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Article #71407Re: Turbo Switch
From: Piers Samwell-Smith
Date: Wed, 29 Nov 1995 00:00
Date: Wed, 29 Nov 1995 00:00
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In article <570269555wnr@rococo.demon.co.uk>
Roger@rococo.demon.co.uk "Roger Cook" writes:
> both machines had been switched to a lower speed - 8MHz instead of 33MHz I
[snip]
> strange that something would work at a higher speed and not at a lower one. Any
>
> comments?
On some motherboards the turbo switch does not alter the clock speed but
simply disables any secondary cache (in the off pos). Not that I can
think of a reason why this would affect the floppy (something to do with
DMA perhaps).
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Suck The Goat
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