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- From: wiegand@rtsg.mot.com (Robert Wiegand)
- Subject: Re: OS/2 slower that dos 5.0?
- Message-ID: <wiegand.724609998@lido16>
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- Organization: Motorola Inc., Cellular Infrastructure Group
- References: <Dec16.043537.70478@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU>
- Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 16:33:18 GMT
- Lines: 30
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- ws523669@longs.LANCE.ColoState.Edu (William Speiser) writes:
-
- >Can any of you pc gurus give me a hand?
- >I have an i386dx25 with 8megs.
- >I recently tried to install OS/2 and noticed a few minutes into the installation
- >that my hard disk started to sound weird. (Buzing intead of clicking? What else
- >can I say?) After it was completely installed (taking 4 hours). I noticed that
- > my machine was running much, much slower than with
- >dos. It took 15+ minutes to boot.
-
- >It was painfully slow the DIR command took longer to acess my hard disk than it
- >takes for floppies.
-
- >I set my OPTI chipset to enable A20 fast gate (or whatever) but that didn't
- >help.
-
- >I finally decided to reformat my hard disk under dos 5.0 again and it works fine
- >now.
-
- >Does anybody know what the problem could be?
-
- I would guess that the problem was with OS/2 not selecting the proper
- disk driver for your hard drive. What type of drive and controller are
- you using?
-
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- Robert Wiegand - Motorola Inc.
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- Disclamer: I didn't do it - I was somewhere else at the time.
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