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- From: jbayer@ispi.COM (Jonathan Bayer)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
- Subject: Re: OS/2 slower that dos 5.0?
- Message-ID: <2530@ispi.COM>
- Date: 17 Dec 92 13:27:18 GMT
- References: <Dec16.043537.70478@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU>
- Organization: Intelligent Software Products, Inc.
- Lines: 24
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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.
-
-
- There is a known problem with OS/2 and MFM drives. Get the OS/2 FAQ and
- read it (look in comp.sys.os2). I had the problem and the FAQ fixed
- it for me, but I don't have it handy.
-
-
- JB
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