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- From: mstaben@comtch.spk.wa.us (Matthew Staben)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: 30 min per disk to load os2
- Keywords: slow boot
- Message-ID: <Ju1LqB2w165w@comtch.spk.wa.us>
- Date: 5 Sep 92 03:57:30 GMT
- References: <1214@tekgen.bv.tek.com>
- Sender: bbs@comtch.spk.wa.us (Waffle bbs)
- Organization: Waffle BBS at CompuTech Spokane, Washington
- Lines: 45
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- stevesm@scotty.hco.tek.com (Steve Smith) writes:
-
- > Hi netters,
- >
- > Well its my turn this time. My brother recently bought OS/2 and tried
- > loading it on his '486 machine. He was able to load OS2 and get it
- > running, however, as he was loading it, he noticed that the average
- > time it took to unload the software from the 3 1/2" disks was 30 min.
- > It literally took all night just to load the OS!
- >
- >
- > Also, now when he tries to boot OS/2, it takes about 10 minutes!
- >
- > The hardware consists of a 33Mhz, '486 clone with AMI bios, 8 megs ram
- > and a 28 msec 71 MB MFM hard disk. ( I know the HD is way too small
- > but he wanted to buy OS/2 while the price was right, he plans to
- > upgrade the HD in the future.)
- >
- > My question is what could be causing this slow down? Could the hard
- > disk be the reason for the incredible slowness of the system?
- >
- > BTW, I've got a clone 33Mhz, '386, AMI bios with (only) 4Megs, 16msec
- > 120MB IDE hard disk and only takes about 1 1/2 minutes per disk to
- > load and 1:40 to boot to os2.
- >
- > =============================================================================
- > Steve Smith T&M Engineering CAD and Computers
- > Mail: Tektronix, Inc. PO Box 500, M/S 13-880 Beaverton OR 97077 (503)627-403
- > E-mail: stevesm@scotty.hco.tek.com
- > =============================================================================
- > "It's a dog eat dog world out there, and I'm wearing Milk Bone underwear."
- > -Norm on Cheers-
- > =============================================================================
-
-
- Before you go any further, call up the IBM NSC bbs and obtain the driver
- fix for MFM/RLL drives. Follow the instructions which are included and
- your life will become much easier.
-
- I too had this problem, and no, OS/2 isn't that slow :-)
-
-
- mstaben@comtch.spk.wa.us
-
- - A warning to anyone, still in command...
-