OS/2 slower that dos 5.0?

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From: William Speiser
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 04:35

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Can any of you pc gurus give me a hand?
I have an i386dx25 with 8megs.
I recently tried to install OS/2 and noticed a few minutes into the installation
that my hard disk started to sound weird. (Buzing intead of clicking? What else
can I say?) After it was completely installed (taking 4 hours). I noticed that
 my machine was running much, much slower than with
dos. It took 15+ minutes to boot.

It was painfully slow the DIR command took longer to acess my hard disk than it
takes for floppies.

I set my OPTI chipset to enable A20 fast gate (or whatever) but that didn't
help.

I finally decided to reformat my hard disk under dos 5.0 again and it works fine
now.

Does anybody know what the problem could be?

ws523669@longs.LANCE.ColoState.Edu (William Speiser)

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