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

>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?

I would guess that the problem was with OS/2 not selecting the proper
disk driver for your hard drive. What type of drive and controller are
you using?

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