Re: 3.5 unidisk

["Bill Garber" <willy46pa@garberstreet.com>]

"Drew" <goggledrew@gmail.com> wrote in message 47ad537a-2324-41b9-9959-742399a14e49@f8g2000yqn.googlegroups.com">news:47ad537a-2324-41b9-9959-742399a14e49@f8g2000yqn.googlegroups.com...
> Hi,
>
> I picked up a faulty 3.5 Unidisk and replaced the insides of it with a
> standard GS 3.5 drive 800k internal. All seems to work, which is good,
> but under GS/OS though i can format and all works the drive seems to
> be access every few seconds. Is this normal? Doesn't happen on my IIC
> and only seems to be under GS/OS. It was more out of interest
> really :)
>
> Drew

Yes, it is normal. You will also find that it happens on the IIc Desktop
program. Memory failing, can recall it's real name, MouseDesk?  Maybe?

Anyway, yes, the 3.5" Unidisk is a Smartport drive, so is polled every
few seconds.

Bill