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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.

Maybe the 33 just has faster drives ?

Turning off block mode might fix the over run problem.


J/.
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John Beardmore