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I upgraded to 3.0 a week ago.  Yesterday, my PLI Superfloppy arrived
(less than 1 day shipping --- NeXTConnection is fanstastic!).  
[Aside -- I had been making do by borrowing a friend's machine to copy
floppies to optical.  With the ability to mount Mac disks, having
my own floppy drive became much more useful.]

Under window preferences: disk, there is a handy option to have
removable disks show up in separate windows.  This is a useful feature
since I usually insert a disk to copy to or from it.  With the optical
drive and 2.0, this worked great.  Using the same feature in 3.0 led to
some distressing performance.  In particular, when a Mac floppy is mounted
and pops up in a separate window, some actions in the workspace (e.g.,
renaming a file) cause the floppy drive to thrash around (sounds
something like it is doing an fsck).  This puts up the spinning delay
icon for about TWENTY SECONDS.  Note that this occurs even thought the
file touched is not on the floppy.

Since I did not have a floppy under 2.0, I don't know if this is new
behavior.  It also might not happen with NeXT formatted disks.
(I didn't think about that last night & so haven't tested the idea.)

So, is this a bug?  Bad design?  Is there a fix?

jim burns

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