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- From: rjones@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Ron Jones)
- Subject: Re: OS2 and floppy drives- input frozen while drive accessed
- Message-ID: <1993Jan21.170729.28970@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>
- Keywords: floppy, input
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- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 17:07:29 GMT
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- In article <1jkl5hINNa2p@iskut.ucs.ubc.ca> unruh@physics.ubc.ca (William Unruh) writes:
- >
- >When I click on drive A or B (floppies) everything seems to freeze up
- >until the drive has been read- the mouse does nothing (but move) and
- >nothing else can be opened, until the drive has been found and opened.
- >This is especially annoying if the drive happens to have no disk or is
- >write protected. as the process takes up to min. then. I am runnig
- >2.0GA. Is this fixed by SP/2.1 or is my system peculiar?
- >
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- NO! My IBM clones (ISA bus) do the same thing. This seems to be an
- advantage of a PS/2. My old Mod 80 doesn't have this behavior. I've
- been told its the way the the PS/2 floppys work (must be the reason
- they cost so much more!).
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