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Floppy Drive when in use slows pc down 100% !!!!!!

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My system is very new
AMD Spitfire 800
128 pc-133
riva tnt 2 pro
gigabyte 7zm

the floppy drive is like 3 years old, but it works fine
any idea why it haults my sys?
Hmmm

Floppy drives do that. I don't know about a 100% slowdown, but moving very slowly will occur. Floppy drives are not to be used as a mainstream storage media, as the I/O usage of the floppy drive, I think, slows the computer down. I think it is kind of stupid that manufacturers have not found a way to improve this over the years, especially since the only other thing to boot off of is ZIP drives, but now are becoming rare themselves. So in other words, nothing is wrong with your computer.
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