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Re: 5.25" drives blink lights when in GS OS

Subject: Re: 5.25" drives blink lights when in GS OS
From: "David Wilson" <mcs6502@gmail.com>
Date: 7 Apr 2006 06:48:59 -0700
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> Whenever I'm running GS OS off my hard drive I notice that my 5.25"
> drive's lights flicker in tandom every couple seconds. is this normal?

If you have a 3.5" drive on the same chain, yes. I seem to recall that
GS/OS polls the 3.5" drives to check for a new disk being inserted and
the 5.25" drive picks this up and flickers the LED.

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