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Article #16948

Re: Mac SE Slow Upper Drive

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From: David Goldsmith
Date: Sat, 20 Jun 1987 22:56
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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.
-- 
David Goldsmith
Apple Computer, Inc.

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From: dgold@apple.UUCP (David Goldsmith)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Mac SE Slow Upper Drive
Message-ID: <1111@apple.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 20-Jun-87 18:56:29 EDT
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Posted: Sat Jun 20 18:56:29 1987
Date-Received: Mon, 22-Jun-87 06:05:49 EDT
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Organization: Apple Computer Inc., Cupertino, USA
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Keywords: Mac SE drive floppy macintosh