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- From: Andrew Bros <bros@convex.COM>
- Subject: Re: OS/2 slower that dos 5.0?
- Summary: known bug - there is a patch available
- Originator: bros@neptune.convex.com
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- Message-ID: <1992Dec18.144737.21515@news.eng.convex.com>
- Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 14:47:37 GMT
- Reply-To: bros@convex.COM (Andrew Bros)
- References: <Dec16.043537.70478@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU>
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- In article <Dec16.043537.70478@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU> 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?
- >
- >ws523669@longs.LANCE.ColoState.Edu (William Speiser)
-
- This is a known bug with the standard release of OS/2 (Mar '92), and
- there is a fix available. The best thing to do before you try
- installing again is to get the OS/2 FAQ available via anonymous ftp
- from ftp-os2.nmsu.edu (128.123.35.151), file
- /pub/os2/all/info/faq/faq20g.zip. Also check out the comp.os.os2.*
- newsgroups. If your question isn't answered in the FAQ, the people
- reading those newsgroups can.
-
- Here's a couple relevant excerpts from the FAQ regarding your
- problem:
-
- (9) I am having trouble installing OS/2 2.0. What should I do?
-
- [...]
-
- Certain PC compatibles have difficulty accepting OS/2 2.0 (CSD level
- 02000 only; see Question 23), particularly AT bus systems with RLL, MFM,
- or ESDI adapters. The problem usually appears in the form of FDISK
- errors, extremely slow copying to the hard disk, or a whining/grating
- noise emanating from the hard disk. A replacement IBM1S506.ADD file,
- available from sources listed in Question 8, alleviates the problem.
-
- (8) Where can I obtain OS/2 shareware and freeware?
-
- Many BBSes, including Fernwood (203-483-0348), OS/2 Shareware (703-385-
- 4325), Bay Area OS/2 (510-657-7948), Gateway/2 (314-554-9313), Greater
- Chicago Online (708-895-4042), OS/2 San Diego (619-558-9475), IBM
- Germany (049-711-785-7777), IBM Denmark (45-42-88-72-22), OS/2 UK (0454-
- 633197), and OS/2 Australia (61-2-241-2466) hold large OS/2 libraries.
- (The monthly Worldwide OS/2 BBS Listing, available from these BBSes,
- lists others.) The IBM NSC BBS has some shareware/freeware as well,
- along with CSDs (see Question 23) and the PS/2 Assistant (an invaluable
- resource for locating almost any sort of information on OS/2). For
- information on IBM's new OS/2 BBS call 800-547-1283. IBM Canada
- maintains several support BBSes (416-946-4255, 514-938-3022, 604-664-
- 6464, and 416-946-4244).
-
- The Usenet conference comp.binaries.os2 carries OS/2 software. And
- several sites are available via anonymous ftp. (No ftp? Send a single
- line message with the word HELP to bitftp@pucc.bitnet or
- ftpmail@decwrl.dec.com to learn about ftp mail servers.) They include
- (with Internet node numbers and subdirectories):
-
- ftp-os2.nmsu.edu 128.123.35.151 pub/os2
- software.watson.ibm.com 129.34.139.5 pub/os2
- mtsg.ubc.ca 137.82.27.1 os2:
- access.usask.ca 128.233.3.1 pub/archives/os2
- luga.latrobe.edu.au 131.172.2.2 pub/os2
- funic.funet.fi 128.214.6.100 pub/os2
- pdsoft.lancs.ac.uk 148.88.64.2 micros/ibmpc/os2
- ftp.uni-stuttgart.de 129.69.1.12 soft/os2
- src.doc.ic.ac.uk [?] computing/systems/os2
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- Andrew Bros bros@convex.com
- System Integration Group Convex Computer Corporation
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