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In article <8TqYyBAZnShxEwzd@ambo.demon.co.uk>, Robert Wilson
<robert@ambo.demon.co.uk> writes
>Well, not mine exactly, but the one at work.
>
>I use a DX4-100 for downloading and processing files.  I also do a
>similar job on a 33 MHz 486.  For operations involving only calculations
>or printing to screen, the DX4-100 is 2.5 or 3 times faster than the 33
>MHz.  But on operations involving intensive file access, the 100 machine
>is half the speed of the 33, and on the Internet I get constant overruns
>on the faster machine using Windows s/ware.
>
>Something clearly isn't set up right.  Norton Utilities Sysinfo shows
>the disc access times of both machines as being similar, so it looks to
>me as if the DX4-100 has constipation somewhere.  I've tried obvious
>variations to config.sys and so on.  It doesn't have any external cache,
>and the BIOS is set for IDE HDD Block Mode.  Nothing else in the BIOS
>setup looks noteworthy.
>
>I'd be grateful for pointers on where to start.
>
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.
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