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From: mikew@proton.LCS.MIT.EDU (Michael B. Williams)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Connor IDE 84M/Win 3 : Long delays in loading files
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Date: 8 Aug 90 14:43:25 GMT
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I am following this up so that people won't get the impression that this
problem is something simple like a device driver conflict.  I had the
same problem with a Conner 100MB drive running Windows 2.11.  The only
difference in using the Conner and my previous MFM drive was that
Windows would take significantly longer to load; once loaded, everything
worked fine, however.  The important points are

1) Windows undoubtedly took significantly longer to load--on the order
of 1 minute on my 386SX versus a normal loading time of 10 or 15 seconds.
2) The phenomenon occured regardless of which device drivers (such as
DM) are loaded at the time.
3) The phenomenon always affected Windows loading time, but only
sometimes did it affect application loading difficulties.

My friend has a Conner IDE drive that doesn't have this problem.  I
eventually returned the Conner (for other reasons), but I'm still
curious to know why this was happening.
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