Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!linac!att!ucbvax!SSCTEMP.SAS.UPENN.EDU!theall From: theall@SSCTEMP.SAS.UPENN.EDU (George A. Theall) Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec.micro Subject: Rainbow EchoMail Digest Message-ID: Date: 20 Mar 91 00:30:40 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 176 Rainbow EchoMail Digest Mar 19, 1991 In this issue: RE: HELP - RD53 BAD SECTO RE: FOSSIL NEEDED FOR BOW RE: QUESTION MEDIA MASTER RE: KERMIT FLOPPY DISKETTE DENSITIES Articles posted to either INFO-DEC-MICRO or comp.sys.dec.micro are currently gatewayed to the Rainbow Echo on FidoNet. You do not need to take special action to respond to articles in these digests. Please send reports of problems or suggestions for improvement of this digest to GTHEALL@PENNDRLS.UPENN.EDU (Internet). ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: 17 Mar 91 07:37 -0500 From: BOB FULLER To: GEORGE THEALL Subject: RE: HELP - RD53 BAD SECTO I have been running a RD53 with no problem, formated with WUTIL. Check to see if the connections(plugs) to the RD53 are firmly seated, including no sideways pressure. I used the original DEC cable after modifying it with a Dremel type drum sander to grind down the plastic on the plug that blocked them from firm seating. I took a lot of plastic off When I was making the change to the RD53, I was advised the the normal DEC cable may not not be thick enough for the drive. The symptom was many bad sectors. I did not have this problem, but if the original advise I was given is accurate, perhaps your manufactured cable is too thin for the RD53 application. - --- Opus-CBCS 1.12 * Origin: Glacier Peak Rainbow, Bellevue, WA - 206/644-8431 (1:343/3.0) ------------------------------ Date: 17 Mar 91 00:59 -0500 From: VAN VANHORN To: NOLAN LEE Subject: RE: FOSSIL NEEDED FOR BOW The Fossil you need is DECCOMM, and your Bow will work just fine as a point. My Bow works just fine as a bulletin board at 9600 bps afterall, and it isn't the only one. The author of Binkleyterm was running a Bow as his BBS last I heard, so you can figure that Bink is going to behave on your system as well. + vanhorn + - --- Opus-CBCS 1.10 * Origin: Horsefeathers + Question authority! + (1:343/30.0) ------------------------------ Date: 17 Mar 91 09:53 -0500 From: VAN VANHORN To: BOB SMITH Subject: RE: QUESTION > > NL> Frank, was the 60 meg hd a "slip it in and go" operation? > NL> I didn't think that Rainbow would recongnize anything > over 30meg. > > Rainbow works with upto 67 meg disk (but ONLY 8 heads). > Please! The Rainbow hard drive controller imposes an absolute limit of 64 Megabytes, which is reached only when there are 8 (or more) heads and 1024 (or more) cylinders because there is also a limit of 16 sectors per track (8K). CHKDSK will report 67108864 Total Bytes in disk, which I don't really like (I would prefer it told me 65,536 KB), but CHKDSK makes no claim that 67 Million bytes is one nibble over 64 Megs. When major applications came on two 3740 disks (Single Sided Single Density 8" floppies for any latecomers ) and ten meg hard drives were still big, advertisers playing fast and loose with this difference weren't a big deal. Besides, at 10 megs, it isn't much difference. At 64 megs, it is substantial. - --- Opus-CBCS 1.10 * Origin: Horsefeathers + Question authority! + (1:343/30.0) ------------------------------ Date: 18 Mar 91 15:31 -0500 From: NOLAN LEE To: ALL INTERESTED PARTIES Subject: MEDIA MASTER Does anyone have a copy of Media Master for the Rainbow that they are tired of and want to sell? Thanks, Nolan. - --- QM v1.00 * Origin: Nolan's Point (1:390/2.7) ------------------------------ Date: 18 Mar 91 02:04 -0500 From: PAUL ROBINSON To: GEORGE THEALL Subject: RE: KERMIT TO: Chris Sasaki I have a copy of the MS-DOS generic Kermit. If you want a copy and have an assembler, I can send it to you. I can send it on 5 1/4" 8 sector single sided disks, but all the disks I have have hub rings, and I have heard that can cause a problem [my computer is an IBM klone]. It will take about 8 diskettes to do this. If you want it, send me $5, I'll send back a box of diskettes with the sources on it along with a couple of things. I will even compile a copy of it and you can try that but if it doesn't work you'll have the set of MS-DOS generic sources as uncompressed files. If you are interested, you can contact me at: Paul Robinson P O Box 70970 Washington, DC 20024-0970 There are two parts; the documentation for kermit that takes up about 300K and something over 500K of sources. I can send them out as uncompressed source files. - --- Opus-CBCS 1.14 * Origin: Silver Bullet - Silver Spring, Md - 301-622-2247 (1:109/417.0) ------------------------------ Date: 18 Mar 91 23:47 -0500 From: HOWARD HALL To: ALL Subject: FLOPPY DISKETTE DENSITIES I have a feeling that a lot of the 'wordage' concerning densities on available diskettes is nothing but PR flack. I know, for example, that I only need SS (single sided) diskettes for my Rainbow, but I get DS (double sided) so that I have a 'common' diskette that I can easily reformat and use elsewhere. (I also function as System Manager for the IBM PS/2 system at church, this simplifies logistics). I also need to purchase 3.5" diskettes from time to time for the IBM, and I know that I need DS for that. So far, I have used DD (double density) exclusively for the 5.25" diskettes (both systems) and for the 3.5" diskettes for the IBM. I would appreciate a dissertation on the need/usefulness of HD (high density) diskettes in both the above categories. Help!! Howie - --- Opus-CBCS 1.14 * Origin: Silver Bullet - Silver Spring, Md - 301-622-2247 (1:109/417.0) ------------------------------ End of Rainbow EchoMail Digest ******************************