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- From: ah200@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Randy Beiter)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Question which has half to do with linux, half to do with hardware
- Date: 30 Dec 1992 16:26:11 GMT
- Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
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- Reply-To: ah200@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Randy Beiter)
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- I dunno if there are any hardware experts out there that have an idea about
- this, but here it goes. I just got a 386 motherboard so I could run linux
- *did have 286, blech* I systematically dis-assembled my 286, and built the
- 386 only thing different was the case and motherboard. Well, when I booted
- I found I kept getting drive not ready errors on C: in msdos, well, after
- alot of playing around I found out this only happened when I tried to write
- to the drive, after this I found to my surprise that when the turbo switch
- was off, putting me in I think 8mhz mode, the drive works fine, however in
- 33mhz mode, it complained. Any idea how I could get this drive to handle
- the speed, or am I just stuck with getting a new drive to replace this one
- if I want to run things at a decent speed? I'd like to give this drive to
- linux, but I don't want corrupt file systems, or a SLOW system :)
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