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mikew@hpwarha.wal.hp.com (Michael Williams) writes:
>In article <724113082.F00003@misgate.gmi.org> Chuck.Johnston@f886.n2000.z12.misgate.gmi.org (Chuck Johnston) writes:
>>I do no what you mean abut S-L-O-W floppy access, but never connected it with
>>switching to DRDOS 6.0. Do YOU know the reason?
>Well, I know exactly what he means!  I've been using DR-DOS 6.0 at home
>for over a year, and I have yet to hear a satisfactory explanation from
>DRI/Novel about why floppy disk access is so slow.  The MS-DOS system at
>work is MUCH faster, as is my home system when I boot it under MS-DOS.

This has been discussed many times here before, and no, there never has
been a good explanation.  In any case, I've found two situations which
alleviate the problem:

1) Strangely, the first floppy access in a Windows DOS Box is slightly
faster than outside Windows, although it's still rather slow.

2) Running SuperPCKwik with all the "Fast" options makes an enormous
difference.  You'll forget there was ever a problem.

3) OK, THREE situations.  Formatting disks with FDFORMAT will generally
make sequential disk accesses (large file read/writes) faster, but probably
doesn't do much for the first access.

-- 
Kevin Martin
sigma@ipl.rpi.edu
"I told you I'd shoot, but you didn't believe me! WHY didn't you BELIEVE me?!"