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- From: chans@cs.curtin.edu.au (Sean Chan)
- Subject: Re: Slow floppy drive access!!??!!
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- Organization: Curtin University of Technology
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- Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 15:44:55 GMT
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- marklc@umbc3.umbc.edu (Mr. Mark L. Cohen) writes:
-
- >I had the same problem when setting up a 386/25 with AMI BIOS. Everything was
- >fine except the floppy drives were VERY slow like you said. The solution
- >was (aggrivatingly) simple -- turn on shadow RAM in your BIOS settings. On
- >this computer after I did this, the floppy drives were fast like they should
- >be.
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- > Hope this helps...
- > Mark Cohen marklc@umbc7.umbc.edu
-
- I have shadow RAM enabled...however, it's still slow...
-
- Sean Chan Curtin University of Technology
- Bentley, Western Australia.
- E-Mail : chans@marsh.cs.curtin.edu.au
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