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- From: dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: OS2 and floppy drives- input frozen while drive accessed
- Keywords: floppy, input
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.203525.24430@njitgw.njit.edu>
- Date: 22 Jan 93 20:35:25 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan21.170729.28970@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> rjones@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Ron Jones) writes:
- >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.
- >
- >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!).
-
- Interesting. I've never had this problem with two Toshiba 1.44MB
- floppies, a Teac 1.2MB floppy, and a generic controller. is your
- controller an AT controller or a reworked XT one? It might make a
- difference. I know that my controller has a "AT/PS2" mode jumper on
- it, and the floppies wouldn't work properly unless it was set to the
- "PS2" setting.
-
- Maybe a better floppy controller would cure your problems.
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