Re: hard drive indicator lights in menu bar

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

In article <2C266558.28957@news.service.uci.edu> andrep@balboa.eng.uci.edu (Andre Prellwitz) writes:
>In article <c0Si03OMd4QV00@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com>
>fadden@uts.amdahl.com (Andy McFadden) writes:
>
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>>If anybody wants a small project, all the INIT does is watch for GS/OS
>>Read and Write calls (0012/0013/2012/2013) and put up a little green dot
>>or a red dot to the left of the apple in the menubar.

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>Problem is, when you do that you risk overwriting data.  As any owner of the
>Inner/OverDrive will tell you, certain programs think it's cool to directly
>read or write data from the SHR screen.  When that happens, there is the
>inevitable "black box" up at the corner of the screen from the driver (or init)
>changing data when it shouldn't be changed.


Why just the inner/over drives? Yes, the init _does_ result in tell-tale
white or black dots in the menu bar (try running soniqtracker with GS-Spy
running), but considering that I dno't have lights on my hard drive, I think
that it's extremely handy. I might even consider it a small enough sacrifice
if I owned an innerdrive (which I do, but I took out the mechanism and put
it in an external case).

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