Re: Hard drive indicator lights on extended keyboard?

[dempson@swell.actrix.gen.nz (David Empson)]

In article <cgNR6B4w165w@ersys.edmonton.ab.ca> herbertf@ersys.edmonton.ab.ca (Herbert Fung) writes:
> Well all this talk about hard drive indicator lights was probably started 
> when I posted a message about GS.Spy.2 disabling HardPressed. I missed 
> the bulk of the related messages on the net when the usenet news was 
> disabled here last week
> 
> In anycase, on the Apple Extended Keyboard there are three LED lights in 
> the upper right corner which aren't used by the GS, with the execption of 
> the ROM 3 GS which uses the caps locks light. I want to know if it is 
> possible to use the other two lights to indicate hard drive use. One for 
> reading, and the other for writing.

If you have a PC Transporter on a ROM 03, then all three lights are
used while you're running as a PC.  I haven't tried it on my ROM 01
for a long time, so I can't recall if the lights were used.

You can set the state of lights by sending ADB commands to the
keyboard.  I wrote an INIT a long time ago which made the Caps Lock
light work on a ROM 01, but I wasn't too happy with it, so I never
distributed it.
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David Empson                                                               
dempson@swell.actrix.gen.nz                                                
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