Re: 5.25" drives blink lights when in GS OS

[Mitchell Spector <mitch2gs@hotmail.com>]

"David Wilson" <mcs6502@gmail.com> wrote:

>> 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.

    Yes, it's normal under GS/OS. The Apple 5.25 drive LED (dimmly) pulses
for a fraction of a second, once every passing second. It reminds me of a
navigation light on an airplane. I seem to remember it being more annoying
on my ROM 01 since the polling created an audible clicking that would leak
into the audio output (ROM 3 resolved that).

    In general its best to set Slot 7 to "Your Card" so to disable the 5.25
drive under GS/OS. It won't stop the blinking however it prevents long 
and noisy grinding when scanning the drives.

Mitchell Spector