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Lostgallifreyan writes:
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I notices that in protected mode good data seems to copy MUCH faster than in
DOS. I still don't know enough to know exactly why, but I suspect that if
anything causes slow reading of data, you might as well do it in DOS so you
have safe direct hardware access.

I can't remember what protected mode means, but I vaguely do remember
some copying going faster - I think it was floppy to floppy on the same
drive (remember "insert source disc"/"insert destination disc"?), where
I assumed it had a much bigger buffer in the more advanced mode.
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