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- From: harrison@aurs01.UUCP (S. Keith Harrison)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
- Subject: Re: Rediculously slow floppy drives after 286->486 upgrade. Help?
- Message-ID: <61691@aurs01.UUCP>
- Date: 17 Dec 92 20:26:39 GMT
- References: <widow.724576075@camelot>
- Sender: news@aurs01.UUCP
- Reply-To: harrison@aurxcg.aur.alcatel.com.UUCP (S. Keith Harrison)
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- Organization: Alcatel Network Systems, Raleigh NC
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- In article <widow.724576075@camelot> widow@camelot.bradley.edu (Shaun Burnett) writes:
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- - I upgraded my system from a 286/12.5 to a 486/33. I took
- - the two drives that came with my 286 (1.44M and 1.2M), and put
- - them in the 486.
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- - Now I know that floppy drive access under DR-DOS 6.0 is slow,
- - but now it is painfully slow. In fact, it seems slower than
- - when I had the 286.
- -
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- I bought a completely new 486/33 with TEAC Drives, an offshore ide controller,
- OPTI/AMI offshore motherboard and CMS tape drive. I have the same problem.
- My floppy drives will spin for 4 or 5 seconds before any head motion.
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- I've tried booting vanilla DOS 3.31, DOS 5.0 and OS/2 2.0. The problem is
- unchanged. I disconnected the CMS tape drive, again with no improvement.
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- -
- - Anyone have any suggestions or insight? I don't have the slow
- - drive access problem under OS/2 2.0.
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- I'm about ready to try a new ide controller board. I can get one locally for
- $15. Am I on the right track? Anyone else having this problem?
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- -
- -Shaun Burnett | "You can't survive on a new planet with a
- -widow@camelot.bradley.edu | soul full of hope and fresh air you know."
- -OS/2--Happy Happy Joy Joy--OS/2 - Dr. Who (Tom Baker)
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