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From: xdaa374@ut-emx.UUCP (William T. Douglass)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: SE dies whilst doing the floopy shuffle
Keywords: SE, system 6.0, disk swaps
Message-ID: <3634@ut-emx.UUCP>
Date: 24 Jun 88 01:43:41 GMT
Organization: The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas
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Another problem with our new shipment of Mac SE computers.  One user (a novice)
wanted to save a MacWrite file on one floppy to another disk (both formatted.)
Using a new SE with 1 floppy drive, she decided to open the document in MacWrite,
use Save As from the file menu, and eject the floppy & insert the other disk.
This of course brought on the series of "Please insert the disk ..." messages
for about ten iterations.  Then the SE locks up, in mid-message, with no
cursor & no response to mouse or keyboard events.

Is there a bug with the SE ROM, the new system (version 6.0), MacWrite (5.0),
or am I missing something?  Of course the work-around is to copy the file to
the hard drive 1st.  Still, I'm worried that this is a symptom of a bigger 
problem.  I'd like to return the machine under warrenty if needed.

And again, thank you for your support.

-- 
Bill Douglass, TCADA

"I dreamed I was to take a test,
 in a Dairy Queen, on another planet."      L. Anderson