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In article <8TqYyBAZnShxEwzd@ambo.demon.co.uk>
           robert@ambo.demon.co.uk "Robert Wilson" 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.
> 

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