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From: braner@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu (Moshe Braner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.programmer
Subject: FIXBEEP and floppy timing ?!
Summary: FIXBEEP TSR affects floppy speed, any better one?
Message-ID: <10205@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu>
Date: 4 May 90 14:32:13 GMT
Reply-To: braner@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu (Moshe Braner)
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Organization: Cornell Theory Center, Cornell University, Ithaca NY
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Since the BEEP on the PC is so annoying, I got a PD TSR named FIXBEEP
that changes the beep to a shorter one.  (When you start it up it
says that it is by "Nifty James".)  This worked fine on a real IBM AT,
and on one 386SX machine.  I recently got a 386SX machine with the FTK
motherboard, AMI BIOS (from Gateway).  There, with FIXBEEP installed,
all FLOPPY operations are delayed: the diskette spins for about 10 seconds
before the normal I/O finally happens.  Same for drive A: (1.2 meg) and
drive B: (1.44 meg).  The disk controller is the DTC 1:1 RLL HD/FD model.

Any ideas why this happens?  Any alternative beep-fixing programs?

Thanks.

- Moshe Braner

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