Depends on whether the drives can handle master/slave combination properly, they may not be 100% ATA complient. The order on the cable is not an issue, the connectors are mirrored. There are a lot of older drives, that will not work correctly in some combinations of Ma/Sl, they are mostly sub 540 Meg (ie 240 etc) The number of phone calls i had on the tech help line when trying to upgrade a system with a 200Meg drive and add a 1-2Gig drive, but it wouldnt accept it. I can't remember if it needed the newer drive as the Master or slave ?? hmmm, sorry. Some drives, especially Conner (now Seagate) were designed before the proper ATA was universal, and hence were not compatable with other make drives on the same cable. Generaly there three main configurations for jumpers for master and slave: o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o | | | || C S M C5 S L A D1 General CS = ON = Cable Select SL = ON = Slave MA = ON = Master Conner C/D = ON = C (master) / OFF = D (slave) Maxtor 20/51 = ON = Master / OFF = Slave It may be worth looking on Seagate's WEB pages for the spec on you actual Model No., it should give details of the pin-outs jumpers. -- Dean Liversidge
Re: Archives [off-topic-ish]
On 19 Sep 98, at 21:32, Ian Collier wrote: OnSat, 19 Sep 1998 20:52:03 +0100, Dean Liversidge said: On 18 Sep 98, at 19:44, Andrew Collier wrote: Just out of interest, do these work? Sam Coupé SAM COUPÉ NOPE ! Yes they do. You even quoted them back correctly. :-) I only quoted back what you sent, it'll look the same on your system as long as it doesn't get translated. :) X/Unix, Win95 and Mac OS seem to use the relevant character set (iso-8859-1) by default (although the latter two add incompatible extenstions to it). If you are using something else you might have to search for a suitable font. imc I've got just the font i want, Terminal code-page 437, just as though i wasnt using windows :) Ah but they dont apear properly on my system because I use code-page 437, because this gives me the proper DOS double-line box character set where CHR$(201)=É which is the top/left corner double-box. Just because windows wants me to use codepage 850, i dont want to, because when i connect to a BBS or something that uses hi-ansi graphincs, it looks crap. I thought mime was supposed to handle all this crap. I hate all this fancy mail rubbish, mime and html e-mail and all that stuff should be left to www were it belongs. Plain text, quick and simple. :) -- Dean Liversidge
Re: FS: Formats and Speccy stuff (still)
On 24 Aug 98, at 18:55, David wrote: Date sent: Mon, 24 Aug 1998 18:55:12 -0700 From: David [EMAIL PROTECTED] Organization: The foundation of green eggs and ham To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Re: FS: Formats and Speccy stuff (still) Send reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Gavin Smith wrote: My collection of Formats - someone please take them! £10 for the lot! How many issues? Out of interest ...? While were on the subject of Flormat My Sub just expired and i would like someone to give me a good (in my opinion) reason why i should renew itnow there's a chalange (sp?) In a way i would like to have every copy, because personaly i don't think that it will be going too much longer, should i stick it out for what another,6 months?, 1 year? 2 years?? anyone any thoughts on that? I would hate it if it went on for another year and so far i have every issue ( yes i have, surprisingly enough), then not have the last few !!! What i wanted to do eventually was to put every single copy onto a CD if poss in DynaText format or just as .pdf and .txt files. -- Dean Liversidge
Re: Letter
From: Andrew Gale [EMAIL PROTECTED] Can I just ask - if the DOS and existing software doesn't work with the two drives from one controller set up, how do users of the two-drive SAM Elite manage? Andy I beleive that the new models can run from one, i think the Dos has bee modified. I'm sure BB with tell us the truth. On the subject of model differences, have develpoers got a record of the different model variations and Dos changes etc. so that software can be written to cope with it all, i remember some 256K programs having trouble with the 512K model, i know the software wasnt written 'correctly' but it still happens. -- Dean Liversidge
Re: Letter
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In a message dated 09/08/98 18:53:39, you write: Changing new Sams (at this stage) to use a single controller would be bad because existing software might break, if it expected the second controller to be present. But if the Sam had been designed that way from the beginning, it could be an entirely different story. Andrew Ah! I see what was being got at. So. Why did they have two controllers then? There must have been a reason. Bill. Erm, nope, nothing sensible i believe, not that i know of, but it did fill the internal drive cases !, enter BB. -- Dean Liversidge
Re: Letter
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [cut] | | 'nothing like a real SAM' - yeah, nothing like all the shit you face | if your drive goes down... a PC drive = about a tenner.. How much for | a SAM drive, eh? eh? Phew.. I seem to be blowing a gasket or | something.. better calm down, eh? :-) Sam drive prices are the same as the PC Dave, cos they are PC drives now. Yeah, but you still need the 30 quid or whatever interface to connect it. If they'd have put one controller on board and write the dos properly to run both drives from it in the first place, people could have just bought PC drives in the first place and saved a hell of a lot of money. -- Dean Liversidge
