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- From: joel@wam.umd.edu (Joel M. Hoffman)
- Subject: Re: Leaving light on mounted removable devices
- Message-ID: <1993Jan12.142657.17078@wam.umd.edu>
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- Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 14:26:57 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan12.032458.27314@nwnexus.WA.COM> danubius@halcyon.com (Joseph R. Pannon) writes:
- >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.
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- My version of FASTBACK keeps the light and >and the disk spinning<
-
- -Joel
- (joel@wam.umd.edu)
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