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- From: brumba@rtsg.mot.com (Alan J. Brumbaugh)
- Subject: Re: OS/2 slower that dos 5.0?
- Message-ID: <brumba.724807958@khaki16>
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- Organization: Motorola Inc., Cellular Infrastructure Group
- References: <Dec16.043537.70478@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU> <2530@ispi.COM>
- Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1992 23:32:38 GMT
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- jbayer@ispi.COM (Jonathan Bayer) writes:
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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.
-
- Actually, it is in comp.os.os2.misc.
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