Re: hard drive indicator lights in menu bar

[florpch@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu (Lawrence S Lee)]

In article <205a0j$ls9@charm.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> mspaeth@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Wayne Gretzky) writes:

>I find it hard to believe that people still use GS-Spy 2.  The hard drive 
>access lights are cool (my hard drive has lights on the outside, so not 
>THAT cool) but it crashes whenever you try to format a disk! "ALERT ALERT"

That's because either (a) you didn't read the docs, (b) the docs were poorly
written, or both.

The docs say that GS Spy 2 will (annnoyingly) blare ALERT! ALERT! when a
fformat or erase call is used, and then you must press return to continue or
escape to abort. Yes, I know, I've been told that this is ridiculous
already, but hey, I didn't write this thing. ANYWAYS, I was sort of assuming
that a popup dialiog would appear saying so. Then after a day or so it
dawned on me that, while staring at a "crashed" system, that the init simply
halted the GS while waiting for either a return or an escape. Voila. No
crashes.

Try it.


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