Re: Mac SE Slow Upper Drive

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From: David Goldsmith
Date: Wed, 24 Jun 1987 17:50

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In article <756@mntgfx.MENTOR.COM> tomc@mntgfx.MENTOR.COM (Tom Carstensen) writes:
(Concerning the slow upper drive on the Mac SE)
>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 is a software bug in the Macintosh SE ROM, in the floppy disk driver.  It
only happens on the Macintosh SE because earlier systems only had one
internal drive.  Note:  you should not be running a system earlier than
4.0 on a Mac SE.  In fact, you should be using only system 4.1 or later.
-- 
David Goldsmith
Apple Computer, Inc.

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From: dgold@apple.UUCP (David Goldsmith)
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Subject: Re: Mac SE Slow Upper Drive
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Date: Wed, 24-Jun-87 13:50:21 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jun 24 13:50:21 1987
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