Compaq/XENIX Disk slow

Jim Morton jim at applix.UUCP
Sat Jul 1 00:05:49 AEST 1989


In article <297 at sda.atexnet.UUCP>, sda at atexnet.UUCP (Stephen Ayers) writes:
> I have a Compaq 386 Deskpro model 40 that appears to run dog slow.
> mem: total = 1024k, reserved = 4k, kernel = 636k, user = 384k
               ^^^^^
               |||||
	No wonder! you've only got 1 meg of memory!! The MINIMUM you
	want to run Xenix 2.3 with is 2 megs.

> You will notice %disk entry does not list anything in the DMA column.

	Standard HD/FD controllers use DMA only for the floppy
	portion of the controller.
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Jim Morton, APPLiX Inc., Westboro, MA
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