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- From: fmg@alpha.smi.med.pitt.edu (Filip Gieszczykiewicz)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: FDFLUSH [was Re: Leaving light on mounted removable devices]
- Summary: hardware solution?
- Message-ID: <2324@blue.cis.pitt.edu>
- Date: 22 Jan 93 06:46:02 GMT
- Sender: news+@pitt.edu
- Followup-To: comp.os.linux
- Organization: Medical Informatics, Pittsburgh, PA USA
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- Greetings. Two things:
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- 1) I wouldn't mind drilling a small hole in the face-plate of
- my floppy drive and putting in a LED that the kernel would
- somehow flash... I've done similiar things in the past (NMI
- would be pulse-stretched and the "Turbo" LED would blink :-)
- So, anyone know any place (hardware connection) that the
- kernel could blink? (maybe on the drive cable itself?)
-
- 2) I replied to someone but neither of us knows if this is
- possible: Since we're only interested in allerting the user
- to the fact that there is a disk in the drive (and we don't
- have to be reading it all the time) how about reading it
- every .5 second for .25 seconds? It would get the LED going
- but I don't think that the drive would have a chance to make
- any revolutions... BTW, blinking lights attract MUCH better
- than continously lit ones :-)
-
- Take care.
-
- P.S. Life sucks: I install the "current" version of Linux,
- get a few days to fine-tune it and have to get back to
- Real Life(tm)... then, come back and see that you folks
- are 2 levels ahead and have to reinstall... arghh! Yup, it's
- that time again: got 98.5 and 99.3 is out [sound of head exploding]
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- | Filip "I'll buy a vowel" Gieszczykiewicz. | Best e-mail "fmgst+@pitt.edu" |
- | All ideas are mine but they can be yours for only $0.99 so respond NOW!!! |
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