Strange brew...

Steve Huston (spider@uscom.com)
Sun, 5 May 1996 18:07:40 -0400 (EDT)

I have a question for ya's all. A friend of mine just got a distribution
of Linux (InfoMagic), and began to install. Below is his hardware as he
sent to me. The problem is that Linux wouldn't properly find his CD-ROM,
and now it finally did, but M$ Lose '95 seems to think it's gone... He's
starting to think that somehow it got damaged now, something I told him I
don't believe is possible, but neither of us have an idea. Perhaps
someone ehre could shed some light upon it, or at least give us some
ideas where to look.

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       (spider@uscom.com)                 | escaped from a maximum security
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---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Sun, 5 May 1996 14:48:06 +0000
From: Jay Atkinson <jatkinsn@ix13.ix.netcom.com>
To: spider@uscom.com
Subject: My Hardware Specs


Alrighty..here goes.


Computer 
ZEOS
Intel 486DX4 100      16Meg RAM


Monitor (no documentation available)
CTX 1451ES
It seems to run fine under Windows at 800X600 72Hz and hrzfreq around 
48.1 kHz.


SVGA  Video Card
Diamond Stealth32 PCI local  bus (bus speed on board is up to 33MHz)
RAMDAC  ATT20C491   (determined by SuperProbe)
ClockChip   IC2061A5C-1 (by looking at the card itself)
VideoRam   1024K
Chipset       ET4000/W32P   (rev a)


PCI Primary IDE interface (irq 14)  
Master 1.6 Gig drive running Windows95 and DOS  (hda1)
Slave    426Meg  drive  running one DOS partition and 3 linux 
partitions (one swap about 16Meg)


PCI Secondary IDE interface (irq 15) (interface is on the 
motherboard)
Master   IDE/ATAPI  TEAC-CD56E  6X CD-ROM drive


No Ethernet, no SCSI


Modem on COM4 28.8K


Microsoft Compatible Mouse on COM1