Re: Another Dumb IIgs Question

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

Pete PPP <pp142w@webtv.net> wrote:

> >Its just the flashing light bugs me.
> 
> As Dave said, it's normal. But if it bugs you too much you can
> deactivate the drive by selecting the driver icon (the one in the system
> folder, not the one on the desktop) press Open-apple-I and tick the
> appropriate box.

That won't stop the 5.25" drive's select light blinking. As I said in my
earlier post, it is caused by the system polling the 3.5" drive, and is
a hardware issue with the way in which the drive select signals are
implemented.

Disabling the driver will prevent GS/OS trying to read the 5.25" drive
when it is searching for a disk by name or scanning all drives for the
next readable volume (which is horribly slow if there is a 5.25" drive
available).

> Reboot and you won't see the drive in GSOS but any P8
> program will still have access. You can also use a program like IR to
> start the drive "on the fly" if need be.

If you will only very rarely need the 5.25" drive but don't want to
unplug it, you can also set Slot 6 to "Your Card" in the Control Panel,
which will prevent the 5.25" drive being available anywhere unless you
change the setting back and restart.

-- 
David Empson
dempson@actrix.gen.nz