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- From: g1nickut@cdf.toronto.edu (Nick Zahariadis)
- Subject: Re: Are PS/2 floppy drives better under OS/2?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec13.071144.672@cdf.toronto.edu>
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- References: <1992Dec8.012642.29068@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> <1992Dec12.221015.12402@midway.uchicago.edu>
- Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 07:11:44 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec12.221015.12402@midway.uchicago.edu> sip1@midway.uchicago.edu writes:
- >In article <1992Dec8.012642.29068@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> rjones@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Ronald Jones) writes:
- >>What is different about the PS/2 floppy (controller)? I'm convinced
- [stuff deleted]
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- >The floppy hardware on most PS/2s is indeed redesigned. I think the
- >DMA works better, perhaps because of the Microchannel assist. (I seem
- >to remember some minor mention of this when the PS/2 first came out.)
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- I also saw this in an IBM technical journal a couple of months ago.
- AT PC users that convert to MCA PS/2 will notice a dramatic performance
- improvement on their floppy disk operations, anything from formatting, to
- DMA transfers etc.
-
- >Rumor has it that the next group of PS/2s will have OS/2-aware (and
- >controlled) autoejecting 2.88 MB floppy drives. There will still be
- >manual eject button. Just thought I'd throw in a little tidbit here.
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- Now that - that would be extremely cool.
-
- Nick.
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