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From: johnsone@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Disk copying
Message-ID: <20200077@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu>
Date: 18 Jan 90 10:33:31 GMT
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Nf-From: uxh.cso.uiuc.edu!johnsone    Jan 17 18:32:00 1990


Written  8:02 am  Jan 17, 1990 by yahnke@vms.macc.wisc.edu
 > 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.


Partition size of what?

                                     Erik A. Johnson
                                     Graduate Student, Aero/Astro Engineering
                                     University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
                                     johnsone@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu