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- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
- Subject: Re: Slow floppy drive access!!??!!
- Message-ID: <93010.170809SRK106@psuvm.psu.edu>
- From: Senthil Ramas Kumar <SRK106@psuvm.psu.edu>
- Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 17:08:09 EST
- References: <chans.726391175@marsh>
- Organization: Penn State University
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- In article <chans.726391175@marsh>, chans@cs.curtin.edu.au (Sean Chan) says:
- > >Gidday all, > >I was wondering controls the speed the floppy drives are
- accessed. Ever >since I changed my motherboard from 386DX-33 to a
- 486DX2-50, I noticed >that it takes me 10 sec. to get a response from a
- simple dir/w a: or a:. >My motherboard is a UMC chipset, I don't think it's
- the floppy/hdd >controller because I haven't changed it (from my 386DX -
- floppy access >there was fast!!). Are there any settings I can do in the
- AMI BIOS to >speed this up?? > >Another question, what's "Auto
- Configuration" from Advance Chipset Setup >of my BIOS?? If I disable it, my
- CPU runs much faster, but has problems >warm/cold booting. > >Any info is
- greatly appreciated... > >Sean Chan Curtin University of Technology
-
- I also have the same damn problem, very slow disk access, it takes me about
- 7 sec. to do a dir on a: or b:. I even asked about this problem here in
- this group some 7 months ago, but no one could tell me anything.
-
- I really wonder, that in the heck could be causing, such a slow performance.
-
- I have a swan 486/33, AMI BIOS,
-
- Kumar
-