Re: OS/2 slower that dos 5.0?

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From: Jonathan Bayer
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 13:27

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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.


There is a known problem with OS/2 and MFM drives.  Get the OS/2 FAQ and
read it (look in comp.sys.os2).  I had the problem and the FAQ fixed
it for me, but I don't have it handy.


JB
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