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- From: johnsonm@lars.StOlaf.edu (Michael K. Johnson)
- Subject: Re: Leaving light on mounted removable devices
- In-Reply-To: danubius@halcyon.com's message of Tue, 12 Jan 1993 03:24:58 GMT
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- Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 06:15:03 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan12.032458.27314@nwnexus.WA.COM> danubius@halcyon.com (Joseph R. Pannon) writes:
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- In article <JOHNSONM.93Jan11111850@amcl6.StOlaf.edu> johnsonm@stolaf.edu writes:
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- >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... ;-)
-
- 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.
-
- Joe Pannon
-
- Well, I have used FASTBACK more recently, and I noticed that the drive
- keeps spinning all the time ;-) That is how it does the detection!
- Really. The drive IS spinning when it tells you to change the
- floppies. That is what would have to happen, as I really don't recall
- any part of the floppy interface specs that allow me to turn the light
- on ;-) It is really done automatically when the drive is spinning,
- by the drive.
-
- michaelkjohnson
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