Slow floppy drive access!!??!!

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From: Sean Chan
Date: Thu, 07 Jan 1993 07:19

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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 
                    Bentley, Western Australia.  
E-Mail : chans@marsh.cs.curtin.edu.au
         pchans@cc.curtin.edu.au

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