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From: tomc@mntgfx.MENTOR.COM (Tom Carstensen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Mac SE Slow Upper Drive
Message-ID: <756@mntgfx.MENTOR.COM>
Date: Tue, 23-Jun-87 16:10:31 EDT
Article-I.D.: mntgfx.756
Posted: Tue Jun 23 16:10:31 1987
Date-Received: Thu, 25-Jun-87 04:38:32 EDT
References: <746@mntgfx.MENTOR.COM> <1111@apple.UUCP>
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Keywords: Mac SE drive floppy macintosh

In article <1111@apple.UUCP>, dgold@apple.UUCP (David Goldsmith) writes:
> In article <746@mntgfx.MENTOR.COM> tomc@mntgfx.MENTOR.COM (Tom Carstensen) writes:
> >What is the real reason for the Macintosh SE's upper (second) disk drive for
> >being so slow (I've measured it to being up to 50% slower, or 1.5 times
> >longer than the lower drive)...
> 
> This is a software bug.  It will be fixed in a future system file.

If it is a software bug in the system file, why does old system versions (any
version) also have this problem, and if still so, why hasn't it been fixed
by now?  Of the two systems I commonly use (ver 3.2 & ver 4.0) they both 
have the same effect on the upper drive.  

Tom Carstensen
Mentor Graphics