First post, by serenitatis
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I have very nice PC with VIA Epia 5000 mobo and VIA C3 CPU. Also this board have USB FDD support. If plug in USB floppy drive it's mapped like drive A and also support booting. But It's works VERY slow. Boot with basic MS-DOS 6.22 floppy disk takes about 2 minutes. Floppy drive is 100% good. Diskette is also OK.
BTW, I try same thing with few other PCs. Same disk and USB FDD.
- My retro PC with Athlon XP - also very slow
- HP laptop from circa 2001 - speed is OK
- IBM Thinkpad T42 - speed is OK
So whats the common with troublesome PCs? My thery - VIA chipset. PLE133 on Epia and KT400 on my Athlon's board.
Is there anybody try USB FDD on Epia and other VIA boards? Maybe there is a trick or magic setting on BIOS?