Re: Unidisk quirk on gs

[gachenb@eis.calstate.edu (Greg R. Achenbach)]

rgshacke@wsuhub.uc.twsu.edu (RANDY) writes:
> In article <Sep12.204141.101327@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU>, jr251693@LANCE.ColoState.Edu (James Darrel Riddle) writes:
> > 
> > 	I have a Unidisk 3.5 connected to my ROM 01 gs.
> > 	It is in a daisy chain after my apple 3.5 drive.
> > 	The problem is that when i'm using system6 the drive "in
> > 	use light" keeps flashing like the drive is being accessed
> > 	repetedly but doesn't read it.   Anyone know what the deal is or
> > 	how to correct it?  
> 
> Gee if this isn't in the FAQ it needs to be. The thing is the finder and
> similar programs access drives constantly. How else are they gonna know when
> you put a disk in the drive? If you have 5.25 drives chained to your 3.5 drives

Is the constant polling of the drives harmful to them?  This happens on
both my Unidisk and Apple 3.5 on IIc and IIc+ (respectively) when I run a
"finder-like" desktop program.

> look closely and you'll notice that their lights flicker faintly. As for
the
> reason that the light flickers on the unidisk and not the grey drives, I bet
> it's for the same reason that the light comes on when you hit a unidisk's eject
> button but it does not on a grey drive.
> --
> Randy Shackelford
> rgshacke@wsuhub.uc.twsu.edu

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