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From: briand@tekig4.TEK.COM (Brian Diehm)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Mac SE Slow Upper Drive
Message-ID: <1607@tekig4.TEK.COM>
Date: Wed, 24-Jun-87 13:23:22 EDT
Article-I.D.: tekig4.1607
Posted: Wed Jun 24 13:23:22 1987
Date-Received: Fri, 26-Jun-87 06:47:01 EDT
References: <746@mntgfx.MENTOR.COM> <1111@apple.UUCP> <756@mntgfx.MENTOR.COM>
Reply-To: briand@tekig4.UUCP (Brian Diehm)
Organization: Tektronix, Inc., Beaverton, OR.
Lines: 18
Keywords: Mac SE drive floppy macintosh

>> >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?

It is a software bug, but it is in the SE's ROMs. It was discovered by Central
Point Software, makers of Copy II Mac and MacTools. Apple's response is that a
patch is coming, a patch found as a system file resource.

-- 
-Brian Diehm     (SDA - Standard Disclaimers Apply)
Tektronix, Inc.
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