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- From: Ed_Kivi@freemf.wa.com (Ed Kivi)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: HD lite blinks faintly with scsi on deck
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- Date: 19 Jan 96 21:24:02 PST
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- In a message dated Fri 19 Jan 96 4:03, Jeff Grimmett <jgrimm@sdd.hp.com>
- wrote:
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- JG> From: Jeff Grimmett <jgrimm@sdd.hp.com>
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- JG> Subject: Re: HD lite blinks faintly with scsi on deck
- JG> Date: 17 Jan 1996 16:53:09 GMT
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- JG> addyer@pinc.com (A. Douglas Dyer) wrote:
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- >Hello All. I am curious to know why my Hard drive led indicator light
- >faintly blinks whenever I am using my Iomega Zip drive. (SCSI device
- >5). If I am not using any SCSI peripheral, say my Zip drive is not
-
- JG> With my Insite Floptical, this happens, too, and it appears that it's
- JG> the
- JG> controller watching a removable media drive to see if it has changed
- JG> disks. I THOUGHT only the GVP controllers did this, but maybe I was
- JG> misinformed. At any rate, if my Insite is any indication of this,
- JG> it's
- JG> normal.
- My HD LED also blinks about every 5 seconds since I add a SONY 4X CD-ROM
- (internal) to my A-2000. So I guess this is simply characteristic of
- activity with ANY removable media SCSI device?!? There is a slight
- slowdown of some games, etc. since the CD was added, but otherwise no ill
- effects. Does anyone know if it is possible to prevent the polling? (BBS
- would run smoother if it can be eliminated ;^)
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