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

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From: S. Keith Harrison
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 22:36

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In article <1is22jINN1nq@umbc4.umbc.edu> 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 also had a problem with slow floppys on my 486/33 AMI-OPTI motherboard.  
After a bit of experimentation, I found that "SLOW REFRESH DISABLED" 
reduced my "dir a:" times from 7 seconds to 3 seconds.  Apparently it 
will take some experimentation for each of us to determine _our_particular_
solution.

Keith


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