On Wed, 16 Feb 2000, Alexander Viro wrote:
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> On Wed, 16 Feb 2000, David Balazic wrote:
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> > It would probaly be on if the drive motor is on.
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> Laptops will be _really_ unhappy about it.
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> > The system could just read somthing from the disk every now and then.
> > That would make either a turned on LED or a flashing LED ( even cooler
> > :-)
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> ... and laptop owners will be not just unhappy, but visibly unhappy.
> Besides, extra heat in the box is _not_ a good idea in all cases.
I agree, magicdev drove me nuts clunking the HD until I finially disabled
it on my laptop.
Bob
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