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mikew@hpwarha.wal.hp.com (Michael Williams) writes:

> 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.

  I find that hard to believe, because this is actually a DR DOS
*feature* (in the positive sense of the word), but if you say so ...

  Anyway, here is why:

From: franks@hpuamsa.neth.hp.com (Frank Slootweg CRC)
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 14:39:13 GMT
Subject: Re: Re: Re: MSDOS 5.0 vs DRDOS 6.0
Message-ID: <26790027@hpuamsa.neth.hp.com>
Organization: Hewlett-Packard, The Netherlands
Path: hpuamsa!franks
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
References: <duck.722123908@nuustak>

duck@nuustak.csir.co.za (Paul Ducklin) writes:

> IMHO, there are 2 ways to go with DOS right now -- either DR-DOS 6.0
> or MS-DOS 3.30. A few hassles I've had with DR's offering have
> annoyed me: "slow" floppy drives [why, BTW?]; ...
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>				  Interestingly, most of the cool
> utils from DR-6.0 work fine under MS-3.30 [eg: SUPERPCK, ...

  Only the *first* access (after insertion) to a floppy is slow because
DR DOS 6.0 reads in the whole FAT for later faster access. This is
documented in one of the information files on Novell's BBS and FTP
system (no pointers handy, but can try to find them).
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