Re: Slow floppy drive access!!??!!

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From: Sean Chan
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 15:44

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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.

>    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
         pchans@cc.curtin.edu.au

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