aptr@ur-tut.UUCP (The Wumpus) (01/15/88)
Because of several requests, I will be posting the programs to set and
unset the 80x50 display mode of the 6300 in the near future.
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.att Subject: Help with a Seagate 251 (slow speed) Summary: Expires: Sender: Reply-To: ir1@sdcc6.ucsd.edu.UUCP (Neal Beck) Followup-To: Distribution: comp.sys.ibm.pc Organization: University of California, San Diego Keywords: Help. I just put a Seagate 251 40M disk into my ATT6300. This replaced my Seagate 225 20 M disk. The new disk is partioned into a small C drive and 2 20M big partitions (D and E). I also was told I needed a new controller so I put in a Western Digital WX1. Low and behold my access time almost doubled (measured by the Norton SI and by my stopwatch). The specs on the 251 are better than those for the 225 so this shouldn't happen. I suspect the interleave is at fault, but Seagate doesn't seem to want to tell me what the interleave should be. Can anyone tell me what the optimal interleave for my disk combination is? Thanks in advance Neal Beck Dept. of Pol. Sci. UC San Diego beck@sdcsvax.ucsd.edu or beck@ucsd.BITNET
punia@uvm-gen.UUCP (Card 54...) (01/18/88)
> Help. I just put a Seagate 251 40M disk into my ATT6300. > > Can anyone tell me what the optimal interleave for my disk > combination is? > > beck@sdcsvax.ucsd.edu or beck@ucsd.BITNET I'm not running that exact combo, but when I replaced my AT&T controller with a WX1.. and added a second HDU, I found that an interleave of 5 gave the highest data rate, as measured with CORETEST. I've seen 6 mentioned in a few places, too. The change gave me almost a fourfold increase in transfer rate, probably about what it was with the original AT&T (DTC) controller. Oh, the disks are one Olivetti (the original side attached 10M) and a Miniscribe 3212 10M. -- UUCPath --> ...!{linus,decvax}!dartvax!uvm-gen!punia David T. Punia UUCPathalias --> punia@uvm-gen.uucp Univ. of VT CSEE dept. CS/INTER/OTHERNET--> punia@uvm.edu, punia@gen.uvm.edu Burlington, VT 05401-0156 STILLOTHERNETS ----> punia%uvm@csnetorother-relay 802-656-3330
ccoprrd@pyr.gatech.EDU (Richard Dervan) (01/19/88)
I'm having trouble getting the 50 line mode. It does go into the small
letters, but it will not scroll past the 24th line and everything over-
writes everything else on the last line. Do you know what the problem
could be? Thanks in advance.
-Richard
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ARPA: ccoprrd@pyr.gatech.edu BitNet: ccoprrd@gitnve2.gatech.edu ekrell@hector.UUCP (Eduardo Krell) (01/20/88)
In article <4829@pyr.gatech.EDU> ccoprrd@pyr.gatech.EDU (Richard Dervan) writes: >I'm having trouble getting the 50 line mode. It does go into the small >letters, but it will not scroll past the 24th line and everything over- >writes everything else on the last line. Sounds like you're changing the window size (in the sense of number of rows and columns that fit in it) by changing the font size but you're not telling the tty driver on the host, so "vi" and others think nothing has changed. The way to fix this depends on the host and what version of Unix is running on it. Eduardo Krell AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ UUCP: {ihnp4,ucbvax}!ulysses!ekrell ARPA: ekrell%ulysses@att.arpa
aptr@ur-tut.UUCP (The Wumpus) (01/20/88)
In article <4829@pyr.gatech.EDU> ccoprrd@pyr.gatech.EDU (Richard Dervan) writes: >I'm having trouble getting the 50 line mode. It does go into the small >letters, but it will not scroll past the 24th line and everything over- >writes everything else on the last line. Do you know what the problem >could be? The problem probably is related to having ANSI.SYS installed. Some of the versions of Ansi.sys (including some from AT&T) do not understand the idea of an 80x50 screen. They only know about 80x25. This causes them to not generate a line feed at the end of the last line. I am not exactly sure why, but I think Ansi.sys is expecting the display hardware to scroll the screen. In 25 line mode this works because the lst line is the 25th. In 50 line mode, the last line is the 50th and not the 25th. The solution I suggest is to boot your computer without Ansi.sys. I hope this helps, -- The Wumpus UUCP: {cmcl2!decvax}!rochester!ur-tut!aptr BITNET: aptrccss@uorvm Internet: aptr@tut.cc.rochester.edu Disclaimer: "Who? When? Me? It was the Booze!" - M. Binkley
wtm@neoucom.UUCP (Bill Mayhew) (01/21/88)
Fansi Console is a share-ware program that is published by Non Smoking Software that has integral support for weird screen configurations. It is a nicely done job. Check just about any issue of Byte or Infoworld for their advertisements. The AT&T Ansi.sys at least up to DOS3.1 doesn't seem to know that screen configurations greater than 80*25 exist, and just scrolls in the top half of the 50 line screen. --Bill
kak@stc-auts.UUCP (Kris Kugel) (01/29/88)
Fansi Console dosn't seem to know enough about DEB cards for the special functions of the DEB to work right when it's installed. I have found my experience getting the DEB card to work with anything I want to use very discouraging.