Re: My DX4-100 is soooo slow

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From: John Beardmore
Date: Fri, 03 May 1996 00:00

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In article <K6G5BGAng8hxEw2$@ambo.demon.co.uk>, Robert Wilson
<robert@ambo.demon.co.uk> writes

>In article <bBZlDDA1QnhxEwHX@tubeway.demon.co.uk>, Steve Fielding
><steve@tubeway.demon.co.uk> writes
>>
>>Can we have a bit more info please.  In particular do you have 32 bit
>>disk or file access on and if so does your system.ini file by any chance
>>contain references to ontrack.386 or wdcdrv.386 in the [386Enh] section.
>
>Thankyou for your response.  The most irritating problem - heavy
>overruns - was sorted by turning Block Mode off.  I haven't checked the
>file handling speed yet.  I'll try to remember to report if it's better,

I doubt it'll get better unless something was badly broken in the
initial config. I'd expect disk throughput to have dropped about 20%.


J/.
-- 
John Beardmore

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