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

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From: Senthil Ramas Kumar
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 21:57
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Well, this slow floppy access time, is to be solved by fooling around with
the CMOS setup.  I finally called my SWAN computer guy.  I already had the
shadow RAM enabled, but I had a WAIT STATE = 1, he told me to make that WAIT
STATE = 2.  and now it works fine, I cn get a dir a: in about 3.5 sec, which
is much better than 7.0 sec.

now, what I'd like to know is, *why* this changes the way, the floppy is
behaving ? also, I though that a 486/33 could go to wait state = 0, or is it
dependend on how fast u're memory is ? I have 8MB, dunno how fast thou.

can someone point me to a FAQ which deals, with this WAIT STATE business, or
else atleast explain it in *detail* to me ?

Kumar
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Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 16:57:09 EST
From: Senthil Ramas Kumar <SRK106@psuvm.psu.edu>
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Subject: Re: Slow floppy drive access!!??!!
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