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- Path: sparky!uunet!nwnexus!danubius
- From: danubius@halcyon.com (Joseph R. Pannon)
- Subject: Re: Leaving light on mounted removable devices
- Message-ID: <1993Jan12.032458.27314@nwnexus.WA.COM>
- Sender: sso@nwnexus.WA.COM (System Security Officer)
- Organization: The 23:00 News and Mail Service
- References: <1993Jan11.070318.2842@athena.mit.edu> <JOHNSONM.93Jan11111850@amcl6.StOlaf.edu>
- Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 03:24:58 GMT
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- In article <JOHNSONM.93Jan11111850@amcl6.StOlaf.edu> johnsonm@stolaf.edu writes:
-
- >Yes, but it would keep your floppy disk spinning the whole time it was
- >mounted. Not good. It is a simple hack, but it would wear out your
- >floppy, since they can only do a certain number of rev's before they
- >fail, and it's been my experience that they fail sooner than later... ;-)
-
- Michael,
- I'm not sure that keeping the drive light necessarily goes together with
- the spinning. As I recall, the DOS FASTBACK backup software managed to
- keep the drive lights on even during changing of the floppies,
- supposedly so that they could detect the actual change having taken
- place. I have quit using FASTBACK years ago, when I got my first tape
- drive, but perhaps some current users might confirm this.
-
- Regards,
- Joe Pannon
-