#MS-DOS 6 Fails
11-May-93 14:15:37
Sb: #99285-#MS-DOS 6 Fails
Fm: Steven D. Kapplin 70055,1021
To: Pete Miles 100025,1055
Pete,
Yes, your observation of the disk activity is more than likely due to
the fact that you are using the psuedo drive. It is painfully slow and totally
unsuitable for Windows work. A dedicated hard drive will solve that. Dave
Cinege of EMC (he's on this forum) sells the Oak combo board for $200. It has
SVGA, two serial, two parallel, game port, IDE controller, and floppy drive
controller. It's a low profile board and will fit nicely into a 3000. I have
two. One in my 2000 and the other for the 3000 when my second BB comes in.
The only negative for the board is that the video is not the fastest, but it is
adequate. I benchmarked it at about 50% slower than a Diamond Speedstar. The
IDE controller will handle two drives and the floppy controller will handle any
floppies from 360 to 1.44meg, 5!/4 and/or 3 1/2".
You can call Dave at 908-541-4214.