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- From: c92caren@IDA.LiU.SE (Dingbats)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: SyQuest makes drive lights blink- why?
- Message-ID: <C92CAREN.93Jan10175455@kol13.IDA.LiU.SE>
- Date: 10 Jan 93 16:56:43 GMT
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- In-Reply-To: slhmz@cc.usu.edu's message of 10 Jan 93 02: 04:53 MDT
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- In article <1993Jan10.020453.62591@cc.usu.edu> slhmz@cc.usu.edu writes:
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- > The "click" and blink is rather stupid. You'd think that they'd think
- > up a better solution, like a button the disk hold in when you insert the
- > disk, or a light and sensor combination. Why the "click"?
- The click is necessary because the drive doesn't check it's
- disk-inserted-status otherwise. Well the click is not really useful
- anymore. On some old drives there where no sensor stopping the head
- from moveing past track 0 so what they do is step between track 0 and
- track 1. On newer systems one can disable the click, by makeing the
- drive try to step from track 0 to track -1, which it obviously can't.
- The light blinks as soon as the drive is accessed, eventhou i think
- that the specs for the drives say that the light should indicate
- whether or not the drive is spinning. Most drives just blink the light
- as soon as you access them.
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