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- From: wblock@rapidnet.com (Warren Block)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: HD lite blinks faintly with scsi on deck
- Date: 23 Jan 1996 00:38:51 GMT
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- A. Douglas Dyer (addyer@pinc.com) wrote:
- : 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
- : powered on, I do not get this faintly blinking Hard drive led. Why
- : does it blink and is there any way of stopping it short of turning off
- : my Zip drive ?
-
- The SCSI driver recognizes that the Zip is a removable media device and
- so it polls it so it can tell when you have removed or replaced a disk.
- The only way to change this is to connect the SCSI activity light to the
- hard drive itself; then it'll only show on hard drive accesses. (It may
- be possible to disable polling; dunno. Then you'd have to use the
- DiskChange command every time you changed a Zip disk, though.)
-
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