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Article #19895Re: Slow floppy drive access!!??!!
From: Senthil Ramas Kumar
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 21:57
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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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!gatech!psuvax1!psuvm!srk106 Organization: Penn State University Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 16:57:09 EST From: Senthil Ramas Kumar <SRK106@psuvm.psu.edu> Message-ID: <93011.165709SRK106@psuvm.psu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware Subject: Re: Slow floppy drive access!!??!! References: <chans.726391175@marsh> <93010.170809SRK106@psuvm.psu.edu> <1is22jINN1nq@umbc4.umbc.edu> <chans.726767095@marsh> Lines: 16