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From: yahnke@vms.macc.wisc.edu
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Subject: Re: Disk copying
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Date: 17 Jan 90 14:02:14 GMT
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In article <}|R&F_@rpi.edu>, francis@pawl.rpi.edu (Frank J. Schima) writes...
-I have one FDHD floppy drive on a mac IIcx. I have 5 meg RAM, so
-why does it take more than one disk swap to copy one disk to another? 
-I realize the first swap is to check to see if there is space on the
-destination disk (among other things), but it can take 3 or more swaps
-sometimes. 

Are you running under MultiFinder? I suspect it may have something
to do with the partition size.