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- From: doctor@k9.UUCP (Paul Broe)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: SyQuest makes drive lights blink- why?
- Message-ID: <doctor.06us@k9.UUCP>
- Date: 9 Jan 93 21:35:57 GMT
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- In article <C0Kpo1.LHG@athena.cs.uga.edu> keck@athena.cs.uga.edu (Paul Keck) writes:
- > My new SyQuest 44 meg drive I've posted about has a side effect- its
- > activity light flashes once every 2.7 sec or so, and makes the light on
- > the internal drive its unwilling slave. Doesn't seem to be doing any
- > writing; no noises coming out. I have a floppy drive 'noclick' prog
- > installed, if anyone thinks that would matter. What gives?
-
- It is just AmigaOS checking for a diskchange on the SyQuest drive. If you mean
- the hard disk light on the front of an A2x00, that is connected to the
- controller, not the internal drive, so it will light up when any connected hard
- disk is accessed.
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- Hope this helps,
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- Paul Broe
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