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From: Derk@cup.portal.com (DERK ALLEN GATES)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: How good is it?COPY II PC DeLuxe Op
Message-ID: <14580@cup.portal.com>
Date: 12 Feb 89 00:37:55 GMT
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I have the same problem with my Copy II Deluxe board... it takes forever to
do any Mac writes.  I don't notice this problem when using the 3.5 drive for
IBM tasks though.
I hear that a Macintosh drive has a variable motor speed, much like a 1.2meg
floppy.  I think the way the Copy II board gets around this is to write a
segment of data and wait for the disk to spin around and then it writes anothe
segment where the last one stoped.  if you follow me, you can understand why
it takes so long.
If you have other idea's about this, please email me...

			Derk Gates@cup.portal.com