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From: blm@cxsea.UUCP (Brian Matthews)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Mac SE Slow Upper Drive
Message-ID: <2116@cxsea.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 25-Jun-87 11:38:00 EDT
Article-I.D.: cxsea.2116
Posted: Thu Jun 25 11:38:00 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 27-Jun-87 05:33:41 EDT
References: <746@mntgfx.MENTOR.COM> <1111@apple.UUCP> <756@mntgfx.MENTOR.COM>
Reply-To: blm@cxsea.UUCP (Brian Matthews)
Organization: Computer X Inc.
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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.  

It's not a bug in the system file, it's a bug in the SE ROMs.  It
will be fixed by a patch to the ROMs which will be contained in a
future system file.
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