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From: dwb@apple.UUCP (Dave W. Berry)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Mac SE Slow Upper Drive
Message-ID: <1173@apple.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 24-Jun-87 21:42:11 EDT
Article-I.D.: apple.1173
Posted: Wed Jun 24 21:42:11 1987
Date-Received: Fri, 26-Jun-87 07:20:35 EDT
References: <746@mntgfx.MENTOR.COM> <1111@apple.UUCP> <756@mntgfx.MENTOR.COM>
Reply-To: dwb@apple.UUCP (Dave W. Berry)
Organization: Apple Computer Inc., Cupertino, USA
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Keywords: Mac SE drive floppy macintosh

In article <756@mntgfx.MENTOR.COM> tomc@mntgfx.MENTOR.COM (Tom Carstensen) writes:
>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
	It is a software bug in the ROM which will be fixed in
	a future release of the system software.  Actually, I think
	it's fixed in 4.1/5.5.

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	David W. Berry
	dwb@well.uucp                   dwb@Delphi
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